a few between the e.u. and a british vaccine maker intensifies with france and germany proposing penalty as. preferential treatment. also this hour on rest breaks out yet again and friends over a security bill giving extra powers to police officers themselves seem violent troublemakers are avoiding prosecution. and a norwegian politician who calls for black lives matter to be given the nobel peace prize for its fight against racial inequality we put the proposal up for debate. you have a movement where people whether they represent the torch black businesses 25 people

were killed last summer. just around the world not just in the united states this is warranted and deserved the award for sure. welcome to the program and happy monday to all of this is our to international bring your live news update this hour. as europe continues to struggle with new courage of our strains and tough luck townspeople across the continent are becoming increasingly frustrated with the way the pandemic is being handled. case in point we can now show you pictures from protests in 3 separate european cities starting in vienna 5000 people defied a ban to march in protest against measures aimed at curbing the spread of new coke

in 1000 variants austria is currently in its 3rd lockdown march was organized by a far right party and many participants ignored social distancing rules and were there without masks police equipped with riot gear clashed with protesters and detained a number of them. a group known as men in black in denmark organize a torchlight march on sunday demonstrators chanted freedom for denmark and we've had enough they believe the current restrictions are a violation of their freedoms the group invited supporters from all over the country to join the march which began in the early evening at city hall and went through the city center. and in brussels hundreds of people turned up at several locations around the city after numerous calls to protest circulated on social media police say over $400.00 people were arrested last week the prime minister banned non-essential trips in and out of the country until march 1st and that's on top of an existing curfew and the closure of bars and restaurants belgium has

registered one of the highest death rates in the world during the pandemic but recent restrictions have brought infection and hospital cases down. in while as the blocks of vaccine roll out struggles to get going in the e.u. and u.k. have clashed over vaccine supplies germany has threatened astra zeneca with legal action over vaccine delay is saying the company should face penalties if it gives britain preferential treatment. if it turns out that individual company is not complying with the legations a decision must be made to build legal consequences well while we've heard of threats of legal action from peter out by just there the german economy minister there are some signs of a report on being attempted to be made but in this 3 way dispute between the european union the united kingdom and the pharmaceutical giant astra zeneca the vaccine manufacturer has said that an extra $9000000.00 doses of the job will be sent to the european union in the 1st quarter of 2021 take the total to be

delivered through till march open to up to $40000000.00 now that still well short of the 102120 1000000 at the e.u. was promised back in august of last year but on the line the e.u. commission president tweeted out that she's happy with the extra 9000000 doses and the promise that astra zeneca would be hoping manufacture of their vaccine inside the european union this all follows on from a huge diplomatic mess over the weekend involving astra zeneca the u.k. and the e.u. it follows on from a misconception it would seem from the european commission side they understood that they thought they would get doses of the vaccine to be manufactured in the u.k. that's not the case the e.u. then decided that they would put in place restrictions on vaccines leaving the european union the manufactured inside the block reason though that there has been such rash action from the e.u.

site is that the lack of vaccines is really starting to bite here we've heard from france from portugal from spain where vaccine programs are having to be suspended because there aren't enough jobs while in the united kingdom well the vaccine program is moving along at a pace french president emanuel on this waded into the argument saying the u.k. has to decide who its friends are. imagine the british finish their vaccine campaign successfully what will they do stop european lorries from entering when there is a total dependence on the continent good luck half pregnant is not a concept what policy does great britain wish to choose it cannot be the closest ally of the us the closest ally of the e.u. and the new singapore it has to choose a model what we've essentially seen though is the british side getting a huge p.r. victory post break that without really having to do very much at all as far as london's concerned they're focused on vaccinating their own people the u.k.

