headlines marty the world health organization mourns wealthy countries against vaccine supplies pointing to drastic shortages important nations humanitarian groups raise the alarm over jobs going to waste in europe. that we have effective safe. and used to be the european countries when we have many health workers in that developing countries that are not getting any better. meanwhile half a 1000000 american deaths and counting yet no mass vaccination in sight but despite the more joe biden escapes the criticism previously level of donald trump's handling of the crisis and we hear from a canadian man who received hundreds of death threats and felt forced to move after

testing positive. for you watching r.t. international this wednesday where it's just gone 5 o'clock in the afternoon in what's. now the head of the world health organization has warned rich countries against restricting faxing a surprise to developing nations meanwhile many in the european union are refusing western shots following reports of poor efficacy leaving significant numbers of jobs unused but more here's our europe correspondent peter all of. 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 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 there's something quite fish out there how can we do it to vaccine and then find out a couple weeks months later that it's maybe not as efficient 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. 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 spokesperson 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 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 kind of trees feel safe with these vaccines and they want them then definitely should should have them or sell them or or give it to do that to the poor countries who can't have vaccines staying in it in. some or some cold spots called areas refrigerated areas around the euro but again before giving that out we have to go through proper medical process and think are they safe or no 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 2 who 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 would be this is it's creases which side 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. . what we heard from emanuel kappa 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 an ethical that we have hundreds of thousands of those effective and safe vaccine lying go unused in the european countries when we have many l's 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. $1000.00 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 vaccines coming to destroy and that will increase the supply eventually for the entire world callbacks as a nice to make is bringing vaccines out and starting all pretty next week we'll see more counters pushing into law you can countries in enough rica where we have little vaccines so there is hope moving moving ahead. i mean the united states joe biden that has ordered all flags on federal property to be lowered to half mast to market the hoth a 1000000 american deaths from kovi it but it's kind of often now reports media is still blowing him their praise for the president's approach to the pandemic despite that being the difference to that of 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 more lives lost to this virus and any other nation on earth. knowledge the scale of this mass death 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 that 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 implants or mask for godsake. word mask if not to yourself if your loved ones while 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. 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 midsummer 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 child 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 dear remember when all the covert 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 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 but major media isn't demanding the rollout be so. because there are guys in office this is a media that said a vaccine would be impossible to get out in 2020 and made that happen and instead of the media focusing on what's happening with the bye to mr asian 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 called the end of july and we have another vaccinations for the president united states make it happen that's plenty of americans are asking but of course some 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. one of canada's. stigma attached to this is. coming forward if they have the. hundreds of death threats. he caught the virus. a lot of people are so right 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 he began getting hundreds of death threats a day after being infected in october with people blaming him on social media for the subsequent public restrictions u.p.c. made him feel that he 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 story a kind of the 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 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 have to go down to the states so i'm just going to double check i'm pretty sure it's not because my spouse days prior tested negative for $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. and when i was traveling from calgary back to new brunswick i was considered an essential worker so we were required to ice 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. israel has been forced to shut in speeches after no spill that's being described as one of the most disastrous in the country's history experts say the cessna damage but it is expected to take decades to clean up. and it.

was the 1st by the state of israel. dealing with the petition to get money for. its. build yourself by people such as the beaches of israel polluted the good in the alps sand and no between. my legs in the they came to us covered in tar and 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 continue 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 to that we can see that they are healthy and gaining weight we were able to release them into the sea.

