has been influencing very deeply the medical and scientific establishment. so what's driving the of this is the epidemic it's. you know 2 internationals news review of the week this sunday around the sun to deal with russia to buy and make the sputnik the covert vaccine in exclusive interview the country's foreign minister told us why. russian the russian rigs vaccine we have a very bad experience with another western country that i do not want to name. plus for live in argentina became the latest latin american states to get hundreds of thousands of russian covert shot doses as the head of the un heralded the role of sputnik 3 could play in the ongoing fight against the virus. but trouble in france france of spain's inoculation campaigns grinding to

a halt in the week in parts as doses of the western vaccines right out prompting doctors to question the whole procurement system. 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 and news from the u.k. they're tightening its laws i mean one of the worst daily death tolls on mulling a g.p.s. system to track infected people we put that controversial idea up for debate. idea of g.p.s. tracking is for the birds they'll never implemented in time anyway we've got to get back to work we've got to get back to work now because of you know things to come but if we let this continue much longer i'm worried that we're 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.

morning welcome to the weekly on our to international our roundup of the top stories of the last 7 days as reported by us to you my name is kevin owen so 1st and as you heard rarely has become the 1st latest country to approve the sputnik the covert vaccine it will buy and manufacture the shot in exclusive interview iran's foreign minister telling us why they chose it over western alternatives is some highlights of what he had to say for to see the full thing it said r t dot com i think it was a public health problem with some political can conservations about the intentions of the united states and the lack of trust which is which is very clear we have a very bad experience with another western country that i do not want to name this and to iran. blood. white us. and so

a lot of people needing blood transfusion resteal need to investigate it further but that was certainly a major public health problem in you know we will get. russian the russian ric's vaccine we will get the chinese vaccine we are in close touch with all of them be real good in the end of a vaccine but our own iranian produced vaccine burned through the 1st cycle of human. clinical testing and we hope by june we will be able to use our own way. meanwhile in india the final stage of sport levy clinical trials are underway there was plans to get emergency use authorization and distribute the vaccine from march the country's envoy to moscow says he's already had the. i took it last week. the 1st also sputnik roxanne i feel perfectly well many of my colleagues in the embassy have done so as well and

. absolutely certain that this is part of the normal. precautions that we take her during the pending situation just as we're near the mosque we have sort of a distance but it is also good to pick scientifically proven scenes and of course this particular axion is one such works in latin america's also increasingly betting on the russian job bolivia and argentina the latest to receive hundreds of thousands of doses from moscow this last week the u.n. secretary general saying sputnik the can and will play a key role in tackling the pandemic it comes as the e.u. suffers huge delays and shortages from other vaccine manufacturers if a trend his report brought us more on that. 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 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 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 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 america so to know how we could see 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 more of those and wish to lead the bucks initial round with 25000000 doses or join 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. through the spanish specialist to read the e.u. the e.u. announcing it will control the export of covert vaccines given the drastic job shortages in the block is big news in the week a lot of criticism of it too it came following a wave of criticism from member state. 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 this is a collision of concerns that the transparency and export of ordinary iraqis. as a protection and safety of our citizens. challenges we now face left us with no other choice but to act in spain the 2 most populous regions of halted their inoculation campaigns catalonia and also the madrid region of used up almost all the doses with the remaining vials needed to give 2nd shots to those who've already had the 1st it's likely to ruin their government plans to inoculate most of the population by june and the head of the country's vaccination association told 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 doses to those who have already started the vaccination process so we will not be able to knock you are very vulnerable and increase groups that were identified in the original plan it's a difficult and uncomfortable situation at a similar pictures playing out across the e.u. or just 2 percent of people being vaccinated the czech republic stopped administering jobs altogether for 2 weeks now because of a lack of doses well over in paris and some other parts of france they've postponed their campaigns to spain's inoculations chief again says brussels should have moved quickly to secure robust supplies from these pharma 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 those countries did purchase

vaccines in 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. announced it is cracking down on trips abroad travelers will not be turned back at the border if they can't give valid reasons for travel there was a cruise announcement coming after britain's 2nd highest ever daily death toll from cove it the rules are clear people should be staying at home unless they happen entirely going on holiday is not a valid reason and britain also announced rules for travel from what it called high risk countries people flying from the 30 listed nations must quarantine in the government approved hotel at their own expense controversially just like the strategy and plan there were calls go even further as well in the week 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 was to use g.p.s. tracking through people's mobile phones to make sure they self isolate see cited poland and taiwan as successfully using similar methods in the way them a colleague here and i discussed in 100 sing restrictions controversial thought with our guests that like to know your thought is thought to be there prepare yourself a g.p.s. tracking what you think of that. or just the i guess i'm not sure i mean i think it's a bit over the top really i think what we haven't done through all this process is get out test race and isolate work if you want to get domestic market economy back on the up and running you do australia and new zealand have done 0 cove in the got 0 go bit by chance in their borders good tech to test trace and isolate by quarantine and by providing support for people into isolation but we've got what we've got to do is we've got to accept that this disease will exist that this

