but i mean. you graded nor been taught. yes or no for. crying for justice. in that lies this thursday morning russia's foreign ministry accuses the u.s. big tech of spreading fake news on social media with president putin warning that online giants and i was so powerful they threaten democracy. it's not just simply the technology giants their economic giants in some areas they're defacto able to compete with states with a side of the country's declawing french lawmakers and doctors wringing their hands at their failure to develop an effective covert vaccine. on swords to tell you the number of deaths recorded from in the u.k. has surpassed 100000. grieving u.k.

families develop a public inquiry into government failings that have made britain the 1st european country to register more than 100000 deaths from the pandemic. glamorously and they did not live. in alaska much and. most of these lives could have been saved. so one here now good morning from moscow this is art international with me kevin no in 30 minutes of our latest ahead for you could have your company 1st and as mentioned russia has accused the u.s. some tech giants 2 of working together to spread fake news it comes as president putin notes america's were not fully on online content snow so complete that it's a threat to democratic institutions let's get some more in our senior correspondent in the studio morning i was trying to think of a way to get into this and i was looking back in the annals of history to borrow

a phrase from a long dead for most of technological progress as many provided this with a more efficient means of going backwards ok it's overstating the case but there is a worry right now it is entirely political i would say to. to this new modern age and in this modern age i would say that freedom of speech is becoming less and less human rights and more and more a favor a favor by the powers that be now those that we mentioned in this specific case we're talking about this latest incident that head of russia's space agency was bad on facebook merely for making a post critical of a fellow called michael mcfaul and michael mcfaul was a former ambassador u.s. ambassador to russia and all new failed ambassador it was under him that relations between the united states and russia which which were after decent level. during

the early 2000 they collapse they collapsed into the became a catastrophe and these furlough i'm willing to to you know except he's part in this failure he has since become something of an anti russia crusader ease at the forefront of the more buno trump russia collusion sanction russia punish russia and all the wrongs and ills of the world can be laid at russia russia's doorstep this is the fellow he's an ardent supporter of legs involved in what happened was that reacher goes in the head of russian space agency were to boost on facebook saying that you know mr mcfaul stay the hell out of russia just you know enough is enough you've been rollin everyone up you've been. almost revolution you called us a banana republic then you called us a gas station now you try to read it rename us in the in the name of your favorite candidate your supported cabinet to replace allowed me putin enough is enough stay

out of our affairs stop meddling and for this post he was banned on facebook he was bad for a day there was an outcry outrage and apparently the reason for this ban was that this was hate speech this was a hate speech directed at mr mcfaul who says the same things about russia almost on a daily basis. restrictive actions taken by the administrators of the biggest us social networks towards the content of their platforms struck a blow to the democratic value system and international information architecture look the argument is that these tech jobs they aren't able to government so they can bad whoever they want freedom of speech you know as a right it doesn't apply to them because their private corporations their private entities they can do whatever the heck they want and if you want to leave if you

don't like it. pick another platform unfortunately of course the also battling other platforms where alternative speech for example is taking place no not all of it of course correct but there is there is that sense that they have a monopoly on online discourse and let us be fair and discourse is becoming you know a major major platform for discourse because the pandemic has is rattled the world people car very well gather and read your article in public places there's no physical conversation it is increasingly online it is increasingly happening in places that are controlled by these huge ross tech giants that are. beyond all control whose power and influence is unaccountable and these tech jobs they've become super powerful that they can badly as an example a sitting president of the united states sitting president of the united states

really known as the most powerful man in the world and lied to me or putin talking about this yesterday he warns that this is heading in the wrong direction. 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. and the problem here is of course i mean if they were if they were biased if they were neutral if they had no you know political stakes it would have been one thing but it is evident these point that they have an agenda twitter facebook you know they're all left leaning liberal entities and the point is that they have over the last several years they have systematically removed for example conservative voices they have suppressed. the voices of leaders that they perhaps don't recognize

perhaps don't like and now we've arrived at the point where they can at will. suspend any voice that they don't like you know what what's the solution do you break them up do you regulate them how do you regulate giants soup be so powerful with soo much influence with so many senators and then the government and the. you know there's there's no clear outs a bit as you said earlier on. in the future the future is a way backwards nicely put. thanks for the morning well from that controversy to another one discord in france we're talking over again french politicians and medics have condemned the national failure to develop a covert job than with warnings that it marks a wider decline of the country that of course at one point was the front runner in

