in the headlines this wednesday morning europeans turned away from astra zeneca as covert 19 jobs because of efficacy concerns the world health organization warning states against hoarding job supplies pointing to drastic shortages in orange. russia slams the u.s. for undermining free trade unfair competition after washington boasts about european companies pulling out of the north stream to gas pipeline project in the face of american sanctions. and half a 1000000 american victims and counting no mass vaccination in sight despite no real pandemic policies which since president u.s. media seem none the less to love joe biden's changed approach.

hi there no no one more time this 24th of february watching r t with me kevin owen so those headlines in more detail 1st for you starting with this the head of the world health organization then warning rich countries against restricting covert vaccine supplies to developing nations many in the e.u. are refusing western shots over reports of poor efficacy leaving significant numbers of on used jobs is our europe correspondent. germany is facing a touch of cognitive dissonance when it comes to covert 19 vaccinations on the one hand politicians on the population are outraged at how slow the process of giving a vaccine to everyone in germany has been on the other hand vaccination centers like this one here in berlin at the old airport which only gives out the astra

zeneca job well they've been struggling to get people to take up the offer that some shots aligned unused because not enough people enrolling or just not turning up for their appointment this is an absurd and unbearable situation as of last friday only 10 percent of the vaccines available i had been administered the astra zeneca job is only approved for use in under 60 five's in germany due to a lack of data on its effectiveness and older people it's being made available to health care staff but tales of reactions to the vaccine have seen some german states suspend its use. astra zeneca has been criticized because on the one hand it seems to be less effective than the messenger r.n.a. vaccines from beyond tech and moderna and on the other hand you have been reports of vaccine reactions both must continue to be well monitored at this point in time

however we want to vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as possible therefore i think it is justifiable to put people who refuse to regularly license the vaccine like astra zeneca at the back of the vaccination order is something quite fish out there how can we do so vaccine and then find out a couple weeks months later that it's maybe not as efficient as it was as it was promised i think this shows that the way the european union has been managing this whole vaccine campaign it was not done maybe by the professionals that were supposed to be making decisions in the 1st place i think this is something which is not normal and now it's backfiring of course we see in a very small office. of western europeans getting the vaccine and now we've got very big doubts on some of this vaccine manufacturers big pharma. angle of merkel spokesperson even how to put out a post on social media and courage in people to take the astra zeneca vaccine because there's a worry that the doses germany has could end up going to waste. astra zeneca

succeed in c. and that it prevents many infections and protects against serious illnesses vaccination against. france has found itself in a similar position to germany when it comes to its citizens being unsure about the astra zeneca job a general lack of vaccines across the european union added to growing fears about their safety i mean the 2 biggest eurozone economies germany and france vaccinated just 6 percent of their populations but the head of the world health organization wants rich countries to check before ordering more shots and made diet shortages in developing nations if there are no vaccines to buy moneys irrelevant currently some high income countries are in intervening contracts with vaccine manufacturers that undermine the deal start callbacks how is in place and reduce

the number of those come by. we've already millions and millions of shares and we don't even know if these vaccines are safe and now that we've got these vaccines people don't want them so what do we do with that and there's no better be over of course if some countries feel safe with these vaccines in they want them then definitely you should should have them or sell them or i don't know a good sense of that to the countries who can't have vaccines staying in it in. some or as some call spots because there is refrigerated areas around there and you're well again before getting that out we have to go through proper medical process and say are they safe for now and if there are some facts instead of that which will not say this is not only not to get into the european union but they should be given to the 3rd will be there i mean we're not going to give them and i was you know it was the vaccines because they're not up to our standards this was this is christmas out of while e.u. nations the did the ring over whether or not to get one of the main vaccines that are on offer poorer nations are running the risk of having no doses of any vaccine

. at all peter oliver r.t. berlin. for the news this morning moscow's question the u.s. commitment to free trade after washington bragged about more than a dozen companies quitting russia's nord stream to gas pipeline project following american threats here's our correspondent egos down off them. from the very outset the u.s. has been held burned on do you really ignored stream to so this time the u.s. state department has compiled and submitted a report to u.s. congress kind of detailing the measures they have taken so far in this direction and how effective these measures have been this report by the way also comes at a very sensitive timing because the biden administration has been accused of inaction of not being keen enough on preventing nordstrom too from coming to fruition this report is not yet available to the public but ned price the spokesman for the u.s. state department has revealed or that some 800 companies european companies have

decided to pull out of the north stream to a mid u.s. pressure and when i say pressure i mean sanctions so far the united states have been sanctioning the russians while the e.u. firms have remained sort of in the clear but that's only so far this constant threat of sanctions coming from washington while it has always been and is still hanging over european firms so well 18 of them have decided that better safe than sorry and while they decided to cut ties with the project now when it comes to russia moscow has always been saying that the north that north stream too has nothing to do with with the united states that it is strictly a matter of relations between russia and europe and germany in particular because that's where the pipeline is going and all these efforts that the u.s. has been taking russia views it as world geo political warfare here is the latest