disease is probably not going to be seasonal forever we have got to protect the elderly and the vulnerable and britain has done incredibly well with the vaccination program but in terms of people who are not clinically vulnerable those people need to be sent back to work and we certainly need to open up the schools the idea of g.p.s. tracking people is for the personnel never implemented in time anyway we know that most of the introductions of the virus into the u.k. during the 1st wave of the pandemic and indeed you in the 2nd were travelers returning from mainland europe and i think it might be too late now but nevertheless we are faced with a new virus variants and i guess this strategy is to try and stop the introduction of these more worrying variants of the virus 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 are going to let this virus spread and there it is that is donated by the 58 vaccinated by the 15th february as you well know as making. an assumption the vaccines are going to work and they're going to transmit your bit you're making assumptions that the economy can exist if you lock it down for a year justify that you know we're going to have to learn some very seriousness and this will not be the last pandemic and i think we and many other countries we're not alone in this we're not prepared for this we learnt some hard lessons over march and april but we have did far too much we didn't delay got that balance wrong we need to stop debating only about the medical issue and we need to start seeing

it in the wider context and accept that britain does need to continue as a country and that the has to be a balance between keeping people safe and also maintaining the wealth and livelihoods and educated of this culture of people in britain and just being so flying they can't even leave their homes or their reasonable excuse for at least another month as much as a beefed up amid a surge in covert deaths or public gatherings are also banned and police are getting tough on those who break the rules but as kate partridge explained sometimes the rule breakers and the officers themselves. the coronavirus pandemic has changed just about everyone's professional lives and the police are no exception the u.k.'s on armed forces have repeatedly come under the spotlight for trying to do their job which these days include cracking down on illegal gatherings under the lockdown laws these range from raves to birthday parties whiting's and even baby showers with a baby shower are. provided for because you're all here

so obviously you're breaking covert rules we can't find every adult here every single one of you 2 under par the is london metropolitan police chief superintendent stephen trainmen condemns the party goers and warned there would be consequences london's police are almost daily posting videos of officers shutting down illegal gatherings. are thought the british really do ok here it is worth it for you to be one of the sisters very surprised as examiner certain stores are ok this is a very rational logs are aware of the you know exam to google to a little circle with all the people the aim is to publicly shame people and prevent others from doing the same except that message doesn't seem to have reached 31 of their own officers caught flouting the law while on duty just to get

a haircut if you're eating their superiors and seeing each of fending offices slapped with a $200.00 pound fine it is deeply disappointing and frustrating of my officers have fallen short of the expectation to uphold covert 1000 regulations i hope this action proves that police are not immune to enforcement of the rules more embarrassingly for the met it happens barely a week after 9 officers were fined after being spotted having breakfast together in a london cafe since march the police have issued $32000.00 fines across england and wales penalties row shoppy jury indians november looking down. almost 6500 penalties were handed out as police moved more quickly to enforcement but with crackdowns getting tougher police federation's are calling on the government to ensure that officers are at the forefront of the facts the nation roll out the public expects police officers to put themselves in harm's way and i believe that it is only fair to expect that these same frontline officers get prioritised for vaccination over the last 2 weeks alone 5 london police officers have died from

corona virus the pandemic has left millions frustrated anxious and impatient months of isolation mean people want to see family and friends and to let their hair down and the police are being left with a very public time ask of not only ensuring everyone else's safety but setting the personal example of how it should be done what i think the police the world are in very difficult situation with with the covert restrictions because it's it goes against the grain completely for police to interrupt parties and things but of course those are all the laws in the legislation and police officers realize that no pay to do that and i think that's what's happening if this goes against all the all the training all the things that we we over many over a century or so have tried to do which is give people their freedoms but people act within the law but of course these loaches to this legislation has put them in

a very difficult position i thought only believe that police officers should be vaccinated because they are being asked to not only be around lots of individuals themselves so that they're out there in colleagues they have to be in vans with their colleagues they have to be in the police station but they're also resting people in the street and it is so they are the forefront of needs to have a decent society that they they have the vaccination as early as possible. ok so they have had a no moscow's bracing for an authorized demonstrations was much of the city center already. cordoned off by police all through the week the u.s. and e.u. have been vocal in their support for protests here in russia triggered by the jailing of the kremlin critic alexina vali but it's raised eyebrows for some too with the same western governments treating far bigger rallies in their own backyard rather differently as our senior correspondent reports. the united states has come out in the strongest terms against the suppression of protests and against put. let

me try again the united states says it can deadens police brutality it other countries the united states strongly condemns the use of harsh tactics against protesters and journalists this weekend in cities throughout russia prior to today's events the russian government sought to suppress the rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression i've gota head and put together a least a list of people in that disease that have the right to lecture others on police brutality so there's luas for example they knew this stuff right what's legal and what isn't there is the pope i'm not catholic but i haven't seen vatican security roughing anyone up recently than that as yada yada oh oh there's no america in this least the very good reason there won't be defining there will be a dismantling of our police and they're not going to be disbanding of our police

