as europe continues to be plagued by covert vaccine shortages that italy urges the e.u. drugs regulator to fall to try track the evaluation of russia's big b. job where from the head of italian n.g.o.s lobbying for the russian job. evan would really not you know remember when his family received sputnik the jobs back in november and now we have a high level of honesty bodies of the we know that russia has a rich scientific tradition so we have no doubts about taking the russian job the. u.k. food banks are inundated with pleas for help but as a growing poverty crisis these the most vulnerable having to choose between 18 paul keating our guest shows what he and many others are going through sometimes we hear

on the radio right it's normal for somebody who lives a long time been found dead in the home for several dollars cringely part could have happened to me and would have checked top of. the amazon founder jeff bezos steps down as chief executive to focus on more the anthropic pursuit for his decision has raised some eyebrows given the history of strikes at andersen over working conditions. to. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me. now with europe's massive vaccination program still plagued by job shortages italy is now urging the e.u. drugs regulator to fast track the evaluation of russia's 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 mcgurn or think it would deliver fewer doses the next decade in february and the italian government has already said it would take legal action against both pfizer and astra zeneca over covert vaccine delays well earlier one of the world's most prominent medical journals the lancet published a study which estimated the efficacy of sputnik be at 90 percent while at the same time showing it was safe for the elderly and had no serious side effect we heard from antonio falco the president of an ngo lobbying for approval of sputnik v. and italy has also had the job himself. my whole family received sputnik the jobs back in november and now we have a high level of bodies up in my family and i trusted science and science has no

borders we know that russia has great scientific traditions so we had no doubts about taking the russians as of today you know many european countries including germany france italy would like to receive the russian vaccine requests have already been sent these days it is particularly clear as we see pfizer. and other companies delaying vaccine supply fortunately the virus has knowledge of these world so these countries have been forced to opt for the russian vaccine whether they want to or not in italy for example despite unfolding governmental crisis news about the covers the front pages of virtually all the papers. to the chairman of medicines agency which grants our mission for the use of vaccines and it's priests but nick v. in one of his latest interviews. the e.u. has been determined to participate in the humbling of the 100 m.

it will block has demonstrated it however unfortunately this political will has not been successfully put into practice really remember the war there is an issue of vaccines it turned out to be a very expensive option if you want to see the give rise to huge competition germany signed a bilateral contract with visor for 300000000 doses it certainly did not go down well with other e.u. countries or the deals which that made with very suppliers are still being kept secret we still don't know their terms and why there are delays in the last few days supply gas though apparently they are trying to overcome these delays related to the deadline which have partly been caused by virus so confusion. while the leaders including the french president arms the european commission had to have published a joint article 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 e.u. is closest neighbors are yet to receive any jobs and bosnia and herzegovina kosovo on the republic of north macedonia are among the countries that are still empty handed more than a month after the european union started to specs a nation campaign independent journalist liquidate believes the situation it could have been handled better. it was very badly managed simply that they didn't signed a contract right contracts that you're not dictator we're completely wrong even if read count. now about 2 percent of the european population as being vaccinated with the 1st thought was europe is really showing that it doesn't function it's only last friday that he asked about seneca vaccine it's only been accepted by europe

tried it last week i mean you look at it the e m a the european medicines agency accepted it for those $65.00 plus but then some countries don't accept it cannot work like that if there is an ok european level there is an ok so it's it's not actually. going out to the u.k. where a widening poverty crisis is seen food banks flooded with pleas for help while unemployed and disabled people say the government handouts are no longer enough to make ends meet david alan a multiple sclerosis sufferer left to bedridden during the pandemic told as he felt abandoned in the crisis sometimes we hear a really bad news story somebody who lives alone has been found dead in the home for several days potentially by could have happened to me and nobody would have checked up on even if i did have a carer who would cut me could come in and how we would be allowed to unless it was

formally recognize a social game as a result of the lock down the room we've had to rely on giving our food shopping delivered to us my shopping bill normally comes to between $25.35 pounds a week if you're shopping mordor is less than 40 get right with the somehow deliberate . i've not budgeted who will burn a mind numbing increase in my income. i have to find it from someone so i have to give something else up in order to get my flu to the the reality is for decades people living with long term conditions the only link creases benefits nations and. have not kept pace with the rise in the cost of living. and that living before the pandemic his means and has been compounded even more now we have

a 2 tier system so $11.00 people who get the universal credit big give be additional support but those of us with legacy benefits have been given nothing. the majority of disabled people in the u.k. say they've spent more than usual on shopping and utility bills with nearly 70 percent revealing they've had to go without essential sent almost half falling behind on their financial commitments i guess david alan says he's had to sit in the dark just to save electricity he told us how some of the country's most vulnerable have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic i've left feeling abandoned and forgotten about. and it seems quite convenient for the government to forget people like us and what i find really hard to understand is the mixed messages that we get from government that have been statements about it's cheaper to look after

a people with long term conditions in their own home rather than putting them into care but we don't get support to the small we actually need 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 him a hard decision nor do you have the heart the lights on do or have a mayor who don't have the heating the home country believe we're somewhere around the 5th 6th richest country in the world it's outrageous i'm sorry i think our government should be ashamed of themselves. the world's richest person amazon founder jeff bezos that 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 i firmly work meaningful

and fun and i get to work with the smartest most talented most ingenious teammates 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. will you. be the principles promises with the words that you have a release for him did he tell you that's it's too late but you trust the virus is not enough to give you. a relief for this about protections as well pete wasn't providing facts for yeah ok maybe not all amazon workers but c'mon 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. among other things that jeff bezos says he wants to focus on his blue origin aerospace company well the u.s. space program used to be strictly in the hands of the government is now basically being outsourced to base also a long musk space x. with the musk the eye is firmly set on getting a big piece of the pie but he still has some way to go fast office space x. is a prototype crashed in a ball of flames after its latest test flight in texas and it's the 2nd time in as

