russia. germany poland. still fighting for justice the british teenager killed in a road accident involving a. working for american intelligence services a revelation. came to. some. hopeful.

head in the program. and his 1st foreign policy speech but he didn't. run the clock across the world this is r.t. international from the team and myself you know me hello and welcome to the program . russia has ordered 3 european diplomats to leave the country for taking part in protests in moscow the rallies were in support of the jailed opposition figure alexina. russia's foreign minister the e.u.'s foreign policy chief met today in the russian capital. can tell us more. new fresh cracks in russia on the day when for the 1st time in 3 years the head of european

diplomacy arrived in moscow for talks the decision to expel european diplomats from russia has nothing to do with the arrival of joseph is foreign policy chief but it does coincide with his visit so diplomats from poland sweden and germany have been ordered to leave russia for taking part in unsanctioned rallies in support of kremlin critic alexina volley during 2 weekends at the end of january the russian foreign ministry has called such behavior by the diplomats unlawful and unacceptable and the swedish embassy was the 1st to deny any violations of russian or international law by a member of their staff the swedish foreign ministry strongly denies claims that the swedish diplomats was involved in recent demonstrations more entering the political development in the country of service is the responsibility of swedish diplomats in accordance with the vienna convention on diplomatic relations this

reduced diplomat observed the demonstration since in petersburg when a standard diplomatic procedure eventually we heard the same from the german authorities and the polish government also said that they will come up with a similar response to the decision by the russian foreign ministry but only a few hours earlier during the press conference by sergei lavrov and joseph borel after talks we saw smiles the press event began with warmth with wards how much it's important to rebuild trust to go back to working together when it comes to the relations between brussels and moscow however soon after that the tone changed and very quickly we were reminded of what these kind of talks between the most senior russian and western diplomats look like it sounds. looks like a game of ping pong when accusations are being thrown at each other those of burrill joined the chorus of leaders who slammed russia for the arrest of

a like scene of ali and how the russian government has been dealing with him mr loughborough of in response called the attitude of european officials arab didn't and also blame them for not backing up their accusations against russia on the alleged poisoning of alexina volley and his arrest with any proof or anything reasonable. no mistake 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 only seen a felony 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 in lights and europe is absolutely inappropriate and unacceptable and then at some point the conversation began to resemble a different kind of game and which it seemed the ultimate goal was to convince

everyone that a your opponent is more brutal in its violent police crackdown of protests it is fair to say though that this was encouraged by the questions from journalists. mr ladley of sad he would send you videos of tough police crackdowns at protests in europe 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 an excessive force that is way of putting things in order after friday's events you might want to ask have we really seen much progress in rebuilding trust between the e.u.

countries and russia it doesn't look like it. moving the program on iran has received its 1st bunch of russia's sputnik v vaccine the 1st doses arrived in toronto earlier on friday the shipment comes as the country hardest hit by the pandemic in the middle east is scrambling to get a steamer on the pandemic. sport nikki 500000 doses of the world's 1st corona virus vaccine sputnik fever has arrived in iran the country's health ministry expects to receive more by the end of this month and medical personnel they'll deliver and the most vulnerable will be the 1st in line to be inoculated the vaccine program is getting underway as iran marks yet another anniversary of the islamic revolution in the sputnik the vaccine proved its efficacy which stands at 91 point one percent according to the lancet scientific magazine in russia there have been no reports of severe side effects after sputnik

the so far iran has placed an order of $5000000.00 doses at the russian iran joint agreement on spending with the supplies also sets out its joint production to run the seeking to diversify its suppliers and at the end of this amber it completed its 1st clinical trials of a locally produced job and pledged to roll it out by the beginning of april the authorities are aiming to secure 2000000 more doses from russia china and india by the middle of march the health ministry is actively working on procuring 4000000 doses from astra zeneca this steps have been taken despite a ban announced by iran's supreme leader on important american and british vaccines . we are in need of at least $6000000.00 of those snored to get $30000000.00 of our people inoculated it will require a year and till herd immunity develops we consider the russian vaccine an additional option terror vaccine supplies to iran's getting the russian vaccine and

trying to secure other jobs despite crippling u.s. sanctions and amid public demands to provide the population with a safe vaccine meanwhile iranian health officials have raised the alarm about a new wave of the pandemic which may be even more severe their arrival of the russian vaccine has been seen as a glimmer of hope for an end to the pandemic and joost hardships facing the country . there has been a major twist in the case of british teenager hoary dawn who was killed in a road accident involving a u.s. woman and 29 teen. fled britain claiming diplomatic immunity but a u.s. court has heard that she was working for american intelligence of the time of the incident meaning she might not have been immune from prosecution ortiz shadier edwards dusty killen pick what it all means what it's been a year and a half since her last 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 answered us the woman who has been accused of killing her dunn 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 down step 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 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 have rights to diplomatic immunity it is indeed a huge step towards justice for her don and his family because harry downs mother

