thank. you you too can. from. the 4th from. the week this sunday iran signed a deal with russia to buy and make. exclusive interview the country's foreign minister told us why. russian the russian ric's vaccine we have a very bad experience with another question country that i do not want to name. in argentina became the latest latin american states to get hundreds of thousands of russian covert shot doses as the head of the un heralds the roles to play in the ongoing fight against the virus. france and spain campaigns grinding to a halt in parts of those countries as doses of the western vaccines run out prompting

doctors to question the whole job procurement system. the vaccine is not being delivered at the rate that we anticipated it's a real problem for the national vaccination plan and it means autonomy regions will have to review their strategies. and the u.k. tightened one of the worst daily death tolls and also my link to the g.p.s. system to track infected people it's controversial idea that we put up for debate. i do have g.p.s. tracking for the birds they'll never implement it in time anyway we've got to get back to work we've got to get back to work now because they did nothing to come back to 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 to get people back to.

morning welcome to the weekly here in our to international higher roundup of the top stories of the last 7 days as reported by us to you. so 1st the rands become the latest country to approve the sputnik vico that vaccine it will buy and manufacture the shot then exclusive interview iran's foreign minister told us why they chose it over western alternatives and some highlights of what he had to say. i think it was a public health problem with some political can considerations 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 they sent to iran. blood that had. white us. and so a lot of people needing blood transfusion resteal need to investigate it. but that

was certainly a major public health problem in you know we will get. russian the russian rigs vaccine we will get the chinese vaccine or in close touch with all of them be real good in the end of a vaccine but our own iranian produced vaccines bed through the 1st cycle of human. clinical testing and we hope by june we will be able to use our own way. well meantime in the air the final stage of sputnik the clinical trials are well underway with plans to get emergency use authorization and distribute the vaccine for march the country's envoy to moscow says he's already had the job. i took it last week. the 1st also sputnik roxanne i feel perfectly red 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've made a mosque we have sort of a distance but it is also good to pick scientifically proven scenes and of course the sport big bucks in is one such works in that america's also increasingly betting on the russian jap bolivia in argentina the latest to receive hundreds of thousands of doses from moscow this last week the u.n. secretary general says sputnik veeck can play a key role in tackling the pandemic it comes as the e.u. suffered huge delays and shortages from other vaccine manufacturers covering it his report brought a small. 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 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 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 receive the shot have some sort of issues but as loudest went on to order 22000000 doses with the latest batch having just arrived the president and the vice president have both taken the russian vaccine argentina has been dubbed the global testing ground for moscow's vaccine 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. how we could box in the only 50 percent of the workers because we have only to find the details on back scenes in the theaters and the need to do so much now we are receiving $5000000.00 more of those and wish to lead the bucks initial round with 25000000 doses or join us 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. elsewhere the e.u. announced it will control the export of covert vaccines given the drastic job shortages in the blog. it came following a wave of criticism from member states 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 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 there an occupation campaigns because of the shortages catalonia and the madrid region have used up almost all the doses were made in vials needed to give 2nd shots to those who already had the 1st it's likely to ruin the 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 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 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 and a similar picture is playing out across the e.u. which is 2 percent of people have been vaccinated the czech republic's stopped administering jobs altogether for 2 weeks because of the lack of doses well paris and some other parts of france have perspire on their campaigns to spain's not collation chief again telling us brussels should have moved quickly to secure robust supplies from these pharma giants. yes 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 the purchase vaccines had a higher price than the european union have not experienced such delaine delivery we are not at all satisfied with the current situation. the u.k.

announced it was cracking down on trips abroad travelers will now be turned back at the border if the current give valid reasons for travel pretty brutal over secretaries 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 is entirely going on holiday is not a valid reason and britain also announced rules for travel from what it calls high risk countries people flying from the listed 30 listed nations was quarantined in their government approved hotel at their own expense controversially and were told to go even further to the top officials announcing 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 than to make sure they self isolate the sighted poland in taiwan a successful examples of the method the colleague mccarran discussed the thorny subject of enhanced sing restrictions with our guests that let's 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 world travel is 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 with the british government where 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 away we're going to let this virus spread and there it is that is donated by the 50 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 make you make you so sure that the economy can exist if you lock it down for a year just to find out 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 far too much we didn't delay got the balance wrong we need to stop debating openly about the medical issues and we need to start seeing it in the wider context and accept the brics and those need to continue as a country and the has to be a balance between keeping people safe and also maintaining the wealth and

livelihoods and educate all this culture of thanks for checking out our to international this weekend when i was not a choice to have this all the more special to us now this is ahead as moscow braces for a 2nd weekend of anti-government demonstrations we look at the contrasting way that the west treats them and the mastic rallies itself the break. thanks guys or financial survival. when customers go by you reduce the price. then how well we do somehow or. that's undercutting well what's good for market is not good for the global economy. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm show

business i'll see you then. there's nothing a narcissist hates more than to have their inflated ego collide with that of another narcissist just like in greek mythology it's a long and messy clash of titans but on avoidable if healing and order are to be achieved is this just what we're seeing in the current battle between good america by its own exceptionalism and donald trump the ultimate narcissist. again snowing outside today nonetheless moscow bracing for unauthorized demonstrations all through the week the u.s. and e.u. been vocal in their support for protests here in russia triggered by the jailing of

the kremlin critic alexina valley but it's raised eyebrows for some with the same western governments treating far bigger rallies in their own backyard rather differently as our senior correspondent explains. the united states has come out in the strongest terms against the suppression of protests and against put he spoke 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 go to ahead 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 won't 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 trouble let's see what biden thinks about opposition protests what we witnessed yesterday 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 nest terrors. stat basic it's that. look nobody is ever again buying your lectures about police brutality the world has seen by in the mosque not that it stops some from drive but i do find this authoritarian drift is very worrying so there is france right in the 1st 3 months of the year of this 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 marshalling 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 extremists and beat them around the head for good measure the democratic institutions 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 that 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 any more. you know that he's a pro you italy slapped a ban on take told. uses who haven't verified their age after a 10 year old girl died while trying to complete a dare on the video sharing out the so-called black challenge involves people choking themselves to temporarily pass out and over the youngster was found dead in a bathroom. hating at the end of the medics did everything they could to bring the child back to life but unfortunately although their heart immediately started beating again the brain had been starved of oxygen for too long due to the strangulation after a few hours or even very simple coma we concluded she was brain dead but for its part to talk insists that uses safety is a priority and bans any dangerous behavior but italian lawyer specializing in online cases told us that social networks must do more to get i mean.

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 the very for cation a child accesses 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 when 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 people sad story live let's leave on a bit of a happier note maybe a taste of things to come science fiction is becoming a reality as we reported in the wake moscow may get its 1st flying taxis within

a couple of years a russian urban m. ability companies testing so-called passenger drones seems they work artie's constantly 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 8 to beat 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 combat or will it jacked a parachute. and

. 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 don't tax it is by what's inside it and it doesn't just just sit there choose the point on the map and the flight that sold well 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 hanka 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 area taxi before the project can take off or 1st of all it needs an investor who could start mass production and 2nd city 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 to lure an inventor. correspondent constancy there with the best job of the week and that's the way the week shaped up you know unusual and here in moscow this morning coming up to 26

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