expels diplomats from germany poland and sweden for reportedly attending rallies in support of jailed opposition activists. the global rollout of. this vaccine continues as iran receives its 1st batch. the parents of a british teenager killed in a road accident involving an american woman. was told she was working for u.s. intelligence we need to find out some more information about your. fact. that we're hopeful that they'll go forward and give us those answers. soon as. joe biden

claims diplomacy is back in his 1st foreign policy speech but he didn't sound too diplomatic when it came to russia. live from moscow thanks for joining us tonight here on r.t. international and welcome to the program. russia has ordered 3 european diplomats to leave the country for attending rallies in support of the jailed kremlin critic. the announcement came was russia's foreign minister and the foreign policy chief met in the russian capital. has the details. 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 borel 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 reduce diplomat observed the demonstration since an petersburg within 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 jos a ball joined the chorus of leaders who slammed russia for the arrest of a like cena volley and how the russian government has been dealing with him mr loughborough of in response to 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 the lights of europe is absolutely inappropriate and unacceptable and then at some points 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 lover of sad he would send you videos of tough police crackdowns of 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 i draw from all that is do judiciary has to intervene and these cases can be brought to justice and if there is if the excessive use of 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 issue of covert vaccines was also raised at the meeting between the 2 top diplomats expressed hope russia could get

fast track approval within the block and now i am hoping that you would be in a medical agency will be able to certify the efficiency of the vaccine you know that could be useful szell into being union state who will be good new because as you know we are facing a shortage of vaccine. or in the middle east interest in the russian rock scene is increasing daily with lebanon becoming the latest country to approve the job in while iran has received its 1st batch of sport made very with the shipment arriving into iran on friday the country has been the hardest hit in the region by the pandemic. when we like him of the device 500000 doses of the world's 1st corona virus vaccine sputnik the has arrived in iran the country's health ministry expects to receive more by the end of this month on medical personnel they'll deliver and the most vulnerable will be the 1st in line to be inoculated the vaccine program is

getting under way as iran marks yet another anniversary of the islamic revolution. 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 v so far iran has placed an order of 5000000 doses. of the russian iran joint agreement on spending v supplies also sets out its joint production and cylinder seeking to diversify its suppliers and at the end of december 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

. that 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 until herd immunity develops we consider the russian vaccine an additional option of terror vaccine supply ruthie to rand'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 the 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. country. there's been a major twist in the case of british soon as you hurry dunn who was killed in a road accident involving a u.s. woman in 29 team has fled britain claimed diplomatic immunity as she's married to a diplomat who were a u.s. court heard she was working for american intelligence at the time of the incident

meaning she may not have been immune from prosecution showed it was dusty has the details of what has been a year and a half since her last his life and the family are still now 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 and secured us the woman who has been accused of killing her 8 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 diplomatic community at the time of her a 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 it's 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 have rights to diplomatic immunity it is indeed a huge step towards justice for harry don and his family because harry downs mother charlottetown has long been fighting tooth and nail to get to that you tell your 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 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 the team he 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 the lawyer for her as somebody told us extradition is always more of a political decision a legal one. it was an astonishing revelation on wednesday night from this secure this is our own lawyer in open court and we were completely taken up. and i have to say it's really unsettled the parents don't grow up must come forward and explain what he knew about mr sort through this is employment status and when he found out of it's very important we need to find out some more information about her status and how it might affect her client to diplomatic community 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 is that it's irrelevant because this is not what it's to be used for. if you case facing a widening poverty problem with many grappling with increased hardship because of the pandemic charities and food banks have reported a surge in demand as capons france 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 80 ferries 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 food banks in the u.k. of which 1200 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 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 bronze groups 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 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. 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 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 altie london well there are similar problems on the island of new york where people have been lining up for free food provided by a local convent it's had said those in need had increased markedly since the outbreak at least 300 people are said to show up every day. still to come in his 1st major foreign policy speech show bawden pledge to diplomacy is back now that he's in the white house though his sentiment seems at odds with his statements on russia more after the break. the ruling classes released real much but when it comes to china it is agreed the

u.s. needs do so to get tough with beijing which isn't really me engaging china while trying to contain it is an even possible combined ministry will eventually have to answer this question. i might. show somebody an accident where a car goes through our own yield sign at the intersection. suggest to the witness said they saw stop sign instead of the yield sign. in these experiments many will adopt the suggestion we call it misinformation and claim it as their own memory. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back to the program joe biden has delivered his 1st major foreign policy speech since taking office he repeatedly stated the law and diplomacy is back the new u.s. president though seemed anything but diplomatic when it came to russia old quarter has 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 must have been to 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 end of the 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 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. meanwhile the senate is mulling samantha powers candidacy for head of the u.s. agency for international development she's biden's pick for that with a just position of power served as america's ambassador to the u.n. during the obama era she pushed through several big diplomatic initiatives on his highly valued within the democratic party for her peace making efforts though her diplomacy 1st approach seems to falter somewhat when it comes to dealing with russia for years we have seen russia take one aggressive and destabilizing action after another are you truly incapable of shame is there

