join us of the day. or immediately show. mercy to the world america is back u.s. president joe biden drives his mantra home during the munich security conference but not everyone is convinced. her a virus is top of the agenda at the g. 7 online summit of leaders pledged billions of euro of extra funding for the kovacs vaccination steve. conn's there's no sign of protests dying down in spain as the country sees its full slice of violent demonstrations over the arrest of a councillor on romper accused of glorifying terrorism.

a very good morning to you would say 8 am here in moscow and you're watching international with me making erin our top story u.s. president joe biden took the opportunity to drive home his america is back among in his world stage debut at the munich security conference but not everyone is convinced his pace piece all of it was more. it was a strange one this year not just because the conference was having to be held virtually due to the covert $1000.00 pound demick but because the munich security conference 2021 pretty much turned into biden fest 2021 to sum it up very says singley it was america is back china and russia can get stuffed and europe get behind us we're back leading all leading with diplomacy 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 on russia joe biden said that president putin wanted to break up the european union in lines that we have heard before from previous administrations putin seeks to weaken european the european project and our nato alliance he wants to undermine the transatlantic unity and our resolve because there's so much easier for the kremlin to bullying through an individual states liz negotiate with the strong closely united transatlantic community on china he said that there was competition it was going to be stiff but it was something that he's administration cherished the idea of taking part in he also said that there needed to be rules for all particularly when it came to what he sees as the chinese government's interference in business there

a lot of the love coming towards joe biden did seem to be a little bit just for the fact he wasn't donald trump we heard from the director general of the world health organization who was full of praise for mr biden and his administration one of the voices though that strayed a little from the joe biden lovin was not of a manual mccraw and he was taking part in this 3 way triple video conference that was the headline. vente of the munich security conference this year he was alongside president joe biden chancellor angela merkel as well but emanuel micron used his speech not like the chancellor did to say that she was full of praise for joe biden but a manual mccrone saying that perhaps europe should take a bit more of its own border security in its own hands and not rely so heavily on the united states 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 in the us with a need to we can put ourselves into a situation to be no more protected at our borders was a strange conference all round compared to how it is usually it also ended a bit strange from a manual micron there unlike joe biden an angler merkel who'd gone before him who just stayed quietly and let the the next speaker continue money were macron decided while he was going to take some questions which seemed to catch everybody off guard in quite peculiar diplomatic flex from the palace and international affairs specialist daniel schorr police despite biden's pledge that america is back for some countries it never went away. this whole thing about america has returned we never got the missive the people look 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 corn a cool global partnership and this 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 and the subsequent online d'sevyn summit focused heavily on the pandemic with need of pledging billions of extra hero in support of the kind of angst global that thing. shall i do but if he has some of the key takeaways from the event. conveyed 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 cove it 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 in 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 had been calls before this meeting for g 7 countries to do move 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 poorest johnson you case prime minister emanuel mack on president of france leading those cools but it didn't seem that the g 7 were ready to step up to the plate for that day plenty of money on offer but nobody concretely 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 other than that now there is huge criticism all of that now from major charities and organizations including unicef which is one of

the organizations which leads the deployment of vaccine inoculations to poor and middle income countries and also from oxfam making huge profits of africa and asia. from rich countries stooks is not just to marry poor countries should be . vaccines to trickle down to the 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 who are doing the uses of vaccines the u.n. secretary general saying earlier this week 75 percent of the doses already administers would win this did 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 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 or vaccines but money charities searches or. busted them for what it's described as being a lack of coordinated action from the g 7 we spoke to 2 italian business experts about how the rollout of sputnik the could improve russia e.u. relations. i believe we can improve the russia e.u. relationship in terms of the bets and roll out the supply of alternative taps is limited and has fallen short of meeting both european and global demand it's no secret that italy germany and france have already turned to the russian government

but they have to buy the russian backs him i'm sure vaccines should not be held hostage to jail politics. to be rude give to russia gave to the world but she could have used it as political leverage but it did not see that russia has great opportunities for inoculation for foreigners living in russia as well i personally go to not feel grateful we see that russia is open to the distribution of its vaccine abroad not only is open to its export just like pfizer and astra zeneca but it also provides the opportunity to manufacture sputnik the abroad it's not a new concept of corporation with other nations in terms of economy and health care i think you can subsequently lead to the improvement of relations between russia the e.u. and the world. still to come by the international talks came hard on the heels of a meeting between nato defense ministers in which they outlined plans to massively

expand their mission in iraq we're going to hear more on that later in the program . spain suffering a fortnight of riots over the jailing of a catalan rapper public hersel was arrested for quote laundering the crown and glorifying terrorism protest as a rolaids across the country to oppose his detention grounding it and while ation off his right to free speech around 80 people have been arrested across the country since the protests started as things turned ugly during the early arrests the country's prime minister denounced the violence as an attack on democracy barcelona based journalist evilly make a chance to get reports from among the crowds in catalonia as capital. pop love her so they're screaming so peace through these problems. it's already the 4th day of the practice even copped a long as. the main c.t.

