it's the drugs regulated to fast track the evaluation of russia. that is europe continues to be plagued by vaccine shortages we speak to the head of an italian. with my whole family received sputnik the jobs back in november and now we have a high level of antibodies we know that russia has great scientific traditions so we have no doubts about taking the russian job. to come u.k. food banks are inundated with pleas for help there's a growing poverty crisis east most happen to choose between or we hear the story of one man who says he could have died. stormy somebody who lives alone. in the home for example guides. me if i could

name. and i'm missing founder jeff bezos steps time to concentrate he says on charity work but leaves behind accusations ignored the plight of his own employees during the pandemic. balls promises to disburse that they have a rule before and you don't you know that's just too much you could check the driver. hello there good afternoon just gone 2 o'clock here in moscow you watching r.t. international now germany has flown in a plane with military medics and hospital equipment to portugal it does come as the situation with the pandemic in the country continues to deteriorate when the german plane transported around 20 doctors and nurses along with ventilators and hospital

beds that is the portuguese health care system appears to be on the brink of collapse with hospitals across the country on the verge of being over. well md germany has called the aid a symbol of hope now with europe's mass vaccination program still plagued by shortages meanwhile its lee is the drugs regulator the fast track evaluation of russia's support make the jap 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 saying it would deliver fewer doses than expected 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 did estimate the efficacy of sputnik the was around 90 percent and

also showed it was safe for the elderly and had no serious side effects we heard from the president of an ngo lobbying for approval of sputnik the initially he's already had the jap himself. you know they know in november my whole family received sputnik the jobs back in november and now we have a high level of antibodies in my family and i trust science science has no borders we know that russia has great scientific traditions so we had no doubts about taking the russian job as of today many european countries including germany france italy would like to receive the russian vaccine numerous requests have already been sent these days it is particularly clear as we see pfizer has to seneca and other companies delaying vaccine supplies unfortunately the virus has no limits as well so these countries have been forced to opt for the russian vaccine whether they

want it or not in italy for example despite an unfolding governmental crisis news about sputnik the covers the front pages of virtually all the italian newspapers giorgio polo the chairman of the italian medicines agency which grants permission for the use of vaccines in italy praised sputnik v in one of his latest interviews . or drop or. the e.u. has been determined to participate in the handling of the pandemic the block has demonstrated it however unfortunately this political will has not been successfully put into practice furthermore there is an issue of vaccines they turned out to be a very expensive trading commodity he gave rise to huge competition germany signed a bilateral contract with pfizer for 300000000 doses it certainly 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 still don't know their

terms and why there are delays in the last few days supplies hit the gas though apparently they are trying to overcome these delays related to the deadline which have partly been caused by virus so in confusion. world leaders including the french president and the head of the european commission have published a joint article calling for a coordinated approach to fight 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 jabs a month after the block started its vaccination program bosnian has it given or kosovo and the republic of north macedonia are among the countries that is still waiting independent journalist liquidate believes the situation could have been handled better. it was very badly managed simply they didn't signed

a contract right contracts ready. you know dick they were completely wrong in every count oh now the 2 percent of the population as been vaccinated with 1st thought was europe is really showing that it doesn't function it's only last friday that he asked about seneca vaccine is only being accepted by europe on friday last week i mean you know presented 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 functioning the u.k. government has denied that disabled people have been quote treated badly during the pandemic it does come as questions are being raised over the lack of benefits granted to vulnerable groups there are over 2000000 people on legacy benefits in

the u.k. which includes housing an income support around 6000000 low income families are on universal credit entitling them to a weekly pandemic cash handbag but at the time they need it the most that help has not been extended to many with disabilities on legacy benefits like david allen who says he's felt abandoned after multiple sclerosis left him bedridden during the pandemic. sometimes we hear really bad news stories where somebody who lives alone has been found dead in the home for several days potentially that could have happened to me and nobody would have checked up on even if i did have a carer who would cut we could coming and how they would be allowed to unless it was formally recognize a social care as a result of the pandemic of the lockdown but really we've had to rely on giving out

food shopping delivered to us my shopping will normally comes to between $25.35 pounds per week but if you're shopping order is less than 40 pounds you get whacked with a 7 pound delivery charge that's not going to certain pounds i've not budgeted a burial mind no increase in my income i have to find it from someone so i have to give something else up in order to get my fill it in the end the reality is for decades people living with long term conditions the abbey lincoln racism benefits i should. have not kept pace with the rise in the cost of living. and that was even before the pandemic hits his and has been compounded even more now we have a 2 tier system so 100 people who get the universal credit have been given the additional support but those of us on legacy benefits have been

given nothing. well the majority of disabled people in the case say that they spent more than usual on shopping and utility bills nearly 70 percent of had to go without essential is while almost half of falling behind on their financial commitments they've allen told us through this heat he has had to sit in the dark just to save electricity an author says that some of the country's most fun rable have been left badly affected by the pandemic i'm 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 made it so that 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 in this to really people really really struggling to make him a hard decision nor do you have the heart the lights on do i have a me who don't have the heating the home country believe with some around 6 richest country in the world it's outrageous i'm sorry are i think our government should be ashamed of themselves. the world's richest man and founder of amazon jeff bezos says he is stepping down as c.e.o. to dedicate more time to charity work among other things but his departure also comes to you made accusations that he ignored the plight of his own workers during the pandemic which of powell has more. 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 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. able to be the 4th or 4th problems with these birds that you have it would be for you don't you just do it but you trust the virus is not enough to even . come up with the form it's about protection does well pete what the body. 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. or jeff bezos also says that he now wants to focus on his blue origin aerospace company while the u.s. space program used to be strictly in the hands of the government it's now basically been outsourced to him and also musk who runs space x. nice space x. has hopes that this prototype one day take people to mars although i recently did crash into a ball of flames during a test flight in texas. flip the vehicle vertical then transition to $111.00.

