headlining now in. brussels now calls to stop a black sea walls amid chronic job shortages the pushing to approve russia with western studies found to be more than 90 percent efficient. the state of new york finally releases data revealing an almost doubling of coronavirus deaths in care homes. visits the russian i.t. company helping us social media network powerless. by google amazon following the capital of. the past of liberty freedom of speech and democracy. to shut down whatever they want and basically seeing the great american filed.

the international. news this hour 1st the european commission president is calling on countries to stop competing and work together to tackle. with britain have a vaccine supply while the e.u. considers authorizing russia's. which are needed western studies shown to be more than 90 percent effective. the old confrontational mindset has arrived 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 there's little on the line has being keen and in a recent comments to stress in a void it's of vaccine nationalism saying that the european union russia china and

the united states need to work together not against one another when it comes to developing a real vaccine program a real global vaccine program it's a bit of a different change in tone from a slip on the line than what we heard from her just over a week ago when she was very much at the center of a lot to shambles of a conflict between the e.u. the u.k. and the vaccine manufacturer astra zeneca that was over the deliveries of the astra zeneca job to the european union that almost resulted in or at least threats all were made of a potential ban on exports manufactured fraud within the e.u. to anywhere else in the world and there was talk even of invoking article 16 of the breaks that treaty doubt would have put in place a hard border on the island of ireland. well put at risk peace in northern ireland that's prompted some to say they glad to hear the fund the line taking

a different tack now 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 of the threats to block exports but there are big problems with the vaccine procurement here in the european union we've already seen france portugal and spain have to suspend vaccine programs due to simply not having the jobs to give out while here in germany angler merkel has said that the country still on track in order to live up to the promise of offering a job to everyone that wants one by the end of the summer they have. of minutes the end spawn is also you said germany is months behind where it wants to be that has seen sputnik v the russian vaccine come forward as a potential aid to helping the european union's ailing vaccine program the medical journal the lancet recently published a study in which it said the covert 1000 vaccine was over 90 percent effective against the virus so far sputnik v has been approved for use in 21 different

nations it's expected that it will get the green light for use in the european union very soon and now i am hoping that to be in a medical agency will be able to certify the efficiency of these vaccine you know that could be useful szell dupion union state would be good news because as you know we are facing a shortage of vaccine. the accidents are all about defectiveness safety in the bail 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 missed the safety and efficacy conditions is welcome in europe we are interested in getting as many vaccines of theories types as we can there's been a big change in tone when it comes to media coverage of the russian sputnik v vaccine it's set to get the green light for approval very soon in the european

union is currently being reviewed by the european medicines agency there is a chance that it could even be manufactured inside the european union while france and germany have both said that it would be a useful addition to the e.u.'s vaccine arsenal hungary got a head start on other e.u. member states they approved it unilaterally away from brussels is one for all and all for one vaccine program and 5 top budapest has already received the 1st tranche of doses of the 2000000 that it ordered it's understood that the czech republic could well be the next member state to follow hungary's lead the russian sputnik the vaccine is set for approval by the european medicines agency here in the e.u. sometime this month. state of new york's revealed bird nursing home deaths from cove it is almost double the number previously reported new data shows that more

than 13000 care home residents have died from cope with since last march that includes those who were taken to hospital and died there the statistics are far worse than those published in november and were only released by the health department after a court order we spoke to the daughter of one nursing home resident who died during the pandemic she's now started a campaign to protect seniors from the virus. we were at a loss as to how this happened so my mother 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 it looked like a very safe place we never thought about doing the research about past history past violations any any lawsuits against this particular facility ultimately the shutdown has assassinated the death because when family can't get in an advocate

for their loved one. there's more there's more incidence of neglect before the court ruling new york attorney general posted her own report suggesting governor cuomo said ministration misled the public and undercounted deaths associated with nursing homes by at least 50 percent however health officials claimed they always made it clear the numbers only included those who died at cat homes and not later in hospital in the months it took to provide cumulative data we spend on order thing. when your health department also insists the deaths rank well below the national average vivian's eyes again claims the governor's office deliberately had 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 our governor andrew cuomo came out with a book in which he talks about how his success of handling the public right so i

don't think he wanted negative press so basically he figured if he if he stalls a little longer he could basically 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 then nothing like this happens again and the senior community could be safe and not be afraid. british queen's being accused of lobbying the government to hide her vast private wealth in a scheme that ran for several decades the revelations come from the national archive documents uncovered by the guardian newspaper amid a back to 973 back then queen elizabeth the 2nd persuaded the government to enact a legal change a law in companies used by heads of state to be exempt from transparency procedures

the paper says she was then able to use a shell company to conceal her finances up until at least 2011 of the queen's net worth is still unknown but it's believed to run into hundreds of millions of pounds according to the files of the buckingham palace legal team used an obscure procedure called queen's consent to get the changes through parliament and allows the monarch to see bills in advance and withhold approval if the content affects the interests of the crown buckingham palace rebuffed these allegations saying that the use of the queen's consent is standard practice. and is always granted by the monarch when requested by government and he is so sure that the sovereign has blocked legislation is simply incorrect whether crean's consent is acquired is decided by parliament independently in matters that would affect crown interests. some thoughts on this next then with norman baker former liberal democrat m.p. and british home office minister welcome to the program mr baker what do you make of these revelations that is embarrassing for her majesty well of course it is but

