never changed this obesity epidemic the industry has been influencing very deeply the medical and scientific establishment. so what's driving the obesity epidemic it's corporate profit. it's midday here in moscow in the headlines a breakthrough between the u.s. and russia as their leaders agree to extend the nuclear arms control treaty. other news britain accuses brussels of vaccine nationalism is the e.u. looks to crack down on covert job exports. meantime around approved plans to manufacture rush's covert vaccine in an exclusive interview to us the country's foreign minister tells us why to run the package sputnik the. russians and the russians to extract you know we have a very bad experience with another western country that i do not want to name. the

french court opens a hearing against companies like monsanto and chemical who made or sold agent orange highly toxic substance heavily used in the vietnam war we hear from the victim who brought the case. make it back to imagine how i must be to lose your 1st child as a young mother this child was journey in advance he imagined the suffering it was only many many years later that i learned in a culprit who kills my child was not me that this plays into. good afternoon thanks for watching this wednesday this is out international live with me kevin 0 in 1st and presidents putin and biden have agreed to extend the new strategic arms reduction treaty known as new start the last minute deal which would have otherwise expired this week limit nuclear missile arsenals for 5 years just

after the agreement the leaders held their 1st phone call since joe biden's inauguration parties constantine roscoff told me more. but in the tense and rocky relationship between the 2 nations the fact that the 2 presidents have talked and agreed on a major arms control agreement in their 1st ever phone call well that's reassuring and the 5 year extension of the new start treaty is in the broad spot in other words pretty much failing talks on arms control and non proliferation so the new strategic arms reduction treaty signed in 2010 now is the only thing that limits the 2 words old largest nuclear arsenals and is considered as a an insurance policy against a full blown arms race russia was the 1st to offer the extension of the treaty without conditions in early 2020 but the trumpet ministration while showed a lack of interest supposedly because they were seeking a new deal instead it will cover more weapons but anyway the current treaty was

expiring on february 5th which is a little bit a week from now and this was an apparent last ditch attempt to save it and it succeeded so let's 1st have a listen to how the kremlin a welcomed the news the president's expressed satisfaction on reaching an agreement on the extension of the strategic arms reduction treaty in the coming days all the necessary procedures will be completed to ensure the further functioning of this important international legal mechanism for the mutual limitation of nuclear missile well the readout of the phone conversation on the kremlin's web page described the conversation as a businesslike and frank and you know the overall emphasis was on mutual cooperation and normalizing the relationship between the 2 countries in for example it is said that the 2 leaders have discussed the possibility of joining forces in battling the pandemic but if you look at the white house web page and the way the

same conversation is described there are you will see a different tone and a single so let's have a listen president biden made clear that the united states will act firmly in defense of its national into. in response to actions by russia that harm us or our allies the 2 presidents agreed to maintain transparent and consistent communication going forward so it seems like for biden's administration it is really important to stress that the newly elected american president has confronted his russian counterpart on various issues and didn't just agreed to the extension almost as if you know stopping arms race from asking late in is not good enough and you know what the american media outlets immediately latched on to this and they saw a dramatic change of tone sort of look how donald trump spoke to vladimir putin and how joe biden just did. although it is worth mentioning that we didn't hear the actual conversation all we have are just the readouts and there is

a lot of diplomatic language to it so the important thing is that there is a glimpse of hope that russia and the united states won't fall into the new round of arms race but nevertheless it almost feels like there is a certain ritual that the american president has to follow in order to sell this at how. well into the pit of actuality when biden was us to come into the cold with the chose to crack a joke. on the right or. to do it very well actually has told us what they made a conversation between the 2 presidents. very much the messages if you could see from the u.s. and white house report of that phone call the emphasis was we're going to hold you know we're going to russia is not going to mess with us russia is going to be held accountable for all the evil deeds that they do. that's a message for the domestic population which honestly. you know he's feeding his

he's feeding meat to his dogs. and that is not a sign of a sophisticated foreign policy certainly the phone call this early in the stage of the game is a good sign you know biden can kivett around completely and suddenly say you know he wants to. develop friendlier relations with russia so he's going to be talking to best a cli. as though he's a tough guy with russia but i think realistically the goals that biden has domestically are going to require of winding down of a. military. confrontational attitude towards russia and china in the end. germany has formally demanded that the e.u. stop all exports of covert vaccines that it manufactures and so britain's no accusing the bloc of vaccine nationalism as brussels clamps down on supplies or your own correspondent peter all of us got more. governments across europe are struggling to bring down the number of cases of covert 19 that's the spy putting in