many attempts that the rocket has failed to touchdown america's rick sanchez and john hyundai discuss the space race between the 2 giants. this is where 'd we have to start because i read a lot 'd about this yesterday after we watched this. what is in a lot of mosques beef with the u.s. government 1st of all i love that graphic i mean i could watch it all there. by the way the space launch commentators said we need to work on that afterwards and anyway on the side so to answer your question basically just kind of you know boil it all down space has asked the f.c.c. federal communications commission to allow the company space x. to basically lower the orbit of its starlink satellite so space x. has been sending a report about all these satellites into orbit as part of its newly broadband you

know world internet broadband service it's called the starling constellation so space x. wants to lower the orbit of those satellites but then amazon objected no that's going to interfere with our satellites as prodder as part of project kiper and the $3000.00 plus satellites that amazon is going to send in orbit. the. u.s. government is keeping us from getting to mars he said he also tweeted so way and. zhan raised this objection he said he fired off a tweet he said this does not serve the public to hamstring starling today for an amazon satellite system that is at best several years away from operation so it's a battle of the billionaires over their claim to space basically a right to orbit and meanwhile we're looking at pictures like this i understand. he's going to get a rocket up in space with 2 astronauts by the end of this year so it's not only you

know bays and must battling and you know over you know control of orbit for their satellites but also it's the space race to send not only astronauts as part of the public private partnership that space x. is involved in with nasa but sending civilians can you imagine that i would like to go up well you know i'm going to say yes but they've already said keep in mind they have already sent the dragon rocket remember with the 2 astronauts the nasa astronaut last year that we reported about so they're already working in that partnership the origin you know bay's osis blue origin i want to develop a partnership and work with nasa as well as part of this again public private cooperation you know in the space race so this is i mean you could say in a little i guess it's kind of foreshadowing of the space race to come between billionaires battling and jostling for position in orbit. coming up after the break the state of western australia find this out between a rock and

a hard place that's and wildfires threatened people down that's coming up. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. new york times says the wall street was one of the last bastions of power to be overrun by the populist weapon because of the high barriers to entry yes and that's right those barriers to entry have been eliminated because of free online trading because of all the stimulus checks that made a lot of people lots of free cash to have available to do something like this there's some apparently $65000000000.00 in the forecast of the biggest headline in

the world that which is right and wall street so they've got a lot. and energy and expertise to go after targets out there that they perceived to have stolen their money in 2008. welcome back with the vaccine demand far outstripping supply us president joe biden has his work cut out with the ailing with a pandemic all the america's foreign friends 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 then this supply and what about supply will get better it's probably not going to get much better for another month or 2 or more the clock is. sticking 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 to $10000.00 range that will be going directly to pharmacies in colorado 50 pharmacies in 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 but one of the most central elements in dealing with this crisis is to bring the infection down to create mobility both within society and also traveling in and out of the country. where the media outlets on social networks increasingly being scrutinized over their content and they study has challenged conservative claims that big tech companies intentionally sense of a viewpoint where such as a new york university have found that liberal and conservatives have been treated

similarly by social media topples. 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 it's been shut down over claims that we used to incite violence and there's also been a backlash against facebook with the social network giant accused of censoring movements like the anti democrat walkaway campaign last year. meanwhile liberal cable news ratings in the u.s. have also been tanking since joe biden took office as networks struggle to adjust to a new i want to move reserved white house some of this town's commentates a chance but most liberal media outlets are facing an identity crisis president job

was amazing ratings i mean they loved him and they made billions on president shop then the day you now see it 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 fear mongering about the man they had people say 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's 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 qualifiers anyway so they could start you again we've seen this also we've seen the mainstream media actually starting to. talk about hunter bides locked up we've seen them sort of lies as if this is new news

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've got to have they're going to figure out something and they're going to in order to save themselves because they don't have their gold mine donald trump anymore. the u.s. is on the brink of a nuclear war with russia and china that's the stock warning from full stop admiral charles richard america's strategic command chief the u.s. military must shift its principle assumption from nuclear employments is not possible to nuclear employment is a very real possibility and act to meet and ditto that reality from the u.n. weapons inspector scott west had been he was the admiral's warnings on a dangerous. 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

a 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 world will also be destroyed as we currently know it the united states identified russia and china as sheer 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 'd 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 is county facing a disaster a double blow as raging bushfires threaten the homes of people currently on the cover and a virus locked down state officials have people to prioritise that mediate safety of the virus risk. western australia is currently in the midst of an unprecedented situation where fighting disasters on 2 fronts the devastating bush farms have a saying before. now for world news updates strangely a isn't the only country battling the elements the river rhine has burst its banks

near the german city of cologne following heavy rainfall and melting snow shipping traffic in the area has been stopped as the bridges on the river are no longer high enough times that vessels are. hostile people are punished to make the most of the weather though new york city stories normally tranquil washington square park turned into something more closely resembling a battlefield as residents flocked to the area to have a snowball fight the city was hit by its biggest snowstorm in 5 years this week. and continually with our theme of natural phenomena mother nature put on a surprise phone party for beachgoers in argentina on wednesday the strange foam is produced when organic matter dissolved in the sea is churned up by the waves but don't worry it's completely safe the basis. of more videos and stories from all around the globe check out our brand new telegram chalo r.t. visual but also 1st month from now for now but see you again at the top of the hour

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