more. for europe. who's pretty feeling to secure a french scene ahead of the u.k. as his 3 struggles to get. it is a shame for us we have missed a good chance in france it's a little bit weird that the priority is given to the united kingdom. because it has been liberated from the european union while the government and europe are failing at everything. desperate times call for desperate measures. issues an order of residents from getting sick to draw attention to the. doctors. i did it as a provocation by ruling can hardly be enforced i mean that getting sick or not it

is not down to one's wish and individual can take steps to avoid. governments and people alike struggle to a limited fact seen supply as we look at how some wealthy individuals find novel ways to jump. from our international news center in moscow this is r.t. hello and welcome to the program and you know. france's leader in the firing line after failing to secure supplies. from his own country before the u.k. money government refused to shell out the asking price for the jump while london worked with the company to get the shots. they believed straight away in our inactivated vaccine they took all the risks and immediately forwarded 96000000

euros to use before the end of december well it is just the latest in a series of controversies over vaccine supplies involving the u. let's go to show didn't see who's in parlous with this report. province was already feeling a little dejected after attempts by pharmaceutical company sanofi and the pastor institute failed to find a viable vaccine for code 19 now officials must be weeping with anger. that french well never has developed a vaccine but will sell the 1st doses to the u.k. of a manufacturing firm to. consider a very quickly by united kingdom was very important so. we will deliver those to. the u.k. 1st the e.u.

is already in a state of panic over what many deemed to be a catastrophic rollout of its vaccine program now member states such as france had signed up to this doing it all together which today to see and it's a really lugging behind its former partner the u.k. now the round has seen the e.u. and the u.k. at loggerheads now that was initially of the astra zeneca vaccine but now as some are questioning whether they would have been better going it alone the european union is not the vaccine it is the virus the european union has terribly managed to cope with 19 try says it has shown it is not only useless but it is toxic for the european countries the distil locks in the french government says it had negotiated we've only but the company received a favorable offer from the u.k. that's though not going down well and it seems that for once politicians from

across the spectrum in france are in agreement they all fear yes the government failed to back the facts developer. i think what happened in the united kingdom the rolled out the red carpet for never they helped with financing and implementation. they did everything to make it happen and we were not able to do that is such a waste that this regional golden nugget is live in our french borders we are above all paying for the abandonment of our sovereignty in favor of other emerging powers in globalization since the start of this crisis we have been told about health sovereignty reindustrialization relocation and that is not what we are doing so how is this is the latest blow going down here in france it is a lot less. hostile he said because france is the contrary of foster care and yet we see a lack of finance electoral funding elect of know how well the government and here are feeling that everything is. i find it

a bit abusive excuse me for that term it's a little bit weird that the priority is given to the united kingdom while the vaccine is manufactured in france its books about which i hope that the goal is to make a good vaccine but it is a loss it is a shame for us we have missed the mark we have missed a good chance in france. england is better managed because it has been liberated from the european union and these enormous constraints that constitute the european union the french government says it aims to offer the covert job to all won't it by the end of august and it's trying to speed up the rollout whether that though is possible is another question given that france is reliant for the moment on the e.u. for its duces shola do you can ski r.t. paris meanwhile britain's astra zeneca has started deliveries of its code 19 job

but it's not for everyone norway owned denmark have become the latest countries not to recommend it for people over 65. we have reviewed the documentation and until we have seen more data on efficacy among the elderly it is our recommendation that the vaccine for astra zeneca should 1st and foremost be efforts of people under 65 years of age without increased risk of serious illness from covered 19 earlier france germany italy sweden and spain also advised against vaccinating the elderly with the astra zeneca job they say there's not enough evidence to suggest it's safe for older people a researcher we spoke to sees that the company did test the vaccine age group but too few to get concrete data i mean the concern comes from the fact that when the clinical trial was done there weren't very many people in the trial who were aged 30 to 65 there were some but not enough so really to get meaningful and red cross

states and those regulators in those countries feel that more studies need to be done there's no serious illness there's no evidence that people over that age are more susceptible to serious site side effects only indeed we know that they don't generate any good the response all that's missing is the evidence that they are protected meanwhile the e.u.'s top diplomat to use a barrel speaking during his visit here to moscow during the week expressed hope that the russian sputnik v. vaccine would be certified in europe in the near future and now i am hoping that you do a b. and medical agency will be able to certify deficiency of the vaccine you know that could be your social and european union state who would be good news because as you know we are facing a shortage of vixen. yeah and a recent study published in the or non lunsford medical journal found that sputnik

