when the news this hour you were a poll issues a warning about fake covert $900.00 tasa to for goods with several cases already identified in front on. board recount footage from new york shows offices come come think on pepper spraying a 9 year old raising more questions over police conduct. pulsar to joe biden criticizes the previous u.s. of ministration timing of the pandemic some say that the current president is far from fulfilling his great admirers promises. and russ's prosecuted general pushes for up to 3 in a hall for his jail time poll position to go on to say no need for

a legit parole violations that comes up to 2 consecutive weekends a protest in support of the crime and protect. rights not a this tuesday morning it's 10 am here in moscow you watch not international a very warm welcome to the program. to get us started you're a pole has issued a warning about the production and distribution of fake kopek $900.00 tests a difficult with many countries requiring a negative test to enter the agency believes that criminal groups are taking advantage of the situation several cases have already been identified in france and the u.k. let's go live now to our europe correspondent peter all about pizza the thing people most care about the most is traveling what does this mean then for people who are hoping for

a getaway any time soon. well it shows according to europol european policing agency that criminals a looking to exploit the pandemic where they can and one of the ways they can do this is by forging manufacturing fake covert tests that if it gets these typically it's pretty much necessary if you want to travel anywhere at the moment the latest one was a forgery ring that was operating out of the gaulle airport in france the have been similar cases in spain in the united kingdom and in the netherlands these certificates changing hands from anywhere to from 40 year 0 to a puts of $300.00 and ultimately what this would allow to happen is somebody who hasn't taken a covert test to get a test saying that they get a certificate saying that they had and that that tested come back negative now there would be no way to know whether that person had covert 19 or not they'd be

allowed to get on the airplane and would be able to spread that to anyone who would be in contact with them so a very serious thing that's taking place europol saying they're looking to clamp down on that now while that's going on there's also a huge issue around vaccines at the moment in the european union on monday there was a summit taking place here in berlin by say was taking place here in berlin a lot of it was virtual between angela merkel the leaders of the 16 states here in germany and representatives of the european commission and vaccine factures angle a merkel saying that although the movement of vaccines has been slow that there is a plan and that it will be stuck to. the message essentially being base will take time she did double down the german chancellor on the promise to offer a vaccine to everyone in germany by the end of the summer that still seems pretty

ambitious but the chancellor seems convinced following at that meeting that she held on monday night that it could be. chief while that's going on there are still huge recriminations the fallout 'd from the spot between the european union astra zeneca the vaccine manufacturer and the united kingdom kong to news basically the european union had been told that it would get less of the astra zeneca vaccine in a slower rate of time that had been expected. that the united kingdom would continue to receive the doses that it's been receiving angle of merkel very much casting herself as the good cop in this situation saying that things will play out that there is a plan and if we stick to the plan we'll get to where we need to be the bad cut the bad cop in this one. the french president he has certainly pulled no punches in the way he's spoken and address the united kingdom saying london meets the pickets friends. 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. really the takeaway from the summit on monday night is there is a plan but it won't be short work it was worthwhile noting that alongside the politicians there was also representatives of vaccine companies vaccine manufacturers johnson and johnson. and others as well we understand that by on take in 5 that will give some hard numbers by the end of this month on the number of doses of the vaccine that they'll be able to roll out across germany we're also expecting the russian sputnik the vaccine to well to hear whether that's been approved for use inside the european union or not at some point in february the

german health minister yen spahn had said that that russian job could well be a big part of germany the vaccine program once it gets approval for sutton it looks like 2021 is looking to be as riddled with issues as its predecessor that was to all of our reporting from the german capital many thanks. for staying in europe enough is enough apparently a number of french restaurants opened that doors on monday in defiance of the create a virus cobbs that had been in place since october although some measures have been eased since then cafes and restaurants are still not able to host diners next stop sonnet to reports. push a pair on and we'll see. since october this is been the extent of service available at restaurants and cafes in france takeaway only but as the meant served dragged on with no reopening dating site same owners have decided to welcome

