in the headlines this sunday morning splits begin to imagine europe over america's role in the bloke's security as not everyone is convinced with president joe biden's mantra that america is back. think it's time for us to take much more of the burden in a form which if not too much dependent is us we see need. we can put ourselves into a situation to be protected at our borders. a lot of talk but little action so far leaders pledged billions of euro of extra funding for the kind of bank scheme that's coronavirus tops the agenda of the g 7 online summit. there's no sign of protest dying down in spain as the country sees its 4th night in violent demonstrations over the arrest of a kaffir lime rapper accused of glorifying terrorism.

a very good morning it's 10 am here in the russian capital and this is r.t. international with the latest world headlines u.s. president joe biden's america is back muncher i get so mixed reception at the online munich security conference as not everyone is convinced by washington's return to the world stage his artie's piece all of a with the details. 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 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 one of the voices though that strayed a little from the joe biden love then was not of a manual 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 on the u.s. we see need to we can put ourselves into a situation to be no more protected our borders 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 straight out of the the old playbook. from the u.s. presidents going on this one china he said that there was competition with china that 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 go. from an interference in business that. what we heard from the u.s. president was the phrase again and again and again america is back it certainly seems to be the mantra of his administration 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 this talk was detached from reality cliched and their early unconvincing i think u.s. dominance vastly diminished and i think the transatlantic alliance is vastly diminished by thanks to break that but the us is much weaker than our donald 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 from munich conference came home on the heels of a meeting between nato defense ministers in which they outlined plans to put thousands lost bits on the ground have romped one point people on the story later in the

press room. the charity outside the school g 77 countries pledges to donate not things to the developing world to insufficient compared to the threat posed by coates the group is also the case the states of making poor nations wait for quote leftover vaccines. making huge piles of africa and asia wait for and wanted 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 citizens to be vaccinated 3 times over while many poor countries a year to receive a single dose a common follows an online g 7 meeting where leaders announced billions of extra euro in support of the global kovacs scheme the move comes as british prime minister boris johnson valid to donate to most of the u.k. surplus vaccines to developing countries artificial it depends on how some of the

key takeaways from the event. but 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 over their vaccine doses to poor countries to help the rollout of vaccination in those poor countries boris johnson case prime minister emanuel mark on presenter france leading the cools but it didn't see the g 7 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 who are doing 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 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 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 over. scenes but money at charities such as oxfam have run past did them but it's described as being a lack of coordinated action from the g 7. journalist and author thomas fassbender believes the trafton well definite is at 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 then then it went in relative to china in particular simply because countries outside of the west. deal with the pandemic in a more clever way the trust and the confidence of the population in the western countries is at at a low for dect 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 do or look for an external and antagonise i do not want to say enemy but antagonist is probably the right word that's what russia and china are serving as today. spain suffering a fortnight of riots over the jailing of a councillor popular hersel was arrested for quote slandering the crown and glorifying terrorism protest as a rally to across the country to oppose his detention grounding it is a violation of his right to free speech 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 heavily make a chill score reports from among the crowds of us alone years capitals. leave. the house so they're screaming stop these streets problem. it's

already the 4th day of the practice even kept along. the main city to release problem. who was imprisoned for. the screaming this is their aggression on the freedom of expression and they are. these. protesters have just destroyed 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 damaging the shops as you can see behind me there are rubbish containers on fire by the protesters mostly teenagers playing the music becoming aggressive they're provoking the police if it's guarded and it seems like it's going to last for another couple hours probably tomorrow also.

a number of u.k. companies are considering introducing a controversial no job no drug policy that would make vaccination mandatory for employees and response trade unions a warning firms may face legal action and have also the government to intervene. 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 here that people should be victimized for having had that we think you know we want to put things in place we can't see that summation is just like a. single solve 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 who refuse to have the job other companies are considering making inoculation mandatory for existing employees well calling it such policy is discriminatory at downing street has said it's quote up to businesses if they want staff to have vaccine passports more than 16000000 of the u.k.'s most vulnerable have received their 1st vaccine doso far with the to stick showing a low uptake among ethnic minority workers in deprived communities and dalton told us why some people may be skeptical about getting the job. i think most trade union up to this are 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 of all the safety measures that need to be taken well

