she. warns that brussels is politicizing the fight against the. controversial comments from the head of the european union. global gathering it's online all the way as world leaders. pressing issues at the munich security conference group of 7 meeting posted by london the big takeaways from some are calling rather strange. i think. on the campaign to boycott facebook games were meant to ministry to. block news posts in the country something called the use of power the issue. should

facebook profit on someone else's work without giving him some up because problem facebook is but there are other really 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. just after 9 at night here in moscow. in 1000 welcome to r.t. this hour's top story. russia has accused brussels of politicizing the battle against coronavirus. chief. in may controversial comments questioning moscow's motives in offering to aid the block with its sluggish. 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 the russians 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 vaccine 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 the 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 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 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 of another country but do along the lines concerns have any. 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 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 kovi 19th 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 seen success russia isn't 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 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 he suppresses our 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 cover demand of brought while manufacturing inside the country will cover the domestic market so clearly that's the logical response to vonta lens quite hostile comments but hit pretty 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 the straighted by brussels consistently interfering and it's in tons of friends and it looks like hey we might be seeing that the same story instead of trying to resolve its own issues the e.u. is trying to deflect attention and undermine your country he's trying to offer

a helping hand. so taking us through that will the wrong remarks just the latest in a long line of critical remarks from brussels over sputnik but comes despite some states in the bloc voicing support for the shot of the e.u. zone inoculation program suffers issue after issue. discussed the issue with the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman. 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 the aggressor offer its facts into the world not without hiding 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 and it denounced it 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 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 and this is a blow to the longstanding model of representing russia as an aggressor. yet i see . world leaders have come together for a parallel online meetings of the group of 7 nations on the munich security conference including joe biden making his bow on the international stage u.s. leader let's get the details now from our correspondent peter all over. peter 1st

to you our virtual gathering of the munich conference or 1st for it but how regional were the statements. well we've been hearing from joe biden in his 1st transatlantic address the u.s. president he's the 1st u.s. president to address the 1st sitting u.s. president to address the munich security conference not the 1st time joe biden spoke in here though this was his 4th address to the munich conference this year though wasn't so much munich security conference 2021 as it was by confessed 2021 it was a real love in for the new u.s. president his speech to number of key points very says singley america is back china and russia can get lost and europe we're back in the driving seat get behind us we'll show you the way notably biden's speech didn't touch on the issues that the u.s. and europe don't particularly see eye to eye on things like ed nord stream to all

the the funding for the nato budgets which still remains a thorny issue across the atlantic what we did see though was a whole lot of move for joe biden a lot of it seems coming just for the period into him not being donald trump. when i last spoke in munich i was a private citizen but i said at that time we will be back and i'm a man of my word america's back i speak today as president of the united states at the very start of my administration and i'm sending a clear message to the world america is back the transatlantic alliance is back and we're are not looking backward we are looking forward together. well the director general of the world health organization also had a lot of time to praise joe biden tadros at non governor here this said that he was very pleased with the way the new administration had reconnected with the w.h.o.

he said the vice president had been on the phone with him also 'd dr one of the chief medical advisor to the president had also been in touch with the world health organization said it wasn't just about the money which is quite considerable that the u.s. puts into the w.h.o. but it was about america being back in the fold with the world health organization the message to president biden is to express my sincere thanks since he started office. all they have done is very very encouraging us is very very important. and it's not for the money it's the global leadership of the u.s. well the only voice straying slightly from the script of the love in for the

transatlantic relationship was french president a manual macron he while giving his address virtually said that. while he's giving his virtual address he said that the european union in particular needs to have its own security more in its hands and not rely on the united states a much i listened very carefully to the prison by then and the common challenges i think it is time for us to take much more of the burden of our own protection when we speak about security at our borders it is normal and sometimes us could decide to be less involved if we are too much dependent on the us really need to. we can put ourselves into a situation to be no more protected at our borders. an interesting munich security conference this year held virtually the leaders phoning in through video conferencing there was one interesting bit again involving a manual mark on both joe biden and the angle of merkel who was also sharing that

moment with them they both finished up their speeches let the next war move on french president deciding he'd hang about and take a few questions and little diplomatic flex there from the earlies a palace interesting peter thanks for the charlotte toobin skill also with keeping a focus on today's g. 7 meeting a lot of talk ahead all of them about covert vaccines in particular the disparities between the wealthy west and the developing world was not a key factor of today's online come together. yes a very key factor of this g. 7 summit held virtually we heard lots of pledges of money in fact there was be money thrown at this problem from across the g 7 nations on the lane form the news poll said that they were going to double the amount of money that they were to put into kovacs this is the global vaccination program to help distribute covert

