headlining the small essential vaccines for political influence critics slam israel sending countries covert jobs in exchange for diplomatic support. open your borders or else brussels slaps ultimatums on 6 covert affected member states including germany as traffic starts to pile up trying to get in. president biden reopens a facility for migrant children similar to those his fellow democrats trumps concentration camps. their social tsunami and ticking time bomb dire warnings from the mayor of one paris suburb containing one of europe's biggest poorest housing estates r t visits that area torn apart by the pandemic its economy.

good morning from moscow this 25th february you're watching r t international with me kevin oh in 1st the exercising soft power through vaccine diplomacy israel's negotiating political favors from countries in exchange for covert jobs is our correspondent paula stay with more on its new diplomatic strategy. israelis say to share that stock effect scenes with other countries including with palestinian doctors a generous mean few might think about but. we are talking about symbolic numbers of vaccines that were given to mary's countries i took the decision in return for many things that we already received through many contacts in various areas that i will no detail here. but ports came trade off sought being made with countries which

least some people stood for nation's. soft paula at its finest the often appears quite clear we will give you vaccines and in mattoon you give us all diplomatic support this is the czech embassy in tel aviv not so long ago paul promised to open a diplomatic office in jerusalem and in return the people of the czech republic would receive thousands of coronavirus vaccinations from israel or somalia has moved its embassy to jerusalem 100 page the same hungary has also set up a trade mission in jerusalem many think it's simply wrong to trade medicine for political influence the reason being that any always doing it is to promote himself

and to try and win the elections so in that sense of course the it's not done purely out of the right multi-verse he use us. diplomatic relationships to use us for anything he has to report to people in israel why he's doing it and to which countries he's doing it to you has to be transparent about it but there's nothing wrong with it we need to give to all of our citizens here in israel the vaccine. speak for we think couple offering it to any other country is regardless of what they are doing for us the ideal thing would be that these vaccines would get directly to these countries and not through israel and there in the original prize to get to all the countries that need it and we shouldn't make any profit out of it i do agree it should help other countries and the 3rd world as well to get

vaccinated. not to use it cynically just to gain for politico gain our loyalty and our government's loyalist ca should be to its citizens 1st and foremost like most of our population i think you should quit israel doesn't manufacture the vaccines itself and the idea was to stand thousands of left of the shots to other countries inside the country ms and yahoos main rival in governing patna defense minister binney guns has harshly criticized the arrangements saying they had been reached without any governmental deliberation the fact that netanyahu trades in vaccines of israeli citizens that were paid for from their tax money without any accountability shows that he thinks he is running a kingdom and not a state next month hundreds of thousands of medina vaccines are expected to arrive in israel once the country has finished inoculating its own population the surplus supplies might be used to help normalize relations with new countries who knows how

many more of these embassies might be springing up in jerusalem. tel aviv and conflicting views almost to defend some political commentary to a more or and defended israel's move the thing it's in everyone's interest in his view. peace both humanitarian and practical for eat to keep these vaccines. 5 or 6000000 palestinians living next to eat because of the deep end that make knows no borders it is going to have be a boomerang effect 2 if these people are dead and infected and. infect israelis in peace not for israel to to eat just to buy it for almost 9 or fives earth and then give it to some that you know american rulers all the community is a living together there are he's really is living in settlements in the west bank

next to have a rebel interests and talents of his genius of religious intolerance so yes up there israel palestinian should get the 1st and not dose regimes who have been helpful to me tell me how and perhaps have worked against be israeli interest. just want to brief you on the head of talks between the e.u. leaders brussels has threatened legal action against 6 member states if they don't reopen their borders the countries including germany have shut stop the spread of the pandemic but the closures have brought some trade to a standstill in the process we're looking at here rows of italian trucks trying to get into austria on the way to germany they can't get through because they need coronavirus tests to enter our europe correspondent reports next. the e.u. commission currently at all do with 6 member states who have unilaterally put in