well it is the 2nd time in this many attempts that the rocket there has failed to touchdown r.t. americas rick sanchez and john hardy discuss the space race between the 2 tech giants. i think this is where we have to start because i read a lot about this yesterday after we watched this crash and 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 day and it was about me. and by the way the space launch commentator said we need to work on that landing afterwards and anyway on the side so to answer your question basically just kind of you know boil it all down space x. has asked the f.c.c. the federal communications commission to allow the company space x.

to basically lower the orbit of its star link satellite so space x. has been sending we've reported 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 kind of interfere with our satellites as praga as part of project kiper and the $3000.00 plus satellites that amazon is going to send in orbit you also yesterday the f.c.c. . u.s. government is keeping us from getting to mars he said yeah he also tweeted so when amazon 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 that 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 got to get a rocket up in space with 2 astronauts by the end of this year so it's not only you know must battling and you know over you know control of orbit for their satellites but also it's a space race to send not only astronauts as part of the public private partnership . and that space x. is involved in with nasa but sending civilians i can 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. you want you are still the company the sad state of west in this friday finds itself in a desperate position as wildfires threaten paypal in lockdown i'll have more on the story just off the break.

join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm sure business i'll see you. again with r.t. international now with media outlets and social networks increasingly being scrutinized over their content

a new study has challenged conservative claims that big tech companies censor their viewpoints on purpose research is new york university found that liberal and conservatives have been treated evenly by social media platforms as much as they condemn suppose social media favoritism conservatives appear to relish wielding the bias claim even though it's based on distortions and false words big tech companies have clamped down on conservative figures before most notably donald trump forcing many to choose parlor instead a controversial conservative platform that's been shut down over claims it was used to incite violence and there's also been a backlash against facebook with the social network giant accused of century movements like the anti democrat walkaway campaign last year i mean maher liberal cable news ratings in the u.s. have also been take tanking since joe biden took office as network struggled to

adjust to a new more reserved white house journalist and commentator chad whitmore says that liberal media outlets are facing an identity crisis. president jump was amazing ratings i mean they loved him and they made billions on president shop and 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 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 what coronavirus 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

laptop you see 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'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. now with taxing them and tripping surprising us president has his standing with the pandemic americas found on films like looks at how well joe biden is living up to these 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 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 in colorado as 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 oh shoot even 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 and. the us is on the brink of a nuclear war with russia and china at least that's the stop warning from there from american strategic command chief the 4 star admiral charles richmond. the u.s. military must shift its principal assumption from nuclear employments is not possible to nuclear employment is a very real possibility and act to meet and deter that reality on the former u.n.

weapons inspector scott ritter police the 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 to 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 well also be destroyed as we currently know it the united states identified russia and china as here 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 conventional big 3

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. and my mas minute for natives have blocked access to facebook in the country 50 sake of quite stability protests inside east asian nation have been taking place since the case on monday. despite a curfew people have been going to their windows and taking to the streets to to bang pots and pans in protest the country's former leader was detained by the military at the beginning of the month and the army has declared a year long state of emergency. now in other news this afternoon the state of western australia is currently facing

a double disaster raging bushfires there are threats being the homes of people currently under coronavirus lockdown state officials of urge people to prioritize their immediate safety over the risk of the virus. it's currently in the midst of an unprecedented situation where fighting disasters on 2 fronts the devastating bush wars. and the covert non-germane with endemic this is a situation which we have never seen before. ok some world news in brief now on the river rhine has burst its banks near the german

city of cologne following heavy rainfall a melting snow that shipping traffic in the area has also been stopped since the bridges on the river and i long to high enough to let vessels 3. 100 some pictures here from new york city because people are enjoying the weather i would say normally tranquil washington square park turned into a snowboarding battlefield hundreds of residents taking an hour after the city was hit by its biggest snowstorm in 5 years this point. and also mother nature put on a surprise phone party to beachgoers in argentina on wednesday at the brand bubbly mixture doesn't it to present does it is actually produced when organic matter dissolved in the city is then churned up by the waves but don't worry it is completely safe for us. and. some breaking news the same international.

view of the us before we get let's just bring you some breaking news here on r.t. because the british television watch talk of calm in. chinese broadcast company c g t n of its license it comes as a result an investigation concluded that the c c g t n c is controlled by the china media group which does not have editorial control over the channel that's news just coming in now we'll have more on the story the top of the next hour along with today's headlines. l. look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. i robot must obey the orders given by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the 1st law show your identification for should be very careful about official

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