crusher expels diplomats from germany poland and sweden for their alleged. unauthorized force of jailed opposition leader alexina valmy. still fighting for justice the parents of a british teenager killed in a road accident involving the u.s. and dances off the court was told that she was a key west by a revelation that could impact claim to diplomatic immunity. and we need to find out some more information about her. and how we. were hopeful that the government will step forward and give us those answers. also . joe biden claims diplomacy is back in his 1st foreign policy speech for.

diplomatic when it came to russia. 6 o'clock here in moscow international our top story this hour russia is expanding its expanding 3 european diplomats over their alleged participation in an authorized protest in moscow on january the 23rd the actions of the swedish german polish diplomats was described as unacceptable not corresponding to that professional status bosco also expressed hope too that the diplomatic missions and their personnel will follow the norms of international law the announcement does come this russia's foreign minister and the u.s. foreign policy chief met today in the russian capital we'll have more on that a bit like in the program. now there has been

a major twist in the case of the british teenager hari done he was killed in a road accident involving the u.s. woman back in 2019 and is fled britain claiming diplomatic immunity but a humorous court has heard that she was working for a most american intelligence the time of the incident meaning that she might not have been immune from prosecution to edward stache the takes up the story where it's been a year and a half since harry dunn lost his life and the family are still seeking justice but it comes as the latest revelation which could be a potential game changer in the entire narrative is that it's emerged that unsecured us the woman who has been accused of killing her and done is allegedly working for the u.s. intelligence at the time of his death now it is potentially a vital piece of information and potentially alters the fundamental principles of her rights of claiming to promote a community at the time of her downstairs she did indeed came to promote

a community she fled to the united states and was later charged by death by dangerous driving then was an extradition request to face the justice system here in the united kingdom but that was refused all of that though was on the basis that she had no specific role in britain so now it has emerged that she was working for the u.s. intelligence and that would therefore put into question her rights to diplomatic immunity it is indeed a huge step towards justice for her a down on his family because harry downs mother charlottetown has long been fighting tooth and nail to get to that do you tell your poorly you look at me to get injustice twenty's lay in the. life left in literally every bone in its body can. every organ damage to the point we couldn't even do all condonation. someone has to be held responsible for that nobody in this world should be able to take a life. it is

a salute clear and know that the united states government does not have either a legal or moral leg to stand on. the authorities and the system completely curry's firmly on this family who lost their son and they were treated like dirt on the bottom of their shoe now a court in virginia has heard that her work was especially a factor in her leaving the united kingdom but granting diplomatic immunity was controversial from the very beginning it was extraordinary and it was a loophole between the legislation between the 2 countries which has now been rectified and that loophole has now been closed up between the united kingdom and the united states but in light of this new information all of us working for the united states intelligence the family are now calling for an investigation but the whole issue of diplomatic immunity in the 1st place has always been questioned i would team key sees our lawyer is always very very clear right from the off that

she never had immunity at the time of the crash but what does retrospective revelation mean today well there's certainly now more of a case to be answered for and indeed throws the entire premise of diplomatic community out of the window however the family were really hoping that president joe biden would allow for the extradition of bounce a curious that was a decision that was final according to president trump and has been reaffirmed by president joe biden as well regardless though the case has been adjourned until february the 17th but the latest information from and secured us and her legal team is that she is currently apologetic and indeed she accepts responsibility for the accident but she feels she would not face a fair trial here in the united kingdom having said all of this this latest information that she was working for u.s. intelligence really could be the final piece of the puzzle in the case for justice well the lawyer 100 family to tell us that the extradition is always more of a political decision and the legal one. it was an astonishing revelation on

wednesday night from this secure this is own lawyer in open court and we were completely taken of by and i have to say it's really one settled the parents dominick rob must come forward and explain what he knew about mr suit who this is employment status and when he found out of that's very important we need to find out some more information about your status and how it might affect her diplomatic community and we're hopeful that the government will step forward and give us those answers as soon as possible extradition is always a political decision rather than a legal one if the united states simply refused to extradite her there is nothing anybody can do for me this whole diplomatic community issue as it is is irrelevant because this is not what it's to be used for. if you case facing

a widening poverty problem with millions of brits facing hardship because of the pandemic charities and think banks across the country have reported this surge in demand as a partridge now reports. 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 the our numbers of quantity poured so we had a lot of stray homeless people taken off the streets put in the hotels on the line wrong for dr why we're situated and sorry day that'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 body downs community association in east london helped $4000.00 people between april and june last year compared with 622 in the previous 3 months but they want least food banking less to soar numbers increased from 40 families before the pandemic to 500 a week since march the new start spewed bank in the washed ashore town of brahms' gropes said demand had risen by 700 percent over the same period and the dog 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 are 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 contagious 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 or closure of food banks and is not just charity workers who are writing to boris johnson one of the nation's senior food policy experts has criticised 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 an 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. and there is concern saving the capital of the spanish island new york where dozens of people there have been lining up for free food provided by