customers inside defiance of the couvade 19 regulations. i'm doing this for. the french that is no longer respect i'm not able to work so i have no freedom and open he did soup talks when it came to the crunch he settled on a compromise. so we will serve food restaurant today i won't be able to reopen fully if i did i would lose my conversation follows us over and see my restaurant closed or go to prison his cool has spread across the country and all the restaurants have followed suit since now at the end of january 1 christophe will feel i'm pronouncing his establishment in nice to around 50 customers. yet. christoph wilson's protest was

short lived and the doors to poppies were once closed again but his lawyer is now taking his petition directly to president michel. i wrote an open email to say stop to self isolation. are cessation received as 810-0000 messages in 48 hours french people can no longer do this mr president here in paris true there have also been raids on so-called destroying restaurants now there were reports of this one behind me lenox over the weekend was uncovered with many others now amongst the clientele were legit. french magistrates with all being fined $135.00 euros but as you can see it's still in print now the owner wouldn't give an interview we're told me off camera that diners had only eaten undercover as it was raining and he also disputed that some were not just rates but support for believe

businesses has been growing on social media and many other restaurants and said that they too would be opening service for customers at the start of february however with very little support from unions and the warning from the government if you did and where does joe public fall in all of this do they want their favorite eateries to reopen or do they think it's better to keep the shutters down and those who don't find it normal that stories are ok and restaurants are not so many if we maintain social distance and respect the rules the risk for restaurants will do the same as for a stool and suddenly we don't have a choice i would like very much for them to open but i think for the safety of everyone we need to make some sacrifices to stop the virus and live normally. the world health organization has urged the u.k. to put the brakes on its vaccination campaign once vulnerable groups have received the job the aim they say is to help ensure if global rollout we're asking our

countries in those circumstances to do that hang on wait for those other groups will also appeal to all the people of the u.k. you can wait this comes as the u.k. looks set to reach its goal of faxon eating 15000000 people by mid february its neighbor the e.u. on the other hand is struggling to get its mass vaccination program off the ground we put this vaccine distribution issue up for debate with our panel of. 3 americans united kingdom has more doses than it needs for its population of roughly 7000000 and. one of the options that would be that whatever spare capacity it has got it shares it with more one rouble nations if a country bias 4 times the amounts of vaccines then it's a pure lation you know one has to ask questions why is there any chance do you

think of the u.k. agreeing to it on whole thing its vaccination program essentially to help other countries i doubt it very much because britain post rex it finds itself in a difficult position to take that magnanimous view of we are all in it together i find it difficult to understand quiet country would have so many vaccines you know ok if you're going to give 2 doses you obviously need double your population protest 4 times what you need is excessive and to writing in saying that no as a nation program and should be extended to different parts of the wall and that would not take. that the solution would be this stopping or decreasing the impetus on of the u.k. this nation program if we take the example where you are south africa it's got the highest infection rate on the continent but the vaccination program it's got off to

a slow start compared to the african union etc they have been able to accumulate cheaper jobs than johannesburg whose responsibility is it to fix this where they have a mix of 2 is the government. in getting prepared for ordering and buying the vaccines i know that south africa has just ordered 1500000 astra zeneca doses at twice the price this might be because they have orders very late the united kingdom the european union and the united states lend the technology to set up additional play. thanks to increase global capacity global manufacture to immunize people are across the globe by manufacturing more multinational switch and producing these presidents and their. agencies we started leading where there. is a proven and the proven then that what is going to be saved and then the government

research associate it with each of the international companies i mean almost all of these. instances i don't want to decide. to amount to be used and where it's going to be distributed if countries just focus on inoculating their own populations does that increase the danger of seeing new strains coming in from from elsewhere so in essence by not sharing their vaccines perhaps their production it's going to be worse for those countries in the long run it mutations and more mutations will occur that is the natural life cycle of any virus. we hope that the production of the vaccines using the same technology or the messenger r.n.a. that be able to take these high protein variants and make new a vaccines or we're going to see each and should.