900 fax scenes through to poor and medium income countries now all in all g 7 countries pledged around $7500000000.00 to the program to help get $1000.00 out anglo merkel said germany was one of the largest contributors . i'm happy to say the germany also has one and a half 1000000000 euro supporting callbacks where one of the biggest contributors to this program in fact among the biggest with the u.s. and u.k. . so plenty of money but what had been cool for before the meeting this was a call from president marcos of france and also the u.k. prime minister boris johnson was the idea of western countries put aside up to 5 percent of their vaccine doses and send them to poor countries to help them with their vaccinations that was something that nobody has really stepped up to the

plate to do there was money as a said plenty of money on display but nobody yet saying that they will actually send those to uses unless there's surplus meaning that it waiting for all of their adults to be backs and eat it 1st now boris johnson the u.k. prime minister said that this was a wolves pandemic and it meant that the whole world had to be vaccinated. gaev. now let's not forget the western nations have been accused quite severely of holding vaccine supplies including criticism coming from the u.n. secretary general who this week said that 75 percent of the vaccines that have already been distributed in the world in 10 countries only and you can guess it 10 of the richest countries now there's also been

a suggestion that this call towards providing more vaccines from the surplus from western countries to poor countries is coming in the wake of the fact that russia and china been doing this for many many months and there is a fear among some leaders that this is a needing to a new type of soft power to 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 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 lots of money being pledged but actually criticism is not enough it's not sufficient to major charities gunning for the g 7 this is. and also saying it is simply not good enough the poorer nations developing nations will have to wait for vaccine doses wait until wealthy nations have finished their vaccine programs that was very strong criticism from both of those organizations. thinking this through the virtual meetings they are to. peter all over thank you both. well the munich security conference comes just a day after a virtual meeting of nato defense ministers that ended in the military block secretary-general unveiling a must have lee expanded mission in iraq insisting the measure would i terror today we decided to expand nato training mission in iraq to support the

iraq of forces us to find tows him and ensure that our assistance not return the size so our mission will increase from 500 personnel to around $4000.00 and train your duties for now include more iraq you security situations areas beyond boggled . discuss the ramp up copy to all come onto the program scott ritter scott's a former u.s. marine corps intelligence officer and aurthur and was welcome to have you on the program scott what do you make just doing the 8 fold ramp up of nato personnel in iraq. well it's interesting think the the the devil's in the details this isn't going to be instantaneous it's going to be a gradual build up and i believe that it would be your conditions based so it's not as though nato is going out american 500 to 4000 but let's just assume that they do meet this 4000 mark. understand that iraq is in extraordinarily

the stabilized nation there is a you know he a none certain security. posture that these $4000.00 troops are going to be deployed in which means they're going to be confronting our. nato is not very good at taking casualties and they do is not very good a combat missions they call this a security training mission when you're beyond baghdad out in the boonies in remote facilities training iraqi security forces that are in constant contact with with with isis or other extremist enemies there will be losses in nato is not configured to do this at the pair politically to do this so then the question is who will provide the combat backup and that of course is the united states and once united states employs combat force in support of nato the 2 missions become

intertwined and then medo which has made a big point of saying hey we're being invited by the iraqi government which is the opposite of the situation that currently exists regarding u.s. forces but once nato becomes intertwined with you know the american military posture in iraq they won't be welcome either this is just a horrible situation that underscores 2 realities one that nato is not a politically mature organization capable of making independent decisions and has been pushed into this direction by the united states and to the united states is in a dire situation. where it can no longer unilaterally impose its will it increasingly has to rely on partners and says nato to do the heavy lifting for them so you know neither one of these well for either iraq region or international security and it's not just iraq is a nato refused to comment to withdraw from afghanistan or give any time.