a local convent is head did admit that the number of those in need has increased markedly since the outbreak and at least 300 people do show up every single day. now the u.s. president joe biden has delivered his 1st major foreign policy speech since taking office but the tagline diplomacy's back running through the lactase address but biden seemed to be anything but diplomatic when it came to russia don't quote it as . 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 the 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 'd 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 lucy 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 they mean back to when isis controlled

a caliphate in syria that was the size of britain i hope not 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. now russia does say it is hopeful that politics won't influence its appeal against a court ruling that forces it to pay billions in compensation to form a shareholders of the u. course oil company the latest statement comes from the russian deputy minister of justice as the process continues so let's get the latest now where the party's peter all of he joins peter it's been a very very dent the legal battle this one has in it but just bring us up to speed them with the latest. it's taken 16 years to get us to this point there's $60000000000.00 at stake the former investors in the

oil and gas giant you cough say that the russian government illegally expropriated assets from you cause in breach of the 1994 energy charter treaty now russia did sign the e.c. t. but it never ratified the treaty through parliament and it never became law the russian side say that's not the case say that the arguments put forward against them are the case i spoke earlier to the deputy justice minister of the russian federation mikhail pair and he told me this. the main argument and main issue was the use energy charter treaty ratified by russia which means there is room there but equal authority which contains these arbitration agreement under which really russian people russian persons russian separatists try to use international mechanism to see russia opponents try to see you sound there and despite the fact

it will try to fight by the parliament as you know in any democratic and parliamentary you need to parliaments consent on these kind of issues also parliament rejected really rejected to ratify that and say abilities why we're not on the legal obligation. in this particular arbitration issue of say really have these areas see in order. just illegal but immoral demands 1st time when they're really why be company for nothing using bribery and these bribes are really confirmed by the investigation committees and then be extracted billions of years dollars from the company to offshore. structures their source also confirmed by the european court of human rights in 2011 now a 3rd time they want more 60000000000 years dollars from russian barges to be brayed you cannot benefit from from such kind of things you can't have legal protection of your illegal behavior. well the russian government says the claims

against it are nolan void particularly because of the criminal way in which you cost of its assets it's a little bit like if you buy a stolen television set knowing that t.v. is stolen when the police catch up with you and they take that from you you don't get any of your money back but this isn't about t.v.'s this is about 16000000000 dollars and every legal avenue seems like it's going to be exhausted before we get to a finish line we are expecting the supreme court of the netherlands here in the hague to return their verdict well at the very soon as by the autumn of this year realistically we're looking at 2022 and after the verdict comes in it may well be referred to the european court of justice in luxembourg well that could see your scoring on for at least another 2 years so no end in sight for this ongoing legal saga. a long way to run yes ok thank you peter that was artie's peter all of.

that despite a world leading mass vaccination program his trail has voted to extend the national train of our struck down until sunday a decision was made just hours before existing measures were to expire or poor compliance though with the restrictions including among the ultra orthodox community has shown that a top class job program isn't enough to beat the pandemic on its own israel's death toll from the virus passed the $5000.00 mark on friday reporting now from jerusalem his poorest slayer. shouting at us that we're no arklow to provoke us situation we're not far from the heart of the ultra orthodox community here in should loose a limb now we were forced out of play with people shouting at us this community is the same type of brow over lock down measures we simply eat thousands of ultraorthodox. mourners many of them without mosques took to the streets to attend

the funerals of 2 rabbis it caused an outcry in israel and of wasn't the 1st time as the country struggles to deal with its handling of the koran a virus the society is becoming more and more divided many people in jerusalem do not support the behavior of the ultra-orthodox neighbors i don't know exactly the statistics about the ultrasound or for the flooding but i do know that under 65 the statistics says that one out of every 10000 people died for us that's a very very small number i actually think that the bigger problem is the fact that the government over there is. making it convincing everyone to take this vaccine that no one has any ideas about and no one understands and that was a term side effects about. them i think anyone who doesn't put on a mask is like a murderer it is against all the rules of the rabbi all the rabbis are against it these are the people who don't have communication they don't have television and

