mean you're old enough yet to shape our disdain you can stick adjectives and engagement equals betrayal. and when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground the. good. bolivia and argentina become the latest latin american states to get hundreds of thousands of russian coated shot doses as the head of the u.n. heralds the role sputnik can play in the battle against the pandemic. meanwhile spain's inauguration campaign at using western vaccines grinds to a halt in parts of the country as supplies run out pumping doctors to question the

easiest job for pyramid system. 16 is not being delivered at the rate that we anticipate it's a real problem for the national next nation plan and a green said thomas rejects will have to review their strategies. and the u.k. tightened its lockdown amid one of the worst cope with daily death tolls and multi g.p.s. system to track infected people with that idea for debate. idea of g.p.s. tracking these for the birds they'll never implementation in time anyway we've got to get back to what we've got to let go because they'll be nothing to come back if we let this continue but i'm worried that we're. standing 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 back.

here watching our 2 international bring your live news updates from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. moscow has sent hundreds of thousands of doses of its sputnik of a vaccine to latin america as the region increasingly bets on the russian job argentina it's the 3rd delivery of the russian shot with 5000000 doses in total expected by the end of the month olivia has received $20000.00 doses new ones secretary general has said spotting he can play a key role in fighting the virus as the e.u. suffers huge delays and shortages from other. vaccine manufacturers trying to report. 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 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. se 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 v. 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. v. january house proved 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 immunize 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 artist 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 name in latin america fold in the way we couldn't box in the only 50 percent of the workers because we had only to find the details on bugs

scenes in the theaters and the use of much now we are receiving 5000000 more of those and wish to lead the bucks initial program 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 when it comes to western vaccine supplies the british spat could hit a boiling point within days after brussels announced plans to let member states seize control of shot exports charlotte even explains. this ra is really heating up in brussels made the threat that it will look to ban exports of the. vaccine from the blog that's going to have massive implications not just for the but also other countries in the world and this comes amidst

a huge shortage of the curve in $1000.00 vaccine here in the e.u. now leaders are meeting on friday to discuss whether national regulators are going to get these powers to say no you cannot export any of the vaccine that is produced within the european union and 1st that could be hit hard is the u.k. which currently is waiting on a shipment of some food to the 1000000 doses of the 5 is a bio tech vaccine that's produced in belgium of course if the export ban comes in a won't be getting those doses while continuing dialogue i believe the e.u. needs to take robust action to secure a supply of vaccines and demonstrate concretely that the protection of its citizens remains our absolute priority well this of course comes amidst a huge spat over the last days between the e.u. and also the anglo swedish pharmaceutical group this is astra zeneca astra zeneca which has plants in the u.k. and in belgium had made this commitment with the e.u.

last year when it was researching the vaccine it's now turned around the e.u. and said we're only going to be able to supply 25 percent of the doses that we said we would by the end of march and this is a massive problem for the e.u. because it's not just been dealt this now by astra zeneca which says it's got production problems but it's also been told similar things by pfizer by own tech that they simply cannot produce the number of vaccines that it said it would be able to do now the shortages are already impacting many areas of europe for example here in france paris and other regions in the countries that. they can have to delay the rollout of their vaccine program while in spain in the capital in madrid it's already said it's having to halt its program and has warned that that could also be the case in catalonia so really good news as this comes amidst huge

criticism all of how the e.u. has rolled out this program of vaccination trying to get all countries at the same time and oversee finding itself relatively in short supply but the e.u. is pointing the blame firmly that anglo swedish astra zeneca astra zeneca will suffer if they treat people in the world's biggest market 2nd class citizens to add to all of this investigators have now been sent to the astra zeneca plant in belgium to check that they were in fact telling the truth that they was a problem with production and that's because there's a suggestion that millions of doses had already been sent to the u.k. and that has left the e.u. serious because it says it's invested a huge amount of money and astra zeneca money as seneca says it hasn't received much of the moment but it does seem that the e.u. is now moving towards a europe strategy a strategy that it's often criticised when it's been deployed by of the countries.

and charlotte mentioned in her report shortages of the jobs are being particularly felt in spain or to the biggest regions have even halted their vaccination campaigns blaming the e.u. 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. the cattle and madrid regions have used up almost all their doses with remaining vials needed to give 2nd shots to those who've already had one government plans to inoculate most of the population by june and 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 at the rate that we anticipated so 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 who 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 uli other vulnerable and increase groups that were identified in the original plan it's a difficult and uncomfortable situation. a similar picture is playing out across that you were just 2 percent of people have been vaccinated so far the czech republic stopped an occupation altogether for 2 weeks because of the lack of doses while paris and to other parts of france have postponed their job campaigns the spanish occupation chief again says brussels should have secured early supplies from farming giants. i do not like the lack of transparency with regards to the contracts that the european union has concluded with pharmaceutical companies we don't know 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 did purchase vaccines had

