expertise to go after targets out there that they perceived to have stolen their money to down to me. as europe continues to struggle with covidien vaccine shortages italy urges the e.u. drugs regulator to fast track the evaluation of rushes that sputnik the job. u.k. food banks are inundated with pleas for help as a growing poverty crisis sees the most vulnerable having to choose between eating or heating our gas shares some of the die levers vulnerable people are facing. just too many people behind this. really really strong thank you mark hard to see as you go and do you have a life do what you have with me and do what i believe. after 27 years on as unfounded jeff bezos steps down as chief executive to follow more

philanthropic pursuits. a very warm welcome and a very good morning to you rick 8 am here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me thank you aaron. now with europe's massive vaccination program still plagued by job shortages italy is now urging the e.u. regulator to fast track the evaluation of russia's the sputnik the job. we must not be afraid of the origins of vaccines what's important for us is the transition to the european medicines agency we have urged the e.u. to scientifically evaluate the russian vaccine and those from other countries the situation in the country has been exacerbated by modernity think it would deliver fewer doses the next spectate in february and the italian government tells already said it would take legal action against both by is that and the astra zeneca

a covert about delays. well earlier one of the world's most prominent medical journals the lancet published a study which estimated the efficacy of sputnik the 90 percent well at the same time showing it was safe for the elderly with no serious side effects we heard from antonio follow the president of an association is working to facilitate the approval of sputnik 3 and italy. my family and i trust science science has no borders we know that russia has great scientific traditions so we have no doubts about taking the russian job as of today many. fronts it's early work to receive the russian vaccine have been numerous requests and have already been sent these days it is particularly clear as we see pfizer astra zeneca and other companies banks in supplies and unfortunately the virus has no limits as

a bone of these countries have been forced to offer the russian vaccine whether they want it or not in italy for example or despite an unfolding governmental crisis news about covers the front pages of virtually all the italian newspapers you know george will be the chairman of the italian medicines agency which grants permission for the use of vaccines in italy. and one of his latest interview next. no no no you has been determined to participate in the handling of the planet and the blood has demonstrated however unfortunately this political will has not been successfully put into practice some really really furthermore there is an issue of acting as if they turned out to be a very expensive trade in commodity it gave rise to huge competition germany signed a bilateral contract with pfizer for 300000000 doses certain i did not go down well with other e.u. countries the deals which the e.u. made with various suppliers are still being kept secret we do not know the terms

and point there are delays in the last few days suppliers hit the gas though apparently they're trying to overcome these delays are related to the deadline which have partly been caused by a virus on confusion. elsewhere in europe and another blow to the astra zeneca vaccine that the swiss medical regulator has rejected it saying that is insufficient trial data for its approval it comes off to france and a number of other e.u. states have recommended not giving the job to the elderly current data does not allow the level of efficacy that this vaccine provides in people over $65.00 to be assessed ha yes now recommends only using it for people under $65.00 to that such a vaccine will be offered according to each group starting from the most exposed so all the people visit but we won't give this astra zeneca vaccine to prevent over $65.00. well i may have put some countries that odds with the e.u. struggle regulator which recently approved the vaccine for all adults but since

health minister however defended the job saying that phase 3 trials showed it was up to 82 percent effective after the 2nd dose. my view is that we should listen to the scientists and the science on this one was already pretty clear then with this publication overnight is absolutely crystal clear that the oxford vaccine not only works but works well. well france is one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic in europe with covert cases recently hitting the 3000000 mark and given the ongoing shortages in the e.u. imperial college london geneticists fully pro quo will believe the country has little choice but to use the astra zeneca job in my region and also fronts there is no explanation at all we have no option that. the nation with us was in it but in addition of that we have only received

a small number of facts in from of mr president who are literally trapped in we don't know exactly what do. we say we want to back the. orders and 70. 5. is what we do if we don't tax in it or people in france we see. it's really an issue where. meanwhile world leaders including the french president times the european commission had published a joint also cold calling for a coordinated approach to fighting the pandemic. the pandemic calls for a strong coordinated international response that rapidly expands access to tests treatments and vaccines recognizing extensive immunization as a global public good that must be available and affordable for all however some of the closest neighbors are yet to receive any jobs bosnia and herzegovina kosovo on

the republic of north macedonia are among the countries still empty handed that's more than a month after the european union started its vaccination campaign. my colleague andrew farmer discussed that article with independent journalist luke rivette a he believes e.u. leaders need to thought out their own house before talking up international solidarity the thing is that one use you hear my. own french channels or a fan of lame saying and speaking about it i mean this is ridiculous they're not the ones to talk they should get to work in facts innate 1st their own population then they can talk about the other internationally this is incredibly bad management on the side of the e.u. i think even the subsidised press you know the good press is salient now about mr micawber tom de lay and others. very badly managed simply. signed

