headlines this monday morning brussels makes a huge vaccine nationalism and cause to stop wars as it pushes to approve the chronic shortage shortage is still with western studies funding russia more than 90 percent of the. other news to brief you on the street slapped on one tally in reach of as its registered its 1st case of that u.k. mutation. stuttering vaccination campaign national health officials want alternative solutions them. must run fast because in the eternal fight between viruses and humans time is the fundamental factor that we can quickly examine other alternatives to contracts already signed in europe among which is

certainly the russian meat sputnik vaccine and another source for tracking for you this morning after a court ruling the state of new york finally releases data revealing an almost doubling of coronavirus cumulative deaths at nursing homes with the daughter of one victim saying governor andrew cuomo would have preferred bury the figure. a little longer and. maybe it would be swept under the rug. where there are no good morning from russia this 8th of february this is art international coverage over here for the next 30 minutes with the latest for you. the news that the president of the european commission there's compared the race for vaccines to the struggles of the cold war she warned that countries must put such competition behind them now to beat the virus live on the lions comments come

as the e.u. changes its chuen and seems to be moving towards authorizing russia the covert shot which a recent study shows is more than 90 percent effective. the old confrontational mindset has arrived i think for instance about could 916th some countries see the quest for a vixen as a race amounts global power is like this piece race in the 1960 s. this is an illusion the only race is against the virus and the virus is spreading faster than ever before let's go live to belittle your across one of their money paid pay their so seems broader are to choose to sputnik be changing when. yes but they ve certainly in the line of sight when it comes to the european union as an option a future addition to their arsenal but a lot of people will be listening to waters live on the line the e.u. commission president to say they're very good comments saying that vaccine nationalism needs to go that europeans russians chinese americans they shouldn't

all be fighting one another to get the vaccine 1st however many will remember the just over a week ago as the fonda line herself was slap bang in the center of an absolute shambles when it came to vaccine nationalism a conflict between the e.u. the u.k. and the vaccine astra zeneca that was supplies of the astra zeneca job to the european union it saw threats coming from brussels of potential export bans they never came to fruition there was also though the suggestion of the breaking of the brakes that treaty in the invoking of article 16 which some said would have even gone as far as putting peace in northern ireland at risk these are sensible words and i agree but i hope that means no more aggressive or pitch bullying tactics over the northern irish border or over threats to block exports. there are big problems here in the e.u.

when it comes to vaccine supply we've already seen france spain and portugal suspend parts of there or in total they have vaccine program here in germany despite angler merkel making assurances that the initial plan of everybody in the country being offered a job by the end of summer was still on track we have also heard from the health minister saying that germany is months behind where they wanted to be what we are seeing though is the choice of the russian sputnik the vaccine potentially being on the table this is after it came out and reports in western media and in the prominent medical journal the lancet saying that it was over 90 percent effective against covert 19 many politicians saying that well could well be the job for them and now i am hoping to be in a medical agency will be able to certify a deficiency of these vaccine you know that could be useful szell into the p.

and union state who would be good news because as you know we are facing a shortage of vaccine. that since are all about effectiveness safety in the veil ability to not do political struggles it's about getting the safest back since quickly as possible regardless of who developed them any vaccine that's ready and meet the safety and efficacy conditions is welcome in europe we're interested in getting as many vaccines of theories types as we can there has been a big change in media coverage of the russian sputnik the vaccine it's currently undergoing approval from the european medicines agency that that's after we've heard from their lancet saying it was more than 90 percent efficient there's even talks of it being manufactured here in europe and we've also heard from germany and france who said that it could well be a potent addition to the vaccine arsenal now hungry has already

got one step ahead really when it comes to the sputnik the vaccine they've already received the 1st tranche of $2000000.00 doses that they put on order that's after they broke ranks with the use one for all in all for one vaccine procurement program and which brussels was supposed to do all of the buying the czech republic are set to be the next to follow suit and give the green light to the sputnik v. job it is set for approval the russian vaccine that is is set for approval by the e m a the european medicines as agency at some time in february of keeping a keen eye to see when that will get the green light all of it can come soon enough no from berlin it was staying in europe next week over to italy remains one of the worst hit covert hotspots in europe now want to tally in regions bring in a strict lockdown after registering its 1st case of the more contagious british mutation it's thought to be spreading faster than other strains with fears that it

