as for the next 30 years. the victims say they still live with the consequences today. russia becomes the 1st country to approve 3 homegrown coronavirus vaccines after gets the green light. to raise the alarm companies look to bring in controversial no job no job contracts so. we don't think it is so many people who aren't even if the. doc people should be. president biden the clear is a major disaster in texas as the state struggles to recover from crippling winter storms.

live from moscow thanks for joining us tonight here on r.t. international i'm daniel walking welcome to the program. russia now has a hat trick of vaccines to tackle the coronavirus kovach is the newest to be approved developers say will also offer protection against the new code was strained. through the news earlier today. well called me 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 to 8 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 coming back 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. it's i want to start with some very good news a 3rd vaccine has been budgeted today was developed by the trauma called 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 use is 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 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 would have moved 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 a while now how's it going 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 i mean while ever more european nations are in to walk through a sea of sputnik surprise the timing business leaders told us the process could also help improve relations. i believe we can improve the russia e.u. relationship in terms of the battery rollout the supply of alternative taps is limited and it's fallen short of committing both european and global demand it's no secret that italy germany and france have already turned to the russian government but they have to buy the russian vaccine i'm sure vaccines should not be held hostage to jail politics. is need. to be rude give to russia gave to the world well she could have used it as political leverage but it did not in fact we see that russia has great opportunities for inoculation for foreigners living in russia as well i personally go to not feel grateful we see that russia is open to the distribution of its vaccine abroad not only is open to

its export just like pfizer and astra zeneca but it also provides the opportunity to manufacture sputnik via broad it's not really new concept of cooperation with other nations in terms of economy and health care i think it's subsequently lead to the improvement of relations between russia the e.u. and the world. you care companies are considering a much criticized no job no job policy that would make vaccination monitoring for employees in response trade unions are threatening legal action and have asked the government to intervene. we think the primary has to. compete will say things and i say trade unions you know we encourage in equal to get that see what priority frontline workers to get back since but at same time we don't think given the so many people who hunt hard even to jobs 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 situation is just like a. check box thing that will solve the problem of car we need to make sure that it's part of a range of thoughts on that dani's you know we look in each workplace about how best we can implement things some british firms have already warned they won't hire staff who refused the job other companies want existing employees to have vaccine passports and government such moves discriminatory but senior ministers have previously said the final decision is up to businesses well let's take a quick look now at how the vaccination process is playing out in the u.k. so far more than 16000000 doses have been delivered nationwide and there has been a lower uptick though among people from ethnic minority backgrounds including those in the workforce from deprived areas in dalton again told us why some still have questions. i think that most trade you not today it's

a very skeptical and i think this is what fuels people skepticism about you know whether they should get the vaccine all are not so and we think it's possible to convince people of all the safety measures that need to be take care well that we've had some of. the best way to convince people about the vaccine being safe is if you isn't in the hands of the national group who made it seem public ownership 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 the government. deadly winter storms in the southern u.s. have killed at least 47 people in texas millions are struggling to access clean water while thousands of households been left without power president biden as the plan a major disaster in the area unlocking funds for those hardest hit it's really extreme freeze energy uses your sword and power bills for many texans have skyrocketed and

some locals have rocked up an atrocity costs of more than $10000.00 on his column open reports now on how the disaster has again laid bare the problems of the country's crumbling infrastructure 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 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 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 it is kind of

a cold slap in the face if you want to call it that this is happening normally l.s.d. would go out to a place like this it's not a busted 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 the 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 weren't notified that 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 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 structure sure he could turn on the faucet and clean water comes out and when that happened in flint will never happen again anywhere in america now biden's only been in office for a few weeks however plenty of presidents in recent u.s. history have been promising to fix up the country's infrastructure only to preside over it getting worse i want to be 1st when it comes to infrastructure around the world because businesses are going to come where there 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. 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 you know we have the richest country in the world we just sent. you know another space ship up to mars and we could tackle any problem that the government had the will to tackle the problem is they don't have the will to fix civilian infrastructure they don't care about the 99 percent of people who depend on that infrastructure all the money's being siphoned off to the one percent who don't need roads pseudo you know they don't need our roads they fly in their helicopters or private planes soon there they will have their flying cars. in london have been missing going down the local pubs are in lockdown may be in luck but one form a bomb on it has given a whole new meaning to the phrase a quick point basically it's thought we may be able. to live it and i thought i

really want to make what i have to tell you to follow the people's goals but it wouldn't receive a flock warm clingfilm part so i pull out like a fresh bike to them so i came up with the idea pop to do basically a wife on a pit is and you're like what is this a new up in the box and you get your real top and type i squeal 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 were missing the pub and we thought we needed something like this to come into. 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 that i would have spent daily just buying lunch from tesco on the takeaway do to be able to say that often 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 but it's on top as well but 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 us u.k. london. still to come you can't go anywhere these days without a mosque and that might have been done years of progress against plastic waste storage coming up after the break.