literally nothing that can shame you russia really needs to stop the cheap point scoring and the grandstanding and the stunts. and focus on what matters . well let's bring in george somewhere lee senior research fellow at the global policy institute of london thanks for joining us good to have you on the program today what do we can we can read in from biden's appointment or potential appointment for some of the power as usaid head do you think there's a possibility he's perhaps picking people with concrete positions on russia. well i don't think russia is necessarily number one of those of its reasons as to why he picked her up i mean miss samantha power is most famous for being an apostle of the doctrine of humanitarian intervention is and that's how she became famous she wrote a book 1 around 2005 about america as the

a crusade to defeat genocide and of course she identified genocide in a very tendentious way because genocide is only something that perpetrated by countries of the us to america's interests she never of course points to genocide perpetrated by the united states or its allies but that's how she became famous within democratic party so it wasn't why she came to the attention of barack obama and then of course. when you were talking a moment ago about biden's foreign policy speech yesterday at the state department humanitarian intervention was very much. in focus for him and it's all about hectoring lecturing interfering and intervening in the into a little thing as of other countries so that's the biden foreign policy and it's

where the consistent with democratic administrations foreign policy is in the past and i think that's the reason why he. so do you think sometimes that how is the best pick for the job i mean do you think she intends to pursue to follow through or maintain on joe biden's diplomacy for us to promise he's back approach. well keep in mind the reason no diplomacy and anything that biden was saying yesterday i mean what he means by diplomacy it is americans lecturing 6 and hectoring other countries and intervening in their affairs so that's what he understands by the classic he wasn't able to specify any american national interest that he wants his diplomats to secure anything that would actually at vantage americans so when he talk about diplomacy said it's all about of values of

democracy 1 all that like freedom all of the things that we are all about and goes as your correspondent rightly pointed out but the l.g.b. t.q. things so that that's what he means by diplomacy it isn't about the goshi a thing with. other powers to secure agreements and the one thing the people were waiting for it for him to announce yesterday was tape about some diplomacy on returning to the joint comprehensive plan of action with iran that would be the minimum that his diplomats were the chief because he didn't do that but i just want to your question as the issue of the best pick well it depends on what. the a id is supposed to do the idea doesn't actually do any. 8 international aid for anybody it's there to college raise in other countries and others contraries of people quite beholden to the united states in preparation for an ultimate regime

change operation so it's not not about helping anyone other than selecting groups of people who will then be working for the u.s. government and i think for that purpose she probably is why the good big so in terms of u.s. russian relations with some of the power in charge of you aside what do you think that that holds what direction do you think that will move in. well i think the bike in this race is without question extremely hostile to russia it's a continuation of the hostile policy of the obama administration but superimposed on that is the hysteria that the democratic party has been whipping up for the past 4 years about russia supposedly to fearing in the 2016 election so without question powell will be maintaining this very hostile stance and it was remarkable that in that speech yesterday the the venom

with which biden spoke about russia and the gentle chiding tone that he adopted to china to any commonsense observer you think well china is that is a serious rival and a serious adversary to the united states russia is not but the hostility is all directed at russia and i'm quite sure the pa will indeed be integral to this policy because george somewhere you see no such fun of the global policy institutes of london thanks for your time here tyson and. i'm next thought the documentary means the ring to people who survived the bonnet so now that 4 years ago and those who claim it never took place join us again off now with that i just had lunch. but i don't think there's a perception united states of russia has them clear superiority over the united

states and i think you see there's a fairly balanced relationship. in the nuclear streeter and i think. by the ministration wants to have negotiations for what we've talked about strategic stability they want predictability they want they want to secure situation in europe in asia and with russia and i want to be able to focus on other issues to mr mix that the bilateral relationship the more general. this is the coaxes bazaar neighborhood in bangladesh just recently this land was a rain forest but now there are refugee camps. elephants are

a problem then tank refugees either out of range of fear they can find their ancient my great tree roots among the sea of tents. in the last 12 months 12 men have been trampled to death by elephants however the elephants will have to retreat daoud numbered by about 900000 refugees in the caucuses bazaar camps around 630 people have migrated here from my own mom in the last 2 years alone. no i didn't but i would be mad if you.