reaction that we have on this the u.s. state department has acknowledged that america is undermining the principles of free trade and competition subjugating market laws to its own geopolitical interests and acting inspired of the wheel of silver nations but there's an added layer of irony to this story because remember how they said that 18 companies have . sided to cut ties with nordstrom to the right and the way this information was delivered to the media by price the spokesman for the state department one might you might be misled into thinking that all of that was achieved under the biden administration which turns out is not the case and it only came to light when price was confronted by a piece matley over the issue of how to listen. strategy including the legislative strategy of the strategy of course congress is has been behind has been working to good effect the. credit for the winding down all of this work was done of the

previous administration and out of all the. all the months. are you telling me that i am all we. really is all of a sudden of all while you are. speaking for. the man. i am not oh i also being for the department of state ok the people who have been working miss the people who are working this now were the same people a month ago or the same people. 3 months ago or so so essentially what happened there could easily be interpreted as the state department kind of trying and taking credit for what was achieved when donald trump was still president here world net price effectively confirming just that and again quite ironically because this is something that happened with the trumpet ministration at the very start of his presidency when basically the democrat leaning media they were just trying to pin

all successes of his administration on the legacy of obama and his cabinet and so on and so forth but basically now this is all is revolver now around the nordstrom to project which is by the way 97 percent complete out of the total of the 1200 kilometers of the. by playing only a few dozen left to be well laid on the seabed so there is that and basically this whole thing germany for instance is very keen on finishing this project it has repeatedly said that the very much interested in world flicking the on switch on the on the north stream to pipeline so effectively it pitches the u.s. against its ally in europe germany and we'll see who will come out of this victorious. joe biden has ordered all flags on federal property to be lowered to half mast to mark 500000 u.s.

deaths from coronavirus but as caleb maupin reports media glowing too in the praise for the president's covert approach at the moment despite little apparent difference from the previous administration. america's death toll from covert 19 is now more than a half a 1000000 that's more than world war 2 and vietnam combined biden marked the occasion with a solemn ceremony at the white house on monday 571. that's more americans who died in one use pandemic. than a war one. to the vietnam war combined on the campaign trail biden castigated donald trump for his mishandling of the pandemic he promised that when he got into office he would turn things around he seems to have tempered expectations a bit as back in january he said he was powerless to change the trajectory of

covert 19 and his anti co the defense has one key aspect where maleness everyone be mandated to wear a mask mask mandates mask up mask the planet earth mask for god's sake. we're mask if not for yourself for your loved ones well masks are proven to stop the spread of coded but is that it he's got the same advisor that trump had dr felt she now says will probably be wearing masks until 2022 do you think americans will still be wearing masks for example in 2022. you know i think it is possible that that's the case many hope that under biden massive vaccinations might save the day but so far it does not look that way the next few months masks on facts are the best defense against kuvin 90 biden even visited a farm a facility to show he's got a handle on things however he says that vaccines won't we have

a level to everyone until mid-summer we're now on track to have enough vaccine supply for all of our work by the end of july it seems like the amount of time that donald trump that it took the chump ministration to develop this vaccine which is record time now the by the ministration say says that will take just as much time in order to have enough doses biden has had since november to start planning his approach to quit what did he do what did he spend november december january doing well he had a stack of executive orders waiting on his desk to sign it seems bizarre because we know that there are millions upon millions of doses already out there perhaps he's just lowering expectations now you might think that mainstream media would now lash out on biden just like they did on his predecessor dear remember when all the covert deaths were being blamed on donald trump but think again president elect joe biden and vice president harris told. grief and regret out of the privacy of our

hearts if just for a moment so that we all could share those lights like almost extensions of joe biden's arms embracing america he doesn't keep a lot of things secret when it comes to his emotions and his and his family and his love for his family seems that joe biden is being judged by a different set of standards deaths are rising but he is not catching any flak oh well i guess we should all just get used to wearing masks for another year the major media isn't demanding the rollout be sooner because there are guys in office and business a media that said a vaccine would be impossible to get out in 2020 and jump made that happen and instead of the media focusing on what's happening with the bye to mr ration and the vaccinations instead we're seeing stories about joe biden's dog and we're seeing stories about him playing video games with his grandchildren if donald trump was playing video games with his grandchildren at camp david it would be

a national scandal 'd and they would say he has graham was blood on his hands of course and joe biden's read that he could play video games with his grandchildren at camp david and say that it's going to be till the end of july and we have another vaccinations you're the president united states make it happen that's what plenty of americans are asking but of course the media is now asking that because it's their guy and they're going to protect him and they're going to do their brand of meat bad journalism and it's all going to be fluff and softball and human interest stories for the next you know 3 and a half years. right next to say dylan heard about it or know israel shut beaches off to an oil spill that's been described as one of the most disastrous in the country's history explicit still assessing the overall damage but it's expected to take decades to clean up.

