the deaths that happen every single day this is a history of the usa america on r.t. . this is art international with breaking news for you russia's foreign minister today warning moscow's ready to end with the e.u. only if it slaps fresh sanctions on pieces of the country's economy. we don't want to distance ourselves from the international community but we need to be ready for this if you want peace prepare to war. is another use member the world health organization coded expert team just back from the virus the center in china tells us is this cause the disease when it came to humans through other animals 1st. and french outrage grows so for american values being forced on the country as the renowned paris opera know to diversify performances after complaints from black we

hear from a french journalist on this pricing scandal. i think there's a kind of laziness of the intellectual process where they say well we're going to copy and paste and they come and they tell us how wrong we are. by their good afternoon she just had one of the afternoon here in moscow so 1st off our top story breaking news the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov the said moscow is ready to break up with the e.u. if it imposes new sanctions that could harm key sectors of the country's economy. when we don't go to the loo we'll see will so use of ways are we heading for severed ties with the e.u. we're just saying they were ready to do this if we see once again like we've seen numerous times before that brussels imposes sanctions that post risks to our economy specifically to the most sensitive sectors once again we don't want to

distance ourselves from the international community but we need to be ready for this if you want peace prepare to war frustrated a lover of the foreign minister igor down i'm sure let me know on this to put it in context may not be all it seems but certainly huge frustration when across the color line in the sand that the e.u. has to change its attitudes and quickly well absolutely it is a very strong message essentially sergei lavrov is saying that russia won't be bullied into anything won't be bullied it into submission because right now there are there is a new batch of sanctions that are in the works behind closed doors in the e.u. and this is. response to that like he opens his hand and says look if you try to cripple the crucial elements of our economy then we will respond with this but again it doesn't mean that russia should be misinterpreted as russia being getting

ready to well initiate this severing of sanctions know essentially sergey lavrov his message is russia wants to have a good relation with the e.u. just like with any other nation and it wants to do this relationship to be fulfilling and productive and have both both the interests of both sides as a priority but there is a problem with just that essentially quoting to sergei lavrov the e.q. diplomats they aren't getting a chance to work productively because the they in turn are being pushed into aggressiveness and just in into a unilateral position have a listen. organiser you're not sure if you travel to snow in the complicated situation many were against his visit and publicly declared that he should not come to russia actually quote fix our behavior it's not the 1st time i noted not only e.u. foreign policy chief barel but also his previous us to not have the capacity to negotiate

a political the whole point of view was focused on the idea that we had turned mr know valley into a political prisoners and it had nothing to do with the charges against him and all of these is a human rights violation which means russia being a member of the european convention on human rights must release him and respect his rights but there are russian state laws and they need to be respected as for human rights i remind mr burrell that we've long shown readiness to hold a constructive dialogue based firstly on facts and secondly not on a unilateral basis as it's a little so so what you have here a bit of context for you it comes of this this statement in this interview comes about a week after the e.u. use. foreign policy chief joseph burrell he came to russia with a visit it was viewed as controversial even even inside the e.u. because a lot of people of the said that know you just shouldn't grace russia with the will

with your presence but he still went there and the meeting between burrell and lavrov it was well i would i would describe it as rather unremarkable simply because of the side swell of sergei lavrov he projected to russia's position the election of ali's case is strictly a strictly an internal affair while jos a brawl called for a release of this well opposition figure because in europe of course they see it as a politically charged case so that's what happened but when burrell was absolutely tool in a part at home at the european parliament for not being as aggressive as they expected him to be just they minced no words have a listen. moscow to view the visit of my reports and that they've bored out to you millie 8 and offend the european union your ill executed a visit you know only a shame to european citizens you also helps fucci and harms dressin people mr burrell and the on the other hand made

a fool of himself last week you must go by his actions he made a mockery of the ambition of the e.u. to play a major role in the world stage wake up call that finally prompted e.u. member states and yourself to to adopt a more realistic and principled russian foreign policy and to move toward sanctions finally among others the inclusion of human rights for late just under sanctions least and to suspension of north stream 2 which is contrary to european and issues security police so you could see headlines saying that burrell was bested that he was humiliated and everything and that sort of tone but this quiet loud choir of voices you know calling a calling burrell will names and just calling him a failure it was interrupted by one irish member of the european parliament and she pointed out that essentially the book is just looking for weeks q. says looking for pretexts to slap more sanctions on russia and that they are

