commodity currencies everywhere you look in the world you have price discovery is broken. the ability to make markets has been shattered because access to free money is now ubiquitous virtually infinite. export controls on vaccines i made a feud with a british pharma giant. it is a move that some euro skeptics see as a sign of policy. files correct because. in the 1st place. joseph the speed. is most of. the argentina become the latest to latin american states to get hundreds of thousands of russian shot doses the head of the un heralds. in the battle against the pandemic. and

a struggling videogame retailer is caught up in a battle between small time investors trying to save the firm and wall street giants betting on the collapse. of broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is arch international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us now the european union has announced it is imposing export controls on chronic virus vaccines made in member states amid around oversupply shortages brussels has also given the green light to the drug at the heart of the dispute made by british firm astra zeneca auntie's travelled to minsk he has the story. european union has confirmed that it is taking this extraordinary step of introducing export controls on a covert vaccines this means that any vaccine that is manufactured within the block

that's the $27.00 at countries will not be able to be exported outside the block now this comes amidst a huge drought that's been blowing up of the last 2 days over that delivery shortfalls of the dose is this a collision of concerns that the transponding see and export all through the fortnight you actually see. as a protection and safety of our citizens is a perfect. repay that is companies to increase production and knowledge we expect them to do that work well for this huge public spat that's been playing out over the last few days and it really comes down to the call that this is between the european union and astra zeneca as you mentioned and i'm swedish form a company that's been producing one of the could be 900 vaccines now astra zeneca has said that it wouldn't be able to supply the full amount that it takes agreed on paper with the european union saying that it was actually going to be delivered

around 25 percent of the $100000000.00 doses and then said to the european union local trying for east that at to about 30 percent but the e.u. has rejected they still say that that offer just wasn't acceptable and that they needed to fulfill the contract they've even gone as far as on friday publishing a redacted version of that contract between themselves and astra zeneca from their perspective they want to show that that contract has been broken now astra zeneca says that's not the case the u.k. signed its contract with astra zeneca 3 months before the e.u. didn't win astra zeneca says that you know it's trying to make up the shortfall and it's a little table too because the production issue at its facilities in belgium now this comes at mit's the. that the investigators we even sent to astra zeneca is production plant in belgium to check to see if it actually was a problem with the production and miss rumors that some vaccine had been shipped to

the united kingdom now one german m.p.'s said this entire spat is astra zeneca is full of astra zeneca will suffer if they treat people in the world's biggest market as 2nd class citizens this is also now likely to cause problems for the united kingdom which of course recently officially net the european union for a little breaks it 8 was expecting a delivery of some cool 1000000 doses of the pfizer biomed tech last seen that are being produced also to facility in belgium there is now a question as to whether that vaccine would be allowed to leave the european union and go to the u.k. as it was originally planned now the e.u. has been struggling to obtain enough vaccine doses despite placing huge orders over the last year or so so much so that some areas of europe are either having to delay the rollout of the program or having to hold to temporarily all together it really

feels as if protectionism is now being ramped up in essentially what is turning into a war over access to a drug and a vaccine that is supposed to prevent 19. with below average a former member of your. party brussels covering up for his own errors acting like your. european union failed correctly it's all about seems that they need in the 1st place and they're both jealous of the speed inefficient rollout of the u.k.'s most to do without having the e.u. bureaucracy how previous this isn't a case of it being more important it's a case of the fact that we placed our orders 1st we planned better and we do need more efficiently the being found out was being a completely inefficient the news organization and instead of. understanding the us and trying to find a way to talk raise and work alongside of. it to throw its toys out of the problem

look at the reboot and we were warned in the u.k. we were told if we live we would suffer we wouldn't get medicines we wouldn't get supplies but it looks like it's the other way round doesn't it looks like it's there it will be sure the problem you know what's true for the people of europe the answer for me would be that they leave the store dealing with things probably affect if we were fishing on the road. moscow has sent hundreds of thousands of doses of its sputnik vaccine to latin america as the region increasingly bets on the the russian jab it marks argentina's 3rd delivery of the shot with $5000000.00 doses in total expected by the end of the month libya has received $20000.00 doses the u.n. secretary general says vee could play a key role in fighting the virus as the e.u. is suffering huge delays and shortages from other vaccine manufacturers are she's really trying to report. news on vaccine distribution challenges delays in

