but i mean. justice. brussels will control kobe back seen exports but is making an exception for northern ireland after a furious reaction from the u.k. that's despite the jobs themselves remaining in desperately short supply. this comes as germany bails entry from states where new mutated covert strains have been detected and france shuts its borders to non visitors altogether the moves criticized by business leaders alum position parties who say it will damage the economy. and the u.s. business owner gets death threats online and even on her own for posting that her husband backs donald trump she talks to us. one gentleman actually said she was

coming to kill me one person threatened my green bay these and i can tell you that it was bad enough that law enforcement had to get in. there watching our 2 international coming to you live from the russian capital this and every hour welcome to the program. the news announced it will control the export of covert vaccines given the drastic shortages of the job within the block but following an angry reaction from britain brussels is making an exception for northern ireland. the u.k. has legally binding agreements with vax and supplies and that would not expect the e.u. as a friend and ally to do anything to disrupt the fulfillment of these contracts to an act of aggression actually less than a month into us leaving the european union we see them act in this unilateral way

the commission will ensure that the ireland northern ireland protocol is unaffected the commission is not triggering the safeguard clause brussels concession will allow britain to get back seen through northern ireland but charlotte didn't scare reports the question is what vaccines but the block suffering its own severe shortage is a big of a job. 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 countries will not be able to be exported outside the block and this comes amidst a huge drug that's been blowing up of the last 2 days delivery shortfalls of the dose is this a collision of concerns that the transparency and export of for 91 seats. as a protection and safety of our citizens is a perfect. that is companies to increase production and knowledge we expect them to

do it 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 and andrew swedish form a company that's been producing one of the qubit ringback $900.00 vaccines now astra zeneca has said that they 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 delivering around 25 percent of the $100000000.00 doses it then said to the european union local try and increase 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 that u.k. signed its contract with astra zeneca 3 months before the e.u. did it but 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 to city in belgium now this comes at mit's the fact that invests. gauges we even sent to astra zeneca has production quality 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 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 ringback recently officially in left the european union for a little breaks it 8 was expecting at delivery of some 40000000 doses of the pfizer

bio on tech last scene that are being produced all suited facility in belgium and 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 essential what is turning into a war over access to a drug and a vaccine that is supposed to prevent 19 we discuss the spat between the e.u. and astra zeneca with our guests while former army people etheredge things the blocks paying for poor planning professor francisco result or says a lack of communication between brussels and the vaccine maker. astra zeneca were under a number of obligations to keep the commission informed of what was going on i do not believe that that has actually happened how is it that a week before we're supposed to be getting approval and then ourselves to liveries

we suddenly discover that we're only going to get shirty 1000000 this is extraordinary keating that the european union wanted to make sure that they had their initial 100 whatever it was 1000000 doses that clearly hasn't happened so there has been a disconnect shankly between astra zeneca and the european union the european union failed correctly to order about things that they need in the 1st place and they're both jealous of the speedy and official rollout of yukos most to do without having the e.u. bureaucracy previous it isn't a case of it being more important it's a case of the fact that we placed our orders 1st we plan better we do get more efficiently the being found out was being completely in the fish and the news organization and instead of. understanding nasa and trying to find a way to cooperate and work alongside partners in the to throw its toys out of the

problem like an angry baby and we were warrant in the u.k. we were told that if we let the we would sort out we wouldn't get medicines we wouldn't get supplies but it looks like it's the other way around doesn't it. meanwhile france is closing its borders to non european travelers altogether and neighboring germany stopping visitors from countries where new mutated strains of the virus have been detected powerhouses are suffering a spike in corona virus cases france has appointed more than 20000 new cases a day all week with one in 10 of those being new strains and the help for births from the vaccines has not materialized due to the extreme delays and supplies across the block our europe correspondent peter oliver breaks down the latest travel bans. this weekend tough new restrictions on travelers coming into germany from 7 different countries will come into place from saturday they're already here when it comes to travelers arriving for me you men the states ireland and portugal

as well as those coming from the united kingdom brazil and south africa from sunday that list will grow to 7 to include the african nations of s. white danny and lee so too the reason these have been put in place is that these nations have seen rises and the infections of mutated variants of the corona virus the german interior minister the horse and say hoff said before they were officially put in place that germany would have to do they speak because there wasn't a unified e.u. solution on the horizon you couldn't. information searing all the information we have we do not expect there to be european solution that meet or expect a sions in the near future that is why we are preparing as a nation there are some exceptions for those coming into germany german citizens and permanent residents will be allowed to arrive from those nations on that list transit passengers and those travelling to do with the movement of goods will also

