yonks this is what happens to pensions in britain. you watch guys report. the stories the shapes the week must go towards the brussels is politicizing the fight against the time dad makes as the kremlin hits back at controversial comments from the head to your opinion here costing downside of russia's code back seat. we discussed the e.u. is ongoing criticism of the exhibit with russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman. for its tracks into the world not without ties of it making it too expensive and blackmailing with it. heads nationwide protests in spain over the jailing of a. laundering the crown and glorifying terrorism show no signs of easing after 5 days. on following a bit

a standoff between facebook and australia of its controversial ban on news posts in the country the big tech company returns to the table with town bar we put the issue up for debate. should facebook profit on someone else's work without giving them somewhat bigger problem based groups but they're utterly conformed to the narrative i think this whole social media. ecosystem has really spun out of control in terms of how it is monetize. i will welcome you watching the weekly here on r.t. international bringing do a roundup of the stories they say to the week along with all the latest world headlines great to have you with us. of russia accuse brussels of politicizing the battle against coronavirus this week passed off the e.u. chief us live on the line made controversial comments questioning moscow's motives

in offering to help the block with its vaccine rollouts. we are perplexed to hear assessments by the head of the as it is either an effort to politicize the issue in an insubstantial dated and indeed deplorable way or indicates an inadequate level of awareness of the top level official we still wonder why russia is offering theoretically millions and millions of doses while not sufficiently progressing in vaccinating the own people thrushes dismayed by the lack of diplomacy but also the lack of humanity that the chief has recently shown again politics beats cooperation when it comes to the covert 19 vaccine for the e.u. it really has been a struggle a struggle to get production off the ground a struggle to get jobs and arms a struggle with the u.k. of the who gets however many doses and the slowness in inoculating its 450000000 strong population has got people angry and frustrated this was in that view

a political test russel's failed to the point that wonderland had to publicly apologize and didn't notice the senate this fact is that today we're not where we want to be in combating the virus we were late in granting authorization we were too old to mystic about mass production and maybe we also took for granted that the doses audit would actually arrive on time we must ask ourselves why and what lessons we can draw from it while one lesson that did come out was that the ease been so inefficient that individual member states have been forced to go out on the road looking for alternatives and then looking at russia hungry for example has a right to from urgency you sputnik see we also heard austria in the czech republic showing an appetite for the russian facts seen as soon as russia became the 1st country globally to write that $1000.00 vaccine president clinton came out and said russians come fast that is and always will be our priority and this was something that was reiterated by the representatives in brussels representatives of the

russian authorities scientific community. business entities have repeatedly publicly stressed that vaccination of its own citizens constitutes an absolute priority for russia in its fight against kovi 19th in full compliance with the principles of democracy and human tarion law inoculation and russia's voluntary and to date all interested citizens are provided with the vaccine without delay and free of charge without free accessibility is undeniably a scene success rushes in top 3 if you're a pen nations in terms of vaccinations at last count 2200000 including many of our colleagues who described how smooth the process was and this discrepancy between internal and external demand is something that moscow raised recently to 2 minutes you just we haven't had any reports about vaccine shortages and us domestic demand for this vaccine is still gathering momentum as for demand for the russian vaccine abroad it is indeed high it's so high that he suppresses our production capacity

and that's why we are actively working on quickly launching production of the russian vaccine in several foreign countries production in foreign countries will cover demand abroad while manufacturing inside the country will cover the domestic market so clearly that's the logical response to vonda lens quite hostile comments but hc clearly throwing up political punch was more important than logic perhaps not surprising we obviously know the e.u. russian relations are going through a slightly bumpy potch moscow says it's the straighted by brussels consistently interfering and it's in tons of files and it looks like a we might be seeing the same story instead of trying to resolve its own issues the e.u. is trying to deflect attention and undermining a country who's trying to offer a helping hand. there are marks just the latest in a long line of critical remarks from brussels over sputnik the that despite some states in the blog voicing support for the shot as the e.u. is only an occupation program hurts it has its problems with some of the european

union's neighbors including montenegro and serbia have already started rolling out sputnik the artes downtown discuss the issue with the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman. not that our vaccine developments were denied by the west they said lots of different things that it does not exist it's bad and nobody should use it it was necessary to invent something very fast in order not to destroy the created myth that russia is an aggressor how can aggressor offer its facts into the world not without hiding it making it too expensive or blackmailing with it this is what they're gresson would do instead we offered it as a tool as a method maybe not as a panacea but one of the means of overcoming the crisis in some ways it can be compared to space of course the scale is different but when you read the guardian went on his flight and when he returned what did the soviet union do it denounced that outer space is for peaceful exploration that what they used to saw proposed to

the world city new trend in the direction the same with the vaccine we're open to corporations we're ready to join production we're ready to study and share our experience some people from the west couldn't deal with it this is a blow and this is not envy this is a blow to the longstanding model of representing russia as an aggressor. i seek a grace. demonstrations are swept through spain for a 5th consecutive day with thousands taking to the streets across the country to protest against the jailing of a councillor rapper the slandering the crown and glorifying terrorism. i and. my.

