in the day's headlines and if it comes closer to approval after it's confirmed the european medicines agency has received the application for russia's shot. south africa puts its rollout of the astra zeneca vaccine on hold after trials point to low effectiveness against a fast spreading a local code its strain. also this hour police in germany warn of growing attacks on officials and journalists by kobe deniers as conspiracy theories flourish and lock down 13. and partisan divisions in the u.s. reach a boiling point as a top columnist thanks her pro trump neighbors the cleared her driveway by comparing them to terrorists.

watching our to international bring your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. sputnik the house passed another major milestone on the road to approval russia's direct investment fund arranging its just your vacation has confirmed the european medicines agency has received the application for approval of the coping job to go live now to our more on what do we know about the registration process well jack essentially sputnik really has the homestretch towards approval all across of the block right now it's in the final stage which is called a rolling review well here's how the russians themselves are describing the stage that the process has. the. navy registration in the e.u. on general 292021 still to submitting information to the ruling review the fund has

received official confirmation from the in may that it's not because it has been received it's up to the a.m.a. to determine the speed of the review process. so again this is called a rolling review and what it means is that the european medicines agency it is right now requesting documents after the after the document from the russians just to world just to determine how safe or effective sputnik really is and so on and so forth again there's no way that the russians can give an estimate as to how quickly they will decide and they will make the decision but they have expressed hope that it will happen rather sooner than later and it could spell great news for all europeans who are looking to get immunity against covert 19 because right now the block has approved 3 different vaccines to be used on their soil one by you. and by astra zeneca but when it comes to fighter for instance there have been

extreme shortages in supply you saw the vaccination rates of the speed the pace has slowed down to a trickle and when it comes to astra zeneca for instance while the vaccine has been battered by numerous and alarming reports of extremely low efficacy and at the same time sputnik v. has confirmed to have it's been confirmed that it is it's efficacies stands at over 91 percent so there you have it in fact there are already european countries like for instance hungary's the 1st and the only one so far in sort of in defiance to brussels they not only not only have the already ordered more than $2000000.00 doses of sputnik greve they have already received 1st batches and the czech republic is looking to go the same way they're also contemplating making this decision now but there are of course you know world haters going to hate and the prime minister of lithuania for instance she called a sputnik a weapon

a hybrid weapon of more school well a weapon that moscow is a happily using on its soil in its own soil on its own citizens and quite successfully because here in russia. mass vaccination has been going it's in full swing it's and 4th wattle in fact the russian authorities they are expecting that up to 60 percent of the whole russian population will receive the jab by mid summer and world russia is happy to share its success but with everyone willing. parties it goes dollar they get for bringing us that report. the news comes as another vaccine on the market faces fresh problems south africa has suspended rollout of the astra zeneca job after a trial showed minimal protection against a new more contagious covert strain in the country. trials in south africa have shown that the clinical efficacies diminish substantially the estrogenic a vaccine needs to be put on temporary hold. the british phrase former giants now

working to a doubt its vaccine to tackle the south african strain for now the country's not election campaign all rely on the fires are and johnson and johnson jobs which will be delivered in the coming weeks ahead of a local center for health care journalism told us the long delays in the point vaccines have allowed the new mutations to develop. so everyone in the countries frustrated of course because the scene doesn't prove to be so effective against the new they are eant and that is essentially a frustration with the science of viruses that we can do anything about because that is how viruses which they evolve in order to be disinvited and that's why we see these interrogations and we're going to see more mutations and around the world in populations that haven't been that rather quickly because if we don't that's a nice quick to be good time for mutations to develop so yes there's big

frustration in south africa that our vaccination campaign was likely to start later this week and now we can't and the best thing we can do is to obtain data to see if a stress any desperate takes against severe disease if it doesn't then we need to change our plan and go with added the scenes. the number of covered cases in germany is falling along with a drop in patients in intensive care but authorities insist the 2nd wave of the pandemic is not over that would peak maybe passing thanks to lock downs and other restrictions. this isn't as if this development is very good news as also prove that the mental limitations work that we the citizens have to weave with the guild to reach a national incidence of move to a lower has not been achieved it. with the lockdown still in place across the country the situation is complicated by covert skeptics and conspiracy theories

even sparking attacks on officials and journalists german police say they're finding the rising level of violence disturbing as peter over reports. sounds germany remains under covert restrictions comes spira see theories about the virus and the methods used to try and stop it spread of lead to tempers flaring and it times boiling over into violence. was. new figures from the police show that there's been a rise in attacks on politicians in 2020 the rightwing office issued an alternative to germany policy faced far and away the most attacks with the greens and the social democrats some way behind in 2nd and 3rd place and it isn't just politicians

that are seeing themselves targets that we are concerned that the threats and hostilities are steadily increasing the supplies to politicians but also to other people such as your ologists who are particularly visible in the media during a pandemic we are registering attacks on journalists more and more often emotions are running high almost half of the offenses registered amounted to insulting behavior however there were 17 cases of bodily injury 7 cases of arson warn of attempted murder and one involving explosives conspiracy theories involving covert have been blamed as a catalyst for extremist behavior conspiracy ideologies created just occasion for attacks sometimes there's only so. bark missing which is lead by long perpetrator it was the debate about how awful it is and then i told them my story but i had