by thought with the instability there and also of course iraq after quite a few years why stay on so so long if it's not actually aiding the people and not some of the criticism we've heard from on that draw in that it's not actually doing us the iraqi on the afghans any long term good here. well these these are deployments that took place in the post 911 and post 2003 invasion framework in which nato is seeking relevance you know is seeking a mission. worth the expense associated with maintaining and sustaining this transatlantic alliance that was formed you know back in the cold war for the sole purpose of protecting western europe from you know ostensible soviet aggression with the collapse of the so union in 1901 there is no legitimate reason

for nato to continue other than ones that are manufactured by nato and that's what's happening in iraq and afghanistan and if nato withdraws from these it brings into question why nato exists it will be interesting to see however now that nato is retooling itself to confront russia in the baltics and poland us oblique by expanding into ukraine whether or not nato will be excited to expand its precious military resources on your failed missions in iraq afghanistan and at the expense of you know its new and exciting no post cold war confrontation with russia nato is just a struggling organization that struggling to find relevance it's struggling to find an identity and i think you know iraq and afghanistan are representative of this just a pretty touch another issue still very head of nato said scott russia and china

are trying to quote rewrite the world order this significance of such rhetoric aggressive rhetoric i suppose. why do that. well because nato is a byproduct of this coast room war 2 rules based order international order that the united states imposed on the world. you know when they say international rules based order means rules written by the united states for the united states the world has changed its transformed and it's not a bad thing they have these these rules we look at to take in the relevance of you know and a china that is far different today than it was in the 1950 s. or a new russian reality caus cold war russian reality it's not about you know you're rewriting it in terms of a military sheer this recognizes the economic realities that exist that the united

states is no longer the shot callers. but you know china and russia are taking a real look at the very rules that make nato or made meet all relevant is a threat to nato and so this is why you have the secretary general of bringing you know but you know a corollary to this is the secretary general talking about expanding nato as reach into the pacific to confront china again an organization desperately looking for relevance in search of enemies to make its military your unit you know existence impossible it's lunacy scott as always we appreciate you taking the time to speak to the program scott ritter former u.n. weapons inspector live in arts international. a campaign to boycott facebook is gaining momentum ministry and it revolves around the tech giant blocking a news post on its platform in a country over a proposed law to make social networks pay publishers for news content the

australian government's criticise facebook's decision. i would just side of fight 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 di 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 on we can find a pathway going forward yesterday's actions by phase were unnecessary they were heavy handed they have generated a very strong reaction here in a strike. in addition to news posts facebook also blocked a number of key astroland government pages including health departments emergency services and trade unions the company later commented on the issue saying those accounts being quote inadvertently impacted and are now being restored the international weighed in on the issue to saying facebook's willingness to control

information that people rely on is extremely concerning by the account of them back to australia and it's that country is considering similar legislation to make facebook pay news publishers will not be intimidated 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. 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 of what 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 where we actually have to make the grown up decisions rushes far northeast and is quite simply one of the toughest places in the world next travel along with the indigenous to cheap people as they show us what it takes to survive there in i am hunter. in the 1920 s. and thirty's several 100 african-americans moved to the soviet union and many of

their descendants still live in russia. or going at the coast because they know no rush but us throw up our stuff yes it. was one thing and us at the national scale back home black american suffered from racism and a complete lack of prospects. is that lump us mud the real. one by elsa store on the by doing. so they decided to leave everything behind and start a new life in a country about which they knew almost nothing at all some of the american reared who truly during the night. found great crowds. to moulay a golf you want to call clues and now almost a 100 years later the history is repeating itself my great grandfather george time went to russia. probable worst. to go anywhere why not me.

why don't i come here. strangers human beings to change nature so i think you know the music there i think is what is lost there is that there's going to make people uneasy but really why should we be forced to buy time just because nature. should be in your brain what are we going to choose that. imagine picking up a future textbook on the early years of the 21st century was. the chapters called gun violence school shootings. first it was my job then it was my fair deal it was my savings i have nothing i have nothing and it's not like i don't try i look for resources i look for jobs i look for everything i can to make this pass . and all i end up doing is. the road to the american dream pay.