v was more than 90 percent effective including in people aged 60 and over in terms of european sealed the czech republic is now considering following hungary in buying pain russian vaccine as well that ends in the gone thought the lowly unfortunately i have to say that we just do not have enough big scene and that's why it's so important that when it comes to the point of origin or fix a nation it shouldn't be political issue since i'm not a political question but one of safety. and we heard from another microbiologist who believe sputnik v. has this think that vantage is in the way it was developed. to meet and many of the russians the vaccine is that it actually combines types of sleaze and light was fighting when he said it's absolutely critical that final 26 have been selected before in the course of development of vaccine against h.a.e. as 2 pipes of which that in europe is actually quite low in the human population

and it's excellent that you are today and there's using crying and the vaccine vets it's a great approach that's why from 2nd to you he really has the quality get might make it quite clear that maybe the way forward but again it is absolutely critical that the sit on the population on which it will be like many doctors. search the environment or general speech needs of the population and the overall if you will michael and brian mann there are or community action or infections can enhance or suppress the device and so it's always very important the best in the context in which surely adventurer i mean. now on the telly and tahn has resorted to desperate measures to combat the virus the murder has issued a decree for building anybody from getting sick to draw 'd attention to the fact

that time does not a doctor. i have issued this ruling which is technically called an order i did it as a provocation with no doctor in our town it is impossible for us to get treatment so i had to tell my citizens that the un the way possible to keep going without a medic was to stay healthy that's why i forbade them from falling ill my ruling can hardly be enforced i mean that getting sick or not it is not down to ones who wish and individual can certainly take steps to avoid falling ill for example by wearing a mask searing clear of gatherings and washing hands. it's really was the epicenter of the coronavirus side break in europe last week a grim milestone was reached 90000 deaths related to code the country though relaxed coronavirus restrictions on monday in most regions with people now having greater freedom to travel they can also visit bars restaurants and museums

like the rest of the e.u. actually have seen vaccine shortages to the country has now filed a petition with the e.u. commission pushing for the jobs to be made locally and expects to receive its long awaited 1st batch of senecas shots this weekend the mayor of believes major vaccine manufacturers are acting in their own interest. and i'm demi r.c.l. going to glam rock and see if i believe the pandemic is a problem that cannot be solved by law sadly we can come from it using vaccines however japs are also becoming a problem because pharmaceutical companies are seeking to meet their economic interests which did not respond to the collective interest thus we entered the domain of global geopolitics and political economy where all now in the hands of pharmaceutical companies all of them are being driven by profit in my opinion 2021 will still be dominated by coded 900 due to delays in the vessel campaign and production where liking far behind i'm afraid it will carry on evan into 2022 but i

do hope i'm wrong it's not all doom and gloom though the pandemic goals seen people come together in the face of adversity including a german michelin star restaurant which is now giving out free food to the homeless . was orphaned and we started doing it in the 1st lockdown in april last year and we noticed that there was a great response. to have all the people who are happy to accept it who live up here as well as people who may not even have a home. to

live in the program or donald trump has resigned from the us screen a guild where he's been a member for some 3 decades after the performers union announced they wanted to expel the former president of the united states with more on the move here is to me terry polk. donald trump has quit the screen actors guild but that's after those guys decided to have a disciplinary hearing in wake of the capital riots this whole class is going to feel right in short this is kind of how it went down i'm sorry you're here to daddy in typical trump fashion before the meeting even took place he decided to take the initiative don't talk to me that way wrote a whole letter bashing the guild calling it the worst who can is your organization has done little for its members and nothing for me besides collecting jews and promoting dangerous un-american policies and. he went on to list all of his

numerous achievements in the entertainment industry movies as t.v. appearances by his one of the most successful t.v. shows in american history the apprentice the dream job the lies he even took credit for creating thousands of jobs that quote and as d.n.c. and fake news c.n.n. will assume we know what he's talking about but all this really just sounds like a typical trump tweet given that he can't actually tweet anymore i'm not going to go off and be shy so i guess these letters obtained by fox news are his new primary source of getting his message out it's a disgrace sick people and it's understandable his social media privileges probably won't be coming back anytime soon by mid may. and we did have her and the movies he's been are getting lined up for editing. i like that idea

