mothers still search for grown children while adults look in hope for their parents . and headlines as wednesday astra zeneca has covert jobs like the used in europe as people refused vaccination of. the same time as the world health organization though pointing to drastic shortages in poorer nations. of a 1000000 american victims and counting yet no mass vaccination in sight despite no real pandemic policy switched and since president nonetheless u.s. media seem to love joe biden's little changed approach. and russia slams the u.s. for undermining free trade unfair competition washington boasts about european companies pulling out of the nord stream to gas pipeline project in the face of american sanctions.

we don't hear so good day from moscow this 24th of february watching r.t. international with me kevin and 1st headlines in more detail the head of the world health organization has warned rich countries against restricting covert vaccine supplies to developing nations many in the e.u. right now refusing western shots over reports of poor efficacy leaving significant numbers of unused jabs here's 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 sorts a line 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 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 critic 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 there 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 licensed a vaccine like astra zeneca at the back of the vaccination order is something like fish out there how can we give to 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 all and now it's backfiring of course we see a very small. of western europeans getting the vaccine and now we've got very big doubts on some of this vaccine manufacturers do pharma that's a cynical angle or merkel spokes person even had to put out a post on social media encouraging 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

and that it prevents many infections and protects against serious illnesses vaccination can see. france has found itself in a similar position to germany when it comes to its citizens being unsure about the astra zeneca jab 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 are 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 into contracts with vaccine manufacturers that are undermine the deals that call vioxx hours in police and reduce the number of those as box come by. we've already millions and millions of

jobs 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 kind of trees feel safe with these that scene then they want them to definitely should should have them or were sell them or or get into that to the poor countries we can't have vaccines staying in that in. some or as some cold spots areas refrigerated areas around there you're well again before giving that out we have to go through proper medical process and saying are they safe or no and if there are suspects instead of there which are not safe this should not only not be given to 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 i don't see that since because they're not up to our standards this would be this is crazy swiss 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 all of a r.t. berlin and that's the worry i discussed that very thing the low uptake of astra zeneca has shot with the director of health and care of the international federation of the red cross and red crescent emmanuel bianca told me the consequences of not using all available doses a. indeed eighty's and they actually called that we have hundreds of thousands of those effective and safe vaccine lines and used in the european countries when we have many elves workers in the developing countries that are not getting any vaccine these are not only unethically is extremely sad because every vaccine that is not injected in the arm of a person is a potential death due to. 1000 so we really need to accelerate the distribution of vaccines and to do that one of the critical point in europe has

been information and mistrust in not only europe we have a lot of vaccine is around the world and i think there is a lot of work to be done to make sure that people understand that getting a vaccine that has a 60 percent. rate is a great deal everybody should be going for that vaccine as long as the vaccine is safe i think does mean demonstrate if. you so there's no reason why those people should be the thing and not taking a vaccine they're putting themselves and their communities at risk besides creating problems for the rest of the world. a reminder of what can happen joe biden has ordered all flags on federal property to be lowered to half mast to mark 500000 u.s. deaths from corona virus but his column open reports media nonetheless a glowing in their praise for the president's covert approach despite little apparent difference of the moment 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 as more lives lost to this virus and any other nation on earth. knowledge the scale of this mass. in america remember each person the life they lived 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 did 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 mask even playing mask for god's sake. word 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 and 20 twentieth's. 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. are the best defense against kuwait 90 biden even visited a farm a facility to show he's got a handle on things however he says that vaccines won't be available to everyone until mid-summer we're now on track to have enough vaccine supply for all of us. 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 guest 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 remember when all the deaths were being blamed on donald trump but think again we see with president biden he's demonstrated to the country what a difference. the change of presidents has made president biden is confronting this enormous loss directly and publicly help americans heal on any front that something could show biden is uniquely qualified to do resident joe biden giving america a message tonight them and one i think the only this president president could give

not the former one 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 'd be sooner because there are guys in office and this is 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 ation 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 are. would say yes graham was blood on his hands of course joe biden's read that you can play video games with his grandchildren at camp david and say that it's going to be til the end of july and we have enough back so they shouldn't hear the president united states make it happen that's what

plenty of americans are asking but of course the media isn't 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. now one of canada's covert victim says one the stigma attached with the disease is stopping many from reporting that they could be infected colon krunk received hundreds of deaths threats apparently after it was revealed that they caught the virus but a lot of people are so worried about having kobe not because of it's going to harm them but it's because they're worried of what the the population around them will think when you shame somebody and when you have this big stigma on people for having called it a lot of people who are sick you know that might have a sniffle or a sore throat or something they don't bother going to get tested because they they feel like they're going to be shamed so or shunned and so

