following against the. controversial comments from the head of the european union. over russia's. global gathering of world leaders remotely discussed the most pressing international issues the munich security conference. meeting the big takeaways from the ahead including what some are calling rather strange grovelling towards president. a campaign to boycott facebook gains momentum in australia. its platform in the country something. the issue all. should facebook

profit on someone else's work without giving them somewhat bigger problem with their utterly merit i think this whole social media i guess ecosystem has really gone out of control in terms of how he does monetize. around the clock across the world face is our team from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome to the program. russia has accused brussels politicizing the battle against coronavirus. e.u. chief. made 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 russia's dismayed by the lack of diplomacy but also the lack of humanity that the chief has recently shown again politics beats cooperation when it comes to the covert 19 frank scene 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 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 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 of it has been registered in 29 countries already but what's the situation right here within russia well from the very get go

as soon as russia became the 1st country in the wild to register 1000 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 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 pen nations in terms of fascinations 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. he just we haven't had any reports about vaccine shortages and us domestic demand for this vaccine are still gathering momentum as for demand for the russian vaccine 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 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 hit pretty 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 consistent. interfering and it's a 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 undermine your country he's trying to offer a helping hand. ok moving the program on now a campaign to boycott facebook is gaining momentum in australia it revolves around the tech giant blocking news posts on its platform in the country over a proposed law to make social networks pay publishers for news content the australian government's criticised facebook's decision by we 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 well i know i was trying to react to that and i thought that was a. the 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 post facebook also blocked a number of key government pages including health departments emergency services and trade unions the company later commented on the issue saying those occurrence had been quote inadvertently impacted are now being restored just the international weighed in on the issue saying facebook's willingness to control information that people rely on is extremely concerning of canada back to australia and it's about the countries considering similar legislation to make facebook page news publishers' sees it will not be intimidated or your i spoke to a number of guests on the stand off. 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 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 that time if we all remembered dial up you know 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 where we actually have to make the grown up decisions. world leaders have come together this friday for a party well online meetings of the group of 7 nations on the munich security conference which included joe biden making his bow on the international stage u.s. leader earlier i discussed the details with our correspondent charlayne toobin ski

and peter all over this year's security conference wasn't so much munich security conference 2021 as it was biden faced 2021 the new u.s. president addressing the summit for the 1st time as u.s. president also becoming the 1st sitting u.s. president to address the conference in munich america is back that was the overarching message throughout his speech if it was to be summed up and he certainly repeated it enough times 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 what we did

hear from the u.s. president there was a lot of things we've heard from the united states in the past this russia is a problem when it comes to the european union we also heard from some of things about china particularly when it came to business joe biden saying that competition with china is going to be stiff but it's something that his administration relishes he also said that everybody has to play by the same rules there was also praise for the new u.s. administration from the director general of the w h o ted dross and. a world health organization chief thanking joe biden for bringing the united states back into it he was very much part of that overarching message as i said of the joe biden love and it was echoed by. a who's the main face solve the munich security conference also by chancellor angela merkel who spoke alongside if you can take into account the virtual nature of this year's

summit the one voice that was straying from the message of joe biden is the king was french president mind you will crawl and he strayed from it slightly when he suggested that the e.u. needs to pay more attention to its own security and not rely so heavily on the u.s. in the future 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 listen fold if we are too much dependent in the u.s. with the need to. we can put ourselves into a situation to be no more protected at our borders or manual micro misspeaking as the surge of the triumvirate of joe biden and angola merkel and president micron he did end with a bit of a strange diplomatic flex both the u.s. president of the german chancellor left and moved on to the next speaker he decided

mr micron decided he was going to hang about and take some questions which seemed to catch a few people off guard a peculiar diplomatic flex from the palace it seems peter thanks for the. also with keeping a focus on today's g. 7 meeting on china a lot of talk ahead 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. delay inform the use part 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 fact scenes through to poor and medium income countries now all in all g 7 countries pledged around $7500000000.00 to that program to help get 19 out anglo merkel said germany was one of their largest contributors. i'm happy to say the germany also has one and a half 1000000000 euro in supporting callbacks where one of the biggest contributors to this program in fact i'm on 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 of france and also the u.k. prime minister of course johnson was the idea of western countries put aside up to 5 percent of their vaccine doses and send them to poorer countries to help them vaccinations that was something the newbie 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 they're surplus meaning that waiting for adults to be vaccinated 1st now boris johnson the u.k. prime minister said this was a wolves pandemic and it meant that the whole world had to be vaccinated. against the. 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 poorer countries is coming in the wake of the fact that russia and china have 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 you 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. let's delve into what charlotte was going through there with journalist and author thomas fassbender speaking to us from the german capital today. do you think joe biden did he deserve the applause he got just for being at a conference where other leaders there seem to be a puppet sense of excitement in bavaria today to help and i think it's about less about deserving him it is a the excitement comes from the simple fact that europe and in particular germany after 4 years of the trump presidency are extremely happy to have simply another

president another face there on top of which it is a face known to the politicians known to the media so people feel highly comfortable with a few very easy even taking into account that there was very little concrete that mr biden said today he was missed a few good for the for the europeans and for the western world and that is highly cherished yeah a new u.s. president but a lot of the same type of rhetoric russia and china are once again presented as terrible threats to western security who or does anyone actually gain from keeping that kind of tension going. well we have to understand that the west is in a very weak face and it's been it's been growing weaker before the pandemic it will come out of the pandemic much weaker then then it went in relative to china in