that his cameo in home alone should be replaced with a 40 year old macauley culkin it's. all in all it doesn't seem like there's anything he can really do to prevent himself from being erased from mainstream american culture but at least for now we have his occasional letters to keep us entertained. quarter past 10 here in moscow this evening we are back with more news in 1000 and counting close. to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

the progress of the left wing are failing continuously to impact any social reform that would satisfy their objectives because they refuse to look at the money itself yes they believe in the field of money they believe the central bank. they believe they believe they believe the words coming out of their mouth and that's the 1st fail and then every single fail comes after that that foundational failure to understand the money itself when it's not backed by anything it's just paper and only a few people control of. the rule lot of seeing governments and people alike scramble to get their own limited

supplies and some are going to great lengths to make sure they are up the front of the queue don't quarter reports. around the world people are racing to get cold vaccines that are often in short supply and even those whose job it is to be a good sports are often willing to cheat their way to the front of the line football club for example which caught attention after getting their players vaccinated it is unacceptable to jump the queue ahead of people most at risk of cope with 19 and the n.h.s. guidance is clear that local vaccination services must manage their appointment lists to ensure all appointments are filled according to the club though those vaccines were going to be dumped anyway which makes everything better right after all it's not the only case when people were fast tracked to get these highly sought after covert shots this seems to be happening all around the world spanish officials for example caught right ahead of people in high risk groups in the u.k. a number of the very workers tasked with regulating vaccine distribution did the

same thing and in the us those who could make generous donations are getting a bit of gratitude in return d.l. than a major donna's we are pleased that we have 500 new open appointments in the overlay couvade 900 faxing clinic beginning these often and tomorrow and next week of course the privileged elite have enough money to bribe their way into vaccination city if they want then there's the rest of society who have to resort to some good old fashioned stealing if they want to cheat all the while governments are still trying to work out how to deal with the line cutters and rule breakers if the health minister is serious about having a fair solution and there needs to be consequences for those who depart from it talk is good but as long as it's not turned into action the good citizen who waits his turn might be standing in line for a while we were going to see. in a broken health care system too often where the well can get taken care of and those who are the poorest and the most help don't this is really just another

example of how coded has exposed broken social and health care systems that people who are. the population has been hit the most more start with indigenous people black and brown people who also have been disproportionately impacted and we're already in situations of having poor how we're living in communities that were polluted when they aren't prioritized actually it makes for the pandemic to spread even more these are populations that tend to congregate more then more populations who can see apart from each other so let's go in and take care of those people and build this solution from the bottom up. and we always have seen a worrying spine a whole related deaths according to newly released figures numbers rules dramatically when people went into lockdown at the beginning of the pandemic last spring the 1st 9 months of last year alone so over $5000.00

a whole related deaths that's a jump of 16 percent compared to the same period in $29.00 and it is the highest alcohol related death toll since records began the spike the widespread closure of bars and clubs alcohol charities believe the pandemics been a significant factor well it's hard to pinpoint the exact reasons behind the rice frontline services have seen how the social isolation and exactly of living through a pandemic has led to an increase in potentially harmful drinking well the u.k. is not alone in terms of rising alcohol consumption curing the pandemic with multiple reports released an autumn identifying a similar trend in the us earlier we spoke to dr james gill electra britain's warrick medical school about the issue. let's be very very clear we have seen a rise to cross the border around the whole use about one quarter of all people who drink alcohol have increased their consumption and some of those numbers have been

staggering if we look at people who drink over 50 units a week that's more not 5 bottles of wine in the week that's gone up from 1500000 people before lock down to now over 2500000 people we saw a 10 percent rise in acute intoxication deaths that was 352 people these deaths are avoidable they're not nearly figures that these unfortunate people that have lost their lives due to fight to an alcohol and yes we have seen the highest level since we started recording these in 2000 and want the effect of the pandemic probably isn't visible in these numbers yet and it's expected that will be further consequences coming down the line so we need to act now to give people the support they need to overcome these alcohol as a coping mechanism. another story to bring you today a u.s.