that how we've got sort of in the sack 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 you not today's working class people that you know that would reassure people rather than being in the hands of don't you know who is donors to the government. now anyone in london who miss is going down to their local pub for a drink during a lockdown may be in luck as one former bomb alleges given a whole new meaning to the phrase a quick pint basically started with maybe off and i got to live it awful pipe and i thought i really want to make what hospital is about people's doors i don't want to receive a flat warm clingfilm pipe so i pull out like a fresh bike to them so i came up with the idea popped it all basically a wife on 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 thin obtain the necessary licenses and refitted that pub on wheels now delivers pints of beer glasses a percent and cocktails to those in lockdown oh through social media remaining instagram and just my friends from the hanks if you're missing the person we thought 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. our substitute you find me if you think about the amount of money that we've saved through not commuting and through not being at work i'm out of money i would've spent daily just buying lunch from tesco on the takeaway do to be able to save up and spend on something i really enjoy like having a noise plan with my mates makes all 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 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 a 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 but it's on top as well with the prime minister announcing his roadmap to reopening on monday there 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 it's u.k. london. don't succumb electricity bills guy rocket

attacks over if they stay continues to deal with the aftermath of a deadly winter storm we've got a story as well coming up after the break. the global sell 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 is it would be 4 trillion on its way to 10 trillion and then you know once it gets past gold there's only the dollars left. in there's anything issue see in the last 4 years it was the fact 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 ministry 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 in the executive branch of government so much rests on personnel. welcome back and what that he went to storm in the south of the us has killed at least 47 people and 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 emerging. see in the area during the extreme freeze the energy usage has soared and power bills for many texans have skyrocketed some residents have racked up electricity costs about to $10000.00. more panay explains how the recent disaster has laid back 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 outside. home 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. the would go out to a place like this is not a bust pipeline and they would get the water 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 shouldn't happen anywhere president obama took

a sip of flints filtered tap water assuring the people there that he cares i've got your bet 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 structure. sure you could turn on the force a degree warmer comes out and when that happen it 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 us 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 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 up and r.t. new york. the most use of disposable facemasks is being blamed for exacerbating the little problem dismayed environmentalist's are afraid the pandemic may have reverse told again from aid in recent years in the fight against plastic waste the scale of the ways that is jaw dropping in the u.k. for instance more than $100000000.00 mosques are discarded each week and nuff to cover a football pitch hundreds of times over and it forms a significant part of the u.k.'s plastic litter being around 1500 tons month the breakdown of such plastic takes centuries the global consumption of mosques this just is alarming a recent study estimates $6000000000.00

a being made daily to satisfy current demand and viral mentalist allison olds in newton sais the overreliance of mosques poses many risks. b.b. in general is very much a concern for us but masks in particular because of the elasticated hoops 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 and meanwhile some hospitals continue to complain about the supply of masks not meeting demand that despite global production of the face coverings increasing 30 filed since 2019 alison dr newton 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 p.-p. 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 p.p. . one person has been killed at least 5 seriously injured after part of a power plant collapsed in central russia the neural skin richmond plant is located

in the crowd so you ask a region a rescue operation is currently underway according to the public prosecutor's office 2 people could still be trapped under the rubble the collapse of the facilities crushing department happened at around 5 am local time the causes of the incident remain unknown. 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 training mission in iraq. to support the iraq it forces us to fight terrorism and assure that our assistance not return the size so mission will increase from 500 personnel to wrong 4000 and training activities from now include more in office security situations areas beyond budget belt or former u.s.

marine corps intelligence officer scott ritter told us who he thinks stands behind nato's 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 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 troop is direction by the united states into the united states is in a dire situation where it can no longer unilaterally impose its will and it increasingly has to rely on partners and his nato to do the heavy lifting for the. story of david and goliath as a small village in northern france resist tech billionaire a long musk's plans to install an antenna that for his satellite internet project. 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.

the birth of our main preoccupation is health 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. or 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 and since we're in a very rural area with many farmers around us. you . thanks for joining us here on r.t. international we'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. imagine picking up a future textbook on the early years of the 21st century what are the chapters called gun violence school shootings homelessness 1st it was my job and it was my bill it was my savings i have nothing i have nothing there's no i don't authorize alou for resources i look for drugs i look for everything i can to make this house. annoying the doing is. the road to the american dream paved with did refuse into this very idealized image of america

americans look past the deaths that happen every single day this is a modern history of the usa america monarchy. i'm afshin rattansi we're going on the run for another lock down edition away from headlines in nato nations of the united arab emirates as are defamatory against its royal family the u.a.e. has become the 1st arab nation in history to send into poetry probe called hope to earth's neighboring planet mars joining me now from dubai is the u.s.

minister for advanced sciences and the chair of the country's space agency sarah amery thanks sarah so much for coming on the show as i say the headlines here all about princes le t. for dubai not about mars a tall tell me about the hope mission and how question is as our 1st plant or exploration mission from the emirates today the hope orbiter is around maurice for us this is our very 1st science mission that's going to characterize the atmosphere of mars and it will become mars is very 1st weather satellite to better understand the dynamics happens around entire martian year for us it's been a remarkable 7 year journey now of working on designing insulting a very complex system with which we worked with the united states universities of colorado arizona state university receive california burke.