grows. and what is known is also growing. pains covert vaccination campaign grinds to a halt in parts of the country the supply is run out it's prompting doctors to question the e.u.'s handling of vaccine book hill but. we're concerned that apparently those countries departures vaccines and a higher price than the european union have not experienced such delay in delivery we're not at all satisfied with the current situation. the british prime minister is grilled in parliament over his handling of the pung demick as the death toll of souls beyond 800000 the nation braces for even tougher restrictions on.

french lawmakers and doctors venting their frustration at the country's failure to develop an effective covert fax the. a very warm welcome you're watching aussie international with mina care and. that sort of spain's most populous regions have hole to cope with vaccination campaigns over and wide supply shortfall madrid and catalonia have used up almost all available supplies and local officials believe brussels is partly to blame. to brussels and demand more doses we need more vaccines and more tests and everything that structure in this task will prolong the fight against the virus. but catalonia have administered almost all available doses and all remaining

supplies the needed to provide 2nd doses to people who have already received a 1st shot the head of spain's vaccination associations theys 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 suppliers who do half 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 increase 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 there's a picture playing out across the e.u. where just 2 percent of citizens have been vaccinated far lower than the numbers in the u.k. and u.s. and with vaccine makers pfizer and astra zeneca reporting

a 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 regards 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 delay in delivery we are not at all satisfied with the current situation. is. the british prime minister is facing renewed scrutiny over his handling of the pound make after the country passed a tragic milestone of 100000 covert related deaths by its johnson has admitted to government missteps but so far resisted calls for

a public inquiry there to be no doubt that has been no doubt that i'll take full responsibility for all the actions i have 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 us courts 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 there's a result we'll see more tragic. and more grim milestone when the past week alone more than 8500 people have died from covert 19 in the u.k. and the government is rolling out of a tougher restrictions the lockdown has been extended for at least 3 weeks and people cannot go out without

a valid reason all public gatherings are banned and police are getting tough on those who step out of line but as kate partridge explains it's sometimes the rule breakers all the 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 raves to birthday parties weddings and even baby showers with a baby shower. are. provided for because you're all here so obviously you're breaking covert roles we can't find every adult here every single one of you 2 under par that 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. oh i thought the british is really too ok for you. before you begin to have sisters very surprised as examiner certain stores are ok because of their national logs are aware of the you know exam to google to a little circle with all the people the aim is to publicly shame people and prevent others from doing the same except that message doesn't seem to have reached 31 of their own officers 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 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 look down. almost 6500 penalties were handed out as police move more quickly to enforcement find started 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 are being left with a very public tosk of not only ensuring everyone else is safety but setting the personal example of how it should be done while i think the police across the world are in very difficult situation with this so with the covert restrictions because it's it goes against the grain completely for police to interrupt parties and things but of course those are all the laws and the legislation and police officers realise that no pay 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 has put them in a very difficult position meaning that they've got to interrupt such things as baby showers and waiting and other things which goes really against 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 out there in colleagues they have to be in vans with the . colleagues they have to be in the police station but they're also risking people in the street and it was an assist so that our 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 job has become a thought of shame for the political establishment the defense the report. 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 counted it 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 laboratories well they didn't find the right immediate solution yes it's a shame but hey that's life that's ok 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 it could save a little there are probably things that can be done to simplify our system so that there is more fund probably recoup 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 problem 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 soon or free is struggling to bring to the market its vaccine candide it which won't be available before the end of the year for now sanofi is helping rivals pfizer biotech money fracture more of their job charlotte r.t. paris. u.k. is making it harder for people to leave the country due to lock down rules travelers will be questioned at the border on whether their trip is essential and will be turned away if not this was announced by the home secretary on a day when the country registered its 2nd highest number of covert deaths since the pandemic started the rules are clear people should be staying at home unless they

have a valid reason to leave going on holiday is not a valid reason well the u.k. has also announced new rules for travel from so-called high risk countries 30 nations are on the list and anyone flying in from those places will have to quarantine in a government approved hotel at their own expense but despite the ever tougher restrictions there are calls to go even further from both westminster and scotland . that it is northerly meant to go farther on a 4 nations basis we will be considering going farther or sales and we will settle any such additional measures next week why lock down isn't working fast enough and what we should do next threat not just borders and monitoring new strains but time to fix the biggest flaw in our current strategy namely that 3 quarters of those with symptoms do not sell fights only well among the measures being considered by the u.k. government is using g.p.s.