a higher price than the european union have not experienced such delay in delivery we are not at all satisfied with the current situation. the u.k. is cracking down on trips abroad travelers will not be turned back at the border if they can't prove their troops quote essential home secretary's clampdown comes after britain's 2nd highest ever coded daily death toll. the rules are clear people should be staying at home unless they have a found reason to leave going on holiday is not a valid reason britain's also announced new rules for travel from what it called high risk countries people flying from 30 listen ations must quarantine and a government approved hotel at their own expense at their calls to go even further with a top official denouncing 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 one g.p.s. tracking or through people's mobile phones to make sure they self isolate is thought of poland and taiwan ethics us fully using the policy my colleague here and put that controversial idea up for debate but let's know you'll fall is thought to be 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 what we haven't done through all this process is get out test race and isolate work if you want to get a domestic market economy back on the up and running you do australia or new zealand have done 0 cove in they got 0 coded by chance in their borders good tech to test race 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 the sense that 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 transmit your make you make an assumption that the economy can exist if you lock it down for here just to find out 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 understand the biology of the wire elegy 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 perception of the actress 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 that the has to be a balance between keeping people safe and also maintaining the wealth and

livelihoods and educate should all of this come. to hard several u.s. states is locked down restriction for funding surging us back our reaction on that after the sharp practice. that's amazing that everything that we learned all the world sits not right so as we learn more and more because we are learning more and more and grow now as any good island the island is surrounded by an ocean in this case is the ocean off the unknown for most stuff we do not know right and a paradox of learning and this is why the point is that yes the island grows knowledge between what he's known and why it is not known is also growing.

what does the let stand for today not long ago the less stood with working people and civil liberties now it appears to prioritize i dinna jerry colonics over issues we hear the word would be a lot but not be followed and is there a place for marriage in a politics and you. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back to the program and how lock down riots in lebanon have entered a 5th day triggered by radical restrictions including a round the clock curfew earlier this week at least one person has been killed and hundreds injured with security forces and the armory reportedly using live

ammunition in the protests. and all this violence comes amid a buckling health care system and sharp rise of poverty and the cope it hit economy writers vandalize and set fire to numerous buildings in lebanon 2nd largest city tripoli as you can see here among the property destroyed was the town hall demonstrators actually pelted police and soldiers with stones and cocktails as well and security or forces forces responded with tear gas and rubber bullets and as we mentioned earlier report live ammunition as well the demonstrations began after authorities extended the lockdown by a further 2 weeks that was preceded by an 11 day a round the clock curfew earlier this month in a city already struggling with high unemployment and poverty the crowds continue to take to the streets as you see across the world as well at this point in time journalist omar abraham reports from scene. a little bit about if there would be

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 storming as happened in previous days but 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 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 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 run a blockade a road selfies to trickle into the job market at the head of the lebanese red cross says the country is caught between fighting coded and plunging incomes. many

serious you look at the situation and do too bad they have to respect the protocols and goals and regulations and we the people are suffering crying to getting their needs and the data going to help them to see how they can manage comment spend their lives and to help today. and then beyond all this couple you would like to put sandbags you want to read 19 and they have we had a facing a lot of problems to send the case in today imagine if you don't that's going to cause 2 out of every 2 to be to be in the field and to help all the community between both sides because as you were together. the answer just like there was from both sides from it's been the security forces and majority of from the community. you asked as registering some of its highest daily death tolls from the virus of more than $79000.00 victims this month alone at that isn't stopping some states from lifting covered restrictions artist on

a quarter of ports. 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 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 on 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 drop 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 and kobo point out which a 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. seems very clear that there are still a lot of reason for concern and reason for. us has issued its 1st ever national terrorism bolton on domestic extremists calling them a threat to the government information suggests that some ideologically motivated

violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition as well as of the perceived grievances fueled by full. could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence. the document does not mention any specific anti-government plot but claims radicals may be emboldened by this month's capitol riots and to attack government officials and facilities rivera editorial director of reactionary times online news site fears this warning will be used for sweeping curbs on conservatives as a 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 does this look 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 he 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 tali of power consolidated amongst the left we're going to see a lot of strange things happen. we've been paying tribute throughout the week to a legendary broadcaster and r.t. host larry king who died on saturday at the age of 87 we can now show you an excerpt from his last ever interview given to r.t. america's rick sanchez shortly before his death you can watch the full conversation later on today on both r.t. america and r

t international as well as dot com. always described yourself to me and to just about everybody as a kid from brooklyn that's where i was i mean i think what it means is rick i never forgot. where i came from and that's true to this minute i never forgot where i came from 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 i'm walking down 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 in

small station. in miami beach gave me a job i was a disc jockey and on may 1st 19. i saw that on the air and from that moment when that light went on. i told the audience it was my 1st day. never never never lived the audience i. i found my magic. i did in the media a long time. t. is one of the few channels we knew like he does know that this is my country the greatest show on earth tell the truth. that's all for this hour news wise but if you're looking for more head on over to our website r.t. dot com for countless articles and the full interview with larry king thanks for tuning in this hour.

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