government's position is absolutely clear we expect companies and contracts to be on that european union know that our 1st priority is vaccinating people in the united kingdom but we also want to work with our friends and neighbors in the european union where the job of savaging that the european union and particularly e.u. commission president on the line over this whole mess has fallen to the british press receive a number of headlines incredibly critical of brussels a stance the world health organization though has waded in as well saying vaccine nationalism needs to stop as it doesn't help anybody if we lose translate into motion i'm going to lucian soon nationalism we will all pay the price in terms of a protracted we only prolong the plunder me more vaccine talk set for monday is there's a summit taking place or at least a virtual summit taking place from here in berlin concerning what happens next when

it comes to germany and the vaccine program we heard from the german health minister last week saying that it was 10 weeks behind where you'd like it to be the news coming in is that there will be an extra $75000000.00 doses of the pfizer buy on tech vaccine made available to the european union perhaps that will help calm some of the tensions regarding just who is getting these vaccines and when they're going to be arriving here in the european union. paris was rocked by street clashes over the weekend around 5000 people demonstrated against a new security bill giving extra surveillance powers to french police there. was. critics of the draft law say it will limit the right to free assembly and restrict press freedom doesn't arise for help across france but over 32000 people took part

according to the interior minister at all the $35.00 arrests were made over the weekend tensions also spilled out onto the streets of knowledge with 4 officers reported injured in the clashes place in the city claimed radical behavior from riders is routinely going on and we heard from a representative of a french police union and the shared his view on the situation. that there is a part of the population which resents the police sometimes this resentment is ideological which means that we have both left and right wing protesters hostile to the police and sometimes this resentment this from people threaten and to against protests who feel anger towards the police we can legitimately wonder both about the effectiveness of the court's response and about whether these rioters have a political role to play the presence of rioters at the protests gives a pretext and legitimacy to the prefix and in particular to the police prefect of gatherings which are initially legitimate government policy has been relatively

opaque on the issue of rioters since at the beginning of the yellow vest crisis the prime minister himself initiated a debate and to write a dossier where it was said that all hooligans were known to intelligence services we were going to register them in a file and put them under house arrest on the days of demonstrations it means that they would have to check in their nearest police station to prove they're not at the protest this dossier has never seen the light of day. now didn't go to police he was one of our colleagues who works in the sense and they need to parliament a police commander was found dead at his home and another officer who worked for the border police in my old also killed himself so every year every week every month police officers kill themselves because the police administration is an institution that's not only violence on a physical level as we sometimes witnessed during demonstrations and lower of course because operations but it's also extremely violent on a psychological level and it's the enemy of people who seek to give meaning to

their daily actions the message of the police hierarchy is don't think just execute orders. black lives matter movement dominated much of the headlines in 2025 the place killing of george floyd in minneapolis the protests were always peaceful how are. the towers.

despite all that the movement has been nominated for the nobel peace prize the proposal which was put forward by our norwegian lawmaker has been met with a mixed reaction online. they've been able to mobilize people from all groups a society not just african-americans not just oppressed people it has been a broad movement in a way which has been different from their predecessors awarding the peace prize to black lives matter will send a powerful message that peace is founded on equality solidarity and human rights and that all countries must respect those basic principles most expensive and devastating riots in american history but sure noble peace prize seems appropriate right this summer b.l.m. concentrated on riots looting arson murder cop killing destruction of public and private property lawlessness criminality etc and now it's time to give them an emmy award a nobel peace prize etc the whole world's a stage but according to

a report tracking political violence in the united states 93 percent of the black lives matter protests last summer are peaceful earlier we discussed the nomination with conservative commentator jeff charles and political activist anthing rogers right. i don't see how this organ how this organization at least the national organization deserves this prize this prize is intended for for organizations that benefit mankind when you've got people's livelihoods being destroyed and you've got people being killed it's hard for me to for me to see how that's the case especially when there is no widespread condemnation among the ranks of black life now of course there are are some individuals who have escalated and taking matters into their own hands and even dr king held weapons in his house to protect himself against white supremacy terrorism so i think that any movement that is 93 percent peaceful and has had just an impact around the world not just in the united states also in solidarity with all oppressed people around the world and this is

