on the front. of most of the bikes of the future truck. headlines an hour to international policy chief joseph goodell holds talks with russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov in moscow. also this joe biden claims diplomacy is back in his 1st foreign policy speech but he didn't sound too diplomatic when it came to russia and also to come a twist in the harry dunn case is a court case that the u.s. woman who killed the british teenager was working for an intelligence agency at the time of the incident.

good afternoon watching out international just on 2 o'clock in the russian capital now the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and the foreign policy chief but i'll have just finished giving a wide ranging press conference in moscow so let's go now to correspond. in moscow who is covering the event for us just to get free some of the key points. just run through then it was a lengthy press conference wasn't and a lot was said but what were the key elements andrew good afternoon well 1st of all like to point out that this is the 1st visit to moscow of europe's top diplomat and this is definitely a sign that during these 3 years relations work cold to say the least but the press conference did begin on a positive note because the senior diplomats of russia and the european union began by talking how much it is at this point needed to build trust to start

renewed dialogues and at one point even. said that if the relations between moscow and brussels get even worse that could lead to a disaster with unpredictable consequences. field as a union is the biggest trade partner of the russian federation entrepreneurs you are it made for him and for the russian economy at least one of the main. indicators by little chart or no for our deal. the dynamic response if and i think that our relations specially our mutual dependence and are just sekret speaking of the positive dynamic i can tell you that the 1st part of the press conference and deed led to some kind of optimism

when it comes to ties between europe and russia the warmth continued for a while and at one point burrell welcomed russia's sputnik v. vaccine praised it and expressed hope that the european medicines agency could give the green light to the vaccine in europe asap. i am very happy to have them but it was done in the medium scientific report all because you know. it's not actually his illness and if you think it is the lancet it's a principle sort of interest the russians are actually doing and now i am hoping that since we in sydney had the election simply wouldn't be able to certify it deficiencies to fix any of the other political solutions which is that is that all that's at the station. well this was the point when the warmth ended so to say because clearly we could understand that at some point the press

conference was going to come to difficult issues and they're right in fact one point like i was saying the head diplomacy decided to bring up the issue of kremlin critic alexina vali and he joined the chorus of european leaders and politicians in criticizing russia for his arrest and also called on the immediate release of the opposition activist. my visit. with the rest of the sentencing of a taxi. and rest of us i was with him. as you can respect they have conveyed to me used to love rough i want deep concern and great debated i will appeal to release on to launch an investigation of. sergei lavrov as

a response to that echoed the words that he has been saying for quite a long while he blamed brussels for being even arrogant that is the word the russian top diplomat used he called europe's approach in this particular case unacceptable because with the like seen a volley according to russia's own business and the business of russia's law enforcement agencies as well as the court and it's up to the court to decide what to do with them and when it comes to the arrogance and the unacceptable behavior by european politicians sergey lavrov was referring to how russia is still not being able to get the proof of proof behind the accusations that are thrown out moscow for the poisoning of a like scene evolving and then the press conference got to the point when protests

in europe and moscow were compared and this was the question that was given to chose a burrell from a russian journalist. but mr lavrov said he would send you video stuff tough police crackdowns and protests in europe did you manage to watch them and did it change your view as to whether the e.u. has a moral right to criticize russia for police action during demonstrations. excessive use of force. it's not only russia that happens. you know the type of disobedience where they did with excessive use of force in the us and to tell you what to do when did happen and unhappily it happened. we. condemn excessive use of force and when this happened in a country where did i drew from all did you do judiciary to intervene and these cases can be brought to justice and if it is that excessive force british way of

putting it into an order and i ask you put responsibilities put it to go to admit it is good it is of the people who behave badly. and to choose of having a strong group of mostly. so when it comes to such discussions between senior u.n. russian officials i guess this was probably a classic one i can even say a bit of optimism at the very beginning but then it all went down to the typical cracks in russia europe toys and all god down to the accusations that are usually being thrown between the 2 parties well it's up for you to decide where this these kind of relations will head in the future after such kind of talks. yes you will like a thanks the day that. the u.s. president biden has delivered his 1st big foreign policy speech since taking office with the tagline to play missy's back running throughout the address but biden

