will not go on forever the challenges for the response has been so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. poverty the pandemic and populism the russian president gives a wide ranging address to a unique world economic forum as. digital to come this hour the vaccine supply route difference between britain and the e.u. is brussels bresson's to get tough on exports one accusing the british swedish. of not keeping its end of the bargain and around it proves i am france to make brushes with vaccine the country's foreign minister exclusively tells r.t. white iran is supporting but not the. good.

russian the russian rigs vaccine we have a very bad experience with another western country that i do not want to name and the french quarter opens a hearing against companies like monsanto and dow chemical who made or sold agent orange a highly toxic substance heavily used in the vietnam war we hear from the victim and brought the case. i know they're good even watching at international where she's gone 5 o'clock here in the russian capital the high flying meeting in the swiss alps of the world economic forum is very different this year has gone digital because of the pandemic and a little earlier the russian president gave a lengthy address covering a raft of topics fire physio link talks is through now the key points that were raised. this is that to me putin's 1st speech appearance or that of all since 2009

when he was prime minister and perhaps you know it hints at how severe the situation in the world is and 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 and vladimir putin highlighted that now we're facing a challenge a problem that is unprecedented over the last hard hard century since the 930 s. 3330 percent live with an income level that is lower than $3.00 u.s. dollars a day so that's the kind of misalignment that you can see in the world the cove in $1000.00 pandemic has only exacerbated those issues as well as 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 a putin says that you know the last several decades they've seen an economic boom around the world but that boom has benefited primarily those who are who were already rich 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. the digital giants now are playing an increasingly large role we often hear about in conversations particularly regarding the u.s. election campaign and it's not just simply the technology giants their economic giants in some areas they're defacto able to compete with states. the problem again is exacerbated by. the covert pandemic this course and these corporations as well

as select nations can ban and bar people and untasty aids 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 usually in unresolved social and economic issues could force governments to find scapegoats so that they can then redirect the anger of their people we can see more pressure on those countries who disagree to being satellites we see legal sanctions restrictions in i.t. and telecoms this game without any rules could lead to new hotspots around the world the situation is such lead 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 the way forward like the way 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 1930 s. lead to is 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 poor relations which are much more restricted in their access to potentially lifesaving medication. the world needs to join efforts in distributing these vaccines and increasing their accessibility we see that mass vaccination today is available primarily to developed nations while hundreds of millions of people worldwide do not even have the slightest hope for this protection such inequality could pose a cause. one threat the juice that the public portion of allowed to move putin's

speech was that the world is changing had to hectic peace the peace 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 there's more to this discussion but unfortunately as is the tradition of davos the 2nd part of this discussion is private. there when his dad boss address climate putin also welcome to 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 limits nuclear missile arsenals for the next 5 years now just after the greenman was sealed last night putin and joe biden also

held their 1st phone call since the u.s. presence in or gratian warned that now from our correspondent constantine the rushkoff. but 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 bride spot and otherwise pretty much failing talks on arms control and 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 they are you will see a different tone and angle 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 that how. well that said when biden was asked to comment on the cool with putin he laughed it off with a quip to reporters. how did her. you. know her affect spurs gave us their thoughts on the conversation between the 2 presidents very much the message as you can 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. give it a room and completely suddenly say you know he wants to. develop friendlier relations with russia so yes going to be talking to burst a cli. as though he's a turco 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 in church china and. in other news tonight the vaccine supply ride between britain and liu is escalating proselyte claims that the british swedish drug company astra zeneca is prioritizing the u.k. and plans restrictions on exports there is growing disparity between their vaccination

programs with britain making headway while the nations seem to be lagging behind so let's get the latest now on process europe and speak with peter all of our europe correspondent good evening pater it seems to be a router is getting worse. it's descending into farce for honest meeting between astra zeneca chiefs and the e.u. commission to talk about vaccine procurement being on and off more times than a light switch on a wednesday if you listen to the reports coming out as it stands we understand that will be taking place on wednesday evening what they've got to talk about is essentially what constitutes a contract as far as the e.u. were concerned they had a contract with astra zeneca to provide them with 400000000 doses of their vaccine as far as astra zeneca c.e.o. pascal saudi oil is concerned that was an agreement to do as best as they possibly could the e.u.

say they should have access to doses of the astra zeneca vaccine manufactured to u.k. based facilities not so say the united kingdom and the astra zeneca chiefs themselves . there were then accusations that there was a department that could be threats that the e.u. would stop the export of vaccines manufactured inside the block that's being dismissed it being that we've heard that won't happen but of course that would have affected the u.k. receiving doses of the fines that buy on tech vaccine that is manufactured in belgium basically nobody is happy to have a listen to what the u.k. have to say it will see restrictions on the on the vaccines or the other ingredients across people whom i think that's a pretty common sensical and i'm sure. we would be widely supported across to you as well i would urge all international partners in fact to be collaborative and

working closely together and i think that i think protectionism is is not the right approach in the middle of a pandemic. well the way this is being handled has led to quite a bit a fury here in the european union and particularly right here in germany we understand yen spahn the german health minister wanted to put a block on vaccines being exported to vaccines that were manufactured in the e.u. as i said it doesn't seem like that is going to happen that's being ruled out by the e.u. commission a lot of frustration though here in germany over the way that vaccine procurement has been centralized with the european commission negotiating on everybody's behalf in fact the german press have jumped on that indeed the newspaper there is a headline saying this whole procurement policy is basically the best advert for brags that there ever could have been of course the u.k. leaving the european union on january the 1st of this year severing all of the ties

