but i will. play this for the movie that i was reasonable way. in the day's headlines russia becomes the 1st country to approve 3 homegrown coronavirus vaccines after coming back gets the green light. also this hour splits begin to emerge and europe over america's role in the bloc security as not everyone is convinced by president joe biden's montra that america is back. it's time for us to take much more as a burden a phone call to action if not too much dependent on the us we see need to. we can do it also since a situation to be politically to the other our borders. 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 can lend a rapper accused of glorifying terrorism.

a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. russia has now have a hatrick of vaccines to tackle the crime of virus it comes after the approval of kobe back which was created by moscow of scientific center and its developers believe it will also offer protection against new coronavirus variants here's our correspondent dollar corner with all the latest. back is the 3rd vaccine to be registered for distribution here in russia making the country the 1st to reach that benchmark it was developed by moscow to mock of center for immuno biological research and it can be stored between $2.00 to $8.00 degrees celsius that makes the vaccine easier to store than others like the pfizer variant for example that needs to be stored at a colder temperature to prevent spoilage now copy that is also currently at the end

of phase 2 testing and russia's prime minister is understandably looking to roll it out to the public soon. much it's i want to start with some very good news a 3rd vaccine has been budgeted today was developed by the trauma corps research center the 1st 120000 doses will already be available to the public by the middle of march today russia is the only country that already has 3 vaccines for the corona virus. actually it was developed in the field the new shot uses dead corona virus which was originally taken from a patient at the common market hospital in moscow region one of the 1st hospitals that actually treated kovan patients here in russia the shock of such as general director said his team looked at around $400.00 different samples of the virus a common arca until they found the one suitable for cultivation for a vaccine as for the clinical trials stage 3 is set to begin in march while those that have already been conducted or quite successful we haven't had any reports of any serious reactions to the new vaccine but it will go up to the preliminary

results are very encouraging after the 2nd phase will see how the vaccine affects the immune system we found that 8587 percent of people develop onset bodies by day 28. and it's also important to know just how much experience the true mark of center has in vaccine production in the past it's created a whole line of vaccines for polio yellow fever tick borne diseases and rabies to name just a few and even exports tens of millions of doses of these vaccines to over $100.00 countries around the world that's in exchange for funding that goes into more research projects like involving vaccinations russia's vaccination campaign has been going on for awhile now how's it going well january saw the start of russia's max vet a mass vaccination program and over 2000000 people have already gotten the shot so far i mean that's not too many considering russia's population of nearly 150000000 people but the tempo is definitely picking up russia's prime minister says that 4000 new vaccination points have opened around the country and over 10000000 new

doses are currently in production and the good thing is that almost half of those numbers of vaccinated people are actually people over 60 years old we're talking about one of the high risk demographics back is russia's 3rd vaccine sputnik v an epi vaca rhona are already available in russia so now the goal is just mainly to get the public on board with the idea of getting this shot in the 1st place. u.s. president joe biden's america is back got a mixed reception at the online munich security conference as not everyone was convinced by washington's return to the world stage as artie's put all of it with more. the munich security conference 2021 pretty much turned into biden 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 by 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 on he 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 to 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 on 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 he wants to undermine the translated 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 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 admits an endless stream of cliches why can't we work together let's work together when we work

together to get accomplish anything and they accompany this with with a great deal of very hostile rhetoric against against russia china and iran loose talk was such detached from reality cliched and there are only on convince them i think u.s. dominance is they're slowly diminished and i think the transatlantic alliance is they actually diminished by thanks to break that but the u.s. is much we could that are going to was a preacher trouble definitely lowered america's profile 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 that the. point out. the munich conference came hot on the heels of a meeting between nato defense ministers and which they outline plans to put

thousands more boots on the ground in iraq and bring you more on that later in the program. spain has suffered a 4th night of riots over the jailing of a rapper although he was arrested for quote slandering the crown and glorifying terrorism protesters have rallied across the country to oppose his attention granting it a violation of his right to free speech 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 have in the reports from among the crowds in catalonia as capital. so they're screaming still peace through these problems so it's already deferred for today on the prophetess even kept a long distance on the main c.t.t. these problems how so who was imprisoned for. screaming this is their

aggression on the freedom of expression and they are. these. so the protesters have just. one of the main banks of qatar 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 on fire by the protesters there mostly teenagers playing the music becoming aggressive that provoking c the police if it's guard 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 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 proper in-house the key can people safe and i say trade unions you know encouraging people to get back to what priority for work to get back to the same time we given this so many people who have even a job people should be victimized. we think you know we want to put things in place we can't see that so now you see is just like. solve the problem of how we need to make sure that it's part of a range of top. danni's 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 refused to have the job other companies are considering making an occupation mandatory for existing employees or calling

such policies discriminatory 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 a 1st vaccine dose so far with statistics showing a lower uptake among ethnic minority workers in the private communities indulge in again told us why some people may have reservations about getting the shot. i think most trading up today is a very skeptical and i think this is what fuels people skepticism about you know whether they should get the vaccine of knots and we think if it's possible to convince people of all the safety measures that need to be take care what that how we dress of in this hour 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 the working class people