tech company has been accused of illegally must surveilling people in hell of an investigation by the canadian privacy commissioner alleges that new york based firm clearview. broke the law by sharing facial recognition information with law enforcement agency what clearview does is mass surveillance and it is illegal it is completely unacceptable for millions of people who will never be implicated in any crime to find themselves continually in a police lineup. well according to a report released on whedon's the company allegedly collected the personal taste of users without their consent 3000000000 images of canadians including pictures of children are said to have been shared with the pole least a report claims that the personal information disclose was used for inappropriate purposes and he's not exempt from privacy laws well social media platforms where the company turkey images say that it's also

a violation of their rules and have demanded they stop in response clearview say's if a data collected was publicly available and allowed under canadian privacy laws but some experts are still questioning their actions as well as the use of facial recognition in general. not everyone who uploads a photo to share with grandma on the internet expects to be have that photo put into or essentially a permanent police lineup for the use by the state for law enforcement purposes images were scrapes not just of adults but of children there's a huge number of of innocent young ones who have been caught up again in a perpetual police lineup who are subject to surveillance by the company or in the middle of a public conversation in canada and around the world about if they show recognition which is very privacy invasive which has the capacity to create regime of massive valence can be used in

a society where liberty and freedom is valued what this investigation does is raise the importance of that conversation and it's time now for some political action and really hard conversations about if there is any social benefit of this technology and if it can be used needless to say privacy problems aren't just limited to canada the popular video up to talk meanwhile has been accused of collecting data on people whether they're registered on the platform or not it was probably because think a lot of. it's fair to say at this point that the threat of the chinese government spying on you just isn't enough to put people off the wonderful world of tape talk . and even though there's no evidence to say that take talk is working for the chinese or for it steve it is still spying on you. even if you don't

have to take into account do you remember when facebook was slammed for creating profiles for people who haven't even created an account. i'm not familiar with that exact about denies that they exist but when have we ever taken the stock buzz word for it so now take talk is doing exactly the same if you thought you'd outsmarted take talk by bingeing on its content anonymously. you'd be wrong an article in vice has revealed that can identify you from your ip address mobile carrier and time zone even knows what device t.v. is it screen resolution telephone operator and operating system a journalist from vice made this discovery after asking take talk for all of the data that the hard on him and he was very surprised to find out that even if you don't and they can't take don't keeps

a database of the videos you've watched when you watch the time spent on the app to the 2nd and the actions you've taken and everything else down to the finest details so essentially if you're doing any and countless browsing it's not very secret and guess what you may have thought that they were arch enemies to actually shows your data with facebook just check your poll for facebook activity in facebook settings join to try and live in the amazon and. oh maybe not a lawsuit for noise from the studio here in moscow but do keep a lookout for the r.t. logo on social media this weekend always fresh content or more twitter facebook instagram pictures.

secret prisons are not usually what comes to mind when thinking about europe however even the most prosperous can be deceived we've in the 0 zone there were 2 view houses were allowed to leave prison were located and only cia people had access to the story investigators held the uncovered the darkest dealings of the secret services but i mean. you go ahead and know in. full. justice. the world is driven by shaped.

thinks. we dare to ask. i'm after a time when you're watching going underground on what would have been the 110th birthday of ronald reagan and now 40 years on from his spearheading the neoliberal economics that rule our daily lives a new report from the united nations special report or in extreme poverty and human rights suggests that neo liberalism may not be fit for purpose when it comes to tackling poverty that alone recovering from the devastation of the coronavirus at least. when it comes to the european union special reportorially being the shooter now joins me from brussels levey thanks so much for coming on i mean the e.u.

is in the news for nearly destroying the good friday agreement for a vaccination war your report suggesting that well what's called the often the greatest capitalist project in history is not fit for purpose how do you arrive at that conclusion but essentially my report tries to show that the e.u. is not willing critz to combat poverty because it has organized competition between the member states in taxation matters in the area of wages and and social contributions for years we refer to this as fiscal dumby and social demby and also because it imposes on member states very tights macroeconomy street jackets in order to avoid macroeconomy imbalances across the e.u. this makes it very difficult for states to spend money on social investment at the risk of increasing their public that until today is

a unique opportunity to really rethink these issues and perhaps eventually create the e.u. into it truly of its keep within its borders again to the macroeconomic pressures by virtue of the euro arguably in a 2nd but you think there is recognition of what you just said in that as you say in the report there is no target anymore for poverty reduction in the 2020 poverty target of 20000000 was missed by 8700000 men women and children in the. in the. strategy had been announced. 20000000 by. this time and i think it has traumatising. they. may be difficult to reach.