i'm. feigns covert vaccination campaign grinds to a halt in parts of the country and supplies brownouts prompting doctors to question the e.u.'s handling go back to procurement. we're concerned that apparently those countries did purchase vaccines in a higher price than the european union have not experienced such doing delivery we're not at all satisfied with the current situation. french lawmakers and doctors vent their frustration of the country's failure to develop an effective covert backseat. russia's foreign ministry accuses the us government and the big tech of spreading fake news on social media with president putin warning that all the

wind giants are now 3rd powerful they threaten democracy. and taxis could soon be taking to the skies over moscow as a russian startup tests its latest innovation of high spondon took one for a. city traffic is no longer an issue instead of driving along congested highways this taxi should take you from a to b. by if you're. very welcome you're watching r t international with minichiello and. now 2 of spain's most populous regions have halted their covert vaccination campaigns over and e.u. wide shut supply shortfall madrid and catalonia have used up almost all available supply and sounds local officials believe brussels is partly to blame. we must

stand up to brussels and demand more doses we need more vaccines and more tests and everything the destruction this task will prolong the fight against the virus madrid council have administered almost all available doses and all remaining supplies are needed to provide 2nd doses to people who have already received a 1st shot the head of spain's vaccination association says it's a nationwide problem so. the number of doses we're receiving has been significantly reduced the vaccine is not being delivered at the rate that we anticipated it's a real problem for the national vaccination plan and it means a ton of us regions will have to review their strategies the supplies we do have will be needed to give 2nd dozers to those who have already started the vaccination process so we will not be able to knock you are very vulnerable and it creates groups that were identified in the original plan it's a difficult and uncomfortable situation. the czech republic has halted its

vaccination campaign for 2 weeks over a lack of doses and it's a picture playing out across the e.u. just 2 percent of citizens have been vaccinated for lower than the numbers in the u.k. and u.s. and with vaccine makers pfizer and astra zeneca reporting major production delays there's no solution in sight the spanish vaccine chief again thinks the e.u. should have done a better job of securing early supplies from the pharma giants. i do not like the lack of transparency with regard to the contracts that the european union has concluded with pharmaceutical companies we don't know above them we don't know the purchase price we don't know anything at all and i think that's wrong of course we're concerned that apparently those countries didn't purchase vaccines in a higher price than the european union have not experienced such delaying delivery we are not at all satisfied with the current situation. that. the

british prime minister is facing lynyrd scrutiny over his handling of the pandemic after the country passed a tragic milestone of 100000 covert related deaths but i stole it and has admitted to government missteps but so far resisted calls for a public inquiry there to be no doubt and it 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 100000. we also the deepest recession of any major economy ask are closed and our borders are open my biggest concern is that the prime minister still hasn't learned the lessons of last year and i fear that as a result we'll see more tragedy and more grim milestone. in the past

week alone more than 8500 people have died from covert 19 in the u.k. and the government is rolling out over tougher restrictions the lockdown has been extended for at least 3 weeks people cannot go out without a valid reason or public gatherings abound and police are getting tougher on those who step out of line but escape partridge explains that sometimes the rule breakers all the officers themselves so 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 and a very big show for the. provider or because you're all here so

obviously you're breaking covert rules we can't find every adult here every single one of you 2 under par the is london metropolitan police chief superintendent stephen trainmen condemns the party goers and warned there would be consequences london's police are almost daily posting videos of officers shutting down illegal gatherings. was the british a real joy for you. or your reading of sisters disguised as it was going on essential are ok this is of the national logs are the words. you're not exempt greeting the full 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 offending officer

slapped with a $200.00 pound fine it is. disappointing and frustrating of my officers have fallen short of the expectation to uphold covert 1000 regulation and 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 $32000.00 fines across england and wales penalties ray 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 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 what i think the police the world are a very difficult situation with so with the codes restrictions because it's it goes against the grain completely for police to interrupt parties and things but of course those are all the laws in the legislation and police officers realize that they're paid to do that and i think that's what's happening it's it's a really weird time this goes against all the all the training all the things that we we over many over the century or so have tried to do which is give people their

freedoms. but people act within the law but of course these letters to 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 our needs to have a decent society that they they have the vaccination as early as possible. france was once the world leader in vaccine development now the failure to develop its own covert japanese become a source of shame for the political establishment chatted to penske 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 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 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 front and problem i think is 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. lebannon has been raped by a 3rd night of anti lockdown unrest hundreds were injured as rioters torched and

