the ukrainian president recalls the events of $24.00 g. and. those who took. invested over $5000000000.00 to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. headlines this hour poverty the pandemic and populism the russian president gives a wide ranging address to a unique world economic forum is. also to come the vaccine supply route between britain and he was brussels threatens to get tough on exports while accusing british swedish firm astra zeneca of not keeping to its end of the bargain and around approved and plans to make russia's vaccine the country's foreign minister exclusively tells r.t. whites are on a supporting sputnik for. russian the russian rigs

vaccine you have a very bad experience with another christian country that i do not want to name. the french court opens a hearing against companies like monsanto and chemical made or sold agent orange a highly toxic substance heavily used in the vietnam war we hear from the victim group the cats. i get even just on 6 o'clock here in moscow you watching. the high flying meeting in the swiss alps 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 video link talks through the key points that were. 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. . 30 percent live with an income level that lower than $3.00 u.s. dollars a day so that's the kind of misalignment to do you can see in the world the cove in $1000.00 pandemic has only exacerbated those issues. the problems of been building

up for many years now these evolution revolution in technology and social values in cultural norms in 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 few they have grown in power beyond all control. the digital giants now are playing an increasingly large role we often hear that 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. pandemic discourse and these corporations as well as select

nations can ban and bar people and entire state 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 terms of comms this game without any rules could lead to new hotspots around the world the situation is such a lad with 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 that we're putting 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 common threat the. for the public portion of the flooding we're putting 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 than separate there is no resolving these differences resolving these problems and will only lead to clashes there's more to this discussion but unfortunately as is the tradition of divorce the 2nd part of this discussion is private well in his davus address climate 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 nuclear missile arsenals for the next 5 years and just after that a green assigned to the right of me putin and joe biden held their 1st phone call

since the us presence in or gratian war not now from our correspondent constantine brushed off. but 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 indeed a bright spot in 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 there 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 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 despite that when by most hasta comments on the call with putin he laughed it off with a quip to report is. on the record. good . 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 winding down of the. military. confrontation latitude towards russia and church china india and. now the vaccine supply route between britain and he was escalating brussels claims that the british swedish drug company astra zeneca wrist prioritizing the u.k. and planned restrictions on exports risk crying disparity between the vaccination programs with britain making headway nations and lagging behind as peter all of our

expense. there's been an absolute fast over whether senior personnel from the vaccine manufacturer astra zeneca will or will not be meeting with those from the european union it now seems that after being on and off again more times than a light switch that meeting will go ahead the thing that they've got to discuss is what constitutes a contract as far as the e.u. commission is concerned they have a contract with astra zeneca to provide 400000000 doses of the covert 19 vaccine as far as astra zeneca concerned they say that it's not so much a contract is that it's as it is an agreement to do the best they possibly can the e.u. says they should have access to doses of the vaccine produced it to facilities in the united kingdom not so say astra zeneca and the fact that the e.u. is asking for that well that's upsetting those in the united kingdom but it will see restrictions on the on the vaccines all the other ingredients and i think

that's a pretty common sensical i'm sure. we would be widely supported across to you as well i would do 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 they have been talked about the e.u. threatening to stop exports of vaccines manufactured here inside the block well that of course would have an impact on the u.k. getting doses of the fines that buy on tech vaccine which is made in brussels that isn't going to happen that's the word coming out of brussels at the moment that plant didn't have the backing of the german health minister again spahn but as i say isn't going ahead according to the e.u. here in germany people are less than happy about what is going on decide the newspaper here saying that it's the best advert for breaks that there ever could be

in the main tabloid newspaper here built they're saying that. the line is playing down the idea of there being real unease over the ability to obtain vaccines but if you look at what angela merkel the german chancellor has to say there is clearly some concern over the speed or lack there of it which vaccines are being obtuse by the european commission puts it isn't often this bit of our action leaves a lot to be desired process is often become very bureaucratic and take a long time so we have to work on that what we are seeing is in many cases e.u. nations have the infrastructure in place in order to administer vaccines but don't have the vaccines to stick in people's arms in fact in spain madrid has said they're going to suspend the vaccination program for 2 weeks the reason they just don't have any to give peace to all of the reporting then i will stay in 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. i look i i was. i i. i i i i i i almost almost. all these things did come after the government says

a 9 pm curfew to stop the spread of rioters 1st torched a covert testing center and then burned fakers as well as start throwing molotov cocktails and stones water cannon and take gas was then used to disperse the demonstrators more than 200 people have been detained since monday for vandalism and violation social distancing hours has branded the rights unacceptable and called on citizens to help track down those who broke the rule. that iran is the latest country to approve russia's covert vaccine and also hopes to manufacture the sputnik for the job exclusive interview iran's foreign minister told r.t. why they chose it over western alternatives is some of the interview which you can see in full 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. wired 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 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 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 wood 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 are 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 vaccine. well separately the russian investment fund behind sputnik vai's also signed a deal with a malaysian pharmaceutical firm to supply more than 6000000 doses the 1st shipment