a contract write contracts. you know they were completely wrong in every count now about 2 percent of the european population as being vaccinated with 1st those so it's it's not functionally the sort of the defense that we're hearing though because look safety 1st we want to make sure that these vaccines are safe before we approve them including sputnik. no it was contracts 1st they wanted to get a rebate and that's what they said in the press that 2nd or week the great argument was stand together we could obtain a better price the problem is that the loss incurred every day lost is so high that it was best to do like the straightest debate the high price 40 percent more to get it in time and to vaccinate as they do is they did 55 percent of the population yet . across the pond in the us where the vaccine demand also far outstripping

supply us president joe biden has has his work cut out with dealing with the pandemic nati america's foreign funk that looks at how well biden is living up to his campaign promises. these cars aren't driving into the texas motor speedway for the next nascar race rather it's to get a covert 19 vaccine a goal give roughly 10000 vaccines per day if you want to lots of people vaccinated you make it 1st person 1st come 1st serve if you want to reach the people who need it most need to be more targeted and to reach out to different communities and that's the problem state by state there's a different agenda but no matter the agenda there's still not enough currently the demand for vaccines is enormously higher than this supply and while that supply will get better it's probably not going to get much better for another month or 2

or more the clock is ticking with the c.d.c. projecting almost 550000 deaths by the end of february and more variants of covert 19 if people don't get vaccinated we're trying to calculate the numbers but probably somewhere in the $5.00 to $10000.00 range that will be going directly to pharmacies in colorado 50 pharmacies colorado is among the many states that will start feb 11th giving out covert vaccines at local pharmacies the biden administration saying the program will ship directly to them but health experts don't think the vaccines will get there for weeks countries like mexico see the problems in the u.s. and have turned to russia for its sputnik v. vaccine along with other countries in europe while the us is still far behind countries like israel china and even bahrain denmark is already in the next phase joining with businesses to create a digital passport to show you've been vaccinated and our city that one of the most essential elements in dealing with this crisis is to bring the election down to

create move biller through some of the whole place within the society and also traveling in and out of the county area. now so u.k. well widening poverty crisis has seen food banks flooded with place for help while unemployed and disabled people say the government handouts are no longer enough to make ends meet we spoke with david allen and m.s. sufferer who says the social care system buckling under the weight of the pandemic sometimes we hear rudy buy new storms while somebody who lives alone has been found dead in the home for several days. potentially but it could have happened to me and nobody would have checked up on me even if i didn't have a carer who would put the could come in and help they wouldn't be allowed to unless it was formally recognizes social care as a result of the lockdown that were with her to rely on giving aftershock been

delivered to us my shopping bill normally comes to between $25.35 pounds per week if you're shortly mordor is less than 40 pounds you get whacked with a somehow delivery charge so goes 7 pounds i have not budgeted will bear in mind i have no increase in my income i have to find it from somewhere so i have to give something else up in order to get my food to the reality is for decades people member of long term condition the only link greece is in benefits i should. have not kept pace with the rise in the cost of living. and that living before the pandemic his means and has been camp compounded even more now we have a 2 tier system so $11.00 people who get the universal credit be given the additional support but those of us on legacy benefits have been given

. many disabled people in the u.k. phil they have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic with the majority saying they spent more than usual on shopping and utility bills nearly 70 percent have revealed they've had to go without extensions including food medicine and heating on many are also falling behind on their financial commitments charities and food banks across the u.k. have reported a significant increase in the number of people and families they've had to help and diverge the government to extend its pandemic cash relief program for low income households beyond march when it's due to end david allen again. i've left feeling abandoned and forgotten about and it seems quite convenient for our government to forget people like us and what i find really hard to understand is the mixed messages that we get from the government that have been statements about it's

cheaper to look after a people with long term conditions in their own home run into care but we're not getting support to the small we actually need to have to remain around homes there are those people that really struggle has been documented people have taken their own lives as a result of this too many people have been left behind and there's too many people really really struggling to make it hard decision nor do you have the hot lights on do i have a me who don't have the heating on country i believe some around but with 6 richest country in the world it's outrageous i'm sorry i think our government should be ashamed of themselves. and knew it more contagious strain of covert 1st detected in the u.k. is not giving scientists more grounds for concern they fear any further mutations

