story's the shapes the we must go towards that brussels is politicizing the fight against the pandemic as the kremlin heads back to controversial comments from the head of the european union casting doubts over russians coded backseat. we discussed the e.u. is ongoing criticism on facebook make me with russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman . how can a gross offer its maxime's of the world not without making it too expensive for blackmailing with a. good chance nationwide protests in spain over the jailing of a councillor on the route the slandering the crown and glorifying terrorism so no sign of easing off the 5 days. on both radians launch

a campaign to void can stay still constant balance news posts in the country and tech giant made the move over proposal to make social networks pay for news conference but the issue of the debate. should facebook and profit on someone else's work without giving them some look bigger. but there are other really good merit i think this whole social media i guess ecosystem is really spun out of control in terms of how it is monetize. very warm welcome you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international going to do a roundup of the stories that shape the week along with all the latest world headlines it's great to have you with us. russia accused gracilis of politicizing the battle against coronavirus this week house off the e.u. chief us live on the line made controversial comments questioning moscow's motives

in offering to help the block with this vaccine rollouts. we are perplexed to hear assessments by the head of the you exactly 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 progress in vaccinating the own people thrushes dismayed by the lack of to promo see but also the lack of humanity that the chief has recently shown again politics beats cooperation when it comes to the covert 1000 francs seen 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 a 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 did not this isn't a defect is that today we're not where we want to be income betting the virus we were late in granting authorization we were too optimistic 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 rights to from urgency you sputnik see we also heard last year in the czech republic showing up a tight for the russian frack scene as soon as russia became the 1st country globally to write that 1000 vaccine president putin 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 if it community. business entities have repeatedly publicly stressed that vaccination of its own citizens constitutes an absolute priority for russia in its fight against covert 19 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 seen success russia is in top 3 if you're a pin a chanson tums 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 to mind is something that moscow raised recently to know it's 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 of drooled it is indeed high it's so high that you suppresses our production capacity

and that's why we are actively working on quickly launching production of the vaccine in several foreign countries production in foreign countries will cover demand of brought while manufacturing inside the country will cover the domestic market so clearly that's the logical response to vonda lens quite hostile comments but hit pretty throwing up political punch was more important than logic perhaps not surprising we obviously know that you russian relations are going through a slightly bumpy potch moscow says it's the straight ahead by brussels consistently interfering and it's an ton 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. the row marks just the latest in a long line of critical remarks from brussels over sputnik the 1st despite some states in the blog voicing support for the shot as the e.u. is only inoculation program hits problems so as the european union's neighbors

including montenegro and serbia have already started rolling out sputnik they are seasoned and cross all ski discuss the issue with the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman. it's not that it's an experience 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 their 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 sit in the 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. it's that . demonstrations are swept through spain for assisting consecutive day with thousands taking to the streets across the country to protest against the jailing of a councillor rapper for slandering the crown and glorifying terrorism. thank . you.

as i know he has turned into a bedrock of heavy clashes as was arrested in his hometown of yadong tuesday a number of shops in the castle and capital barcelona were also damaged and looted during the demonstrations local journalist evelyn a kitchen scot has been reporting on the events throughout the week. going out on the streets of barcelona and they want. to be released there are lots of teenagers a protest think mostly young people and not just in barcelona but also in others in catalonia especially a lay down where. in the end we continue basically barricaded himself and now he said that she just wanted the truth to come out and he's very happy happy about it they just looked like the streets on fire and the

plus a couple is the main square in the in barcelona and so 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 there only 1000 years old and she got basically like a bullet spawn in hair in her face. famous or something and demands a back there there in the friend. might have just been and that he was actually also tired of all the restrictions. so they are using you know different excuses such as the iris of pablo as basically also they want to you know our have a normal life again well back to work. biking 2800 public hersel was convicted by a spanish court have a twins calling for mccain juan carlos the thought is that the 1st i must be

a boss he also accused police of torturing and killing demonstrators and migrants as cell fell foul of legislation covering spaniards his right to freedom of expression dubbed the gag law by critics the cold war the courts ruled the spanish law prohibited such expressions of opinion a member of the council on national assembly told us suppressing free speech is inexcusable the spanish government is their security fundamental rights are this their right to free speech and free free creation croom government and. they call themselves the most progressive government in the history of the spend on saw for them the case of. big problem because it is a clear sign that is not true not as one of the reasons why we want independence not because we want to build a new a new contract with

a more open and free laws we want no more open 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. 3. a campaign to boycott facebook was launched in australia this week after the tech giant blocks news posts in the country after a propos over a proposed law to make social networks pay publishers for news content something they camber a called an abuse of power r.t. simon wright digs deeper. australia's government is really coming to terms with the fact that facebook has told it where to go and there's nothing you can do about it might use what happened social media giant facebook has followed through on

a script restricting people in australia from viewing news content or desire streaming you know it's better to someone with an australian accent explain that so this morning if you visit a news site and astronomy aside by the social media platform you'll find there are no posts you can't view washington news articles. winner is australia 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 is a good one that they pay to produce the stuff but big tech like facebook benefits for free facebook gave a 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 almost leave you've got a computer just go on through twitter or google instead. or anti doggone. news australia ministers are angry because they say facebook is among other things restricting access to health information during a pandemic. to which i say don't get your health information from facebook what's wrong with you it's 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. prime minister they don't think they're bigger they know it governments have little to no power over these companies anymore australia's treasury gets today's events to confirm for all the strings 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 now mystifies book or i am it democratically elected so foreign 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 to meet facebook is on another social media platform. or a murdoch to sky deal with google that will see his media outlets get paid for their content one australian he's really cornered the market in the brainwashing going you know what there is always. bigger and. in addition to news posts facebook also blocked a number of key australian government pages including health department's emergency services and trade unions that the company later commented on the issue saying these accounts had been inadvertently impacted honesty international weighed in saying facebook's willingness to control information that people rely on is

