some strange. experiences coded vaccination campaign grinds to a halt in parts of the country as supply runs out prompting doctors to question the handling of vaccine procurement. where concern that apparently those countries didn't purchase vaccines and a higher price than the european union have not experienced such delays we're not at all satisfied with the current situation. the 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 the doctors vent their frustration at the countries that failure to

develop an effective vaccine. could soon be taking to the skies over moscow as a russian startup tests its latest innovation our correspondent 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. broadcasting live direct from moscow this is our 2 international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now 2 of spain's most populous regions have halted their covert vaccination campaigns over and e.u. wide supply shortfall madrid in 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 that distracts from this tosk will prolong the fight against the virus madrid in catalonia have administered almost all available doses and all remaining supplies are needed to provide 2nd doses to people who have already received the 1st shot the head of spain's vaccination association says it is 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 half will be needed to give 2nd doses to those who have already started the vaccination process so we will not be able to knock your other 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 it is a picture playing out across the e.u. as well where just 2 percent of people have been vaccinated far lower than the numbers in the u.k. and u.s. and with vaccine makers pfizer and astra zeneca reporting major production delays there is 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. yes 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 about 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 in those countries that purchase vaccines had a higher price then the european union have not experienced such delaying 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 pandemic after the country passed a tragic milestone of 100000 covert 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 ask or closed on 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 of more great milestones. in the past week alone more than 8500 people have died from the cold 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 without a valid go out side of it all without a valid reason all public gatherings are banned and police are getting tougher on those who step out of line but is artie's keep partridge explained sometimes that the rule breakers are the officers themselves so the coronavirus pandemic has changed just about everyone's professional lives and the police are no exception to the u.k.'s on armed forces have repeatedly come under the spotlight for trying to do their job which these days include cracking down on illegal gatherings under the lockdown laws these range from graves to birthday parties whiting's and even baby showers and baby showers. ok. we've got a call 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 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. right was an issue throughout the day for you. before you begin to have sisters very close students examiner central. areas of the national office are aware of the you know exam to going to the school 2nd with other people the aim is to publicly shame people and prevent others from doing the same except that message doesn't seem to have reached $31.00 of their own officers court flouting the law down while on duty just to get a haircut if you're eating their superiors and seeing each of fending offices slapped with a 2. 100 pound fine line it is deeply disappointing and frustrating of my officers

have fallen short of the expectation to uphold covert 1000 regulations i hope this action 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 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 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 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 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 and so i've tried to. do which is give people the freedoms people act within the law but of course these let's assume 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 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 risking people in the street and in people's houses so they are the forefront of and needs to have a decent society that they they have the vaccination as early as possible. france was once at the world leader in vaccine development and now the failure to develop its own covert shot has become a source of shame for the political establishment troubled penske port. 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 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 flayers that have accumulated over the years given the money where you will to spend in other areas armament and all that i would be surprised if it was a fund and problem i think its management issue may be more than a funding issue meanwhile what's been called france is the last major pharma group sanofi is struggling to bring to the market its vaccine candidate which won't be available before the end of the year for now sanofi is helping libels pfizer bio tech manufacturing more of their job so it's even ski r.t. paris levanon has been gripped by a 4th night of anti lockdown unrest hundreds were injured as rioters torched and vandalized property in tripoli.

well military police fired tear gas and water cannons in response as protesters threw stones and trying to break into a government headquarters levanon has 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 local journalist amar. you know what about it the idea that there's that it is the 4th day of the protests in tripoli a lot of protesters have gathered to trying to march to the local administration building and storming as happened on previous days and security forces are using tear gas grenades to stop the protesters but it's not stopping some of the protesters from throwing the grenades into the windows of the provincial headquarters and some officers have been hurt as a result of protesters have been dispersed from the square with tear gas and some of them are trying to hide in the surrounding areas the lebanese army has

surrounded the area but for now the army is not taking any action yesterday it got involved after one person was shot with live rounds his funeral was held today right now the situation is stable and there are some small clashes from time to time it seems like the army is waiting for serious clashes to get involved some time ago it used armed force to and block the road south to tripoli but. the head of the lebanese red cross told us how tough life is right now. because there are many t.v. if you look at the situation and you do that they have to get back we go to court and all regulation and the people are fighting for any gardening beneath that the that i think we're going to have them to see how they can manage them and then they live and do that today no hospital. and then one day i'll get up on the ideal of mad to push them back to. the end there have we had a fading

a lot of problems of land that gated to the imagine if you don't way of bad back then the medical president calls you out against the law to be to be in the. community between both because you're doing it right bill the ems are deployed there well from both 5 comic then a creative quarter and majority of from the community. in the program a russian. testing a new airborne taxi. what

does the let's stay on board today well go to let's start with working in civil liberties now it appears to prioritize i did the jerry politics issues we hear the word would be a lot but not me and is there a place for mayor in a politics even. welcome back this is archie international now the u.s.