place lock downs and restrictions on people like those that we've seen in the netherlands that have resulted in on rest there and a spot is a rope thing between the u.k. and the e u which is ended up with the u.k. vaccines minister accusing the european union of well vaccine diplomacy vaccine politics whatever you want to call it he's got a name for it vaccine nationalism is the wrong way to go we've got to make sure we protect our own people and then actually you know put our you know leaning as far as we can to protect the rest of the world to deal with the shortfalls in the number of vaccine doses available the european union has said that it wants pharmaceutical companies to inform brussels whenever vaccines manufactured inside the european union are to be exported outside of the block well that really could end up resulting in delays to vaccines arriving in the united kingdom that earlier

on we heard from astra zeneca the past oxford based part based pharmaceutical company saying that they were going to cook the number of vaccines expected to be delivered to the european union and that did not go down well in europe invested billions to help develop the world's 1st covered 1000 vaccines and now the companies must deliver. they must honor their obligations make no bones about it the european commission and ursula fund the lion personally are under extreme scrutiny across the european union for the way that the vaccine program has been dealt with what we have is a situation whereby the vaccination program in the e.u. is being laid silly slow if you compare it to countries like the united states and the united kingdom which is done particularly well it isn't looking too great the way that vaccines are being rolled out across the block and there are

a lot of people asking a lot of questions why that is the case it's unsure of course where the arguing between the e.u. and the u.k. is the way to solve that particular impasse or stand in europe more on the netherlands and riots mention by a peta there's been a 4th consecutive night of rioting across the country with the windows of stores and police vans broken. you walk. out of.

the. car at one of the main catalyst for this is the 9 pm curfew the government's prodding to stop the spread of covert rides his 1st torched a covert testing center then they burned vehicles as well as throwing molotov cocktails and stones water cannon and tear gas were fired to disperse the demonstrators more than 200 people been detained since monday for vandalism violating social distancing authority granted the rights and acceptable and cold on citizens to help track those who broke the law. iran is the latest country to approve russia's covert vaccine and now hopes to manufacture a sputnik v. as well in an exclusive interview iran's foreign minister told r.t.

why they chose it over western alternatives is some of that interview which you can watch in full here tomorrow. i think it was a public health problem with some political can considerations about the intentions of the united states and the lack of trust which is which is very clear we have a very bad experience with another western country that i do not want to name they sent to iran. blood that had. white us. and so a lot of people needing blood transfusion we still need to investigate it further by but that was certainly a major public health problem in iraq. the united states did not reduce its pressure. on iraq. it did not allow us to make financial transactions they said it humanitarian purchases were exempt from their sanctions but financial

transactions to do those humanitarian because you don't you can't do humanitarian purchases without paying money and the banks who are supposed to transfer that money should restrict it actually has already given us the advantage because. if we had we wanted to wait for the medicine even for the test kits for coal with $1000.00 we would be able to get is from abroad we produced all of it in iran even even masks reproduced it in iran so sanctions have actually helped us stand on our own feet and be able to not i mean we want cooperation with the world but we do not want to be dependent on it. we will get. russian the russian rigs vaccine we will get the chinese vaccine we or in close touch with all of them be real good in the end of a vaccine but our own iranian produced vaccines went

through the 1st cycle of human. clinical testing and we hope by june we will be able to use our own way. a french court so from the hearing into companies that manufactured or sold agent orange an extremely toxic chemical that cause massive health problems such as cancer back in the vietnam war we spoke to the french vietnamese victim who brought the case. imagine a get back to an imagined how must be to lose your 1st child as a young mother is out that this child was journey in advance team imagine the suffering it was only many many years later that i learned it can't read who kills my child was not me that this plays into to god to be and to get there this is just a beginning we went through in 1000 pretrial sessions to get to does hearing everything was postponed. the plaintiff was in vietnam during the war and accuses the companies of causing severe harm to the victim and her children by making and

