printing cycle and run the economy since greenspan. controls. i'm sorry to have to tell you the number of deaths recorded from in the u.k. has surpassed 100000 grieving u.k. families demand a public inquiry into government failings that have made britain the 1st european country to register more than 100000 deaths from the pandemic. of an accident. and they did not. come out and most of these lives could have been saved. the side of the country's declining french lawmakers and doctors wringing their hands at their failure to develop an effective covert vaccine.

russia's foreign ministry accuses the us and big tech of spreading fake news on social media with president putin warning that online giants are now so powerful they threaten democracy. plus taxis could soon be flying over the skies of moscow as a russian tech startup tests its latest innovation correspondent for a spin. city traffic is no longer an issue instead of driving along congested highways this taxi should take you from a to b. by. midday here so very good day for moscow this is out international with me kevin though in 30 minutes of our latest ahead for you starting with this has become the 1st country in europe to pass 100000 deaths from cove it prime minister boris

johnson offered his condolences but was tackled in parliament too over his handling of the pound they can quote very slow response i'm sorry to have to tell you the number of deaths recorded from in the u.k. has suppost 100000. and it's hard to compute the sorrow contained in that grim statistic the u.k. is the 1st country in europe to record a $100000.00 covert deaths we also have the deepest recession of any major economy in us courts are closed and the borders are open my biggest concern is that the prime minister still hasn't learnt the lessons of last year and i fear that as a result we'll see more tragedy and more grim milestone more than 8 and a half 1000 people have died from covert in the past week alone in britain alice tustin who lost his grandfather to the virus and started the names not numbers

campaign 0 to highlight government negligence in the pandemic and the push to for a public inquiry into its handling of the response. we need to think this is a criminal. let's not sugarcoat it we are experiencing the worst humanitarian atrocity that this island is embassy and it's because. government is being neglectful there is in america machon and most of these lives could have been saved we need to understand how this happened but this should not be a government led to an inquiry i do not want a criminal investigation is on crime because the routes will not be sought number 100000 this is not something that we should take on the chin except as a population in the end of the day and i'm going to neglect family and they do not lives 1st they put the economy 1st which ironically now as not only tax the economy

has also led to more deaths that it shouldn't so for now the governance sir toughening up restrictions as the death toll grows the lockdowns with extended for at least another 3 weeks people can go out without a quote reasonable excuse all public gatherings are banned and police are getting tougher on those who break the rules but escape partridge explains next sometimes those 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. is an 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 raves to birthday parties whiting's and even baby showers. baby showers. or. provide a hole of a straight because you will hear so obviously a break in kobe rolls we can find every adult here every single one of your to our

department is london metropolitan police chief superintendent stephen condemns the party goers and. and there would be consequences london's police are almost daily posting videos of officers shutting down illegal gatherings 00000000000. oh oh oh i thought the british is real too ok why did. they want to be one of the obvious 1st rephrased orders because there are certain stores are ok there is a very rational logs are aware of the you know exam to google to a little circle with all the 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 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 $1000.00 regulations i hope this action proves that police are not immune to enforcement of the rules more embarrassingly for the met it happened barely a week after 9 officers were fined after being spotted having breakfast together in a london cafe since march the police have issued 32000 fines across england and wales penalties road shoppy jury indians november looking down almost 6500 penalties were handed out as police move more quickly to enforcement find start at 200 pounds in england in 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 back of the nation rollout 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 are being left with a very public time ask of not only ensuring everyone else's safety but setting the personal example of how it should be done while i think the police across the world are in very difficult situation with this so with the covert 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 no pay to do that and 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 let's assume this legislation has put them in a very difficult position meaning that 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 thought only 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 rescuing people in the street and it people's houses so they are the forefront of needs to have a decent society that they they have the vaccination as early as possible. transfers once the world leader in vaccines development now though the failure to develop its own covert job as the country has can bigger questions about its global decline bensky report. 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 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 laboratories well they didn't find the right

immediate solution yes it's a shame but that's life that's a kid and they will do better you know 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 class 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 i would be surprised if it was a fund and problem i think it's 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 sanofi is helping rivals pfizer bio tech manufacturing more of their job charlotte even ski r.t. paris. russia's accuse the u.s. a child's of working together to spread fake news it comes as president putin notes america's monopoly on online content. so complete is the threat that is the threat

to democratic institutions is a senior correspondent. freedom of speech something that we have taken for granted you know in this in this modern age is turning into something of the luxury of favor bus stop upon us by the powers that be and taken away in equal measure by billionaires take billionaires and elected and who rules to stratospheric odds on the backs of these these social media platforms and this latest scandal involves the head of russian space agency dmitry rogozin and he's seen moves speaking his mind on facebook where he wrote a critical post about a fellow called michael mcfaul and basically goes unsaid you tried meddling in our affairs and to see tom and tom again just stay out stay out you know you do you doing nothing constructive and for that he was banned for 24 hours and facebook.

