as for the next 30 years. the victims say they still live with the consequences. in the headlines this friday moscow has accused brussels of politicizing the fight against the pound make as the kremlin hits back and controversial comments from chief us along the line costing doubts over russia's cove it's not see. we discuss the e.u. is ongoing criticism of sputnik vague with russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman. how can a gross of its facts into the world not without heidi making it too expensive for blackmailing with it. the australian government plans facebook for abusing its power that's after the social media giant blocked its news feed in the country.

very warm welcome it's 10 am here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me becky air and now our top story this hour russia has accused brussels of politicizing the fines against the coronavirus pandemic and it's off the e.u. chief ursula vonda line made controversial comments in which she questioned moscow's motives to help the block with its facts seen rollouts. we are perplexed to hear assessments by the head of the queue as it is either an effort to politicize the issue in an insubstantial dated and indeed deplorable way or indicates an inadequate level of awareness of the top level official well it's pretty clear from the statement that russia's dismayed by the lack of diplomacy but also the lack of humanity that the chief has recently shown again politics beats cooperation when it comes to the covert 1000 francs seen for the e.u.

it really has been a struggle a struggle to get production off the ground a struggle to get jobs and arms a struggle with the u.k. of the who gets however many doses and the slowness in inoculating its 450000000 strong population has got people angry and frustrated this was in that view a political test russell's failed to the point the one to learn how to publicly apologize when did not. just what effect is that today we're not where we want to be in converting the virus we were late in granting authorization we were too old to mystic about mess production and maybe we also took for granted so the doses old it would actually rove and times we must ask ourselves why and what lessons we can to offer meant while one lesson that did come out was that the ease been so inefficient that individual member states have been forced to go out on the road looking for alternatives and then looking at russia hungry for example has rights to from urgency you sputniks see we also heard austria in the czech republic

showing an appetite for the russian frack scene so here we've got us out of one delay and buried by criticism humiliated by having to say sorry feeling the pressure what better way to divert attention from all the problems in your backyard than by fighting accusations at another country in fact let's remind ourselves of exactly what it was that she said over all arsonists. we still wonder. why russia is offering theoretically millions and millions of doses while not sufficiently progress in vaccinating the own people this is also a question i think that should be answered but do along the lines concerns have any ground here i mean i understand this but think of it has been registered in 29 countries already but what's the situation right here within russia well from the very get go as soon as russia became the 1st country in the wild to register $1000.00 francs and president putin said russians come fast they are our priority

and this was something that was reiterated by the officials and brussels representatives of the russian authorities saying 2 for 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 uteri and law inoculation and russia's voluntary and to date all interested citizens are provided with the vaccine without delay and free of charge without free accessibility is undeniably a scene success rushes in top 3 if you're a pin a chanson tums of vaccinations at last count 2200000 including many of our colleagues who described how smooth the process was you know they turned up they didn't have to book in advance they did the medical check they got fastow's then the 2nd dose then they went home and they were getting back to normal life at the same time we're seeing a very positive dynamic in terms of case numbers which is steadily declining day on

day. as in every single country not everyone is racing to go and get that job at least not quite yet and this discrepancy between internal and external to mind is something that moscow raised recently. we haven't heard any reports about vaccine shortages and us domestic demand for this vaccine is still gathering momentum in moscow there's no deficits but we can see there's a huge demand for demand for the russian vaccine brought in. it is indeed high it's so high that you suppresses our production capacity that's why we are actively working on quickly launching production of the vaccine in several foreign countries and production in foreign countries will cover demand abroad while manufacturing inside the country will cover the domestic market so clearly that's the logical response to vonda lens quite hostile comments but here clearly throwing up political punch was more important than logic perhaps not surprising we obviously know that you russian relations are going through a slightly bumpy potch moscow says it's for straighted by brussels consistently

interfering in its internal affairs and it looks like here we might be seeing the same story instead of trying to resolve its own issues the e.u. is trying to deflect attention and undermining a country who's trying to offer a helping hand this is just the latest in a long line of critical remarks coming from the european union over and over sputnik the as my some countries in the blog voicing support for the job as the e.u. continues to face a supply shortages artie's anton course of skate discussed the issue with the spokeswoman for the russian foreign ministry. that's not that it's an experience 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 they aggressively 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 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. standing in this country the latin america continued to receive supplies are russia's sputnik some western media outlets are paid to be drawing similarities between what they call the spread of the russian vaccine and the cold war more on that story

later in the program. large protests continue in spain over the rest of counsel on rapper pablo hersel who's been jailed for slandering the crown on the glorifying terrorism. the musician was arrested on tuesday at the university of gaydar where he and his supporters had 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 on 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 2018 pablo hersel was convicted by a spanish court over tweets calling the former king a quote nuffield boss he also accused police of torturing and killing demonstrators

and migrants herself fell foul of legislation covering spaniards his right to freedom of expression and up to the guy told by critics a court ruled spanish will prohibit it such expressions of opinion pablo has cells lawyer gives us his view on the matter. 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 i mean 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.

