we choose to look for common ground. in the day's headlines a few between the e.u. and a british vaccine maker and of the finest with france and germany proposing and all these astra zeneca gives new referential treatment. unrest breaks out yet again and friends are a security bill giving extra powers to police officers themselves say violent troublemakers are avoiding prosecution. and a norwegian a politician who calls for black lives matter to be given the nobel peace prize for

its fight against racial inequality with the proposal for debate. you have a movement where people whether they represent the movement or not or just black businesses 25 people were killed last summer. just around the world not just in the united states this is a most wanted and deserved the war. welcome to the program this is art international bring your live news update this hour. countries across europe are tightening their lock downs amid a relentless surge in chronic virus case numbers and the discovery of new mutations but measures are being met with strong public resistance in several states. indiana around 5000 people took to the streets defying

a ban on public gatherings is currently in its 3rd nationwide shutdown the march was organized by the right wing freedom party of austria which is described to me this rules as scandalous and as you can see people largely ignored social distancing and avoided wearing masks hundreds of riot police were deployed for the event and arrests were made here. in denmark a group known as men in black held a torchlight rally on sunday night were chance for freedom for denmark and we've had enough the group invited people from all over the country to join in the march in the city of our house. and finally in brussels hundreds of people are massed at locations across the city and in protest organizers on social media say more than 400 people were detained last week the belgian government banned all non-essential cross border travel that's in addition to nightly curfews and the closures of bars and restaurants belgium has suffered one of the highest rates in the world since the start of the pandemic case numbers have declined sharply since the latest

groups were introduced. meanwhile the e.u. and u.k. have clashed over back scene supply germany has threatened astra zeneca with legal action over vaccine delays saying the company should face penalties if it is 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's still well short

of the 102120 1000000 at the e.u. was promised back in august of last year but a slip 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 popping 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 micron is weighted 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 no 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 while the job of savaging that the european union and particularly the e.u. commission president on the line over this whole mess has fallen to the british press received 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 trust in international collaboration so what i've seen nationalism we will all pay the price in terms of a protracted we only brawl on the plunder me more vaccine talk set for monday is there's a summit taking place 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 we'd like it to be the

news coming in is that there will be an extra 75000000 doses of the pfizer by 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. so there it . was. critics of the draft law say it will limit the right to free assembly and restrict press freedom dozens of rallies were held across france but there were 30000 people taking part according to the interior minister until the 35 arrests were made over the weekend tensions also spilled out onto the streets and not with 4 officers were

injured in the clashes police in the city claimed radical behavior from riders as were to were going and. we heard from a representative of a french police union on what the sheriff has me 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 is from people threaten and tear 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 prefects of gatherings which are in issue legitimate government policy has been relatively opaque on the issue of rioters since at the beginning of the yellow vests 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 at the nearest police station to prove they're not at the protest this dossier has never seen the light of day. one of our colleagues who works in the sense and the need to parliament a police commander was found dead at his home. 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 have ministration 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. the black lives matter movement dominated much of the headlines and 2020 following the police killing of george floyd at the group's protests weren't always peaceful. cut. cut. cut cut. cut. despite all that the movement has been nominated for the nobel peace prize the proposal which was put forward by a norwegian a lawmaker has been met with

a mixed reaction online. they've been able to mobilize people from all groups of society not just african-americans not just oppress people it has been a broad movement in a way which has been different from their predecessors awarding the peace prize to black lives mass and 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 it's also important to note that according to a report tracking political violence in the united states 93 percent of the black lives matter protests last summer were peaceful way discuss the nomination with

conservative commentator jeff charles and political activists at the rogers walk 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 lives matter 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 the proto 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 defending the police and having fewer police officers is going to disproportionately affect black people so to me saying 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 a 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 are 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 has russia sees a 2nd consecutive weekend of anti-government protests as the security services claim they have evidence of foreign support for the opposition that story and more

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when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. you're watching r t international welcome back to the program several 1000 protesters were detained across russia on sunday during a 2nd weekend of unauthorized rallies in support of jailed kremlin critic alex in the bali this time there were fewer people on the streets with the highest attendance in moscow and st petersburg and the russian capital of georgia has had warned people against gatherings citing the pandemic officers used force where demonstrators resisted arrest meanwhile russia's federal security service has

released footage purporting to show a secret meeting between one of them on these closest associates i mean british intelligence officers some time ago a ski claims britain is actively involved with the russian opposition providing them with my interest 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 illustrates the scope and boldness of british interference in russian affairs. breaks down what was revealed. espionage 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 mess 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 doing inexplicable walks

through the strangest of places at the same route every time now alarm bells aren't ringing yet but ross encountered halogens decide to keep an eye on this odd little habit 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 a 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 pull 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 instant all the way up to 2012

when tony blair's former adviser officially confirmed the incident police by iraq was embarrassing they they mean that it's bang to rights clearly they've known about it for some time and been saving it up for political purposes 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 and declared 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 since 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. britain after rule has much to gain here a short of doesn't beat around the bush despite a suit of hints 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 various n.g.o.s and provides them with financing aside from assisting your position with information and financing the british embassy has direct involvement from an opposition organizations. and i'm only when i am i will i'm we're going to. i more add gas deal of. moscow. we have sent

a request to mr ford asking him to comment on his possible involvement with m i 6 and lot of. and we've also reached out to the u.k. foreign office and the british embassy in moscow for their comment to let you know if we hear back from them. and other world news the military of myanmar has seized power and declared a state of emergency soldiers have arrested the country's leader and sends to key and other senior politicians the military alleges that the november election was fraudulent but has so far provided no proof of that western powers have condemned what they call an unlawful coup while china has urged both sides to resolve their differences. europe's most active volcano put on a spectacular light show on saturday night its latest in a series of eruptions the site has been closed off and there are no reports of injuries. and gone with the wind quite literally residents

of russia's far eastern city of lot of us stock struggled to stay upright as they were battered by gusts reaching up to 35 meters a 2nd around 60 people needed medical treatment for injuries they sustained. algeria has started a vaccination campaign against coburn 19 using sputnik v. about half of a 1000000 of doses are being supplied by russia and the north african nation also plans to produce the job itself as my going from our sister channel our to arabic went to the city where the 1st shots are being given. the algerian city of toledo has launched its vaccination campaign using the vaccine for months now the city's hospitals have been in fiction hot spots but today we're 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 ga

area 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 there without their without the scientific commission has developed criteria to select vaccines the 1st is safety as putting 1st place among the vaccine studied by the commission for 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 that additional deliveries of the vaccine are

expected to guarantee mass vaccination and meet the country's needs the state is spent about 150000000 dollars 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. and other 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 an economic recovery under returning to normal life. has been a global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always had our website r.t. dot com for the details on all of those stories and many more. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest in the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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hello and welcome to cross talk for all things considered i'm peter lavelle for more than 4 years trump was called putin's puppet yet biting cave to russia's demands to continue with a new start arms agreement also go is a lesson the volley and why is he so unimportant.

to discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest george samueli in budapest he's an author of you tube or at the gavel and here in moscow we have dmitri biopics he's a political analyst and editor at you know just me internet media project telling hospitals in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciated what it was going to georgia in budapest but as i said in my introduction george you know during all of the rage of russia gate the fake hoax that the public had to go through during the entire trumpet ministre sion that the trunk was too cozy with putin though when the new start agreement the last remaining major arms control agreement between the russian the united states his administration had very strong demands claim that russia was cheating without showing any proof and then we go in the 2nd week of the by the ministration and apparently the american position is completely collapsed i explained that go ahead well there's no question.