seemed to be anything but diplomatic when it came to russia don't cos i gave us more details biden's 1st big foreign policy address sent a clear message that trump's america 1st policy is out and diplomacy 1st is in but it seems like for the new president diplomacy means picking a fight with russia before the end of his 1st 2 months in office 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 cyber attacks poison its citizens are over we will not hesitate to raise the cost on russia and defend our vital interest in our people. and these accusations are nothing new really we've heard many of them from the trumpet ministration the obama administration we've also never seen any corrupt conclusive evidence to corroborate these claims but at this point it seems like russia's

approach probably used to it. in general it's all quite predictable the strategic guidelines are still the same and the still alarming it's a matter of interpretation russia has no malicious intent and does not plan to violate its obligations unless they thought up specifically for the next round of sanctions in other words if the white house wants to see another intervention cyber attack threat to american interests in any corner of the planet it will do even if we do nothing at all if it doesn't want to the space for dialogue is open the choice is with the americans sure biden my biden's administration might be beating the dead horse of anti russian rhetoric but his comments did come alongside a number of 180 degree turns away from the previous administration's policies like for example reversing trump's decision to withdraw u.s. troops from germany and being support for saudi arabia's military conflict in yemen and also making l g b t q politics and integral part of u.s. foreign policy all goals that the biden white house has made clear that it believes

will bring america back america is back to plumb has seen is back at the center of our foreign policy as i said of mine are going to address we will repair our alliances in gage's with the world once again not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's. after hearing that statement though the question you've got to ask is back to what if we're talking about the obama administration for example that means the time of drone strikes on independent nations a time of poor relations with russia and even the heyday of the islamic state as the former secretary of state mike pompei o pointed out back as the mean back to when isis controlled a caliphate in syria that was the size of britain. i don't think the american people can afford to go back to 8 more years of barack obama's foreign policy so we've got a new administration in the white house but a lot of new policies that hearken back to the obama days so for washington's foreign policy stance on russia that's probably going to mean another 4 years of

the same old story. that has been a major twist in the case of british teenager harry dunn who was killed in a car accident in the u.k. by u.s. woman in 2019 and seclude is fled the u.k. claiming diplomatic immunity but a u.s. court is that she was working for u.s. intelligence at the time the incident meaning that she might not have been immune from prosecution so let's get more on this now and go to london to speak with shania the stache she's covering this story 1st good afternoon how significant then is this development i'm in particular with reference to how he duns parents who are continuing to fight for justice. well it's been nearly a year and a half since harridan lost his life and the family are still continuing to fight for justice but there has been another game changing twist in the narrative as it's a murder answer coolest the woman that was accused of killing harry dunn actually

worked for american intelligence at the time of his death now that is potentially a vital piece of information and it could fundamentally change the entire foundations of her rights of claiming diplomatic immunity at the time of her departure the reason is because the information we knew at the time is that ansar clueless the wife of a u.s. diplomat went to the united states she fled to the united states claiming this diplomatic community she was later charged with death by dangerous driving but an extradition request to face the justice system here in britain was later refused now all of that narrative as we knew to date was all on the basis that she had no specific role in britain now it's a measure that she works for the united states intelligence her access to diplomatic community at the time of the departure arguably all falls away all of this information was not known to the united kingdom at the time either so it really could be a huge step towards justice of course the family has been on the wavering in trying to keep harry dunn's case right at the 4 forefront of the headlines and his mother

charlotte dunn spoke to me a few months ago and she told me that she made a promise to her son that she would not stop until she got justice. tell you all poorly you look at him to get injustice when he's laying in the. life left in literally every bone in his body. every organ damage to the point we couldn't even do all condonation. someone has to be held responsible for that. in this world should be able to take a life. it is a salute clearer now that the united states government does not have either a legal or moral leg to stand on the authorities and the system completely let her respond this family lost their son and they were treated like dirt on the bottom of their shoe. when a court in virginia has heard that unsecured this is what was absolutely especially