vaccine development charlotte events he's got that story for you this morning. france has a little and famous history when it comes to vaccinations i mean after all the so-called father of even your logi is it louis pastor the french microbiologist so it's been a base of a blow that the institution that bears his name failed to find a viable vaccine it's described its own results as disappointing in these trials involving the 1st administration to humans the vaccine candidate was well tolerated but the immune responses in juiced by the vaccine were inferior to both those observed in individuals who recovered from natural infection and those observed with the vaccines currently authorized for covert 19 the vaccine they were attempting to produce was less effective than no natural immunity who hits hard and it seems the french are really feeling it but the fear yes indeed it is real because when pastor rick cannot get out

a dose of the vaccine that is amazing so i think it is incompetence it's everywhere maybe there are too it's a competition between different trades well they didn't find the right immediate solution yes it's a shame but it's live that's a key they will do better than i'm not sure after all it's more important that everyone in the world has the same objective it's true there are concerns about making money on the vaccines and things like that politicians too are crying out with worry that france is losing its standing in the world it's a sign of the decline of the country and this decline is an acceptable but this decline is not because france isn't producing world cost scientists know it's because of the brain drain so it's not acceptable that our best research or the most brilliant of our researchers are sucked up by the american system i was blaming reductions in public funding for vaccine research so there is that people

in paris think to towards the middle of the crisis they finally woke up. they put some resources aside but there is still more that can be done by changing the economy a little especially at ministerial level they could save a little there are probably things that can be done to simplify our system so that there is more funding probably we could remove some administrative players that have accumulated over the years given the money where they will to spend in other areas armament and all that 7 i would be surprised if it was a fund and problem i think is a management issue maybe more than a funding issue meanwhile what's been called france is a last major pharma group sanofi is struggling to bring to the market its vaccine can did it which won't be available before the end of the year for now set off he is helping libels pfizer bio tech manufacturing more of their job charlotte even ski r.t. paris. across the channel britain has become the 1st country in europe to

pass 100000 covert deaths now prime minister boris johnson offered his condolences . i'm sorry to have to tell you the number of deaths recorded from coded in the u.k. has surpassed 100000. and it's hard to compute the sorrow contained in that grim statistic 100000 people is 800000 damis ok if we think of a family of 5 that's 5 lives that 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 now because this government 1st of ignore the science and 2nd of all did not put in proper checking measures to close the borders they have to wire ours the population of lincoln all that is how bad this is got. here this test in

a just heard from there has started the name is not numbers campaign to highlight government negligence in the pond to push for a public inquiry into its handling of the response person who needs to think this is a criminal inquiry. and let's not sugar coat it we are experiencing the worst humanitarian atrocity that this island has ever seen and it's being caused by our own government is been neglectful there has been a lack of action and most of these lives could have been saved and we need to understand how this happened but this should not be a government lending inquiry i do not want the criminal investigators on crime because the routes will not be sought none of them being a 100000 this is not something that we should take on the chin and accept as a population in the end of the day and a home and neglect family and they did not lives 1st they put the economy 1st which ironically now has not only intact the economy has also less and more deaths that

it shouldn't. government's toughening up restrictions then as the death toll grows the block turns been extended for at least 3 weeks more people can't go without a quote reasonable excuse or public gatherings are banned and police are getting tougher on those who break the rules but mexico partridge explains this morning sometimes the rule breakers are the officers themselves. the coronavirus pandemic has changed just about everyone's professional lives and the police are no exception the u.k.'s on armed forces have repeatedly come under the spotlight for trying to do their job which these days include cracking down on illegal gatherings under the lockdown laws these range from graves to birthday parties whiting's and even baby showers. into a very big show. provide a call because you're all here so obviously you're breaking coded rules we can't find every adult here every single one of you 2 under par the is london

metropolitan police chief superintendent stephen trainmen condemns the party goers and warned there would be consequences london's police are almost daily posting videos of officers shutting down illegal gatherings. was an issue really throughout the area where you. are you reading a lot of suspense very surprised as it was going on a central vadar ok because of the national laws are aware of the you know exam to google to a little circle with other people the aim is to publicly shame people and prevent others from doing the same except that message doesn't seem to have reached 31 of their own officers court flouting the law down while on duty just to get a haircut if you're eating their superiors and seeing each of fending officers slapped with a $200.00 pound fine it is deeply disappointing and frustrating of my officers have

