global gathering world leaders from mostly discuss the most pressing international issues out there munich security conference and group of 7 meeting the big takeaways from including what some are calling rather strange. words for president biden. warns that brussels is politicizing the fight against the. controversial comments from the head of the european union. over russia's cope with . a campaign to boycott facebook gains momentum in australia for the tech giant bloc news posts on its platform in the country something called. the issue for debate. should facebook profit on someone else's work without giving him some of what

biggest problem facebook is that they're 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 a few moments into a brand new day here in moscow on the weekend saturday february 20th welcome to r.t. i mean only world leaders have come together for parallel online meetings of the group of 7 nations on the munich security conference which included joe biden making his on the international stage as u.s. leader earlier i discussed the main points from both with our correspondents charlotte and peter all over. this year's security conference wasn't so much munich security conference 2021 as it was biting fest 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 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 that 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. the world health organization chief thanking joe biden for bringing the united states back into it he was very much part of the overarching message as i said of the joe biden love it was echoed by. the face of the new nick 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. greying from the message of joe biden is the king was french president mind you well my craw 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 us in the future i listened very carefully to the prison biden 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 with a need to we can put ourselves into a situation to be no more protected at our borders or money or micro misspeaking as the surge of that triumvirate of joe biden and angle 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. interesting peter thanks for that charlotte also with us keeping our focus on today's g. 7 meeting a lot of talk ahead all about covert vaccines in particular the disparities between the wealthy west and the developing world was a key factor of today's online come together. 19 the high on the agenda virtual summit of the g. 7 with leaders pledging plenty of cash to try and help the kovacs program this is the global rollout of 19 is still a volatile a in from the e.u. said they would double their offering to $1000000000.00 euros in total around $7500000000.00 was pledged germany's angela merkel said her country was one of the biggest contributors. i'm happy to see the germany also as one and

a half 1000000000 euro supporting callbacks we're one of the biggest contributors to this program in fact among the biggest with the u.s. and u.k. now there have been calls before this meeting for g 7 countries to do just pledge money to actually pledge vaccines up to 5 percent all of their vaccine doses to poor countries to help the rollout of vaccination in those countries boris johnson ukase prime minister emanuel mark warner president of france leading those cools but it didn't seem that the g 7 were ready to step up to the plate today plenty of money on offer but nobody is saying when they would send vaccine doses to poor countries there was an offer of surplus when all adults for example in the u.k. had been vaccinated but nothing than that now there is huge criticism now from major charities and organizations including unicef which is one of the

organization. which leads the deployment of vaccine in occupations to poor and middle income countries and also from. making huge piles of africa and asia wait for unvented left over vaccines from rich countries stalks is not just immoral poor countries should not be forced to wait for vaccines to trickle down to them between nations have secured enough vaccines for everyone of the citizens to be vaccinated 3 times over while many poor countries a year to receive a single dose there have also been accusations of course of western countries boarding doses of vaccines the u.n. secretary general saying earlier this week 75 percent of the doses already in this is would win the state in 10 countries only and there's a suggestion that this race by western leaders to help out poor and middle income countries is

a little bit more about politicking and that's because they're trying to catch up with russia and china who already for many months now have been sending doses of the vaccine to those low and middle income countries some leaders including president manual raising concerns that they could use that as a sense of a new type of soft power of vaccine diplomacy but as the g 7 are now trying to catch up with this still not pledging actual doses of vaccines but money charities which is. passed did them what it's described as being a lack of coordinated action from the g 7. yes so a lot let's delve into some of it live to new york where a journalist. is going to speak to a stunning good to see you your take 1st on certain aspects of the security

conference hosted in germany some called it a love in for joe biden there was almost a getting this palpable when he was introduced. well i suppose so i mean people are glad to see the democrats back in power and. donald trump out of power but i thought that biden's performance was really pathetic he's tired he slurs his words and he just simply a minute and list stream of cliches why can't we all work together let's work together when we work together we can accomplish anything and the company did this without with a great deal of very hostile rhetoric against against russia china and iran accusing iran for example of destabilizing the middle east which is turning reality on its head because it's been the u.s. allies especially saudi arabia the u.a.e. and israel which are the really great destabilizing elements in the middle east so

