in headlines this saturday morning i insist splits begin to emerge in europe and america's role in the block security not everyone is convinced with president joe biden's month that america is back. to its time for us to take much more of the burden of all implication if we are too much brunt of the us recently. we can put all sorts in the situation to be more protected at our borders . a lot of talk but little action so far leaders pledged billions of euros for extra funding for the kovacs scheme as coronavirus talked to the agenda of the g 7 online sun that. there's no sign of protests going down in spain as the country

sees its full light and violent demonstrations over the arrest of a cancer loving ramp her cues deplore find terrorists. very good morning to you it's 11 am here in the russian capital and this is r.t. international with the latest world headlines. the u.s. president joe biden's america is back among gets a mixed reception at the online munich security conference as not everyone is convinced by washington's return to the world stage here's artie's piece all over 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 into europe get behind us we're back leading

or leading with diplomacy asenath 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 lovin 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 2 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 us with a 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 i know i'm he wants to undermine the translated unity and our resolve straight out of the the old playbook russia passing 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 government's interference in business there. what we heard from the u.s. president was that phrase again and again and again america is back it certainly seems to be the mantra of his administration he just simply emits an endless stream

of cliches why can't we all work together let's work together when we work together to get accomplish anything and he accompanied this with out with a great deal of very hostile rhetoric against against russia china and iran this talk was detached from reality cliched and there are only unconvincing i think u.s. dominance is there slowly diminished and i think the transatlantic alliance is vastly diminished by thanks to brag that but the u.s. is much weaker than our than it was preached from trouble definitely lowered america's profile in the in the world that leaves the e.u. with little choice but to strike out on its own and conduct independent negotiations because of the china russia and around europe has got to. order. coming to munich conference came hot on the heels of

a meeting between nato defense ministers in which they outlined plans to put thousands more boots on the ground in iraq bring you more on that later in the program. the charity oxfam has called g 7 countries pledges to donate vaccines to the developing world insufficient compared to the threat posed by covert they group has also accused the states of making poor nations wait for quote leftover vaccines making huge profits of africa and asia wait for 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 the citizens to be vaccinated 3 times over while many poor countries a year to receive a single dose or comment follows an online g 7 meeting where leaders announced a billions of extra euro in support of the global kovacs scheme the move comes as

british prime minister berish johnson vowed to donate most of the u.k.'s surplus vaccines to developing countries artie's shallow dubinsky how some of the key takeaways from the event. 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 boris johnson ukase prime minister emanuel mack on president of france leading the cools but it didn't see 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 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 of. saenz book 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 the trust and world government says it 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. 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 told that the best is always to the door 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 as to the. pain suffering a 4th night of riots over the jailing of a catalan rapper publisher hersel was arrested for quote slandering the crown and glorifying terrorism protesters have rallied across the country to oppose his detention granda get 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 was a loner based journalist evaleen a kocinski reports from among the crowds in catalonia as capital.

could not have their screaming stop peace release public have now every already done for every day of the proud to impact our long ambassadors are not the main fee to the relief problem have now been left imprisoned for 9 months but they're screaming because their aggression on the freedom of expression and they are demanding their leave. so the protesters have just tried one of the main manx 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 shops as you can see behind me there are rubbish containers on fire by the protesters they're mostly teenagers playing the music becoming aggressive they're

provoking that the police that's quite bad then 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 job policy that would make vaccination mandatory for employees and response trade unions are warning firms may face legal action and have asked 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 . the front line worker to get the same time we think given the so many people who have even a job 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's a nice and it's 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 for 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 while calling such policies discriminatory downing street has that its quota up to businesses if they want staff to have vaccine passports more than $16000000.00 of the u.k.'s most vulnerable have received a 1st vaccine dose so 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 trading up 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 so we think it's possible to convince

people of all the safety measures that need to be take but that how we've had sort of the sun the best way to convince people about the vaccine been safe is if it isn't in the hands of the national drug companies but simple click on the ship only democratic control of audrey trade you know today it's working class people that you know that would reassure people rather than being in the hands of. you know donors to the government. now anyone in london who misses going down to their local pub for a drink during the lockdown may be in luck as one form a bomb on the chair has given a whole new meaning to the phrase that quick pint basically started maybe on furlough 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 see the flat warm clingfilm part so i for how can i get a fresh bike to them so i came up with the idea of basically

a white van appears and you're like what is this and you're in the back and you get your real tub and type feel 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 oh through social media remaining instagram and just my friends from the hunk they've been missing the pablum we thought we needed to write this commentary. 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 are some salute you find if you think about the amount of money that we've saved through not commuting and through not being at work about money that i would have spent daily just buying lunch from tesco on the takeaway do to be able to save that up and spend it on something i really enjoy like having

a noise pub 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 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 when you get one for 3 lb from aldi the idea is is that we bring a culture to 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 whereas 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 is still hits the spots cheers

martin andrews us u.k. london. still to come electricity bills skyrocket for texans as the states continues to deal with the off the mouth of a deadly winter storm story and more after the break. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by the one percent of those. who dares thinks. we fear to ask.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going from station to let it be an arms race is often spirit dramatic development only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and tom. welcome back a deadly winter storm in the south of the us has killed at least 47 people and the most affected state texas 1000000 millions are struggling to access clean wall to

wall thousands of households have been left without power president joe biden has approved a state of emergency in the area during the extreme freeze that they do use the chow sold and power bills for many texans have skyrocketed some residents have racked up electricity electricity costs of up to $10000.00 aussies can have more than 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 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 there'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 were 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 surely 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 us 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 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. matthew thought disposable facemasks is being blamed for exacerbating a little problem dismayed environmentalists are afraid the pandemic may have reversed all the gains made in recent years in the fight against plastic waste the scan of the waste is the jewel dropping in the u.k. for instance more than $100000000.00 mosques a discarded each week and nuff to cover a football pitch hundreds of times over and if one's a significant part of the u.k.'s plastic lists which totals 1005. 100 tons 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 allison ogden newton sais 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 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 well meanwhile some hospitals continue to complain about the supply of masks not meeting demand that's despite global production of the face coverings increasing 30 fall since 2019 alison ogden 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 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 and at least 5 seriously injured after part of

a power plant collapsed in so influential russia and or else can richmond plant is located in a chrysler jaska region a rescue operation is currently underway according to the public prosecutor's office to thehotel could still be trapped under the rubble for the collapse of the facility is crushing department happened at around 5 am local time because of the incident remains unknown. 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 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 ensure that isis does not return the size of our mission will increase from 500 personnel to wrong $4000.00 and train your duties for now include

more iraq is security situations areas beyond bug belt from a u.s. marine corps intelligence officer scott ritter 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 at the baird politically to do this so then the question is who will provide the combat backup and that of course is the united states and once united states employs combat force in support of nato the 2 missions become intertwined and then nato which has made a big point of saying hey we're being invited by the iraqi government which is the opposite of that the situation currently exists regarding u.s.

forces this is just a horrible situation that underscores 2 realities one that nato is not a politically mature organization capable of making independent decisions and has been pushed into this direction by the united states and to 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 . or for a story of david and goliath as a small village in northern france was if take a billionaire a long enough time for to install and then can at that for his satellite internet project thawing. jews electromagnets and feel like shit they were giving up

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