if. the russian president calls out to the power wielding tech giants during a wide ranging video address to this year's world economic forum. the vaccine supply route deepens between britain and the e.u. as brussels threatens to get tough on exports while accusing drugs firm astra zeneca of not keeping its end of the bargain also ahead. on storage how to tell you the number of deaths recorded from in the u.k. . are $100.00 from. the british prime minister under pressure to explain the country's dire covert situation as grieving families demand a public inquiry into the government's failings. and the absolutely glance believe

they did not. stay there is the. most of these lies. and they ran approves the plans to make russia's coded vaccine the country's foreign minister exclusively tells r t y to run is supporting but make the. russian the russian reconstruction we have a very bad experience with another question country that i do not want to name. a very well welcome you're watching r.t. international with minichiello. the high flying meeting in the swiss alps for the world economic forum is very different this year dov also has gone digital because of the pandemic and a little earlier the russian president gave

a lengthy address covering a raft of topics via video link radagast year of talks as through the key points he raced. 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 that 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. 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 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. led 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 gist of the public portion of flooding near putin's speech. was that the world is changing had the peace of 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 of will only lead to clashes there's more to this discussion but unfortunately as is the tradition of doubles the 2nd part of this discussion is private well in his davos address vladimir putin also welcomes 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 u.s. which would have otherwise expires next week and limits nuclear missile arsenals

for the next 5 years just after the agreement was sealed last night blood and putin and joe biden held their 1st phone call since the us president's inauguration more on that from correspondent constantine 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 in other words 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 the most important thing is that we have 5 years to engage in negotiations on future arms control without end you has to remember jency the

president of the united states is undoubtedly a person who personally understands this issue he has the experience he worked on that both of the senator and his vice president during the obama administration russia was the 1st to offer the extension of the treaty without conditions in early 2020 but the trumpet ministration well show 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 a last ditch attempt to save it and it succeeded so let's 1st have a listen to how the kremlin a welcomed the news the president's expressed satisfaction on reaching an agreement on the extension of the strategic arms reduction treaty in the coming days all the necessary procedures will be completed to ensure the further functioning of this important international legal mechanism for the mutual limitation of nuclear missile well the readout of the phone conversation on the kremlin's web page

described the conversation as a businesslike and frank and you know the overall emphasis was on mutual cooperation and normalizing the relationship between the 2 countries in for example it is said that the 2. leaders have discussed the possibility of joining forces in battling the pandemic but if you look at the white house web page and the way the same conversation is described there are you will see a different tone and a goal so let's have a listen president biden made clear that the united states will act firmly in defense of its national interests 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 that how. when biden was asked to comment on the cole with putin he laughed it off with a quip to reporters. on the right. to . express gave us that thought was on the conversation between the 2 presidents.

very much the messages as you could see from the us 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 church china in the end. the vaccine supply route between britain and the e.u. is escalating brussels claims the british swedish drug company astra zeneca is prioritizing the u.k. and plans restrictions on exports there is a growing disparity between their vaccination programs with britain making headway while either nations are lagging behind us please all of our reports. there's been an absolute farce 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 are concerned they say that's not so much a contract is it is as it is an agreement to do the best they possibly can we did ject the logic of 1st come 1st. that may work at the neighborhoods. but not in town tracts and not in our advanced purchase of lehman's the e.u. says they should have access to doses of the vaccine produced at 2 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 who will see restrictions on the on the vaccines all the other ingredients and of course people who 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 it and they have been talks about the e.u. threatening to stop exports of vaccines manufactured here inside the block well but of course would have an impact on the u.k. getting doses of the pfizer by on take 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 build 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 thereof which vaccines are being opting out by

the european commission 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 what we are seeing is in many cases in you 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 the british prime minister has been tackled in parliament over his handling of the pandemic that's after the u.k. passed the grim milestone of 100000 covert related death opposition leaders to care starmer called out what he said was boris johnson for slow slow slow response meantime grieving families are demanding a public inquiry into the government's actions but 1st this is

a criminal. let's not sugarcoat it we are experiencing the worst humanitarian atrocity this islands ever see and it's being caused by our own government. there is no law much and. most of these lives couldn't be saved boris johnson offered his condolences to grieving families as he acknowledged britain becoming europe's 1st nation to reach a 100000 cova death in the past week alone more than 8 and a half 1000 people have died the government is now pinning its hopes on carrying out the europe's fastest vaccination program johnson revealed though 13 percent of adults have already been vaccinated. i'm sorry to have to tell you the number of deaths recorded from could in the u.k. has surpassed 100000. and it's hard to compute the sorrow contained in that

