money. that's right these hedge funds are simply not accountable and we're just getting more and more to the. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get in for a while because you're. in the day's headlines moscow warns brussels is politicizing the fight against the pandemic as the kremlin hits back at controversial comments from the head of the e.u. casting doubt on her precious kodak scene. we discuss the e.u. the ongoing criticism of sputnik the with russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman. talking aggressive speck seems of the well not without making it too expensive blackmailing with it. and a campaign to boycott facebook gains momentum in australia after the tech giant blocked news posts in the country something the country has called an abuse of power with the issue up for debate. should facebook profit on someone else's work

without giving them some of the biggest problems facebook has but they're utterly controlling the narrative i think this whole social media i guess ecosystem has really spun out of control in terms of how it is monetize. watching arts international coming to you live from the russian capital which is and every hour welcome to the program. russia has accused brussels of politicizing the battle against coronavirus that's after. controversial comments questioning moscow's motives to help the block with its vaccine roll out. we are perplexed to hear assessments by the head of the you exactly 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 we still

wonder why russia is offering theoretically millions and millions of doses while not sufficiently progressing in vaccinating the own people thrushes 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 russel's failed to the point that wonderland had to publicly apologize when did not the senate district is that today we're not where we want to be in combating the virus we were late in granting authorization we were too old to

mystic about mass production and maybe we also took for granted that the doses would actually arrive on time we must ask ourselves why and what lessons we can draw from it 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 sputnik see we also heard last year in the czech republic showing up tight for the russian flaxseed 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 of another country but do along the lines concerns have any. around here i mean i understand this but think this 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 if it community and business entities have repeatedly publicly stressed that vaccination of its own citizens constitutes an absolute priority for russia in its fight against kovi 19 and 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 without free accessibility is undeniably a seen success russia is in top 3 if you're a pin a chanson tons of facts a nation's 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 on the 2nd dose then they went home and they were getting back to normal life and this discrepancy between internal and external to mind is something that moscow raised recently. you just we haven't had

any reports about vaccine shortages and us domestic demand for this vaccine is still gathering momentum as for demand for the russian vaccine of drooled it is indeed high it's so high that he suppresses our production capacity and that's why we are actively working on quickly launching production of the vaccine in several foreign countries 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 hc clearly throwing up political punch was more important than logic perhaps not surprising we obviously know the e.u. russian relations are going through a slightly bumpy potch moscow says it's the straighted by brussels consistently interfering and it's an ton and it looks like a 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 marks just the latest in

a long line of critical remarks from brussels over sputnik really that's despite some states and the bloc forcing support for the shot as the in his own occupation program his problems are to discuss the issue with the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman that it's not that it's early but it's been 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 'd the aggressor 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 sit in the 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. really establishing it as. a campaign to boycott facebook's gaining momentum in australia after the tech giant watch news posts in the country every proposal ought to make social networks pay publishers for news content as well and governments criticize facebook spoke. i would decide if i say this is a strike you are going to business here you work according to our rules but the idea of shutting down the sort of sots di did yesterday as some sort of threat well

'd i know i was trying to react to that and i thought that was a. not a good move on the part of this morning so we'll see way where those discussions go and we can find a pathway going forward yesterday's actions by phase work were on this eerie they were heavy handed they've generated a very strong reaction here in a strike. in addition to news posts facebook also blocked a number of key australian government pages including health department's emergency services and trade unions the company later commented on the issue saying these accounts have been inadvertently impacted and are now being restored amnesty international weighed in on the issue saying facebook's willingness to control information that people rely on is extremely concerning the group of the move stood in stark contrast to what it calls the tech giants poor track record and hurling hateful content and disintegration calendars back to australia and its spats the country is considering similar legislation to make facebook pena's publishers and

says it will not be intimidated my colleague you know neil got the thoughts on 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. 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 grand plus benefits to write a story when you can get to me on his you know no unfair of by 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 is 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 remember dial up ale well it closed circuit environment where all your dating your shopping your opinions and 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 will we actually have to make the grown up decisions. the g 7 leaders are currently meeting this year it's being held online under the presidency of the u.k. prime minister boris johnson set an ambitious and gender encouraging leaders to share vaccines stocks with developing countries with conditions are to charlotte devinsky has more. well the g 7 leaders are meeting virtually on friday and there are some new faces in the mix including joe biden in his 1st outing at the meeting as u.s. president but already it seems that the leaders are going to be a longer heads particularly over the issue of the code 90 back scene this comes as president my phone was amongst leaders who made a call for western countries to put aside the 5 percent of the doses of vaccines for the poor countries a noble cause you might say particularly as figures are released showing how badly

poor countries are being robbed by the fire us we're not talking about billions of doses immediately or billions and billions of euros it's about much more rapidly allocating 4 to 5 percent of the doses we have it will change our vaccination campaigns but each country should set aside a small number of the doses it house to transfer tens of millions of them the u.k. would be looking at a figure significantly greater than that the government would be a global force for good in fighting the pandemic and like some countries the u.k. would not use the promise of vaccine supplies to other countries as short term diplomatic leverage but it was difficult to say at this stage when the sharing would happen well this of course comes after accusations and some western nations have been doing the vaccines for themselves despite the fact that european commission president back in 2020 said that they would be assistance for poor countries there's also been criticism of richard nations and how they're dealing

