the week's top stories from iran signs of deal with russia to make the. vaccine the foreign minister told us why. russia and. other western countries do not want to name. latin american nations to get hundreds of thousands of russian covert shots as the head of the un. to fight the virus. campaigns growing to a halt in parts of france and spain as. to question the. vaccine is not being delivered. it's

a real problem for the national plant and it means autonomy will have to review their strategies. and that means taking you through some of the biggest stories we've been covering here over the past 7 days. on top of the pandemic then iran this week became the latest country to approve the sputnik. it also plans to manufacture the shot the iranian foreign minister told us why they've chosen the russian drug over the alternatives here's some of our exclusive interview which you can watch on r.t. dot com. 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.

wired us. and so a lot of people needing blood transfusion we still need to investigate it but but that was certainly a major public health problem in iraq 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 bent through the 1st cycle of human. clinical testing and we hope by june we will be able to use our own vaccine meanwhile in india phase 3 trials of splitting vale well underway with plans to get emergency approval by march the country's ambassador to moscow says he's already received the job i took it last week. the 1st dose of 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 here so distance but it is also good to take scientifically proven vaccines and of course this particular accident is one such vaccine. latin america is also increasingly betting on the russian vaccine bolivia and argentina are the latest to receive hundreds of thousands of doses this week and the u.n. secretary general has welcomed the rollout saying if he can play a key role in tackling the pandemic this at a time of severe shortages in west of made vaccines in europe as eva trenker explains next. 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 the 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 900 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 to point. 6000000 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 and 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 the 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 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 in

the country with more people bucks in name in america. how we could only see 2 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 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. the e.u. announced on friday that it will limit the export of covert vaccines because of shortages and 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 regulation concerns the

transparency and export of. us. as a protection and safety of our citizens. challenges we know face lift this is no other choice but to act in spain the 2 most populous regions have halted their inoculation campaigns because of the shortages catalonia in 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 the 1st the head of spain's vaccination authority 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 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 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 it creates

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 has stopped administering jobs because of a lack of doses while paris and some other parts of france have done the same spain's inoculation chief again says brussels should have moved quicker to secure robust supplies from pharma giants. i do not like the lack of transparency with regards to the contracts 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 to 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. so today's news

that in cities across russia have seen rallies throughout the day in support of opposition figure. most of the gatherings have now ended the kremlin critic was arrested 2 weeks ago after returning from berlin and cried in court on tuesday for a parole violation earlier on sunday thousands of his supporters again took to central moscow several metro stations will close and there is a heavy security presence but the valleys team on social media has declared the gathering to now be over. was there at the rally as the rally concluded in moscow. now this is the place that the organizers of today's demonstration called the final point the final destination for the rally but if they were looking for some crescendo for the end well they've clearly flopped because you can see a heavy police presence to the left of me also a police cordon to the right as well and well some journalists but don't be fooled by the crowd behind me because this is in fact one of the busiest train

stations in moscow so a lot of people here they have nothing to do with the protest itself they were just taking a train or they are about to take a train or they've just arrived to the russian capital there's a bit of a crowd downstairs over there let me just pan out and show you now these people are the remains of who showed up today in the russian capital now it's difficult. to give an estimate as to how many people exactly showed up it's definitely in the thousands also hundreds of people were detained here in moscow in the russian capital alone now the the mood at the protests has been quite different from what we saw last weekend because this time basically a huge chunk of the moscow city center was a closed off for pedestrians since a very early morning so essentially the police they would allow vehicles but nobody

on foot protests that have taken place all across russia from the far east to the russian capital to st petersburg and in some smaller cities record of giving her. her. body didn't. want to move there. was. anybody from your community. here in moscow again the crowd has been always on the move because since the very large chunk of the city center was cordoned off for the best friends basically the organizers they applied the same tactic that i saw in about a route they announced last summer that they announced a gathering point but then they changed it to the very last 2nd so essentially

since then people will boil down to what to personally sunni's might look like almost like it became an attack so this pretty offices they were trying to beat protesters to take the place that had been previously announced by the reaganite this so this is what's been happening and century they've been moving and running around the capital and we have been chasing them along with other reports is so this indeed it looks like the end of today's. protests but on tuesday already alexina volley prominent russian opposition figure he is said to that's when his next hearing is and a lot of people here they want they want him freed and this is why they were driven to the streets so of course we'll have to see how this showing which is definitely smaller than last week and will affect the court ruling and whether or not we will see more people in the streets on tuesday. here without a still ahead italy takes action against the chinese video sharing app take talk

after a tragedy and valving a 10 year old girl is among the stories still to come in this policy and the waiting. the world is driven by shaped by our own personal there is. no dares thinks. we dare to ask. there's nothing

a narcissist hates more than to have their inflated ego car lined 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 ordered by its own exceptionalism and donald trump the ultimate narcissistic. people in britain are being told not to leave their homes without a valid reason amid a surge in covert deaths or public gatherings abandon police are getting tough on those who break the rules but as kay partridge explains sometimes they will break because 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 weddings and even baby showers with a baby shower. are. provided for because you're all here so obviously you're breaking covert roles 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 000-0000. oh oh i thought the british is real too ok for you. they want to be one of the sisters 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 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 $32000.00 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 do so with that 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 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 the freedoms 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 that they're there 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 our needs to have a decent society that they they have the vaccination as early as possible. at least taking action against take talk after a 10 year old girl died while trying to complete it there on the chinese video sharing app it's been told to block users whose age can't be verified the so-called blackout challenge involves people choking themselves to temporarily pass out over the youngster were found dead in her bathroom. carrying that diana fact that 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 of irreversible coma we concluded she was brain dead. talk insists that uses safety as a priority and bans any videos that show dangerous behavior but an italian lawyer

specializing in online cases says the social networks need to 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 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 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 will be. back to the u.k. where the government cracking down on non-essential overseas travel the home

secretary announced the move out of the country recorded its 2nd highest daily death toll from. the rules a clear people should be staying at home unless they happen followed the rules into lee going on holiday is not a valid reason. also restricting travel for what it calls a high risk countries people flying from 30 listed nations must quarantine and a government approved hotel at their own expense they were called to go even further to with a top official denouncing a mass failure to follow the 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. and jeremy haun wants to use g.p.s. tracking through people's mobile phones to make sure that they self isolate he cited potent in taiwan as successfully using the method that karen discussed the idea really of this week. that lots now you'll fall is thought to be the proposal

for g.p.s. tracking what you think of bot. 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 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 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 that 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 what 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 donated by the 50 vaccinated by the 15th in february as you well know as making . assumption the vaccines are going to work and they're going to sort of 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 delayed 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. moscow's notorious traffic jams could soon be a thing of the past for high flying taxi passengers a russian urban air mobility company's testing so-called patented drones which

could lift off a couple of years artie's constantine rushkoff was 1st in the queue. 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 a parachute. and.

of course using it as an 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 don't fix it is by what's inside it and it doesn't 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. 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 deal or an inventor of. the truly giving you a lift home for the 2021 that's it from the weekly thanks for watching i'll have you next edition in just over half an hour to see that.

was a pandemic no certainly no borders just to nationalities. as a. judge of. commentary classes this is the sentence. we can do better we should. everyone is contributing each of our own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges created the response has been so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy

confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful ready. to sit down and talk. i. was. playing both.

sides. because i was going on the phone one. of them will meet in. sanford non-kosher mission but. if something. could make the middle of the base better off. it's not going to get the last thing they. need to get i. want to stop it to those. on either side of the us side because he knew.