2014. of those who took. it invested over $5000000000.00 to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. headlines this morning bolivia and argentina become the latest latin american states to get hundreds of thousands of russian covert vaccine doses as the head of the u.n. heralds the role that sputnik 3 can play in the battle on the pandemic. meantime spain's covert not collation campaign using western vaccines grows to a halt in parts of the country supplies run out prompting doctors to question the procurement system. the vaccine is not being delivered to the reed to be disappeared it's a real problem for the national vaccination plan. to storm and

toss the town all of the lebanese city of the tripoli is 5 days of anti lockdown and antipoverty rage leaving a protester killed and hundreds injured. and the u.k. times is locked out amid one of the worst coded daily death tolls on mills' a g.p.s. system to track infected people we've put that idea up for debate. idea of g.p.s. tracking people is for the birds they'll never implement inside anyway or just the under i'm not sure that's a bit over the top really i'm worried that we're. storing up lots of problems roosevelt we've got to get out of this quickly and the way to do it is to keep these restrictions going get people vaccinated. good morning from the tone of the january hello from moscow than money was kevin 0 in here for the next 30 minutes for the latest from our set out. international news

just heard in the headlines there bolivia and argentina have received hundreds of thousands of doses of russia's vaccine as latin america increasingly bets on sputnik v it comes as the u.n. secretary general says it can play a very important role in the fight against the pandemic if we're trying to reports . news on vaccine distribution challenges delays in deliveries you may be sick and tired of it but this is the reality around the world even the trust between countries is being put to the test as the scramble for vaccine doses intensifies concerns over how castro governments and regions like latin america will be able to secure enough jobs for their nations in time are even more serious the ultimate remedy for it is more vaccines cheaper vaccines this explains why the head of the u.n. is counting on the russian vaccine and wants to get the green light for it asap we

hope to double it sure would prove russia's good 1000 vaccine and soon as possible it can play a very important role in the fight against the pandemic it seems though for some latin american countries waiting for the final w.h.o. approval may prove to be way too costly while corona virus infections in russia are pivoting bag down skepticism for sputnik v. has all but vanished demand is on the up and moscow's keen to help. the 1st shipment of the russian jabbers only intended 420000 bolivian medics but it's still crucial for those on the covert front line the 1st 20000 doses of the vaccines have arrived in bolivia to stop the 2nd wave of the covert 900 pandemic the bolivian president luis r. say has personally welcome to shipment at the international airport eventually bolivia will get enough sputnik the doses to immunize 2600000 people the president

wants to cement confidence in the vaccine by getting the job to. the russian creation is set to become very most used vaccine in mexico in the 1st 3 months of this year and the country that is just about to certify the use of sputnik the january house through. to be disastrous with the worst spike ever in new covert cases the president tested positive last week but the leaders happy has been able to seal the deal with moscow to 12000000 people we spoke with the president of the russian federation vladimir putin and he was genuine and cool deal i invited him to visit mexico and thank him for the decision to send us 24000000 doses of the sputnik the vax and over the next 2 months. argentina was the pioneer in trying out sputnik among latin american countries the 1st jabs arrived and when osiris at the end of december and after getting the data on side effects only one percent of

those who received the shot had some sort of issues but as loudest went on to order 22000000 doses with the latest batch having just arrived the president and the vice president have both taken the russian vaccine argentina has been dubbed the global testing ground for moscow's vaccine drive well so far so good and the infamous curve in the country has gone past its peak in the united granted we need more people bucks in the inlet in america so to know how we could box in the only 2 percent of the workers because we have only to find the scenes in the theaters and the need to do so much now we are receiving $5000000.00 more of those and wish to complete the box initial program with $25000000.00 seized or join

us in. latin america has unfortunately long become the red zone on the global covert map some nations there have already followed argentina's example in relying on the brainchild of the russian scientists others like peru which is facing. this health care challenges are only halfway with plans to allow sputnik to be in the near future but the trend is more and more evident you probably shouldn't shy away from what they call walk or not also in spanish if you want a quicker escape from the red zone for your country. well talking to spain meantime the e.u. is facing drastic shortages of their coronavirus jobs to a spain's biggest regions of even hold to the vaccination campaigns all together and officials blame brussels we must stand up to brussels and demand more doses we need more vaccines and more tests and everything that distracts from this task will prolong the fight against the virus the cattle or the madrid regions have used up

almost all the doses with the remaining vials needed to get 2nd shots to those who already had one ruins the government's plan to inoculate most of the population the by june the head of the country's vaccination association says the shortage is nationwide. so. the number of doses we're receiving has been significantly reduced the vaccine is not being delivered to the raid we anticipated so it's a real problem for the national vaccination plan and against a ton of us regions will have to review their strategies the supplies we do have will be needed to give 2nd doses 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 and a similar picture is playing out across the 2 percent of people who've been vaccinated the czech republic's stopped inoculation for 2 weeks because of

a lack of doses the spanish vaccine chief again the says brussels should have secured early supplies from pharma giants. i do not like the lack of transparency with regards to the contracts the european union has concluded with pharmaceutical companies we don't know what 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 all those countries didn't purchase vaccines had a higher price then the european union have not experienced such doing delivery we are not at all satisfied with the current situation. in across this last few days latest from lebanon and the lockdown why it's there vented a 5th day triggered by radical restrictions including a round the clock curfew earlier this month while it is comes amid a buckling health care system and sharp rise of poverty and that's a covert economy there at least one person has been killed and hundreds injured the security forces of the army reportedly using live ammunition in the protests.