fallen short of the expectation to uphold covert 90. regulation and i hope this action proves that police are not immune to enforcement of the rules more embarrassingly for the net it happened barely a week after 9 officers were fined after being spotted having breakfast together in a london café since march the police have issued $32000.00 fines across england and wales penalties ray shoppy during england's november looking down almost $6500.00 penalties were handed out as police moved more quickly to enforcement find start at 200 pounds in england and northern ireland but the government intends to increase these to 800 pounds for illegal gatherings of more than 15 people but with crackdowns getting tougher police federation's are calling on the government to ensure that officers are at the forefront of the facts the nation roll out the public expects police officers to put themselves in harm's way and i believe that it is only fair to expect that these same frontline officers get prioritised for

vaccination over the last 2 weeks alone 5 london police officers have died from corona virus the pandemic has left millions frustrated anxious and impatient months of isolation mean people want to see family and friends and to let their hair down and the police have been left with a very public task of not only ensuring everyone else is safety but setting the personal example of how it should be done what i think the police the world are a very difficult situation with so with the codes restrictions because it's it goes against the grain completely for police to interrupt parties and things but of course those are all the laws in the legislation and police officers realize that they're paid to do that and i think that's what's happening it's it's a really weird time this goes against all the all the training all the things that we we over many over a century or so have tried to do which is give people their freedoms but people act

within the law but of course these loaches through this legislation as well. in a very difficult position i mean they've got to interrupt such things as baby showers and weddings and other things which goes really against the all the things that they've done over the years i thoroughly believe that police officers should be vaccinated because they are being asked to not only be around lots of individuals themselves so that they're at their own colleagues they have to be in vans with their colleagues they have to be in the police station but they're also resting people in the street and you could so they are forefront or. needs to have a decent society that they they have the vaccination as early as possible. footnote to the u.k. schools as well are going to remain closed till mid march but experts are warning alarming numbers of children suffering from depression in the law don't know the education side the mental effects is having as well they got more of that later in the program. something different now though rallies against india's agricultural

reform bill of turn violent on the country's republic day massive ceremonies and military parades were disrupted as fierce battles broke out across the capital new delhi in the aid of a protester was killed as his tractor was among many vehicles overturned in the chaos true to each other's report. what was supposed to be a peaceful rally to celebrate india's republic day quickly taking a turn for the worst. chaos and turmoil unfolding in the streets of new delhi thousands of indian farmers and their supporters protesting controversial book water reforms seen here. really. breaking out with law enforcement after a group of protesters driving tractors drove their kids to enter the store rather work site leaving one protester dead i'll never do anything good for the police fired tear gas and those farmers with the. demonstrators defying tear gas and flash bangs as their feet to march through the streets use them for testers with sticks.

protest leaders condemning the violence. what happened up the road for furniture damaged violence outside and hoisting up before we did not have anything to do with such planning we condemn all such incidents the protests in the country growing now for nearly 2 months as farmers demand the withdrawal of new laws they say favor large corporate farms and devastate the earnings of smaller scale farmers the legislation exacerbating resentment among existing farmers who have long been seen as the heart and soul of india but say they are ignored by the government but i'm going to get the message for the prime minister is that it is not the government it is the farmers. and only we will do as we want to do you cannot force your laws. to be women now the demonstrations are expected to continue until those laws are repealed. just hours after taking office president biden signed an executive order

revoking the permit for the vast keystone oil pipeline project which stretches from kind of the to the u.s. as protests and legal battles across 3 presidential administrations. i'm signing today an executive order to supercharge administration ambitious plan to confront the extensional threat of climate change and we're going to put people to work i'm not going to lose jobs and these are going to create jobs 11000 jobs they're cut with the one stroke of a pen of president biden it looks like president biden is working on a make america unemployed again kind of strategy thinking more about saudi arabian workers in montana workers and u.s. workers one of how this significant pushback against biden's decision on both sides of the border with tens of thousands of jobs on the line too with more on it because alex my live it. within hours of his inauguration president joe biden signed an executive order to revoke the permit for the keystone x.l.