call for for an increase in the protection of the device scenes in order to be distributed. in countries particularly in countries with. economies we have to work on this matter on a global patent rather than individually i know politically we have to look after our population but we need to bear in mind that this is a global thing and we need to work globally. shock and outrage and watch just in new york where police were filmed pepper spraying a 9 year old girl while she was handcuffed the office that had been called to respond to a domestic incident just want. some viewers may find the following footage to stopping. their. god daughter. well the incident took place last friday when police were responding to reports of

a family to stop and the girl was reportedly threatening to harm herself to be seen resisting the police as they tried putting her into the patrol car she could also be heard screaming for help 47 times before being pepper sprayed point of. the incident house talked of widespread outrage in the local community several officers have been suspended while an investigation is underway the mail to himself is also cool nor in force meant to undergo deescalation training social activist dave king says that despite the heavy handed response there isn't much hope of police reform . it seems as though these are not just the stakes but this is a culture that the way of the police to act within the police departments. they're still getting what we call the warrior training the idea that you need to basically attack citizens and the citizens need to comply with the police in every way noncompliance should not by itself be

a huge for excessive force like this but they are apparently used to being implied now and get enraged i mean these these police officers were just angry at this 9 year old for not doing exactly what she was told and that goes very terms of the function of the police troop maintain order and pull rather than issue and keep people speaks for there's a very deep culture involved with that but on the part of the government there is very little effort. to go and help to make changes the status quo in this country is working very very well for a lot of people that's particularly working well for the businesses in america and as long as that status for all of your future well it seems to be hesitant from rochester new york or where i live there seems to be

a hesitance to do anything to change. while still ahead on the program russian opposition figure out if they may face up to 3 and a hof 8 years in jail i've got a lot to crawl violation story and much more up this will break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only really. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk. what. the pandemic in the united states said while joe biden has criticized his predecessor is hardly of the pandemic some say be us president has yet to live up to his i want

a current if i was pledge as next up ati's caleb maupin looks at story. joe biden has announced that fighting against coded 19 will be one of his top priorities as pandemic failures were among biden's biggest criticisms of his predecessor the president has no play that he hasn't laid out anything he knew all the way back in february how serious this crisis was he said that we have to get back to work. and also deal with proving you can't get this country going again unless you get called under control crews are united states today to surprise or for covert 90 this is not a matter of politics it's a grace a reminder to all of us we're going to take this virus seriously joe biden says that he has a plan and it's over 200 pages long however lengthen eloquence of a document do not guarantee success biden has just started and already there are

20000000 vaccine doses missing this mystery if you want to call it that has hampered the ability of the new administration to vaccinate people at full speed it's been a week and the biden team is still searching for those missing doses meanwhile some of the communities that have been the hardest hit by the pandemic are facing big problems as they get vaccinated and los angeles crowds of anti the axiom protesters block the entrance to dodge stadium preventing people from getting the jab that the nation operations were shut down for over an hour unbelievable if you don't want the vaccine fine but there are millions of angelenos the do 16000 of your neighbors have died so get out of the way protesters are not the only issue new york city is now in a state of emergency due to a snowstorm as a result of vaccinations have paused there as well that the nation efforts in oregon were also hindered by weather conditions transportation issues made it

impossible for certain people. to get their doses their 2nd doses on time as a result doctors just started handing out doses to whoever was available now the vaccines are quite fragile and if there's any problem with refrigeration it could possibly result in ruining the entire batch now in seattle we saw doctors rushing to vaccinate people as quickly as possible after the refrigerator broke when that happened there was an immediate response to that we've got to get this 1600 doses. into people's arms in the next 12 hours let's make that happen and we made that happen but 3 15 am in the morning polls show that roughly half of americans are willing to get vaccinated despite the chaos however among the sections of the population that are already skeptical big concerns are rising a lack of trust and an unwillingness to get vaccinated is a big barrier toward biden's goal of reaching

