politics or business i'm show business i'll see the. hundreds of millions of euros a controversial foreign consultants present across government comes under heavy fire for its vaccine distribution campaign. microstate summary no turns to rush's covert shot after. the failed to arrive. on the b.b.c. reveals plans to reverse the dominance of american car. streaming bishes targets and to get children watching more british based culture. morning from out international let me kevin know it i'm here for the next 30 minutes with the latest from a world news age q for you and france has suffered its worst week in the pandemic

since november reporting more than 25000 new cases on friday and pays want to know to why foreign consultants with deep ties to president mccrone pocketing huge contracts for a vaccine rollout plagued by delays and failures shall they do bensky reports. as the vaccine rollout in france gains ground questions are being asked about the role of private companies and consulting firms involved they're said to be playing a major role in the strategy which to many has been a major disaster several companies were hired by the french government between them they have signed contracts worth millions and millions of euros the lion's share went to american finicking z. the lucrative contracts signed with mckinsey and not initially disclosed to the public was supposed to help ensure vaccine doses could be transported across france work you might think is perfectly suited to process vast network of civil servants

so the fact that it's been contracted out to us firm is that many with a bitter taste in their mouths. in government as in our hospitals consulting firm serve policing public administration at astronomical cost why such contempt for civil servants. what an admission of ineffectiveness and helplessness and our whole state operators what is it for absolutely amazing what is mackenzie doing there we have a ministry of health a ministry of the interior and a ministry of defense that know how to manage crises if we know how to mobilize them this is decay of the state. mckinsey appears to be a particularly poisoned chalice the firm recently agreed to pay more than half a $1000000000.00 to settle lawsuits brought by u.s. states it was accused of fueling the opioid epidemic for its work boosting the sales of oxycontin a painkiller not a squeaky clean reputation for

a firm helping the vaccine. it's a big scam yes for me it's a scam i don't have much to say personally but it's a scam and i'm not really surprised after all it's the government so it is bizarre it's not spoken about in the newspapers here you've spoken about it and we don't talk about it on television or in the newspapers the things that are said in our country it can mean nothing but in another country it's a scandal what can we do here in front no government toying consultancy firms. uncommon these days but what has surprised me is just how quickly this appears to be accelerating mccollum's government to sign some 575 contracts with consultancy firm since october 28th covering everything from economic recovery to.

public sector apparels big business the beat. for around 10 percent of their overall profits so how do people feel. especially since there was a call for tenders all of that was it for the french firms to will not because i don't understand why would it be a group that would benefit from these funds that's the story you just told me something actually i trust the government listen listen. i think these are things to deserve to be thought about we do need a private company to think about how we do transportation we still have the french railways air france gets in business i think we could use them more wisely more courage to do more for france 1st you don't for example he doesn't give enough to front we give the impression that micron is no longer the president he does nothing french government has played down the role played by groups like mckinsey

consultancy firms have been used for several years by multiple governments when the elaborate and implement big projects require a strategic or logistical support and advice from what really got people angry here is just how close the consultancy firms like mckinsey are to president matt brown with toys going back many years and with such sons lining the pockets of a private american consultancy firm at the same time when the economy here is being laid low by the pandemic many are now asking questions so much even artie harris. son merinos have begun vaccinating with russia's support muvico vaccine after the roots of the e.u. approved alternatives have failed to arrive the microstate surrounded by italy isn't an e.u. members so was excluded from blocked eels with pharmaceutical giants overshot supplies it heard to go to getting a tiny part of each delivery to italy but they've been seeing delays the medical director 1st off a summer in

a hospital said there were no doubts about russian vaccine quality. we chose the sputnik vaccine because there is an agreement between us and italy through the european union for the supply of money and pfizer vaccines that unfortunately are delayed at the moment therefore given the excellent diplomatic relations with russia we have chosen to get the sputnik the vaccine faster we saw some excellent reviews from renowned international medical journals like the land set or the spawn sanny in rome that have already tested the quality of this vaccine . officials say the russian major can eventually vaccinate some 15 percent of its population of around $34000.00 some renos labor minister spoke to us as well told us more about why they made the choice. being an independent state even within the territory of italy and the european union we have the right to make independent decisions and have excellent relations both with e.u. members and countries outside e.u.