i. know tripoli street country 2nd most populous city in the forest despite the home of several countries wealthy politicians you can see she was beautiful as he's got to the people on the streets those rioters vandalized and set fire to a number of buildings among the probably destroyed town halls what you saw demonstrators pelted police and soldiers with stones and molotov cocktails security forces then responding is usually see with these things with tear gas and rubber bullets demonstrations began after the authorities extended by a further 2 weeks really heavy curfew that you can see probably. has exacerbated the tensions in the place in a city already struggling with massive unemployment poverty journalist reports from the city. and a little bit about it the idea that there's any 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. as happened in previous days the 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 some officers have been hurt as a result of the protesters have been dispersed from the square with tear gas and some of them are trying to hide in the surrounding areas that the lebanese army has surrounded the area but for now the army is not taking any action hero right now the situation is stable as of of there are some small clashes from time to time but it seems like the army is waiting for serious clashes to get involved just because some time ago it used armed forces to on a block the road southeast of trickle in the back of the head of the lebanese red cross told us the country's caught right now between fighting covert and plunging incomes. many areas you want to look to asia and you to that they have to get

protocol and all regulation and the people are fighting for any guarding they need to be there to help them to see how they can manage them and then they live and. today no hospital. in. the i knew of magic but you might be in and they have we had a paving a lot of problems. to imagine because we are going to be to be in the. community between both because you're to get a bill we're well on both by plumbing. and mobility from the community. of the headlines this morning the u.k. is making it harder for people to leave the country in the log travelers will be quizzed at the border on whether or not they trip is essential and will be turned back if not the home secretary announced the new policy on the day the country

registered the 2nd highest cova daily death toll since the pandemic began. the rules are clear people should be staying at home unless they happen is entirely going on holiday is not a valid reason britain's also announced new rules for travel from what it calls high risk countries 30 nations are on the list anyone flying from the states will have to quarantine in a government approved hotel at their own expense it's hugely controversial despite the ever tougher restrictions the recalls to go even further though from both sides north of the english border. nor de mint to go further on a 4 nations basis we will be considering going for their sales and we will set a date any such additional measures next week why lockdown isn't working fast enough and what we should do next a 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

self eiseley the u.k. government is now considering g.p.s. tracking on mobile phones to make sure the people are complying with self isolation orders the idea was promoted by jeremy hunt who chairs the parliamentary health committee he cited poland and taiwan as successfully using that kind of policy my colleague nic here and put the whole thing up for debate that like to know your thought is thought to be there prepare yourself a g.p.s. tracking what you think of that. or just the i guess i'm not sure i mean i think it's a bit over the top really i think what we haven't done through all this process is get out test race and isolate work if you want to get domestic market economy back on the up and running you do australia and new zealand have done 0 cove in the got 0 go bit by chance in their borders good tech to test trace and isolate by quarantine and by providing support for people into isolation 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 in 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 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 were 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 there's been an all of piety within the british government when the matter how crazy the idea is somebody comes along and says they want an even more crazy and draconian rule broadhead we have let these people run absolutely right and what has happened we are the public sector

debt is now 2.13 trillion in december we borrowed 38000000000 pounds he's absolutely bananas we've got to get back to work we've got to get back to work now because they'll be nothing to come back to if we let this continue much longer while that's most of that's ridiculous isn't it so we're going to let all these early people die out we were going to let this virus spread and very desirous donated by the 58 vaccinated by the 15th in february as you well know as making. assumption the vaccines are going to work and they're going to sort of transmit your make your make you know something that the economy can exist if you lock it down for a year justify that 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 oil that you might not stand the bar that you're the by religion that's the body of the situation the