could worsen the situation across the country like the rest of the e.u. italy suffering vaccine shortages italy's got its 1st batch of britain's astra zeneca jabber. saturday itself to road threaten legal action of a huge delivery delays it also asked the commission member states make their own shots as a last resort to tallinn health counsellor a lesser demand told us that europe needs russia's vaccine. for them in the us in this case it's not the jobs origin we should focus on but the efficacy of test results and we must run fast because in the eternal fight between viruses and humans time is the fundamental factor we can quickly examine other alternatives to contracts already signed in europe among which is certainly the russian made sputnik the vaccine we were asked to test sputnik vs quickly as possible by limiting time spent on bureaucracy after all it is

a vaccine that is already being administered in many countries around the world. speaking about the doses that are available in italy that the european level we're among the 1st countries after germany for the number of jobs and doses available to us for example in our region the one where the italian capital is we do $8000.00 doses every day knowing that we could do at least 5 times more if we had more doses available. i support it but it must be a super national decision that involves several states when we have a considerable number of people inoculated vaccination certificates will certainly be a garden tour for the safety of flights. elsewhere the state of new york's revealed the covert death toll in nursing homes is almost double the number previously

reported new data shows more than 13000 the care home residents have died from covert since march that includes those who were taken to hospital and died there the statistics are far worse than those published in november the revelations come after a court order where the state of ministration having been unable to respond to public demands for correct figures we spoke to the daughter of one nursing home resident who died during the pandemic she started a campaign indeed to protect the elderly from the virus. we were at a loss as to how could this happen to my mother who was about to go home that morning and we didn't know she was having trouble breathing the facility lacked transparency they did not tell us my mother had contracted the virus did you not tell us the she was having difficulty breathing they kept reassuring us a she was ok and fine my mother was not a permanent resident she had knee surgery we wanted to have her get a little bit of physical therapy on a full time basis which the doctors recommended it looked like

a very safe place we never thought about doing the research about past history has the violations any any lawsuits against this particular facility we believe the sign that was in the entrance just said that it was the number one the syllabi on long island and we wanted nothing more but the but the best for our mother so we thought she would have never been any harm or danger we were visiting her every single day and then until the shutdown ultimately the shutdown has assassinated the death because when family can't get in an advocate for their loved ones there's more there's more incidence of neglect yeah before the court's ruling that new york state attorney general posted their own report and suggested governor cuomo has administration misled the public and undercounted deaths associated with nursing homes but least 50 percent new york state health officials claimed they always made it clear the numbers only included residents dying inside the facility and the

months it took to provide cumulative data spends on order to apparently well the new york health department also insists the deaths right well below the national average vivian size again believes the governor's office deliberately hid the real numbers. we were trying to figure out if this happened to my mother by herself or did this happen to other seniors and at that time the media was not discussing it we were reaching out to the media to see if they had heard of anything we wanted to tell our stories to see of other families with step up our governor andrew cuomo came out with a book. which in which he talks about how his success of manly handling the colbert writers so i don't think he wanted negative press so basically he figured if he if he stalls a little longer he could basically maybe it would be swept under the rug and hoping that the good thing that comes out of this sad situation tragically is that we can

look at our nursing homes again and say what can we do to protect our senior so that nothing like this happens again and that the senior community could be safe and not be afraid if they need to get rehabilitation treatment at a facility or if they need to get a stay long term that something can happen and tragically meet the end of their lives unfortunately. also in the u.s. a major high covert death toll and often expensive health care system growing numbers of pushing for a comprehensive health insurance system most of our t's going underground shoshu terms you discussed the issue with levi sanders he's the son of u.s. politician bernie sanders. but the pay out of pocket expenses whether it's $6000.12 'd 1000 dollars 18000 dollars in order to actually be able to get health care you have to pay out of pocket so sir you have 70 percent of the american public who

supports a medicare for all single payer health care system and the problem ultimately have is that you know joe biden hangs out with a lot of lobbyists and the reality is i think psychological to even understand the full extent of what's going on in terms of the country and that's and that's you know it starts that that's a sad reality there has to be tremendous pressure by the progressive caucus and a lot of people to say joe that the wealthiest country in the history of the world everybody should be entitled to healthcare right we have right now 7475000000 supporters so now we have an opportunity to reach out to these folks and really just to say that you know you're hurting we understand a lot of people do not have health care or partially in short and we can bring all these folks together we have so many folks that desperately was a medicare for all single payer health care system as i talk to people i say you know there's not a democrat or republican problem this is an extraordinary situation there when you

