in the week's top stories iran signs a deal with russia to buy and make the sputnik because it backs seem the country's foreign minister told us why. russian the russian rich rock seem to be have a very bad experience with another bush from countries that they do not want to name. plus bolivia and argentina become the latest latin american nations to get hundreds of thousands of russian coby a chance as they had at the u.n. heralds the role sputnik can play to fight the virus. and occupation campaigns grind to a halt in parts of france and spain as vaccines are running out prompting doctors to question the job procurement system. is not being delivered at the rate they're being disappeared it's

a real problem for the national banks nation plan and it means autonomy is regions will have to review their strategy. watching the weekly here on our 2 international recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days for joining us. iran has become the latest country to approve the sputnik the vaccine it also plans to manufacture the shot iran's foreign minister told us why tehran chose the russian drug over the alternatives here some highlights from that exclusive interview. 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.

whiteness. and so a lot of people needing blood transfusion we still need to investigate it. 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 we are in close touch with all of them we will get the indian 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 vaccine we are all in india phase 3 trials us but i think they are well underway with plans to get emergency approval in march the country's ambassador to moscow says he's already had the job i took it last week. the 1st also sputnik vaccine i feel perfectly well 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 during the pandemic situation just as we've made a mosque we have sort of a distance which is also good to take scientifically proven back scenes and of course the sporting vaccine is one such vaccine. latin america is also increasingly betting on the russian job bolivia and argentina are the latest to receive hundreds of thousands of doses from moscow this week the u.n. secretary general says sputnik to be can play a key role in tackling the pandemic it comes as the e.u. suffers huge delays and shortages from other vaccine manufacturers in 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 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 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 country with more people bucks in then in

latin america. how we could box in the only 50 percent of the workers because we have only found the 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 $25000000.00 used for your own posts if the trend is more and more evident you probably shouldn't shy away from what they call vokoun are also in spanish if you want a quicker escape from the red zone for your country. the e.u. announced it will control the export of covert vaccines given the drastic job shortages 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. the

protection and safety of our citizens the. challenges we know face lift this is no other choice but to act. and spain the 2 most populous regions have halted their an occupation campaigns because of these shortages colonia and the madrid region have used up almost all their doses with the remaining vials needed to give 2nd shots to those who've already had their 1st head of the country's vaccination authority it says the shortage is nationwide so. the number of doses we're receiving has been significantly reduced the vaccine is not being delivered to 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 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. we're just 2 percent of people have been vaccinated the czech republic has stopped administering jobs due to a lack of doses while paris and some other parts of france have done the same spain's an occupation chief again says brussels should have moved quicker to secure supplies. i do not like the lack of transparency as regards to the contracts the european union has concluded with pharmaceutical companies we don't know what 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. today crowds are

now gathering in cities across russia for a 2nd week of an authorized rallies in support of the opposition figurehead here and the kremlin critic was arrested 2 weeks ago after returning from berlin and will be tried in court on tuesday for parole violation but we can show you now are live pictures from central moscow where thousands of people have been gathering for the past 4 hours or so metro stations and other places of business in the center have been closed down and there is a heavy security presence to prevent a repeat of last week's under arrest in which hundreds and hundreds were arrested as well at this point from the pictures we're seeing it almost looks like there's more police than there are protesters they have been marching throughout the city for through different points in the city so it is hard to gauge how many people are actually protesting in the capital itself as we mentioned there are also protests taking place in other cities throughout russia people here in moscow are planning to march towards the detention center where

a volley is being held but it's not clear if they'll actually be able to make it to that point he was it detained on the 17th of january after returning from berlin where he had undergone treatment for an alleged poisoning. now we can go to a package from our reporter he sent this in earlier today he is trying to find the protesters in the city and when he does we'll be going to him live again. 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 it's 6 o'clock in the morning a very large chunk of the city center was completely shut off for pedestrians essentially security forces only allowed vehicles in the streets and pedestrian cross walks were off limits so are the organizers they apply the same tactic that i had previously witnessed in belarus last summer essentially they announced

initially the announced if you were meeting points if you gathering points by then they get changed them last minute and since then it has reminded me of the 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 huge mass of people to gather there now right now we are literally a few 100 meters from a holding from a holding sent him in a prison where the prominent a prominent russian opposition figure alexina volley is it 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 or to give to give some support to election of ali 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 well 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 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 but the numbers are definitely in the thousands but as to how many 1000 well we'll have to see because again the crowd has been on the move or date wasn't like last weekend when they were allowed to gather in one spot pushed these guys square. pushkin square square know essentially they have been on the move so we'll see how long this protest will go on 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. meanwhile protesters have taken to the streets in other russian cities as a while there now major marches ongoing and cousin uncrossed i ask the events have passed mostly peacefully but several dozen people have been arrested the same pairs barrick has seen some of the largest gathering so far with police putting the number at 4000 place have used tear gas to disperse the protesters.