bill straightly and government has accused facebook of abusing its power that's off the social media giant bloke to news posts in the country. i would decide of course this is a strike you're going to business here you work according to our rules and that's a reasonable proposition we're happy to listen to them on on the technical issues of this just like we listen to google and trying to a sensible arrangement but the idea of shutting down the sort of sites i did yesterday as some sort of threat i was trying to react to that and i thought that was a. not a good move on their part and i should move quickly past that come back to the title and we'll sort it out in addition to news posts facebook also blocks a number of key australian government pages including health departments and merchants the services and trade unions a company later commented on the issue saying these accounts had been inadvertently

impacted and would be restored in a nail got the thoughts of our guests on the story. although i don't like facebook by any means i also don't blame them for trying to put a stop to what i think is a very bad policy that in the end well only end up hurting smaller independent and perhaps even dissident sources in favor of a larger more establishment media sources these news organizations are disappearing that's really what's at stake and they really don't have any choice because they're not generating the kind of revenues necessary to run these news this content of which facebook reliance on it we have seen a whole cloth disruption of paid you know professional journalists guys that spent 30 years cutting their teeth and there are a lot of jobs because who's going to pay him $80.00 grand plus benefits to write a story when you can get to me on his you know no unfair 058 no real credentials in journalism typing out something and make more money on those clicks

so the question is for democracy is what is the threshold where people deserve to have real information and should they have to pay for it should facebook profit on someone else's work without giving them some look you can understand facebook's desire not to give in and start paying for news stories like google did once the box opens there's $200.00 other countries surely saying we want some to facebook but you do to their shareholders right if we start saying all right facebook will have to pay to feature news articles and news links what's stopping other forms of content from doing the same this whole social media i guess ecosystem has really spun out of control in terms of how it is monetize and actually a i think more equitable if i can use that word solution to this would be to start talking about ways to break up the monopoly that facebook does have on advertising and also on user data basically the biggest problem with facebook is that they're utterly controlling that narrative and they're completely shutting out news that

doesn't obey the narrative miss and this goes for almost. every issue down the line that's of the importance today let's remember back in around 2007 i happen to be one of those lucky ones who interviewed this guy who started facebook he was a nobody was still on my space my space everywhere and he said that he wanted to create an ecosystem similar to a a well at the time if we all remembered dial up ale well it closed circuit environment where all your dating your shopping your opinions and but basically people who weren't able to have real friends in life could have thousands of friends make believe friends and call them their friends and you would never have to leave that world and it would do everything for you well that dream has come true and now all of us are sitting in the middle of it going well wait a minute it's either all capitalism where anything goes and we can all charge for everything or it's part capitalism or it's something but we're at that time of growth now we actually have to make the grown up decisions. poorly organized

expensive and unsafe this is how some travelers returning to the u.k. have described the country's quarantine hotels the facilities work opens this week the people arriving from coronavirus hotspots on a shot had once done stay reports from outside one of the hotels. foreign travelers and brits returning home from 33 reckless countries are now forced isolated government mandated hotels in the u.k. for 10 days it's all part of measures to curb the spread of the new coronavirus variants but not only are rivals like elaine and wagner confined to the 4 walls of a small hotel room they've also got to thought they have to build themselves because. we've got a beach with thousands on it when you come back but. you know money we want to try to come along a bit right now there are going to be new rules how about i don't know

i don't know yet but this couple and that alone many flights being canceled and departure dates change due to complications of the cave a $1000.00 pandemic and it's not just the financial burden that's weighing heavily other rivals tell me the current policy is no safer than isolating a home a plague take. home a. fire. believe me state i like. being a feature bringing it. all again. i have no one. currently the government has almost 5000 rooms available across 16 airport hotels with another 58000 on standby but as has been throughout the entire pandemic scotland has gone one step further by enforcing

hotel currently measures on any international arrivals regardless of which country they arrive from even in exceptional circumstances we were due to. us we know almost in. its whence what we're not used managed or seen of late mr consul just automatically wants the 16th and that's. when the rest if. you can already have them along if you were going to england or if you were willing to get in the ring and ring haski because. it's just if you will be penalized for a moment you know you know we're not. just. feeling like captives thousands of arrivals have to wait before getting home to their families as. ever more exhausted states are already testing toroids charge at all to long.