catalonia has turned into a bedrock of heavy clashes as pablo has cell was arrested in his hometown of yade on tuesday a number of shops in the council on tattersall boss alone that was also damaged and looted during the demonstrations local journalist evelina kaczynski has been reporting on the advance throughout the week. going out on the streets of barcelona they want. to be released there are lots of teenagers a protest think mostly young people and not just in barcelona but also in other sneakiness in catalonia especially a laid out where. in mickey's university you basically barricaded himself and now he says that she just wanted the truth to come out and he's very happy happy about it they are just like the streets on fire and the plus

a couple is the main square in there in barcelona and the police are getting quite angry because it's like the 1st process since many months in the barcelona because of. course there was a woman who was injured who were there only 19 years old and she got basically like a bullet in her in her face. famous or something and demand back. there in the iris of well might have just been and that he was actually also tired of all the restrictions of coverage so they are using you know different uses such as the iris of pablo as basically also they want to you know have a normal life again go back to work. 2800 power blow her cell was convicted by a spanish court have a tweets calling for mccain kwan call us the 1st a massive boss he also accused police of torturing and killing demonstrators and my

currents herself fall foul of legislation covering spaniards his right to freedom of expression dubbed the gakkel or by critics the court ruled the spanish law prohibited such expressions of opinion and that of the catalan national assembly told us suppressing free speech is inexcusable. the spanish government has resumed critiquing the fundamental rights artists have their right to free speech and free free creation through government is they call themselves the most progressive government in the history for spain or saw for them the case of capital has been problem because it is a clear sign that this is not true or not this is one of the reasons why we want the independence not because we want to build a new a new contrary with

a more open and free laws we want to know more system no system which accept. the killed. creation like the one on her cell or others like. so of course we need this this change so we are fighting for this for a more free. now to australia i campaign to boycott facebook was launched in australia this week thousands of to the tech giant blogs news posts in the country after a proposed law to make social networks pay publicists for news content something they come for a called an abuse of power artie's simandou in. australia the government is fully coming to terms of the founder of facebook has told it where to go and there's nothing you can do about it might here's what happened social media giant facebook

has followed through on a sweat restricting people in australia from viewing news content or that remain you know it's better someone with an australian actin explained so this morning if you visit a nice science and astronomy side by the social media platform you'll find there are no posts you can view washington news articles. we know it is australia so could just be there wasn't any news that day so the australian government wants facebook to pay for content which is shared on its platform but made by other media organizations those media organizations make the point and it's a good one that they pay to produce the stuff but big tech like facebook benefits for free facebook gave the completely b.s. response that making it pay for that stuff would be penalizing him for taking content that it didn't take or ask for which is a bit like finding a bag of cash on the floor and then saying well officer i didn't ask for it or take it from the bank so i thought i'd keep it finished in

a carry on yeah so about that carry on on the other hand media companies do start their own pages and upload their own content of their own accord and as mark zuckerberg says every time his company is accused of ruining life on this planet it's a private company so that's what i believe. but the future is private. this whole news blackout thing i'm absolutely i mean who cares honestly if you've got a computer just go on through twitter or google instead. directing access to health information during a pandemic. to which i say don't get your health information from facebook what's wrong with you is an advertiser not dr quinn medicine woman. australia's prime minister seems so close to grasping the reality of what's happened here scott morrison said that facebook. thinks they're bigger than governments and that the rules should not apply to them i promise that they don't

think they're big or they know it governments have little to no power over these companies anymore australia's treasury gets today's events to confirm for all australians is the immense market power. of the media digital giants these digital giants loom very very large. in our economy. and on the digital landscape. exactly so be nice to them look. let's say this might cover is the australian government why and if facebook this is what has happened. no mystifies book or i am a democratically elected sobering government and you will pay the media for its content. ok let's not get carried away here