talk to folks who are not the doll trumps of the world they can no longer afford their high co-payments deductibles and out of pocket expenses. next a story of a british teenagers woken up on for a 10 month coma unaware of the existence of the pandemic 19 year old joseph level was hit by a car in march in central england just 3 weeks before the country went into a full joseph spade in a coma of a saint's during his recovery then on top of all that he called coronavirus twice and came through on both occasions josephs now engaging with family and friends for the 1st time as he slowly recovers from his brain injury we spoke to his cousin who told us about his current state. so when they found out. basically his eyes were open and he was communicating to his eyes and you can move things like is thing is toast that is also a very good sign he's still in a state where he isn't talking to us yet and i haven't seen his reaction about the

kind of pandemic i know as a person yes it is a strong and. isabella side very excited and hopeful obviously i'm here in new zealand so when the pandemic and flying restrictions struck a lot of us their 1st roles basically that his mum is going to go see and of course she can't really say or touch with the moment due to the pandemic so when these rules left it then my aunt his mum will go and see him and then the found in the u.k. as soon as possible really would like to go and see how he's progressing yet. what a thing to have to go through so much of it in order to help joseph in his recovery the family for created a fund raising website with almost 33000 pounds already put forward his family told us about his success. we've set up as it is the choice of journey campaign and that campaign is basically our family and joseph loved ones of friends and we're all

getting together we're doing things to help him how can get through and this money will basically judge was his rehabilitation or be things to help him get it back to the way he used to date but our campaign. is getting really successful it's getting the coverage that's needed and we're doing things just to try and get choices and share out really and he's selling it in a hospital bed so we can do things like record video spread and we can show in those videos. we're playing music we're doing all sorts of things as a family and friends to try to help joseph in every way and wish him well social media powerful palos gained traction in recent months as mayor in particular donald trump supporters and conservatives not least because of polish claims that he's free from censorship but last month the i phone app store removed the platform

and amazon stopped hosting the service blaming it for inciting the capital riots now russian tech firms come to polish rescue teams constantly roscoff went to speak to the people who helped the platform stay afloat. this is a roster of andar most americans have probably never heard of the city in southern russia but if you happen to be a parlor user law you should probably learn the name there is a small digital firm in the city that help to restore the ill fated platform that was whipped off the internet after the angry mob ransacked the capitol building in d.c. . parlors the especially popular among conservatives and from supporters and who was accused of harboring radicals in conspiracy theories which the latch of the lad to the january 6th violence and so. apple google and amazon pulled the plug on a service that many saw as an alternative to do well established social media like

twitter and facebook google has just removed parlor pulling the plug on parlors parlors suspended parlor was forced to shut down parlor was america's most downloaded out during the west selection week the number of users soared from last than a 1000000 to over 15000000 in 2020 and just one a lot of people thought that the platform was gone for good parlor has made a surprising comeback with the help of russians. are you those mysterious russian hackers or internet freedom fighters neither of us don't we don't have any thinking group news and we don't do any hacking it must only when information security service we provide global content protection. place really doesn't look like secret bunker adds some shady k.g.b. facility i mean just you know look at that high tea style office

humor. it's a hilarious. how did he end up working with parlor in providing services for them it wasn't a decision we didn't really ask them to work with us we had no previous contact with that social media platform we met them when they became our customers and chose us so i guess they researched all similar services working globally and decided to hire us. we met their criteria. first there was a block completely then they managed to restore the web page it was a static page that our side of the parlor c.e.o. said to the platform would be back and fully operational see what a bonus to get to know. so how do you manage to do that. we gave them the opportunity to distribute their content. well yes it's a small page but any u.s. based companies will have a hard time trying to block it because it's located on

a russian based platform. completely independent from us based on big tech than from the u.s. government or any other government for that matter the 1st time i heard of it was when our supporting him started to get anonymous threats. and who was threatened by the company your company yes because you were supporting parlor yes we can see that this message was sent from the united states as. you would say. this message was sent by someone in the usa the best you can of liberty freedom of speech and democracy is actually working on a mechanism to shut down or whatever they want and we're basically saying no the great american fire wall emerging. working with a client like parlor is not a cry tactically but it definitely means you're taking on the risk you know and by

the way they have a masses for those mysterious users who keep sending them threats. as you know how much do i scare you. it's national criminal courts ruled it's got jurisdiction over the west bank of the gaza strip including east jerusalem of that means that it could now probe war crimes there including those allegedly committed by israel the ruling with very different reactions in israel and palestine we are going to soon go to israel for food war crimes this is pure anti semitic. this prime minister of israel i assure you we will fight this perversion of justice with all our might the decision of the people you see is a very unique and important decision for us it's a landmark it's history has been made it's a victory for the victims who are disappointed and we did for this decision 40 years. the i.c.c.