tracking on mobile phones to make sure people are complying with self isolation orders that idea has been promoted by jeremy hunt who chairs the health and social care committee in parliament and he cited poland taiwan a successful examples of such a policy while for more on this we can now bring in lawrence young professor of molecular oncology at work medical school and political commentator andre walker thank you both for joining us on the program was great to see you both 1st question to you lawrence please that travel is being severely restricted in and out of the u.k. do you think these are measures the government should have taken a long time ago perhaps as as early as last march absolutely i think this might be too little too late we know that most of the introductions of the virus into the u.k. during the 1st wave of the pandemic and indeed you in the 2nd world travelers returning from mainland europe and i think it might be too late now but nevertheless we are faced with

a new virus variants and i guess this strategy is to try and stop the introduction of these more worrying variants of the virus now andrea we heard jeremy hunt talking about g.p.s. tracking to make sure people have felt fine slating when required is not a good idea to think. well i think that what you have seen from lawrence a 2nd ago is precisely the issue that we're facing in this country what is just said here is that these travel bans are probably pointless but nonetheless let's do it that is the story that we're hearing right along there's been all of piety within british governance when the matter how crazy the idea is somebody comes along and says they want an even more crazy and draconian group rules and the fact that matter is there is a narrative that is being built up here that the reason for the coronavirus is that sad british people are ignoring the rules let me be clear cut the target virus was caused by the chinese communist party's behavior secondly the solution to it is to

vaccinate older vulnerable people and to reopen the economy we've now been told that schools will not open certain leads march the 8th in reality chris would say the medical advisor is telling the british government that there should be a lockdown every single christmas from now along we have let these people run absolutely right and what has happened with our public sector debt is now 2.13 trillion in december we borrowed 38000000000 pounds as the chief state he's absolutely bananas we've got to get back to work and we're going to get back to what not because they'll be nothing to come back to if we let this continue much longer lines here take well that's most of that's ridiculous isn't it so we're going to let all these only people die out we were going to let this barbarous parade and their desires dented by the 50 fascinated by the 15th century as you well know as making an assumption the vaccines are going to work and they're going to sort of transmit your back you're making the assumption that the economy can

exist if you lock it down for a year justify that. the alternative is what let people die or your sense of his hand immunity you go and i know that children and young people are not affected by this let's be clear the total number of people under the age of 65 with no preexisting medical complaints who died of the corona virus so far in britain is 398 that means that we have spent 1000000000 pounds per victim of the corona virus who was healthy and on the age of 65 how on earth can you say that because i'm pretty simple proposition well i don't know where you get your figures from but the point is this we are having to protect clearly people who are vulnerable and we need to cut we also need to protect other people in our society so vaccinations for teenagers for me is really important because i heard how does how does how to take us to stop it. if we're lucky i just heard how do you know i

think you see the data coming out of america coming out of brazil where people are getting reinfected and of getting very very sick and a lot of those people are young and they're also going to result long term conditions now you might not worry about other people the n.h.s. but i do i my background's in cancer and i'm worried that where we are storing up lots of problems for ourselves we've got to get out of this quickly and the way to do it is to keep these restrictions going get people vaccinated but it's still going to take months for that to have an effect that's the only you might not understand the biology of the wire all agree that's the body of the situation i hate hate hate how the 2nd point here is that there is that scientists are going far too far what you need in any society is a balance between risk takers and people who are risk averse up the bowmans the only concern that we have is about the spread of the virus the only concern we have is about the position of the n.h.s. no concern is being given to the future economic wellbeing of this country no