they simply don't know what this disease is they don't believe it they don't blame the croon a virus they blame the hospitals you can't understand it the level that people can believe conspiracy theories israeli government has voted to extend the contract down until friday it's double fines and it's keeping the airport shut it's becoming increasingly to me for the police to contralto those who refuse to at hit measures we requested a comment from the police but they declined to comment at the same time the ultra orthodox community says it's feeling persecuted here come up with the hatred doesn't lead to anything good in the world there are a few rabbis who think i don't belong to them they think the corona virus is imaginary this is what they think this blow from having the lockdown is god giving us clues he's hinting to us that we have to fix something. while there are calls for israel to be divided into different covert 19 new zones the country's prime

minister says the lockdown rules apply to everyone regardless of the religion the ultra orthodox community comprises some 15 percent of the population but according to the health ministry it also represents more than 55 percent of cut on a virus cases the latest word from the government is that the current nationwide a lockdown may not be israel's last policy r.t. jerusalem the fence some political commentator and the audience says that netanyahu is treading a fine political line well you're asking. him a question but these directed at people who may not believe in record not only by the very fact that they're all for all of the dogs they are to do or god don't believe their spiritual leaders they don't care about the country the government

the rule of law and netanyahu is now big bad and on the box representing these very dear mourners these very grubs for the survival date these engage. and robo support for anyone else is spinach and it is spanish politically is the legal situation because it is now standing trope or corruption would be 1 much worse so he is now on a whole sort of dilemma if he does not enforce the coronavirus regulations broadly and it will be a secular voters turn against me but if he does the author of books all of these will going against him and it appears that if you will not manage to do both at the same time for the next month. ok let's go back

to our top story this hour because russia is expelling 3 european diplomats for taking part in unauthorized protests in moscow at the end of last month emancipate comes as russia's foreign minister and the foreign policy chief did meet today in the russian capital and get more details now from ukraine has been covering an eventful day here in moscow firstly earlier just talk us through these expulsions. andrew hi again well we can see new fresh cracks and russia ties on the day when for the 1st time in 3 years the head of european diplomacy came to moscow for talks i can tell you that the decision to expel the european diplomats doesn't have anything to do with the arrival of josep borel who was the european top diplomat but it does coincide with his visit so 3 diplomats from germany sweden and poland have been ordered to leave the country as soon as possible for

taking part in un sanctioned rallies in the russian capital and also st petersburg that happened during 2 weekends at the end of january and we can already say that there's been reaction from sweden the swedish embassy is denying that a member of their staff took part in these rallies and we already heard from the polish government which said that they are going to respond to that in a similar manner the russian foreign ministry though has called the behavior of european diplomats unlawful and unacceptable only several hours before that though during a press conference by the e.u. foreign policy chief and the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov the press conference began with a warm with words of how much it's important to rebuild trust between the u.n.

russia how much it's important to work together and at one point mr allowed even said that if the relations between the e.u. and moscow deteriorate in any way that could lead to a tragedy with unpredictable consequences so there you have it it was a good start there was plenty of optimism there was more. we could see that they could come back to joint work. there could be more business handshakes between brussels and moscow when the european top diplomat praised russia's sport think the vaccine it's. just i believe we cannot but i can tell you that very quickly after the smiles we could see

a bit more tension in that room because. this conversation quickly started to resemble some of the conversation between the western and russian diplomats that we have been used to seeing it looks like a game of ping pong with accusations being thrown at each other. we know that the european top diplomat joined the chorus of european leaders who slammed russia for how the country treated kremlin critic alexina vali in response to that the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov called the attitude of european leaders arahant and blamed the european officials for failing to back up their accusations of the alleged poisoning of alexina volley and his arrest without any proof or something reasonable. no we're stuck on the same topic the west is trying to dodge the issue of finding the real

truth of what happened when and where it's alexina valmy by focusing on protests in russia on numerous requests to provide us with the results of his tests remain unanswered by germany france sweden and even the pope at the o.p.c. w. they say you already know everything well this is impolite at the very least and such are against on behalf of and lights in europe is absolutely inappropriate and unacceptable. then at one point the conversation began to resemble a different kind of game in which it seemed that the ultimate goal was to convince everyone that it's the opponent. the opponent is more brutal in their police crackdowns on demonstrations in their country and to be fair though this was something that was encouraged by the journalist who asked questions like that. mr lawson of sound he would send you videos of tough police

crackdown said protests and did you manage to watch them and did it change of us to whether the e.u. has a moral right to criticize russia for police action during demonstrations for sure the excessive use of force. it's not only russia that happens. and when this happened in a country where did our growth will it is due to visionary has to intervene and these cases can be brought to justice and if there is that excessive force british way of putting it into an order so after the events on friday you might want to ask how much have we seen when it comes to progress in russia and the u. rebuilding trust well i believe not much and this is how it is for now you certainly have plenty to talk about politics wise here moscow today thank you for trying. you watching us teachers surprise you half 6 here in moscow back in about

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