with the vaccine from organizations such as the international red cross and the u.n. secretary general is also talked about this week progress on vaccinations has been widely an event and finance. just 10 countries evident is that it's 75 percent of all covered in 1000 vaccines you know i own more than 130 countries have not received a single goals and those affected by conflict and insecurity are at particular risk of being left behind. so who is going to step up to the plate to that call well let's start with president marcos who is one of the ones who made that call now so far francis said yes we want to donate these vaccines but it hasn't says to which countries and it hasn't said when it's also said it has the agreement of anglo merkel to do this but again more details on that what about the u.k. boris johnson also has supported the calls for sending vaccines to poorer countries

but it seems only super spike scenes only when all adults in the u.k. of vaccinated so what about the united states well a washington spokesman for the boy did it when the street took a similar attack to the u.k. yes but not now not until all americans are vaccines for the moment it's cash only and of course there are problems as you've been hearing with the rollout of the vaccine here in europe with many countries struggling to get the doses that they need because of problems with ordering and problems with deliveries and it seems that these calls now only so much potentially about helping poor countries but realizing there is a political situation at hand russia and china have both been supplying poor countries with coheed fact scenes doing so successfully that has got some leaders in a bit of a twist over an issue of soft power and that seen diplomacy it's paving the way for

a war of influence over vaccines and you can see china and russia strategy to a global health issue becomes a political one certainly we've seen attempts by other countries china and russia to use vaccines as a means of making progress diplomatically you know the president is engaged with a range of leaders around the world conveying how he wants to return the united states to have a central seat on the world stage and we're working to do that through a range of actions but we are. we watch those actions with concern so interesting the western nations when they want to supply vaccines that's good but russia and china who've already been doing it and that's potentially bad it seems that the g 7 leaders are now cotton dong to the idea that if they don't start producing vaccines and sharing them with those poor countries then what they might lose is their room influence. poorly organized expensive and unsafe

this is how some travelers returning to the u.k. have described the country's cornton hotels the facilities were opened this week for people arriving from coronavirus hotspots under the new measures travelers returning from red listed countries have to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days it cost $1750.00 pounds per person that's about $2400.00 an additional $650.00 pounds for a 2nd adult. stash the reports from outside one of the. foreign travelers and brits returning home from $33.00 reckless countries are now forced to isolate and 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 foot they have to bills and selves because you. know what we've got to be on that when you come back.

you know. we want to try to come along a bit but right now there i don't want to be a new rule how about i don't know i don't know yet but this couple 100 a loan many thought it's been cancelled and the party dates tang's due to complications of the cave in 1000 pandemic and it's not just the financial burden that's weighing heavily other rivals tell me the party policy is no safer than isolating a home a plague take. home to. the fire. station or like. being a feature bringing it. all again. i want 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 7 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 to. be no almost in a so it's when scotland and joost managed all seen mr consul just automatically once the 16th and that's. when the rest if. you know 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 so 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. we have a more anxiety it's already testing times. to u.k. . as countries in latin america continue to receive supplies of russia sputnik v some western media outlets appear to be drawing similarities between what they call the spread of the russian vaccine and the cold war as our cheesemonger asked if with more. scrutiny 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 bitter but acceptance.

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 least much ridicule and scorn of course it would 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 it is among the countries among the many countries that today are making efforts to provide a way out is the way they give the population certainty in the face of this pandemic lucianne stan the the no money russia has extended to helping hand in solidarity to all of people by country attacked by inferior powers implicated country a criminal case 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 to good to be true. now you have to be a putin friend to place an order we will of course understand that it was and it is tabloid trash sellout pundits acting in special interests that angry that the united states which has alluded to do over the americas north and south assuming all that it isn't the us ride into latin america's rescue with a vaccine clutched in its hand this is what we do in xinjiang 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 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 floods is twice as expensive roughly and very difficult to transport and to 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 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 with poor nations or to put their faith in koufax they were told w.h.o. mechanism to provide the developing world with enough jobs to inoculate 20 percent the population free of charge a levy in colombia even go to on the shortlist and guess what order a single dose as yet being delivered but you don't see politico raising a fuss about kovacs being too good to be true.

a huge winter storm sweeping across the southern u.s. has killed at least 36 people and 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 shops run low on supplies the texas governor has blamed the power grid operator for the massive outages saying it failed to prepare for the storm the operator however insists that significant progress has been made in restoring power meanwhile people online took the opportunity to mark republican texans caught up in the storm has been explained 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 will join courneya 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 fats when things go bad 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 divine to you go out there and take

a look and 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 it's been a rundown of the day's top stories for this hour and thanks for tuning in wherever you may be. i max kaiser one more of my guide to financial survival this is. a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these has flaws are simply not accountable and we're just adding more and more to them. totally

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hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter labelle the post from aaron has begun or has it what role will the former president play within the republican party by all accounts trump intends to remain relevant if this is the case what is the future of the populist wing of the party and in ortley if indeed the g.o.p. is now the power. of the working class will the party leadership embrace this new direction. to discuss the fate of the g.o.p. i'm joined by my guests and martin in washington he's president of the national conservative organization that was schaffel eagles as well as co-author of the conservative case for trump also in washington we have read she's the founder of

republican women for.