politicizing the case again against the lexan of all the in russia not moscow she said that essentially had this happened anyplace else in the world the e.u. wouldn't even talk about it have a listen. imus happy as anybody else to stand up for anybody's rights including new found nice but let's be honest sebastian he's officious i see him racist on maybe 4 percent of the supports and we wouldn't be discussing him after all if you've been arrested anywhere else other than in russia so again. a message here is that russia wants peace not war but it will get ready for it's if the if russia is backed into a corner economically we'll have to respond sergey lavrov for instance talked about how russia is independent militarily doesn't rely on anybody it's an exporter of arms and he said that russia should strive to achieve that in economics or that again if russia is backed into a corner then well it will have the means to respond to call it blue or well let's

get a european look at it to remarry and he's no me piano former french minister he's on the line from brussels fabulous well so how are you judging the temperature in the room there containing the you based where you are and russia are you surprised by the heat of the comments today or not. no i'm not surprised because you know 2 days ago i was used as you said there was a debate inside the european parliament about to join the us russia and honestly even me i was surprised by the accusation about the measure ricky of the members of the european parliament against leverett's many of them ask should resign of this function of i represent 34 hour for europe white because they said you are a mediator it you who love all of. those you know same but in fact i i was

maybe one of the very rare members of parliament who supports a bolero because i think it was a sort of suicide mission. when you speak with somebody you must work with something and the same parliament to set us your mediator don't let mr bush went to group or something and. i saw the last week i see i see do european make many mistakes for example why many of us of the west present. what for the trial of mr never any he said just in town. trial and i think of course he can just irritates deflation and off everybody. is going to be surprised in brussels in europe about the strength of the words coming from mr lavrov today or not most reaction to be no not yet you know everybody. just discovered this

district this statement in brazil but when i read it what i understand i understand if europe they could use steps on some shown at different we should react and i understand this it was because if you have somebody front of you who take sanction and sanction and sanction and propose nothing at the hands of course the relation have no interest but i think it would be a great mistake for europe and for russia because. we must keep a way of getting out and 'd if do away of delegates broken what is the target of many. any p.z. members of european parliament here understand that the target is not. the only one important sanction now it can be if we continue with me stop not screen because honestly i do have 2 or 3 names on the list of sanctions you can be going to have no result but if not scream stop it's something very important for europe

and for germany and for russia and fortunately for the moment we saw that the reaction of mr. get about it is to continue and i hope it will be the case your correspondent was saying the suspicion is the concerns about the valley except for the concern the suspicion is behind closed doors we don't know the things specific yet the sanctions are in the pipeline and soon and this is why lavrov drawing the line here. any idea what these sanctions may be particularly you mentioned nord stream there. honestly the only new important sanction could be. stuck not screen because what but what was up us the ability i repeat to hide for fine name on the list honestly there is not a very good very strong and portents. to play with some diplomats 'd of

russia be pushed out from the country or in europe and return in russia honestly we saw that many times no dust the last cent bold enough of assumption is not sweet and we saw many delegation ask sumption just about not studied and i you can guess if we don't buy. russian gas we need a proposition to buy a share of gas from america and exactly i said it's in the same types in despond amount we ask all the time to be to have a more green got it fixed but i don't we do both to buy a share of gas. is not the most gas from america honestly i see it would be a great mistake it defies logic doesn't it just really briefly want to go on 32nd sitting when you are in brussels led to have any more of a handle on why europe feels it can or should have a say in what's happening over in russia when russia doesn't do the same thing back

in europe while white is brussels feels so intitled these views. well because there is a great grey sure enough good enough any trail there is a great gratian. after the demonstration and. your europe but try to have an answer but in fact don't realize that for the moment the reaction is just on the parliament excuse me members of this parliament but sometimes i ask my to myself what is the what were full of this of this but element the same i've taken those are example despondent or do times you sanction against china because your because on current and in the same times the commission signed a treaty with china for investments yasmeen the debate in the parliament was very

hot but i hope that in the commission and i hope people like mr borrero are more responsive that some members of parliament 1205 pounds fire terry marian m.e.p. things for making the time to be live on our to international lead today have a good day sir thank you thanks a lot well the mention china there is well and that's a leading us nicely on to our next story completely separate story the member of the world health organization team just back from who had this told r.t. if bats are indeed behind corona virus that it spread to humans through other animals 1st in another twist because mr don't know where all this started sun has played him a dead cough has been probing the origins of the pandemic in that chinese city. we know from past epidemics for example sars cove and maersk of that bats are the

source of the epidemic moreover they contain genetic cells close to the ones that caused the pandemic but we also know that the transmission of the virus did not occur directly from the bat the previous time sars was transferred from a civet cat mers from a camel so there must be some other intermediate animal is the most likely have participated in our knowledge. or the virus was 1st detected who had a december 29th in the team's initial findings debunk claims that the disease originated in a lab where the u.s. think beijing is hiding facts from the experts. science needs to lead us out of this pandemic and in preventing the next one geo political battling has already made that path harder is to learn to trust in the global systems we set up after world war 2 and give them a chance china gave them very controlled and limited access and got a report that was inconclusive and supports narrative. that cough again told us

whether he was dealing with their probe transpire in the. how successful was our mission i believe that we have fulfilled our program this was only the 1st part of our investigation and we didn't expect to determine the origin of the pandemic already w.h.o. team and chinese specialists work together as scientists it was something like a huge conference where we shared opinions and information analyzed scientific literature that already exists discussed hypotheses and assessed possibilities i see no reason for the chinese side to hide anything they probably didn't do that because in the scientific world it is very difficult to conceal something information could be hidden from the public but it is more difficult if it's people who really understand the issue. yes.