be permitted to travel but those are the exceptional circumstances that have been granted by the the german side it hasn't gone down well politically with the opposition here in germany the greens have called it an affront to germany's e.u. partners for berlin to act unilaterally in this way while the free democrats have said that it basically covers up the fact that the vaccination program here in germany hasn't been going as well as people would have liked floods and trouble bird zuko but it's on like these we must 1st of its nation vaccines are the most reliable in the only way out of this pandemic it may not be popular with everyone but the travel bans are in place all travelers arriving from 7 different nations here to germany and they will be in place until the 17th of february at least. economist richard warner told us the travel ban could end up hurting the german

economy even more so it is a copy of the u.k. policies they've banned. people from tanzania and africa and brazil and they claim that you know it's because of this new strain which is not really clear is not really well established. and other countries like germany saw that they believe the u.k. statements government statements and they say well then we ban u.k. travelers as well and the same with the u.k. spending but it doesn't make any sense well already the restrictions have caused severe downturn in the economy in the year 2020 but any further restrictions will of course further damage the economy. german business is a very international even local small family owned businesses tend to be international exporters and to get international deals 'd you do need some travel i

don't see the need for that and the medical case doesn't seem to be there you that hasn't been demonstrated and also there isn't been a proper detail cost benefit analysis either as it's being proposed should really include a very detailed analysis of all the costs and all the benefits well let's look at that 1st before we further considers that the proposal. in the us a woman has received death threats online and on our phone against both herself and her family for revealing her husband back donald trump marriage in hand when posted a photo on facebook of her husband and friends getting ready to go to trump's last rally as president she was accused of being a domestic terrorist and was even threatened with physical violence she told us her story. somebody got ahold of that picture off my personal page and i'd imagine somebody that. knows me and saw. him in about 5 o'clock that

night my gun shop started getting some ugly phone calls and it just it just kind of spiral from there some people took that snapshot and started putting the owners of the shop or domestic terrorists and the so on just was ringing in ringing and ringing and i can tell you all day thursday and friday our phone never stopped ringing and the 1st we were inserting it. but when you're hearing things like i hope your building burns and i hope you die i hope you rot in hell. one gentleman actually said he was coming to kill me one person threatened my grandbabies and i can tell you that it was bad enough that law enforcement had to get in and give us some advice on how to keep everybody safe as helen mentioned she owns a donut shop and detractors targeted her business as well flooding its all my pages with negative reviews though after telling her story to a local t.v. station she also began getting support across the country a story reflects a c.b.s.

poll showing most americans now say their fellow citizens as the country's biggest threat just 8 percent think foreign adversaries present a bigger challenge marriage and have one again told us the issue boils down to freedom of expression. you can walk through the through the doors of mine down and shop in no matter what your policies are we treat everyone with the same kindness and love and respect everybody gets treated the same way because this america and we have the right to think differently in to express our views without being made to be a free without someone saying if you don't think the way we think we're going to shut your business down if you don't admit that you're wrong in the now you think the way you think we're going to torment you that is it is not the country re grew up in i understand there's people that may not want to come here because they choose not to support a business that believes one way or another and that's the greatest thing

a better country you can spend your money anywhere that you. still had the mayor of new york wants answers after an official report warns coronavirus tests and care homes may be a lot worse than quaint story and more after the sharp right. join me every thursday on the alex i'm i'm sure i'll be speaking to us in the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. there is you'll be a reflection of reality. in

a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation or community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true. is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the death. or a made in the shallowness. welcome back the mayor of new york city is demanding the truth about the pandemic death toll and nursing homes after the state's attorney general revealed the official statistics were 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 the official numbers state around 8000 deaths in state care homes but according to the attorney general's report they could be significantly higher. 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 pandemic in their investigations continue it is imperative that understand why the residents of nursing homes in new york and the saudis 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 spur increased action to protect our most vulnerable residents the report singled out while most decision to send covert patients to elderly care homes it was an attempt to free up hospital space 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 roam 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 treating our elders as expandable as if their lives were nothing more. 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 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 darling is facing a full blown scandal. artsy new york. dave lindorff founding editor of news site this can't be happening and son in law of a covert victim said new york's bungled pandemic response has contributed to this