a factor in her fleeing the country also they claim that she feels that she would not face a fair trial here in the united kingdom if she stayed or indeed if she returned to britain as well but granting have diplomatic immunity in the 1st place was incredibly controversial it was under an extraordinary loophole in the legislation between the 2 countries which has now been rectifies and closed under of revised agreement between the 2 countries but as i say though unsecured us is information that she did work for us intelligence could mean that the that she had no right to claim diplomatic immunity in the 1st place and so now our family and seeker who we just heard from that the man that is fighting on behalf of the family a calling for an urgent investigation i would team he sees our lawyer is always very very clear right from the off that she never had immunity at the time the crash. but what does all of this retrospective revelations mean today

while there is certainly a stronger case towards justice for the family that could mean that she has more of a case to answer to him in the united kingdom and could fundamentally throw the entire diplomatic community out of the window now having said that we do know that the trumpet ministration had said that the refusal to extradite answer to the united kingdom was absolutely final but has now been reaffirmed by president joe biden as well he has yet to say whether or not this latest piece of information will make any difference in the narrative regardless though the case has been adjourned until february the 17th but the latest from answer critics on her legal team is that she is currently apologetic and has accepted responsibility for the incident but has long maintained that she feels she would not face a fair trial in the united kingdom but today's information that she does and did work for the u.s. intelligence could be the final piece of the puzzle in terms of justice. ok thank

you shirley for the update that was our cesar shadi at woodstock the reporter thank you. so compute here in our to u.k. charities and food banks are inundated at the moment with requests for help because the u.k. faces a growing poverty crisis will have the details just after the break. seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out just the attic. and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

i might. show somebody an accident where a car goes through a minefield sign at the intersection. suggest to the witness said they saw a stop sign in stead of a year old son. in these experiments many people will adopt the suggestion we call it misinformation and claim it as their own memory. though again that the pandemic is seeing dozens of patients being shuffled between hospitals in the u.k. to a shortage of intensive care beds in january hello new national health service transferred

nearly 39 patients a day double the number seen during the 1st wife we spoke with a health care consultant who's witnessed the crisis firsthand. i guess this shows 2 things. the scale of the pandemic and how much worse the 2nd wave is the 1st just as we project it and how it's affecting different parts of the country at different rates it also shows the real strengths of the national health service and are as countries circles the country are able to cope they can offer mutual aid and support to other parts of the country or culture so that this is what a national service is built to do mutual aid which would be very difficult than any other sort of system where although the dating infection rate remains high there and 20000 england's chief medical officer has said that the u.k.'s past the pain of the 2nd wave with a number of confirmed cases over the past week dropping 25 percent compared to the

week before however he does say it is too early to celebrate certainly i think that the infection rates are dropping gives us confidence that we're probably in the peach white now the real question is how long is up lasso going to last full of us one being cautious of offering hope and will we continually in asia still be able to support the healthy ways of the nation of ais a really really big question because many many of our services will have to stop to try and cheat intensive care and research your medicine going through the pandemic as we try and restart some of these services which we call do in the near future because we're still dealing with the pandemic and perhaps put up plaster it will be months before we can relax it's not an easy n.h.s. coming under pressure at the moment is also facing a widening poverty problem with millions of brits feeling the pinch because of the pandemic charities and 3 banks across the country have reported a surge in demand

a partridge as more the tides. coronavirus pandemic could push the amount of people living in poverty in the u.k. to more than 15000000 almost a quarter of the population since then the u.k. seen another surge in infections and deaths in the financial provisions of looked down with more people were lying on food banks like this one in east london which last september used to provide 20 food parcels a day and now provides over 83rd as things have happened which made on numbers of quadrupled so we had a lot of stray homeless people taken off the streets put in the hotels on the line wrong for drive where we're situated and sorry day there's about 40 or 50 of them that come in and we help them there are more than $2100.00 food banks in the u.k. of which $1200.00 a run by the soulsby based charity the trussell trust it's seen an almost 50 percent increase in demand during the pandemic with nearly half of those relying on food parcels being children the bonnie downs community association in east london

