makes americans look hostile the deaths that happen every single day. history of the usa. in the headlines this friday morning the kremlin hits back at controversial comments from e.u. chief longer lying casting doubts over russia's covert rocsi moscow accuses her of politicizing the fight against the pandemic well we discussed the e.u.'s ongoing criticism of the russian vaccine with russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman. talking aggressive speck seems to the world is not without high did it make it too expensive like me to read it. as millions in the southern states of america are left without warsaw or electricity amid a deadly winter storm victims receive little sympathy all the social media.

very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with me thank you erin and our top story this hour russia has accused brussels of politicizing the fight against the coronavirus pandemic the e.u. chief live on the line made controversial comments in which she questioned moscow's intentions to help the block with its slow vaccine rollout. we are perplexed to hear assessments by the head of the executive as it is either an effort to politicize the issue in an insubstantial dated indeed deplorable way or indicates an inadequate level of awareness of the top level official. well joining me now in the studio is our. good morning to south korea thanks for coming in what do you make of this comment didn't lie to russia's readiness to help with the

vaccine rollout well it's pretty clear from that statement that russia is dismayed by both the lack of diplomacy but also the lack of humanity the e.u. chief shown again politics trumping cooperation when it comes to the covert $1000.00 francs in and for the e.u. the vaccine really has been an uphill struggle a struggle to get production off the ground a struggle to get jobs and on a struggle with the u.k. over who should get how many doses now it's slowness in inoculating it's 450000000 strong population has got people on for straight to they saw this as a political test which brussels failed now in fact the e.u. has been so inefficient that individual member states have been forced to go out on the road and sequel tonnage civs hungry for example has approved for emergency use we also know that austrian czech republic have expressed an appetite for the

russian vaccine too and maybe it's precisely because. dylan is feeling the pressure that she was humiliatingly forced to apologize for her mistakes and that out she's trying to divert attention from the problems in her own backyard and fling accusations at another country let's remind ourselves of what she said. overall as most say. we still wonder why russia is offering theoretically millions and millions of doses while not sufficiently progressing in vaccinating the own people this is also a question i think that should be answered so do have underlined concerns have any ground here i mean spending has been registered in 29 countries but what's the situation within russia right now well let's be very clear from the very get go as soon as russia became the 1st country to write to start acting against covert 19 president putin sad russians come fast they are our priority and this was actually

something that the russian representatives in brussels reiterated. representatives of the russian authorities to fit community and business entities have repeatedly publicly stressed that vaccination of its own citizens constitutes an absolute priority for russia in its fight against covert 19 in full compliance with the principles of democracy and human tarion law inoculation and russia's voluntary and to date all interested citizens are provided with the vaccine without delay and free of charge and not free accessibility to the job has. seen success russia is in the top 3 of european nations in terms of vaccination around 2200000 so far including we know many of our colleagues who described what a smooth process it was you know you turn up you don't need to register in advance you into a medical check you get you frustrated to get a 2nd dose you get back to normal life for free at the same time we're seeing a very positive dynamic and tons of the number of cases which are steadily and

quite significantly declining day on day that being said as in every single country not every citizen is desperate to get the vaccine at least not yet and this contrasts between internal and external dumond was something that moscow raised recently. you haven't had any reports about baxter shortages anywhere domestic demand for these vaccine is still gathering momentum must go there is no deficit but we can say that there is huge demand as well demand for the russian vaccine abroad it is indeed so high that it surpasses our production capacity that's why we're actually working on quickly launching production of the russian vaccine in several foreign countries the production in foreign countries will tell you the amount of growth manufacturing inside the country will cover the domestic issues so that's the logical response to vaunt

alliance our comments but clearly throwing a political punch was more important than logic perhaps not surprising we know that you russian relations are going through a very bumpy patch at the moment with moscow frustrated that brussels is consistently wading into its in tom the facts here it seems it's the same story instead of trying to resolve its own issues of which there are many the e.u. here trying to undermine another country saskia thanks for coming in with those details us r.t. subscale taylor. well this is just the latest in a long line of critical remarks coming from the european union over sputnik the house despite some countries in the blogs voicing support for the jump as the e.u. continues to face supply shortages artes and song discuss the issue with the spokeswoman for the russian foreign ministry. it's not that our vaccine developments were denied by the west they said lots of different things that it does not exist it's bad and nobody should use it it was necessary to invent

