for me to describe it was reasonable way. in the headlines this saturday morning on r t international splits begin to emerge in europe over america's role in the plot security is not everyone is convinced with president joe biden's mantra that america is back. to get the signboards to take much more of the burden on politics if not too much dependent on the us we see need. we can put ourselves in this situation to be put to good at our borders. of talk but little action so far leaders pledged billions of euro of extra funding for the kind of banks as coronavirus tops the agenda of the g 7 online summit. and there's no sign of protests dying down in spain as the country sees its 4th night of violent demonstrations over the arrest of

a counseling rapper accused of glorifying terrorism. a very good morning it's 9 am here in new russian capital and this is r.t. international with the latest world headlines and our top story u.s. president joe biden's america is back mantra gets a mixed reception at the online munich security conference as not everyone is convinced by washington's intention to take a leading role on the world stage his artie's peace to all of a with 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 because the munich security conference 2021 pretty much turned into biting fest 2021 to sum it up

very simply it was america is back china and russia can get stuffed into europe get behind us with 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 a lot of the love coming towards joe biden did seem to be a little bit just for the fact that he wasn't donald trump one of the voices though that strayed a little from the joe biden love then was not of a manual mccraw and he was taking part in this 3 way triple header video conference that was the headline event 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 by then and the common challenges i think it is time for us to take much more of the burden of our own protection when we speak about security at our borders it is normal and sometimes us could decide to be less involved if we are too much dependent in the u.s. with a need to we can put ourselves into a situation to be no more protected our borders was a strange conference all round compared to how it is usually it also ended a bit strange from a money will crawl on their own like 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 well he was going to take some questions which seemed to catch everybody off guard in a quite peculiar diplomatic flex from the elites

a palace journalist and author daniel assad believes there are more opportunities for europe to act independently and global affairs in the post trump era. he just simply a minute and 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 is talk was that detached from reality cliched and there are only unconvincing i think us dominance is vastly diminished and i think the transatlantic alliance is vastly diminished by thanks to brag that but the us is much weaker than i was pre trump trump definitely lowered america's profile in the in the world at least the e.u. with little choice but to to strike out on its own and conduct independent

negotiations because of the china russia and around europe has got to think for itself from this point out. coming up here next week come friends came halts on the heels of a meeting between nato defense ministers and which they outlined plans to put thousands more boots on the ground in iraq we'll bring you more on that from a sanitized. to charity oxfam has quicker feisty 7 countries over a lack of action despite numerous pledges they've made to tackle the pandemic. making huge piles of africa and asia wait for unwanted leftover 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 them g 7 nations have secured enough vaccines for everyone of this it isn't to be vaccinated 3 times over while many poor countries a year to receive a single dose it comes as the online g.

7 summit focused heavily on the pandemic with leaders pledging billions of extra euro in support for the global kovacs scheme r.t. shiela dubinsky has some of the key takeaways from the event. 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 covert 19 vulgar léon from the e.u. said they would double their offering to $1000000000.00 euros in total around $7500000000.00 was pledged by the 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 ukase prime minister and

emanuel mack on presenter france leading those cools but it didn't seem that the g 7 were ready to step up to the plate for that today 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 than that now there is huge criticism 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 middle income countries there have also been accusations of course of western countries holding their uses of vaccines the u.n. secretary general saying earlier this week 75 percent of the doses already administers woodwinds did in 10 countries only and there's

a suggestion that this race by western need is to help out poor and middle income countries is a little bit more about politicking and that's because they're trying to keep. 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 food it's described as being a lack of coordinated action from the g 7. journalist and author thomas fassbender believes that chanced in world governments is an all time low. 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 than then it went in relative to china in particular simply because countries outside of the west. 'd deal with the pandemic in a more clever way the trust and the confidence of the population in the western countries is. that a low one could sit for decades for decades this is one of the reasons why the western leaders try to prop up support to prop up self-confidence and feel that the best is always to you to do or look for an external and antagonise i do not want to say enemy but entire going to be the right word that's what russia and china are serving is today. pain suffering a fortnight of riots over the jailing of catalan rapper has south he was arrested

for quote slandering the crown and glorifying terrorism protesters have rallied across the country to oppose his detention granting it a violation of his right to free speech and around 80 people have been arrested since the protests started as things turned ugly during the unrest the country's prime minister denounced the violence as an attack on democracy barcelona based journalist evelyn kaczynski reports from among the crowd that powerful learning with capital. cab could not have their screaming stop peace release public have now every already done for every day on the part of the capital long and martin are not the main feature to the release problem i have now who was imprisoned for lyme and. i was screaming this is their aggression on the freedom of expression and they are demanding the release. so the

protesters have does this strike one of the main mass of cattle long. as you can see behind me. they are getting quite aggressive and they're all the time provoking the police they are damaging the shops as you can see behind me there are rubbish containers put on fire by the protesters there mostly young teenagers playing the music becoming aggressive they're provoking that c the police that's quite bad when it 1st seems like it's going to last for another couple hours probably tomorrow also. alone but u.k. companies are considering introducing a controversial no job no job policy that would make vaccination mandatory for employees and was sponsored trade unions are warning firms that may face legal action and have asked the government to intervene we think the primary house that.

