yes well the world of politics or business i'm sure i'll see your. headlines in r.t. the world health organization warns wealthy countries against hoarding coded vaccine surprise pointing to drastic shortages in poor nations that as humanitarian groups raise the alarm over astra zeneca jobs going to waste in europe. we have an effect the vaccine the lying and used in european countries when we have many health workers in the countries that are not getting any backseat meanwhile half a 1000000 american coby deaths and counting yet no mass vaccination in sight but despite the morbid milestone joe biden escapes the criticism previously leveled 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 cave igniting. even just on 6 o'clock in moscow you're watching r.t. international now the head of the world health organization has warned rich countries against restricting faxing supplies to developing nations meanwhile many in the european union are refusing some western shots following reports of poor efficacy leaving significant numbers of jobs is more now from 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 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. 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 a regularly licensed vaccine like astra zeneca at the back of the vaccination order there's something market share 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. of western europeans getting the vaccine and now we've got very big doubts on some of this vaccine manufacturers big pharma zeneca angela merkel spokesperson even how to put out a post on social media and courage in people to take the astra zeneca vaccine

because there is a worry that the doses germany has could end up going to waste. 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 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 on into contracts we. undermine

that deal start callbacks how is in place and reduce the number of those this combine. 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 them and there's no better be of course if some kind of trees feel safe with these vaccines and they want them to put it here 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. some more to some calls for us to call there is refrigerated areas around the in your head before giving them now we have to go for medical processing are they safe or not and there are some vaccines out there which are not safe. this is not only not be given to the european union but they should be given to the 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 christmas a little 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 over r.t. early in what we heard from emanuel capital bianco from the international federation of the red cross and red crescent and he does believe that the current discrepancy in vaccine distribution is indefensible. it is and it's the call that we have hundreds of thousands of those effective and safe vaccine lying or the news 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. right now we do have the problem of the lack of supply in the world so why in the world scenes that are

effective and safe that are out to rise by the regulatory people in general is a very good thing and what i'm 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 meet 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 vaccine so there is hope moving moving ahead. meanwhile authorities and belgians planned this region have accused pharma giant astra zeneca of leaving them in the lurch after the company said it wouldn't be able to deliver an agreed number of comfort shots flemish health minister the men to the shortage nor to can tell you a maternal for delays in delivering their job well currently there are 3 vaccines available to belgians pfizer maternal and the oxford astra zeneca jab countries also ordered more shots from other supplies but those are still undergoing trials

meanwhile those wishing to get a job don't get to choose which one they were saved and this information is withheld until the last moment we asked people in brussels what they thought about the policy. the situation is very strange that we don't know what we're being inoculated with if it's good or bad that's not the question it's not a problem for me but i can understand it could deter some people. cannot be fair but many things we don't know we don't understand of what the reason to be with the . bush people so. it's more. tragedies here but we really poison it in a way when you know where he did also if people are into informed i understand why some refuse afraid to make the wrong choice it's normal. to farm it's not important to know the facts is that a recognised have an equivalent value. ok let's get the thoughts francois

let's say he's the head of the intensive care unit is sound like university hospital in brussels he very welcome thank you time tonight what do you think about this she think it's right that people aren't told which vaccine they will receive. but 1st of all they need their backs in issues important but it's also a something you have to choose just self and this is a personal decision to move to the vaccination so therefore i think that it's quite important to get inform of the vaccine 1st of all there is no reason to hide the composition the mood of action of different vaccine now the big concern over the last couple of weeks was that the information spread all over the media and he only in the scientific world question whether some backseats were more effective than not there are some vaccines were inducing more reaction than others and therefore i think that information spreads all over the community and therefore people are

questioning whether they can select the type of vaccine they want to choose for their future so it's understandable that people want to know exactly what they get because they have been informed even though that some. make sure they're still to be taken risk with coaches because you know we don't know we haven't sufficient follow up and the number of people being a vaccine here in that country is not sufficient to conclude but anyway i think it's important to provide information to the population and therefore know exactly what you get and even though you may we may consider. confirm eventually based on the data that potentially both vaccines are effective if you get the 2 dogs is there a danger do you think this approach could actually backfire and deter people from coming forward to get a vaccine. absolutely because what we noticed or we noticing it the rush towards getting those of the one vaccine especially the pfizer rock scene and many

people questioned whether they would accept the other one meaning you know astra zeneca vaccine and therefore it seems that it's slowing the number of people getting being vaccinated even though the biggest issue was the number of those provided to the country and for the core of the current situation is that you have less than 3 percent of the population having received to do all those vaccine mostly the 5 to one no we have a certain number of you know the full not responding to the contact be received pretend it's helpful vaccination for the concerned maybe that's the information and information provided by the press and even the medical press alerting the potential bit of reaction or the sickness you have so much in me push people by force and say ok we're going to wait until we get exactly to them that the vaccine we want to get