it's nothing new i mean for it to scream consent because he just been in there for centuries and he does it out of the reality of it in my recent book and what do you do the fact is that parliament could take away the requirement for the queen to have the opportunity to present a solution but as joe's not to do so and it's slightly disingenuous of the powers to say that the queen has not blocked legislation that's technically true that you have to block legislation but what happens is that a draft bill is said to the palace for the queen to have your petition the comment commons come back at least is unchanged so the vinyl bill the queen approves is one which has been changed to meet her requirements most people are going to be unfamiliar with the term queen's consent and they this is not the same as royal assent which is the formal rubber stamping of a bill that's made its way through parliament does that suggest then that the mechanism was used by the queen to pressure the government or by her advisors to

pressure the government to enact a change. well her advisors act for her but the fact of the matter is that in most monarchies across so europe the moment so as a country in this condition to an expectation that the country serves the monarch the queen is worth or over a 1000000000 pounds easily were worth a 1000000000 pounds probably a lot more than that you want to ask for that money has come from it's come from tax break system from changing legislation such as this to her advantage and under what circumstances is it right for a head of state to be able to twist the public finances to benefit themselves personally i'm afraid if we do see this with 7 presidents across the world the rich and rich in themselves but the challenge must be for democratic accountability of these people that's what pollan to do and i'm glad the governor just published this and i hope will result in the change what extent of the british people have a right to know how much money the queen has any more than any other lord and lady in the houses of parliament who are also having their say on nords and inherit vast

wealth. they have the queen should be treated as any other citizen is treated and to exempt herself from a distillation which is embarrassing but to allow others to be chopped up but a distillation is created to benefit herself the fact of the matter is you have to ask where the monies come from that the queen now has where the a group really impounds it is not come from what the military it's come from tax breaks or from beneficial changes legislation the so-called private property which the queen has for example balmoral and sandringham was actually bought by queen victoria because she'd been overpaid the amounts of money she did to undertake her gigi's big jorian times she said this is the queen's consent this is nothing new but i suppose it showed a new light on the rather opaque way that all this is set up that the constitutional duties and outs of of your do you think this might or should lead to and he renewed interest in changing the system. the royal finances are stranded in

mystery quite deliberately so but what we do know is that they are hugely beneficial for the queen and her family and that's both improper it's an insult to democracy in my view but it's also one which is a danger to the royal family as are all found it would be well advised to amend these situations before they're forced to do so by parliament do you think they'll be much call for more transparency over the queen's finances after all in terms of mana case she is arguably one of the most famous and popular. she is indeed famous and popular and that's partly because she's just jagir duties in a way that seemed to be appropriate but it's also because embarrassing matters like this have been kept swept under the carpet my personal view is that nobody in particular was shocked at the queen she's 94 ridge i think 94 and she's also seemed to tell a decent job by and large as head of state but i think when she finally leaves this

leaves us i'm pretty sure of that so that all these matters will come out of the woodwork and require answers ok for now norma baker former home office minister thanks for joining us. republicans and democrats in the u.s. congress and locked in an unlikely feud over metal detectors as have some wondering whether they'll now argue about absolutely anything. yesterday at approximately 90 9 am multiple members observe the speaker of the house and 2 in the house chamber without completing security screening. pay the

fine speaker pelosi. speaker pelosi full of her own 5 k. a metal detector find in the house chamber meanwhile my friend louie go most went through security later went to the restroom immediately adjacent security but didn't return through the metal to take his phone was fined 5000 dollars by speak about lucy i have not received any unusual incident reports from the u s c b concerning the speaker of the house.

next germany sweden and poland have expelled one russian diplomat h. in a tit for tat. move it comes off to russia sent 3 embassy stuff aside last week for attending a protest in support of opposition activists alexina valmy more on this now than for more color spondon don't qualify that talk us through what happened either call in well the germany's foreign ministry said that this recent expulsion of russian diplomats was done in court close coordination with sweden and poland like you said this was they consider this to be a tit for tat response to russia's earlier expulsion of their diplomats from the country which germany said was unjustified but we heard from the russian foreign ministry that they believe that this recent move was actually unjustified after all

russian authorities had expelled had expelled the european diplomats in question after a video was released of these people apparently participating in protests supporting the recently imprisoned opposition activist i would say no volley now the european diplomat said that they were not participating they were actually just observing but this couldn't have come at a worse time especially because relations between the airplane union and russia have been made even worse than they already were ever since he was sentenced to nearly 3 years in prison today's verdict against alexina violently is a bitter blow against fundamental freedoms and the rule of law in russia and the cheena valley must be released immediately because no we're still on the same topic the west is trying to dodge the issue of finding the real truth of what's 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 to the very least and such are against on behalf of in lights and europe is absolutely inappropriate and unacceptable. now just to remind our viewers alex had spent a lot of the latter portion of last year in a german hospital recovering from an illness that he claimed was a poisoning sanctioned by the kremlin now when the opposition activist returns to moscow last month he was immediately arrested in the airport for violating a probationary sentence that was leveled against him in 2014 and the european court of human rights claims that he was not given a fair trial that and so they recognize they don't recognize the legitimacy of this arrest but really this recent exchange of expulsions seems just like another example of russia and the european union not seeing eye to eye on the facts ok thank you. thanks paula the social media platform taken offline by the tech giants off of the capitol hill riot is being given a lifeline by