extremely concerning the group out of the movie stood in stark contrast to what it calls the tech giant's poor track record in handling hateful content dissin from asian. calendars back to australia and it sparked the country's considering similar legislation to make facebook page news publishers' it will not be intimidated my colleague in o'neill 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 but 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 that time if we all remembered dial up ale well it closed circuit environment where all your dating your shopping your opinions and but 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 will we actually have to make the grown up decisions. going in the u.k. need quarantine measures introduced this week might be travelers think twice before heading there and he won the rising from a red list of country including you 10 nationals will now have to fork out one $1750.00 pounds around $2400.00 to quarantines the 10 days and especially designated hotel upon arrival passengers are escorted through the airport then taken by bus to the accommodation the u.k. government has brought in tough penalties for anyone who flounce the rules with fines of up 210000 pounds for those failing to quarantine and

a maximum prison sentence of 10 year is that people who lie about whether they've come from the government defended their position saying it will help the country protect from the new strain of poorly organized expensive and unsafe this is how some travelers returning to the u.k. have described the currency in hotels the saudi edwards dusty reports from outside one of the facilities. foreign travelers and brits returning home from $33.00 red list 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 a thought they have to build themselves because. they want to know what we're going to be a 2000 on about our i don't know i don't know yet but this couple has not alone many flights being canceled and departure dates change due to complications of the

cave at 19 pandemic and it's not just the financial burden that's weighing heavily other arrivals tell me the current in policy is no safer than isolating a home. fire. i mean i like. being in the streets. again. i think one of the. 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 7 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 to. us we

know almost in. it's when small and. managed. automatically once the 16th and that's. when we. can already have some of what you were going to england or if you were willing to. in. it's just. you know it's you know it's a remote you know you know we. all feeling like captives thousands of arrivals have to wait before getting home to their families are to have a more anxiety it's already testing times. dashti r.t. k. . deadly winter storm sweeping across the southern united states have taken the lives of 58 people and left millions of americans without electricity

heat and clean water for days one of the worst hit states texas is still right cold seasonal freeze with temperatures dropping as low as minus 18 degrees celsius for the 1st time in over 30 years it's led to rolling blackouts and extensive damage to homes so this is a very. very these floating. feeling bro oh gee again due to total regular person being here for. me while texas senator ted cruz has come under fire after he flew to the mexican resort city of cancun during the disaster he described the decision as a mistake when he returned the next day but that didn't avert the twitter storm that followed and he's not the only official in hot water

a local mayor was forced to step down after his response to pleas to help from the residence. no one owes you or your family anything nor is it the local government's responsibility to support you joining trying times like this sink or swim it's your choice the city and county along with power provide his or any other service owes you nothing it's pretty bad that you know us texans we just can't be here for old every other part of the country this would have been a huge issue in the lake we too much for this election time so i see. 2 fold on the open water you got on the blanket saod would 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. well authorities in texas struggled to keep power grids up and running some were blaming frozen wind turbines

for the disaster others however are laying the blame squarely on the local government still step cannibal can take up the story. without electricity texas residents are resorting to some rather desperate measures in the hopes of staying warm they are 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 compromised alternative energy sources have been a key aspect of the democrats' push for go friendly policies a key plank of our bill back better recovery plan is building a modern resilient climate infrastructure and clean energy future that will create millions of good paid union jobs critics are blaming joe biden and the democrats saying that they pushed climate friendly policies a bit too hard and branding the outcome catastrophic live shows how the green new deal would be a deadly deal for the united states of america in the last few days if proven and the thing 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 globe. superpower but at home it's a lacking power quite literally all of this critics are symptoms of america in

decline. archie new york. quick look at some other stories making headlines around the world now starting in the u.s. city of colorado this terrifying scientists were passengers saw their windows off the engine of a united airlines flight to hawaii failed because of the problem is unknown the boeing triple 7 made an emergency landing back at denver airport and no injuries were reported however parts of the engine fall out of the sky damaging the roofs of houses and temporarily blocking some roads below. hundreds of restaurant owners have rallied in the city of baloney in northern is to lead to protest against the closure of their businesses following the tightening of coronavirus restrictions officials have that the measures are necessary to limit the spread of new virus strains. in brazil has given

people the chance to watch a film with a 30 friend pastor owners could bring their own dogs while people looking for a companion could take one of the shelter animals up for adoption more than 10 animals found homes as a result of the event. my story to end on thank you for joining us here for the rundown we're back in 30 minutes with more. oh look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the 1st law show your identification you should be very careful about official intelligence and the point obesity is too great trust ever over the fear. inflicted on theories chozen with artificial intelligence will summon the demon.

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future of the republic and then the democratic party's both some rather ukridge by these untruly player so what's on the cards for the next few years in american politics well to discuss that i'm now joined by michael johns a co-founder of the tea party movement and a former speechwriter for president george h.w. bush mr jones. it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time it's a pleasure to be with you. i know you a card player by any chance. but really what they play. bridge and you know the joy of the games. i don't know if you are aware but it was the american the north american ag game of your career that is responsible for introducing the joker into the modern deck of cards. just in this a ways i think donald trump introduced this new style of politics well by and now the.