pipeline and he's already getting some heat on at home that day one priority was to kill thousands of american jobs including union jobs to support our strong ally accounted for and reverse some of our progress toward energy security and while the debate will likely continue in d.c. at the same time the president is stirring the pot north of the border as well come to says he says these any as you know i've been supporting this keystone x.l. project for years i made this argument 7 years ago in a room full of democrats in washington even before i became prime minister canada's prime minister justin trudeau is being pressured by provincial leaders to fight back against the us president's order but charge was led by the premier's of alberta and scotch one whose energy sectors are tightly tied to the $8000000000.00 project premier's want to go to war originally proposed in 2008 the 1200 mile long pipeline travels through 7 states starting in canada in the alberta tar sands

and ending at the gulf of mexico the pipeline is meant to move 830000 barrels of crude a day the move should make some people happy including environmentalists and others opposed to the keystone x.l. pipeline those who prioritize economy over environment are critical of biden for cancelling the project more interested in virtue signals to the climate activists and supporting the union workers who are building the keystone pipeline calgary alberta based t.c. energy the company behind the pipeline says it will lay off 1000 workers immediately due to president joe biden's decision it is not clear how many of those jobs are american. i suppose in the u.k. a pointing to an alarming growth and anxiety depression and self harm among children is anti pandemic lockdowns or extended heading west end of the national society the prevention of cruelty to children told us of a particularly disturbing rise in cases among those under the age of 11. well since

the start of the 1st lockdown back in the spring 20 trends in til the end of december we've delivered more nearly 55000 counseling sessions with 2 junior people about their mental health and we've seen an increase in ensuite in aged 11 and 16 percent coming to us concerned about the impact that the pandemic is having on their mental health and in the top 5 mental health concerns depression is that number 3 so it is there it's very real for some sure jane and you people and yes we are concerned. more record numbers of children of being diagnosed with serious mental health issues a lack of social connections and friendships is one of the key causes a lower estimate again told us some of the other reasons behind the rise it can be a number of reasons why children's mental health has been affected in so affected by the pandemic it may be that they are concerned about what's happening for them in their families and concerned about the virus that's older relative to some young

people it's exacerbated problems that they may have already had so they may have had a mental health problems that this is what the fall or made worse for some young people hope is in a safe space so actually being at home all the time isn't right for them and that's caused them anxiety and worry and we also haven't had the eyes and ears of the community on shooting in young people let's not so you know that there is in the normal places of help and support for children to access. you know is a sought especially if you're not able to go to work at the moment but her thought of things to come science fiction is becoming a reality is moscow may get its 1st flying taxis or than a couple of years a russian urban air mobility company started testing so-called passenger drones comes in to north kaufman to find out more. and just like that city traffic is no longer an issue instead of driving along congested highways this

taxi should lift you up and take you from a to b. by a. by the way there are no paddles or a steering wheel i mean the whole thing is supposed to be controlled by a person remotely or by computer programs the only thing i can do while inside is to pull the red knock in case of emergency combat or will it jacked a parachute. and . of course using it as the air transport air transport for passengers like air so to

speak in the big congested see is the 1st thing that comes to mind but it also might be useful for various city services like ambulance for example and russia's health care ministry and emergency ministry are reported to be extremely interested in this invention the safety is the idea of the flying car of the holder the idea of don't fix it is by what's inside it and it doesn't just just sit there choose the points on the map and the flight and that's all for the flying drones market has been booming for the last few years with many developers in europe china and america creating prototypes a chinese company hank for example made an aerial vehicle that can not only fly people but also how to put out fires and the. still might be quite a few bumps on the way of this particular air taxi before the project can take off or 1st of all it needs an investor who could start mass production and 2nd that cd

authorities must figure out where to allow such vehicles to operate as for now moscow considering devoting certain areas within the city limits for outdoor tasks to bring in hopes moscow could be one of the 1st capitals to use the catch phrase of doc brown back to the future deal or an inventor of. the. what one would do and it raises the well that's the latest so far this year mosco given in the sun all from all of this is flexible and should have a super day. let's imagine that everything that we learned on the world sits now right so as we learn more and more because we are learning more and more and grow now as any good island

the island is surrounded by an ocean in this case is the ocean off the unknown most stuff we do not know the right and the paradox of learning and this is why the boy did just that as the island grows. between what he's known and why does not known he's also growing. right now the. people who are overweight or obese it's profitable to sell through the seas and sugary and salty and addictive it's not at the individual level it's not individual willpower and if you go on believing the never change this obesity epidemic that industry has been influencing very deep. the medical and scientific. what's driving the obesity epidemic.

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