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 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 been given to the mental health of young people no concern is being given about how viable this country will be after you've got vouchers in cotton wool you know we're going to have to learn some very serious ness 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 delay 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 that the has to be a balance between keeping people safe and also maintaining the wealth and

livelihoods and educated of this culture of. the us is also registering so it's highest daily death tolls from the virus with more than $79000.00 victims this month alone yet that isn't stopping some states from lifting covert restrictions on the court has got that story. joe biden entered the white house masks a blazing with an executive order that promised to shut down the coronavirus but barely a week in and he's already backpedaling nothing we can do to change the trajectory the president make in the next several months not exactly reassuring especially since that trajectory is given the us the world's highest covert death toll with january seeing record mortality over 79000 cases and the white house is projecting as many as 90000 more deaths in the next 3 weeks it's one thing to hear the statistics here's the medical reality honestly the hospitals here will be on the edge of collapse but kind of in disaster mode right now we're going to go through

a really dark things are really really bad this is among the worst fear is that we've not a pretty picture but that's not stopping states from dropping their lockdown measures california just ended its state wide stay at home order citing a decline in new cases and hospitalizations on the east coast of massachusetts lifted its curfew and businesses can stay open late again even in the hardest hit state new york governor andrew cuomo is lifting restrictions he's declared an end to the post-holiday surge and is assigning guilt to some incompetent government kills people but quote most critics are calling that an overdue admission his incompetence killed soon a citizens. kudos to him for publicly acknowledging that he is running an incompetent state government kind of shocked he would throw himself under the bus like that wow he has some nerve to say this one just needs to look at the new york death rate compared to other states it is a disgrace largely due to his decisions the nursing homes as cuomo and other

governors give the green light to end cold restrictions biden is embarking on his war with the coronavirus for pandemic fatigued americans really needing some direction right now it hardly seems like their leaders are marching to the same drum the hospitals are there at their limits there are hospitals that have people in the hallways for hospitals that are turning people away there are ambulance to get an ambulance in certain parts of los angeles county is taking hours for emergency situations it is an emergency scenario in lots of places including southern california and where the governor to turn a blind eye to that. i think is actually very problematic so this needs to be treated as an emergency situation and kobo point out which should be data show otherwise and we're not quite there yet so while the numbers are slightly better than they were say a week ago. seems very clear that there are still

a lot of reasons for concern and reason for. a long line flashmob. wall street small investors fueled by a reddit message board must bullshit is in us computer games retail a game stop as a result game stop jumped 12 fold in just 2 weeks however then it stocks tumbled to wall street traders short sold it shares by betting on it fulling regulators are now looking at possible rules violations that go back skies a host of other teams' cars report thinks the share buying flashmob should be praised. so what these traders have done what these reddit traders have done is exposed or shine a light on the a legal 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 economy in america 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. is prepared to talk rules on who can attend his media events with a broad administration setting out its own criteria which let's can be denied 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. it comes at a time when critics accuse mainstream media of making unsubstantiated claims a case in point is a newsweek feature on republican senator tom cotton which caused doubts on his military career it centers around calls claim that he served as an army ranger based on a 2 month training course only well newsweek insists that the title ranger is associated only with an elite unit in the army while the senator says the army ranger is always applied to ranges school graduates including by newsweek itself with dade in the 2015 article bear with me here the outlet did identify 2 female ranger school graduates as army rangers but the news weeks recently revisited that 5 year old piece changing the wording there so that it fits the let's current narrative that the title ranger is reserved for elite army unit members only

conservative commentators are bracing for a new climate of hostility under the biden ministration on fox news anchor indeed a stern warning for where the country's heading in his view you see those efforts all around you know never in american history has there been press censorship on this. early word from the media analysts lionel he believes the new u.s. administrations eager to shut out wanted 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 and who grovels in these terms propaganda i'm sorry who a.b.c. your improv again well you're in our propaganda n.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 stake or their conspiratorial know it's the wrong conspiracy the wrong propaganda and the wrong lie that the problem is think about this 8 days ago since this president was inaugurated cares bendish mad rush to scrum this huge memory shouldn't fly from every conceivable area to stifle and to shutter any type of speech for any reason there 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. security is assured a terror alert citing a threat to domestic extremists to the transition of power. information suggests some ideologically motivated violent extremists with objections to the

exiles 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 well document doesn't mention any specific anti government plot but it says that some radicals may feel emboldened by the assault on the u.s. capitol building this month and could seek to target elected officials and government facilities it's the 1st time the department of homeland security has issued such a warning to refer to a domestic rather than foreign inspired terror threat here or there is that it. director of the reactionary times online news site he told us he fears this warning may or sure and sweeping restrictions against conservatives in the u.s. now. but that kind of worries me that in concert the only you know since he's been inaugurated the only ones 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. i

guess of 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 with 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

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in the depths. or remain in the shallowness. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle what does the left stand for today not long ago the less to do with working people and civil liberties now it appears to prioritize i didn't carry in politics over

class issues we hear the word equity a lot but not equality and is there a place for merit in our politics anymore. to discuss these issues i'm joined by my guest sharon wright austin in gainesville she's a professor of political science at the university of florida and monterey we have spencer critchley he is author of patriots of 2 nations as well as former communications advisor for obama for america and in paris we have john laughlin he is a university lecturer in history and political philosophy all right plus up rules in effect that means you can jump any time you want and i was appreciating it was going to john paris john you know you would listen to my introduction and you know you were not spring chickens anymore.