it equals betrayal. when some find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. from moscow at midday bolivian argentina become the latest latin american states to get hundreds of thousands of russian doses as the head of the un heralds the role sputnik v. can play in the ongoing battle against the pandemic. meantime spain's inoculation campaign using western vaccines grinds to a halt in parts of the country the supplies run out promising doctors to question the procurement system. 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. in the u.k. . one of the worst of the daily death tolls moles a g.p.s.

system to track infected people to in fact we put that whole contentious idea up for debate. i give g.p.s. tracking is for the 1st. time anyway we've got to get back to work right now because the you know things come back if we let this continue but i'm worried that we're. storing up lots of problems for us all to go to get out of this quickly and the way to do it is to keep these restrictions going get people back in 80. friday the 29th of january of a good day from russia then my name is kevin owen here for the next half an hour with the latest from us at r.t. international. sent hundreds of thousands of doses of its sputnik the vaccine then to latin america as the region increasingly bets on the russian jab for argentina

it's the 3rd delivery of the russian shot with $5000000.00 doses in total expected by the end of the month the livia's received $20000.00 doses the u.n. secretary general has said sputnik the can play a key role in fighting the virus as the e.u. suffers huge delays and shortages from other vaccine manufacturers with the latest today. 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 cash strapped 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 the w.h.o. will approve russia's covered 1000 vaccine as soon as possible it can play a very important role in the fight against a 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 jab is only intended for 20000 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 19 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 the 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 proved to be disastrous. with the worst spike ever in new covert cases the president tested positive last week but the leader is 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 us 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 dr 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 name in america so to know how we could box in the percent of the workers because we have only. seen in the theaters and the need to do so much now we are receiving $5000000.00 more of those and wish to lead the bucks initial round with $25000000.00 used for your own posts if

the trend is more and more evident you probably shouldn't shy away from what they call vokoun are also in spanish if you want a quicker escape from the red zone for your country you know talk to spanish ones we're spain the whole eve collection of countries facing drastic shortages of its coronavirus shots is our next story in fact 2 of spain's biggest regions even hold to their vaccination campaigns all together and officials are blaming the block. 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 and madrid regions have used up almost all the doses at the moment with the remaining vials needed to give 2nd shots to people who already had the 1st that the ruining government plans to inoculate most of the population by june and the head of the country's vaccination association telling us 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 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 ulead are very vulnerable and increase groups that were identified in the original plan it's a difficult and uncomfortable situation sadly a similar picture playing out across the e.u. where just 2 percent of people have been vaccinated so far in the czech republic they were to go as far as stopping inoculation altogether for 2 weeks because of a lack of doses back to the spanish inoculation chief again saying brussels should have secured early more stable supplies from 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 those countries did 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 but it's the covert figure bit different story now we've been tracking the last few days if you watch it on t. locked rights and now entering their 5th day triggered by i think radical restrictions including a round the clock curfew earlier this week it was a real catalyst at least one persons being killed hundreds injured with security forces and the army reportedly using live ammunition in some of these protests. but as you see buildings ablaze there's some pretty buildings too thing as the town hall violence coming amid

a bustling health care system in sharp rise of poverty in the cove it its economy there to deal with their rights as vandalizing setting fires to a number of buildings in lebanon 2nd largest city tripoli that's where these pictures on your screen are coming from demonstrators pelting police and soldiers with stones and molotov cocktails you can see tanks on the streets there such as the severity of what's going on there and the security forces having to respond with tear gas rubber bullets we're hearing at times live fire as well demonstrations began after authorities extended that lockdown by a 3rd of the 2 weeks preceded by as i mentioned and this could have been the catalyst that 11 day round the clock really heavy 24 hour curfew earlier this month ended monday in a city of course already struggling with high unemployment all the tensions around that and poverty to journalist on abraham reporting from the city. well you know what about that there's only does the 4th day of the protests in tripoli a lot of protesters have gathered to trying to march to the local administration

building and storm it as happened on previous days 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 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 right now the situation is stable 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 forces to on block the road self's to trickle in. from the lebanese rather red cross saying the country is cool between fighting. many areas knew what to do if you do they had to have to get back we got

a call and all regulation and people are waiting for any gathering they need to be there to help them to see how we can manage them and then we live and help today no hospital pull in and they are going up up there and you have maggie put them back you'll. be in and they have we had a fading a lot of problems then to get it to imagine that of course you are going to be to be in the. community between all right because you get that bill we're well on board by prominent court and majority of from the community. countries around the world battling to do the best things koeverden various instructions along the way the u.k. no cracking down on trips abroad is the latest travelers and are going to be turned back at the border that can prove that the trips are absolutely essential pretty vitello secretary clamping down after britain the 2nd highest ever covered daily

death toll the rules are clear people should be staying at home unless they have recently gone on holiday is not a valid reason further in reverse of all britain's also announced new rules for travel from what it calls high risk countries the original plan a few days ago 'd 22 countries now people flying from 30 listed nations was quarantined in a government approved hotel at their own expense there are police the people that take you to the hotels from the airports as well as heavy stuff the recalls to go even further than that with the top officials announcing a mass failure to follow rules. 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 jeremy hunt wants g.p.s. tracking through people's mobile phones to make sure that they self isolate he was

