they shouldn't let it be an arms race is often very dramatic development the only move really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. on swords have to tell you the number of deaths recorded from in the u.k. and suppost 100000 breathing 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 pen demick. on the middle class and they do not. wish to be seen in my imagine. most of these lives could be saved. also this hour a sign of the country's decline french lawmakers and doctors wring their hands at their failure to develop an effect of comin back seat. plus russia's foreign

ministry accuses the u.s. and big attack of spreading fake news on social media with president putin warning that online giants are now so powerful they threaten democracy. and taxes could soon be flying over moscow as a russian tech startup tests its latest innovation and our correspondent takes on the 1st tent. city traffic is no longer an issue instead of driving along congested highways this taxi should take you from a to b. by a. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. britain's become the 1st country in europe to pass 100000 deaths from coated prime minister boris johnson offered his

condolences but was tackled in parliament over his handling of the append and quote very slow response. i'm sorry to have to tell you the number of deaths recorded from cupid in the u.k. has surpassed 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 ask or are closed and our 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 cope with in the past week alone in britain as test on who lost his grandfather to the virus has started the names not numbers

campaign thai like government evidence in the pandemic and the push for a public into an inquiry into the response. we need to think this is a criminal inquiry. let's not sugarcoat it we are experiencing the worst humanitarian atrocity of this island service and it's being caused by our own government is being neglectful there is there no matter how much and and most of these lives could have been saved greta understand how this happens but this should not be a government led to an inquiry i do not want a criminal investigation as i don't cry 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 i'm going to neglect family and they do not our lives 1st the economy 1st which ironically now is not only tax the economy has also

led to more debt that it shouldn't. the government's tough and the toughening up the restrictions as the death toll grows the lockdowns been extended for at least 3 weeks and people cannot go out without a reasonable excuse a public gatherings are banned and police are getting tougher on those who break the rules but as kate partridge explains sometimes they will 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 wars these range from raves to birthday parties whiting's and even baby showers. baby showers. are. provided a whole of a straight because you will hear so obviously of breaking kobe rules we can provide every adult here every single one of you 2 under par that is london metropolitan

police chief superintendent steven tyler condemns the party goers and warned there would. the consequences london's police are almost daily posting videos of officers shutting down illegal gatherings oh oh oh oh 0 7 000-000-0000. oh i thought the british is real true i thought why did. they want to be one of the mob sisters rephrased words because they're going to send chills up the r.k. characters of the national office are aware of the you know exam to google to the full 2nd 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 offices 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 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 row 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 and northern islands 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 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 are being left with a very public time ask of not only in showing everyone else's safety but setting the personal example of how it should be done what 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 and 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 loaches to this legislation has put them in

a very difficult position meaning that they've got to interrupt such things as baby showers and wading 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 rescuing people in the street and in people's houses so they are a forefront of needs to have a decent society that they they have the vaccination as early as possible francis once they were a leader and vaccine development now the failure to develop its own code job has the country asking bigger questions as charlotte n.c. reports. france has a little in famous history when it comes to vaccinations i mean after all the so-called father of even your logy is 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 0 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 hey that's life that's a key x.

and they will do better communication 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 pond and problem i think it's a management issue maybe more than a funding issue meanwhile what's been called france is the 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 r.t. paris. russia has accused the u.s. and tech giants of working together to spread fake news it comes as president putin notes america's monopoly on online content is now so complete that it's a threat to democratic institutions is our senior correspondent juan garcia with

the details 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 bust out upon us by the powers that be and taken away in equal measure by billionaires take billionaires. 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 basically goes and said you tried meddling in our affairs and this you tom and tom again just stay out stay out you know you do you doing nothing can see. that 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 going too far and all the fake news about the protests in russia for example illegal calls targeting kids 10 or 11 year olds to attend protests which which is illegal 1st of all 2nd of all dangerous because you know as we sure 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 u.s. 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 you've stated with the pandemic exacerbated things but this has been a trend for a while the 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 large a mere putin warned that that in his speech yesterday. davos all our. 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 there are economic giants in some areas that defacto able to compete with states this is part of the systematic cross' facing the world this sees

a seismic change facing the will that's it's cultural it's political it's to do with society values and especially to clear all of g. in the pandemic this is exacerbated things all this change is happening soon quickly and perhaps it isn't always in the right direction. still had rallies against india's agricultural reform bill have turned violent on the country's republic day i'll tell you a constant anger to boil over and the 2nd half of the program. when yellen says we're going to go big and it's fine if she's going to print scads more many many chinese war chest understand that she's calling that money into something else structurally broken it's like a bucket with the bottom the bottom is missing it doesn't matter how common it's like liquidity she pours into that bucket is structurally broken it's just going to

come right at the bottom doesn't matter how much she pours and it's the stink of the economy is fundamentally broken all the distribution all the finance everything every piece of the puzzle was been decimated by the command and control money printing psychopaths on the economy since greenspan. that's amazing that everything that we learn about the world see it's not night right so as we learn more and more because we are learning more and more and grow now as any good either the island is surrounded by the ocean in this case is the ocean off the unknown stuff we do not know the right and the paradox of learning and this is why the boy is that yes the island grows. between what he's known and what is not known he's also growing.