i mean it's only facebook and the only people that use facebook now is your mom and her friends but the bigger issue is what happens when big tech decides to get together and define governments i mean even the protest about this time to meet facebook is on another social media platform. or murdoch just can't deal with google that will see his media outlets get paid for their content that's one australian he's really cool and the mark in the brainwashing going you know what there is always. a bigger and. and addition to news posts facebook also blocked a number of key australian government pages including health departments and agencies services on trade unions the company related commented on the issue saying these accounts had been inadvertently impacted and the city international weighed in saying facebook's willingness to control information that people rely on is extremely concerning because i did the movie stood in stark contrast to what it calls the tech giants poor track record in handling hateful content and this

information and calendars back to australia in its spot the country is considering similar legislation to make facebook page news publishes and says it will not be intimidated as my colleague you know neil got the thoughts of our guests on the story. although i don't like facebook by any means i also don't blame them for trying to put a stop to what i think is a very bad policy that in the end well only end up hurting smaller independent and perhaps even dissident sources in favor of a larger more establishment media sources these news organizations are disappearing that's really what's at stake and they really don't have any choice because they're not generating the kind of revenues necessary to run these news that 6 content of which facebook reliance on we have seen a whole cloth disruption of paid you know professional journalists guys that spent

30 years cutting their teeth and there are a lot of jobs because who's going to pay him $80.00 grand plus benefits to write a story when you can get to me on his you know no unfair if i know real credentials in journalism typing out something and make more money on those clicks so the question is for democracy is what is the threshold where people deserve to have real information and should they have to pay for it should facebook profit on someone else's work without giving them some look you can understand facebook's desire not to give in and start paying for news stories like google did once the box opens there's $200.00 other countries surely saying we want some to facebook what you do to their shareholders right if we start saying all right facebook will have to pay to feature news articles and news links what's stopping other forms of content from doing the same this whole social media i guess ecosystem has really spun out of control in terms of how it is monetize and actually

a i think more equitable if i can use that word solution to this would be to start talking about ways to break up the monopoly that facebook does have on advertising and also on user data basically the biggest problem with facebook is that they're utterly controlling that narrative and they're completely shutting out news that doesn't obey the narrative miss and this goes for almost. every issue down the line that's of the importance today let's remember back in around 2007 i happen to be one of those lucky ones who interviewed this guy who started facebook he was a nobody was still on my space my space everywhere and he said that he wanted to create an ecosystem similar to a a well at the time if we all remembered dial up ale well it closed circuit environment where all your dating your shopping your opinions and basically people who weren't able to have real friends in life could have thousands of friends make believe friends and call them their friends and you would never have to leave that world and it would do everything for you well that dream has come true and now all

of us are sitting in the middle of it going well wait a minute it's either all capitalism where anything goes and we can all charge for everything or it's part capitalism or it's something but we're at that time of growth now where we actually have to make the grown up decisions. still to come lives of americans are left without electricity and heat as authorities struggle to cope with a deadly winter storm sweeping the southern states of america throughout the week constantly and more often the great. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. who

dares thinks. we dare to ask. really the beginning of the changing of the guard you know we're now handing the baton off to china as the number one economy in the 21st century the numbers are there the statistics are there the relationships in your peer you are there the relationship with russia and iran is there you know there and there was a ship all over africa is also there.

welcome back meanwhile in the u.k. a new currency measures introduced this week might make travelers think twice before heading there and you want to rising from a red list this country including u.k. nationals will now have to fork out $1750.00 pounds which is around $2400.00 to quarantine for 10 days in a specially designated hotel upon arrival passengers are scores of through the airport then taken by bus to their accommodation. the u.k. government has brought in tough penalties for anyone who flouts the rules with fines of up 210000 pounds for those failing to quarantine and a maximum prison sentence of 10 years for people who lie about where they've come from so big changes to travelers and big challenges for those who manage the frontiers the government defended their position say saying it will help protect the country from the new strain poorly organized expensive and unsafe this is how

some travelers returning to the u.k. have described the quarantine hotels artie's shoddy edwards dusty reports from outside one of the facilities. foreign travelers and brits returning home from $33.00 reckless countries are now forced to isolate and government mandated hotels in the u.k. for 10 days it's all part of measures to curb the spread of the new coronavirus variants but not only are rivals like elaine and wagner are confined to the 4 walls of a small hotel room they've also got to foot they have to bills and selves to go you . know what we've got to be on the bar when you come back. you know money we spent a lot money to try to come along the beach but right now there are going to be a new rule how about i don't know i don't know yet but this couple 100 a loan many flights being canceled and departure dates changed due to complications

of the cave in 1000 pandemic and it's not just the financial burden that's weighing heavily other rivals tell me the current policy is no safer than isolating a home a plague take. home a. fire. believe me state i like. being a feature bringing it. all. out one. currently the government has almost 5000 rooms available across 16 airport hotels with another 58000 on standby but as has been throughout the entire pandemic scotland has gone one step further by enforcing hotel currently measures on any international arrivals regardless of which country they arrive from even in exceptional circumstances we were due to.