delivery you may be sick and tired of it but this is the reality around the world even the trust between the countries is being put to the test as the scramble for vaccine doses intensifies concerns over how cash strapped governments in 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 your show will improve 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 where. 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 leaders happy has been able to seal the deal with moscow to 12000000 people we spoke with the president of the russian federation. 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 receive the shot have some sort of issues but us august went on to order 22000000 doses with the latest. 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 not how we could box in the only 2 percent of this is their workers because we had only on the telephone but since in the 3 years send the need to so much now we are receiving $5000000.00 more of those and with 2 complete the box initial roll around 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. it would be a game retailer in the us has found itself at the center of a training battle with

a small time investors putting themselves against wall street giants game stop saw its share price or this week after amateur traders got together on online message boards and agreed to save the struggling company and then plunged after brokerage firms intervened to restricting trading although it has since recovered but that market intervention caused an outcry among small investors who accused the training platforms of defending the big investment banks who were trying to crash the stock artie's demitra park takes a closer look. so by now you've probably heard of the whole wall street game stop credit fiasco but if you're one of the many people whose mind goes completely numb when you hear the words stock hedge fund short selling well don't worry here's a short deal the our version of what's going on game stop it's a chain of video game stores some people love him some people hate him but their business has been kind of bad lately melvyn capital a bunch of guys from wall street who have formed

a hedge fund that essentially makes money off of businesses failing stocks or shares representations of ownership of a company so if a company is doing well then the cost of these stocks are shares goes up if it's failing they go down so in this case a bunch of guys from wall street in a hedge fund decided to make a bet that game stuff will fail which it kind of was already they did this using a term called short selling it's basically when you borrow a bunch of stock sell it which lowers the price of the stock then wait for it to become dirt cheap buy it back return it to whoever you borrowed it from and while up profit this was supposed to be the stop in game stop but they must then really go according to plan a bunch of crazy guys from reddit essentially decided to give the middle finger to wall street they did this using what's called a short squeeze they started buying

a bunch of game stop shares which made their price skyrocket like thousands of percent and now these poor hedge fund guys have to return all that stock they borrowed and a huge loss they're going bankrupt because they lost billions of dollars and wall street is very mad so are the politicians behind them but the internet sees this whole thing as karmic justice because wall street has been playing this game for literally years hence all the means. being the sore losers that they are wall street is now trying to make a point that regular people should not be allowed to buy or sell stock only wall street robinhood in online stock trading platform has already barred its users from

buying any more against up shares and now they're getting sued regular people are just now buying bad stocks all over the place and adding more fuel to the fire celebrities and politicians are also joining in on the fun the moral of the story seems to be that if wall street wants to screw over businesses and make billions of dollars well that's fine that's business as usual but if regular people want to do the same thing to wall street well we've got a problem max kaiser host of artes kaiser report says the small investors efforts should be praised for exposing the questionable practices of big wall street traders. so what these traders have done what these reddit traders have done is exposed or shine a light on the eve legal practices of hedge funds and this should have been addressed many years ago because de objective of hedge funds like melvin capital which is associated with citadel that has on their board ben bernanke the former

fed chairman is to put these companies out of business and to profit on their collapse and that of course doesn't help the economy at all and people lose jobs so we have to applaud their reddit and the wall street bets people for bringing back some law and order and some equilibrium to these markets they're doing the absolute right thing and we need to support them if we believe in free markets and if we believe in capitalism if we don't and the objective is price fixing and to go to a command and control the economy in america then that's what we're going to end up with if we let had funs dominate the price discovery and engage in this massive price fixing that the reddit people have exposed more news after a short break this is art international.

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liberties now it appears to prioritize again the jury trial it takes over issues we hear the word would be a lot but not all of it and is there a place for mayor in a politics and you're. welcome back this is our chief international now the mayor of new york city is asking to reveal the number of deaths that occurred in nursing homes in the state during the pandemic that is after a report from the state's attorney general called out of the official statistics as misleading we have to make sense of this we have to get the full truth and we have to make sure it never ever happens again nothing like this happens again and we have to be honest about the numbers a new york state's official numbers stand at over 8000 deaths but according to the attorney general they could be even higher as artie's came up and explains. the