there are 2 hypotheses about how the virus appeared the 1st is that the virus may have been induced the suspicions have already been refuted so we're not even considering this the 2nd is that a natural virus came from the lab we were at the institute of uralla ji observing the work with viruses and concluded that everything meets safety standards and leakage could not have occurred this lab is far enough from the market if there was a leak or we'd see signs of it there for such a leak is practically impossible we looked at hypotheses in the probability category it is likely that the virus came from space so it's impossible. while the debate shows continuing that by the us with the make a vaccine despite studies showing a low because he gets me we begin to talk more about that hopefully live guest in just a bit to talk about this next though disney stars falling victim to so-called cancelled

culture of to being sucked for social media posts that fail to toe a pro-democrat line recess could tailor reports many who demanded the firing were caught sending identically provocative messages to disney's finally realizing that night's no fairytale it couldn't stick to downs a lot of nights and costs that pumpkins now know it had to get political and its fans a switch off i'm canceling my disney plus subscription right now they want to cancel us i will cancel them. i don't know many posts but if you find this qur'an the for her freedom of speech i promise i will cancel my disney plus subscriptions council culture is going to far cancel disney plus if you were ever tricked into giving them money in the 1st place why is does he now face a backlash not a bunch of happy smiling kids singing i'm going to let it go oh well

a film company it owns a crumbled under the pressure oh whoa laureus a 5 g. to corrado out to the star of the disney plus so the mountain noria. no place for a child apparently because of her apartment and unacceptable social media posts which include being skeptical of mustering thinking that trumps impeachment is well out a bit of a hoax refusing to put her pronouns in her twitter handle the most recently comparing the prosecution of republicans in today's america with out over the jews in nazi germany which was one of the dockets pages and human history obviously while it was not a hit because i mean you want to go around calling people fascists and nazis but if

you voted for trump and you voted for the person who claimed supported you voted for the person who nazis supported by the jews. and we are ready is to say nothing. is happening here is the republican party as a personalized power like we haven't seen it's a cut deal it's a series or it's a fear her and it's also entirely inappropriate to combat genocides to current political tensions right now the same we've seen it in bosnia we've seen it in rwanda where radio was telling people do you know who jews are telling the radio listen. the cockroach is and you see it in these videos also did you know i missed this memo about art healing and unity and sending troops supporters to camps i don't think we need a tree here is a vague terrorist the way we do actual terrorist i think we need to consider all all all right possibilities i'm not against sending these people to get me out and

run a democratically elected former presidents from speaking out their own impeachment trial hearings about how free speech fast among learned about for those jobs to see approves of the constitution so passing anyway so young disney on the rocks the people who are against council culture want to cancel disney for daring to cancel jena who believe that she had other michael peeps are being canceled by society it's all very. matter of the probably should have stuck to fairy tales. amid the media firestorm french intellectuals meantime are stepping up their attack on what they call american values claiming questionable fashionable leftist ideas imported from the us have no place in the republic as they pose a threat they say to french society these warnings are new for the country the president and other government officials have already raised fears about the same

thing to those the certain social science theories entirely imported from the united states with the problems which i respect and which exist but which is just added to. the reason battle to wage against an intellectual matrix from american universities some national thinkers blame the us for from says mass protests them against police brutality similar to america's black matter movement america's me to campaign in awareness about sexual abuse is also going traction with fringe feminists show to explaining paris's transatlantic headache currently. french intellectuals and politicians are said to be up in arms over the cancelled culture ideology seeping over from the united states and spoiling well the french way of life i think there's a kind of laziness of the intellectual process where they say well we're going to copy and paste and they come and they tell us how wrong we are black lives matter

to our examples of movements that flew over the atlantic and spread their wings here now that's led to debates over race gender français crackdown on islam is still going on is asians and demands for the country to fess up to its colonial past they come and they tell us that we are racist. phobic about our universal values on nothing. and quite frankly i mean there's a combination of incredulity and. annoyance i wouldn't even say anger because we don't think it's rather than that europe has existed for a long time. i think we can live without american christian will theory for a few few years more and it seems the french of really had enough of council culture so when the director of the paris opera issues it diktats saying that he wanted to diversify staff and band black face the editor in chief of one of