concern has be given to the mental health of young people no concern is being given about how viable this country will be after you've rocked that doesn't cost i'm all for your health i didn't make a prediction i'm going to make a prediction here is what we're going to do we are going to go back to the tier system in probably a crawl or mag and then in november and december and january we will go back to full locked out in january of 2022 we were pricks plants that is a system and in november of 2020 june we will go back into a full lockdown we have got to stop doing this we've got to get schools so open and we've got to get back to work we can't continue using money like this i continue to exist as a wealthy nation it's not possible a question for lawrence plays out that like for your thoughts on the proposal for g.p.s. tracking what do you think of that. or just the i get i'm not sure i mean i think that's a bit over the top really i think what we haven't done through all this process is get out 10 strikes and isolate if you want to get your domestic market economy back

on the up and running you do australia and new zealand have done 0 code and they got 0. chance in their borders good tech to test trace and isolate by quarantine and by providing support for people into isolation we didn't do that we haven't provided any financial support for people in isolation and so i think i think we should be doing that arguing g.p. are aside over that i could solve the problem right now the problem is killing chris which is not legal but we've got what we've got to do is we've got to accept that this disease will exist that this disease is probably not going to be seasonal forever we have got to protect the elderly and the vulnerable and britain has done incredibly well with the vaccination program but he terms of people who are not clinically vulnerable those people need to be sent back to work and we certainly need to open up the schools the idea of g.p.s. tracking people is for the personnel never implemented in time anyway i think the big defense has to be i know the government don't like this and the option of todd

say people don't like it but in reality when we complete the vaccination of the elderly and the vulnerable by mid february that's when we go back to work i think what the medics want is for us to vaccinate absolutely everybody in the country before we go back to work and that could take months i learned they are families of private victims in the u.k. are calling for a public inquiry into government failings during the pandemic do you think people have a right to know what went wrong here. absolutely and i think you know we're going to have to learn some very seriousness and this will not be the last pandemic and i think we and many other countries we're not alone in this we're not prepared for this we learnt some hard lessons over march and april but we have did far too much we didn't delayed and the other situation that gets you out of this is by making decisions quickly by going in hard and fast and using lock downs when you have very few people infected and then you can come out of lockdown and you can end up in a situation as other countries find them and so they're now so i think it needs to

be a public inquiry whether it's the right time to do it in the midst of the current situation we find ourselves in i don't know but i think the face of this the face of public health in the u.k. will never be the same again and i really appreciate. the look this suggestion that medics and people like lawrence have argued for heart locked up and then easing the restrictions this guy has never been on t.v. and all the different easing of restrictions all that they are constantly doing is making the lockdowns more and more draconian and why they doing it actually is not because they're bad people and it's certainly not because they don't understand the science the problem is they're only taking into account the scientific side they're not taking into account the why the issue of the economy of society of mental health and frankly we've got that balance wrong we need to stop debating only about the medical issue and we need to start seeing it in the wider context and accept that britain does need to continue as a country and the has to be

a balance between keeping people safe and also maintaining the wealth and livelihoods and educate should all this culture of one final question for lawrence plays never going to have to wrap up on the plus side the u.k. does appear to be having much faster in vaccinating a population than other countries it's reached 11 percent compared to 6 percent in the u.s. and 2 percent in the e.u. with an encouraging sign. it's very encouraging to demonstrate what you can do when you mobilize the n.h.s. and you know what this is a pro to take and then we didn't take it but test race and isolate where you are decentralized and you empower your local n.h.s. structure to dish out the vaccine is worked extremely well and obviously that we know there are going to be bumps in the road with regard to the supplies of vaccines in this country and across the world but i have to say it's something that we're doing particularly well it's and it's good to see so much progress and we will be able very soon to protect the most vulnerable many thanks to you both for a lively discussion lawrence young professor of molecular oncology were at medical