could make it resistance to the current fact scenes scientists have identified a new strain in both the british and south african very at the u.k. mutation is believed to be far more infections infectious than the original one the start of the pandemic is led to tight a lock down restrictions and many countries banning travel to britain however clinical overall it just julian tang still believes the vaccines will offer some protection against the new strains. in the front of this trial of mutations the floor for the for one survivor one has risen in brazil and south africa and now seems to be arising in the u.k. suggest that those past nutritions may be an adult and that productive response by the virus to the human population and if this for us very well be seen elsewhere as a new traditions but as you know that there's a lot sequencing. of it's positive samples soon we have to pick them up earlier so we know that when the vaccines. are manufactured and distributed there's always

a chance that the virus will mutate once that process is ongoing and eventually that's what we see now with this new tree variants the vaccines are not completely useless they will still have some effect on the virus. while typed usually very versus the 44 k.t. variant to some extent although we know that differential came actually just a fixie by maybe 40 to 50 percent but it's still better than nothing so i was still early people to get the vaccine as it's rolled out. the world's richest person amazon founder jeff bezos said on tuesday he would be stepping down as the company's chief executive after 27 years and a letter to amazon employees he said he would remain involved with amazon but dedicate more time to charity work dimitri puck picks up the story. everyone likes convenience but in this weird time where the pandemic the stores are all closed and

nothing is as convenient as amazon we all use it but let's face it it's becoming harder and harder to ignore the teensy fact that there really a giant soulless monopoly and who better to represent that monopoly and everything that is wrong with having too much money and power then amazon c.e.o. jeff bezos well apparently he has seen the error of his ways and decided to change basis is officially stepping down as amazon c.e.o. so focuses attention on nobler causes like philanthropy spaceflight journalism and given his track record these ventures are bound to be a huge success i mean the guy is full of life and optimism a firm a work meaningful and fun i get to work with the smartest most talented most ingenious teaming when times have been good you've been humble when times have been tough you've been strong and supportive and we've made each of the left. it is

a joy to work on this team and look how happy amazon workers are. me the parts are false promises with birds that they haven't released or you don't you know it's just too much you trust the virus is not enough to give you. a relief for this about protections as well pete wasn't providing. yeah ok maybe not all amazon workers but come on it's understandable why a basis is stepping down i mean just imagine how tired he must be from all these workers strikes protests congressional grillings and throughout the years there's been a lot of very ungrateful amazon workers give us p p stop treating us like robots

give us bathroom breaks shut up and work right either way basis should be stepping away from all this negativity it's bad for business and morale and i'm sure his dedication to full length should be another virtuous ventures will produce a much better monopoly next time well among other things jeff bezos says he wants to focus on his it blue origin aerospace company well space used to be strictly a government domain in the u.s. is now basically being outsourced to bay's all sounds space x. with musk saying that he wants a bigger piece of the pie r.c. america's john hardy has more. 2 on. it started off well enough the starship s. and 9 an early prototype for rocket space x. carry the 1st human mars one day seemed to be on track for its high altitude test flight it climbed to about 6 and a half miles before then turning and rotating and then falling back down to earth

crash landing in a fiery and dramatic end space explain the problem on a rocket engine malfunction the f.a.a. says it will investigate the crash and has ordered space x. to halt operations at its testing facilities in south texas while regrettable the mishap is unlikely though to have a major impact on space x.'s partnership with nasa when space x. joins forces with nasa it changed the lunar landscape proving that public private space partnerships are not only possible but viable with space x. sending the 1st 2 astronauts aboard the dragon rocket to the international space station last year elon musk announced recently also that he plans to send the 1st civilians to space by the end of the year at amazon's blue origin and virgin galactic into this cosmic business blender and you have a nice hot space to a healthy competition and on that note the space race is heating up between jeff bezos and ilan musk squabbling with the federal communications commission and each

other for that matter over their company's respective satellites. yes in theory behind me here to allow space x. to lower its darling satellites in orbit a modification that amazon has objected to thang that would interfere with amazon's planned project hyper and amazon's more than 3000 fattah light perhaps a foreshadowing of the fight to come with billionaires bustling over space in a showdown that will be written in the stars. with media outlets on social networks increasingly scrutinized if they come. intent a new study has challenged conservative claims that big tech companies intentionally sense that their viewpoints will search as a new york university or found that liberal and conservatives have been similarly engaged in 31 media platforms as much as they condemn suppose social