called my aunt who died from it and then one guy he was one of those people he said well you're lying and caressing me that he told me yeah he's going to track me down and i was actually quite scary and it was a really scary experience for me just because i told my experience the virus and they have to believe me because it was in. the brain that it's not that awful and i'm hearing people who said that it's actually. really hard to deal with it they're starting to get really aggressive and harassing. obvious explanation will always be the one provided by conspiracy theorists and so these problems will be with us for a long time and they will. not only society but also politics will have to. find

a way to deal with them in the coming years because they can really rebut pogba society at its seeds on wednesday angle of merkel will meet with the leaders of germany 16 states to discuss the prospect of extending the lockdown again and she's expected to face pushback from some local leaders who want to see restrictions lifted and while most concerned about things like when schools and head dresses will open they're all those that are very worried about the radicalizing effect covert conspiracy theories can have on a small minority peter all over r.t. . president joe biden's inauguration call for unity appears to have a little a fact as a new poll finds most americans think the country will stay as divided or get even worse almost 2 and 3 agree the situation will not improve in the coming years i

mean stream media appear to be playing a key role in the divisions. just the latest example maybe an l.a. times journalist linking her pro trump neighbors who cleared her driveway of snow for free for her as an act of kindness to hezbollah a lebanese group designated as terrorist by the us as artists killed off explains it's not the only case of whipping up the tensions. the rift between red america and blue america has been widening for years nobody can say that the media is blameless if you voted for you voted for the person who claims supported you voted for the person who nazis support or millions of murder. or. somehow you need to be deprogrammed you consider those people cult members. i do i think they were deceptively recruited by analysts or tyrian

political cult now we all know that the media has been stoking the flames but every so often we have to do a double take and say really did they just say that take a left wing columnist virginia heffernan who is not sure if you should say thank you when our neighbors offer a friendly gesture the trumpets next door to open them again to wait to see as devoted to the next president as you can get without being cute fance just plowed own driveway without being asked and did a great job of course on some level i realize i owed them thanks and man they truly looks like the guy back drag the driveway like a prong on how much thanks. she wrote an op ed saying that her neighbors helping her out after a snowstorm was aggressive niceness it was an attempt to manipulate her she compared it to hezbollah and the nazis hezbollah the shiite islam is a political party lebanon also gives things away for free they offer protection and

hospitality and we loyalty that way and they also demand devotion to their brutal us versus them and to sunni cools. the article didn't go down so well not surprising did it ever occur to have forgotten that she may have been wrong that the political beliefs she holds do more harm than good or at least not as much good as she thinks that the people with whom she disagrees politically may not be bad individuals. she should consider that in the country help a new neighbor is not smelly courtesy extended to one some tribe is a survival tactic the neighbor probably doesn't expect happens thank you but if you need his help i think he'd expect that bridge in your halford and writes about politics for the l.a. times and about culture for wired she wrote a book called magic and loss and was praised as a public intellectual for the 21st century and one of the finest living writers for

english prose but her recent article lamenting the evil of her trouble supporting neighbors offering a helping hand is getting her widely shamed online the article is said to be a sign of the times and a sign of how divided americans really are i would love to see neighbors who small loan tractors all get together and put the stone back in should dry way then it would just feel right my trump called neighbors blasted my biden harrison with a shotgun a couple of days after i put it up on my yacht i don't care if they plow my driveway i'll never unite with somebody who uses a shotgun to discuss politics i know a professor who would shovel up his elderly neighbor's driveway she put up his trump sign in 2016 he stops blowing true story years ago american school children were taught the golden rule do unto others as you would have them do unto you however it seems that rule has now been replaced with a new one calculate carefully the political implications of everything and hold

those of different viewpoints in constant suspicion tailored mup and r.t. new york. human rights watch has issued a scathing report on what it describes as the lebanese government's failure to deliver justice fine last year's catastrophic blasts that level parts of the capital on august the 4th tons of chemical stored anywhere house detonated wiping out numerous spilled. off the map and many more beyond repair 200 people lost their lives and more than 6000 were injured following the blast the lebanese government stepped down the ball the president promised political reform authorities launched an investigation which brought charges against a few dozen mid to low level court and security staff artie's filmed a special report about beirut residents trying to rebuild shattered lives you can watch it in full on our 2 international on wednesday but for now we can show you a short clip a warning you may find some of the following footage disturbing. knowing

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a few but that. still had a u.k. document suggest queen elizabeth misused her powers to hide her vast fortune it's also not story i'm more after this break. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. is your media a reflection of reality. in

