doesn't matter how much you. think the economy is fundamentally broken all the distribution all the finance everything every piece of the puzzle. by the command and control money printing psychopaths run the economy sunscreens fam. grieving u.k. families demand a public employee into government missteps blamed for the coded 1900 death toll which is by far the highest in europe. and the. fish is the nomination. most of these lines. also this are french lawmakers and doctors vent their frustration i think country's failure to develop an effective covert vaccine. plus russia's foreign ministry accuses the us government and big tech of spreading fake news on social media the

president put a new warning about online giants are now so powerful they threaten to mark the sea . and taxis could soon be taking to the skies over moscow as a russian startup testes latest innovation our correspondent on 1st. city traffic is no longer an issue instead of driving along congested highways this taxi should take you from a to b. by 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. the british prime minister has been grilled in parliament over his handling of the penn demick after the u.k. passed the tragic milestone of 100000 code related deaths boris johnson admitted to government missteps as the opposition slammed his slow response to the pen demick.

there to be no doubt that has been no doubt that either the government takes full responsibility for all the actions are you've taken we've taken during this pandemic to fight this disease 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 calls are closed and our borders are open of my biggest concern is that the prime minister still hasn't learned the lessons of last year and i fear that there's a result we'll see more tragedy and more grim milestone when the 8 and a half 1000 people have died from curb it in the past week alone in britain or else justin who lost his grandfather to the virus has started the names not numbers campaign to highlight government negligence in the pandemic and a push for a public inquiry into a telling of 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 is ever see and it's being caused by our own government is being neglectful if there is in alaska machon and most of these lives could have been saved do we need to understand how this happened but this should not be a government lending group inquiry i do not want a criminal investigation is on crime because the routes will not be sought number being 100000 this is not something that we should take on the chin and accept as a population in the end of the day and of an accident neglectful it and they did not lives 1st they put the economy 1st which ironically now as not only tax the economy has also led to more deaths than it should have. the government's toughening up restrictions as the death toll grows the lockdown has been extended

for at least 3 weeks and people can't go out without a reasonable excuse all public gatherings are banned and police are getting tougher on those who break the rules but as kip 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. is 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 for raves to birthday parties weddings and even baby showers. baby shower. or. retarded or because you're all here so obviously you're breaking covert rules we can't fight 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 00000000. oh oh i thought you should really do ok for you. before you begin to have sisters very close start out because they're going to send chills are ok you know 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 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 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 net 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 rochelle petering 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 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 has safety but setting the personal example of how it should be done while i think the police across the world are a very difficult situation 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. in a very difficult position maybe not. 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 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. france was once they were a leader in vaccine development now the failure to develop its own covert job has become a source of shame that for the political establishment quality pinsky has the details . 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 the fear yes indeed it is real because when pastor rick cannot get out a dose of the vaccine that is amazing and 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 that's life that's a key 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 our 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 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 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 ragas to have his 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 in 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 said 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 all the fake news about the protests in russia for example all the

illegal calls targeting kids 1011 year olds to attend protests which 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 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 i am 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 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 is this new when this is a democratically elected president and this is something that the mere putin warned with that in his speech yesterday. 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 this is part of the systematic crisis facing the world this sees a 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 changing happening soon quickly perhaps it isn't always

good in the right direction. the new u.s. secretary of state has said washington will return to the iran nuclear deal but only when tehran again meet 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 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 a deal to limit iran's nuclear capabilities but his successor donald trump pulled out and brought back sanctions on tehran something many countries have condemned today's edition of r.t. as world apart discusses the future of the deal with the iranian foreign minister himself here's some of the exclusive interview which will be showing here and

a few hours. we want to make sure this time better than i just say it would be lived by the terms of the deal 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 will enjoy by then for many years perhaps even decades i read somewhere that he has your personal cell phone number do you think i actually are my personal cell phone number has changed since i left. fast here and you want to see him again do you

think dead 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 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 kid but in fact the impact of that chickenshit the effect of that signature on riveting it would be raking to see that if they have if they returned

to d.c. full of fear. benefiting date on the end people knowing that their policy of boxing on pressure has already faded then we are reading to go back to different terms of the. lebanon has been gripped by a 3rd night of anti lockdown unrest hundreds were injured as riders torched and then allies property in tripoli. military police fired tear gas and water cannon in response as protesters threw stones and try to break into government headquarters lebanon's been on total lockdown and around the clock curfew since mid january the country's caretaker prime minister earlier said the restrictions are vital to curb the spread of infection. joining us live is the secretary general of the lebanese red cross george khatami you're very welcome to the program and now your organization has reported over 800 injuries during these 3 days of anti lockdown protests what

are your thoughts on the scale of the protests. where you know nothing to fear in politics if you will the need for the economic situation and to look down. the people to go to defeat including where you can get out of there we put it between you who he is not need to be clear to the hospital on 25 or. about my and it is why is it of course $200.00 people on both of the will be. were you expecting this sort of reaction and the need for that much help. i cannot say anything about them but of course we are going to be to be in the field and to help all the community between both because you want to get that bill and with their work from both by coming then a quarter and majority from the community for. tripoli already had one of the