place border restrictions of one type or other in order to try and stop the spread of covert 19 whether that's the spread of the virus in general or the stop of the spread of mutated versions particularly here in germany that's been a top issue e.u. commission buying up though they're not happy with the situation the commission has been clearer to coordinate that approach among 27 member states we risk disruptions to free movement to supply chain is something we have witnessed again in the past weeks. so who's on the naughty list belgium germany denmark hungry finland and sweden have all been given 10 days to provide a good reason why they put these restrictions on freedom of movement in place or to relax the restrictions that have been put there the e.u. commission's unlikely to win easily on this one we've heard from the german side who've defended their move these measures obviously put

a massive strain on border regions commuters and the transport of goods and the single market but the protection of our citizens aspire amount finland has also issued a statement saying that yes they recognize this is far from ideal but they deem it necessary the recalcitrant member states of all received letters this week saying that they're a means that they're trying to achieve can be reached through different means we believe that the objective justifiably pursued by germany the protection of public health during a pandemic could be attained by less restrictive measures brussels is essentially fighting a battle now with the member states over their. national interest they want to keep covert out of their countries but the e.u. has a duty as it sees it to keep freedom of movement going within the block and those 2 things coming together over this pandemic in that border which we eat only and

house 2 are. there. for me to innocent line between some trucks and we think 2 hands are from heat to house because if you want it to all of the trucks and you have even tested i mean if we are inside a european union if we are inside all this the scene. i don't understand why there are. these big problems in. if you wanted to be in the united states of europe. sometimes explained this is not the. correct way the people of man to talk to this channel the next guy then a case in point the world health organization smash a land boil and covert 19 told r.t. that the world should prepare for a new post pandemic reality whatever that's going to be dr david nabarro also

warned that we should expect other dangerous strains to spread to. this some who say there should be striving towards eliminating the virus completely others and i'm in this 2nd group say that we must strive to wards being able to live with the virus as a constant threat but putting in place a mix of defenses in our societies that mean that we hold of our interests at play at the center of that is vaccination which can protect people from getting seriously ill and dying but there's also how we behave there's also how governments create the conditions in which we can behave in a really helpful way but we're going to avoiding the virus and this international cooperation because if one country is poorly and the neighbor is not so good that's

not helpful to the people especially if they were to move between the countries so that last point of international cooperation is absolutely vital. i want to be clear you always need to have traction nations to good so that's good practice or even just for many years i've carried a little yellow book next to my passport which 'd indicates that i've had yellow fever vaccinations it includes being toes of the data i've received the vaccination who vaccinated me and very importantly will number of vaccine i received i really think that's good practice now how the significance it used as possible as for being able to get on a plane or get into a hotel or go into a building or go to a festival that's a different story and right now i don't think anybody is in a position to start saying to our vaccinations if it gets will be used in practice

it's early days on that but what matters is that there is good international cooperation between countries to really work out what the protocols for using vaccinations to the kids when enabling people to travel or enabling people to benefit from going to a particular event that needs to be discussed internationally. there's been as as most of your viewers will know a recent investigation into how this virus appeared through an independent scientific group that was set up under the auspices of the world health organization a joint independent group together with the chinese authorities and they are in the process of producing their report looking for hypotheses about the origins and their report will detail where they've got to in relation to each of these hypotheses finding out the origins of any kind of pathogen whether it's the one

causing this corona virus and mimic or other pathogens for example like it or particular kinds of influenza these investigations are difficult to do and as far as i'm concerned this is a process it's on track where it's very political and a lot of people are watching it and we have to wait until the report appears before any further judgments could be made. donald trump's quote concentration camps for joe biden's facilities for kids that appears to be the message from u.s. media reporting on the president reopening a site for migrant teens with disturbing elements from more and reminiscent of prisons the new administration claims it will only operate during the pandemic but in a patrol asks why the coverage is so different this time round. the same famous outlet reporting on essentially the same controversial issue of how children who are

