controversial comments from the head of the. thing. we discuss the. foreign ministry spokeswoman. well it's not without making it too expensive meeting with. the campaign. for something. or debate. should

facebook profit on someone else's work without giving them somewhat more. narrative i think this whole social media. ecosystem has really spun out of control in terms of how it is monetize. or if we're catching the program from today welcome to. your company. russia has accused brussels of polish. coronavirus. chief. made controversial comments questioning moscow's motives in offering to help the block with its. 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 19 fraxinus 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 don't know 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 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 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 up a tight for the russian fraxinus 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 an ego. on terror 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 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 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 scene success washers and top 3 if you're a pen nations in terms of facts nations 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. 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 he suppresses production capacity that's why we are actively working on quickly launching production of the vaccine in several foreign countries production in foreign countries will kill the demand of brought 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 in tons of files and it looks like hey 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. oberon marks just the latest in a long line of critical remarks from brussels over support likely but comes the spying some states in the bloc voicing support for the shot use only inoculation program suffers issue after issue. discussed the issue with the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman 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 is bad and nobody should lose it was necessary to invent something very fast in order not to destroy the create a myth that russia is an aggressor how can the aggressor offer its facts into the world not without hides it making it too expensive 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 denounce 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. establishing that i seek a grease rob. campaign to boycott facebook is gaining momentum in a stroller it revolves around the tech joe blocking news post on its platform in the country over a proposed law to make social networks pay publishers for news content the streaming government's criticized facebook's decision. i would just side of this is a struggle 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 with those discussions going we can find a pathway going forward yesterday's actions by folks who are on this a series 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 is trailing government pages including health departments emergency services trade unions as well the company later commented on the issue saying those accounts had been quote inadvertently impacted and are not being restored the international weighed in on the issue saying facebook's willingness to control information that people rely on is extremely concerning the group also commented on the tech giant's poor track record in hateful content and dissin for me what color

is one country which is fully backing this trillion it's but the country's considering similar legislation to make 1st group a news publishers and says it will not be intimidated now earlier i spoke to a number of guests on the standoff. 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 desks 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 if i know 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 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. early organized expensive and owned safe some travelers returning to the u.k. have the scribe 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 listed nations have to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days it costs $1750.00 pounds per person that's $2400.00 on an additional $650.00 pounds for a 2nd bottle r.t. shadi edwards dusty 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 $2000.00 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 to loan money 3 it's been cancelled and the party dates changed due to complications of the cave in 1000 pandemic and it's not just the financial burden that's weighing heavily in other rivals tell me the party policy is no safer than isolating a home a plague take. home. the 5. believe me state election. being

a feature of the 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 or 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 men and women haski because. it's just so if you will be penalized for a moment you know you know we will. be just like you all feeling like captives thousands of arrivals have to wait before getting home to their families as. after more anxiety it's already been testing time. world leaders have come together for online meetings of the group of 7 nations in the munich security conference a busy day online no prizes for guessing what's top of the agenda let's get the details now from our correspondents peter all over charlotte. peter can we kick off with you the major tickets from the munich conference to biden he was one of his 1st big speeches to the world pretty much.

yes this is the 1st transatlantic speech if you will a lot of people watching this to see what the message would be the message very clearly very simply and if i may be slightly crude america is back appeals china and russia and europe get back behind us we're going to lead the way again leading with diplomacy is the new slogan when it comes to their european partners on the transatlantic front. america is back was repeated from the very off by joe biden and his address the 1st ever address by a sitting u.s. president to the munich security conference it's not the 1st address from joe biden though he's a familiar face here this is his 4th time addressing the conference twice as vice president once and 2019 as a private citizen before he started running for the office he now holds going through what he said america is back when it came to china he said that.

