you need to. join us in the. aura maybe in the shallows. feigns covert vaccination campaign grinds to a halt to parts of the country as supplies run out prompting doctors to question the e.u.'s handling of vaccine procurement. we're concerned that apparently those countries did purchase vaccines in a higher price than the european union had not experienced such doing delivery we're not at all satisfied with the current situation. british prime minister is grilled in parliament over his handling of the pandemic as the death toll soars beyond 100000 the nation braces for even tougher restrictions. french lawmakers and doctors are vent their frustration at the country's failure to

develop an effective covert baxi. contacts is could soon be taken to the skies over most good was a russian startup tests its latest innovation our correspondent up one for a spin. city traffic is no longer an issue instead of driving along congested highways this taxi should take you from a to b. by. variable welcome you're watching r.t. international with me nicky airing our top story 2 of spain's most populous regions have halted their covert vaccination campaigns over an e.u. wide supply shortfall madrid and catalonia have used up almost all available supplies and 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 majority in council lonia have administered almost all available doses and all remaining supplies are needed to provide seconds doses to people who have already received the 1st shots 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 to 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 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 the 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. the british prime minister

is facing renewed scrutiny over his handling of the pandemic after the country passed a tragic milestone of 100000 coverts related deaths boris johnson 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 covert deaths 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 learnt 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 ever 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 sometimes the rule breakers are the officers themselves. the coronavirus pandemic has changed just about everyone's professional lives and the police are no exception the u.k. is on armed forces have repeatedly come under the spotlight for trying to 'd do their job which these days include cracking down on illegal gatherings under the lockdown laws these range from graves to birthday parties weddings and even baby showers. into a very big show or. provided for 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. was the initial real joy for you. this morning reading the sisters very surprised because they're non-essential vadar ok you know because of the national laws are there were a lot of these you know example 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 caught 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 deeply. pointing 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 café since march the police have issued $32000.00 fines across england and wales penalties re shoppy during england's november look down 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 is 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 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 in the legislation and police officers realize that 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. 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 wading and other things which goes really against the all the things that they've done over the years i thoroughly believe that police officers should be vaccinated because they are being asked to not only be around lots of individuals themselves so that they're at their own colleagues they have to be in vans with their colleagues they have to be in the police station but they're also rescuing people in the street and in people's houses so they are at the forefront of our needs to have a decent society that they they have the vaccination as early as possible or france was once the world leader in vaccines development now the failure to develop its own code has become a source of shame for the political establishment tried to bensky reports. france has a little in famous history when it comes to vaccinations i mean after all the so-called

father of even your logi is louis pastor the french microbiologist so it's been a base of a blow that the institution that bears his name failed to find a viable vaccine it's described its own results as disappointing in these trials involving the 1st administration to humans the vaccine candidate was well tolerated but the immune responses in juiced by the vaccine were inferior to both those observed in individuals who recovered from natural infection and those observed with the vaccines currently authorized for covert 19 the vaccine they were attempting to produce was less effective than 0 natural immunity who hits hard and it seems the french are really feeling it the fear yes indeed it is real because when pastor rick cannot get out a dose of the vaccine that is amazing so i think it is incompetence it's everywhere maybe there are too it's a competition between different laboratories well they didn't find the right

immediate solution yes it's a shame but hey it's live that's a key next and they will do better communication i'm not sure after all it's more important that everyone in the world has the same objective it's true there are concerns about making money on the vaccines and things like that politicians too are crying out with worry that france is losing its standing in the world it's a sign of the decline of the country and this decline is an acceptable but this decline is not because france isn't producing 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 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 even ski r.t. paris. lebannon has been gripped by a 3rd night of anti lockdown unrest hundreds were injured as writers torched in vandalized property in tripoli.

military police fired tear gas and water callen 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 the country's caretaker prime minister earlier said the restrictions are vital to curb the spread of infections the head of the lebanese red cross told us how tough life is right now. but with many areas you look at the situation and you do that they have to get back we go to court and regulation and the people are fighting for and guiding their needs and hope that the that i think we're going to have them to see how they can manage them and then they live and do today no hospital. and then monday i'll get up there and you have my good percent back you'll. be in and there have we had a fading a lot of problems and the gated to imagine if you don't wear that back they look

for the medical president because we are going to get through to be to be in the. community between both because as you know to get that bill the ems are deployed there well from both 5 from extended period of course and majority from the community. on the russian text also testing a new boeing taxi with out the details for you in a couple of minutes. what

does the let's stand for today let's start with you david in civil liberties now it appears to prioritize the jury. issues we hear the word. and use their pleas for america in a politics even. welcome back u.s. computer games retail a game stop has seen its shares skyrockets recently despite bets against the stock from wall street to wall street trading companies the rally has been driven by

a large number of small investors well the company has seen its shares fall in 3 years which drew the attention of wall street traders betting on a further drop however last autumn movement started on the message board read it to alter the trend it was given a boost this month off the changes to game stops board a large number of small investors started to buy call options which led to a spike in the company's shares resulting in the stock jumping 12 fold in 2 weeks but after wednesday's wednesday's drop many analysts are anticipating a further decline in the mean time the volatility has already cost billions to trade in companies betting on game stop share price to crash while regulators are looking at possible rules violations the situation is also each one attention of the highest ranking u.s. officials interesting is an understand that the administration is taking a look to see thea's taking a walk and what their it is. but we are all big revealing it interesting.