a lot of people end up hiding their symptoms that's an issue because then you're not getting a true number on cases and and you know you have people going around spreading the virus not knowingly the they have the virus because they're too worried about what people might think that they have the virus while the guy began getting hundreds of death threats a day to be infected in october with people blaming him on social media for subsequent public restrictions the abuse even forced him to move to the other side of the country. people attacked me for no reason in new brunswick that's my hometown that's where i'm from there's a video that was on october 31st of me saying that i couldn't taste or smell anything and the background story a kind of a you tube video on this so that you know creates allergies where i can't taste her might and you know my nose gets blocked up in and that's what i was relating it to and that's why the 2nd day i booked a task is like wait it's still there you know it could be covert to it out of the state so i'm just going to double check i'm pretty sure it's not because my spouse

days prior tested negative for covert $191.00 of the guys i was on the trip with who came home early from calgary he tested also negative for over $1000.00 which he actually had symptoms so i was like ok there's probably a very slim chance that i have over 1000 and when i was traveling from calgary back to new brunswick i was considered an essential worker so we were required to isolate and i didn't have symptoms at that time my symptoms didn't come to 31st and i was coming back to new brunswick on the 24th of october. moscow's questions u.s. commitment to free trade after washington bragged that more than a dozen companies acquit russia's north stream to gas pipeline project for american threats the us state department has acknowledged that america is undermining the principles of free trade and competition subjugating market laws to its own political interests and acting in spite of the will of sovereign nations is our correspondent goes down off with more of the growing scandal around the u.s.

response than. from the very outset the u.s. has been hell burned on do you really ignored stream to me so this time the u.s. state department has compiled and submitted a report to us 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 world inaction of not being keen enough on preventing north stream to 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 of that some 18 companies european companies have decided to pull out of the nord stream to a med 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 as 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 geopolitical warfare but there's an added layer of irony to this story because remember how they said that 18 companies have decided 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 under the biden administration which turns out. it is not the case and it only came to light

when price was confronted by a piece matley over the issue have a listen strategy including the legislative strategy of the strategy of course congress is has been behind has been working to good effect the good news of the plane credit for the companies winding down all of this work was done of the previous administration and does have only been month mabena only been in office for a month i write are you telling me that in the letter 'd i am more weeks these a 2000 is all of a sudden a service oh you know you better not done anything with i am going i am speaking for a voter. guys are taking credit for stuff that the man is administrative and i am not oh i know something for the department of state ok the people who have been working this ok are the people who are working this now where the same people a month ago or the same people 3 months ago 3 months ago and. this is our taste to

come us democrats double down on efforts to gag conservative media they want digital t.v. providers to reconsider their contracts now with right wing networks and head. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. is your media a reflection of reality. or. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation or community. are you going the right way or are you being.

what is true what is. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the death. or inmate in the shallows. again u.s. democrat congress members of up the pressure on top digital and cable networks by asking them to justify their hosting of conservative t.v. channels like fox news and 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 the right wing stations some purported news outlets of long been misinformation rumor mill some conspiracy theory hard but 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 outlets republican representatives are up in arms saying the moves as a politically motivated assault on freedom of expression. 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. and legal or media outlets lionel didn't mince his words say the branding with democrats moves disturbing threat to constitutional values since when is this a country serving who like. what if they say something that's wrong oh you live

with it and 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 as he knelt i don't want to talk to you why because you spout misinformation when you listen to the ad 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 who decides that since one is had a disqualifier and the dissemination of information my god 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 to send for me should surely be to shut us down if you don't like it god someplace else or clarify it this is the most frightening i have ever seen after. a long long way but not this than we're on it next have internet giants become just too powerful something else to worry about his new documentary speaks to experts about just how worried we should all be by the ability of digital companies to block and even raise our identities you can find the whole thing in r.t. dot com. 'd we're more politicized than ever before more polarized than ever the 21st century when speed is measured in megabytes per 2nd. and of course the term electronic mail electronic money electronic media infinite possibilities for exchanging