something very fast in order not to destroy the created myth that russia is an aggressor how can aggressors offer its facts into the world not without hiding it making it too expensive or blackmailing with it this is what their gresson would do instead we offered it as a tool as a method maybe not as a panacea but one of the means of overcoming the crisis in some ways it can be compared to space of course the scale is different but when you read the guardian went on his flight and when he returned what did the soviet union do it denounced that outer space is for peaceful exploration that what they used to saw proposed to the world city new trend in the direction of the same with the vaccine we're open to corporations we're ready to join production we're ready to study and share our experience some people from the west couldn't deal with it this is a blow and this is not envy this is a blow to the longstanding model of representing russia as an aggressor in my daily

establishing that i seek a greaser countries in latin america continue to receive supplies of russian sputnik very well when it with venezuela being the latest nation to launch its likes nation program with the job has autism are galatea of with his take on why there are such diverging jr political views on the russian vaccine. sputnik v. was born into disbelief then ridicule and jokes how could russia have done what the richest and the most democratic nations of the world couldn't finally came acceptance bitter but acceptance. and it is the percentage. it was always politics it was never really about the vaccine if student came from

france for example could you even imagine it would have attracted this much ridicule and scorn of course it wouldn't fortunately science prevailed and sputnik is saving lives in latin america. we are happy with the signing of a very important contract for our country for our population for the believe in people because in this way believe is among the countries among the many countries that today are making efforts to provide a way out and give the population certainty in the face of this pandemic lose interest in the unanimous russia has extended a helping hand in solidarity to all of people in the country attacked by imperial powers implicated country criminally kate the people who mock than derided sputnik we they haven't changed their minds that isn't what they do they still hate it they hate

a vaccine just because it's russian but since they can no longer smear the vaccine as unsafe now they're trying to syria into the collective consciousness that it is a weapon a russian weapon a vaccine cold war the joke is right jus political vaccine that's too good to be true and now you have to be a putin friend to place an order we will of course and the stat that it was and it is tabloid trash sell out pundits admitting in special interest they're angry that the united states which has eluded a do over the americas north and south assumed all that it isn't the us riding latin america's rescue with a vaccine clutched in it's had and this is what we do and geopolitics you know the americans have the assistance with food to africa and it has labels of us say things like that so we do this all the time and the vaccine is going to be

a new way of this geopolitics in terms of getting of a bigger influence in the sphere of what america it's a game of chess if someone is winning that means the other side is losing so they feel bad day meeting maybe the western european union or the americas you know united states is losing. latin america because the russians are gaining latin america which journalists seem to imply when running off to russia actually didn't see contrary to what their padley teach in us journalism schools latin americans aren't idiots and that perfectly capable of weighing their options so his flaws are and his sputnik. is twice as expensive roughly and very difficult to transport into store requiring deep freeze which is again expensive or is sputnik which can be kept at your regular kitchen fridge temperatures when we looked at the contracts

we evaluated that the ones with fines it did not comply with the legal protocols we expected we reached out to the russians and president fernandez related directly with putin and this sped things up we've heard for months now promises and calls from western politicians and leaders to stop buying out and who are doing all the vaccines so far that is being merely wind coronations or to put their faith in cuckoo vacs they were told that a mechanism to provide the developing world with enough jabs to inoculate 20 percent the population free of charge a levy in colombia even got on the shortlist and guess what or a single dose as yet been delivered but you don't see politico raising a fuss about kovacs being too good to be true. launched protests continue in spain over the arrest of consular pablo has self he's

been jailed for slandering the crown and glorifying terrorism the musician was arrested on tuesday at the university of yedo where he and his supporters have barricaded themselves inside hundreds of public figures have spoken out in support of the artist while on this day international described his detention as an excessive restriction of his freedom of expression protests in support of the 32 year old has been taking place across the country resulting in riots and clashes with police. back in 28 his cell was convicted by

a spanish court over tweets calling the former king a quote mafia boss he also accused the police of torturing and killing demonstrators and migrants as selah fell foul of legislation covering spaniards his right to freedom of expression dubbed the gaggle or by critics a court ruled spanish law prohibited such expressions of opinion popular sells lawyer gives says his view on the matter. is that your belief that the in this country the term glorification of terrorism has been used very easily to persecute political dissidents it's one of the countries where many artists have been given prison terms and it's not nice and here we have other political and social problems amid the pandemic the economic recession is a very important matter as young people have no future the state is very powerful and there are many types of violence that it's using to protect itself this is systematic and daily violence against those who lost their homes who have no homes as they don't have an income people are unhappy with this violence.