is expected to is expected by the end of march and the russian ambassador to malaysia says that local production of the vaccine is also expected well let's get more on this now because you can talk to the chief operating officer of the 2 year farm a biotech berhad company that is the firm which signed the deal and we can speak with now when geoffrey majid all the way from kuala lumpur thank you very much for your time tonight assuming that the malaysian government does approve the sputnik vaccine can you just outline then the role of your company in terms of distributing it you know when you're going to. remember your permanent member of distributing the. you know on who will all be a national group or who the ministry of helps people. $600.00 or and so on together that we may be or you lose or accidents to and

essentially you will be responsible. to a 1000000 lucian's so what are the challenges then when you're trying to get so many days is to say many people. well we've been precipitated this we've been in this questions with the russian development and our investment fund. team members and of course with gun violence too and of course that a vaccine is basically a minus if you niggas celcius product so you do need to ensure that we have the requisite chords in supply systems in place in order for us to be able to supply these products over to the center and we have a team that's been put together already which are looking closely at how we basically alegria together with the ministry of health and i guess just wondering how does the sputnik the vaccine one compare with other vaccines that there when it comes to distributing stacey's to the public. well there are some

vaccines and obviously are there which is about minus $78080.00 degrees celsius which requires a lot more industry fusion and of course we want to make sure that even though this is not as. low in terms of temperature we do want to ensure that the spending the vaccine is transported is or is basically going through a full proof 1st supply chain system that will enable that products to basically be delivered to the patients to the subjects. in as much integrity processes as possible so we don't anticipate that there's going to be much of a problem and recruiting closely with them is you have got to ensure that success and also i read to you that shaming all goes well there's hope that malaysia could actually start producing sputnik day itself take. you know that's separate from the term sheet that was signed yesterday with the ira but we are talking to the air to

essentially develop learned and to research and development and technology transfer local manufacturing as well as supplied to malaysia as well as to other countries so we're looking forward to i'm going to take a little program as we believe that will be important in terms of the overall sustainability or could be 90 next you know sort of the next in programs that we look at. of not just. one that there's very few deaths in malaysia at the moment the money we talk a lot about what's going on in europe and in russia but i've just looked at the figures in malaysia it's quite amazing 700 deaths in total 200000 cases of making that's you know that's what you see in a day sometimes in some western countries. considering the numbers earlier on in march last year i think or perhaps july. numbers. are so.

essential e depending on where you are and the number is basically you know just a lecture not the ministry of health in terms of containing this is. of course we're trying to grow the country to address this issue as best as possible so we're looking forward to actually reducing the numbers you can ok and in terms of the public's perception of vaccines what's the response there again just comparing it to the west we see many people are skeptical about it i just wondered what the feeling was in malaysia. well we're not much different i've been pretty similar in human terms of perception overall but. information will be disseminated and is currently being disseminated by the government. and i think. in terms of human information across to the. republican wellness about innovation and so on is not

something new. yorkers are ensuring the best. administer and. across the board so i think we work closely with the minister to ensure it. will be something that will do. ok when look best of luck we're going to have to leave it there but that was one jeffrey magid he's the chief operating officer of biotech had in malaysia thanks for coming on. the french quarter so from the hearing into companies that manufactured or sold agent orange it is an extremely toxic chemical that was used in the vietnam war and is still causing major health problems today such as cancer we spoke to the french vietnamese victim who brought the case. get back to you can imagine how you must be to lose your 1st child as a young mother this child was journey in advance can you imagine the suffering it

was only many many years later that i learned in a culprit who kills my child was not me but this please and we're going to be and together this is just a beginning we went turn 1000 pretrial sessions to get to does hearing everything was postponed. or 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 non-governmental organizations to say that millions in vietnam still suffering from the effects of agent orange.

it. was. the lawsuit was filed 7 years ago and accuses more than a dozen firms of not just causing health problems family but also damaging the environment on santow and chemical are among the multinational corporations named the key used firms they say they have a defense in this that they cannot be held responsible for how the pentagon used the chemical in the conflict we got reaction from french activists about the trial . and want it tramways the case to create real hope because the 1st president bush 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 it as easy they have spawned this process for the 6th time what are they waiting

for they're waiting for trent to be dead that the process will be complete it was just. too young to vote but old enough to spy for the government the risk concern him britain over plans to allow children to be used as covert spies and in some cases to break the law in order 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 am pays a wary eye. 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 recognize that this is not something that should be easily done in a democratic state. well 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 to tax authorities the draft says that using youngsters would be rare and include safeguards and supervision to protect the children we put the sheep up for the bait. the use of the 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 or 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 night remove them from that situation as soon as possible we shouldn't keep them there just so that they can spy it even gary in 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 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 price of a position where they will come to any harm now of course their judgement calls and things sometimes go wrong but there is no intention of sending anybody child or adult into a situation where they will come to harm just to get information if they are deployed. it will be colby because the assessment is that it can be told a stifling we're entirely sure to just after we're done students don't as asians we

have to want to know when neighbors immigration's day just criminology you know the way to benefit fraud all of these things you know what i generally be essentially should be the government's duty has been put on the public anyway so i think that's wrong and that has gone too far. we have here not just come up to help posix need even here in moscow to have a company will have more news on the headlines at the top of the. world is driven by a drunk. person.