welcome back the new u.s. secretary of state has announced that washington will return to the iran nuclear deal but only when tehran again meets its commitments. around is out of compliance on a number of fronts and it would take some time should it make the decision to do so for it to come back into compliance and time for us then to assess whether it was meeting its obligations so we're not we're not there yet the obama administration signed the 2015 deal to limit iran's nuclear capability is spot his successor donald trump hold out and brought back sanctions on tehran many e.u. countries have condemned the withdrawal however today's edition of our team's worlds apart discusses the future of the deal with the iranian foreign minister himself here some of that interview which airs here next hour. we want to make sure this time better than i just say it would be lived by the terms of the deed rather than by by its own minister with all due respect what tools do you have to ensure

that the united states leaves by the deal because they have we know how political is this days they have all the tools to punish you for your compliance or for that you know in that own imaginary. mistakes but do you have the ability to actually apply that pressure to that move but actually we do and that is also written in that into the deed. benda united states just to punish us we had 300 kilograms of enriched uranium you will enjoy by the end for many years perhaps even decades i read somewhere that she has your personal cell phone number do you think i actually or my personal cell phone number has changed since i left. fast here and you want to see him again and do you think that that personal connection i don't know how deep it is but do you think it will sell

a tape any diplomatic way to begin to make it 3 a good job why didn't i ever not buddies be represented to different countries with different policies he was a senator and i was a permanent representative to the united nations ve had many civilized meetings to . me it disagreed but the incivility. i think. is the basis for understanding but again it's not just on the issue of who's in the white house is. for us is what do you do if you look at the j.c. puree is not just a signature that counts in the j.c. pew it in the new kids eat but in fact the impact of that chicken shit the effect of that signature on a riveting making to see that if they have if they returned to duty with full effect. benefiting date on the end people knowing that their policy of maximum pressure has already faded in real reading to go back to the phone terms of the.

rally is against india's agricultural reform bill turn violent and see country marked republic day huge ceremonies and military parades were disrupted as fierce battles broke out across the capital and i farmer who was protesting was killed as a tractor was among many vehicles overturned in the chaos artistry chavez reports. 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 the poultry 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 tomsic demonstrators defying

tear gas and flash bangs as their turn to march through the streets told to do something testers with sticks. protest leaders condemning the violence was do what happened up the road for furniture damaged violence outside and hoisting up before we did not have anything to do with such planned economy 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 former government and only we will do as we want to do you cannot force your laws on the floor according to the women at the demonstrations are expected to continue until those

laws are repealed. just hours after taking office president sign an executive order revoking the permit for the vast keystone x.l. oil pipeline project which stretches from canada to the u.s. has sparked protests and legal battles across 3 presidential administrations now. i'm signing today an executive order to supercharge administration ambitious plan to confront the existential 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 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 arabian workers in montana workers and u.s. workers their significant pushback against bines decision on both sides of the border with tens of thousands of time jobs now on the line with more on that here is our 2 americas. 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 canada 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 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 i'm 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. embrace this thursday hundreds have been injured as riders torched and vandalized property on a 3rd day of anti-lock down protests in the lebanese city of tripoli military

police fired tear. and water cannon and response as protesters threw stones and trying to break into government headquarters been on total lockdown and around the clock curfew sense in january now. there have been large rallies against a new anti abortion law in poland thousands came out against the ban on practically all abortions calling the move a clear violation of women's rights. and wildfires in central argentina have destroyed swathes of 4 aslan brigade been battling the blaze all week as strong winds complicate the situation water and electricity supplies to towns have been disrupted by the flames. science fiction is possibly becoming a reality as moscow may get its 1st flying taxis within a couple of years it russian urban air mobility company has started testing so-called passenger drones. was 1st in line. 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 be 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 program the only thing i can do while inside is to pull the rad knock in case of emergency can babble it jacked it parachute.

of course using it as an air transport sport for passengers like air so to speak in the big congested city 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 flow is what's inside it and it doesn't just just sit there choose the points on the map and the flight that's all 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 city 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 to lure an inventor. here in the present that's been a wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook for up to the minute reports.

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