week's top stories on iran signs a deal with russia to make the sport. foreign minister told us why. russian the russian rich we have a very bad experience with another country that i do not want to name. the latest latin american nations to get hundreds of thousands of russian shots as the head of the un. and play in fighting the virus. campaigns grind to a halt in parts of france and spain as a vaccine that's prompted doctors to question the e.u.'s procurement system. and vaccine is not being delivered at the rate that we anticipate it's a real problem for the national next nation plan and it means

a ton of this region will have to review their strategies. here on r.t. international wherever you are today thanks for tuning in i'm daniel. iran this week became the latest country to approve the sport and. it also plans to manufacture the shot the iranian foreign minister told us why they have chosen the russian drug over the alternatives is 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. whiteness. 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 ric's vaccine we will get the chinese vaccine we are in close touch with all of them be we'll 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 in one in india phase 3 trials of sport next we are well on the way with plans to get emergency approval of months the country's ambassador to moscow says he's already had the job. i took it last week. the 1st also sputnik exene 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 pandemic situation just as we're made a mosque we have sort of a distance which is also good to pick scientifically proven. scenes and of course the sport piggybacks ian is one such works in. well latin america is also increasingly betting on the russian vaccine and argentina are the latest to receive hundreds of thousands of doses last week and the u.n. secretary general has welcomed the roll out saying sputnik we can play a key role in tackling the pandemic is at a time of severe shortages of western made vaccines in europe but frank and explains. 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. say has personally welcome to shipment at the international airport eventually bolivia will get enough sputnik 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 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 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 immunize 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 person jabs arrived and when osiris at the end of december and after getting the data on side effects only one percent of those who received the shot had some sort of issues but us artist went on to order 22000000 doses with the latest batch having just arrived the president and the vice president have both taken the russian vaccine argentina has been dubbed the global testing ground for moscow's vaccine 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 name in latin america. we

could box in the only 50 percent of the workers because we have only. seen in the theaters and the use much now we are receiving $5000000.00 more of those and wish to complete the box initial program 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. or the e.u. announced on friday it will limit the export of covert vaccines you to shortages this comes 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 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 have halted their an occupation campaigns because of the shortages catalonia 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 the 1st head of aspirants 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 increase groups that were identified in the original plan it's a difficult and uncomfortable situation similar pictures playing out across the

e.u. where just 2 percent of people have been vaccinated a sec republicans stopped administering the job through a lack of doses while paris and some other parts of france have done the same spain's inoculations chief again says brussels should have moved quicker to secure robust supplies from pharmaceutical giants. i do not like the lack of transparency with regards to the contracts that the european union has concluded with pharmaceutical companies we don't know about them we don't know the purchase price we don't know anything at all and i think that's wrong of course we're concerned that apparently those countries did purchase vaccines in a higher price than the european union have not experienced such delay in delivery we are not at all satisfied with the current situation. people in britain are being told not to leave their homes without a valid reason amid a surge in covert deaths or public gatherings of bad and police are getting tough

on those who break the rules but escape artist explains sometimes the whole breakers are 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 and to a baby shower. are. provided for because you're all here so obviously a break in kobe rolls we can 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 oh oh oh

0 7 0 oh oh. oh i thought the british is real true i thought it was here. it was a very big was obvious asperse very surprised as you're going to send chills are ok yeah because of the national logs are aware. that you're not exempt are going to the full 2nd 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 $200.00 pound fine it is deeply disappointing and frustrating that man if this is helpful in short all the expectation job with 19 regular asians 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 café since march the police have issued $32000.00 fines across england and wales penalties wrote shoppy during england's november. down 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 in showing 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 letters to this legislation has put them in

a very difficult position i thought only believe that police officers should be vaccinated because they are being asked to not only be around lots of individuals themselves so that they're 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. cities across russia are sol rallies throughout sunday in support of opposition figure alexei navalny drama critic was arrested 2 weeks ago after retiring from and will be tried in court on tuesday for a parole violation similar to last week thousands of his supporters again took to central moscow several metro stations were closed and there was a heavy police presence as he goes on a force following the protests throughout the day. it is a little bit different because last weekend we saw one particular point one

particular meeting sport where everybody gathered to protest this time the organizers that they made a last minute changes to where they will cooling onto their supporters to gather we are at one of these sports and the crowd has been has dwindled here in fact the police response has been so massive not in terms of harshness but in terms of numbers that they simply didn't allow anybody to actually gather here so right now i'm being told the protests move down the street about a couple of 100 meters that way we are at one of the sites where we've seen some scuffles between the protesters and the police in fact you can see probably not right now but on the other side of the street there's a rather heavy special forces presence now this situation has been rather hectic because since the very early morning most school a very large chunk of central most school was completely cordoned off for pedestrians only vehicles were allowed in and 7 metro station were completely

closed to the trains would even stop there to allow people to change lines right now we are literally a few 100 meters from a holding from the holding center in a prison where the prominent a prominent russian opposition figure of ali is being held right now so the protesters they intended to come here from central moscow 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 the crowd has been on the move all day pausing like last weekend when they were allowed to gather in one spot pushkin square square 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 well you can see a heavy police presence and to the left of me also a police cordon to the right as well and well some journalists to give you an idea

as to how many people showed up again is definitely in the thousands and some hundreds of people were detained in moscow alone now protests that have taken place all across russia from the far east to the russian capital to st petersburg and in some smaller city. you're. going to move. wasn't even before your community. so this indeed looks like the end of today's protest but on tuesday already election of ali 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. he's taking action against take talk after a 10 year old girl died while trying to complete a dare on the chinese video sharing up has been told to block users who saved cannot be verified the so-called blackout challenge involves people choking themselves to temporarily pass out over the youngster was found unresponsive and how bathroom. getting. 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 eve reversible coma we concluded she was brain dead altec talk