that you know that would reassure people rather than being in the hands. of the government. and when it comes to the coronavirus in the u.k. anyone in london who misses going down to their local pub for a drink during the lockdown and may be in luck as one former bar manager has given a whole new meaning to the phrase a quick pint basically it started with me and i got to live it all for pite 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 pull how can i get a fresh bite to them so i came up with the idea pop to do basically a white van appears and you're like what is this in europe 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 both through social media redeeming instagram and just my friends from the hunks of the

missing the pub and we thought we needed something like this to come and share. 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 say that often spend it 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 wall 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 with some worried that the whole culture and community might be gone for good this venture seems to prove that the public spirit in this still hits the spots she has wanted andrews it's u.k. london. still had elektra city bells skyrocket for texans as the state continues to deal with the aftermath of a deadly winter storm details on that story and more still to come.

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welcome back a moscow court has rejected an appeal by russian opposition figure had seen a volley against his sentence for parole violations earlier this month the kremlin critic was sentenced to almost 3 years and jail reporting from outside the courthouse artist. while the the judge did reject their legs he devised these appeal to have the have the said to dismiss it did shorten the length he sentence from 2 years and 8 months to 2 years and 6 months but elective on these

defense made 2 major arguments one of them was that. after his alleged poisoning alexina volley. was recovering he was at a hospital he couldn't possibly have contacted these parole offices. made his whereabouts noon and the the judge neither the judge nor the prosecutors brought this argument they pointed out that over the past several years he has more than 50 parole violations any one of which was enough to land him with a very real jail tub just to recap let's involved in his brother were given sentences for their role and embezzling a company and washouts of millions of rubles hundreds and thousands of dollars. he's brother was given. a jail sentence 3 and a half years alexina on that was given a suspended sentence followed by years of parole 6 years and all of parole and

as we found out he had violated the terms of his parole more than 50 times and in this case. the judge and the prosecutor said look after you had been released from hospital in germany. traveling across the country giving interviews taking part in sports and duty once in months did you contact the authorities your parole officer to make your whereabouts note the other argument that election of ali's defense used was that the european court of human rights had called his sentence this is jailed. has called phased immediate release how. russian law the russian constitution says that russian little domestic law and obligations trump international obligations just as they do in the united states or in china for example so the court does. circumstances and circumstances obligated to

release elected deval and that this was have the 1st of 2 court appearances by him today before he's said to say that his jail sentence the 2nd appearance 2nd called session being about a libel case both a good selection of all the over his insults and allegations accusations against the world war 2 veteran him calling the veteran a sellout for example that caused a lot of resident amongst russians but even there election of on the was defied refusing to apologize. a deadly winter 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 off thousands of households have been left without power still president joe biden has approved a state of emergency in the area during the extreme freeze energy usage has soared

and power bills for many texans have skyrocketed some residents have racked up electricity costs of up to 10000 dollars artie's kilmartin explains how the recent disaster has laid bare infrastructure problems in the country. in texas a snow storm 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 in 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 it 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 is not a busted pipeline and they would you know get the water out of the 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 in explicable. and inexcusable families were notified that things weren't shut down. that shouldn't happen anywhere president obama took a sip of flints filtered tap water moved to sharing 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 rivers trucks. sure you could turn on the force a degree warmer 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. now for some world news in brief police use water cannon and tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters in the chilean capital they were demanding the release of detained demonstrators economic reforms and the resignation of the president the country has been rocked by regular protests for over a year now. locals in the german city of him now pay tribute to the victims of a deadly attack that took place there one year ago when a far right extremists opened fire near shisha bars killing 9 people and injuring 5 others resins held a procession in the town holding pictures of those that died. the heavy downpour

has caused severe flooding in the indonesian capital and surrounding area when 1000 people have been evacuated to shelters rescue operations are underway now castings have been reported. 3 people have been killed and 5 seriously injured after. part of a power plant collapsed in central russia the incident happened at around 5 o'clock in the morning and the head of the facility said a safety breach may be to blame a criminal investigation into homicide has been launched. it was announced it's posting thousands more troops to iraq insisting that will stop the country becoming a safe haven for terrorists a decision comes in the wake of a deadly rocket attack in northern iraq today we decided to expand nato is training mission in iraq to support the iraq it forces us to fight terrorism and the sure that our assistance not return the size so our mission will increase from 500

personnel to wrong 4000 and turn your duties for now include more iraq to security situations areas beyond bug the old former u.s. marine corps intelligence officer scott ritter told us who he thinks stands behind need 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 up repaired politically to do this so then the question is who will provide the combat backup and that of course is the united states and once united states employs combat force in support of nato the 2 missions become intertwined and then nato which has made a big point of saying hey we're being invited by the iraqi government which is the

opposite 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 them that's our drive up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and instagram for after the reports. the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in

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