i hear stone sweeping through the southern u.s. has killed at least 24 people in texas one of the hardest hit states and millions of people are still facing water and power shortages. the texas governor has claims the power as great a hole rated for the massive outages saying it felt to prepare for the storm the operator has stated this significant progress has been made in restoring power only while paypal online took the opportunity to mock their political opponents caught

up in the storm caleb hoping of course. at a time like this you would think that texans would be receiving lots of love and sympathy from their fellow americans but not this time some just don't seem to be able to forget that texas is red they say this is god's punishment for election denial. i feel for the people suffering through this weather but god doesn't seem to like ted cruz well john cornyn these 2 also never recognized the jewel war and if this isn't payback i don't know what is hey texas keep voting for officials who don't believe in climate change and supported privatization of the power grid maybe in 4 years you can vote for trump again he believes in the latter but not the former perfect. isn't it great how the red states are the 1st to denounce the federal government and also the 1st one to start whining and crying for help from the fat's when things go back to lead them freeze i say let them freeze with

wanting to split away with us now they're begging for help their red states warm them up so here we have americans saying that americans deserve to freeze because they are trump's supporters and some find the whole thing up warry asli funny this is especially tough for texans because they're not equipped for snow they don't have snow shovels out there the best bet is to grab the air 15 to shoot each snowflake before it lands while this seems to be a shocking revelation of american solidarity many texans don't seem too happy with ted cruz their senator who's enjoying his vacation in cancun and maybe they're also devastated to hear that they're on their own from their mayor no one owes you will your family anything nor is it the local government's responsibility to support you trying times like this sink or swim it's your choice the city and county along with power provide any of the service nothing now that mayor has resigned that post

has been deleted from social media but all of this has not made things easier for texans partisan mockery and mere celebration of the suffering of so many people in the lone star state seems to fly in the face of joe biden's claims that he's trying to reunify the country the nation is not divided you go out there and take a look at talk to people you have fringes on both ends but it's not nearly as divided as we make it out to be and we have to bring it together as americans don't seem horrified by what's happening in texas but rather see it as some kind of cathartic revenge for their political opponents it seems that biden's promise of reunifying the country is pretty far off caleb mop and artsy new york. the fallout from last month's trading frenzy over game stop the american gaming company one of the key players in the story keith gill testifying to u.s.

congress about the jaw dropping surge of the retailers shares has lost a lawsuit was filed against him accusing the investor of violating numerous industry rules earlier he laid out his defense the idea that i use social media to promote game stop stalk to unwitting investors is preposterous i was abundantly clear that my channel was for educational purposes only and that my aggressive style of investing was unlikely to be suitable for most folks checking out the channel the loss or gain skill that was filed in massachusetts earlier this week they claim he hid behind the status of a now material while having licensed securities credentials furthermore the suit accuses him of manipulative conduct harming the integrity of the markets the trading frenzy around game stop erupted in mid january the company was having a tough time because of the pun demick that saw traditional investors betting on it stocks dropping however armchair traders on social media instead stoked interest in

the company sending its share price soaring artie's very own financial guru max kaiser thinks the whole story shows what's been wrong with wall street 3 years. what keith gill may or may not be involved with allegedly involved whether wall street bets that that's a symptom of a much bigger problem the collusion between the central bank had funs citadel capital which is a big fund with major players connected to the federal reserve bank and they're engaged in massive fraud so this is a bit of a show trial with keith gill to distract and deflect attention from the massive fraud that's ongoing citadel central bank can griffith and others aren't involved in a racket and they are defrauding the american public they're manipulating stock prices and they're undermining the american economy which is why so many people find themselves in such dire straits why the infrastructure in texas as an been built

and people are freezing to death because the money's been stolen and given it can griffith who has just bought a 250000000 dollars apartment in park avenue where that money come from comes from ben bernanke he sits on his board former fed chairman feeding him inside information it's not debate it's no debate about it it's clear we can see through the trading pick track record this is exactly what's going on. as the buys it administration weighs up imposing sanctions on the north stream to pipeline projects off to construction resumed earlier this month germany house reiterated its position to the masses. by we oppose in any case extra territorial sanctions like those threatened and imposed by the usa in connection with the stream to with look this up regularly as well in talks with the u.s. administration and it will continue to be raised in the future that there is

nothing else to add here. they don't stream to a pipeline will export gas from russia to europe across the baltic sea but the united states has imposed sanctions on the russian vessel involved in the project washington claimed it would increase that russia's economic leverage as a europe while most sco and germany insist it's purely commercial projects major construction work on one of the branches of the pipeline is expected to finish this summer as an old stream so it continues to face political pressure during its final leg residents of the german town of luke when the end point of the pipeline has expressed hope it will be finished soon. i personally think it makes sense to building the infrastructure on the land it's already done so when i finish the part wouldn't that make sense actually it's a purely economic story when it was approved back then it was a matter of political process but after that it's construction only matters for economics. thank you stick they have put so much money into you did it would be