charlottetown has long been fighting tooth and nail to get to that i tell you all poorly you look at him to get injustice twenty's lay in the. life left in literally every bone in his 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 her life. 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 how a team key sees a lawyer is always very very clear right from the off that she never had immunity at the time of the crash but what does this 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

judie interest in the world the lawyer for her is from lee told us extradition is always more of a political decision than a legal. it was an astonishing revelation on wednesday night this is so cool this is our own lawyer in open court and we were completely taken by you 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 it's very important we need to find out some more information about your status and how it might or stack her client to diplomatic immunity that 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. the united kingdom is facing and widening poverty problem with millions of britons facing hardship because of the pandemic charities and food banks across the country have reported a surge in demand as kate partridge 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 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 $4000.00 people between april and june last year compared with 622 in the previous 3 months but they want least foodbank us to soar numbers increased from 40 families before the pandemic to 500 a week since march the new start spewed bank in the worst a shootout 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. and 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 and that's in addition to the normal need to fix their butts with the emergency b u k a 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 isolates and measures may involve the reduction in service of 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 will be well prepared to ensure people across the country have the food and supplies they need but 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 altie london

. concern too in the capital of the spanish island of new york where dozens of people have been lining up for free food provided by a local convent its head admitted the number of those in need has increased markedly since the outbreak at least 300 people are said to show up daily. u.s. president joe biden has delivered his 1st major foreign policy speech since taking office more than once the line diplomacy is buck was ordered during the address but biden seemed to be anything but diplomatic when it came to russia double quarter told the program earlier biden's 1st big foreign policy address sent a clear message that trumps 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 must have into a petition 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 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 wide 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. russia sees it's hopeful politics won't influence its appeal against the court ruling that forces to pay billions in compensation to former shareholders of the u. course oil company the latest statement comes from the russian deputy minister of justice as the appeal process continues reporting next from the hague or europe

correspondent peter oliver. it's taken 16 years to get to this point $60000000000.00 are at stake the investors in the former oil and gas giant you coffs claim the russian state illegally expropriated you causes assets in breach of the 1994 energy charter treaty russia did sign the e.c. t. but it was never ratified and it never became law i spoke to the deputy justice minister all of the russian federation because paired and he told me what russia's arguments counted last were the main argument and main issue was the 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 japanese try to use international mechanism to see russia opponents try to see you signed there and despite the fact it wasn't certified 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 so be it is why we're not on the legal obligation. in this particular arbitration issues they really have these i would see not just the legal 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 and that's what's 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 but the russian government says the claims against it are knowledge and void particularly because of the criminal way in which

you cause of it is. assets it's a little bit like if you buy a stolen television set knowing the 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 $60000000000.00 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 courts of justice in luxembourg well that could see a scolding on for at least another 2 years so no end in sight for this ongoing legal saga. despite a world leading mass vaccination program israel voted to extend the national

coronavirus lockdown until sunday the decision was made just hours before the measure was due to expire compliance with the restrictions including among the ultra orthodox community a show on a top class program isn't enough to beat the pandemic and so israel's death toll from the virus passed the 5000 mark on friday polis leader is in jerusalem for us. a shouting at us that we're no arklow to provoke you a situation we're not far from the heartbeat of the ultra orthodox community here inch of loose a limb now we were forced out of play with people shouting at us this community is at the same time of around over a lockdown measures we simply eat thousands of ultra-orthodox mourners many of them with 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 head. off the coast on 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 ultra ultra orthodox community but i do know that under 65 the statistics is that one out of every 10000 people died or only that's a very very small number i actually think that the bigger problem is the fact that the government over here is. making it convincing everyone to take this vaccine that no one has any ideas about and no one understands it 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 have 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 even 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 news those the country's prime minister says the lockdown bulls apply to everyone regardless of their religion the

ultra orthodox community comprises some fish. percent of the population but according to the health ministry it also proceeds more than 55 percent of cover on a virus cases the latest word from the government is that the current nationwide lockdown may not be israel's last policy r.t. jerusalem just staying with this story defense and political commentator amir oren sees that benjamin netanyahu is treading a fine political line well you're asking. him a question but these directors that people are out there who may not believe in russia and only by the very fact that they are all pro at the docks. 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 bit bad on the box

representing these very mourners these very grouse for the survival date these engage. and throw their support for anyone else is spinach and the spanish politically is legal situation because he has no standing trope of corruption would be 1 much worse so he's now on a whole sort of the lead up if he does not enforce the coronavirus regulations broadly and it will you be a secular voters turn against me but if he does the all pro looks policies will turn against him and. that he will not manage to do both and this is a guy for the next month. big tech versus politics power brokers a potential very much 21st century battle is brewing stateside and boom bust that's the inside line join the gang in washington next.

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