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a very very bad experience with another western country that i do not want to name . but also a french quarter 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 here in the victim who brought the captives. hello there good afternoon just gone 4 o'clock here in moscow with our international id high flying meeting in the swiss alps for the world economic forum is very different this year davos has gone digital because of the pandemic and a little earlier the russian president gave a lengthy address covering a raft of topics fire video link when it included the pros and cons of globalism and also a warning that the pandemic is fuelling populism let's get more now from our senior correspondent yes it is following what is being said around good afternoon what

were the key points then of what was said during a speech which i think lasted something like 40 minutes. they did almost almost an hour and this was by the way let me putin's 1st appearance ad davon since 2009 when he was prime minister and perhaps you know it hints at how severe the situation in the world isn't that is what vladimir putin devoted a significant portion of his speech to this crisis that the world is facing today the severity of this crisis it is an upheaval in technology cultural social as well as economic huge disparities in the world that is that is resulting in a systematic collapse the world or the world is run by systems that were built at a different date for different purposes and for different challenges and vladimir putin highlighted the now we're facing a challenge

a problem that is unprecedented over the last heart of hearts entrance the 930. percent to leave we've been in can level of lower than 3.2 to a stall and. so that's the kind of misalignment that you see in the world at the college 1000 and demick as i said you need. those issues. the problems of been building up for many years now these evolution revolution in technology and social values in cultural norms. in the economy and led me of putin says that you know the last several decades they've seen an economic boom around the world but that boom has benefited problem airily those who are who were already rich soon nations especially individuals who have become now phenomenally

rich but the the masses the middle class the poor they haven't benefited any win anywhere near as much and what it what that is resulting in is this this huge disbalance this as the real left and the right of becoming more and more radicalized than the system is facing up he will and the on top of all of that these these tech giants these corporations run by billionaires and accountable to the few they have grown in power beyond all control. modern technology digital giants now playing an increasingly high role we often hear that conversations particularly to the election campaign in the u.s. and these are not just technology giants not just economic shines in some areas the fact to compete with states. the problem again is exacerbated by the

covert pandemic discourse people are moving online increasingly the conversation and discussion is taking place on these platforms like twitter like facebook and the situation is that these platforms and their billionaire owners can now dictate sushil policy to billions of people around the world they can decide what people talk about and what they don't talk about and these corporations as well as select nations can battle and block people in and toss states from from online you know from online discourse from the world economy at a whim and instead of working together as as a civilization people are all nations and leaders are increasingly looking to find scapegoats foreigners that they can blame and direct people's anger at

you surely you noticed. and resolve social nick anomic issues could force governments to find scapegoats so that you can redirect the anger of your people see more pressure on those countries who disagree to be such a lights we could see illegal sanctions the restrictions say night see telecom these game with ants in your rules could lead to new hotspots around the world. the situation is such let me putin says the international law has lost its authority it is no longer mandatory but more voluntary but the unit polar world or rather attempts to establish a uni polar world where a few select nations can dictate to everyone how to behave and want to do those attempts have failed there are simply too many people there are simply too many

nations too many cultures and too many different ways of thinking mentalities the way forward vladimir putin believes out of this crisis to lift the world out and to avoid a scenario the 2nd world war where you know what the 930 s. lead to is to work together to cooperate and not just on paper but in practice to establish and to evolve existing international bodies to give them power to make sure that they can run things to make sure that they can collaborate and allow nations to work together and one of the areas where they can work together now immediately without delay is providing a vaccine access to the vaccine to poorer nations which is a much more restricted in their access to potentially lifesaving medication. ok let's look we need to assist those nations needs assistance including african

nations we need to ramp up tests and vaccination mass vaccination is available primarily to developed nations hundreds of millions of people around the world not have even a slight hope for this such an inequality shoed result in a shared threat to the gist of the public portion of putin's speech was that the world is changing had to hectic pace the pace that few thought possible and all of these changes being exacerbated made all that much more challenging by the pandemic and now is the time to work together because alone and separate there is no resolving these differences resolving these problems that will only lead to clashes and that as i said this is that to me putin's 1st speech appearance or that of all since 2009 when he was prime minister and there's more to this discussion

but unfortunately as is the tradition of davos the 2nd part of this discussion is private. nonetheless still very interesting what he said and it will be interesting to see international reaction to that speech to thanks muhtar that was artie's more against the. well in his divorce address vladimir putin also welcomed the extension of the new strategic arms reduction treaty also known as new start the president called it a correct step the last minute deal agreed by russia and the united states which would have otherwise expired next week does limit u.k. missile arsenals for the next 5 years or just after the agreement was sealed last night blimey putin and joe biden held beth the phone call since the u.s. president's inauguration were on that now from our correspondent constantine rushkoff. in the tense and rocky relationship between the 2 nations the fact that