citing poland and taiwan as successfully using kind of policies like that where colored nichiren puts the controversial idea of the debate that let's know your thoughts on the their proposal for g.p.s. tracking what you think of that. or just the i guess 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 test race and isolate work if you want to get your domestic market economy back on the up and running you do what australia or 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 that has been in 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 that 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 what 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 there it is that was donated by the 58 vaccinated by the 15th century as you well know as making. assumption the vaccines are going to work and they're going to sort of transmit your make you 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 buy 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 biology of the biology that's the bothered you the situation the point here ace 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 brought doctors in cotton wool you know we're going to have to learn some very serious lessons 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 the has to be a balance between keeping people safe and also maintaining the wealth and livelihoods and educate should all this culture of you know the soul searching about whether it was right whether it was wrong whether it was too soon or not will

go on but back to now other countries doing various things in the u.s. numerous states now proposing to ease restrictions despite the surging u.s. death toll across the calculation there and we find out after the break.

join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see that. again good afternoon from us about the so next in the u.s. is registering some of its highest daily death tolls from the virus was more than 79000 victims this month alone yet that isn't stopping some states from lifting coppa destructions now proposing to is out he's done all quarter. 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 it dark things are really really bad this is among the worst fears that we've not a pretty picture but that's not stopping states from dropping their lockdown measures california just ended its statewide 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 while the hospitals are at their at their limits there are people who are

hospitals that have people in the hallways or 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 for 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 because the point at which the big data show otherwise and we're not quite there yet so while the numbers are slightly better than they were say a week ago. it seems very clear that there is still a lot of reason for concern and reason for. us in the us the country's issued its 1st ever national terrorism bulletin on domestic extrude miss calling them a threat to the government. 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 the document doesn't mention any specific county government plot but claims radicals may be emboldened by this month's capital riots to attack government officials and facilities here or there editorial director of the revolutionary reactionary times rather online news site fears this warning will be used for sweeping curbs on conservatives. is the government trying to justify you know future or i guess are 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 is this is like a sign of things to come but we're going to move towards a more statist kind of society in america under president biden we're seeing it in

a lot of different ways because in addition to governmental actions we're seeing big tax obviously with the way that they've all locked down and they censored conservatives you know you have a president from can't even use twitter anymore and you can't use other social media outlets and you're seeing conservatives get banned left and right i mean reactionary times we've lost our you tube channel and i have no idea why that would have happened because it wasn't like we were out there motivating people to take any sort of violent actions but i think right now because there is just old colony of power consolidated amongst the left we're going to see a lot of strange things happen. and finally we were paying tribute throw the week you may know should washington legendary broadcaster not see host larry king who died on saturday at the age of 87 we can now show you that from his last ever interview given to america's rick sanchez shortly before his death you can watch the full conversation later on today on. international as well as on our main site

. always describe yourself to me and to just about everybody as a kid from brooklyn that's what i was i mean i think what it means is rick i never of forgot. where i came from and that's true to this minute i never forgot or came so i'm 85 years old but i'm the kid from brooklyn and that's what i brought to the business being curious born to do interviews where i was born to be what i do. i didn't go to college. my brother did more can now on the street in new york and a friend introduces me to james sermons who was chief of staff announcers at c.b.s. wonderful man and i said to him i want to get in a radio what should i do. and he said get down to miami and i knocked on doors and

small station w.h.r. in miami beach gave me a job i was a dish sarky and on may 1st 19 fifties. i saw the army and from that moment when that light went on and i told the audience it was my 1st day never never have a live audience i. i found my magic. i've been reading a long time. on t.v. is one of the few channels. i did as news this is my country the greatest show on earth tell the truth. remembering our larry king who died that weekend well meantime before i say goodbye thank you for watching it's remains for me the team to be sure great fight.

because such cannot move from one smoke i don't like an incident made in the moment one is an important one bloomfield demos done a lot of photos of stuff to get a. lot of muslim baseball but they just let it get the best. she was you make them. more serious room. turned on bar from the sun no mark book to go to the british course there's enough of them stuff. i mean the guy . went in. to. take. the.

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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 prioritise identity harim politics over class issues we hear the word equity a lot but not equality and is there a place for marriage 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 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 right plus up rules and i think that means you can jump any time you want and i was appreciating it was going to john paris john you know you listen to my introduction and you know you were not

spring chickens anymore the left use of you know speak up for the working class civil liberties was very much a. part of that this is the civil i quit quite in my lifetime a good part of the civil rights movement as well with the left how do you define the left today because as i said in my introduction it's moved very far away from that go ahead. well the traditional definition of course is that the left is in favor of progress and the right seems in favor of reaction oh conservation and more generally i think the lesson is in favor of universal values where's the right is more interested in particular values but there's no doubt that what you say in your introduction is absolutely right the left has changed a lot previous nate used to be interested in much more concrete things like. you know incomes and faction conditions and.