particular simply because countries outside of the west. deal with oh but the pandemic in a more clever way will pay less of an economic price here and also to this adds that the the trust and the confidence of the population in the western countries is at at a low of one could say for dect for decades simply because we see how the population sees that other countries are not just a dictatorial china about also democratic countries like south korea. deal better with the challenges ahead of the present challenges and that in europe we have a lot of nice words but are we with with the deeds and this is one of the reasons why of course why the western leaders try to prop up support to prop up self-confidence and feel that the best is always to do or look for an external and

antagonise i want i do not want to say enemy but antagonist is probably the right word that's what russia and china are serving as today speaking of the pandemic thomas and one of the things that came my today brussels at doubling its contribution to the kovacs global vaccination program what's the thought of that particularly where you are today in germany when the e.u.'s such dire shortages it it appears across its own block. it feels it feels under pressure though as was mentioned before rightly so it feels under pressure by china and russia in particular countries who do not only promise but deliver in spite of own difficulties we know that russia has difficulties in producing replied capacities but they are doing something and the you is late in doing and the you was late in providing their own populations with the vaccine net surely they are late in

providing other countries and this is also why there was before the talk about mrs fonda lines harsh reaction and harsh. reproaches to the russian address she feels as as does the old e.u. commissions she is she feels that she didn't under pressure that she didn't do the job that she didn't. stand up to the expectations and now that the west is struggling to do more to show more 'd. what it is not to be a better thomas just about eloquently there but would not be bettered therefore for all 'd sides if the west joined with moscow and beijing inoculation efforts instead of competing with that well i'm reading something between the lines are not sure of what the leader sat but what i read in the german press today in these days there is a starting say. a bit of you mean you military but more you military in

face of the russian a success with sputnik v there is self criticism in the german media that germany was to say self right is in halters in. not to. not a knowledge ing of the success of russians russia's development here there is an awareness that things have to change and i would say that in spite of what we hear from the leaders there is a grow. in willingness to cooperate in. spite of the of. different differences around virally in political gazes there is a growing awareness that if we continue the course of enmity we are going to run in really big problems with russia and with china both speaking to us from berlin journalist or 3rd thomas fassbender thomas thank you thank you will the talks come just the day after

a virtual meeting of nato defense ministers now that ended in the military bloc secretary-general unveiling a massively expanded mission in iraq insisting the measure would fight terror. today we decided to expand nato training mission in iraq to support iraq it forces us to fight terrorism and assure that isis just not return the size so a mission will increase from 500 personnel to wrong 4000 and training activities for now include more iraq a security situations areas beyond bugout scott ritter former u.s. marine corps intelligence officer told me who he thinks stands behind nato as ramp up in the middle east 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 not prepared 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 nato which has made a big point of saying hey we're being invited by the iraqi government which is the opposite of the situation currently exists regarding u.s. forces this is just a horrible situation underscores 2 realities one that nato is not a politically mature organization capable of making independent decisions and has been pushed into troop is direction by the united states into the united states is in a dire situation where it can no longer unilaterally impose its will and it increasingly has to rely on partners and his nato to do the heavy lifting for the.

light switch in gears somewhat on the program moving to the fallout from the trading frenzy over american videogame retailer game stop one of the key players in the story keith gale has testified to u.s. congress about last month's astonishing surge or any of the company's shares thoughts after a lawsuit was filed against him accusing the investor of violating numerous industry rules earlier he made out his defense. the idea that i use social media to promote game stop stoke to unwitting investors is preposterous i was abundantly clear that my channel was for educational purposes only and that my aggressive style of investing was unlikely to be suitable for most folks checking out the channel lawsuits filed in must achieve since this week claims gill hid behind the status of an amateur while having licensed securities credentials furthermore this suit accuses him of manipulative conduct harming the integrity of the market the

trading histeria run game stop erupted in mid january and major wall street brokerage firms had initially sent game stop stocks into a nosedive before it kills recommendations contributed to by mature investors to send it skyrocketing causing major losses to big traders petero and research fellow at the american institute for economic research breaks down what's at stake in the aussie media reports say that the individual known as roaring kitty is a formally licensed individual and not currently associated with a regulated financial firm but if he is a holder of the c.f.a. designation which is the certified financial analyst he is obligated to uphold their code of ethics which has a section specifically dedicated to preventing market read manipulation so the ultimate question is whether you advise people to buy game stop in good faith or whether you did so using false or misleading information that's that would be the determinant of the consequence he faces book legally and otherwise what was

happening in game stock over that of the course of those days when it went from you know $10.00 to $20.00 to almost $500.00 per share is far from investing that's momentum trading not only is it risky it's particularly risky for amateurs you don't have the information the tools and certainly not the capital or the professionals on trading desks have. yeah story will be closely following over the next number of days that is our lot for an hour from the newsroom but stay close as more great programs get going on your screen in moments i mean i know neal by for not. imagine picking up

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why don't we get to choose that. according to a study by edelman 64 percent of consumers around the world while a buy or boycott a brand solely because of its position on a social or political issue this is more brands uses social issues to build its marketing strategy making consumers focus not on the quality of the product but what already that product my portray about them but it's not just products that people who are falling victim to the cancer culture some even being damned just with an accusation so is there a difference between the cancer culture and the coal out culture and what role should a play in the present day environment we are going to look at it from a legal perspective as well as give you the 360 view of how this has become an effective political weapon used by both parties this censorship is not only coming from the government but also from media part.