says it will focus on israeli military operations in the gaza strip as well as potentially illegal settlement activities in the west bank the court says it will also investigate war crimes allegedly perpetrated by palestinian armed groups you have help or the head of the israeli committee against house demolitions told us to that although the i.c.c. lacks weight its rulings could still have some effect on israel. first of all israel doesn't recognize the international criminal court at all. secondly it doesn't recognize palestine as a state at all. and 3rd it's always rejected any attempt to oversee what it does in the occupied territories that's the struggle all the time with international law and human rights has no teeth the i.c.c. and how you know it it has no independent strengths still you know nevertheless you know it has a quite a bit of effect in terms of public opinion you know if you israel can can be recast

as a war criminal that really means something washington if additional ally of israel was quick to slam the ruling despite the fact that previously president biden a champ in progress on human rights. we have serious concerns about the i.c.c. is attempts to exercises jurors stiction is ready personnel the united states is always take the position that the court's jurisdiction should be reserved for countries that consent to it all that are referred by the un security council house stand for our values of human rights 1 and dignity i work in common purpose for more secure peaceful and prosperous world to help program believes the bottom ministrations no less pro israel than its predecessor. i think the united states under graydon is completely committed the israel he said the long history of supporting israel so does camila terrorists so does the democratic party fact the

democratic party has always supported israel more than the republicans the best that can happen is a might pressure israel to stop settlement building maybe stop house demolitions the worst things that they're doing in terms of the occupied territory maybe something with gaza the 2 state solution is gone and it's dead but governments including by the us government still need it in order to manage the conflict they have to keep the illusion flowing it is still a 2 state solution is still negotiations. president biden says he's not ready to lift sanctions on iran and till the country returns to its commitments under the 2050 nuclear deal but iran's supreme leader says it's the u.s. that needs to at 1st. you know. if they want iran to return to its commitments under the joint comprehensive plan of action america must completely lift the sanctions not just with words or in paper they just can see we have lived to the

same sions know they must actually lift the sanctions and we have to verify this will the us lift sanctions 1st in order to get iran back to the negotiating table. the nuclear deal was struck 5 years ago by iran along with the 5 permanent members of the un security council plus germany it followed years a complex talks and western legations that around was secretly developing nuclear weapons claim that it's always denied the result was the lifting of most sanctions than based on iran's commitment to limit you rein him in richmond and allow inspections but then a twist in $28.00 days in the trumpet ministration quit the deal and last month around confirmed it had resumed enriching uranium to beyond the level set in the nuclear pact professes mohammad marandi from the university of taran believes it's washington that needs to make the 1st move. it wasn't iran that left the negotiating table it was the united states that left it wasn't you ron start

implementing the deal it was the united states that stopped it the iranians already gave much more than enough the nuclear deal of the g c p o a while as a deal where both sides gave something in iran gave quite a lot in fact many in iran believe it was a bad deal of work are that of whether it was a bad deal or a good deal obama administration which included by then they signed on to the deal so unless the united states commits itself to what it has promised to do unless it carries out its obligations then there is no deal that's what we talk about so far this monday morning thank you for checking in wherever you're watching around the world for me kevin though in their. yes the have a great day. by

the pandemic no certainly no borders just blind to nationalities. that you. as americans we don't have a theory we don't have the facts in the whole world beat's to be the chief. judge of. the mary crisis with this system to time so we can do better we should. everyone is contributing it's your own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges crayford to response has been massive so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that

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hello and welcome to cross top are all things considered i'm peter lavelle u.s. president joe biden has formally presented his administration's foreign policy vision it's a mixed bag for sure here on this edition of we break it all down the good the bad and the ugly. to discuss joe biden's foreign policy i'm joined by my guest glenn decent and also he is a professor in author of the book russian conservatism managing change under permanent revolution and here in moscow we have next to call he is next for at the russian international affairs council originally crossed of rules of effect that means you

can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciate it ok let's go to glenn 1st here and also in looking at joe biden's of 1st speech at the state department. it was supposed to be his vacation here and in the mainstream media was positive towards it and he stressed at least in the beginning of his comments about diplomacy but if you look at he entire speech there is no gentler magic initiative being presented and very interesting me where there could be and should be diplomacy is afghanistan and it wasn't even mentioned once and i making a reference to the previous administration's deal to get us troops out of afghanistan remarkably it was absent and we'll talk about how russia played a role in it so essentially i saw no restraint i saw no real as and in many ways the continuity of the trim foreign policy go ahead plan. well i think their way he

referred to diplomacy was mostly terms.