as for the next 13 years the victims say they still live with the consequences to. the headlines an r.t. the world health organization warns wealthy countries against hoarding vaccine supplies pointing to drastic shortages in poor nations that as humanitarian groups raise the alarm over jobs going to waste in europe. because we have effective safe vaccine lying unused even european countries when we have many health workers in the developing countries that are not getting any better. half a 1000000 american coby deaths and counting yet no matter vaccination in sight but despite the more big milestone joe biden escapes the criticism previously leveled donald trump's handling of the crisis and we hear from

a canadian man received hundreds of death threats and felt forced to move after testing positive with 19. i welcome just gone 4 in the afternoon in moscow you're watching international now the head of the world health organization has warned rich countries against restricting vaccine supplies to developing nations meanwhile many in the european union are refusing western shots following reports of poor efficacy leaving significant numbers of jobs unused or your correspondent peter all of has more. 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 aligned unused because not enough people are in rowing 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. 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. and on the other hand there have been reports of vaccine reaction was 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 vaccine like astra zeneca at the back of the vaccination is something there how can we do it 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 only by the professionals that were supposed to be making decisions in the 1st place i think this is something which is wrong and now it's backfiring of course we see a very small. percentage of western europeans getting the vaccine and now we've got very big doubts on some of this vaccine manufacturers do pharma. angle of 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 deal start callbacks hours in place and reduce

the number of those this box come by. we've ordered 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 plan b. oh of course if some countries feel safe with these vaccines and they want them to free that he should should have them or sell them or i don't know a good sense of that to the poor countries who can't have vaccines staying in it in . some order some cold spots to call there's refrigerated areas around the earth but again before giving that out we have to go through property medical process and think are they safe or not and if there are some vaccines out there which are not safe this should not only not be given to the european union but they should be given to the store who will be there i mean we're not going to give in and i was you know i don't see vaccines because they're not up to our standards this would be this is chris's recital 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. . well we heard from emanuel cappo bianco from the international federation of the red cross and red crescent and he believes that the current discrepancy in vaccine distribution is indefensible. it is unethical that we have hundreds of thousands of those of effective and safe vaccine lying and use that in the european countries when we have many elves workers in the developing countries that are not getting any vaccine these are not only unethical it's extremely sad because every vaccine that is not injected in the arm of a person is a potential death due to. $1000.00 right now we do have the problem of lack of supply in the world so why in the world of scenes that are

effective and safe that are out to rise by the regulatory in general is a very good thing and what i am seeing right now is that almost every week we have news of more and more vaccine is coming to destroy and that will increase the supply eventually for the entire world callbacks as a nice to meet is bringing vaccines out and starting all pretty next week we'll see more counters pushing into law income countries in africa where we have little vaccine so there is hope moving moving ahead. meanwhile in the us joe biden has ordered all flags on federal property to be lowered to half mast mark the half a 1000000 american deaths from coated this kind of more pain now reports media are still blowing in their praise for the president's approach to comit despite there being little difference to that of the previous administration. america's death toll from code 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 that's more lives lost to this virus and any other nation on earth. with this rig known as the scale of. death in america remember each person in 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 that did as back in january he said he was powerless to change the trajectory of coded 19 and his anti co the defense has one key aspect where maleness everyone be mandated to wear a mask mask mandates mask mask in plain 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 2020. 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 be available 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 seems like the amount of time that donald trump that it took the trouble ministration to develop this vaccine which is record time now the by the ministration ses 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 to remember when all the coded 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 good so biden is uniquely qualified to do resident joe biden giving america a message tonight them and one i think that 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 but major media isn't demanding the rollout be so. because there are guys in office there's the same media that said a vaccine would be impossible to get out 1 in 2020 and trump made that happen and several of the media focusing on what's happening with the biden mr ation and the vaccinations and said we're seeing stories about joe biden 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 a gram of blood on his hand of course joe biden president you can play video games with his grandchildren at camp david and say that it's going to be till the end of july until we have another vaccination you're the president united states make it happen that's what plenty of americans are asking for of course the media isn't

asking that because their guy and they're going to protect him and they're going to do their brand of neat bad journalism and it's all going to be fluff and softball and human interest stories for the next. 3 and a half years. one of canada's kind and take him to school and the stigma attached to this is essentially stopping many people from coming forward if i have to sometimes cool controlling christine's hundreds of death threats prevail and he's caught the virus. a lot of people are so worried about having cobra 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 when he began getting hundreds of death threats a day off to being infected in october with people blaming him social media for the subsequent public restrictions the piece made him feel that he also had 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 for a kind of the you tube video on this so that you know creates allergies where i can't taste her might you know my nose gets blocked up and and that's what i was relating it to and that's why the 2nd day i book the tasks like wait it's still there you know it could be covert i pulled out of the state so i'm just going to double check i'm pretty sure it's not because my spouse these 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 quote 19 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 essential workers 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. i wish has been forced to shut in speeches after north spill it's being described as one of the most disastrous in the country's history it's a sin assessing the damage but it is expected to take decades to clean up. this.