media's favoritism conservatives appear to relish wielding the bias claim even though it's based on distortions and false words now big tech companies have clamped down on conservative figures before most notably donald trump forcing many to choose parlor instead a controversial conservative platform this being shut down over claims it was helping inside and violence initiatives such as an anti democrats walk away campaign were also previously banned by facebook. meanwhile liberal cable news ratings in the u.s. have also been tanking since joe biden took office as network struggle to adjust to a new and more conservative more reserved white house journalist and commentator charged with more say as liberal media outlets are facing an identity crisis. president jones was amazing ratings i mean they loved him and they made billions on president sharp then the day you're down to running i mean he they could not look away from him and he and they had to keep up all of their ridiculous conspiracy

theories they had to keep their mongering about the man they had every possible lie they could you know here's the 2nd coming of hitler or you know whatever the hell they are saying and so the ratings are tanking because joe biden is boring and nobody cares anymore what's going to happen is obviously these corrupt nasty mainstream news outlets are going to have to come up with something else nobody cares like rotavirus anymore so they're going to need to go after joe biden which they happily well they probably all want present mahler's anyway so they could start you know we've seen this also we've seen the mainstream media actually starting to. talk about hunter bides laptop you see them sort of lies as if this is a new story we see them being played a little seed about president biden another thing you know they could get a war they would love to have a war that would be good for ratings the thing is they're going to have we're going to go out something and they're going to in order to save themselves because they

don't have their gold mine donald trump anymore. let me stocks nuclei arms reduction treaty between russia and the u.s. it's been officially extended to 5 moliere has praised the deal as a step in the right direction i'm on constant for poles the treaty is considered to be the only remaining arms control agreement between the world's sue great to see you care power is not important so this extension is the paramount of the already received praise both in moscow and in washington how the agreement itself was implemented back in its 111 and it's called the new strategic arms reduction treaty or the new start if you want to keep it short now the agreement itself it limits the number of nuclear. warheads and their delivery methods as well that's both the u.s. and russia are allowed to have now the extension went into effect this wednesday

and it will last for 5 years until february 5th 2026 not russian foreign ministry according to them the treaty was signed without any amendments and called it a cornerstone of international security with a new storage extension of this quarter mechanism for maintaining strategic stability is preserved on a strictly reciprocal basis limiting the 2 country's nuclear arsenals considering the special responsibilities the trosch and the us carry as the world's largest nuclear nations the decision guarantees and necessary level of predictability and transparency in this area while strictly maintaining a balance of interests who live near putin signed a bill extending the agreement just last week following talks with his united states counterparts joe biden now the new start treaty was indeed at risk of expiring after former u.s. president donald trump refused to extended without making amendments that were

unacceptable to moscow now u.s. state secretary anthony blinken described this signing as the 1st step toward restoring u.s. leadership on arms control and nonproliferation and he also said that the treaty will make the u.s. its allies and the whole world safer. but the us is on the brink of a nuclear war with russia and china that's the stock warning from 4 stockman charles richard america's strategic command chief the us military must shift its principle assumption from nuclear employment is not possible to nuclear employment is a very real possibility and act to meet and deter that reality. former u.n. weapons inspector scott ritter of unease the admiral's warnings are a dangerous move if the united states dare uses nuclear weapons against russian forces or on russian soil the russians will have no choice but to respond this is

what makes the admiral's statements about preparing for nuclear war so dangerous because there is no way of containing it if there is a nuclear war between the united states and russia it will be a general nuclear war which means not only will both nations be a male it but the world will also be destroyed as we currently know it the united states identified russia and china as clear adversaries requiring the build up of conventional military power to adequately contain the threat they pose both in europe in terms of the russians and in the pacific in terms of the chinese as things currently stand the united states does not have the conventional military force necessary to successfully engage with the guarantee of 'd conventional victory either russia or china which means that should there be a conflict nuclear weapons would probably have to be employed on the part of the united states it will take some time but you know we have ventured to get through

the cold war and i'm hopeful we will eventually get through this. the state of western australia a company facing a disaster as raging past fires threaten the homes of people currently on the coronavirus lockdown state officials have urged people to prioritize the immediate safety of the virus risk. what's going to strike you is currently in the midst of an on president situation where fighting disasters on 2 fronts the devastating bush laws. and the covert non-doing pandemic this is a situation blocks of which we have never seen before. many

thanks for joining us this morning on r.t. international we're back at the top of the hour with all the latest wealthy. by the pandemic no certainly no borders i'm just glad to nationalities. as americans we don't have a charity we don't look like seeing the whole world needs to be. judging us coming every crisis sleaze system to times we can do better we should be. everyone is contributing each in our own way but we also

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