but i will. say this for me when i was a. global gathering world leaders remotely discussed the most pressing international issues of both the g 7 meeting at the munich security conference well as the main takeaways from those events including what some say was a gushing welcome to the president pointed. towards that brussels is politicizing the fight against the pandemic and the kremlin hits back at controversial comments from the. west and over russia's kodak's. plane see the force of violent protests so the rest are accused of glorifying terrorism. i screamed the aggression on the complex. and the. relieved i'm now.

from moscow just gone 3 am here in the russian capital you're watching our team to national with me daniel hawkins welcome to the program. the world leaders have come together for powell meetings of the g. 7 group and the munich security conference which included joe biden making his bio on the international stage as u.s. leader earlier my colleague you know neil discussed the main points from both of us with our correspondents shot at doing ski and peter one of the. 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 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 around. 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. 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 amman 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 vald if we are too much dependent in 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 3rd of that triumvirate of joe biden and angler 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 elites a palace it seems. interesting peter thanks for that charlotte also with us keeping a 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. 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 vulgar léon from the you 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 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 thing for g 7 countries to do than 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 poor countries boris johnson ukase prime minister emanuel marquand president of france leading the cools but it didn't seem 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 inoculations to poor and middle income countries and also from oxfam making huge piles of africa

and asia unvented leftover vaccines from rich countries stalks it's not just the moral poor countries should not be forced to wait for vaccines to trickle down to them between the g 7 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 who are doing their uses of vaccines the u.n. secretary general saying earlier this week 75 percent of the doses already when this is would witnessed it 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 and middle income countries some leaders including president

manual on 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 searches. busted them for what it's described as being a lack of coordinated action from the g 7. international affairs specialist daniel schorr believe the spy biden splays that america is back some countries never left . this whole thing about america has returned we never got the missive the people of 80 in ecuador in south america and really the entire global south never got the missive that america had not anywhere as in american imperialism by this trying to present a new face a face of clinical global partnership is transatlantic partnership well nato has

consistently played a role of trying to contain russia look at nato i did libya to yugoslavia this countless examples of this quote unquote transatlantic partnership certainly donald trump was very bad for some wings of the ruling interests here in the united states so i think it is frightening but we remember obama's pivot to china to asia we see chinese growth in this is what scares the united states so they're trying to set up camp with their junior partners historically. england france japan so they continue they can continue to compete with china friday's talks came just the 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 measures would help fight

terrorism. today we decided to expand nato training mission in iraq to support iraq it forces us to fight terrorism and ensure that isis does not return the size so our mission will increase from 500 personnel to wrong 4000 and train here to this will now include more iraq is security situations areas beyond boggled former u.s. marine corps intelligence officer scott ritter told us who he thinks that is behind nato is 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 up repaired 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 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 the. russians accuse the brussels of politicizing the battle against the coronavirus chief listen to funding and a question moscow's motives and offering to aid the block with its vaccine. 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 1000 francs seen for the e.u. it really has been a struggle a struggle to get production off the ground a struggle to get jobs and arms a struggle with the u.k. of the who gets however many doses and the slowness in inoculating its 450000000 strong population has got people angry and frustrated this was in that view a political test russel's failed to the point that wonderland had to publicly

apologize and did not the senate district is there 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 message production and maybe we also took for granted those doses to rise one 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 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 at another country but do along the lines concerns have any. around here 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 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 covert 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 your explanations 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. we haven't had any reports about vaccine shortages and where domestic demand for this vaccine is still gathering momentum as for demand for the russian vaccine it is indeed high it's so high that it 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 because the demand of brought well manufactured inside the countries look over 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 consistent. interfering and it's in ton the fast 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. still coming off of mass blackouts and interruptions to water supplies in texas for the future winter storm some of the problems are symptomatic of the current state of u.s. politics story and more off the break. measures human beings to change nature so i think you know the rules yes i think it's one of those laws parasitic there's going to make people uneasy but really why should we use force of a time just because major. stroke or something in your brain why don't we get to choose that.

there's any deficiency in the last 4 years it was the fact there we had this transformational president with really grand aspirations that were broadly supported by the american people in the most populous present in this country's recent history were matched by the appointments that were made in the administration but i think maybe with his background in business he might have underestimated the importance of person now. having worked in the white house in the executive branch of government so much rests on personnel . welcome back spain suffering a 4th lot of riots over the catalan rapper problem hersel was arrested for

slandering the crown and glorifying terrorism were just as a right across the country to oppose his attention branding is a violation of his right to free speech around day to be put up an arrest that across the country since the protests began as things ugly during the unrest the country's prime minister doubts the violence as an attack on democracy also know both journalist reports from the crowds. like. the big cat so they're screaming still please release pablo so everything already. first day on the practice eve kept along. the main feature to release the problem how so who was imprisoned for 9. years i was screaming this is their aggression on the freedom pressure and they are demanding the release. so the protesters have does this. one of the main banks of catalonia. as you can see

