diplomacy is back. on his 1st foreign policy speech president the same time he. take a. couple of. drugs regulator to. europe continues to be plagued by vaccine shortage as we speak to the head. and you . have

a high level of antibodies we know that bush has great scientific decisions so we have no doubts about taking the bush. to the world this is our chief international your company this hour my names you know the. u.s. president joe biden delivered his 1st big foreign policy speech since taking office diplomacy is not was the tagline used throughout the address. biden intends to make it work in practice. it was his 1st speech on foreign policy u.s. president joe biden speaking at the u.s. state department his message was america is back diplomacy is back however from there he went into some rather hostile sounding rhetoric regarding russia i made it

clear to president putin in a manner very different from my predecessor that the days of the united states rolling over in the face of russia's aggressive actions interfering with our elections cyberattacks poisoned citizens are over we will not hesitate to raise the cost on russia and defend our vital interest on our people all those examples given of so-called aggression lack concrete evidence whether it comes to supposed election interference or a cyber attacks or poisoning there are widespread concerns about the accuracy of these claims joe biden did not acknowledge any of that and repeated these allegations as if they are the undisputed truth now it's also important to note that joe biden spoke about the conflict taking place in yemen he said the united states would end this ongoing war raso stepping up our diplomacy did and the war in yemen a war which is creating

a humanitarian is to teach the catastrophe this war has to end. and to underscore our commitment we are in need all american support for offensive operations in the war in yemen including relevant arms sales while the damage is already done u.s. weapons contractors have made billions of dollars supplying the kingdom of saudi arabia with weapons and the united states has offered support to the kingdom of saudi arabia with pentagon advisors and others now in yemen the situation is that this point being described by the u.n. as one of the worst manmade humanitarian crises there is widespread malnutrition in the country civilians have been targeted so at this point it's not exactly clear how joe biden and his administration intend to end the conflict though 'd these are significant words coming from the u.s. president now by the also used his remarks to say that the united states would step up in the fight against climate change and that he wants to repair u.s.

relations with nato countries and longtime allies that is what we heard from joe biden in his 1st foreign policy speech as president meanwhile the u.s. will to hold to its planned withdrawal of 12 fellows and troops from germany while the pentagon docks a review of the trump era plans the news came just ahead of joe biden's foreign policy speech getting our global force posture right making sure that our global force posture is consistent with our national security and diplomatic priorities secretary austin will lead a global force posture review and during the pendency of that review will freeze any troop redeployments from germany it was donald trump who ordered the removal of american troops in germany he accused berlin fellow nato member of making a fortune off u.s. soldiers and also of not contributing enough to the alliance the plants were slum by germany which described it as weakening europe's security infrastructure.

meanwhile this week military officials and months the arrival of more than $200.00 u.s. earth force personnel in norway the 1st ever deployment to the country will also include been expected to be warm blunt's or squadron with says reportedly to assist bomber training flights in the region i spoke to brian becker from the. coalition who believes u.s. militarization is only a benefit to corporations who profit from conflict. the u.s. unlike earlier empires that had colonies all over the world united states has military bases and installations as a way to guarantee american power the extension of american power in all of these countries and so the quid pro quo with the nato allies that resuscitate it both elyse in defeated and risk there is at the end of world war 2 was that they would agree that their countries would be occupied supplemented basically under the

control of the united states and the quid pro quo was the united states would grant them access to different parts of the world market so for the elites in europe it was fine but what's the point what's the point of american troops in germany in a big new areas of military competition between the united states and russia or the united states and china or both is the arctic and of course the ultimate high ground outer space again the american people don't gain anything from this militarization it's very good for corporations it's good for big business but it's a drain on the national treasury at a time when millions of americans don't have jobs millions have lost their health care why spend money deploying troops elsewhere occupying the arctic or planning to end outer space this is crazy. moving the program will not china's flagship news channel has being taken off for in the u.k. c g t

n has had its license revoked by media regulator ofcom over concerns the company was ultimately controlled by the chinese communist party the network express that disappointment the decision in an official statement shall be edward stuffs to can't tell us more. well city t.n. has found itself in deep trouble and its future is incredibly unclear as china's state owned broadcaster has had its license revoked by the british regulator the media watchdog of com it all follows an investigation by the founder of the license used by china global television network had been wrongfully held and therefore doesn't meet the legal requirements here in britain now essentially the company that owns the u.k. license for c t n which is start china media ltd doesn't have day to day control over the channel essentially it doesn't oversee any of the output of the channel again that is totally against the rules now released a statement shortly after the move and said that the company that owns the license