this is a concern that some people might argue that it is a good thing to wite until we know i more about the fact things yeah sure but at the same time it is said leslie gets the natural her immunity the only way to get rid of the measure and prevent from log on the restriction and thawing was to have a large population being vaccinated and preventing from the spread of this virus or at least preventing by the developing you know super infection so in other words if we delaying the vaccination process we me and in the having to delay the risk trick tional prolongs a restriction which is not acceptable 'd anymore because of the collector old damage used by this process. just looking ahead then pierre i mean what do you think should be done then to encouraged. to get ahead and get a vaccine. i think that you know the did the medical word and the data from the

science and the report now to follow up in some countries you know in whom the amount of people being for nathan was one or the other or the 3rd vaccine even the the russian vaccine you know should be provided to the population and demonstrate that you know the the figures see is similar and that the safety of this stage is also similar otherwise you know we will have people waiting additionally which is fine but if you wait if we wait long enough to have sufficient information the mother words if you wait for a follow up more than 6 months definitely you are also some way of the freedom of your own population and i think that we should provide that they hold every time we get they on the vaccine in terms of the 50 and 60 it should be given in the scientific way and in a clear way with no doubt to the population and especially the medical population to back i pad it really not to tell him to not going to leave it after that was

that france wanted to he's the head of the intensive care unit and he found that university hospital in brussels thanks for coming on. there. now also joe biden has ordered all flags on federal property to be lowered to half mast to mark the heart a 1000000 american deaths from coheed but it's kind of more pain reports now media is still glowing in their praise for the president's approach to the pandemic that's despite there being little difference 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 more lives lost to this virus and any other nation on earth. with this rig knowledge the scale of the. 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 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 malice everyone would be mandated to wear a mask mask mandates mask up mask implant or mask for godsake. were masked if not for yourself true love ones well masks are proven to stop the spread of coded but is that it he's got the same advisor that trump had doctor 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 our work by the end of july seems like the amount of time that donald trump that it took the child to get a straight should 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 and 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 star in it seems bizarre because we know that there are millions upon. millions of those 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 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 but it 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 sooner because there are guys in office the business 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 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 til the end of july until 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 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. i want to kind of this kind of you take tim's has warned that the stigma attached to this disease is perhaps stalking many people from coming forward

if they have symptoms kroenke received hundreds of death threats software has revealed that 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 when it began getting hundreds of death threats a day after being infected in october with people blaming him in social media for the subsequent public restrictions the abuse even 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 a you tube video on this so that you know creates allergies where i can't taste her might mean 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 tasks like weighted still there you know it could be covert to a lot of the states 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 an essential worker so we weren't 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. now

israel has been forced to shut it speech after an oil spill that's been described as one of the most disastrous in the country's history experts instead assessing the damage but it is expected to take decades to clean up. was the 1st. district of israel. dealing with it got a petition to get money for. its. give yourself that 90 percent of the beaches in israel are polluted according the ropes sam and no that's really.

my lady in the 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 clean 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 are able to release them into the sea. came here to the beach today to clean all the char 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 is targeting and the still coming to our beaches. seems to be. still don't know for sure. because. it seems to be severe but we do. through only for some reason. maybe not. more exactly. as follows. is the.

washing out a now america story moscow is questioning america's commitment to free trade after washington bragged that nearly 20 year of pain countries have now quit russia's north a 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 geopolitical interests and acting in spite of the will of sovereign nations is our correspondent us down of now with more on the growing scandal surrounding 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 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. or 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 the. all the. right are you telling me that 'd when i am all we use these 18 thought that is all the sudden and all while you are not know anything when i am speaking for. you guys are taking credit for stuff that the man. i am not so i used to 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. ok let's have a quick look at some more news in brief before we go and these are some stunning pictures from my girl falls because severe cold has partially frozen natural landmark there despite the freezing temperatures the rare occurrence is still attracting many tourists and the falls we have to say haven't completely iced over as water does continue to flow underneath the sheets of thick ice.

hundreds of italian entertainment workers have gathered outside. calling on the government to provide more support for the sector but the country's reopened it's been a year. and cinemas closed due to cope with 19 restrictions musicians artists and dancers carry banners saying culture is not garbage thousands in ecuador are protesting there against alleged lecture of fraud in recent presidential elections and demanding a vote recount protest as supporting indigenous and environmentalist candidate competitors who came 3rd have been my. for days to reach the capitol but he got 900.4 percent of the vote which does leave him out of the runoff in april the state's attorney there was open investigation to determine if fraud occurred. i guess that brings up so that you will be back again with more and how often.

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want to. the internet audience now totals almost 4500000000 more most all of them are active social network users put one wrong move on their pages deleted digital annihilation don't exist anymore. not who runs the show on the web how can anyone stand up to the tech giants if even heads of state face the threat of being banned is there any limits to all that virtual power go. reasonable for a minute but i was a reasonable way.