vandalized property in tripoli. military police fired tear gas and water cannon in response as protesters threw stones and tried to break into government headquarters lebanon's been on total lockdown and around the clock curfew since mid january countries can take a prime minister earlier said the restrictions are vital to cut this part of infections the head of the lebanese red cross told us how tough life is right now. and the really serious you want to look to asia and you have been have to get back we called and called and regulation and the people are fighting for any gardening they need to be there to help them to see how they can manage them and then we live and to help their families today the hospital. in bonn they all get up there and you have no idea what you'll. be in and there have we had a craving

a lot of problems then to get it to the emergency room where there isn't the medical evidence because you are going to. be to be in the field and to help all the community between both because you are to get that bill for their work on board by prominent court and majority from the community while. russia has accused the us government and tech giants of working together to spread fake news our senior correspondent right gals d f has the story. freedom of speech something that we had 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 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 a coward 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 said all 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 eat today it's cattle 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 i am accountable to no what universe 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 as 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 of that in his speech yesterday to an audience of us 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 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 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 you happening soon quickly and perhaps it isn't always going in the right direction. the new u.s.

secretary of state has said washington is ready to revive the iranian nuclear deal but only after wrong meet 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 nuclear deal was brokered back in 2015 requiring a run to limit its uranium you radium and which means in exchange for sanctions relief the trump administration withdrew from the way in 2018 but it's still being upheld by russia the e.u. and china which of all called on washington to return to the treaty well there's our artie's 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 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 in that into the deed. the united states decided to punish us we had 300 kilograms of enriched uranium you know and joe biden for many years perhaps 7 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 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 be hired many civilized meetings in vision he disagreed but visibility. 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 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 live making to see that if they have if they returned to duty with full effect. benefiting the iranian people knowing that their policy of maximum

pressure has already faded then we are willing to go back to the full terms of the . security services in germany have put the anti immigration n.a.f.t. party under surveillance accusing it of extremism the domestic intelligence service has reportedly launched a probe focusing on alternative for germany's regional h.q. in the east of the country we've asked the agency for comment on we'll let you know if we hear from them and they have the spokesman told us the authorities are trying to weaken the party ahead of this year's elections. bursted it was no surprise because that was announced in advance. we have. this situation already for several months in germany. here the secret service. supervision of the political parties who are ruling and those parting are using the

secret service to press the opposition. we see it now and. it's. a dns the biggest opposition party. this action was done in just. to. make us damage in advance of the of the elections which are going to be held in. 2021 for the next few months. rallies against india's agricultural reform bill turned violent as the violent of the country marked to a public day huge ceremonies and military parades were disrupted as fierce battles broke out across the capital new delhi and a farm a protester was killed as his tractor was among many vehicles overturned in the chaos r.t. the trinity 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 reporter reforms seen here clashing with police. 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 those farmers with the. demonstrators defying tear gas and flash bangs as 32 to march through the streets told you something testers would stick to the 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 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 to 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 you and women to the demonstrations are expected to continue until those laws are repealed. science fiction is becoming a reality as moscow may get its 1st flying taxis within a couple of years a russian ability company has started testing so-called a passenger drones ati's constantinian rushkoff was 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 and that i will jacked a parachute. to . that. of course using it as the 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 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 hanka 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 . moscow could be one of the 1st capitals to use the catch phrase of doc brown back to the future if it were an inventor. then you would love to hear your thoughts on this story and everything else to do get in touch by following us on social media we're back at the top of the hour with a late. when yellen says we're going to go big and it's fine this is going to print scads more money many chinese more just understand that she's pouring that money into something else structurally broken it's like

a bucket of the bottom is missing it doesn't matter how many like liquidity she pours into that bucket is structurally broken it's just got to come right at the bottom doesn't matter how much she pours of the stick the economy is fundamentally broken all the distribution all the finance everything every piece of the puzzle has been decimated by the command and control money printing psychopaths run the economy so it's greenspan. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only to be. ready. to sit down and talk.

it was once branded as a great. political. peacemaking act. but 6 years later even former vice president is now in a bind whether it's. discarded in 2000 by the trumpet ministration is. still worth the paper it was written on. iran's foreign minister. and it's great to see you apparently in very good health and cheerful spirit what brings you here good to be back. on your program.

which is the creation. of corporations as she wanted to discuss but this time. of the caucus is. basically. the. president putin is. vision was not unsimilar to a plan that we had presented now it can be turned into a possibility of full cooperation linkages connectivity in the caucuses benefiting everybody but mr global issues as philip very much for on your mind and every time our interview iranian officials including.