didn't have this editorial responsibility we are unable to approve the application to transfer the license to the china global television network corporation because it's ultimately controlled by the chinese communist party which is not permitted under u.k. broadcasting law we provide a c.d.n. with numerous opportunities to come into compliance but this is not done so we now consider it appropriate to withdraw the license for c.d.t and to broadcast in the u.k. so while this all may read as a technicality the regulated does explain that any company needs to have that editorial control and it cannot be controlled by a political body the revocation though isn't necessarily political in essence but it does read it as such in the technicalities but looking deeper into all of what this means city and is a division from china central television which is controlled by the chinese communist party obviously that is a political body and obviously that is why the company and the channel is now therefore disqualified by and it's not as simple as sipek transferring the license

on to a suitable body because again of found the crucial information was missing from the initial application so therefore that wasn't an option on the table for c. to either of them though did accept that the start. china media ltd was found to be the distributor but not the producer and that none of studio key stakeholders all senior editorial personnel were found to be employed by the company either so as a result the poor costa will essentially likely face separate sanctions on this matter there is interesting timing in all of this many people would look to the international relations between the united kingdom and china you only have to look at last year to see the numerous mip mishaps from wall way to the hong kong protests and uprisings there so the move is likely to meet with some sort of retaliation and will certainly stoke the tensions between the 2 countries and superpowers once again but just finally there's also a key question here about the freedom of press in the united kingdom as well and

what could happen to other media outlets not to mention the jobs which will go as well guests we've spoken to see politics played a part in the decision of ing it's a move in the wrong direction. these are pretty cold these young and in many of. the news uses will be a huge impact on. people now in china we can't hear the news from b.b.c. from c.n.n. but. it's very very difficult to hear the voice. that's why many people us and do not understand and that china it's a very it's. you should. it's isolation regulation. what is many channels as we can possibly have can have a view of different countries from different perspectives that sort of what

a democratic. looks like that's why i'm worried about and and how it operates and the pressures that. the u.k. is no longer an independent nation as before it has to come to the pressure of the united states in fact there are also many broadcasters in the u.k. with very strong inference from us and it is and they were not prosecuted in is becoming so interesting that the afraid of it it is very important to hear different voices does the essence of free speech beyond just a pro causing license is. a 3rd coronavirus wave led to almost 5000 deaths in portugal last month and with the western nations health care system a breaking point germany has now sent a plane with military medics and hospital equipment to help the aircraft transported around 20 doctors nurses along with ventilators and hospital beds

german medical staff will spend 3 weeks treating critically ill patients in the country's capital list bomb before being joined by another team. with europe's vaccination program still plagued by job shortages it's really is no originally e used drugs regulator to fire struck the evaluation of russia's public. 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 mad durness saying it will deliver fewer doses than expected in february the italian government has already said it's blowing to take legal action against both pfizer and astra zeneca overcovered 19 vaccine delays. well earlier one of the world's most prominent medical journals the

lancet published a study which said sputnik meat was 91.6 percent effective are was also safe for the elderly with no serious side effects we heard from the president of an italian ngo which is urging the e.u. to approve the russian child. in november my whole family received sputnik the jobs back in november and now we have a high level of antibodies 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 george will pull through 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. 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 to give rise to huge competition germany signed a bilateral contracts 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 confusion in the 1st ballot shove russia spinning 3 covert vaccine has arrived in palestine that delivery will be enough to an ocular 85000 people a local health minister said frontline medical staff the elderly and people with chronic conditions will be given priority palestine was among the 1st states in the middle east to approve the use of the sputnik feature a statewide inoculation program got underway there and choose the following the delivery of the scene from israel. with the world's richest man jeff bays are stepping down as amazon c.e.o. promising to dedicate his time to charity we look at the mixed reaction the move has generated particularly from his workers who struggled during the pandemic as the retail giant saw a record profits that after the break. ruling

class is released real much but when it comes to china it is agreed the u.s. needs to somehow get tough with beijing which is a really neat engaging china well trying to contain it is that even possible combined ministration will eventually have to answer this question. i might. show somebody in the accident where a car goes through a field sign at the intersection. suggest to the witness said they saw a stop sign stead of the sign. in these experiments many will adopt the suggestion we call it misinformation and claim it as their

own memory. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see if. 17 minutes into the program welcome back the u.k. government tells me an accused of neglecting vulnerable groups by not giving them adequate assistance during the demick benefits for many disabled people in the u.k. of not increased in line with payments for other types of wealth for david allen is one such person who's been left out of pocket he says he felt abandoned after multiple sclerosis led to him being bedridden sometimes we hear rudy by new storms 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 me even if i did have a carer he would cut we could come in and help we wouldn't be allowed to unless it was formally recognize a social care as a result of the pandemic of the lock down the we've had to rely on of giving our food shopping delivered to us my shopping bill normally comes to between 25 and 35 pounds per week if you're shopping mordor is less than 40 pounds you get whacked with the somehow delivery charge certain pounds i've not budgeted and bearing 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 flu delivered the reality is for decades people living with long term conditions the only link reeses the benefits i