alive now to max kaiser host of artes the kaiser report thanks for joining us max now a game stops as it skyrocketed over the last few days however they drop today and analysts expect a further fall what happened. well this is really fascinating because for many years hedge funds have been engaged in the legal practice called naked short selling but regulators never inforce the law against naked short selling so in the case of game stock here's a company with a certain number of shares outstanding and hedge funds had sold short more shares then are actually outstanding for the company in what a called naked short sells so what happened was the reddit board and what's called the wall street bets its is an online consortium of day traders figured out that

they could damage hedge funds who have been practicing this illegal naked short selling by buying the stock and sure enough when they started to buy the stock the hedge funds panic and they have to buy back the stock to cover their short and because they're short more shares than actually exist the result is this spike in price is credible spike in price so what these traders have done what these reddit traders have done is exposed or shine a light on the illegal practices of hedge funds and this should have been addressed many years ago because the dea objective of hedge funds like melvin capital which is associated with citadel that has on their board ben bernanke the former fed chairman is to put these companies out of business and to profit on their collapse and that of course doesn't help the economy at all and people lose jobs so we have

to applaud their reddit and the wall street bets people for bringing back some law and order and some equilibrium to these markets they're doing the absolute right thing and we need to support them if we believe in free markets and if we believe in capitalism if we don't and the objective is price fixing and to go to a command and control the economy and. then that's what we're going to end up with if we let hedge funds dominate the price discovery and engage in this massive price fixing that the reddit people have exposed that is so interesting but trading outside now below can use this from buying game stop and several other companies said as well regulators review them on the matter of a possible violations will that be the end of the story. now this is the beginning of the story by halting trading and i'm from what i understand now there are these apps that are confiscating stock from users accounts again breaking the law

this is completely illegal on the on the on the part of robin hood and other apps that are rampant lawbreaking going on this is just up the interest of generations in the millennial who saw in 2008 their wealth confiscated under obama and remember eric holder at that time the holder doctrine said that these banks are too big to jail he gave the green light for fraud and so hedge fund said ok if that's true eric holder and barack obama let's commit as much fraud as we possibly can so flash forward to 2021 and these young daytraders figured out that there's a bit of a gap in what the pricing should be and the fraud being committed by citadel capital and by melvin capital they forced their hand and now the response from these apps like robin hood is to break the law even more so my expectation here would be that these millions of day traders are going to double down and triple

down and continue to force a reckoning and continue to force regulators to either start regulating or they're going to move into bitcoin and if they move into bitcoin nikky and they take the price up to $3.00 or $400000.00 a coin that means that all the banks in the united states and around the world are going to be de. did that means the central bank will be defunded god forbid these people discover a bit quiet because if they do capitalism in america as we know it is over so do you think this situation could somehow snowball and lead to a lot more investors losing big. well why investors if you mean hedge funds yes and that's a good thing because they are parasites and they are breaking the law every day with the jurisdictional and with with the regulatory approval of the f.c.c. and the other regulators who are complicit in this and they really need to be wiped off the board because there it's really

a disgusting situation what we've seen in the regulatory environment and what is being called out by the reddit traders so this is i think the beginning of a major shift in how these markets are operating and it's quite encouraging because as you know for years we've been talking about things like the buy silver and crashed j.p. morgan and that was a whole effort to expose j.p. morgan's massive manipulation in the silver and gold markets which they have sense admitted and paid a fine for a market manipulation is rampant in america the precious metals are manipulated all the stocks are completely manipulated this is been proven again and again fully documented there is no adequate is no sufficient price discovery in any of these markets in the united states and around the world and these millennialism gen zinni are saying enough is enough you stole all our money in 2008 now we're going to steal it back so i applaud this entirely and i hope they keep the pressure on

because they need to restore some justice and some equilibrium to these markets max always a pleasure thank you for your time as max kaiser host of aussies at a kaiser report. science fiction is becoming every ality as moscow may get its 1st flying taxis within a couple of years a russian urban their ability company has started testing so-called passenger drones artie's constantinian rushkoff was the 1st in cuba. 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 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 this 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 that person 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 of the war in inventor.

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their. cars while controls are part of it was once branded as a great deal of the geopolitical genius and the peace making x. amount of barack obama but 6 years later and even his old former vice president is now in a bind over whether it's you recommit to the iranian nuclear deal discarded in 2018 by the trumpet ministration is the still worth the paper it was written on well to discuss that and alan joined by iran's foreign minister javad zarif minister is great to see you in moscow apparently in very good how things share full spirit

what brings you here good to be back. on your program. iran and russia. strategic relations we have but after the areas of cooperation that he wanted to discuss but this time i'm on a regional to 2 of the caucuses working basically on how we can 10. fight going ahead about visuals and with the. by president putin vision was not unsimilar to a plan that he had presented now it can be turned into a possibility of full cooperation linkages connectivity in the caucuses benefiting everybody but mr global issues that still up very much for 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 the american

policy as especially these of your country never seems to change and yet just a few days ago you panned a very interesting article for foreign affairs in reach you wrote that the new administration attend shad to fail the some sense of the past and quote seek to promote peace and call mitzi in the region that is such a huge rhetorical change what makes you believe that no i truly never attended i 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 to 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 u.s. . disservice.