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a bestseller confronts the ideology of what it calls a radical toxic femininity which she says is now imposed by society but actually makes women on the happy grass believes that current ideology destroys the links that have healthy families together for centuries. the book is called the anti mary exposed and it really came about when i started looking at elite women in the culture and i noticed that the values that they had were diametrically opposed from the values that we see in the embodiment of the blasted virgin mary and many different ways that she has helped to build our culture and transform cultures throughout the centuries and the ideal is to just expose and and show how much how far we have gone away from these values you know things like the tenderness the between a mother and baby and you know the fact that we have abortion that's so it's almost seem like a a rite of passage in our culture and it's very much and not seen to be something that is destroying the family industry in the culture and destroying our souls

really wanted to showcase on that idea and just show that there really are some major problems here that we need to address because women aren't happy this is you know fundamentally if you look at the numbers if you look at at suicide rates depression levels and substance abuse s.t.d. and divorce all of these things point to some incredibly unhappy women and this is just something i think we've gotten used to but the numbers certainly tell a story that feminism is not doing what it is we're told it's supposed to be doing which is make us happy. the books and ban on instagram and facebook which said it doesn't comply with commerce policies. violates rules against selling adult products press says big tag have even blocked posts promoting the title while amazon blamed glitches for removal of links to by her work. and light of the content you know compared to a lot of the content in facebook and instagram sound was really surprising

characterization of the book because it's certainly not i mean it's adulterated but it's not i think within the category of what they would call the doc content such as pornography and other illicit materials and there was some glitches on amazon with my book but i think a pattern as rick is emerging as well there's other books from my publisher that have banned been banned both for sale one of them was stations across for children . of amazon he said it was to buy a land and then other books that have been banner ads have been banned on facebook i think that by silencing means silencing those books they're trying to help they're trying to prevent people from actually seeing what's what's going on in the culture in the way that they're trying to promote these these idiology across the board in the culture in the country you know i've been really encouraged by and then the support that i've had for my book people went out and bought and drove and that was just amazing to see but i think people are really ready for to be free of

this and i think that you know the people that have resources whether it's ideas or arms money or infrastructure we really need to start finding new ways to to build things that can compete with big tech because that we just keep pouring ourselves into it and not offering enough in the competition to really balance and out and keep them keep them honest. britain's queen elizabeth is being accused of lobbying the government to hide her vast private wealth and a scheme that ran for decades the revelations come from national archive documents uncovered by the guardian and date back to the 1970 s. the queen allegedly persuaded the government to make a legal changes exempting firms used by. heads of state from transparency procedures the newspaper says she was able to use a shell company to conceal her finances and least 2011 the queen's exact fortune is still unknown but is believed to run into hundreds of millions of pounds. according

to the files buckingham palace his legal team use 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 crown interests but buckingham palace rebuffed the allegations claiming the use of queen's consent was standard practice. consent is always granted by the monarch or requested by government and use ocean that the sovereign has blocked legislation is simply incorrect whether crean's consent is required is decided by parliament independently in matters that would affect crown interests we spoke with former british home office minister norman baker who thinks the secrecy surrounding royal finances has no place in a democracy. 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 it all just nation is created to benefit herself the fact the matter is you have to

ask where the monies come from that the queen now has where the over a 1000000000 pounds it is not come from or what in military it's come from tax breaks all from beneficial change legislation the so-called private property which cleaned house for example balmoral the sandringham was actually bought for queen victoria because she read over the page the amount of money she did she want to take her g.d.p. victorian times the royal finances all shrouded in mystery quite deliberately so that what we do know is that they are hugely beneficial for the queen and her family and that's both improper is an insult in a democracy in my view but it's also one which is a danger to the royal family as are all family who would be well advised to amend these sort of situations before they're forced to do so by parliament. that's a breakdown of today's top headlines for now but if you're looking for more you can always had tara web site r.t. dot com thanks for tuning in this hour.

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a few of the. greetings and sell you pay shims well my friends the big game on sunday may be over but the bigger game for the financial future of those of us living here in the united states of america. that is only just begun i'm talking of course about the recent ups downs lefts rights and diagonals of $2000.00 stimulus checks and the fight for a $15.00 an hour minimum wage and well understandably many governments and countries

around the world you know it to them the thought of keeping their citizens financially afloat and viable during times of crisis without question. but here in the united states of america we our leaders prefer a different approach you see they prefer the old pull yourself up by your own bootstraps approach to financial aid namely making sure that our boot straps are not only too short but tied around our neck so tightly that the harder we try to pull ourselves up the less oxygen we received over the weekend u.s. president joe biden announced to the press that despite many a campaign trail promise it is unlikely a $15.00 federal minimum wage provision makes it into the next code 19 relief package and tragically that isn't the only promise on the verge of being broken it appears that many so-called conservative democrats are as i like to call them

pro-choice republicans are taking issue with the $2000.00 i'm sorry for teen 100 plus these $600.00 we apparently already gave you but nobody remembers getting stimulus checks the washington post is now reporting that quote the latest proposal democrats are considering would send $1400.00 payments to individuals earning $50000.00 or less and $2800.00 to married couples earning $100000.00 or less and that while no final proposal has been released democrats have explored basing eligibility for the stimulus payments on prior year income meaning you're more than likely getting a stimulus check if you made $50000.00 or less in 2019 not 2020 which i guess is like your doctor basing your cancer treatment on the year before you actually.