our police have been letting us live in peace we can't give up the finest law enforcement anywhere in the world is nothing like it. few people few countries have a record and trouble is right few countries have a police force that unhinged i didn't see anyone getting shot in moscow naughtie a gas nor sprayed with water cannons but that was let's see what biden thinks about opposition protests but we witnessed yesterday it was not dissent it was not disorder it was not protest it was chaos. there were protesters don't dare call them protesters there were a riotous mob insurrection. the nested terrors. stat basic it's that. look nobody is ever again buying your lectures about police

brutality the world has seen by in the mosques not that it stops some from dr defined as authoritarian drift is very worrying so there is france right in the 1st 3 months of the year the best protests french police arrested 10000 protesters people died people will crippled last eyes lost lives here gas and rubber bullets were used in france in industrial quantities and you know what macro and is proud of the police do not speak of repression or police violence these words are unacceptable where there is rule of law then is germany demanding the release of all peaceful protesters detained in russia detained for peacefully attacking police peacefully punching traffic cops and peacefully destroying cars maiming drivers and marshaling kids 1011 year olds to attend violent protests germany itself has been

rattled with anti lockdown protests and you know what the german officials and police did they dismiss them as loons crazies extremist and beat them around the head for good measure the democratic institution state is alive in the police or is protective shield a thing called the emergency services for this important service to a country that was a target not long ago when the world looked up to europe and america is as beacons of freedom and liberty the right way to do things but that beacon light has gone out there are no illusions anymore about europe or america being superior or better than everyone else the time for hypocritical lectures has pos no one can be bothered to listen anymore. it's really slow to burn take tog users who haven't verified their age or for a 10 year old girl died while trying to complete to. own the video sharing out the

so called black challenge involved people choking themselves to temporarily pass over the youngster was found dead in a bathroom. getting at diana for the medics did everything they could to bring the child back to life but unfortunately although the heart immediately started beating again the brain had been starved of oxygen for too long due to the strangulation after a few hours of irreversible coma we concluded she was brain dead. to talk insists that uses safety as a priority and bans any dangerous behavior but in italian lawyer specializing in online cases told us that social networks must do more to get. lost clearly the story of this little girl is truly tragic it makes us reflect on the role of social networks in the lives of minors yes parents must pay attention and control their children but there must be social control of the constant the mind is can see on these networks a social network cannot just say a minor has stated that they are old enough to use the up they should check it if

very for cation a child access is the platform and sees violent content the social network would be responsible in this case is necessary to determine whether the tick-tock social network really has some responsibilities with this video of the child was actually viewed by tick-tock or not the italian data protection authority has opened an investigation against to talk into this because it's trying to understand where the access to minors is actually legitimate and legal. fall away from all the heavy this is a lighter story this bit of fun science fiction is becoming a reality it seems as moscow may get its 1st flying taxis within a couple of years you hear me correct a russian mobility company's testing so-called passenger drones is constantly roscoff was 1st in the queue that. and just like that city traffic is no longer an issue instead of driving along congested highways this taxi should lift you up and take you from a to be by

a. by the way there are no paddles or a steering wheel i mean the whole thing is supposed to be controlled by a person remotely or by computer programs the only thing i can do while inside is to pull the red knock in case of emergency can babble it jacked it parachute. of course using it as an air transport transport for passengers like air so to speak in the big congested see is the 1st thing that comes to mind but it also

might be useful for various city services like ambulance for example and russia's health care ministry and emergency ministry are reported to be extremely interested in this invention the safety is the idea of the flying car of the holder the idea of is while it's inside and that person just just sit there choose the point on the map and the flight and that's all for the flying drones market has been booming for the last few years with many developers in europe china and america creating prototypes a chinese company hank for example made an aerial vehicle that can not only fly people but also how to put out fires and their. still might be quite a few bumps on the way of this particular air taxi before the project can take off well 1st of all it needs an investor who could start mass production and 2nd cd authorities must figure out where to allow such vehicles to operate as for now

moscow considering devoting certain areas within the city limits for outdoor task bringing hopes moscow could be one of the 1st capitals to use the catch phrase of doc brown back to the future of the war an inventor of. the. guarantee to big the city kids for a while so it was everyone's to go that's the way the new show up over the last 7 days thank you for watching here mosco kevin owen at your service and have a great rest of the week it. was a pandemic know so you know blood is just blind to nationalities. as

a. judge of. commentary this is the sentence. we can do better we should. everyone is contributing way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenge is creating the response has been much so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together.

the obesity epidemic is the most important international health problem. let me does that put me through research hold a peaceful initial meeting. discussing the fact that it. and made tragedy. earlier my life. i thought that my way it was all my fault. i felt like a failure. and frankly unworthy. and it took me a while to really start questioning beliefs and challenging those thoughts like well are you really a failure and the answer is no i'm not i'm not.