that existed able to negotiate everything on their own in build the major tabloid newspaper here in germany they've looked at how the fondling the e.u. commission president has played down the drama over vaccines however it's clear when you listen to some of the comments coming out from the very top in europe in particular thinking of anglo-american the german chancellor well she is very unhappy about the pace or the lack of pace that this whole vaccine procurement process has been carried out with. puts this isn't often this bit of our action leaves a lot to be desired process often become very bureaucratic and take a long time so we have to work on that. well there's a real on the ground impact of all of the cell talks that have been going on if you look around europe the infrastructure in order to give vaccines to people who want

them and need them is in place however there isn't the vaccines to give in fact madrid have just said that spain will be suspending the vaccination program in their country for 2 weeks because they don't have any vaccines to give ok thanks for the update there was artie's peter over speaking to us from berlin thank you also with europe because 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. i. was.

was. i. felt. all these things do come after the government says a 9 pm curfew to stop the spread of riots his 1st torch to coby testing center and then burned vehicles as well as start. stones water cannon and to gasify to disperse the demonstrators more than 200 people have been detained since monday for vandalism i'm violating social distancing branded the rights on acceptable and called on citizens to help track down those who broke the law.

iran is the latest country to approve russia's covert vaccine and also hopes to manufacture the sputnik jab with an exclusive interview iran's foreign minister told r.t. why they chose it however western alternatives has some of the interview which you can see 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. wireless. 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 those 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 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 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 you're 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 way. in other news the french quarter is open to hearing into companies that manufactured or sold agent orange it is an extremely toxic chemical that was used in the vietnam war hand is still causing major health problems today such as cancer we spoke to the french vietnamese victim who brought the case. imagine a good battle i mean imagine how i must be to lose your 1st child as a young mothers are that this child was journey in advance the mansion the suffering it was only many many years later that i learned it can't wait to have kids my child was not pleased that this medal isn't due to go to the end to get there this is just the beginning when turning 1000 pretrial sessions to get to

disappearing everything was postponed we laid out for she was in vietnam during the war had to queue she's the company's of causing severe harm to her family by making and selling the chemical to the united states on governmental organizations to save it millions in vietnam is still suffering from the effects of agent orange.

but also it was filed 7 years ago and accuses more than a dozen firms and not just causing health problems to her family but also damaging the environment monsanto and chemical are among the multinational corporations named the accused firms defense though is that they cannot be held responsible for how the pentagon decided to use the chemical in the conflict we got reaction from french activists about the trial. and what it translates to create real hope because the 1st president will be created a lawyer valerie cabanas also talked about it it will show the directions that result in a friend to human life and the environment you will be held responsible yet see that's easy they haven't responded process for the 6th time what are they waiting for they're waiting for a trend to be doubted that the process will be complete it was just. that finally the disney is removing access to karting favorites fearing that they could

be criticized as insensitive to modern audiences task taylor looks at how far the rush not to offend could. 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 so heard.

one. peter pan playing dress up should have sent the alarm to think about was ringing. on sean guns unbelievable accuracy when playing the piano in the aristocats was a bit 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 what 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 knew policy segregation didn't exist if you don't. watch dumbo and donald trump wasn't president if you edit 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 produce a day that goes screaming hats 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 the safe no one's going to rest discriminate against that. classic tale reporting just come up to half past 5 in moscow thank you company if you get the chance to have a look at our website so you can find plenty of stories on there at r.t. don't come. with.

the newly inaugurated american president joe biden calls for unity in a country sharply divided at the same time big continues to deep love for individuals and even cancel their competition and still others are calling for trump supporters to be deprogrammed so much. in 2040 you know bloody revolution. the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it. put me in the.

school in the middle the former ukrainian president recalls the events of 2014. those who took. invested over $5000000000.00 to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. i'm after an 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 tenant colonel anthony schaffner a decorated u.s. intelligence official who was on the advisory board of trump 2020. but now joining me from garza is the director of operations for the united nations relief and works agency matthias surely. well apparently while everyone's been talking about the inauguration of joe biden there's been aerial bombardment 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. but that particular incident was triggered by rockets fired from here towards israel and then there was bombarded meant heavy bombing by heavy 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 guy that was even injured in the area stopped the most 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 and 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 the miss some of this border area including where the tanks went in is actually actually some of the most fertile agricultural

land and so the people that get most affected by this are the small scale agriculturalists that produce the food for gaza and that that is just not acceptable and i am not aware of a credible military or political reason for doing this. well arguably the world doesn't know about what you're talking about it certainly wasn't much reported in the apparent scores of people dying in syria in the past few days from israeli airstrikes let alone the ones in iraq when if donald trump is watching from florida he might even be surprised that your there the aim of the drug administration was to defund the united nations relief and works agency how come you are there and how is an ra even survive these past 4 years of a trump term so indeed to the trumpet ministration to foundered us back at 2018 miracle in 2018.