department of homeland security has issued a terror alert citing the threat of domestic extremists who objects to the transition of power information suggest some ideologically motivated violence extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence while the document does not mention any specific anti-government plot but it says that some radical individuals may feel emboldened by the breach of the u.s. capitol building in early january and could seek to target elected officials and government facilities it is the 1st time the department of homeland security has used such a warning to refer to a domestic rather than foreign inspired threat we'll rivera the editorial director of the reactionary times give us his own personal thoughts. but that kind of worries me that in concert the only you know since he's been inaugurated the only

wild we've seen as left wing and now we see this advisory are they're trying to you know are they is the government trying to justify you know future or i guess all restrictions on you know let's say conservatives or republicans gathering to protest or to you know just come together against the agenda of the current administration by going ahead and staging these sorts of riots in leftwing cities of all places is this some sort of a something of a false flag where we're starting to see you know left wing violence is that the left wing is actually getting everything that they asked for from joe biden you can't lump everybody in the same group together and you can't go ahead and thin out f.b.i. or intelligence community resources to you know be monitoring the facebook of some midwestern grandma who's upset at joe biden and meanwhile miss you know probably

potential communications going on between terrorists in and out of the united states i mean listen we don't have enough people working at the federal government level to keep an eye on everybody so we have to focus and consolidate our efforts to where there is true danger. the white house is preparing to tighten its rules on who can attend to media events with the biden ministration setting out new criteria on who could 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. this comes at a time when liberal media are being accused of singling out republicans for attacks on their character one example is a newsweek feature on sen tom cotton a long running claim that he has falsified his military career and revolves around

cottons claim to have served as an army ranger based on a 2 month training course he once did at ranger school the magazine says the title ranger is associated with an elite unit in the army while the senators says the liberal media have always referred to ranger school graduates as army rangers to illustrate that point back in 2015 newsweek itself identified 2 female ranger school graduates as army rangers but recently the outlet edited that 5 year old piece to say the women will be allowed to wear the coveted ranger tab on their uniforms meanwhile conservative commentators are bracing for a new climate of hostility under the biden administration and one fox news anchor had a stern warning for where the country is heading you see those efforts all around never in american history has there been press censorship on this scale earlier we spoke with legal and media analyst lionel he thinks the new u.s. administration is eager to shut out unwanted views. think about this you have

press press option press availability to the office of the president of the united states states being shut off by somebody who markets in who grovels in these terms propaganda i'm sorry one who a.b.c. you're improv again while you're in our propaganda n.b.c. you're in the conspiracy theory no you're into our conspiracy theories it's not the fact that they are lying or their propagandistic or their conspiratorial know it's the wrong conspiracy the wrong propaganda and the wrong lies that the problem is think about this 8 days ago since this president was inaugurated care has been dismantled rush to scram this huge memory shouldn't fly from every conceivable area to stifle and to shutter any type of speech sore 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. just computer games a retailer game stop has seen its share skyrocket recently despite bets against of the stock from wall street trading companies the rally has been driven by a large number of small investors and the company had seen its shares of falling for years which drew the attention of wall street traders betting on a further drop however last autumn the movement started on the message board read it to alter the trend 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 volt in 2 weeks but after wednesday's drop many analysts are anticipating a further decline in the meantime the volatility has already caused billions to

trading companies and while regulators are looking at possible rules violations the situation has also drawn the attention of the highest ranking u.s. officials. interesting is. i understand that they had measure a shift taking and left the f.e.c. is taking a look at what that is. but we have all been breaking it but that interesting peter c. earl fellow at the american institute for economic research believes it is just the market at play what makes this a really unique situation in my mind is really 3 factors that are currently we still have a lot of people who are at home under unemployed because a block down to city home orders which are now starting to be lifted but they're still in effect the 2nd is that stock valuations are extremely high even overall not just bigger stocks but overall partially because of the infusion of trillions of dollars over the federal reserve's. attempts to liquefy the economy when things

start to fall out of bed in march april 2020 and in this particular case you wanted to edge funds it were they were asleep at the switch the rich group was short in an illiquid stock and they got caught and that's just how i would go if you that's if you step on them and you might get punched. science fiction is becoming a reality as a moscow may get its 1st flying taxis within a couple of years a russian urban air mobility company has started testing so-called passenger drones artie's constantino roscoff 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. 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 program the only thing i can do while inside is to pull the red knock in case of emergency and that will jacked it 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 flow is by what's inside it and it doesn't just just sit there choose the point 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 deal or an inventor of. the.

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it was once branded as a great. political genius making. but 6 years later even former vice president is now in a bind whether it's. discarded in 2000 by the trumpet ministration is. 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 good to be back on your program. russia. strategic relations. with cooperation does she want to discuss but this time on a regional to all of the caucuses. basically on how we can. do.

visuals and the. boy president putin. presented now it can be turned into a possibility of full cooperation linkages connectivity in the caucuses benefits but no. global issues still very much on your mind and every time our interview iranian officials including yourselves there always stress that regardless of who is in power in the united states the american policy especially your country never seems to change and yet just a few days ago you very interesting article for foreign affairs in reach you rode that the new administration to failed assumptions of the past and quote seek to promote peace and call me to.