us we know almost in. it's when school needs use managed or seen chancel 'd just automatically once the 16th and that's. when the rest if. you know can already have them along if you were going to england or if you were living in the rain and rain has. it's just if you will be penalized for a remote you know you know we're not. just. feeling like captives thousands of arrivals have to wait before getting home to their families adding ever more anxiety it's all right in testing times. r.t. you k. london. paul charles who heads a travel consultancy firm in the u.k. believes that quarantining in hotels is a risky policy. i noticed the world health organization said the other day that

some of these variants are on the wane which means that maybe they are now being managed to more effectively but before we get the data we don't know for certain what i do think is that hotel quarantine is still very high risk as a policy it prevents people coming into the country who might have to come in and they're put off from coming in so it doesn't help the economy recover secondly it's high risk because as we've seen in australia and new zealand there are some hotels where the virus has been transmitted from one of the guests through to a security worker or a catering work and work enough hotel is then taken it back and transmitted it within their own communities it would be much better for effective testing to be done at the borders on arrival and then anyone who's positive is taken in school to their own home where they could quarantine in their on their own in their own home and self isolate there and if that was in forced properly i think that would be far

more effective than hotel quarantine. deadly winter storm sweeping across the southern united states have taken the lives of 58 poor poor left millions of americans without electricity holds water for days one of the was 10 states texas has seen a record seasonal freeze with temperatures dropping as low as minus 8 degrees celcius for the 1st time in over 30 years it's led still rolling blackouts and extensive downloads to home. so this is a very harrowing. very days for it is. going to. go to a regular person very here for the birth of. meanwhile texas senator ted. ted cruz

has come under fire after he flew to the mexican resort city of count clunes during the disaster he described the decision as a mistake when he returned the next day but didn't but didn't of the 2 to still live followed and not the only official in hot water a local mayor was forced to step down after his response to pleas for help from residents. no one owes you will your family anything nor is it the local government's responsibility to support you trying times like this sink or swim it's your choice the city and county along with power provide any of the service owes you nothing it's pretty bad that texans just can't we're told every other part of the country this wouldn't but been a huge issue in the late weeks in march for this action so 60. 2 fold the bill was over you got all the blankets out we try to all sleep together to keep us warm and then today when we got up there was no water we have no real update of

when it's going to come on our phones barely work one of the florentines in texas struggled to keep power grid set up and running some were blaming frozen to wind turbines for the disaster others however are laying the blame squarely on the local government doorstep had a broken takes up story. without electricity texas residents are resorting to some rather desperate measures in the hopes of staying warm they're firing up the grill and the generators and some of the even tried to use their cars to heat their homes resulting in several deaths and over 300 cases of carbon monoxide poisoning people are dying from carbon monoxide poisoning we have had so many calls in so many incidents that we can't even track them all the major oil refineries of the state has shut down due to freezing weather that bright new future of green energy isn't working out so well in the present the wind turbines that accounted for almost a quarter of texas is energy last year have frozen to

a standstill every source of power that the state of texas has has been compromised whether it be renewable power such as wind or solar but also as i mentioned today. access to coal generated power access to gas generator power also have been. just alternative energy sources have been a key aspect of the democrats' push for go friendly policies a key plank of our build back better recovery plan is building a modern resilient climate infrastructure and clean energy future that will create millions of good pain union jobs critics are blaming joe biden and the democrats saying they pushed climate friendly policies a bit too hard and branding the outcome catastrophic shows how the green new deal would be a deadly deal for the united states of america if the last few days have proven anything it's that we need oil and gas relying solely on renewable energy would be

catastrophic many of these sources have proven to be unreliable the united states may be a global superpower but at home it's a lacking power quite literally all of this critics say are symptoms of america in decline. are seeing new york. take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world now starting in the u.s. state of colorado and this terrifying scientists what passengers saw out their windows off of the engine on a united and lines flight to hawaii failed the cause of the problem is unknown the boeing triple 7 made an emergency landing back at dens at pause no injuries were reported however cause of the engine fell out of the sky damaging the roofs of houses and temporarily blocking some roads below. of raw moussaka.