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 continue living normally my heart wanted to be at the beach i came as soon as i was able to and i want to help the environment damaged by the spill the oil is targeting and the still coming to our beaches. seems to be pretty severe and we still don't know for sure to do a long time do need to order beaches. on because the underwater vehicle example seems to be severe but we don't know for sure is still

investigating. you suspect that saw me she flew all the way for some reason was an accident maybe not but there was still not know exactly what was the source of the words as far as i remember the. last is the marine is ice-t. the. washing out international still to come for you this hour u.s. democrats double down on ethics to gag conservative media they want digital taping provide this thing reconsider their contract with right wing networks will have a lot of the things out on that cross other stories in a couple. join

me every 1st week on the alex salmond field and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you there.

though again you with are saying now moscow is questioning america's commitment to free trade after washington bragged that nearly 20 ripping countries have now quit russia's north train to gas pipeline projects 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 well here's our correspondent you pushed off now with more on the growing scandal around the u.s. response. from the very outset the u.s. has been held burned on do you really ignored stream 2 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 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 or that some 18 companies european companies have decided to pull out of the nord stream to amid u.s. pressure and when i say pressure i mean sanctions so far the united states has 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. is not the case and it only came to light when price was confronted by a peace matley over the issue powerless and. strategy including the legislative strategy of the strategy 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 they've been months mabyn all only been in office a month right are you telling me that when i am all weeks these 18 thought that is all the sudden and all while they are not there anything when i am speaking for all those. guys are taking credit for stuff that the man who submitted i am not so i do something 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 3 months ago 3 months ago. ok let's have a quick look at some world news in brief now we start with some great pictures here because they show some stunning views of niagara falls where the severe cold weather has partially frozen the natural landmark a tourist have gathered to take in the rare occurrence the water hasn't completely frozen up though it does continue to flow underneath the sheets of ice there are

clouds of steam and a rainbow will say visible throughout the day. here . elsewhere hundreds of the saleen entertainment workers have gathered that side reins all disappear so they are calling on the government to provide more support for the sector and that the country is reopened it's been a year since his these theaters in cinemas closed due to cope with 1000 restrictions on these issues artists and. they're saying culture is not. an thousands in ecuador har protesting against alleged electoral fraud in recent presidential elections and. are demanding a vote recount a protest to support an indigenous and environmentalist candidate yeah competitors who came 3rd have been marching for days to reach the capitol kaito he got 19.4 percent of the vote which leaves him out of the runoff in april the state attorney

has opened an investigation to determine if fraud occurred. 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 alex a new of all these you tube channel 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 a 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. from course reporting there so that's how the news is looking so far today don't forget that you can always at stake cross the news by going to our social media pages and you.

the world is driven by. the day or thinks. we dare to ask. article of faith russian liberals are not like lot of your up until now russian liberals have been chanted with the western so-called western values western ideological localism is changing its focus disparages tradition patriotism the family and even logic like for russia liberals this appears to be going too far for russian liberals falling out of love with the west.

i'm action without junior watching and a lockdown edition i'm going on the ground is britain already with the worst coronavirus death toll in europe now 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 breakfast 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 johnson's breck set but now joining me from dublin is the president of violence most popular politician fame mary mcdonald leader of errands opposition mary lee welcome to going on to go before i even get to cove it. protocols just. tell me what you think of the

significance of applications for judicial review proceedings over the british army killing of bonnie mcgregor and on bloody sunday and why bloody sunday even resonate there and seemingly not here in the so-called mainstream media well i think this is just the laces to atmos so to end what has been a very very young campaign street just just for a day the families of the sunday in derry bloody sunday as you now was and ok so now which city and sells there and i said man september issue. and it wasn't there and i said i wasn't incidents i should say and similarly and balun were the elsewhere survey instils there now i at their hands are british soldiers going to i think 3 to gen the white jersey significance of this action. is the fact that we still have not delivered on the mechanisms that we greet

that are necessary to deal with the past with legacy yes it's cold and obviously we're at post conflict society here on this island we need to move ahead and we need to be able to future together but we also need steel with the past and there has been just an extraordinary resistance and i almost didn't believe insurance the parks are. bars johnson and his government trade they have block of land going to set john johnson would deny that and says there would be a storm about a fury of any soldiers with charge of a bloody sunday and there's absolutely nothing new for any trial to discover what you need to allow the courts to discover what they just cover insurance on their own derek look illusions i mean what we had agreed to between all of us was.