to release problem how so who was imprisoned for. screaming aggression on the freedom of expression and there are. these. so the protesters have just destroyed one of the main banks of catalonia. as you can see behind me. they are getting quite aggressive in there all the time provoking the police they are damaging the shops as you can see behind me there are rubbish containers on fire by the protesters mostly young teenagers playing the music becoming aggressive they're provoking c the police if it's guard and it seems like it's going to last for another couple hours probably tomorrow also. u.k. trade unions of urge the government to intervene as employers consider introducing

no job no drop contracts they've warned that companies may face legal action if they make co-wrote a virus funks nations mandatory for star. we think the primary house the key can people safe and i say trade unions you know encouraging people to get that see what priority for workers to get back same time we don't think given the so many people who have even a job that people should be victimized for having had we think you know we see. things in place we can't see that's an asian is just like a. single solves the problem of car we need to make sure that it's part of a range of top that. you know we look in each workplace about how best we can implement things some firms in the u.k. are saying they won't hire new staff he refused to have the job other companies are

considering making inoculation mandatory for existing employees while calling such policies discriminatory downing street has said it's quote to businesses if they want staff to have vaccine passports more than 16000000 of the u.k.'s most vulnerable have received a 1st vaccine dose so far with the to fix showing a low uptake among ethnic minority workers in deprived communities and dalton told as why some people may be skeptical about getting the champ. i think most trade you know today it's a very skeptical and i think this is what fuels people skepticism about you know whether they should get the vaccine or not and we think it's possible to convince people that you know of all the safety measures that need to be taken but that we've had sort of in the sack. not least be through come been simply go through you

know testing vaccines out there to make sure they're safe to make sure there's no complications and making sure all the over necessary safety procedures replied it's the best way to convince people about the vaccine being safe is if it isn't in the hands of the national drug companies but it's in public ownership only democratic control of audrey trade not to base working class people that you know that would reassure people rather than being in the hands of. you know to be government past and present perhaps in the u.k. have been hit hard by the pandemic and are expected to be one of the last sectors to reopen and with many people missing going down to their local for a pint one fall a bomb on a jet has come up with a novel solution. basically it started with maybe your own they got to live it awful point and i thought i really want to make what hospitality is about to people's doors i don't want to receive a flat warm clingfilm pipe so i pour how can i get

a fresh bite to them so i came up with the idea pop to door basically a white van appears and you're like what is this a new up in the park and you get your real tub and type ask deal with beautiful bear on top. george and his business partner stay in obtain the necessary licenses and refitted a van that pub on wheels now delivers pints of beer or losses a percent and cocktails to those in lockdown all through social media really many instagram and just my friends 160 missing apparently felt we needed something like this to come in. strictly a delivery scheme and not take away the business requires customers to prepay for alcohol and the minimum order is 20 pounds the scheme is a growing success here in south east london but are you willing to pay 6 pounds for a pint at home. well i substituted for him if you think about the amount of money that we've saved through not commuting and through not being at work about money

though i would've spent daily just buying lunch from tesco on the takeaway do to be able to save but often spend on something i really enjoy like of an enormous pond with my mates makes a difference the industry has been hard hit during the pandemic of the $40000.00 pubs are currently closed across the u.k. while 60 percent say they won't be able to reopen if the government 6 outdoor service only later in the year and for many this might be the closest to a pub they might get for a while it's a bit like the pub why would you go buy a steak for $24.00 when you get one for 3 probably from aldi the idea is is that we bring a coach or 2 we bring a dispenser war we bring everyone down from their bedrooms into the kitchen to have a party to go to like a family going out to the pub the point is well it just tastes so delicious whereas on top as well with the prime minister announcing his roadmap to reopening on monday there might be clarity on when pubs themselves we back in business but with some worried that the whole culture and community might be gone for good this