the 2 presidents have talked and read 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 indeed a bright spot in other ways 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 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 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 act 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 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. now when biden was asked to comment on the call with putin he did laugh it off with a quip to reporters. on the right who. are experts gave us their thoughts on the conversation between the 2 presidents. very much the message as 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 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 the. military. confrontational attitude towards russia and china in the end. germany has formally demanded that the e.u. stop so exports of kind of in fact scenes that it manufactures in response to a britain has accused the bloc of vaccine nationalism our europe correspondent peter all of us has the story. 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 breast there and a spot is a ripping 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 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 under 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 meanwhile there have been more riots in

the netherlands over lock down restrictions there was a 4th consecutive night of violence across the country with shops and the police targeted. it was it was. it. was.

but you see you can still come after the government says a 9 pm curfew to stop the spread of rioters 1st talks to the testing center and then burn vehicles as well as throughout molotov cocktails and stones water cannon and to gas was then fired to disperse the demonstrates is more than 200 people have been detained since monday vandalism and violating social distancing authorities have branded the riots an acceptable and called on citizens to help track down those who broke the law. now iran is the latest countries who approved russia's coby fact c.n.n. also hopes to manufacture the jab in exclusive interview iran's foreign minister told r.t. why they decided to choose it over western alternatives well here's some of the interview and you can watch it in full here on thursday. 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. wired us. and so a lot of people needing blood transfusion we still need to investigate it further for but that was certainly a major public health problem in iraq. 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 we

had we wanted to wait for the medicine even for the test kits for covert $1000.00 we wouldn't 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 wood 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 real good in the end of a vaccine but our own iranian produced vaccines bent through the 1st cycle of human. clinical testing and we hope by june we will be able to use our own vaccine. streams.

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hello again a french court has opened the hearing into companies that manufactured or sold agent orange is an extremely toxic chemical that was used in the vietnam war and is still causing major health problems such as cancer we spoke to the french vietnamese victim who brought the case you need to pay up to imagine how i must be

to lose your 1st child as a young mother this child was doing in advance of the mansion the suffering it was only many many years later that i learned it called married to have killed my child was not only that this probably isn't going to be and together this is just the beginning when turning 1000 pretrial sessions to get to disappearing everything was postponed. while she was in vietnam during the war and accuses the companies of causing severe harm to her family by making and selling the chemical to the united states on governmental organizations to say to you that millions in vietnam are still suffering from the effects of agent orange.

the lawsuit was filed 7 years ago and accuses more than a dozen firms of not just causing health problems to family but also damaging the environment in santa and dow chemical among them that the multinational corporations named the accused firms defense is that they cannot be held responsible for how the pentagon use the chemical in the conflict we got reaction from french activists about the trial. and what if tran wins the case it will create real hope because the 1st president bush because we had a lawyer valerie combat's also talked about it it will show that for actions that result in afraid to human life and damage the environment you will be held

responsible see that she's even have a spot on this process for the 6th time what are they waiting for they're waiting for trent to be dad that the process will be completed. finally this hour disney is removing access to carting favorites fearing they could be criticized as insensitive to modern audiences saskia taylor looks at how far the rush not to offend could go. i was today years old when disney took a sledgehammer to my childhood memories having multan 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 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 the 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. or 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 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 landing 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 kid see one someone just think of the children like this disney producer. kids go screaming heights 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 arrest discriminate against them. muscatel reporting just

come up to our past for moscow we're back again at the top of the. home. pam. the newly inaugurated american president joe biden calls for unity in a country sharky divided at the same time big 8 continues to be plan for individuals and even cancel their competition in still others are calling for trans supporters to be deprogrammed so much for you. right now there are. young people who are overweight or obese it's profitable to self. and sugary and salty under victims it's

not at the individual level it's not individual willpower and if you go on believing that will never change this obesity epidemic that industry has been influencing very deeply the medical and scientific establishment. so what's driving the obesity epidemic it's more for profit. when i was a child small seemed wrong why don't we all just all. the world to get to shape our disdain become educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. the world is driven by

a dreamer shaped by one person with those. who dares thinks. we dare to ask. this in the us the one business show you can't afford to miss on fairmont to fail to washington coming out that are trying to pipeline or do construction despite brussel call last week to halt the project uncertainty remains over us thanks under

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