nursing home scandal hanging over new york state governor andrew cuomo is head just won't go away a new report from the state's attorney general indicates that deaths in the elderly care homes could actually be 50 percent higher than was originally reported that's up to 13000 lives lost in new york it only tallied up the number who actually died within elderly care facilities not including those who went to the hospital after getting infected as the condemning their investigations continue it is imperative that understand why the residents of nursing homes in new york and the saudi suffered at such an alarming rate well we cannot bring back the individuals who lost to this crisis this report seeks to offer transparency that the public deserves and to spare increased action to protect our most vulnerable residents the report singled out almost decision to send covert patients to elderly care homes it was an attempt to free up hospital spaces that may have cost 4800 new york the

lives cuomo is office dismissed the report as an accurate the word on the count implies to remove total fatalities than has been reported this is factually wrong the department of health has consistently made clear that on numbers reports based on the place of death those words are of little comfort to solve a local news media or ologist lost both of her in-laws last summer and she couldn't hold back her feelings a family was affected and i wasn't seeing the coverage i wasn't seeing the questions being asked of this governor he continued to pass the blame on everyone else and everything else and he still to this day will not accept any responsibility democrats and republicans have now lined up to condemn cuomo reports from new york state's handing of crude 19 in nursing homes reveals a profound failure of executive leadership governor cuomo and the new york state department of health to dinner elders as expandable as if their lives were nothing

more. then the cost of doing business this is shocking and unconscionable but not surprising governor actually wrote a book about leadership in the middle of the covert 1000 pandemic but as we learned today and as many suspected he never told the whole story at the start of the pandemic mainstream us media poured the law on to governor andrew cuomo for his handling of the pandemic in new york state but now it seems pretty clear that he made a bad decision and the media's darling is facing a full blown scandal. artsy new york. dave lindorff founding editor of the news site this can't be happening gave us his. i think the worst thing cuomo did was suspending transferring people with coded out of hospitals and into nursing homes the other direction. and exposing the patients in those nursing homes who weren't sick with come of it with the coded you

know serious covered infections of the people that were being moved from the hospitals to get them out of the hospitals and make more room for more patients and i may be personally sensitive to that because my mother in law died of covidien a new jersey nursing home which was doing the same thing where you know the state was shifting people out of hospitals in new jersey into nursing homes and then presenting those nursing homes which are much lower staffed and much less good at infection control than hospitals are and not surprisingly the disease spread right through them in the us because the government until very recently would not subsidize. any home care for the elderly you know you have your elderly parents who don't want to be or can't be taken care of by you so you would normally what you would want to do is how hire somebody to come into the house each day or

maybe even live in the house take care your elderly parents. and you couldn't get a subsidy from the government to do that says very expensive to do the nursing home industry which is mostly for profit has lobbied very intensively with a lot of money to politicians in every state to not provide decent funding for in home care of your elderly parents. the u.k. is cracking down on trips abroad travelers will now be turned back at the border if they cannot provide a valid reason for travel the home secretary announcement comes after britain's 2nd highest daily death toll from coven. the rules are clear people should be staying that time unless they have found these internally going on holiday is not a valid reason for it and has also announced a new rules for travel from what it calls high risk countries people flying from 30 listed nations must quarantine in

a government approved hotel at their own expense yet there are calls to go even further with a top official denouncing a massive 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 to use g.p.s. tracking through people's mobile phones to make sure that they self isolate he cited poland and taiwan and successfully using the method earlier my colleague nicky aron discussed that idea with our guests that let's now 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 i think 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 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 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 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 there in fact is donated by the 50 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 here justify that 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 educated of this culture more news in 34 minutes this is our 2 international stay with us. tax rises financial survival stacey let's lurch us out fill out let's say i'm the troika. i'm greece some banks of the fight well street fraud thank you for. the story that's true if debt slavery.

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one of them for appointments in november so fun love photos and stuff to get a. lot of fun but ultimately i did just that they had nothing to me. she was you make them. more if you are interested in. general but from the sun know my book you go to the british course that's enough of them to come up. i mean the guys who are down in the clothes that don't want any of the danger men. to. pick up . to take. the lead. right now all the. young people who are overweight or obese it's before suitable

to self. and sugary and salty and addictive it's not at the individual level it's not individual willpower and if we go on believing that never change this obesity epidemic that industry has been influencing very deeply the medical and scientific establishment. so what's driving the obesity epidemic it's corporate profit. 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 merit in our politics anymore. to discuss these issues i'm joined by my guest sharon wright austin in gainesville she is 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 and if that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciating you is going to john paris john you know you listen to my introduction and you know you were not.