it. was the 1st by the state of israel. dealing with it how the patient would get money if it gets funded. give yourself a percent of the beaches in israel polluted it good in the rocks sand and know that really. they came to us covered in tar in their necks inside and out were full of tar obviously we had to clear their breeding channels as fast as possible and after that we cleaned the tar from their digestive system we could tell you to feed them substances like mayonnaise which cleans the system and breaks down the tar i hope

that in a week or 2 these guys will start eating on their own so that we can see that they are healthy and gaining weight and we are able to release them into the sea. came here to the beach today to clean all the tar that was spilled into the ocean and now it's on the beaches we did it work we came here to clean it up for the wildlife so that wildlife can continue living normally my heart wanted to be at the beach i came as soon as i was able to i want to help the environment damaged by the spill the oil the target king and the still coming to our beaches.

seems to be pretty severe we still don't know for sure to do a long time do we need to be introduced. on because the underwater vehicle example seems to be viewable to do you still investigating. you suspected the sun the moon should be only for some reason. in excess of the maybe not but there was still a new example you would use the words as far as i remember. is the marine. solders are some lovely coastline there too will keep you posted on what happens there 18 past the hour hope you stick around still ahead here as democrats doubled down on efforts to gag conservative media they want digital t.v. providers to reconsider their contracts with the right wing networks that stories coming up and this to. say teach. and polish

the way. yeah he gets the rare opportunity then to take to the skies of the top military pilot training centers a grab your tickets no passport needed takeoffs in just a few minutes from now. one else seems wrong. why don't we all just all. me all you get to shape out this day become educated and gain from it because the trail. went something you find themselves worlds apart when you choose to look for common ground.

the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the dairy thinks. we dare to ask. international break 1st time either human rights group amnesty international is changed its mind over describing elected developing as a prisoner of conscience the jailed russian opposition figure making disparaging

remarks about shooting ethnic minorities and comparing them to vermin i will call to reports. well it was through a leaked email on twitter that we 1st heard of amnesty international's decision to revoke russian opposition activist aleksei devolve the status as a prisoner of conscience and r.t. has asked for confirmation from amnesty international with regards to this move but before we go any further let's take a look at what exactly that e-mail said amnesty international is no longer able to consider the lexan of only a prisoner of conscience given the fact that he advocated violence and discrimination and he has not retracted such statements of all he was arrested last month a mediately upon his return to moscow from germany where he was receiving medical treatment to russia says that he violated a probationary sentence that was given to him back in 2014 and now he's facing 2 and a half years in a penal colony because of it now it's interesting that amnesty international decided to label the opposition activist

a prisoner of conscience in the 1st place back in january because he doesn't exactly have a clean track record when it comes to conscientious acts i mean just last week a moscow court gave the man a nearly $12000.00 fine for insulting the 94 year old veteran of the 2nd world war he called him a traitor to the country we also know that never never made a secret about his feelings about the caucasus for example he said that russia needs to stop quote stop feeding the caucuses and there was another video that he came out with years ago in which he compared people from the caucasus to cockroaches in the video what if the cockroach is too big and the fly is too aggressive. well in this case i recommend a gun. and that video actually is still up on alex a nerve on these official you tube channel so for those who know that information

they can make their own judgment as to whether or not amnesty international's decision was correct or not. don't call it a democratic congress members of the pressure on top digital cable networks by asking them to justify their hosting of conservative t.v. channels like fox news the lawmakers letter to the head of one provider accuses him of spreading covert misinformation and promoting last month's capitol hill riots by working with right wing stations some purported news outlets of longer misinformation rumor mill some conspiracy theory hard births that produce content that leads to real harm yet to our knowledge the cable satellite and over the top companies that disseminate these media outlets to american viewers have done nothing in response to the misinformation by these. republican representatives are up in arms saying the moves as a politically motivated a soul on freedom of expression that the democrats are sending a message that is as clear as it is troubling these regulated entities will pay

a price if the targeted newsrooms do not conform to democrats preferred political narratives this is a chilling transgression of the free speech rights that every media outlet in this country enjoys legal or media outlets lionel didn't mince his words branding the democrats moves a disturbing threat to constitutional values. since when is this a cunt shirted or. what if they say something that thrower to live with it. there's always something wrong who says it's wrong who says it's misinformation the next time you are a spouse or a partner or a lover or relative if they say listen i want to talk to you say no i don't want to talk to you why because you spout misinformation when you listen to that so why the name of god do we put up with this nonsense we are looking at it complete and total

disintegration of the 1st amendment and freedom of speech because now we're saying oh no no no we want you to speak we just don't want to hear misinformation disinformation and bad information conspiracy theories unfounded. decides that since one is had a disqualifier on the dissemination of information my gosh i'm telling you right now you're not going to believe this but i'll bet you somewhere someplace somebody might think that what you and i are saying is dissent from a should surely be to shut us down if you don't like it go someplace else or clarify it this is the most frightening i have ever seen ever. followed taken to the skies the aviation center of western russia trains top military pilots news given r.t. any chance to test its height. out of

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