account was restored but his ability to make new post is still restricted in the russian foreign ministry came out with condemnation saying you know this is just doing too far and all the fake news about the protests in russia for example illegal calls targeting kids 1011 year olds to attend protests with which is illegal 1st of all 2nd of all dangerous because you know as we school they can turn violent and they filed lodged an official complaint with the u.s. embassy in russia 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 the power the influence of these tech giants today it carol was stated with the pandemic exacerbated things but this had been a trend for

a while discourse is increasingly moving online yet the online world is ruled by an elite group of. billionaires billionaires of untold power at this point who are unaccountable to know what universe there's you in that could come and say and tell them do this or do that if they can bad don't trump then a sitting president of the united states cloakrooms the most powerful man in the world that they could out right bad him from all platforms you know acting in concert who is beyond their reach there's no one this is a democratically elected president and this is something that lied to me or putin warned that in his speech yesterday. the digital giants now are playing an increasingly large role we often hear about in conversations particularly regarding the us 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 this is part of the systematic crisis facing the world there's sees a seismic change facing the world that's it's cultural it's political it's to do with society it's our values and especially to claw logy in the pandemic this is exacerbated things all this change is happening so quickly taps it isn't always going in the right direction. this is our to internationalise quarter past the hour hi thank you for being with us now what we got here well rallies against in the cultural reform bill turning violent on the country's republic day and i will tell you what caused the get a boil over as it did after this break. join

me every 1st day on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see if.

again the right wing alternative for germany party has been put on the more state surveillance for reportedly quote attacks on human dignity rejection of the rule of law and an anti democratic stance details of a secret parliamentary meeting were leaked and revealing intelligence services in the state of saxony on hold can have spy on the communications and purchases of more than a 1000 party members or state branches of the f d a being tracked to we requested a response from the national intelligence agency about the measures we'll let you know if they do get back to us and say anything mean to them and a.f.p. spokesman did speak to us telling us the moves are just a bid to damage the party in their view which became the country's 2nd biggest at the last election ahead of this year's parliamentary vote. berthe it was no

surprise because that was announced in advance. we have. this situation already for several months in germany. he had a secret service is under supervision of the political parties who are ruling and those parting are using the secret service to address the opposition. we see in our own and the aliments. in socks and. a dns the biggest opposition party. this election was done in just. to. make us damage in advance of the of elections which are going to be had in. 2021 in

a few months. rallies against india's agricultural reform bill of turn violent on the country's republic day huge ceremonies and military parades were disrupted as fierce battles broke out across the capital new delhi did a farmer protest it was killed at one point as his tractor was among many vehicles overturned in all the chaos that trinity chavez has got more. 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 proposal reforms seen here clashing with police. scuffles breaking out with law enforcement after a group of protesters driving tractors drove through police barricades to enter the store rather work site leaving one protester dead i'll never do anything good for the police fired tear gas and hit us farmers with the. demonstrators defying tear

gas and flash bangs as 32 to march through the streets told you something testers with sticks. protest leaders condemning the violence. do what happened up the road for furniture damage 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 on the floor according to the women in the demonstrations are expected to continue until those laws are repealed. just after

taking office president biden signed an executive order revoking the permit for the keystone x.l. oil pipeline the project which stretches from kind of the to the u.s. has sparked protests along the way and legal battles in fact across 3 presidential administrations so far. 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 one stroke of the pen of president biden it looks like president biden is working on a make america unemployed again kind of strategy thinking more about saudi arabia workers in montana workers and u.s. workers and there is significant pushback against biden to signal both sides of the border with tens of thousands of job snow on the line with more on it to america's . 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 at home that day one priority was to kill thousands of american jobs including union jobs to support our strong ally our counter to 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 says he says this 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 presidents order the 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 $1000.00 workers immediately due to president joe biden's decision it is not clear how many of those jobs are american. pie but a cheery news for a change about what so the future may bring away from calvin science fiction is becoming a reality as moscow may get is 1st flying taxis or than a couple is a russian mobility company started testing so-called passenger drones seems they

would to constantine 1st in the queue. 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 or. 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 can babble it jacked it parachute.

of course using it as an air transport 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. is by what's inside it and that person just just sit there choose the point on the map and the flight that sold well 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 there still might be quite a few bombs. on the way of this particular area taxi before the project can take off well 1st of all it needs an investor who could start mass production and 2nd 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 task bringing hopes moscow could be one of the 1st capitals to use the catch phrase of doc brown back to the future of the war in inventor. a cool way to beat the city q you say that it rains leave you without a vision of the future of a great day. right

now there are 1000000 people who are overweight or obese it's full suitable to self. and sugary and salty under pickton's it's not at the individual

level it's not individual willpower and if we go on believing that never change this obesity epidemic that industry has been influencing very deeply the medical and scientific. terms of what's driving the obesity epidemic it's corporate profit . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for indication let it be an arms race move this on off and spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i will see how that strategy will be successful very critical diam time to sit down and talk.

all. because while controls are part of it was once branded as a great deal and mark of the geopolitical genius and the peace making x. amount of barack obama but 6 years later given his all and former vice president is now in a bind. whether it's you recommit to the iranian nuclear deal discarded in 2008 seen by the trumpet ministration is be. worth the paper it was written on to discuss that and alan joined by iran's foreign minister javad zarif minister is

great to see you in moscow again apparently in very good health and cheerful spirit what brings you here good to be back and good to about on your program. in russia. strategic relations. cooperation that he wanted to discuss but this time on a regional or 2 of the caucuses working basically on how we can. fight. with the. boy president putin was not unsimilar to apply. now it can be turned into a possibility of full cooperation and. connectivity in the caucuses benefiting everybody but mr global issues that still very much on your mind and every time our interview iranian officials including yourselves there

always tries that.