no. and the paradox of learning and this is why the boy as the island grows. and watches dog known is also growing. on swords to tell you the number of deaths recorded from creep in the u.k. is a post 100000. grieving u.k. families demand a public inquiry into government missteps blamed for the coded 1000 death toll which is by far the highest in europe. and the middle class and the un's they did not. establish the nomination. most of these lives could have been saved. also this hour french lawmakers vent their frustration of the country's failure to develop an effective covert vaccine calling it a sign of national decline. russia's foreign ministry accuses the u.s.

government and big tank of spreading fake news on social media that president putin warning that online giants are now so powerful they threaten democracy. and taxis could soon be taking to the skies over moscow as a russian startup tests its latest innovation correspondent took one per cent. city traffic is no longer an issue instead of driving along congested highways this taxi should take you from a to beat by a are. you watching art international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 4 pm welcome to the program. the british prime minister has expressed his grief and remorse over the country's cope with death toll just soared beyond

100000 at the highest figure in europe as the opposition demands answers over fatal missteps and the slow response of the pen demick. i'm sorry to have to tell you the number of death recorded from couvade in the u.k. has surpassed 100000 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 covert deaths we also have the deepest recession of any major economy us courts 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 while an 8 and a half 1000 people have died from co bed in the past week alone in britain alsace and he lost his grandfather to the virus has started the names not numbers campaign

thailand government negligence in the pandemic and the push for a public inquiry into the response person who needs thinking this is a criminal inquiry. let's not sugarcoat it we are experiencing the worst humanitarian atrocity that this island has ever seen and it's being caused by our own government is being neglectful there is in alaska machon 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 human to neglect family and they did not lives 1st they put the economy 1st which ironically now as not only intact the economy has also led to more deaths that it

should have done. the government's toughening up restrictions as the death toll grows in the country lockdowns been extended for at least 3 weeks and people can't go out without a valid reason a public gatherings are banned and police are getting tougher on those who break the rules but as kate partridge explains sometimes the rule breakers are 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 baby shower. or. retarded or 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 oh oh oh oh oh. oh i thought the mission really to ok for you. before you begin to suspect is very close started examiner central vadar ok yeah because of the national logs are aware of the you know exam to greeting the school 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 caught 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 pound fine line it is deeply disappointing and frustrating of my officers have fallen short of the expectation to uphold covert 1000 regulations i hope this

action. moves 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 re shoppy during england's november lockdown 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 vaccination 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 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 the police the world are a very difficult situation with so with the code it 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 realise that no hate 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 the 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 has put them in

a very difficult position maybe not. 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 it people's houses so they are the forefront of our needs to have a decent society that they they have the vaccination as early as possible francis on sea world leader and back scenes developments now the failure to develop its own code job has become a source of shame for the political establishment as charlotte devinsky 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 just 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 or 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 will 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 fund 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 a last major pharma group sanofi is struggling to bring to the market its vaccine candidate which won't be available before the end of the year for now sanofi is helping libels pfizer bio tech manufacturing more of their job charlotte even ski r.t. paris. russia has accused the u.s. government and tech giants of working together to spread a fake news our senior correspondent juan garcia has the story. 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 take it away in equal measure by billionaires take billionaires and elected and who rules to stratospheric eyes 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 is he is 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 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 text 8 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 up i'm accountable to know what you know that there's no 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 cloakroom is the most powerful man in the world to fake it out writes bad him from all platforms you know acting in the called who is beyond their reach there's no one this is a democratically elected president and this is something that lied to me a putin warned that that in his speech yesterday. was not a lot and that you lose either 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 that defacto able to compete with states this is part of the systematic crisis facing the world this season seismic change facing the world 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. still had rallies against india's agricultural reform bill have turned violent on the country's republic day and tell you what concert anger to boil over in the 2nd half of the program.

join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back the new u.s. secretary of state has said washington will return to the iran nuclear deal but

only when tehran again meets its commitments. around it 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 in 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 capabilities but his successor donald trump pulled out and brought back sanctions on tehran something that many e.u. countries have condemned after this bolton today's edition of r.t. is worlds apart discusses the future of the deal with the iranian foreign minister . 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 desire 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 politics 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 them actually we do and that is also written into it into the deed. when did i just decided to punish us we had 300 kilograms of enriched uranium you know and joe biden for many years perhaps even decades i read somewhere that he 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 to begin to make it 3 a good job why didn't i ever not buddies the representative 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 in vision he 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 the issue for us is what do you do if you look at the j.c. puree is not just the signatures that counts in the j.c. pew it in the new kids eat but in fact the impact of that sickness should the effect of that signature on riveting live 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 then we are reading to go back to the full terms of the. rallies against india's agricultural reform bill turning violent as the country marked republic day huge ceremonies and

military parades were disrupted as fierce battles broke out across the capital and the farmer who was protesting was killed as this tractor was among many vehicles overturned in the chaos artistry of the 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 i book will show 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 credit 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 32 to march through the streets told you something testers with sticks. protest leaders condemning the violence was do what happened up the

road for furniture damage violence outside and hoisting up before we did not have anything to do with such quiet 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 go to the farmers and only do as we want to do you cannot force your laws on the floor according to the women the demonstrations are expected to continue until those laws are repealed. now for some moral news in brief hundreds have been injured as rioters torched and vandalized property

and the 3rd day of protests in the lebanese city of tripoli military police fired tear gas and water cannon in response as protesters threw stones and tried to break into the government. of lebanon has been on total lockdown and they were. around the clock curfews since mid january. 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 swaths of forest land brigades have 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 might become a reality as moscow make its 1st flying taxis within a couple of years russian urban air mobility company has started testing so-called

a passenger drones are just constantine roscoe 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 8 to beat 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 rad knock in case of emergency can babble it jacked a parachute. of

course using it as the air transport air transport 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 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 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 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 to lure an inventor. that's all for this hour but if all those stories haven't quench your thirst for news head on over to our website archie dot com for countless articles and interviews and sitting in.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. is you'll be via reflection of reality. in the world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation full community. are you going the right way or are you being led so. direct. what is true what is faith.

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a great deal of the geopolitics. teenie is the peacemaking action end of barack obama but 6 years later and even only former vice president is now in a bind over whether it's you recommit to the iranian nuclear deal discarded in 2013 by the trumpet ministration is the. deal 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 good to be back on your program. in russia. relations. but out. of cooperation does he wanted to discuss but this time i'm going to regionals 2 of the caucuses working basically on how we can . fight on account of both. the.

president putin was not unsimilar to apply. to now it can be turned into a possibility of full cooperation. connectivity in the caucuses benefiting but mr i'm sure you global issues as still very much on your mind and every time our interview iranian officials including yourselves there always tries that regardless of who is in power in the united states they american policy especially these of your country never seems to change and yet just a few days ago you very interesting article for foreign affairs in reach you wrote that the new administration had to fail to some sense of the past and quote seek to promote peace and call in the region that is such a huge rhetorical its hearings what makes you believe that no i. never. mean we

never. closed the door to a possibility you always been far more. sharper in your descriptions of possibilities yes and we still believe that the united states policies have been disastrous for our region not just the trumpet ministration policies but the policies of the previous administrations and i think in the article you mentioned i mentioned some of those areas of us. disservice to security i don't call me but you know there's a very very soft and extremely diplomatic terms far more diplomatic than your usual style. i guess it's intentional well we want to show that the united states can change its policy and now it's the time for dubai didn't ministration to abandon a policy not because of the goodness of their heart but because of the fact that that play.