those who took. it invested over $5000000000.00 to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. and artie's news are new in the week iran signed a deal with russia to buy and make the sputnik recoated vaccine in an exclusive interview with the country's foreign minister. russian the russian reconstruction you have a ready bad experience with another christian country that i do not want to name. plus bolivia and argentina become the latest latin american states to get hundreds of thousands of russian shots as they had the un heralds involved but think you can play to fight the virus. but france and spain is an occupation campaigns grind to a halt in parts of those countries doses of their western vaccines prompting

doctors to question the news both for humans to stop. them 16 is not being delivered at the rate that we anticipate it's a real problem for the national vaccination plan and it means autonomy's regents will have to review their strategies. and the u.k. tightens its lockdown i made one of the worst kobe daily death tolls and they're also mulling a g.p.s. system to track back to people with that controversial idea for debate. idea of g.p.s. tracking for the 1st number of are implemented in time we've got to go back to what we're going to watch might not be just the thing to come but if we let this continue much longer i'm worried that we're. going to get out of this quickly and the way to do it is to keep these restrictions going get people vaccinated.

this is the weekly here on our team for national welcome to our roundup of the day's news along with headlines that shape the week. first say rounds become the latest country to approve the sputnik recoated vaccine it will buy and manufacture the shot and the exclusive interview iran's foreign minister told us why they chose it over western alternatives are some highlights of what he had to say 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 descend to iran. blood. white us. and so a lot of people needing blood transfusion do need to investigate it further but

that was certainly a major public health problem in europe we will get. russian the russian ric's 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 vaccine. went through the 1st cycle of human. clinical testing and we hope by june we will be able to use our own direction meanwhile in india the final stage of sputnik the clinical trials are well underway with plans to get emergency approval and to 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 vaccine i feel perfectly red many of my colleagues in the embassy have done so as well and i am. absolutely certain that this is part of the normal.

precautions that we take her due to the pending situation just as we were made a mosque we have sort of distance but it is also good to take a scientifically proven back scenes and of course the sport big vaccine is one such vaccine. well america is also increasingly betting on the russian job well libya and argentina are the latest to receive hundreds of thousands of doses from moscow this week the u.n. secretary general says sputnik we can play a key role in tackling the pandemic it comes as the e.u. suffers huge delays and shortages from other vaccine manufacturers and they're trying to the 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 it mean. nice 2600000 people the president wants to cement confidence in the vaccine by getting the job to. the russian creation is set to become very 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 v. january has 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 brought us 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 dr well so far so good and the infamous curve in the country has gone past its peak in the united country with more people bucks in then in latin america. we could see in the

only percent of the workers because we have only found the scenes in the theaters and the use of much now we are receiving $5000000.00 more of those and wish to complete the box initial program with. and if by media and those used for. the trend is more and more evident you probably shouldn't shy away from what they call vocal not also in spanish if you want a quicker escape from the red zone for your country elsewhere that you announced it will control the export of covert vaccines given the drastic job shortages in the block 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 coalition of concerned the terms potency and export of. the

protection and safety of our citizens the. challenges we know face lift us out of choice but to act in spain the 2 most populous regions have halted there and occupation campaigns because of these shortages catalonia and the madrid region have used up almost all their doses with remaining vials needed to give 2nd shots to those who've already had their 1st it's likely to ruin then the government's plans to inoculate most of the population by june of this year and the head of the country's vaccination association says the shortage is nationwide. so. the number of doses we're receiving has been significantly reduced the vaccine is not being delivered at the rate that we anticipated it's a real problem for the national vaccination plan and it means a ton of us regions will have to review their strategies the supplies who do half will be needed to give 2nd doses to those who have already started the vaccination process so we will not be able to knock uli other vulnerable and increase groups

that were identified in the original plan it's a difficult and uncomfortable situation. a similar picture is playing out across that you were just 2 percent of people have been vaccinated the czech republic stopped administering jobs altogether for 2 weeks because of the lack of doses paris and some other parts of france have postponed their job campaigns as well spain's inoculation chief again says brussels should have moved quicker to secure supplies. 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 that purchase vaccines had a higher price than the european union have not experienced such delay in delivery we are not at all satisfied with the current situation. you can oust it was

cracking down on trips abroad as travelers will now be turned back at the border if they can't give valid reasons for travel home secretary has now been coming after britain's 2nd highest ever daily death toll from cope it the rules are clear people should be staying at home unless a half of reason to leave 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 30 listed nations must quarantine and the government approved hotel at their own expense there are calls to go even further to 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 wants to use g.p.s. tracking through people's phones to make sure they self isolate inside poland and

taiwan successfully using the method my colleague mccarran discuss the thorny subject of unhandsome restrictions with our guests but let's know your thoughts on the 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 your domestic market economy back on the up and running you do australia or new zealand have done 0 cove in the got 0 go bit by chance in their borders good tech to test race and isolate by quarantine and by providing support for people into isolation but we've got what we've got to do is we've got to accept that this disease will exist that this disease is probably not going to be seasonal forever we have got to protect the elderly and the vulnerable and britain has done incredibly well with the vaccination program but in terms of people who are not clinically vulnerable those people need to be sent back to work and we certainly need to open up the schools

