the debt stuff happen every single day this is a history of the usa and america. in the headlines this friday in moscow once brussels is politicizing the fight against the pandemic as the kremlin hits controversial comments from the head of the new casting doubt over russia's coming back seat and. we discuss the e.u. is ongoing criticism of sputnik me with russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman. how can aggressive hopefully its facts into the world it's not without hiding it making it too expensive blackmailing with it. and a campaign to boycott facebook gains momentum in australia after the tech giant lost news posts in the country something they have called an abuse of power but the issue up for debate. should facebook profit on someone else's work without giving them some upgraded from critical to their 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. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. russia has accused brussels of politicizing the battle against crime a virus that's after underline it 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 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 progress 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 and didn't notice the senate this fact 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 mess production and maybe we also took for granted that the doses it would actually arrive on time we must ask ourselves why and what lessons

we can draw from it while one lesson that did come out was that the 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 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 but do along the lions concerns have any. on terror 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 world 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 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 without free accessibility is undeniably a scene success washers and top 3 if you're a pin a chanson tom's a vaccination is 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 demand 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 as for demand for the russian vaccine of drooled it is indeed high it's so high that you 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 vonta 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 at 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 3 that's despite some

states in the box forcing support for the shot as the in his own an occupation program hits problems are days until discuss the issue with the russian foreign ministry spokesman that this is 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 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 between the yuri gagarin went on his flight and when he returned what did the soviet union do it denounced that outer space is for peaceful exploration did what they used to saw proposed to the

world city new trend in the direction the same with the vaccine we are open to corporations we are ready to join production we are a did 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. yet i seek agrees. a campaign to boycott facebook's gaining momentum in australia after the tech giant blocked news person the country over a proposed law to make social networks pay publishers for news content as well and governments heavily criticized facebook's move. just side of boys this is a strike you're going to business here you work according to our rules but the idea of shutting down the sort of sorts 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 the part of this morning so we'll see where one of 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 departments emergency services and trade unions the company it 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 added the move stood in stark contrast to what it called the tech giants poor track record and handling hateful content and this information canada's back to australia and its spats the country is considering similar legislation to make facebook pay news publishers and says it will not be intimidated my colleague in o'neill got the thoughts on from 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 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'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 remember dial up ale well it closed circuit environment were 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 we actually have to make the grown up decisions. the g 7 leaders

met today the event was held online under the presidency of the u.k. prime minister boris johnson sent an ambitious agenda encouraging leaders to share a vaccine stocks with developing countries that with conditions are to charlotte even ski 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 seen this comes as president my corn was amongst leaders who made a call for western countries to put aside up to 5 percent of their doses of vaccines for 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 that some western nations have been affording the vaccines for themselves that 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 in how they 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 fans just can't come to these ever administered it 75 percent of all coveted 19 vaccines meanwhile more than $130.00 companies have not received a single goal. and those affected by conflict and insecurity i don't 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 mccord he's one of the ones who made that call now so far francis said yes we want to donate these vaccines but it hasn't said 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 no 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 and 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 realising there is a political situation at hand russia and china have both been supplying poor countries with coke vaccines doing so successfully that has got some leaders in a bit of a twist over an issue of soft power and vaccine 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. 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 that the western nations when they want to supply vaccines that's good but russia and china who have already been doing it and that's potentially bad it seems that the g 7 leaders have now gone 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 own influence. poorly organized expensive and unsafe this is how some travelers returning to the u.k. have described the country's quarantine hotels the facilities were opened this week

for people arriving from coronavirus hotspots under the new measures travelers returning from red list of countries have to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days it cost $1750.00 pounds per person and that's about $2400.00 plus an additional $650.00 pounds for a 2nd adult. reports from outside one of the facilities. 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 to go you . know what we've got to be on that when you come back. you. want to try to come along a bit. there are going 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 a 1000 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. the 5. believe me state i 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 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. on the scene in. it's when scotland and joost managed all seen mr consul 'd just automatically once the 16th and that's. when the rest if. you know can already have the muslims you were going to england or if you were willing to get in england and rehearsed it because. it's just so if you were it would be. a remote you know you know we thought. we just all feeling like captives thousands of arrivals have to wait before getting home to their families as. evermore anxiety it's already testing times. to u.k.

. as countries in latin america continue to receive supplies of russia's 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. what's more. 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 britta 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 he is among the countries among the many countries that today are making efforts to provide a way out to give the population certainty in the face of this pandemic lucianne stay in the zone of money russia has extended to helping hand in solidarity to all of people the country attacked by imperial 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

is 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. 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 eluded a do over the americas north and south assumed all that it isn't the us ride into latin america's rescue with a vaccine clutched in it's had and 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 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 floods is twice as expensive roughly and very difficult to transport and to store requiring deep freeze which is again expensive or is spook nick 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 has been merely with poor nations or to put their faith in koufax they were told w h o a 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 or the single dose as yet been delivered but you don't see politico raising a fuss about kovacs being too good to be true. a huge winter storm sweeping southern us 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's blamed the power grid operator for the massive outages saying it failed to prepare for the storm operator though 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 as 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 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 during 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 but it's not new used to live 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 r.t. new york. that's been our wrap up of the day's top stories for this hour and that's all for me as well today but we're not you know neal will be here at the top of the hour with your headline news. measures human beings to change may choose or think you know who's who this is because well this last person to see if there's going to make people uneasy. peace force a good time just because nature. or somebody new brain why don't we just choose. the global cell markets approximately just under 2 trillion so certainly within

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