a swift recovery for the nation and at this point it doesn't look like the planning is going very well biden doesn't seem to have a clear plan but the white house team continues citing his good intentions nobody had a complete picture the plans that were being made were being made we do some shit and the more you for me soon would be available and be revealed once they got into the white house the american boxing legend mike tyson said that everyone's got a plan until they get punched in the mouth and at this point it looks pretty clear that the united states was rather unprepared for the swift right hook delivered by the coded 19 pandemic and now as the clock is ticking and lives are being lost there's a lot of chaos and confusion surrounding the widely desired jab caleb oppen r.t. new york. with donald trump now out of office some comedians are struggling to find fresh material for that sketch as well the former president is

a frequent source of jokes it seems the new administration is off limits to much of pop picks up the story. how do you make fun of a sitting presidents well in 2021 if you're say a comedian or a circle sketch show that is known for making fun of everything and everyone well then the answer is simple very carefully or maybe not at all when we had the orangemen trashing in 247 was practically a necessity it was speaking truth to power and blah blah blah blah blah but now that joe biden is in office things are very different saturday night live is looking for a fresh face to do their weekly portrayals of the presidents they had jim carrey doing it throughout the election but now that joe biden has ascended to sainthood well they need to tone it down a notch i want to release a man. i never felt so alive which is ironic because i'm not down to lie.

i mean they can just mock him sure that's what they did with trump for the past 4 years but that was different from head small hands he was orange he tweeted a lot said mean things could be moved thank you thank you for coming to watch my victory speech to emerge. as anyone who does have way through tuesday knows i was reelected president of the united states. with joe joe's a good guy joe here is very mean chris wallace is mean the economy is me be keep using job which is me jimmy. the china virus has been very mean to be by being a hoax and come on it's just not polite to make fun of how people look how they talk and joe doesn't even tweet the guy is a saint so no no mocking of joe biden everything he says and does is gospel and besides people today are already having a hard time telling the difference between reality and satire so making fun of st

joe would only send mixed signals to an already confused audience. finally a moscow court is set to hear a request from russia's a prosecutor general to jail opposition eat out of cena vong for up to 3 and a half years that's over alleged parole violations follows 2 weekends of protests against the country in support of the kremlin critic well let's go live now to t.c. forced on all things action is the moscow cold weather herring will be taking place . on the ground tell us what's the situation like outside there now. well sask you're right in less than an hour's time a court hearing will begin in the building right behind me basically this whole area here surrounding the court has been cordoned off by the police and the only special forces and members of the media him now essentially indeed the prosecution

here will be demanding that a suspended sentence for alexina volley should be swapped for a real one over an embezzlement case essentially they're saying that he has violated the conditions of his parole the conditions of his probation period i should rather say repeatedly over the past year and of all these defenses of course saying that this case is politically motivated so we're expecting election of ali is not in the cool and we along with other members of the press are expecting his arrival any minute now because the hearing is set to begin in about 30 minutes now this whole look case and alexina volleys detention has this. massive protests all across russia where tens of thousands of people showed up during the fos 2 consecutive weekends and thousands of people were detained by the police. to meet with.

god before you begin to. now this whole thing it stems or goes all the way back to 2014 back then the lexan of ali was found guilty of embezzlement and he was convicted and received a 3 and a half years or suspended sentence with a 5 year probation period and this probation period expired last december and that is what the prosecution says alexina volley violated repeatedly basically was supposed to to give the authorities to let the authorities know the location as these whereabouts and he didn't say this is what they're saying now this is these protests and this whole case it drew huge attention from international media world all over the world have a look at all took to the streets for a 2nd straight weekend to show their support for jailed kremlin critic alexina

thousands of protesters took to the streets across russia just a few 100 meters maybe from the president who are alexei novell they is being held and this is where thousands of his supporters have marched to as you can see that crackdown just seems to be continuing here by the authorities and that standoff between election of only and the authorities as well protests making a difference well gail they are making a difference because they're getting under president putin's skin as we understand it. so you can hear that it's almost like president putin himself ordered the jailing of the opposition figure but the prosecution is saying that well the law is the law and it's the same for everybody so we'll have to see whether or not the courts and the judge will side with the prosecution or will give the defense some leeway and give the defense a chance well certainly will be coming back to you throughout the day as not all on ruffles many thanks that was on a reporter from moscow. well that's ok when you've got to take we have to.

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