should. have not kept pace with a rise in the cost of living. and that was even before the pandemic his fans 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. the majority of disabled people in the u.k. say they've spent more than usual shopping and utility bills sharing the pandemic nearly 70 percent of going without essential cell and almost half are falling back into their financial commitments david told us he's even south in the dark to save electricity and believes it's the most vulnerable groups who have been hit hardest by the politics i've left feeling abandoned and forgotten and now. and it seems quite convenient for the government to forget people like us and want to find

really hard to understand is the mix messages that we get from government that have been statements about it's cheaper to look after people with long term conditions in their own home rather than putting them into care but we don't get in support to the small we actually need to remain around homes there are those people that really struggle he has been documented people have taken their own lives as a result of this too many people have been left behind there's too many people really really struggling to make him a hard decision nor do you have the how are the lights on do i have a me who do i have the heating the home country i 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. springing you across the channel to

france from their crowds gathered in paris on thursday as part of a nationwide strike against government economic policies the protesters are demanding changes to a stimulus plan which they say will impact wages and working conditions are to charlotte reports from the rally. through all the protests in paris. the protests as you can hear they're very noisy bar manager need to get a sense of what's going on these are the workers in the. graveyard but the situation here volatile just a little bit away from clapped out around 3 to 4000 to have come out in france in paris indeed this is one of around 70 or 80 protests of the taking place across the country many people are unhappy continuously about issues over wages were working conditions in france but particularly there is this new context also of issues surrounding the health situation here in france with many of the unions who for

cooled for today's protest saying that they're unhappy about the fact that they don't think enough is being done to prevent the situation like it was above you didn't have enough medical equipment didn't have enough mosques when the start of the pandemic hits now they demanding that the government does something in feature to ensure that things like that see products medical products are made him fronts in the future and the fronts doesn't have to rely on other nations now this is a nationwide strike and this is one of many protests that we've seen in the last few weeks people fed up with the conditions the sun she conditions in france they still feel that we may go down into a good look down that's nor inevitable according to the government but many people just say they are suffering and they call and take any more we've spoken to a restaurant in recent weeks or speaking to students we've spoken to teachers say that they are feeling impacted by what's going on we also spoke to health workers

who say that just not enough is being done to help them cope with the situation they're saying that you know they badly paid so this is sort of what seems to be like a multitude of issues coming together not swine the c.d.c. one of france's biggest unions in all the unions. have come today to cool for this nation why did they have strikes there is a huge police presence here in paris but for the moment things haven't been very as you can see though it does seem like people want to make a noise and the point is to make the government had once again that there is not enough help now the government would say there's a solidarity fund people who impost cafes restaurants and all of the business is have been able to access the funds but they were supposed to this track to the restroom to start to open up and to find some of the current health regulations that was due to happen this week but many of them decided to do that they have opened up they doing it in secret and that's because the government's us threatened

that any restaurant that was cool would not be able to access the solidarity fund for one month and if the 2nd time they would be denied access that so much of the funds at school as you can see 7 gathering here in paris this is one of many protests around the country is it takes part in a nation of strikes. the world's richest most funder of jeff bezos sings he's stepping down as c.e.o. to dedicate more time to doing among other things chara to work but his departure also comes amid accusations he ignored the plight of his own workers during the pond like your symmetry pokes to. 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.

amazon me the principals probably says it is birds that they haven't released or did you don't you pay taxes to it much you trust the virus is not enough to give you. a relief or it is about protections as well pete wasn't providing thanks 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 e 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

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max kaiser this is the kaiser report max and stacey i've been talking about the global insurrection against banker occupation now for more than 15 years it's coming to a head. right the new york times doesn't use giago the global insurrection against banker occupation what they use instead is the revolt of the public how they're looking at the whole situation we've seen with wall street bets taking on reviving on practically dead company called game stop and using that zombie to against the zombie if a kid at the zombified the people who's on the fight they conned me the hedge funds

the private equity and stuff like that so let's look at this have buy the game stop reckoning was a long time coming this week gleeful online hordes turned the stock market upside down this shouldn't come as a surprise while watching the game stop drama i've been reflecting on what the author martin gurrey calls the revolt of the public mr gurrey writes that the internet has empowered ordinary citizens by giving them new information and tools which they then use to discover the flaws in the systems and institutions that govern their lives once they discovered these shortcomings he writes these citizens often rebel tearing down elites and dominant institutions out of anger and haven't been light to and withheld from we've been ahead of this curve we invented karma bank which was a way to you short selves to complete the re establish the balance of the powerful and those who were being powerfully exploited and we invented crash j.p.

morgan by silver right here on this show back in.