venture seems to prove that the public spirit is still hits the spot cheers but andrew's utter u.k. . mouth is the disposable face mask is being blamed for exacerbating the litter problem displayed environmentalist's are afraid the pandemic may have reversed all the gains made in recent years in the fight against plastic waste the scale of the waste is jaw dropping in the u.k. for instance more than $100000000.00 masks the discarded each week enough to cover a football pitch $101.00 hunt put hundreds of times over and they formed a significant part of the u.k.'s plastic litter adding around $1500.00 tonnes a month the breakdown of such plastic takes centuries the global consumption of masks is just as alarming a recent study estimates $6000000000.00 are being made daily to satisfy current demand and viral mentalist alison over to newton ses the over reliance of mosques poses many risks. being general is very much

a concern for us but masks in particular because of the elasticated. and also because the threat to public health that they represent as well as the fact that they are single use plastic items so they're not going to do anything in the natural world other them present a hazard take over 400 years to break down into micro plastics so masks are a particular concern for us and they're everywhere there was some hospitals continue to complain about the supply of masks and not much in demand that despite global production of the face coverings increasing a 30 fall since 2019 as an organiser 10 again believes the short term benefit of masks will lead to long term problems. i do think that we were making some real inroads into getting everyone to think about their consumption of single use plastic i think most people were trying to make an effort to reduce that consumption and then the pandemic came and gave us all something bigger to worry

about and people really are are just desperately trying to protect themselves their families and their communities which we completely understand but unfortunately the short term solution of plastic creepy has really caused a much longer term problem we need a new strategy because this is going to be part of our lives for quite some time we need to think again and we need to really visit our concerns about plastic and look at reusable masks and make sure whatever happens we don't litter our people. one person has been killed or at least 5 seriously injured after part of a power plant collapse in fence will russia the north going to richmond plant is located in a crassly ask region a rescue operation is currently underway according to the public prosecutor's office 2 people could still be trapped under the rubble because lapse of the

facility is crushing department happened around 5 am local time the causes of the incident remain unknown. a deadly winter storm in the south of the u.s. has killed at least 47 people in the most affected state texas millions are struggling to access clean water or thousands of households of be left without power president joe biden has approved a state of emergency in the area during the extreme freeze energy usage chance soared and power bills for many texans have been have skyrocketed some residents have racked up electricity costs of up to 10 $1000.00 more per day explains how the recent disaster has served to highlight infrastructure problems in the country. in texas a snowstorm and extreme weather conditions are leading to an avalanche of problems in addition to the power going out the water pipes froze and then cracked open leaving millions without access to running water.

not out here don't. hold those who still have water now being told it is not safe to drink or shower with this is starting to sound like 3rd world conditions and can't be happening in the usa right well actually it can u.s. infrastructure has been in decay for quite some time we've got some older houses some older apartment complexes that were built using p.v.c. 2030 years ago that is kind of a cold slap in the face if you want to call it that this is happening normally. you would go out to a place like this it's not a busted pipeline and they would get the water out building run the fans you know to try and dry the place out but again in this case because they have so many calls they're not able to do that this did not start in texas in 2014 you had the flint water crisis when the city in michigan switched from the detroit water system to

getting its water supply from the flint river but lead in the aging pipes soon leaked into the water supply causing serious problems for locals it took 5 years for the complaints to be listened to and the locals problems to be addressed inexplicable. and inexcusable families weren't notified things weren't shut down. that should happen anywhere president obama took a sip of flints filtered tap water assuring the people there that he cares i've got your back several months ago on the campaign trail we heard joe biden promise that nothing like the flint water crisis would ever happen again we're going to create local jobs to rebuild roads to modernize river structures sure he could turn on the faucet and clean water comes out and when that happened in flint will never happen again anywhere in america now biden's only been in office for a few weeks however plenty of presidents in recent u.s.

history have been promising to fix up the country's infrastructure only to preside over it getting worse i want to be 1st when it comes to infrastructure around the world because businesses are going to come where there's good employers structure to move businesses to people move services highways bridges tunnels airports schools hospitals we're going to rebuild our infrastructure texas is suffering today flint suffered back in 2014 and many can recall how in 2012 manhattan's power station exploded during hurricane sandy causing all kinds of blackouts officials are scrambling to manage the situation in texas biden has declared a state of emergency but the underlying question is when will the promises be kept open r.t. new york. nato has announced plans to send $3500.00 more troops to iraq saying is to prevent the country from becoming a safe haven for terrorists the decision comes in the wake of

a deadly rocket attack in the north of the country. today we decided to expand nato training mission in iraq to support the iraq it forces us to fight terrorism and assure that isis does not return the size so mission will increase from 500 personnel to wrong 4000 and training activities for now include more in office security situations areas beyond bugout often a u.s. marine corps intelligence officer scott ressa told us he faced thing stands behind nato pop 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 medo 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 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 them thanks for joining us arundhati international it back at the top of the hour with the native hasn't.

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