grim statistic that is too late or is too little too late for the 100000 people and the millions of those who have lost people to this 100000 people is 800000 bomb is ok if we think of a family of 5 that's fine the lives that are changed forever millions of people have been let down by a simple lack of care in policy i mean that will not a prime minister that boasted about shaking hands with people we're talking about the titanic being almost every day in the us the numbers are coming down but overall the number being 100000 this is not something that we should take on the chin and accept as a population that the end of the day and of an accident neglect from the and they did not lives 1st they put the economy verse which ironically now as not only time it's the economy has also led to more deaths i don't understand how are you could possibly sleep at night knowing that believing things like borders and testing

unchecked why are we still talking about these things why are we still discussing the fact that they keep having to discuss and discuss and discuss many will bring this enable bring this in your own with it it's not hard thing to do to understand that as an island we had a golden opportunity to close up borders and look after ourselves. iran is the latest country to approve russia's covert vaccine and also hopes to manufacture this but make the jab an exclusive interview iran's foreign minister told r.t. why they chose it over western alternatives has some of the interview which you can watch 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. 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 we 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 we produced 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 bed through the 1st cycle of human. clinical testing and we hope by june we will be able to use our own way. separately the russian investment fund behind sputnik v. has signed a deal with a malaysian pharmaceutical firm to supply more than 6000000 doses the 1st shipment is expected by the end of march and the russian ambassador to malaysia says local

production of the vaccine is also expected the chief operating officer also a company which signs the deal talked to us about the plans and challenges ahead there are some vaccines and obviously like are there which is about minus 708080 degree celsius requires a lot more care in distribute should and of course we want to make sure that even though this is not as low in terms of a temperature we do want to ensure that the spending the vaccine is transported there is or is basically going through a full proof 1st of nigerian system there were near boulder products to basically be delivered to the patients subjects in as much integrity and processes as possible so we don't anticipate about there's going to be much of a problem and recording closely with images you're fuckin sure that's the case and we are flocking to the area to undertake research and development and technology

transfer local manufacturing as well as supplier to lucia as well as to the other countries so looking forward to undertake that particular program as we believe that it will be important in terms of the overall sustainability or could be seen as well as on the next in programs that we look at. on the way a french court starts a hearing against companies that made all sold agent orange a highly toxic substance heavily used in the vietnam war it's among our stories still ahead after the break. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back russian police have conducted a search of opposition figures alexina valmy is apartment as well as other linked

properties he was detained in moscow 10 days ago off to returning from germany with the latest his from on concert. according to the bloggers see moscow police perform searches at several locations associated with alex a. slew of his residences in the russian capital is studio where he does screams on you too for his followers and some of the homes of his associates as well one of his associates claims that the searches are linked to the criminal inquiry launched after saturday's unsanctioned rallies in moscow in support of the blogger where protesters violated and seek ovid restrictions now we are yet to get any official confirmation of this from the moscow authorities say no one is currently detained here in moscow for a period of 30 days after his return from german clinic where he was undergoing

treatment now his detention has to do with his failure to observe the conditions of a suspended sentence where he was supposed to check in with the prison authorities at least twice a month. he was convicted for stealing money from a friendship because medics company here in russia he was supposed to spend 3 and a half years behind bars according to the prison authorities they did take into consideration the fact that he was being treated in a german clinic after he was allegedly poisoned with a lethal neurotoxic agent. however they noted that he was discharged in september. a french court has opened a hearing into companies that manufactured all sold to agent orange it's an extremely toxic chemical that was used in the vietnam war and is still causing

major health problems such as count we spoke to the french vietnamese victim who brought the case. in a good battle i mean imagine how you must be to lose your 1st child as a young mother this child was drawn in advance to the mansion the suffering it was only many many years later that i learned that a culprit who kills my child was not me but this poisoned who will go to the end together this is just the beginning when turn 1000 pretrial sessions to get to disappearing everything was postponed. well 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 say millions and vietnam all still suffering the effects of agent orange.

the lawsuit was filed 7 years ago she accuses more than a dozen 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 their kids found defenses that they cannot be held responsible for how the pentagon use the chemical in conflicts what we call reaction from french activists about the trial. case create real hope because the 1st

president will be created a lawyer valerie combatants also talked about it it will show that for actions that result in a friend to human life and damage to the environment you will be held responsible. you may have spawned this process for the 6th time what are they waiting for they're waiting for trying to be dead that the process will be complete it was just over back in 30 minutes with the latest. the newly inaugurated american president joe biden calls for unity in a country sure. at the same time continues to deep love for the individual and even cancel their competition and still others are calling for trump supporters to be

deprogrammed. a match in atlanta 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 wars 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 turn to colonel anthony shaffer a decorated u.s. intelligence official who was on the advisory board of trump 2020 but now joining me from gaza is the director of operations for the united nations relief and works

. agency. mathias 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 all. of that particular incident was triggered by rockets fired from here towards israel and then there was bombardment heavy bombing by charlie heavy bombardment in retaliation for those strikes and that i have to say happens regularly over the last couple of weeks i think there's been 3 such nights now for me to be perfectly honest you know no one got there was even injured in the area will start the more serious in.