diplomacy is back that's the claim of joe biden in his 1st foreign policy speech as u.s. president at the same time he vows a tougher line towards russia. china its flagship english news channel is banned in the u.k. concerns. the e.u. drugs regulator to fast track its assessment of russia's sport. as europe continues to be plagued by vaccine shortages we hear from the head of an italian. my whole family received sputnik the jobs back in november and now we have a high level of antibodies we know that bush has great scientific traditions so we have no doubts about taking the job.

live from moscow thanks for joining us tonight here in r.t. international. welcome to the program. u.s. president joe biden has the liver his 1st big foreign policy speech since taking office diplomacy is back towards the tagline used throughout the address breaks down how biden intends to make that 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 commitment we are in need all american support for offensive operations in the war in yemen including relevant arm sales while the damage is already done us 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. is 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 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 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 for most senior u.s. security policy analyst michael maloof believes statements about russia are aimed

to the ripley at his own polity. he needs an adversary and as caleb quoted that he didn't really names suffix he's just one of the act tough and that's actually point is democrat base they are very very anti russian these are no entities to moscow and they know how to deal with them and i think they're not surprised that as far as russia moscow is concerned there is nothing more to sanction probably where biden will stay will stay when it comes to russia initially are these international agreements and not get into any. close close association with moscow or now unless over time we see a change in attitudes toward countries but that may be because of people who will be guiding him who are much more in the russian within his administration now meanwhile the u.s. will also hold its planned withdrawal of 12000 troops from germany while the

pentagon conducts a review of the trump iraq 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 while this was it was not a trump of course he ordered the removal of american troops from germany he accused in fellow nato member of mosque ing full of making a fortune rather off u.s. soldiers and also of not contributing enough to the airlines the plans were slammed by germany which said they weakened europe's security meanwhile this week military officials announced the arrival of more than 200 us air force personnel in norway the 1st ever deployment to the country will also include of b. one bomber squadron which is reportedly to assist training flights in the region

brian becker from the antiwar aunts of coalition believes us when a transition only benefits big corporations. 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. china's flagship english news channel has been kicked off air in the u.k. so u.t.m. has had its loss in its revoked by media regulator off qualm i have a concerns the company was ultimately controlled by the chinese communist party the network expressed that this appointment the decision that had was that state has the details. 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 all of them released a statement shortly after the move and said that the company that owns the license didn't have this editorial responsibility we are only able to approve the application to transfer the license to the china global television network corporation because it's alternately 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 there for 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 either of them though did accept at the start. china media ltd was found to be the distributor but not the producer and that none of c.d.t and key stakeholders all senior editorial personnel were found to be employed by the company either so as a result the broadcaster 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 we heard from analysts who believe politics lay at the heart of the decision. this is a pretty call these young and in many facets of police of news use is will be a huge impact on the image of. people now in china we can't hear the news from b.b.c. from c.n.n. but you know you actually see it and it's very very difficult to hear the voice and

so it's a it's a it's a that's a why many people us and do not understand and. china it's a very it's right i think we should. it is isolation of media regulation generally so we are more than what she is many channels as we can possibly have and have a proper view of you know different cultures from different perspectives that's short of what a democratic. media landscape looks like that's why or why worry about and and how it operates and the pressures that are put on what the new key is no longer as 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 c.t.m. is becoming so in through sure that the britons are afraid of it it is very important to hear different voices this is the essence of free speech is beyond just a pro causing license is

a foreign affair issues. more than 5000 deaths in portugal last month have been put down to a 3rd wave of the coronavirus and with the country's health system at breaking point germany has sent military medics and hospital equipment to help around 20 doctors and nurses along with ventilators and hospital beds have been flown in by the german medics will spend 3 weeks treating critically ill patients in the capital lisbon before reinforcements are sent. but with europe's mass vaccination program still plagued by shortages italy is now urging a used drugs regulator to fast track the assessment of russia's support nick of a vaccine. 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 where the situation in the country has been exacerbated by my dentist saying it would