helped 4000 people between april and june last year compared with 622 in the previous 3 months the beaumont lease food bank in leicester soar numbers increased from 40 families before the pandemic to 500 a week since march the new start spewed bank in the wish to shutout of brahms' group said demand had risen by 700 percent over the same period and the dot more community kitchen hob in devon said that of the 130 people died helped since march only 20 had previously needed charity food aid people who now rely on food banks come from all walks of life one volunteers said she was left in tears when just before christmas she'd given a food parcel to an n.h.s. nurse a group called the people's army set up a food bank at the angel church in north london and the pastor in charge regan king says the demand from people who were previously vulnerable is striking we have a range of people who come to us we have families with young children all the way

up into their teens. we have people who previously had never used a food bank before they have used this service and we have people who have never really had to depend on anyone much less charge for helping sustenance who have come through the doors that's in addition to the normal need to fix their butts with the emergence of the u.k. of more transmissible variants of coronavirus some food banks have had to focus their work on deliveries one charity leader wrote to the prime minister warning him that if the government doesn't act the food banks on which many thousands of people now rely might have to close their doors we have very concerns that the halle can say just new strain of college 19 could put food bank staff volunteers and the people they support at increased risk of infection and that self isolating measures

may involve the reduction in service of closure of food banks. and it's not just charity workers who are writing to boris johnson one of the nation senior food policy experts has criticized the government for failing to provide its citizens with nutritious food security in response the government said the system is working we continue to work closely with the food industry who are well prepared to ensure people across the country have the food and supplies they need but in almost 50 percent increase in the demand for food banks during a pandemic that puts their existence in jeopardy could ultimately see the government forced to maintain a charity sector that's been sustaining the population kate partridge r.t. london. now the popular video sharing app tick tock has given in to demands of italian authorities and agreed to block children under the age of 13 the concession does come after the death of a 10 year old girl who was allegedly taking part in the so-called blackout

challenge on the platform the girl died in hospital after being discovered in the bedroom with her mobile phone the case sparked outrage and led to italian prosecutors launching an investigation to talk said it failed to detect any harmful content but agreed to cooperate with the authorities earlier my colleague you know in the or discuss the effectiveness of the child protection steps with a panel of experts. i don't think it's going to be in the slightest bit affective that people want to use to talk in the same way as they want to use any other social media they'll find a way to talk can say what they like but effectively they must realize that the success of their phenomenal this in the user's hands rather than theirs i speak to a large number of parents who when their children reach the age of say 32 they tell my children well you can now have a social media accounts only to find that their children and all of their children's pieces have had social media accounts for some years already and have simply lied about their rights and that boards important that parents take some

responsibility in being aware of what their children are up to socially good meant to be that you don't really get on them and to get the senior they say that could be the 8 and i remember when there is a beginning and even now with respect i think it's quite you know like a parent that essentially you know i don't understand how how can a but also how damaging and i mean we've seen so many cases not to let you go to an event you can do a she hyla they begin to get there but when children are thin blade to a point where the taking their own mind well i think having more understanding about how these are amazing but they can also be incredibly troubling when the parents come up with any good conscience say to the kids do not use this social media because the kids are just going to turn around say well you do need to run it all day so we should not underestimate the power of social media across all demographic groups if you stop kids using tech talk simply jump ship and go to

another social media should there be greater regulation is that the answer when it comes to protective measures for children and social media is it more education is there a will for the for the tech giants to actually do that should schools get more involved as the final stop of the parents i know it could be a mix of all of them but which is the most significant and you're right the platforms that share an enormous responsibility themselves. but we can't rely on them being responsible in self-regulating in terms of children thank you the social media platforms could very easily have a form of registration when i managed to check agents and managed to validate this they simply don't have the will to do this because they want to encourage people to use that platform and they want to people take coverage children especially just start as early as a permissible we do need to educate young people more kids think that they want things very often that i really bad for them it's our job in 96 i say to how men

build their resilience and also know what appropriate for them and what an appropriate if there are things they are going to say that you don't want them to say i mean some really or still before i was 16 the main thing in life for me was to get into x. rated movies the very fact that there were x. rated made the more attractive banning something instantly makes it more attractive and washing out it just came to have to here in moscow thanks for your company the south name will be back with the headlines and more stories at the top here. ruling classes rarely agree on much but now when it comes to china it is a green the u.s. means do so no get tough with beijing what does that really mean engaging china

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