selling the chemical to the us for all would use their non-governmental organizations say millions of the countries still suffering from the effects of agent orange and what you may find some of the pictures coming up here of seti. that lawsuit was originally filed 7 years ago she accuses more than

a dozen firms of not just causing health problems to the family but also damaging the environment to monsanto and chemical are among the multinational corporations named the accused firms defenses that they cannot be held they said responsible for how the pentagon used the chemical in conflict we got reaction from french activists about the trial. well it's troubling to the case to create real hope because the 1st president will be created and one valerie combat missiles that talked about it it will show the directions that result in a friend to human life and damage the environment if you will be held responsible see that's easy they have to spend this process for the 6th time what are they waiting for they're waiting for trying to be dad that the process will be complete it. is may day 50 this is our international thanks to take the time to be with us let me tell you what's ahead among the stories seems younger voters is leading scotland's push for independence from britain these days they say they don't feel part of britain anymore we delve deeper coming up.

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again so too young to vote but old enough to spy it may be for the government there's concern in britain over plans to allow children to be used as covert spies and in some cases break the law to reveal wrongdoing by their parents the government's covert intelligence bill is making its way through parliament but even the prime minister's own conservative party and paid a wary everyone i've spoken to has been horrified by it when it's been explained to

them it needs to be extremely tightly controlled and those controls need to be greater the more the government's proposing once you start taking action like this to put spies in people's homes whatever the purpose this does have complications it is very important for government to recognise that this is not something that should be easily done in a democratic state so if passed the bill will allow 16 and 17 year olds to be recruited by $22.00 state agencies ranging from the police the military and intelligence services over to tax authorities the draft says that using youngsters would be rare and includes safeguards and supervision to try to protect children you put this whole contentious issue up for debate. the use of a child informant is a last resort sort of stuff where you've got serious criminality and know all the why available of breaking into it and we have to be realistic that there are some

situations where lots of children are exploiting it or are harmed a man may be an opportunity to break that ring of this only going to be able to be crystallised by the use of a child informant children if we see them being exploited or the government comes through joining me exploited or involved in any sort of dangerous activity going to that nice remove them from that situation as soon as possible we shouldn't keep them there just so that they can't buy it even gahan looks at the situation off the child informant and ignored the situation of all the children who may be being exploited or harmed by a ring of criminals who the child informant represents the only way and so what that means essentially sacrificing this child just so we can save others this is one child who's come to the attention of the authorities we know he's at risk i don't but now we keeping him there or encouraging him to stay there just so we can

save other children no one's been sacrificed no one is going to be placed in a position where they will contact any harm now of course their judgement calls and things sometimes go wrong well there is no intention of sending anybody child 4 or adult into a situation where they will come to harm just to get information if they are deployed it will be can't be because the assessment is that it can be done safely we're in kind sure teachers after we're done students don't as patients we have to want to know when neighbors immigration status criminality you know who went to benefit fraud all of these things you know what i generally attention should be the government's duty has been put on the public anyway so i think that. strong and that was going too far. disney's removing access to cartoon favorites fearing they'll be criticized as insensitive to modern day audiences so ask a tele next and get a city thinset how far the rush to not offend anyone could go. i was

today years old when disney took a sledgehammer to my childhood memories having multi-day over for a few decades the family friendly entertainment giant has finally decided that peta pounds appropriating cultures like that going out of fashion dumbass friends are all racist and so were the aristocrats oh and if you watch any of these films before you're 7 years old you will be too can we collectively see you disney for teaching us the wrong values when we were kids i mean without dumbo maybe today he could have been a much better person the disney plus streaming platform is restricting access to be on the sevens to a number of films it says depict harmful stereotypes because if you thought dumbo was an ode to the town or love you clearly missed the bugs mocking segregation in the south. or heard.