mine you throw in a week the politicians should have thought about everything area. so yes it's much cheaper if you get gas from russia and not from america since it's more expensive and i'm also against the sanctions that are being discussed oh yes we are so for us in lipman it's also good it will bring the town tax money from businesses and i also think that germany will need to get us since the energy we can get from new sources is not enough we could use it as a transition for a while. earlier we spoke to an expert in geopolitics he believes that germany will push on with an old strain too despite the threats of u.s. sanctions. maybe at least some delays mole delays but it will be finished because. in the past the to much of energy. it's area where european sun in spots you grab germany who has been very firm to

the united states judgment government still wants to continue his project because they need the russian gas for the future. that's a moment because a covey do economy crises varies less consumption of gaza by the expect more consumption of gazans a future and germany or saw abundant to nuclear energy on this is why they really need more guards in the future united states they don't respect international law recall the sanctions extraterritorial this means that laws about deploying only to united states are applied outside the territory of the united states so this is illegal but because they are book. a superpower or in the world. they apply sanctions on and don't respect international it's

important for to keep the links because they are roughly kind of close and. russia and europe and union member states and the future of europe depends on the good cooperation between russia and the european union member states and. energy is a good 10 matic. the french government has moved to dissolve the generation identity political grouping and attempt to tackle far right extremist them according to the country's interior minister the decision is a response to a series of anti migrant protests by the group but a spokesman for a generation identity has questioned the government's motives. it's a risky political move by the government which is trying to eliminate a significant political opponent whose ranks a multi playing jew to our recent actions and a growing popularity we have become one of the principal rivals of the monument

khan's migration policy so now the government wants to shut as up though. generation identity is a right wing political movement often labeled as neo fascist and islamophobia it has been accused of racism and inciting hatred the group has made several attempts to forcibly block migrants from entering france the last month the french authorities launched an investigation into generation identity on the grounds of inciting racial hatred that was following the group's anti migrant demonstration on the country's border with. interior minister gerald donilon said he was quoted scandalized by the group's activities but jeremy piano claims the government's actions are politically motivated. generation identity has never been officially condemned for inciting racial hatred nor has it ever been officially convicted of anything so the government's accusations are not based on war it's a political decision the dissolution is not

a legal option for mccombs government this is the 1st time that a movement has to be dissolved by a government's decision while it has never been prosecuted its very serious lawyers and i will fight in court overturn this politically motivated and just decision a law against separatism has recently been approved by the government it provides minor measures against islamist that leads to strong pressure from the left which accuses the governments of excessive rightwing use now the government is doing this political maneuver be focused on its priorities moving closer to the center by attacking the right and those who oppose immigration and generation identity in particular. while many are mourning the death on wednesday after 17 year old conservative shock jock rush limbaugh son left leaning celebrities on twitter users are celebrating insults of been trending on twitter. never speak ill of the dead the poet tells us but the truth demands of recognition of some fux

besides murdoch there's been no more destructive a practitioner of the big life for profit in us history cancer cancer r.i.p. rush rottenberg terry i would like to extend my deepest sympathies to the poor turtle who will no doubt have to spend the rest of eternity with rush limbaugh. many conservative politicians and pundits have paid tribute to the broadcaster but many calling him a legend and hero rush limbaugh had a strong influence in republican political and media circles and was heavily criticized by liberals for his controversial views he was best known as the radio host of the rush limbaugh show and was awarded the medal of freedom by former president and donald trump political analyst and radio host dave perkins believes speaking ill of the dead has a much deeper roots than politics. he did not say things that were new to people he

said things that people already believed and were kind of desperate for other people to say in public and in media so they could say yes yes that's me they flock to him because he said what they believe then as through the idea of dancing on his grave and celebrating his death that to me is a side effect of this collectivism that when you want groups to prosper and when you care about groups and you're all of a groups you must necessarily divest yourself of concern for individuals because individuals standing out is always a problem to the collective and so what we have now is a country where people step up publicly say publicly right on social media things like he's getting the tour of hell as we speak not a minute too soon i'm going to get punished for this but my 1st thought was thank god rush limbaugh is dead it's awful 'd and if you ask me it displays the destructive power of collectivism to

a culture and we've gone so far down that road now so many people are so willing to abandon respect for the individual and speak ill of the dead as quickly and loudly as possible i'm a little concerned this culture has gone off a slope that we're not going to be able to come back from and to joining us now it's international went back in 30 minutes. when i was sort of thing wrong. i don't know just don't call. me well that is yet to say how it is going to come that that's ok and endangered because the trail. went through many find themselves well the 5 point just on the common ground.