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came here to the beach today to clean all the tar that 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 get a 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 is targeting and the still coming to our beaches. used to be brutus of you know we still don't know for sure to do a long time do need to be introduced near. him because the under all do people example seems to be severe but we don't know for sure is still

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well again welcome back now moscow was questioning america's commitment to free trade after washington bragged that nearly 20 euro peeing countries have quit russia's north string to gas pipeline project over the threat of u.s. sanctions the u.s. 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 you go to don off now with more han the growing scandal around the u.s. response. from the very outset the us 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 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 of that some 18 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 as always been saying that the north that north stream too has nothing to do with and with the united states 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. is not the case and it only came to light when price was confronted by a.p.'s matt lee over the issue of how to listen our strategy including the legislative strategy of the strategies of course congress is

has been behind has been working to good effect the point credit for the companies winding down all of this work was done of the previous administration and out of all the been months mabyn all only been in office for a month right are you telling me that in the letter i am more weeks these 18 thought that is all the suddenness of this i always thought you better not mean anything when i am speaking for all you know. you guys are taking credit for stuff that the man is administrative and i am not no i also being for the department of state ok the people who have been working this ok the people who are working this now were the same people a month ago or the same people remotes ago 3 months ago. the most news in brief brief now writers of told waffles that police and overturn giant dustbins to build barricades and on a night of rallies in spain protests as opposed to jailing of the castle and the

popular hassle for insulting the spanish well family under the refence is branding it a violation of freedom of speech. elsewhere writing in ecuador jails killed more than 70 inmates the violence came as rival gangs competitive for criminal leadership the prisoners tried to seize police weapons and break out of the facilities according to witnesses some of the inmates with a capitated and dismembered. i am ties is a far right nationalists have laid siege to the presidential administration building in ukraine demanding the release of their formulator. is the former chief of the right sector political party in power a 1000000. he was jailed for 7 years after being accused of robbery kidnapping drug dealing and also homicide supporters to hide the object at police and chanted

anti-government slogans. new york state police have broken traffic and ordered black lives matter protesters to disperse after running a simple run to the streets there over the acquittal of officers over the death of a black man the demonstrators had set up barricades a march into the city hall in march please put a spit hood on daniel prude before slamming his head into the street the 41 year old was rushed to hospital and later died. now human rights group amnesty international has changed its mind over describing elects in the valley as a prisoner of conscience that after the jailed russian opposition figure made disparaging remarks about shooting ethnic minorities and comparing them to vermin one quarter reports next. it was 1st through an e-mail we saw on twitter that we heard of amnesty international's decision to revoke russian opposition activist alec saying of all the status as a prisoner of conscience we did contact amnesty to confirm the move and they did get back to us so let's take

a listen to what they said in response 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 and it's interesting that amnesty international labeled the volley a prisoner of conscience in the 1st place back in january because he doesn't exactly have the cleanest track record when it comes to conscientious acts just last week of moscow court gave the man a nearly $12000.00 fine for calling a 94 year old war veteran of the 2nd world war a traitor he's also never made a secret of the fact that he believes russia should quote stop feeding the caucuses this is a region that provides russia with a large number of its immigrant population and he's also been catching a lot of flack 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. you can still find that video by the way it's on aleksei of all these you tube channels something apparently he never thought to clean up perhaps this is why amnesty international decided to cancel the opposition figures status of prisoner of conscience but the organization still clings to the idea that anti corruption fighter aleksei know volumnia sitting in prison because he simply criticized the big bad lot of beer putin not because of the fact that he violated a probationary sentence leveled against him in 2014 for embezzling money from a french company called eve rache amnesty statement doesn't say anything about the fact that in a volley had violated his probation over 50 times before the without receiving any consequences so when it comes to the facts surrounding who alex st of all the really is it seems the human rights organization is not taking everything into account. one quarter reporting that so that brings you up to date with the news that i hear not international them together plenty of stories on our website and

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this is the one business show you can't afford to mess i'm rachel one of those in washington coming out facebook pledges to remove a ban on news pages from australia after a battle with the country's government over whether tech giants should be forced to pay for the content on their platform. led to an unprecedented blackout what other all officials revealed what they know so far about that fiery engine hoist in the emergency landing in colorado and what it could mean for the future of the boeing 777. year old reserve chairman your own powell give his take on the status of the u.s. economy and what we can expect in terms of unemployment and inflation in 2021 we have a lot to get to so let's get started. facebook and the australian government our friends once again nearly one week after the social media giant took unprecedented steps to ban content from news pages within the country the battle surrounded

a proposed law which would have required facebook to pay news publishers or be forced into arbitration australia's treasurer says they have decided to back off of some of those proposals but talks are expected to continue well facebook has reached for ended a strike and destroy you news will be restored to the facebook platform and facebook has committed to entering into good faith negotiations with the strain news media businesses in seeking to reach agreements to pay for content. in a statement facebook said quote after further discussions we are satisfied that the australian government has agreed to a number of changes and guarantees that address our core concerns about allowing commercial deals that recognize the value our pop form provides to publishers relative to the value we receive from them so joining me now to.