one. peter pan playing dress up should have sent the alarm to think about was ringing. 9 on sean guns unbelievable accuracy when playing the piano in the aristocats was a bit well racially insensitive. a point but if we're being sensible little one see a flying out of foot a singing cow and everything else is pretty much a blow also maybe education and not elimination is the way for what bank in october disney was praised when it decided to put disclaimers before some of its more problematic films why rather than remove this content we want to acknowledge its harmful impact learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together while no more learning from history and disney

apparently new policy segregation didn't exist if you do. watch dumbo and donald trump wasn't president if you edited out his cameo in home alone 2 it's all about the kids see one from one just think of the children like this disney producer. kids go screaming that's 1st into the wood chipper so childhood classics getting the full on can't slow culture treatment snow white not to mention the 7 dwarfs are probably that worried actually on 2nd thought that was a safe no one's going to rest discriminate against that. leaders is scotland a laying the groundwork for another referendum on independence from the u.k. the hoping to build not only on bricks and frustrations but also new research shows which says many younger scottish voters really don't feel all the british these days show dead which dusty reports. the union job could soon be losing its white lines of said andrew so tired as nicholas stern to revive the famous battle cry

from north of the border. the good news for her independent star is the 1st minister said i want to win the referent of the cards westminster has the final say and has always told them this should be only once in a generation we already had a referendum 6 years ago and it was quite decisive i can certainly rule out any such referendum. but with the s.n.p. expecting a round 5 win in may let's make this settle says hold on a wee minute on the ground it's the same difference downing street isn't directed to brussels democracy is frightened of democracy it's the same people win the scottish relation in a few months trying on a proposition of giving the people that choice or democrat. and in the we have that . public opinions finally swinging and sturgeons favor almost half think an

independent scotland when i've done that and a pandemic that long didn't wash response i did not write majority now think decisions should be made inevitable i would say as a young person in my focus has really been on money travelling. opportunity might take me away from my very very big actually see the kids given the wheel arch and got very little in return it's just going to make life a lot more complicated. accept pairs have delivered it ever say to go to british identity fracturing it across the aisles and time is on independent side a majority already consider themselves well scottish than british and the younger you are the more passionate they feel about. all this is boris johnson in panic mode so he's heading there on a charm offensive to save the kingdom but considering how he was booed on a previous trip maybe he should say well aware.

that it's not the only home nation voter might want to think twice about stepping in in northern ireland most now want a referendum about its border even usually friendly wales support for independence has jumped from the teens to almost a quarter this month final divorce from the e.u. already left warnings that britain's global voice would diminish but even britain itself now looks more and more like a disunited kingdom where we know the score and the situation is entirely precedented. in succession suggesting a majority if you want independence you know how over 2020. through. the beginning of 2021. clearly that scotland wants to leave the village go and when i'm not

a. rural 2 crossed off things like an improvement in shipbuilding contraction improvement in democracy and proven in none of it was developed it was all a perspective of life and that's why people are afraid of they want to know referendum and then want to leave the u.k. and see scotland stand to close it again as a nation. but concerns over those long running complicated stories if you want to find out more check it out to dot com have your say that for now though it may day 27 moscow time have a good day. in 24 to you know bloody revolution to. the demonstrations going to be relatively

peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it your goal here. put me in the neighborly is that i need you believe it or the former ukrainian president recalls the events of 2014. those who took. it in the studio over $5000000000.00 to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. i magine advancing and welcome to another lockdown edition of going underground just hours after joe biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the united states

executive orders were issued from his office on everything from the paris climate deal to trump's border wall with mexico but what about border walls in the west bank in the occupied territories what about the refugee crisis in the middle east in part 2 we're going to speak to the turn and colonel anthony schaffner a decorated u.s. intelligence official who was on the advisory board of trump 2020 but now joining me from gaza is the director of operations for the united nations relief and works . agency the. mo apparently while everyone's been talking about the inauguration of joe biden there's been aerial mom mom and all of gaza by israel armed by the united kingdom the european union the united states and tanks have invaded in some going to land invasion in gaza. so yes indeed we had a couple of nights ago. that particular incident was triggered by rockets fired from here towards israel and then there was bombardment heavy bombing by charlie

heavy bombardment in retaliation for those strikes and that i have to say happens regularly over the last couple of weeks i think there have been 3 such nights now for me to be perfectly honest you know no one got there was even injured in the area stopped the more serious incident was the tanks coming into gaza a few days ago that's in the border area and the reason that's more serious is number one the israelis always claim that gaza runs itself they are not on the ground as in the west bank you know it is a sovereign territory where you don't just send tanks into a sovereign territory that's point 1.2 it highlights it for me yet again that there is a border area on the gaza site that gazans are not supposed to go into you know and that makes gaza even smaller than it is and that is of serious concern and number 3

and perhaps the most important point.