behind me. they are getting quite aggressive and they're all the time provoking the police they are demanding the shop as you can see behind me there are rubbish containers on fire by the protesters there mostly young teenagers playing the music becoming aggressive that provoking that c the police. baton it seems like it is going to last for another couple hours probably tomorrow on. a huge storm sweeping the southern u.s. has killed at least 38 people it appears that he is returning to texas one of the hardest hit states but millions of people are still facing the lack of fresh water freezing temperatures of course water pipes to even millions of texans without access to clean water locals have also been forced to stand in long lines for food

as shops run low on supplies texas governor's playing the power grid operator for the massive drought issues saying it failed to prepare for the storm. as more details 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 well john cornyn these 2 also never recognized the jewel war and if this isn't payback i don't know what is hey 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 fat's when things go back to 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 divine do you go out there and take a look and talk to people you have fringes on both ends but it's not nearly as 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 mop and artsy new york. all organized expensive and unsafe that's how some travelers returning to the u.k.

have described the country's quarantine hotels facilities were opened this week for people arriving from covert hotspots under the new measures travelers returning from the red listed nations after quarantine in a hotel for 10 days its costs $1750.00 pounds per person that's about $2400.00 an additional $650.00 pounds for a 2nd out of. the 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 involved confined to the 4 walls of a small hotel room they've also got to 1st they have to build themselves because you. want to know what we've got to be 2000 or the bar 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 many flights being canceled on departure dates change due to complications of the cave a 1000 pandemic and it's not just the financial burden that's weighing heavily other rivals tell me the current policy is no safer than isolating a home a plague take. home. the 5. believe me state i like. being a feature bringing it. all again. i have no one. else currently the government has almost 5000 rooms available across 16 airport hotels with another 58000 on standby but as has been

throughout the entire pandemic scotland has gone one step further by enforcing hotel currently measures on any international arrivals regardless of which country they arrive from even in exceptional circumstances we were due to. us we know almost in. it's when school needs use managed or seen of late mr consul 'd just automatically wants the 16th and that's. when we list if. you're coming already have them along if you are going to england or if you are willing to get in the ring and ring haski because. it's just if you will be penalised for them oh you know you know we're not. just. feeling like captives thousands of arrivals have to wait before getting home to their families as. evermore anxiety already testing times. are to you k.

. the post trump era has begun or has it really by all accounts the former president intends to remain relevant in politics cross-talk discusses the future of the republican party up next. back in half an hour with the latest headlines to join us again that. the global seller markets approximately just under 2 trillion so certainly within a few months because it will be vaulting over silver it's on its way and my believe in 2021 to get half way or so against the market capitalization of gold that it would be 4 trillion on its way to 10 trillion and then you know once it gets past all there's only the dollars left. the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in

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hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered on people about the post from aaron has begun or has it what role will the former president play within the republican party by all accounts trump intends to remain relevant if this is the case what is the future. the populist wing of the party and in courtly if indeed the g.o.p. is now the party of the working class will the party leadership embrace this new direction. to discuss the fate of the g.o.p. i'm joined by my guests and martin in washington he's president of the national conservative organization joe's schaffel eagles as well as co-author of the conservative case for trump also in washington we have she's the founder of republican women for biden and a former republican strategist and in denver we crossed to ted harvey he is

chairman of the committee to defeat the president stopped joe dot com or across the rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it because i was going to head here 1st you know it depending on what you're reading on the internet or what cable station you're watching you know all is fine in the republican party or there is a massive a division there's a civil war going on in the party and it's all revolving around one individual and we know who that is what is the state of the party right now. well i think it's a long term phrase that's been around forever i'm not a member of any organized political party i'm a republican and i think that there's been division in the party forever and there always will be division in the party i think that there's a spectrum in the political world and there's the far far left socialists there's the establishment and both the republican and the democrat party who simply want to have power and then there are the conservative patriotic americans who just want to

live their lives and not have to deal with politics and just go about with having their families and being having a constitutional republic and that's about it and there's a there's a lot of tension amongst those 3 wings of the political spectrum yaml we may lose the constitutional republic and that's what really worries me here let me ask you because the let's really significant about the whole trump event in the republican party is that he ran as a populist and in my opinion for my taste he didn't really run much as a as a populist he was much more like a jeb bush like president that's a criticism that i have but there's no doubt that the the populous part of the party has made itself known and we've seen this all across public opinion polls there is a schism with the leadership and a good part of the base your assessment. here coming from the background of having done a lot of candidate recruitment for republican women particularly and in general looking to bring more new people into the republican party people who are new americans so

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