legally cross america's southern border are treated by the u.s. government the general practices that they're put in camps after being separated from their parents different dates under the articles and very different titles the one from tobar 20 reads the american tradition of caging children the one from this week is 1st migron facility for children opens under biden and the told in these 2 unmistakably different i'm not the one to judge but it seems under biden are the words that make the difference this is though how the dems were destroying trump not so long ago for oh they couldn't stop repeating. in cages there is a very clear intent and they are carrying out the intent which is to separate these families and put these children in cages they watch in horror as children are torn

from their families and thrown into cages but make no mistake what's opened or reopened after joe biden took charge is spelled f.a.a. c i l i t y facility that we're being. told is under fire this is not kids being kept in cages this is this is this is a syllabary that was opened that's going to follow the same standards as other h.h.s. facilities ok i get partisan solidarity but there must be someone in the democrat camp with balanced vision who would say guys this isn't right these double standards in how you look at treating young migrants being go here's what congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez tweeted. this is not ok never has been ok never will be ok no matter the ministration no party only to backpedal in less

than an hour after being struck by a hail storm of replies her next twitter post slammed the fundamentals of the immigration system putting the blame on the previous administration oh yeah under the old administration ms ocasio cortez had been much more adamant in her fight against what she wasn't just calling cages but full on concentration camps i flew to the concentration camp where the trumpet ministration was keeping children they still from their parents. joe biden steam and left leaning commentators are defending the decision not only to maintain but to reopen camps for children by saying it's a necessity in the times of covert or cabs extra room but the head of a u.s. border patrol union says it doesn't feel like any improvement is on the way instead though he claims the biden team holds unaccompanied migrant children in border patrol custody a longer than legally allowed all in the very same cages the hypocrisy from the

left and the mainstream media truly shows they care nothing for the children they used as pawns to attack president trump the ironic thing is that the camps or facilities or whatever you choose to call them appeared while barack obama was in charge along with vice president joe biden mr biden didn't even shy away from admitting responsibility it was a major mistake made to took too long to get it right took too long to get it right i'll be present united states not vice president hoops is he still not getting there right speaking of vice presidents once in 29. scored political points by protesting outside a cab and homestead florida where teens detained at the border were being held well there's now plans to reopen that homestead facility to. begin stick around this morning still to come former security officials testify in the u.s.

senate about failing is in the capitol but end of ugly amongst themselves about who was responsible.

join me every 1st week on the alex salmond short and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see if they're. undocumented migrants joe blow's families penniless pensioners or just some of the groups struggling to survive in one paris suburb branded a ticking time bomb by its mare charlotte dubinsky next this morning reporting from the town where food aid charities warn they can no longer cope. the time of the given year is just 30 kilometers south of paris and it's already infamous in france

as being one of the country's poorest areas and home to one of europe's biggest housing complex is now nearly hall full of the residents who live in that complex behind me live below the poverty line things would already be bad before 19 ravaged through this community now the mayor is sounding the alarm saying the pandemic is causing a social tsunami. between last march and december the number of unpaid charges including for water and heating has practically doubled and if we can't pay for the water and heating that means we also can't pay for upkeep and emergency repairs with no money coming in local authorities will struggle to keep things afloat meaning the problems in this town could spiral we spoke to one resident you didn't want to show her face on camera but told us as people were getting poorer the

basics that we needed for life even out of reach greenies one of the poorest towns in france and that's been known for a long time because there are many types of poor inhabitants lots of immigrants that's cousin in crisis in the town and during the coverage pandemic has worsened many have lost their jobs and many students have found themselves without resources without help without anything at all and she says the problems here are getting out of control. it's a social catastrophe because poverty is growing and people have difficulties to make it to the end of the month there's also criminality that pushes young people to worse bad things very more and more problems here there is aid in cooking me a number of associations offer help to those who are struggling through distribution as well as moral support is being doled out but more and more