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in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maybe in the shallow. is amusing any deficiency in the last 4 years it was the fact now we have this transformational president with 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 administration but i think maybe with his background in business he might have underestimated the importance of personality but having worked in the white house in the executive branch of government so much rests on personnel

. come back a mosque or court has rejected an appeal by a russian opposition figure alexina volley against his sentence for parole violations earlier this month a troubling critic was sentenced a little under 3 years in jail or gets the a for forts from outside the court. while the the judge did reject their legs he divided these appeal to have the have the sentence dismissed it did shorten the length of the 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 time just to recap election of other than his brother were given 3 sentences for their role and embezzling a company in russia out of millions of rubles hundreds and thousands of dollars. his brother was given. a jail sentence 3 and a half years alexian of 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 even in china for example so the court does. circumstances under no circumstances obligated to release election of all that this was. the 1st of 2 court appearances by him

today before he's said to serve out his jail sentence the 2nd appearance 2nd called session being about a libel case brought against the lakes in the valley 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 residence amongst russians but even their election of on the was defied refusing to apologize. a quick look at some other stories making headlines around the world starting in the u.s. if you broomfield in colorado a passenger jet engine have rained down on the area damaging the roofs of houses and temporarily blocking some roads that have really had come from you know it today lines plain that reported an engine failure shortly after taking off from denver. meanwhile this is what passengers on that plane were witnessing during that

ill fated flight quite terrifying for shot by one of them because of the engine blow out is still on notify can also be seen as the plane attempts to make an emergency landing or the boeing triple 7 had been heading for hawaii but returned to make that emergency landing back in denver airport thankfully no casualties no injuries also were reported. this plane has seen its 5th consecutive night of mass protests over the jailing of a. it was arrested after posting a tweet supporting a basque separatist group criticizing them want to keep protests there's a right across the country opposing is the tension and branding it a violation of his right to free speech around 30 people were arrested on saturday night the rest turned violent the prime minister announced it as an attack on democracy. the police have used water cannon and tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters in the chilean capital demonstrators are demanding

economic reforms the resignation of the president and the release of those detained in the rallies the country's been rocked by protests for more than a year. the mask use of disposable face masks is being blamed for significantly worsening the litter problem this may devour mentalists feel the pandemic may have reversed any gains made in recent years in the fight against plastic waste the scale of the waste is staggering in the u.k. for example more than $100000000.00 masks are discarded each week that's enough to cover a football pitch hundreds of times over and worst of all it forms a significant part of the u.k.'s plastic litter $1500.00 tons per month and the price that itself takes centuries the breakdown of the global consumption of masks is alarming as well a recent studies show that $6000000000.00 are being produced every day to satisfy a current demand across the world environmentalist allison of the newton says the

over alliance on mosques as many risks. p.b. 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 somewhat spittles are still complaining and supply of masks isn't meeting demand at this point global production of face coverings increasing and dramatically over the last year some of the newton again believes the short term benefit of mosques 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 these plastic i think most people were trying to make an effort to reduce that consumption and then the pandemic came in

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 re visit our concerns about plastic and look at reusable masks and make sure whatever happens we don't litter our p.p. . finally towards being labelled a modern day david and goliath battle a small village in the north of france is resisting tech billionaire plans to install and turn over as part of styling his high speed internet satellite internet project.

jews electromagnets to feel like shit they were giving up a lot of questions for foreigners which are already very offensive as. to whether our main preoccupation is tell us the health of our children i've always wanted to live in nature in the countryside so they'd be s. far away from networks and everything as possible. of course you don't want i want to fuse this project because there was a lack of information about its impact on human health but also animal house and since we're in a very rural area with many farmers around us. up next we're back to the nights i leave camp examine the u.s.

sanctions on venezuela and the consequences of that even are backing off and i also bring your rundown of the latest headlines sort of forget that. imagine thinking 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 it was my living was my savings i have nothing i have nothing that is not. aloof or resources i look for jobs i look for everything i can to make this house. doing is . the road to the american dream paved with dead refugees it's this. image of. americans that look pasta at the depths that happen every single day

this is a modern history of the usa america. in the 1920 s. and thirty's several 100 african-americans moved to the soviet union and many of their descendants still live in russia. or going at the risk of no no rush but i

thought of stuff yes it got worse when things in your way. back home black american suffered from racism and a complete lack of prospects. is that lump us about the real. one by else the store but by doing. so they decided to leave everything behind and start a new life in a country about which they knew almost nothing at all some of the. ground great crowd. moulay a dwarf you want to call. you and now almost a 100 years later the history is repeating itself my great grandfather george time went through russia. on probable worst tried to go anywhere why not me. when i come here.

it's been decades since the fall of spain's fascist regime but old wounds still haven't healed. and this. is a bow or. on the bus at us as mean older than us and they seem caught in which we know . of newborn babies were torn from their mothers and given away and forced adoption that only. to this day mothers still search for grown children while adults look in hope for their birth parents. hello welcome redacted the thanks for being here this is the comedy show where americans in america cover an american news are called foreign agents our own

government accountability office has accidentally revealed how insane our idea of government accountability is how banana is our foreign policy is how ridiculous our government is and how bad knots are of propaganda is and they did it all in one report on our sanctions about venezuela the government accountability office the g.a.o. is supposed to analyze government behavior and policies and critique them actually tell the citizenry how well our government of by and for the people is working is it doing a good job or bad job is it benefiting all of us or is it failing to benefit us thank goodness we have a government accountability office or else no one would hold the government accountable is just one problem the government accountability office.