he can people safe and i say trade unions you know encouraging people to get that see what currency frontline workers to get back the same time we don't think given the so many people who have even a job that people should be victimized for having had stations that we think you know we want to put things in place we can't see that so nice and it's just like. a check but single solves the problem of car we need to make sure that it's part of a range of thoughts on that then. you know we're looking at each workplace about how best we can implement things. well some firms in the u.k. are saying they won't hire new staff who refuse to have a jab at the companies they're considering making inoculation mandatory for existing employees while calling such policies discriminatory downing street has said it's quote up to businesses if they want staff to have vaccine passports now

more than $16000000.00 of the case most vulnerable have received their 1st vaccine dose so far with the to fix showing a low uptake among ethnic minority workers in deprived communities and dalton told us why some people may be skeptical about getting the jab i think most trade you know to this 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 that we've had sort of suck. at least be through come been simply go through you know testing vaccines out there or out to make sure they're safe to make sure it's now complications and making sure that all the over necessary safety procedures replied it's the best way to convince people about the vaccine being safe is if you is it

in the hands of the national drug companies but simple shit only democratic control of audrey trade you know to base working class people you know that would reassure people rather than being in the hands of. you know to be government past and present when now anyone in london who miss is going down to that local pub for a drink during a lockdown that may be in luck as want to form a bond and to have given a whole new meaning to the phrase a quick pint. basically it started with me beyond and i got to live it awful point and i thought i really want to make what hospital 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 bike to them so i came up with the idea pop to door basically a white van appears and you're like what is this in europe in the park and you get your real tub and type ask deal with beautiful bear on top george and his business

partner thin obtain the necessary licenses and refitted that pub on wheels now delivers pints of beer glasses of 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. i substituted fine 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 that up and spend on something i really enjoy like having a nice pub with my mates makes a difference the industry has been hard hits during the pandemic of the 40000 pubs are currently closed across the u.k.

while 60 percent say they won't be able to reopen if the government seeks to 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 lb from aldi the idea is is that we bring a culture to you we create this sense of war we bring everyone down from their bedrooms into the kitchen to have a pint together so like a family going out to the pub the pipe is well it just tastes so delicious when it's on top as well but the prime minister announcing his roadmap to reopening on monday that might be clarity on when pubs themselves will be back in business but to put some worried that the whole culture and community might be gone for good this venture seems to prove that the public spirit ends still hits the spots she has wanted andrews us u.k. london. still to come electricity belford iraq it protects friends at the state continues to deal with the off the map of the deadly winter storm we've got that

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in the depths. for a mate in the shallowness. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back the matthews of disposable face masks is being blamed for exacerbating the litter problem dismayed 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 are discarded each week enough to cover a football pitch hundreds of times over and if forms

a significant part of the u.k.'s plastic litter adding around 1500 tonnes month the breakdown of such plastic it takes centuries the global consumption of masks is just as alarming a recent study estimates $6000000000.00 are being made daily to satisfy current demands and viral mentalist alison i'll get in a new 10 ses the overreliance of masks poses many risks maybe in 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 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. meanwhile some hospitals continue to complain about the supply of masks not meeting demand despite global

production of the face coverings increasing 30 faults in 2019 alison ogden newton again it says that she 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 our 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. 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 and at least 5 seriously injured after part of a power plant collapsed in central russia the neural scan richmond plant is located in the krasnoyarsk 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 at around 5 am local time because of the incident remains 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 while thousands of households have been left without power president joe biden has approved a state of emergency in the region while injuring the extreme freeze energy use the chance thawed and power bills for many texans have skyrocketed some residents have

racked up electricity costs of up to 10 $1000.00 artie's caleb morgan explains how the recent disaster has laid bare 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. he 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 problem has to be addressed inexplicable. and inexcusable families were notified that 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 warner 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 is good infrastructure 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 it's to prevent the country from becoming a safe haven for terrorists a 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 just not return the size of a mission will increase from 500 personnel to wrong 4000 and training activities for now include more iraq a security situations areas beyond bugout from like u.s. marine corps intelligence officer scott rush has told us 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 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 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. a case of david and goliath there's a small village in northern france resists tech a billionaire a long musk's plans to install and then 10 a bear for his high speed satellite internet projects star like. she's a little might imagine feel like shit they were giving up a lot of questions for his artistic work which are already very offensive is. form. the birth of our main

preoccupation is health and the health of our children i've always wanted to live in nature in the countryside so that b.s. far away from networks and everything as possible. before to the point i would refuse this project because there was a lack of information about its impact on human health but also animal health meant since we're in a very rural area with many farmers around us. we're back in 30 minutes with more. the global seller markets approximately just under 2 trillion so certainly within a few months because it will be evolving 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 is 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 their own interest or you see in this these techniques these the state devising methods to him to essentially destroy the personality of an individual. by scientific. this is how one doctor his theories were allegedly used in psychological warfare against prisoners deemed a danger to the state that was the foundation for the method of psychological interrogation psychological torture of those who disseminated from within the u.s. intelligence community and worldwide among our allies for the next 30 years bento the victims say they still live with the consequences today.

the news any do theists should see in the last 4 years it was the fact you know 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 ministries and i think maybe with his background in business he might have underestimated the importance of personality but you know having worked in the white house an executive branch of government so much rests on personnel.