a most warranted and deserved award for sure the riots happened approach the peaceful protests happened and what change has actually happened nothing to say that it's just a hash tag and just saying that there had been hasn't been any action we've seen massive police reforms into beslan in cities like new york in cities like los angeles minneapolis at one point calling for change the entire police structure so to meet i mean just having a conversation is in and for me isn't enough to win a nobel peace prize there should actually be something good that happened you have black lives matter talking about defunding the police even though 82 percent of black americans disagree with that and you know what defining the police and having fewer police officers is going to disproportionately affect black people so to me saying that that black lives matter you're not really showing that when you are supporting the destruction of black businesses the destruction of black lives and you're making black people less safe you have a movement where people whether they represent the movement or not torch black businesses 25 people were killed last summer and i might understand that point if

the black lives matter their leadership and force came out and condemned the rioting but you only had a few local chapters who were willing to actually condemn the violence but we haven't seen action as is in the domestic terrorist threat in the united states. from white supremacy terrorists who show up to state buildings with their guns out but not their mass i can condemn the rights of the u.s. capitol as a matter of fact the vast majority of republicans did condemn that violence and yet you don't see a whole lot of that that we didn't see a whole lot of that this past summer during the riots that were happening with the n.c.f. and black lives matter and never have you seen black lives matter take part in an insurrection where they were trying to stop the democratic process in a country that still oppresses them more than the p.b.s. and volatility of white supremacy that we saw in january 6th the fact that donald trump has even been considered for a nobel peace prize just goes to show you the differences in standards for black and white people in this country and quite frankly throughout the world. still had

a russia sees a 2nd consecutive weekend of anti-government protests and the security services claim they have evidence of foreign support for the opposition and more after the short break.

more than 4 years truck was called. by you gave to rush demands to continue with the new start arms agreement also. and so forth. welcome back several 1000 protesters were detained across russia on sunday during a 2nd weekend of an authorized rallies in support of jail the kremlin critic exit only this time there were fewer people on the streets with the highest attendance in moscow and st petersburg and the russian capital authorities had warned people

against gathering citing endemic restrictions officers used force where demonstrators resisted arrest meanwhile russia's federal security service has released footage purporting to show its secret meeting between one of them all these close associates and the british intelligence officer some time ago they have us to be claims britain is actively involved with the russian opposition providing them with my actual support and intelligence. details of a spy scandal involving a fake rock dating back to 2006 were also shared with the f.s.b. saying it is illustrates the scope and boldness of british interference in russian affairs. breaks down what's been revealed. is a dirty word but everyone does it it's a tricky business high risk high reward pull it off and you hit jackpot and no one ever finds out but when you measure it up it's a world of them barrus mint as was the case 15 years ago out of the blue

a senior british diplomat develops the oddest habit of during an inexplicable walks to the strangest of places at the same route have retired now alarm bells arms ringing yet but ross encountered halogens decide to keep an eye on these odd little habits christopher peart secretary archivist of the british embassy in moscow looking shifty as can be but then a 2nd british diplomat develops the same walking habits and during one of those walks one of the diplomats strays off the path kids are random rock and then keeps on going to alarm bells it turned out to be a wife a device used to communicate with a russian official turned traitor. well to pour me into 2 at the time it was a novel way to organize communication between the embassies and my 6 office and

agents in russia they refused to acknowledge the incident all the way up to 2012 when tony blair's former adviser officially confirmed the incident police by iraq was embarrassing they they mean they had just bang to rights clearly they've known about it for some time and been saving it up for a political purpose you'd think that british agents and potential recruits and russia would be a little more surreptitious going into the future but no the federal security service of russia has released footage showing mark do successor following in his clumsy footsteps james william thomas ford entering a restaurant in moscow former 2nd secretary for political affairs at the british embassy designated an underclass m i 6 agent married to elizabeth cohen berg designated swedish intelligence agent following him in is russian opposition figure

vladimir asuka of alexina valley's right hand man executive manager of the f b k foundation currently living in the u.k. surveillance of this meeting was conducted by russian counterintelligence keeping an eye and special agent forward. and. i. i. i'm. i'm. hint hint nudge nudge fundus into fower and will pay you back with billions hundreds the man

crusading against corruption the opposition even has a plan which is remarkably similar to what the accuse the government of doing from bombarding voters with propaganda to back to deals with elites and. i am. now i'm in. britain after rule has much to gain here a short of doesn't beat around the bush despite a suit of since mr ford doesn't commit to any direct financial support instead he points a shortcut to a work around work with transparency international which britain was already