problem. 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 kind 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 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 home pollution 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 taking care of by you so you would normally what you would want to do is have 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. a video game retailer in the u.s. has found itself i think center of a trading battle with small time investors putting themselves i get while 3 giants game stop saw its share price or this week after amateur trader. got together on

online message boards agreed to save the struggling company but then it dived after brokerage firms intervene restricting trading for a day and causing an outcry among small investors who accuse the trading forms of defending the big investment banks who are trying to crash the stock artes to takes a closer look. so by now you've probably heard of the whole while should 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 teal 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 badly melvin 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 things didn't 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 this is usual but if regular people want to do the same thing to wall street well we've got a problem financial commentator jim rogers told us that the group of small investors has nothing to apologize for well this if somebody wants to buy the stock and and it goes up that's perfectly legal and legitimate and why not find it outrageous that somebody tried to stop them you know i suppose to shorten times but it's an open market that people buy and sell as they wish don't try to control the market that's outrageous if i go on t.v. and tell you that i have bought such a stock is that illegal i do it all the time not just me all over the world people

go on t.v. internet radio and say yes i have bought. whatever stocks i have bought stocks i've bought microsoft that's not illegal now some people then go and buy it if you and i lie and say ok we're good do this and we plot and manipulate that's different but to go into the public and say let's going to buy the stock you should buy 2 i'm sorry i have trouble understanding why that there's something wrong with that. street protests have been raging across poland against a near total ban on abortions which took effect on wednesday the capital saw around 2000 protesters come out on a 3rd night of rallies as thousands of women's rights protesters marched to the have quarters of the ruling a law and justice party defying pandemic restrictions critics say the new what law violates women's rights and was forced on the country without public support and some are demanding action from the e.u. . so it's all the burden falls on the doctors who have to make

a very difficult choice they can be brave in saying that no statement changes that the law can continue to do bush and back us there will be sued by the state and we will help them with this happening inside pretty much it's scary and the worst thinking is that actually the european union the new european community doesn't do anything to help us with this don't want to leave holland because it's my country and i don't want someone to push me out for their actions i'm going to fight for the country's future as long as i have strength and the hope that things will change. the new law even bans terminations due to and curable diseases or risks to the baby's health it means 90 percent of previously legal abortions have been criminalized and are punishable by prison time now only allows terminations due to rape incest or a risk to the mother's life. a law was passed by poland's constitutional tribunals back in october but needed 3 months to take effect it is the scale of public

opposition it's been condemned by brussels which says the ruling puts women's lives at risk you has accused the government of heaping pressure on judges to pass the decision and called it a sign of the collapse of the rule of law in the country but poland's top court insists it's just asserting the right to life the constitutional court once again affirms that a person has the right to life from the moment of conception human life has the same value before birth as when a person is young and adult or elderly the polish legal system is built on that basis abortion means taking a child's life the eugenic premises for the killing of the unborn violate that constitutional basis earlier my colleague mccarran discussed the near total ban on abortions and the e.u. response with a panel of experts. what poland is doing is turning the tide on the barbarism of the rest of the world the rest of europe and saying we're going to value life no

matter how injured matter how disabled it may be we're going to probably with some treasure it and look after it's the best of our intention and credit to poland and i think poland is going to lead the way on this and hopefully the tide will turn in the rest of europe as well as a result they clearly in a very different position to these gentlemen because i understand the human cost of these laws the idea that this law is going to stop abortion is ludicrous it's going to start seeing abortions and it's going to start abortions for people who don't have financial means you know my feeling is that abortion should be a decision between the pregnant person and a medical professional and everybody else can have whatever abuse they would like to have around that. is what i would do of the school losing the last part of you. because they have just lost what's the last. sort of. what are you all. over.

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shattered because access to free money is now ubiquitous virtually. i'm sure we're going on the ground for another lockdown edition as u.s. president joe biden signs new executive orders to combat climate change will speak to a lot of the rupert read made famous by extinction rebellion his new book is a warning to parents about how to look into their own children's eyes about what their elders have done to limit their chances of old age thanks in the a liberal catalyzed climate catastrophe and in part 2 we'll investigate the stock figures released by a new report from n.g.o.s oxfam on the growing inequality.