school a political commentator on jaywalk i thank you are here. now the white house is preparing to tighten its rules on who can attend a media event the biden administration has said that from now on certain types of individuals will be barred entry organizations or individuals who trafficking conspiracy theories propaganda and lies to spread disinformation will not be tolerated and we will work with the white house correspondents' association to decide how to handle those instances moving forward. well that announcement's already drawn outrage from some on the right with accusations of censorship this at a time when liberal media are being accused of singling out republicans for character assassinations one example is a newsweek feature on sen tom cotton and a long running claim that he falsified his military career in it revolves around cottons claim to have served as the as the army ranger based on

a 2 month training course he wants to a range of school the magazines they use the title ranger is associated with an elite unit in the army while the senator says the liberal media have always referred to ranger school graduates as army rangers or to illustrate that point back in 2050 newsweek itself identified 2 female ranger school graduates as army rangers but recently the outlets edited that 5 year old piece to say the women will be allowed to wear the coveted range of tap on their uniforms meanwhile conservative commentators are bracing for a new climate of hostility under the bike didn't ministration fox news that report had a stern warning for where the country is heading you shoes are all around you know never in american history has there been precious or ship on this scale. not here for legal or media analyst lionel good to see a line of tucker carlson that talking about press censorship is that what we're

seeing. oh absolutely in fact what we're seeing right now is what i refer to as frankly not the thought police but thought vigilantes it's becoming more and more popular for people to on their own by virtue of some self-imposed virtue signaling edit out these conspiracy theories and propaganda and lies which are now buzz words for automatically shutting down thought and what's happening right now is i'm i predict that the when this pendulum comes back because people are fed up with it when the pendulum comes back it's going to come back like a wrecking ball because the thought vigilantes you know we saw this a while back with politically correct thought where we couldn't say certain things about this disease or people or women or men or whatever and that was fine but now every sense just think about this 8 days ago since this president was inaugurated there's been this mad rush to scrum this huge memory shouldn't flux from every

conceivable area to stifle and to shutter any type of speech so any reason they're in gorged in this this feeding frenzy they can't get enough of this but i'm telling you they have pushed their limits there is they are going to be in for a very big surprise very very soon i know that i know the white house wants to shut up people who spread propaganda on this information that is the lie quite broad term started they are how do you think they apply. anyway they want the word conspiracy theory this is my favorite this is been weaponized into meaning something and what happens is through habituation through this continued conditioning if i say something over and over and over it starts to mean something propaganda propaganda means the other person and lies think about this you have

press press option press availability to the office of the president of the united staes states being shut off by somebody who markets and who grovels in these terms propaganda i'm sorry one who a.b.c. your improv again while you're in our propaganda and b c you're in the conspiracy there is no you're into our conspiracy there is it's not the fact that they are lying or their propaganda stick or their conspiratorial know it's the wrong conspiracy the wrong propaganda and the wrong lies that the problem. biden has promised to end the uncivil war between red and blue from what we've seen so far is by going to happen. not even close listen where the all due respect to president by it how many executive orders has he signed what 300 i have

no idea it's like in that scene from blazing saddles they're just handing him think he basically declared war on the planet venus he has no idea he's signing things away and says things in this matter of fact clarity i mean this is this is on b leave a bill and what's happening right now is twitter facebook in particular because remember this is also this is in conjunction with social media because they're all apparatchiks they're all part and parcel wholly owned subsidiaries of the shadow government they have no idea what's inside for them they're pushing it to for a day or 2 greedy and at this point they don't care they feel imperious impervious nothing can get them there bulletproof. jokes going to be on them very soon many thanks for joining us line illegal media analyst thank you. thank you for joining us here on r.t. international we're back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines.

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