the idea of g.p.s. tracking people is for the personnel never implemented in time anyway we know that most of the introductions of the virus into the u.k. during the 1st wave of the pandemic and indeed you in the 2nd were travelers returning from mainland europe and i think it might be too late now but nevertheless we are faced with a new virus variants and i guess this strategy is to try and stop the introduction of these more worrying variants of the virus there's been an 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 dated by the 50 vaccinated by the 15th in february as you well know that's making. 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 are 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 the balance wrong we need to stop debating only about the medical issue and we need to start seeing it in the wider context and accept that britain does need to continue as a country and that the has to be a balance between keeping people safe and also maintaining the wealth and livelihoods and educate all this culture. happening today

a 2nd weekend a russian an authorised demonstrations in support of kremlin critic i mix in the bali protest organizers are ignoring anti code measures including the ban on mass gatherings for all its were triggered by the jailing of not only after his return from berlin as he violated the terms of his parole from a 2014 embezzlement case now these protests are taking place across the country of a live now to who's at the scene at one of the demonstrations in the capital or what have you seen today. well jacki it has been rather hectic in the russian capital basically protesters have been on the move the whole day thing is from the very early from the earliest morning since 6 o'clock in the morning a very large chunk of the city center was completely shut off full pedestrians essentially security forces only allowed vehicles in the streets and pedestrian cross walks were off limits so the organizers they applied the same tactic that i

had previously witnessed in belarus last summer essentially they announced initially the announced a few meeting points a few gathering points but then they changed them last minute and since. then it has reminded me of a game of tag essentially police forces trying to beat the protesters to these newly announced meeting points to be able to cordon them off and well not allow a huge mass of people to gather there now right now we are literally a few 100 meters from holding from a holding sent him in a prison where the prominent a prominent russian opposition figure in a volley is being held right now it's literally a few 100 meters down that street so the protesters they intended to come here from central moscow and well gather and gather there to support the person to give to give some support to alexina volley but as you can see in this this time the police

and the special forces well they beat protesters to it this is the street leading up to this holding center and it has been blocked off and as you can see there are some details so people are being detained right now so we did see over there if we could just turn the camera to my left real quick over there we can see another group of protesters that has been blocked off by the security forces so they are waiting for a vehicle like this one they will be detained likely all of them so they will have their documents check on the checks excuse me and we'll see what happens to them after that now but just remember that this is only one of the protests in the russian capital and in fact this is the 2nd consecutive weekend of protests all across russia more than 800 people have been arrested in moscow alone already and this figure is set to go much you said to go up also there have been arrests all

across russia we've seen some scuffles with the police but it's difficult to give an estimate as to how many people gather differently with the numbers are definitely in the thousands but as. how many 1000 well we'll have to see because again the crowd has been on the move all day like last weekend when they were allowed to gather in one school at pushkin square. pushkin square no essentially they have been on the move so we'll see how long this protest will go along because this was supposed to be the crowning jewel of the protest but the police they haven't allowed that to happen just yet so we'll have to see whether or not this will be the end of today's protest. artie's a ghost town of saying across this country wide protests for us today thank you. now protesters have taken to the streets across russia as we were mentioning a lot of us stuck in the country as far east there were more than 70 arrests at the

event otherwise pass without incident in other cities the ballots have had lower attendance and for example only around 50 people gathered although temperatures of minus $42.00 degrees celsius have had something to do with that. so how did the program flying taxis have been the stuff of fantasy until now i'll take to the skies and with a prototype and bring you other stories after this break. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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can't even leave their homes without a reasonable excuse for at least another month as measures are beefed up amid a surge and coated deaths all 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 are 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 weddings and even baby showers. 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 that 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 oh oh oh oh oh oh. oh i thought the british really do ok for you. before you leave the obvious asperse very surprised as examiner certain stores are ok because of their national 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 officers slapped with a 200 pound fine because 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 happened 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 to. almost 6500 penalties were handed out as police moved more quickly to enforcement 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 across the world are in very difficult situation with so 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 and i think that's what's happening here 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 thoroughly 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 at their own colleagues they have to be in vans with their colleagues they have to be in the police station but they're also rescuing people in the street and in people's houses so they are the forefront of needs to have a decent society that they they have the vaccination as early as possible. italy's slapped a barrel on to tuck users who haven't verified their age after a 10 year old girl died while trying to complete a dare on the video sharing the so-called blackout challenge involves people choking themselves to temporarily pass out for the young girl was found dead and her bathroom. getting. 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. picked up insists that user safety is a priority and bans any dangerous behavior but natalia lawyer specializing in online cases says 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 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 legitimity and legal. science fiction is becoming a reality as moscow may get its 1st flying taxi this within a couple of years a russian urban air mobility company's testing so-called passenger drones artist consul general was 1st in line. 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 b. by a or. 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 programming the only thing i can do while inside is to pull the rad knock in case of emergency and that i will jacked it parachute. just. 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 texas is by what's inside it and that person just just sit there choose the points 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 there still might be quite a few bombs. in 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 city authorities must figure out where to allow such vehicles to operate as for now moscow considering devoting the certain areas within the city limits for outdoor tasks. moscow could be one of the 1st capitals to use the catch phrase of doc brown back to the future to lure an inventor.

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