people all finding themselves in need people hey feel isolated forgotten. it's been very very difficult for many families because they haven't been able to work because they've lost jobs or they had temporary contracts i had problems finding a job it's a catastrophe i have been looking everywhere so. it's become almost with a pandemic in every sense if i try to find a job i will. be able to do it at my age but it also effects our children they have nothing to do here they're struggling to find a job for many you know the key issue is how to survive but so to have to crawl out from the poverty trap jobs have been lost has been lost and without either residents like at lima see. here i don't want my children to stay here in france in greenie in particular and in france in general there are fewer and fewer

opportunities to find a job yet they have indications that elsewhere could give them a stable future what chance they have remains to be seen so let's. see take me. security officials have appeared to give contradictory evidence that the u.s. senate is 1st public hearings into last month's capital riot the officers blamed each other and other agencies for mistakes that led to the assault but also seems there were no contingency measures for such an attack and many came out of the chamber with more questions than answers that. the assessment indicated that members of the proud boys white supremacist groups and tea for and other extremist groups were expected to participate on january 6th and that they may be inclined to become violent police officers were not trained on how to respond to an infiltration of the capitol building is that correct.

when you talk about infiltration you talk about a large insurrection like we saw on the january 6th no anyone from the department of homeland security contact you about a potential national special security event designation no i am not aware of anybody from h.s. reaching out no. thank you stay with me senator no contact with me or my office are all capitol police officers out there with riot gear. no they're not sir. all the 6th of january a crowd of supporters stormed the capitol building in washington d.c. many were angry with the results of the presidential election claiming the vote have been stolen and the double trumpeting for one but the bald faced little resistance as we saw from security as they broke in.

we talked about the senate hearing with experts who agreed it showed a clear lack of coordination in the security response to that. they have some very very strong reforms and acted in place specially here to protect and secure the capitol where there is not only bit of threat from 911 but post 911 biological attacks other threats to lawmakers shootings with lawmakers across the country and it is just a really really bizarre situation to try to fathom why there was not

a contingency plan in place solid coordination between the police the f.b.i. homeland security as well as national guard which was available from 3 different locations right here in virginia and maryland and the d.c. national guard as well that could have been there within minutes if they were activated and there were proper protocols put into place congress has always had very broad authority not only over capitol police a capitol law enforcement but over d.c. laws itself and so all that's come out from the testimony is that the d.c. mayor ordered some minimal national guard troops just to protect me the street closures and things like that that were seen nothing come out about any requests from around the capitol on the force if you're looking at the capitol building itself you'd be looking at the speaker of the house nancy pelosi looking at democratic majority leadership here so it has been confusing and they still don't have the answers to that but especially if the f.b.i.

had intelligence and again intelligence showing that multiple agencies show that even antitheft was planning to disguise themselves as transit. you know code for so much more from us kevin always signing off for now have a good day. it's been decades since the fall of spain's fascist regime but old wounds still haven't to yield. in the thumb of the times when. in this. market. or. in the us at the source mean older than us and they seem to you know. of newborn babies were torn from their mothers and given away and forced adoption but only. for feaster. to this day mothers still search for grown children while looking in hope for their birth parents.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is often very dramatic development only closely and going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. we're more politicized than ever or more polarized than ever the 21st century when speed is measured in megabytes per 2nd. electronic mail electronic money electronic media infinite possibilities for exchanging information i mean. freedom of speech and social media

bent censorship of double standards who should judge what can be said online. the internet audience know totals almost 4500000000 more most all of them are active social network users put one wrong move on their pages deleted digital. 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 faced a threat of being banned is there any limits to hold on to the actual power you're the boss don't know but i want these also like this are numerous i was in the way.

welcome to the alex salmond show from scotland the scottish constitutional debate is highly charged provoking many i'm vidiot commentators i'm participants none more so than our guest of titty professor richard murphy started his career as a chartered accountant however much of as analysis these days is on economics and political economy whether he's attacking u.k. chancellor as for the timidity of economic response to crisis or intervening in scottish political debate he is one of the most clear sighted and articulate of commentators providing an alternative viewpoint to conventional wisdom much more from professor murphy later on in the show but 1st to your tweets messages and e-mails in a sponsor russia last week uncovered 19 and whether it will be everywhere.