there would be competent competition with china is going to be stiff but it was competition that his administration was welcoming he did say that everyone needs to play by the same rules when it came to chinese government involvement in chinese business on russia he said president putin seeks to weaken the european project in . straight out of the the old playbook. from the u.s. president going on this one. when it comes to do wider world though in america's relationship with europe in particular particular where i'm speaking to you from with germany he said that there would be a halt to the plans that were put in place by donald trump to pull u.s. troops out of germany and there would also be a review of a rule that was put in place by the trumpet ministration limiting the number of u.s. troops that can be stationed here i didn't get to hear all of what a money on had to say we came here to talk to you but. it was also making an

address at the. conference she was full of praise for president joe biden everybody seemed to be was given top billing it really hasn't been so much the munich security conference as it's being biden 1st 2021 that we've heard coming out of munich because this virtual summit takes place one thing that may be worthwhile noting while i was waiting to speak to you both president biden and chancellor merkel finished what they had to say and then let the next one move along. he finished up early what he had to say and then decided he was going to take some questions perhaps a little diplomatic flex there from the french president interesting peter over there charlotte toobin ski also with us been covering the g. 7 different have a g. 7 it's all online or people talk to each other on the computer or charlotte the pandemic i suppose top of the agenda there. yes that's right covidien team was high on the agenda of the 7 summit today.

volm de lay in saying that the european union is pledging to double the amount of money that it wants to put towards kovacs this is the vaccination program we also heard that across the g $7.00 nations they would be some funding over around 7500000000 euros huge amount of money being made available to the facts program germany's angela merkel saying her country was one of the largest contributors. i'm happy to say the germany also as one and a half 1000000000 euros in supporting callbacks where one of the biggest contributors to this program in fact and when the biggest with the u.s. and u.k. . now there had been calls before this virtual summit for the g 7 countries to put aside up to 5 percent of their vaccine doses and distribute them to poorer

countries those calls were led. by president emanuel of france the u.k. prime minister boris johnson saying for newbies signed up to giving actual doses they've said that they would send surplus one adults and they did in their own countries but for the moment it seems that only money is being pledged boris johnson who was chairing that meeting of the g. 7 summit said that the whole world has to be even that vaccinated because this was a global pandemic. it won't. 'd come to this. now some countries in the west have been accused of holding vaccine doses just earlier this week the u.n. secretary general talked about the fact that 10 countries had already distributed 75 percent over the vaccine doses and said that the distribution was wildly

even though we also know that there is another reason perhaps towards this drive of talking about vaccine sharing from rich countries to poorer countries and that's come as in the last few months russia and china have been distributing do those says of their vaccines to poor countries around the world and now it seems that some are suggesting that those countries could be using this idea of doling out there but it seems in poor countries as essentially soft power that calling it 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. ok so a lot of money pledged on friday 7500000000 euros for that kovacs program but what we are now hearing from one organization is that they won't allow it he has to rich countries going to provide countries that do seas of vaccines not money. vaccines they saying that you know it's not good enough for developing countries to have to wait to receive vaccine doses until wealthy countries have basically vaccinated their entire populations that call from unicef not enough now to just make pledges we need to know exactly when these duces of not money is a vaccine will arrive in poor countries. taking us through the g.

7 meeting earlier peter all over with the latest from the munich security conference thank you both. i should storm sweeping the southern u.s. 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 holds water pumps the 1st leaving millions of texans without access to clean running water locals have also been forced to stand outside in long lines for food shops running low on supplies the texas governor blamed the power grid operator for the most of our bridges saying it feel to prepare for the storm the operator itself insists that significant progress has been made in restoring electricity killam up and has more . 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 and 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 divided you go out there and take a look and talk to people you have fringes on both ends but it's not new is 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 r.t. new york. the retailer game stop being an ever present name in news financial headlines these past few weeks next boom bust delves into why there's a congress hearing involving the company and what the ramifications could be for a restaurant across the globe stay close for that i'm back in 30 buy for.

the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in their own interests or you see in this these techniques is the state devising methods to him to essentially destroy the personality of an individual. by scientific means this is how one doctor's theories were allegedly used in psychological warfare against prisoners deemed a danger to the state that was the foundation for the method of psychological interrogation psychological torture the cia disseminated within the us intelligence community and worldwide among our allies for the next 30 years and other victims say they still live with the consequences today. seemed wrong but. just don't. get to say

proud just become active. and engaged because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just of the for common ground. we're more politicized than ever we're more polarized than ever the 21st century when speed is measured in megabytes per 2nd. and of course he's in him at a tronic mail electronic money electronic media infinite possibilities for exchanging information i mean when. freedom of speech and social media bends censorship and double standards who should judge what can be said online. the internet audience snow totals almost 4500000000 more most all of them are

active social network users but one wrong move from their pages deleted digital. not who runs the show on the web how can anyone stand up to the tech giants if even the heads of state face the threat of being banned is there any limits to hold that virtual. revolution will weigh.

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