deliver fewer doses than expected in february the italian government has already said its plan to take legal action against both pfizer and astra zeneca of a vaccine delays or the loss of medical journal this week published data showing sputnik view was more than 90 percent effective and was also safe for the elderly we heard from the president of an italian enzio which is urging the e.u. to approve the russian job. when we go in there 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 and fortunately 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 paul who 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 narrow bridge 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 very 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 sown confusion. the 1st batch of russia sporting week over vaccine has arrived in palestine the livery will be enough to inoculate 5000 people the local health minister said frontline medical staff the elderly and people with chronic conditions will be given priority i thought and was among the 1st states in the middle east to approve the use of the sport in the job a statewide inoculation program got underway there on tuesday following with the livery of them a den of vaccine from israel. still to come. on the world's richest man jeff bezos announces he's stepping down to concentrate on charity his own workers raise eyebrows after complaints of feeling abandoned during

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ruling classes rarely agree on much but when it comes to china it is agreed the u.s. needs to sell no get tough with beijing which isn't really me engaging china while trying to contain it isn't even possible combined ministration will eventually have to answer this question. or come back to the program the u.k. government has been accused of neglecting vulnerable groups by not giving them enough to help during the pandemic benefits for many of the same people in the u.k. haven't increased in line with other welfare payments david alan 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 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 me even if i did have a carer he would cut we could come in and how they would be allowed to unless it was formally recognize a social care as a result of the pandemic of the lockdown that we're in we've had to rely on of giving off shopping delivered to us my shopping bill normally comes to between $25.35 pounds per week if you're shopping mordor is less than 40 pounds you get whacked with the somehow delivery charge so that certain pounds i've not budgeted who and bearing in mind of another increase in my income i have to find it from somewhere so i have to give something else up in order to get my family to live and 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 his sins 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. but the majority of disabled people in the u.k. say they spent more than usual on shopping and utility bills during the pandemic nearly 70 percent of gone without essential zone almost half of falling behind on financial commitments david told us he's even sat in the dark to save electricity and believes it's the most vulnerable groups have been hit hardest by the pandemic i've left feeling abandoned 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 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 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 on for a 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.

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 so that they will scale has this report. through all the protests in paris. the protests as you can hear they're very noisy behind minutes when you get a sense of what's going on these are the workers the power to get back out here about the situation here volatile just a little bit away from the class that 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 the wage over 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've called for today's protests 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 all made him fronts in the future and the france 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 to some she conditions in france they still fear that we may go down into a good look down that's no i never to pull according to the government but many people just say they are suffering and they call and take anymore we've spoken to 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 and the page so this is sort of what seems to be like a multitude of issues coming together not swallowing the c g t one of france's biggest unions and all the unions. i've come today to cool for this nation why did they have strikes here is a huge police presence here in paris but for the moment things haven't been very cold as you can see though it does seem like people want to make a noise and the point is to make the government good once again that there is not enough help now the government would say there's a solidarity fund to people who impost cafes restaurants and. businesses 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 not to do that would be have opened up they doing it in secret and that's because the government 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 that's who are as you can see the loads 7 gathering here in paris this is one of many protests around the country is it takes part in a nation which strikes. world's richest man and from the revivals and jeff bezos says he's stepping down a c.e.o. to dedicate more time to charity work among other things but if the policy comes amid accusations he ignored the plight of his own workers during a pandemic is. 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 they're 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 bezos 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 principal's promises with his words that they haven't released or did he tell you that's it's doing much you trust the virus is not enough to even call for a relief or is this about protections as well pete was it providing that 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 for business and morale and i'm sure his dedication to philanthropy another

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welcome to the alex salmond show from scotland where we've come once again to the issue which has dominated the last year the covert pandemic united kingdom is well ahead of the pack in the vaccination stakes but now has there was a death toll per 1000000 of any major country in the world was even than the united states of america today we turn to vaccination has the cavalry finally arrived to cope with whatever the virus construal tests we speak to profess a look at meal of trinity college dublin to assess the battle between the vaccine and the virus then we had give you professor sun honey buns president of the b.m.a. and former chief medical officer for scotland to tell us why public health measures are still vital to control the pandemic. all that coming up later in the show but 1st your tweets emails and messages and a big reaction to show on the the life of client side of jimmy reed and what's

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