so had this hour a russian tech firm is testing a flying taxi prototype that's what our story is after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is spearing dramatic development is only going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. and there's nothing a narcissist hates more than to have their inflated ego collided with 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 bored by its own exceptionalism and donald trump feels i'm a narcissist. welcome back to the weekly people in britain aren't just being stopped from flying they can't even leave their homes without a reasonable excuse for at least another month as measures are beefed up amid a surge in covert deaths all public gatherings are also banned and police are getting tough on those who break the rules but as partners explains 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 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 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 000-0000. oh oh i

thought the british really do ok for you. before you begin to have sisters very close start as examiner central vote are ok this is of the 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 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 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 fines across england and wales penalties row shoppy during england's november look into. 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 while i think the police across the world are in very difficult situation with this 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 and the legislation and police officers realize that no pay to do that and 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 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 it was houses so they are the forefront of needs to have a decent society that they they have the vaccination as early as possible. at least slapped a ban on texting users who haven't verified their age after a 10 year old girl died the whole time to complete a dare on the video sharing app the so-called blackout challenge involves people choking themselves to temporarily pass out however the young girl was found dead in her bathroom. 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. exact insists

that user safety is a priority and bans in a dangerous behavior but i talian 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 miners 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 after 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 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 will be. ok has announced it's cracking down on trips abroad travelers will not be turned back at the border if they can't give valid reason for travel secretary's announcement came after britain's 2nd highest ever daily death toll from cope at the rules are clear people should be staying at home unless they have a valid reason to leave going on holiday is not a valid reason. britain also announced rules for travel from what it calls high risk countries people flying from the 30 listen nations must quarantine and a government approved hotel at their own expense and recalls 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 there wants to use g.p.s.

tracking through people's phones to make sure they self isolate is out of poland and taiwan successfully using the method my colleague mccarran discuss the thorny subject of enhancing restrictions with our guests but let's know your thoughts thought 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 a domestic market economy back on the up and running you do australia and new zealand have done 0 cove in the got 0 go bit by chance in their borders good tech to test trace and isolate by quarantine and by providing support for people into isolation but we've got what we've got to do is we've got to accept that this disease will exist that this disease is probably not going to be seasonal forever we have got to protect the elderly and the vulnerable and britain has done incredibly well with the vaccination program but in terms of people who are not

clinically vulnerable those people need to be sent back to work and we certainly need to open up the schools the idea of g.p.s. tracking people is for the personnel never implemented in time anyway we know that most of the introductions of the virus into the u.k. during the 1st wave of the pandemic and indeed you in the 2nd were travelers returning from mainland europe and i think it might be too late now but nevertheless we are faced with a new virus variants and i guess this strategy is to try and stop the introduction of these more worrying variants of the virus 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 58 vaccinated by the 15th in february as you well know as making. assumption the vaccines are going to work and they're going to transmit your make your make you so sure 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 educate should all this culture of. science fiction is becoming

a reality as moscow may get its 1st line taxis within a couple of years a russian urban air mobility companies testing so-called passenger drones an artist consent in iraq i've got a firsthand look. 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. 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 rad knock in case of emergency can babble it jacked it parachute.

of course using it as the air transport transport for passengers like air so to speak in the big congested city 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. what's inside and the person just just sit there choose the point on the map and the flight and that's all 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 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 to bring in 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. that's a recap of just some of the stories that helped shape the world this past week

thanks for tuning in. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person of those. things. we dare to ask. what is described in the west as a russian invasion of crimea is

a fact the presence of russian soldiers in crimea can you clarify that us discuss all about they've got a war god i would have believed according to quote but the most of the moscow full of the couldn't. as long ago is 180 for sevastopol as a naval base became the main military port of the russian empire on the black sea. during the 2nd world war the heroic defense of sevastopol lasted almost a year and took hundreds of thousands of lives. therefore the naval base in crimea has a legacy of historical pride for the russian black sea fleet as well as being of huge strategic importance. those of us alive back then remember when there were soviet missile.