highest poverty rates and lebanon before the pandemic i haue has covered influence that situation as you know i think of red meat i give us one example of only 4 people leave port all the territory and also and be pretty good now but it cost is that related to the hospital and more of them have $5000.00 cases from the 1st of june every $27.00 on the hill yesterday and we had a t.v. when receiving on the emergency line wonderful little 5000 souls and of course people gave there's a lot of corrie faces and lives with many areas new to the situation and due to that they have to respect the protocols and the rules and regulations and these people are suffering for any guarding the needs and that the they had adequate think to help them to see how they can manage them and their lives and to help their families. what else can you tell us about the covert situation not just in

the city of tripoli but across the country. as i mentioned to your daily record. having more than 300 cases so those people who are trying to coordinate with the government especially women so far mattel with the audit of physicians and coat of sand to get off. and bothers to see how we can proceed to help the community and then house arrest me for training them to solve also the profit of the case to see how we can build the capacity of the hospital through them and to have joy and there's a lot of cases and the officers went back into emergencies they don't all of these hostesses and was playing our best to see how can we use ms software no basis for help them to them not to present to build the capacity of these fossils after. the end of the year that it becomes a lot of cases of all the theories are you special invaded by with no one on this

is where the red cross i was i left england seems to see how they can manage to transfer the cases and to coordinate with that access in the field to help them and to transfer them to aim now is to saving lives how we can save lives of these people and how we can protect to respect the protocols and little ones and their religion. lebanon's caretaker prime minister has acknowledged that government aid isn't enough to cover the needs of the population what do you make of that and what more needs to be done. what more needs to be done is to equip the private clubs you know the majority in the county and not have the public what it does about what to do was the 1st and 2nd percent of the hospitals in the county are private hospitals where you have universal health because where they need to be more equipped and they need to more to have a quality management medical staff to be ready and i think on emergency measures your role and also in men practice care and to see how we can have more room to

receive the peepers so there's a plan a but i plan propose to do all the time listed was the theme and to see how it can be found that supported from the beginning from the house i still have dr following this status in their houses and is done on this they don't need to be thought skeptical of us it's true that it's dross that frost was glad to help in coordination with doug says in case of need the profits of the hospital with heads of hospitals in but at the hospital they have to build the capacity to be ready in each day as well and it's of a night to be added to these cases so there's a cycle of 4 schemes a from the beginning from home protocols expecting goals and regulations protecting this people with medications are to meet the consequences oxygen and get good don't need to me tom said and did not respond what i find i remember the station station for the people doesn't have a quote implant platen all of them special for them and then moving in case of need

to listen to the hospital results and by then it's gonna end but as these help does need to be funded and equipped by w.h. or by all those fluids from has to be ready and get taken up so more because today the hospital. and they don't know all this help us they are us 90 percent absolutely 19 and they have we had a facing a lot of problems to send the cases to the images you don't wear the x.x.l. of our faces in the images because. you were mentioning the w.h.o. there do you think that international help is imperative the world has a organization and they have to support them and so has needs that usually that some of the public works with them but that you know in lebanon 80 percent of these hospitals they. would not publish and this is why and the public option because they have supported but you but you see a new universe. automotive equip and they need not to be equipment they have more medical and they can up some more cases and it's to increase the i feel bad

220250 more than they have and to increase also the couple of these hospital up so well and but a limb that many people and they're going to be ready with their backs is to have just a community before translating them to the hospital because each one feels like and that the body they need their oxygen machine instead of moving to the west says but actually can be helped and to be used for the basics 40 percent from translating them to the host. we've been speaking with george katana secretary general of the lebanese red cross thank you for finding the time to join us on the program thank you very much think. science fiction is possibly becoming a reality as moscow make it its 1st flying taxis within a couple of years russian urban air mobility company has started testing so-called passenger drones artie's compazine rushkoff 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 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 and that i will jacked a 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 of don't fix it is by what's inside it and 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 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 the certain areas within the city limits for outdoor tasks. moscow could be one of the 1st capitals to use the catch phrase of doc brown back to the future to lure an inventor i. i. i. probably is against india's agricultural reform bill turned violent as the country marked republic day huge ceremonies and military parades were disrupted as fierce battles broke out across the capital and a farmer who was protesting was killed as this tractor was among many vehicles overturned the chaos on the street each of us 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've a poacher 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 red fort 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 the continue to march through the streets told you some testers with sticks. protest leaders condemning the violence. do what happened up the road for furniture damaged violence outside on a choice to go 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 to the prime minister is that it is not the government it is the farmers going out and only god willing to do as we want to do you cannot force your laws on the door open for them to be with women the demonstrations are expected to continue until those laws are repealed. that's a breakdown of today's top headlines for now but if you're looking for more you can always how to our website are 2 dot com consuming it.