still to come as millions of the southern states of america are left without water and electricity amid a deadly winter storm republican texans receive a little sympathy all social media story and more coming up after the break. the one i almost choked seemed wrong all right old old just don't hold. me to old yet to shape out disdain comes to educate and in again training equals betrayal all. when so many find themselves worlds apart when she's to look for common ground.

come back now as countries in latin america continue to receive supplies of russia's a spinning they found western media outlets appear to be drawing similarities between what they call the spread of the russian vaccine arms the cold war has r.t. as more and garcia have with more spruit nick v.

was born into disbelief than ridicule and jokes how could russia have done what the richest of the most democratic nations of the world couldn't finally came acceptance glitter but acceptance. and is the percent of. it was always politics it was never really about the vaccine if scrutiny came from france for example could you even imagine it would have attracted this much ridicule and scorn of course it would fortunately science prevailed and sputnik is saving lives in latin america. we're happy with the

signing of a very important contract for our country and for our population for the believe in people because in this way the levy 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 you know money russia has extended to helping hand in solidarity to all of people country attacked by imperial powers implicated country a criminal. the people who mock than derided spruit nick b. 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 acting in special interest they're angry that the united states which has lorded it 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 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's what 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 in. 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 pfizer 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 w h a mechanism to provide the developing world with enough jabs to inoculate 20 percent their 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. huge storm sweeping through this southern u.s. that has killed at least 36 people in texas one of the hardest hit states millions of people are still facing water and power shortages freezing temperatures have caused water pipes to burst leaving millions of texans without access to clean running water locals have also been forced to stand in lines for food as shops run

low on supplies the texas governor has blamed the power grid operator for the massive outages saying it felt to prepare for the storm the operator has stated that significant progress has been made in restoring power and we want people online took the opportunity to mock republican texans caught up in the storm caleb maupin reports at a time like this you would think that texans would be receiving lots 'd 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 who john cornyn these 2 also never recognize to do a war if this isn't payback i don't know what he is a 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 other service. thing 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 artsy new york thanks for joining us here on r.t. international this friday morning we're back in 30 minutes with the latest headlines that say about. financial survival today was all about money laundering 1st to visit this cash in the 3 different. oh good this is a good start well we have our 3 banks all set up here maybe something in europe something in america something overseas or the cayman islands or do we do all these banks are complicit in the kleptocracy who decide to give much bonus i am ready to do some serious money laundering ok let's see how we did while we've got a look at

a nice luxury watch for max and for stacy cole beautiful jewelry and how about. luxury automobile again for max you know what money laundering is highly illegal for a watch as a record. by folks next up on dennis miller plus one we'll talk to judd nelson now obviously you know judge from st elmo's breakfast club my school called fandango with the young kevin costner too and now he's got a film coming out on lifetime that were it sounds about the heaviest film that i've ever heard as i read the coverage that i was based loosely i think you'd have to base it loosely on a real life horror story we'll talk to judd nelson about his new film coming up on the lifetime network right after that son dennis miller plus one.

hey folks welcome to dennis miller plus one when did i ever think when did i ever think i'd interviewed john bender need to wear a tie on the show what what his long strange trip it's been. really actually judge judge nelson best known for a lot of things i guess he was 1st on my radar and i think that might be the 1st koester to offend than go it's you get you get in with wants it felt pretty groovy film i think kevin reynolds might have directed that and he and their customers think friends for a fun time but it just trust me it's a cool sort of a roadie put your beats major done deal meets big joe pretty cool fellow and then the breakfast club say no most fire hit out of the ballpark new jack city also earned a golden globe nomination for his role in the mini series billionaire boys club which is cool and judd's latest film and juice i was reading about folks i know let

him pick up ball i get press reading the one sheet on a life that are all in the basement for marrying on february 27th judge nelson how are you. i'm doing very well thank you for having me. listen i want to intermingle and talk a lot and we've had met just a couple sides of had laughs but i'm going to almost keep the project separate and talk about of the beginning because once you talk about this subject this project you cannot go back and forth this is tell me about the new movie and it premieres as i said february 27th on lifetime the girl in the basement lay it out for the viewers just well it's. loosely based on a real story about a father who kidnaps his daughter in keeps her in a specially built sound too.