france's biggest daily papers and took issue making works of art disappear echoes the cancel culture which has been a national sport for america and aims to wipe off the map culture and creators symbolizing the domination of the white male and the oppression of minorities some say this problem it's much deeper it's a threat to its political identity is a threat to the republic and to french democracy and to the functioning of the state it's not a matter of cultural identity i do. i think that there is a big threat to civilized life and obviously freedom of speech and so on by these kinds of movements while imposing ideas on race inequality feels for many a little bit rich coming from the u.s. considering the state of race relations in america right now it doesn't look like

their solutions work so well so i'm not sure we need them really but the other thing is that there's this whole speech and discussion about how colonialist it is to impose a different culture on the unsuspecting populations and the french are saying well you are imposing something that may or may not work for your country but it's not working for france i mean after all isn't the whole point of freedom of speech also having some respect for the point of view of others what is actionable in this. is the idea that instead of having a discussion or a debate or even an argument about it that there should be this should somehow become sold and so we are dealing i'm sorry to say this it sounds rather rude but we are dealing with the difference between intelligence and stupidity it's just stupid to talk like that of course we can all disagree about napoleon or any other historical figure but that's what makes this civilization that is what civilization

is there's a claim that this fight back comes from a small frightened republic that's in decline but isn't it just possible that perhaps france a country with a long proud tradition of intellectual debate the country where the unlighted movement was birthed in is perhaps still ahead of the curve well at least compared to america and for now it appears that the left culture just isn't cutting the mustard in france so let's even ski r.t. paris. world health organization is still recommending the. astra zeneca vaccine despite trial showing limited protection against new mutations of the virus is the worry south africa which has registered a particularly virulent fresh strain of the disease has suspended its rollout of us recently because shot over the issue national study from the u.k. based pharma giant shot only had a 22 percent advocacy against the new variant raising questions about whether or

not the vaccine should also be distributed in other countries to south africa's already switched to the pfizer plus johnson and johnson jobs as top of this for a few minutes with professor berry show the chair of south africa's ministerial advisory committee on covert vaccines thanks for your time today appreciate it yeah so really the w.h.o. is kind of in conflict is it right to recommend astra zeneca as job in your professional view or is it just not really worth it. yes thank you very much for having me now look we are sitting not ditching the asters and have actually we just spinning it training thorough investigation one of the important things of course you want to look at is does as any. still provin serious infection hospitalization level infection with a new variant because it really don't have data on your denture on that that 22 percent figure you mentioned is really the prevention of mild and modest fiction.

disease severe inflation which of course is a very important in point you still need to con of assess and we are going to do research on the running out. implementation trial of actions in the problems of course meantime we do need to protect our health care workers and we need to protect it with a vaccine which we know does have a track record provan trial record of preventing serious disease with the new variant so that's already doing and we just mean the use of issues in use in other countries well you know if there if this particular variant were to qualify 11 of each to their particular grade which is fountains in africa is dominant in the country there of course they should not use this stage maybe a huge side would not know. but a country which doesn't have that of course i think it would certainly be worthwhile. perform very well in countries which had the previous strain of the

virus but professor is it going to be a case of cat and mouse like this all the time maybe another strike will come out. another. you could become asleep playing catch up around the world it is the worry yeah i mean that's really what is going to happen i think you know i think everyone agrees that look we've gone through our 1st generation of exceeds the 2nd generation of vaccines were the ones which will need as you say play catch up but you do it with through we do have the influence of actually in every. whether coronavirus will be actually will be every year he had to see probably not because of what is not quite as mutable as in friends of ours but it may well be that every year but certainly i think the feeling is that we have to have regular vaccines if these variants keep cropping up i think is really unfortunate particular variant has got a mutation had a very critical part of the virus the part the part of the rounds which is needed for the virus to establish and fiction what you call the receptor binding to maine

has a particular mutation or to particular position which is of course of course the viruses not the trick and now it's in a selective advantage for it to scare the effect of previous in fiction and the vaccine how your country more generally coping and it's really unfortunate that this particular strain this this twisted strains come out where you are there's no particular reason for that i suppose it could have happened in any country in the world couldn't it just a twist of fate how's your country coping. you know look at the moment our 2nd wave has come down quite markedly so we had a fairly low level of transit of transmission now our big question is can we immunize enough people that are at risk in particular health care workers before our winter season what are called river because that's when we expecting our 3rd wave that's going to come probably the latter part of april into may maybe into june and that's what we need to do you know are getting vaccine within the next week we starting our only arts.