i just think that his speech was his talk was not detached from reality cliched and there are only unconvincing one of the slogans on the day was the transatlantic alliance is. do you think e.u. leaders can maintain their recent shift to standing on their own feet as much as it was or will they eventually cave to to the old ways to to u.s. dominance in essence. no i don't think they'll do i think they have no choice i think the u.s. i think u.s. dominance is vastly diminished and i think the transatlantic alliance is vastly diminished by thanks to brag that and and britain's exit from the from the e.u. but the but the us is much weaker than it was pre trump trump definitely lowered america's profile in the in the world and has at least the loo with little

choice but to strike out on its own and conduct independent negotiation means of a china russia and iran i mean i was especially interested by struck by the way biden extolled the article by the mutual defense clause and the nato charter and he said it was a joke that the only times in focus after $911.00 well it was invoked to support a war on terror which turned into a disaster there and it was especially disastrous for the european countries which were at sensually flooded with refugees and bombarded with terrorism largely due to u.s. policies and their own government's ready ready accession to those files so there has got to think for a soft of the point out just to turn to the it's been

a busy day down the road to the other meeting happening the g. 7 brussels one of the takeaway points are not brussels saying the philby doubling their contribution to the kovacs global vaccination program what were your thoughts on what was not an altruistic gesture just of their own making or was it a reaction to something because the dire shortages across its own block many are pointing out of it. they do have dire shortage of this as quite right but i think that russell recognizes that there can't be though the wealthy nations can carry on on their own and for pure biological reasons because the disease is constantly mutating and evolving and very dangerous ways and parts of the world where it is untreated so the more the e.u. allows you know of allowed the 3rd world to go on that mated the greater the risk to its own citizens so they have no choice but to adopt

a broader perspective. journalist and author it done the ill as our life from new york said if they don't you thank you thank you when the talks come just a day after a virtual meeting of nato defense ministers that ended in the military block 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 the iraq your forces us to find towson and ensure that our assistance not returned the size so our mission will increase from $500.00 personnel to wrong $4000.00 and train the year 2 this will now include more iraq the security situations areas beyond bug belt a former u.s. marine corps intelligence officer scott ritter told us who he thinks stands behind nato is rampant 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 that 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 that the situation currently exists regarding u.s. forces 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 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 that russia has accused brussels of politicizing the buffalo against coronavirus that's after a new chief underline made controversial comments questioning moscow's motives and offering to aid the block with its fixing or not. 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 progress 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 1000 francs seen for the e.u. it really has been a struggle a struggle to get production off the ground the struggle to get jobs and arms a struggle with the u.k. of the who gets however many doses and the slowness in inoculating it's 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 district is 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 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 sputniks see we also heard last year in the czech republic showing an appetite 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 any. 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 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 scene success washers and top 3 if you're a pen nations in terms of facts a nation's at last count 2200000 including many of our colleagues who described how smooth the process was you know they turned up they didn't have to book in advance they did the medical check they got fastow's on the 2nd dose then they went home and they were getting back to normal life and this discrepancy between internal and external to mind is something that moscow raised recently. you just we haven't had any reports about vaccine shortages and us domestic demand for this vaccine is still gathering momentum as for demand for the russian vaccine of drooled it is indeed high it's so high that he suppresses our production capacity 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 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 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 he's trying to offer a helping hand. just approaching 20 minutes into the program we'll be back with more global use in moment stay tuned.

measures human beings to change makes it so i think. this i think is what was lost there is that there's going to be more an easy. time just because major.

