the former ukrainian president recalls the events of $24.00 g. and. those who took. it invested over $5000000000.00 to assist ukraine in these another call that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. in the headlines this 27th of january a breakthrough between the u.s. and russia as their leaders agreed to extend the nuclear arms control treaty. written accuses brussels of vaccine nationalism as the e.u. looks to crack down on. the proves and plans to manufacture russia's seat in an exclusive interview to us the country's foreign minister tells us why it's iran's backing. russian the russian vaccine you have a very bad experience with another western country but i do not want to name. the

french quarter opens a hearing against companies like monsanto and chemical who made or sold agent orange or highly toxic substance heavily used back in the vietnam war we hear from the victim brought the case. can you imagine how it must be to lose your 1st child as a young mother this child was german in his pants can you imagine the suffering it was only many many years later that i invented a culprit who kills my child was not displeasing. hello for me kevin i would hear about international moscow thanks for taking the time out checking what we're talking about for the next half hour who can stay with me as i go for those headlines and in more detail this 1st big news president putin and biden have agreed to extend the new strategic arms. duction treaty known as new

start the last minute deal which would have otherwise expired this week limits nuclear missile arsenals for 5 years just after the agreement the leaders held their 1st phone call since joe biden's inauguration and his constant in rushkoff told me the latest. 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 2 $1020.00 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 welcome 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 and battling the pandemic but if you look at the white house web page and the way the

same conversation is described they 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 firmly in defense of its national into. wrists 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 ask 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 let's get some actuality from him when biden was off to comment on the cold with putin he chose to crack a joke. on the right are. you. going to have experts tell us what they made of the conversation between the 2 presidents. very much the message as you can see from the u.s. 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 by like give it a round 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. also headlines today germany's formally demanded that the e.u. stop all exports of covert vaccines that it manufactures and so britain is now accusing the bloc than of a vaccine nationalism as brussels clamps down on supplies here's our europe

correspondent. 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 the result of it on breasts there and a spot is a rope thing between the u.k. and the b 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 east 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 $1000.00 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 late 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 whether arguing between the e.u. and the u.k. is the way to solve that particular impasse. more on the netherlands and to lock down rights mentioned by peta there's been a 4th consecutive night of rioting across the country there with the windows of stores and police vans broken. it was. was

a. lot of these kids off the government said a 9 pm curfew to stop the spread of coded rides his 1st thought is to cover testing center then they put in vehicles as well as through molotov cocktails and stones water cannon in tear gas to disperse the demonstrators more than 200 have been detained since monday for vandalism and violating social distancing authorities branded those rights an acceptable and they called on citizens to help those who broke the law. iran is the latest country to approve russia's covert vaccine and now hopes to manufacture a sputnik the 2 is an exclusive interview iran's foreign minister told r.t.

why they chose it over western alternatives has some of that interview can watch the whole thing various times throughout the day 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. whiteness. and so a lot of people needing blood transfusion to be still need to investigate it. but that was certainly a major public health problem in you know. the united states did not reduce its pressure. on iran. 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 they had we wanted to wait for the medicine even for the test kits for covert 19 we wouldn't be able to get is from abroad we produced all of it in iran even even masks reproduced it in 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 ric's vaccine we will get the chinese vaccine we are in close touch with all of them be we'll get the indian 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 vaccine different story in our french course open to hearing into companies that manufacture it was sold agent orange an extremely toxic chemical that cause massive health problems such as cancer like in the vietnam war we spoke to the french vietnamese victim who brought the case. imagine a good battle or imagine how it must be to lose your 1st child as a young mother is out that this child was journey in advance of the mansion the suffering of mars was only many many years later the ones that aren't it called made out of custom a child does not leave the israelis into to go to the end together not this is just the beginning a little when turning 1000 pretrial sessions you get to disappearing everything was passed coming down the plaintiff was in vietnam during the war and accuses the companies of causing severe harm to the victim and their children by making and selling the chemical to the us for one would use their non-governmental

organizations say millions in the country is still suffering from the effects of agent orange a warning some of the footage coming up is disturbing. but law suit was originally filed 7 years ago she accuses more than

a dozen of firms of not just causing health problems to her family but also damaging the environment monsanto and dow chemical are among the multinational corporations named the accused firms defense meantime is that they can't be held responsible for how the pentagon used the chemical in conflict we got reaction from french activists about the trial. and while it translates the case it will create real hope because the 1st president will be created a lawyer valerie cabanas also talked about it it will show that for actions that result in a friend to human life and damage the environment you will be held responsible see that sees you may have misspoken this process for the 6th time what are they waiting for they're waiting for trying to be dead that the process will be completed. it's school policy i hope you can see coming up we're talking about this young girl voters are leading scotland's push for independence from britain it's ahead.