a russian constantine rushkoff has the story. just a bit so you don't want to film the screens over there with the turned off from shooting peter b. facility what are you those mysterious russian hackers in the how much do i scare you. if you use the word while in general if you're getting pressure from the tech giants is it possible to resist. you close by to. give them a little black hole you know how it is and who was threatened by the company because you were supporting parlor the future of the great american filed wall of merging. this is raw stuff undone most americans have probably never heard of the city in southern russia but if you happen to be a parlor user well you should probably learn the name there is

a small digital firm in this city that help to restore the ill fated platform that was ripped off the internet after the angry mob ransacked the capitol building in d.c. . parlors been especially popular among conservatives and from supporters and it was accused of harboring radicals and conspiracy theories which the last of the lads to be january 6th violence and so apple google and amazon pulled the plug on a service that many saw as an alternative to the while 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 less than a 1000000 to over 15000000 in 2020 and just won a lot of people thought that the platform was gone for good parlor has made a surprising comeback with the help of russians.

the russian company that has thrown parlor a lifeline was immediately labeled as dodgy in the us media while surprisingly they have agreed to host our film crew at their office so let's find out who this people are and where did they get the courage to play this game against the us big attack . it's. just how many of are you those mysterious russian hackers or internet freedom fighters in it neither of us don't we're not fond of any thinking group and there's also the news and we don't do any hacking and getting us to only one information security service we provide global content protection.

what i say right off the bat the other place really doesn't look like a 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 question how did he end up working with parlor and 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 what it shows us so i guess they researched all similar services working globally and decided to hire us currently we met their criteria. this is our main facility where we service our network succeed. let's not film everything's but you can see the scale of our operation from a master moore's law we're can with film show us from this angle that's enough but

just so you don't want to film the screens over there way to get turned off and what kind of important and secret information on the screens should be hidden from outsiders. potential attackers might be interested in the way our network is set up . a question of when you wouldn't want them to see it because of what threats this parlor facing. google and apple stopped working with them if you can use one of course they're facing numerous threats that must be neutralized and we're helping them do that. in a bottle or poison some logically one parlor uses your services your company receives the data of millions of american users which can be accessed by russian special services and some of. this is complete nonsense that has nothing to do with reality the traffic is encrypted that's in most cases the dream so you can't rebut massive jews of parlor users even we come see you.

first bar was blocked completely but then they managed to restore the web page it was a static page at the site of the last is that the parlor c.e.o. said the platform would be back and fully operational see what i'm up on the studio to know it's still with us. so how did you manage to do that was that i knew it. was more than we gave them the opportunity to distribute their content that you purchased and it's a 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 but we're completely independent from us based on big tech than from the u.s. government or any other government for that matter. right i mean it's not a real company if they don't have video games in there rick ration over and so this is either a by the way he is one of the senior employees here at the dos guard and we're going to play some soccer right now.

to see what beautiful and your whole world was surprised to see parlors impressive comeback thanks to the russians never once sat right away aha now there are russian hackers cracking it or there's a witch hunt of sorts under way a witch hunt or there's like if you're russian you have to be our current you must be banned to show it's possible that it's all about competition and competition was a mortal possibly the global market is huge for the world. and if there's a chance to remove some competition why not take it. the 1st time i heard of carlos was when our support team started to get anonymous threats. and who was threatened by the company and your company when you yes because you were supporting parlor yes could you just read it out loud for us. to give them. is not sure if it's not just on you guys out there that means that

they're threatening to try and take down our network through some provider oh i defend disrupt our services i just. don't know what we can see that this message was sent from the united states. to us. say yes this message was sent by someone in the usa. but generally if you're getting fresh air from attack giants such as apple or amazon muslims is it possible to resist it but also say technically it will stay as. well they can make it really hard for us that's for sure but on the upside they don't own the entire internet yet we see governments implementing measures to control information flow. and internet traffic. and right now we see how the united states is doing it the best you can of the liberty freedom of speech

and democracy is actually working on a mechanism to shut down whatever they want and we're basically saying no the great american final will emerging. say this. at the end of the day guys through a party it's really hard to tell what's coming their way now after they came into the spotlight 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. not. better focus on your problems at home. in the how much do i scare you. that's your update find out thanks for watching i'm calling brian moscow back with the next update from me on the most good news david just to be then.

well the pandemic no certainly no borders i'm just blind to nationalities. as americans we don't come with therapy we don't look like seeing the whole world peace to be the chief. judge of. 2 commentary crisis with this system to time so we can do better we should be. everyone is contributing nature our own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges great the response has been so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together.

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