information. last freedom of speech and social media but censorship of double standards who should judge what can be said on the side. of the internet audience know totals almost 4500000000 people most all of them are active social network users but one wrong move from the pages deleted in the boardroom to the is going to just finished and it was the sense that the speech was the only those who runs the show on the web how can anyone to stand up to the take join and see if even the heads of state faced the threat of being is there any limits to all that 2 thirds will tell you the. reason you play those for movies for evolution would. have started out developing story of a human rights group amnesty international's changed its mind over describing

alexina valmy as a prisoner of conscience with a jailed russian opposition figure making disparaging remarks about shooting ethnic minorities and comparing them to vermin let's go across the quarters on it donald a change of the why. either kevin well it was 1st through an e-mail on twitter that we heard that amnesty international decided to revoke russian opposition activist alex a note on the status as a prisoner of conscience now we did earlier contact amnesty to confirm the move and they did get back to us let's take a listen to what they 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 now this is only part of a longer statement actually win which it goes on to say that the volley committed no crime that he's in prison simply for criticizing vladimir putin's administration but the russian government says this isn't the case at all actually he was arrested

for violating a probationary sentence leveled against him in 2014 and now we have stance are for it but it is interesting that amnesty international decided to label alex a no volley a prisoner of conscience back in january because he doesn't exactly have the cleanest track record when it comes to conscientious acts i mean just last week he was given an almost 12000 dollar fine for insulting a 94 year old veteran of the 2nd world war he called him a traitor and. he's also never made it a secret that he can he thinks that russia should quote stop feeding the caucuses he took a lot of flak for a video he made several years ago comparing people from that region to cockroaches . but what if the cockroach is too big and the fly is too aggressive. well in this case i recommend the gun. find that video on alex saying of all these

official you tube channel by the way he obviously never thought it necessary to clean that up but with that in mind you can decide if you really think that amnesty international should consider him a prisoner of conscious or not. yes videos no we look they are all things they don't call to now the slightly moved a bit where we go we can take into the sky. pets k.v.a. shin the center of western russia trains top military pilots and is given r.t. to test its high tech gear as well you lift up a vial of a 1st in the queue she built it up and took control. clip of the leap heads k.v.a. sion center is a school of excellence is to teach pilots in the air force the most difficult types of flight training young lieutenants the tools he had to fly the new and modernized aircraft that are now entering sadhus in russia everything related to modern

military aviation is important here therefore while undergoing training pilots are able to perform a full range of combat missions assigned to them they take theoretical courses and conduct training flights are reliable multi-role time tested the suit says he s.m. is a to see jet that is controlled by a pilot and a navigator but here at the little training center often seen a pilots fly with youngsters chairing that knowledge with the political police the brakes. increase thrust. afterburner. regaining speed. 10150. 20250. london gear up regaining speed. now you can pilot the plane.

and here they are all the delights of flying in winter poor visibility a blizzard they need to d.r.s. the runway and change the aircraft for icing such hostile weather requires serious efforts to complete combat missions and only the strongest can cope it's minus 20 outside windy very harsh conditions but for people who work here and this is just there's a period here. no matter whether it's host freezing cold to commissions and mechanics begin preparing the plane for hours prior to its departure and at the end of the flying as they walk around the machines again for another tool for. 3 hours until the play's a rolled off to the parking lot the handsome c. $75.00 s is a nasa period. but it can easily destroy ground on naval targets yvonne's are attached to some of its 12 weapon hard points in order to begin its intercept a mission using air to air missiles it must 1st get rid of those bombs to become much lysa and more maneuverable. earlier we said that young pilots couldn't fly

such aircraft they are technically complicated jets today we say that perhaps our youth are already more prepared for this equipment that 4 new complexes are available this year believe its gay patients sent a celebration several anniversaries it will also take part in the victory day parade and the marks aviation show that means that soon will have the pleasure of watching spectacular flight performances that judging by millions of years of social networks bring joy to a huge number of fans all over the world. over aussie. practice makes perfect as they proved time and time again if you've not seen them you'll see them again in the coming victory parade which will be covered here of course but oh about so now that said check it out of our socials rebels we're talking about coming up to half past the hour here in moscow kevin owen starting off and have a great wednesday.

i'm actually at that scene you're watching another lockdown edition of going underground as britain already with the worst coronavirus death toll in europe no arguably faces a grave threat to its $800.00 active union as scottish politics wrestles with independence the prospect of the 1st united ireland in 800 years looms after a break that border in the irish sea in part 2 we'll talk to the new peace chief whip in westminster sami wilson about his challenge to boris.