why don't we get to choose that. a work in spain is suffering a 4th night all right so were they. pablo has cell was arrested for quote slandering the crowd on the worth trying terrorism protesters have rallied across the country to oppose his detention branding it a violation of his right to free speech barcelona based journalist evelyn kaczynski joins us live now from there who has been covering the situation for the last number of days how does it compare evaleen what's the situation playing out in the streets. tonight is the proc the search started at 7 pm they have continued support the number of hours they've been destroying the streets there are cooking that's been on fire as you can see the one behind me the police just

managed to put it down with the water no a big quite aggressive they also try to get a one of the main banking cuts along acacia bank so they are quite violent basically likely guns who are like walking through the streets and destroying everything they see on their way so it's a constant clash between the capturing police and the protesters they are mostly. who want to release their energy because they have been close and home for some time already their way to have a kind of an excuse to to go and trucked us of course they are also fighting for the freedom of expression because this is one of the reasons why they are protesting there against they are the against the government that has you know put a public house in prison for the next in line months so this is how they are releasing their there and of yes like i said it's been already the 4th day it's going to continue and probably tomorrow maybe and those are even sunday yeah i

wanted to ask. the feeling of the people on the street it's not just public lets in their minds or other issues at play as well. yes of course like i said before it's not just public house of course this is the main reason there are a lot of actions going out on the streets writers protesting this is just like you know they are trying to hide the freedom. that you know it's been also the elections last stand and it's been kept a long out of socialist party has won also lost you know their rights a party from the strongest part it's from the people that won independence they also got into the government so this is also one of the issues and today i heard that they were screaming freedom freedom for cats along as well not just you don't for problem herself but also the freedom for a for a long and they were also criticizing the spanish punish press has been in the last process when it was very candid so it's kind of repeating just before we go evelyn

is there a sense that there's more people are fewer people than the last number of days or is a continuing at a pace i would say that today there was about over 1000 at the peak point then at some point they have to tread in different directions so it was difficult to follow the things that they have been putting fire but you can see that every day actually there is like more and more people and actually probably tomorrow maybe even more because it's saturday the people who are you know bored and they just want to go out on the street and you know the prophet says ok thanks very much for giving us an update from the streets of barcelona barcelona based journalist have alina. 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 has criticised facebook's decision and quite harshly. i would just side of vice this is trial you're going to business here you work according to our rules but the idea of shutting down the sort of sites i did yesterday as some sort of threat 'd 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 facebook were unnecessary they were heavy handed they've generated a very strong reaction here in a strike. just to break down what they're talking about there in addition to news posts facebook also blocked a number of key history government pages including health departments emergency services on trade unions the company later commented on the issue saying those accounts had been quote inadvertently impacted and are now being restored the

international weighed in on the issue saying facebook's willingness to control information people rely on is extremely concerning. the. australian it's but also is considering similar legislation to make facebook page news publishers and say it's not going to be intimidated earlier i spoke to a number of guests on the stand. 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 by no real credentials in journalism typing out something and make more money on those clicks so the question is for democracy is what is the threshold where people deserve to have real information and should they have to pay for it should facebook profit on someone else's work without giving them some look you can understand facebook's desire not to give in and start paying for news stories like google did once the box opens there's $200.00 other countries surely saying we want some to facebook but you do to their shareholders right if we start saying all right facebook will have to pay to feature news articles and news links what's stopping other forms of content from doing the same this whole social media i guess ecosystem has really spun out of control in terms of how it is monetize and actually

a i think more equitable if i can use that word solution to this would be to start talking about ways to break up the monopoly that facebook does have on advertising and also on user data basically the biggest problem with facebook is that they're utterly controlling that narrative and they're completely shutting out news that doesn't obey the narrative miss and this goes for almost. every issue down the line that is of the importance today let's remember back in around 2007 i happen to be one of those lucky ones who interviewed this guy who started facebook he was a nobody was still on my space my space everywhere and he said that he wanted to create an ecosystem similar to a a well at the time if we all remember dial up a oh well it closed circuit environment where all your dating your shopping your opinions and basically people who weren't able to have real friends in life could have thousands of friends make believe friends and call them their friends and you would never have to leave that world and it would do everything for you well that

dream has come true and now all of us are sitting in the middle of it going well wait a minute it's either all capitalism where anything goes and we can all charge for everything or it's part capitalism or it's something but we're at that time of growth now will we actually have to make the grown up decisions in the us certainly going to be interesting to see how that one develops that is our lot from the newsroom from her but stay close as more great programs get going on your screen in moments you know nail on the back again and 30 of the catchy than today. thanks guys or financial survival. when customers go by the reduced price. well reduce a lot of work. that's undercutting but what's good for the market is not good for the global economy. imagine picking up

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