the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the day or thinks. we dare to ask. the newly inaugurated american president joe biden calls for unity in a country sharply divided at the same time big take continues to deep love for the individual and even cancel their competition and still others are calling for trump's supporters to be. so much.

again so too young to vote but old enough maybe to spy for the government 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 bills making its way through parliament but even the prime minister's own conservative party employees are 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 governments 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 if passed the bill would allow 16 and 17 year olds to be recruited by $22.00 state agencies ranging from the police the military intelligence services to tax authorities the draft says that using youngsters would be rare though and include safeguards and supervision to protect the children we put it all up for debate. the use of a child informant is a last resort sort of step 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 exploited 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 of 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 we 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 or

apples 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 where 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 is removing access to cartoon favorites fearing they may be criticized as insensitive to modern audiences the next then looking at 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 want any of these films before your 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 dumb but was an ode to the town or love you clearly missed the bugs mocking segregation in the south from your heard. one. peter pan playing dress up should have sent the alarm to think about was ringing. and shown goods 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 cap and everything else is pretty much a blur also maybe education and not elimination is the way for would bunk 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 noname from the history of disney apparently new policy segregation didn't exist if you don't. 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 to make your kids go screaming that's 1st. 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. it is a skull in the in the groundwork for another referendum on independence from the u.k. hoping to build not only are broke her frustrations but also new research out which says many younger scottish voters really don't feel british at all these days showed it was dusty reports. the indian judge could soon be losing its white lines of san andreas so tired as nicholas sturgeon 7 revives the famous battle cry from north of the border. the good news for her independence scots is the well 1st minister said i went to a new restaurant of the guards 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. and p. expecting a round 5 win in may let's make the surgeon says hold on a wee minute and the ground is the same defense downing street isn't back to talking brussels democracy is frightened of democracy it's the same people when the scottish way action in a few months trying on a proposition of giving the people that choice in all democrat. and in the we have that. public opinion spine is 20 and sturgeons favor almost half think an independent scotland when i've done better in the pandemic the new. under his watch responds i do not write majority now think decisions should be made inevitable i would say as a young person in my focus is mainly been on money traveling. and how that opportunity might be taken away from my very very think you actually see the u.k.

has given the wheel arch and got very little in return it's just going to make life a lot more complicated. accept peers 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 more scottish than british and the anger you ask 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. but 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 a written usually friendly wales support for independence has jumped from the teens

to almost a quarter this month's 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 of in school and the situation is entirely on precedented we do. 3 or 4 opinion in succession suggesting a majority if you want independence you know how over 2026 and you. threw. in the beginning of 2021 suggesting clearly. wants to leave. growing. or things like improvement in shipbuilding contraction truman in democracy and proven in oh no it was all of it was all up to state a lie and i enjoy a blizzard or they want to know what written in the will and they want to leave the

euro and she would stand again as a nation. but what we're talking about strained relations fishing remains one of the biggest bones of contention between brussels and britain post breaks it in no norway's chipping in any refusal from our country to let the u.k. the u. boats in its part of the north sea think of the complication of danish fisherman tells us how much he's lost because of this new agreement. we need x.x. access to the norwegian waters to class surface because 70 percent of our cats is from a region of waters. 30 percent 25 percent of the cats are from u.k. waters and only 5 percent of our cats is from beans waters i think iraq lost about between 20 and 25 percent of our of our fists of our court. to catch him in not only the u.k. was bras a norwegian was so it's very serious but these type of festivals always out in the

e.u. and i had previously negotiated fishing rights annually with a block but in december always lowballed it could well and access to its waters over bricks it related delays in the talks that danish fishermen again saying britain's exit from the union has not helped. now there is a break to deal but. we still do not have access to them and we can watch because of some issues to be solved and one of them is is the norwegian have to make a deal with the with the u.k. and with the e.u. and before they only had to make a deal with the e.u. so that's one of the big issue. but now kevin 0 is selling off for me in the team thank you for watching out international and have a great rest of this wednesday. because

i was going on the phone line smoke i don't like coming for them in the morning one of them for appointments you know members of sun was because of something that i. was not a muslim it all but i just had to get the best. she was you make. more of the industry in. general but from the sun on my book you go you go british course there's enough of them around. i mean the gods are dead and of course i don't want any of them. to do. anything to.

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