financing just imagine a british politician meeting with russian secret service agents to beg for funding and dirt on rivals it would cause a national uproar aside from the ethical complications it would also undoubtedly be viewed as a security threat and that's exactly what it is in the eyes of the f.s.b. . the intelligence desk on my 6 whose main mission is to get the secret material on the economic and military potential of russia is actively engaged with the russian opposition supports terrorists n.g.o.s and provides them with financing aside from assisting your position with information and financing the british embassy is to write can vald to form an opposition organizations. and i'm on when i i will i'm looking at you

and the more i get as dia of. moscow. we've sent a request to mr ford asking him to comment on his possible involvement with m i 6 and water and we've also reached out to the u.k. foreign office and the british embassy in moscow for their comment i'll let you know if we hear back from them. now for some world news in brief myanmar's military says it's taking charge of the country for one year after declaring a state of emergency over alleged election fraud several leaders of the civilian government have been detained and clipping the country's leader aung san suu kyi the military alleges that the november elections in the country were fraudulent though that is yet to be proven is secretary general of the un has condemned the arrests. europe's most active volcano put on a spectacular light show on saturday night it's the latest in

a series of eruptions the site has been closed off and there are no reports of injuries that is of course a popular destination for hikers keen to catch a glimpse of the stunning lava flows. and the gone with the wind quite literally residents of russia's far eastern city of lot of a stark struggle to stay upright as they were battered by gusts of wind reaching up to 35 meters a 2nd round 60 people needed medical treatment for injuries they incurred. algeria has started a vaccination campaign against kobe in 1000 using sputnik v. about half a 1000000 doses are being supplied by russia and the north african nation also plans to produce the job itself as modern from our sister channel r.t. arabic went to the city where the 1st shots are being given. the algerian city of later has launched its vaccination campaign using russia's spot in the vaccine for

months now the city's hospitals have been infection hotspots but today we are witnessing the beginning of the elimination of this virus which started spreading across the country from here. we are proud of the health care workers from our province and through all of because we are at the frontline of the battle against the virus. so far we have vaccinated about 30 patients and none of them had any complications. health workers the elderly and chronically ill people have been given priority in vaccination it will take several months to vaccinate 80 percent of the country's population of 44000000 without their without the scientific commission has developed criteria to select a vaccine is the 1st safety as put in the 1st place among the vaccine studied by the commission. asked the algerian people they expect the vaccinations to be effective you only do the day has come when the state has brought a civic seen it wasn't unexpected we need it the government spends billions but

people don't want to get vaccinated people should understand it needs to be explained that this russian vaccine it was chosen by an algerian medical commission is a medical commission and we must trust it additional deliveries of the vaccine are expected to guarantee mass vaccination and meet the country's needs the status spends about $150000000.00 and this number could increase human health is priceless as those in charge say the bullet in order to flow is in the city may have wilted but they are not dead in the provinces of algeria there is renewed hope that the crisis will come to an end as the vaccine campaign kicks off and restrictions are lifted bringing with them economic recovery under return to normal life. that's a wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook for up to the minute reports.

world is driven by shaped by. the dares thinks. we dare to ask. secrets prisons are not usually what comes to mind when thinking about europe however he even the most prosperous can be deceived within this 0 zone there were 2 view houses were allowed to leave prison was located and only people had

access to the story for investigators sheer hell villian covered the darkest dealings of the secret services but i mean. the great of nor. for. crying for justice on r.t. . i'm afshin rattansi we're going underground for another lock down edition today on apple's day nicaragua which transformed inequality in the sandinista revolution meanwhile here in the u.k. which has been report. 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 of joining me now from new york city is sarah jaffe author of work will love you back how devotion to our jobs keeps us exploited exhausted and alone sarah an amazing book such a range do 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 or where we're people who are still going into work and

now you know your job it you know neighborhood grocery store comes up beside risk of getting a fatal disease i think it's clearer than ever that this idea that work is supposed to be for filling in 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 be me false false consciousness hormones well i don't necessarily diagnose anybody that's all 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 really missing by being in lockdown away from you know an office where.