insists that uses safety as a priority and byron's videos showing any dangerous behavior but an italian 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 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 tick-tock into this because it's trying to understand where

the access to minors is actually legitimate and legal. back to the u.k. where the government's cracking down on non-essential overseas travel home secretary and out of the movie after the country recorded its 2nd highest daily death toll from covert the rules are clear people should be staying at home unless they happen followed the rules entirely going on holiday is not a valid reason for britain also restricted travel from what it calls high risk countries people flying from the 30 listed nations must quarantine in a government approved hotel at their own expense there were calls to go even further to with a former health secretary denouncing a massive 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 jeremy hunt wants to use g.p.s. tracking through people's mobile phones to make sure they self isolate he cited

poland and taiwan as successfully using the method and he are on gather some guests to discuss the idea earlier this week that led to their your thoughts on the their proposal for g.p.s. tracking what do 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 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 trace and isolate by quarantine and by providing support for people into isolation but we've got what we've got to do is we've got to accept that this disease will exist that this disease is probably not going to be seasonal forever we have got to protect the elderly and the vulnerable and britain has done incredibly well with the vaccination program but in terms of people who are not clinically vulnerable those people need to be sent back to work and we certainly need to open up the schools the idea of g.p.s.

tracking people is for the personnel never implemented in time anyway we know that most of the introductions of the virus into the u.k. during the 1st wave of the pandemic and indeed you in the 2nd were travelers returning from mainland europe and i think it might be too late now but nevertheless we are faced with a new virus variants and i guess this strategy is to try and stop the introduction of these more worrying variants of the virus that has been in all of piety within the british government when the matter how crazy the idea is somebody comes along and says they want an even more crazy and draconian rule broadhead we have let these people run absolutely right and what has happened we are the public sector debt is now 2.13 trillion in december we borrowed 38000000000 pounds he's absolutely bananas we've got to get back to work we've got to get back to 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 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 sort of transmit your make your make you know something 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 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 except that britain does need to continue was a country and the has to be a balance between keeping people safe and also maintaining the wealth and livelihoods of educated of this country. or news just coming in

military says it's taking charge of the country for one year declaring a state of emergency over alleged election fraud several leaders of the civilian government have reportedly been detained including the country's leader suki is said to be among those who were taken into custody the military alleges that november elections in the country were fraudulent though that is yet to be proven the secretary general of the un has condemned the arrests. moscow's notorious traffic jams could soon be a thing of the past for some high flying taxi passengers a russian urban am i realty companies testing so-called passenger drones which could lift off in a couple of years artie's constantino 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 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 program the only thing i can do while inside is to pull the red not in case of emergency combat or will it jacked a parachute. of course using it as the 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 fix it 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. on the way of this particular area 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 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. going to ground with afshin rattansi coming away in just a few moments time will be here and often out sort of get you up to speed on the morning global news headlines to join us again that. more than 4 years trump was called. by gave to russia's demands to continue with the new start arms agreement also a live signal volley and why is he so or. i'm

ashen are times when we're going underground for another lockdown edition today on air force day nicaragua which transformed inequality in the sandinista revolution meanwhile here in the u.k. which has been reporting the worst coronavirus death rate on earth will social indicators of progress or worse from unemployment to inequality will investigate why work won't love you back and in part 2 we'll hear about u.k. u.s. destruction of democracy in the middle east in revelations aided by award winning actor ray fines for joining me now from new york city is sarah jaffe author of work

would love you back how devotion to our jobs keeps us exploited exhausted and alone sarah an amazing book such a range to it i suppose i should just ask before i ask why you're talking about why we should love our work is how different a virus seems to have a emphasized new liberal transformations in the in the class all yeah absolutely i finished reading his book in february of 2020 and then went immediately into lockdown and sort of had to add a bunch of stuff to the book but it didn't fundamentally change my argument to anything i think it underlined right because you know when we're all working full we're all just connected all our way or we're people who are still going into work and now you know your job it you know neighborhood grocery store comes up this side risk of getting a fatal disease i think it's it's clearer than ever that this idea that work is

supposed to be for billing and sort of wonderful and pleasant is a big. but if someone is right now in lockdown in any country in the world and they are missing their work because they love their work why could this be on the part of their or. themselves me me false false consciousness holmes well i don't want to sara lee diagnose anybody that's false consciousness like i am like a lot of parts of my job to getting to talk to people about this book that i wrote is pretty cool right i don't want to be like oh oh oh this ripple but i think a lot of the things that remission by being in locked out away from you know an office where you might get to actually talk to other people is a talking other people are great it's the part of of being in a workplace that's actually connection and collaboration and these are things that work under capitalism a sort of secondly you know colonized from us but they are human condition that

don't need to be exercised only in the workplace i mean that's the communication and that the move away from fort ism in the conveyor belts in the factories and that's what we that's all we have at. yeah well if you think about it right when if you work at a factory if you work on the assembly line nobody really cared if you're smiling at the car that goes right you just have to make sure that you you know do whatever part of the assembly is your job you have to drive that bolt and make sure that it's done properly and safely but it doesn't much matter how. but if you're working in the grocery store and you're waiting in my you know you're waiting on customers as they come through in line you do have to smile and you do have to sort of be personable and at least project that you're happy to be there and happy to see them i mean sector by sector if we think of housework i'm not sure how you emphasize the intersectional nature of the politics of the fact that women are complaining of not being a.