borders at the moment europe showing an increased interest in the sputnik vaccine and we've reached out instead of staying only inside the e.u. markets we acted in the interests of our own citizens and i'm sure that over time more states will draw conclusions and make similar decisions for a part we have complete confidence in the russian vaccine we can see that technical in the city of and bureaucratic this is taken with regard to the production and distribution of certain products significantly slow down the approval process in different countries so we think these processes should be accelerated due to the critical circumstances in the e.u. we simply did not have a vaccine and we had to make a choice. it comes to the states also step up talks to get support make the austrian chancellor sebastian kurtz of spoken on the phone with him a potent about supplies as soon as the european medicines agency approves russian's jab we spoke to one top austrian just as well about how the scientific community is

responding to russia's development. good job or good i think that the lancet publication shows that sputnik the is a high quality vaccine we have promising data value one percent effectiveness which is high demonstrates this this is a vector based vaccine which means it is injected using a virus into our immune system to form immunity the difference between the other vector vaccine since it would make the is that it uses 2 different viral vectors and this is important as in some cases the immune system can create antibodies to the vector making the 2nd jab less effective while splitting the has 2 different safe viruses it makes the vaccine more effective. a german doctor has refused to treat a female politician because of her political views they have to pay for the alternative for germany party than the country's 3rd largest tozer her shock when the family doctor told him he was quote taking

a moral stand you know they should. do to a chronic illness had to visit my family doctor had been seen for the past 2 years the conversation went relatively well and then my doctor told me that he would like to terminate the health care contract i was horrified and asked him why he replied that he had learned from the media that i was a member of i have day party and that i had been elected to the blue to start from the electoral district so for moral reasons he could no longer continue my treatment then i asked if i fainted now what would you do he replied that then he would have to help me has a medical emergency case and then i said that if he was alone in the room he could just close the door and you're in there sussed ation press only every 10 seconds. well the doctor's clinic has not yet responded to our request for comment but the insurance company in the case told us it expects patients to get the very best possible treatment regardless of their beliefs and that the legal ramifications of it should be probed but it's far from the 1st alleged discrimination against

a of the members in $29.00 today may have to pay he was beaten unconscious in the street a year later the party leaders car was set alight a study found alternative for germany suffers the most attacks of any national party including physical verbal and property assaults the imperial fuse treatment by her doctor again says mainstream media ignored her case too and she's been fighting for justice and. it's only right i represent the position of the i have a dear and i do not live here to right wing radicals in the i lived there i feel a liberal conservative nisha so there was no reason to attack me personally alters ny further medical attention i consider this to be absolutely average 3 and cannot understand it my case was covered by the media unfortunately not local but only alternative media were covering this story i actually sent a statement to the police with my lawyer filled

a complaint with the physicians chambre and i sent a copy to aoki budden that in there because this doctor works under contract with that insurance company according to their rules such actions are prohibited since he's providing services under a health insurance policy so i decided to fight it and my fight continues. b.b.c. is pumping extra cash to reverse dependence on american cartoons like the simpsons and the broadcast a certain extraordinary target of 90 percent of the cartoons being british is just the latest silva very old battle for children's minds showed it was dashed the reports. let's face it cartoons shaped all of our childhood the simpsons tom and jerry rug rats the looney tunes you name it we've probably spent far too many hours glued to the t.v. . era. actually

to do according to the director of the b.b.c.'s children's department too many cartoons washed here in britain all while not british but i think we can do set our characters in the british setting or at least european when i'm talking now i'm saying what about roast beef instead of turkey we should be thinking about these things children grow up with these cultures why not infuse more of our culture the drive as a developed homegrown animation series aimed at young says a 7 to 12 but should children be told what to watch in favor of promoting british culture or should kids be left to be kids just kind of shift focus i don't think the british people like identity because they don't have any call to speak like that and just running around london right they can step outside this thing which is still sad that they need to be understand which coach or isn't have that retail for a young age sometimes kids like to hear something that so many are told to them at school waste time it's nice to see that if it really makes

a difference it's good to keep it to them to see the coaches but i don't think it's very depends on what the coaching comes around they can watch it every couple of it's pretty extraordinary training obviously as broad as possible it's going to be the best answer to anything the b.b.c. is even toying with the idea of recreating british versions of the world's most popular cartoon imagine if we could have a version of the seams since for children and families in the u.k. it would be amazing. but it's not even possible how it's come up with new things i think i'm kind of the age of remakes disney have done a lot and i've had enough. so i quite like mr best new story to tower and i think we've been through enough this year tonight as news stories that can probably come up but i would say that yeah would be great to see that like medium come to the u.k. and be more like british and that type of humor i don't know if that would go abroad don't you see climate change it seems to be pretty well maybe the b.b.c.

is on to something here after rule there have been huge successes like peppa pig in fact it was so popular that kids across the atlantic were hit with the pepper effect and began imitating british accents it's all the 1st time that foreign cartoons have come under fire a few years ago critics lashed out at a russian cartoon musher in the bag accusing it of having a more sinister side being wait for it a propaganda tool. trying to. see what it really is something here the cartoons are really used to indoctrinate children's minds and promote interests 30 start the better i guess. this is out international hi there good morning. mimi is bracing for a massive opposition rally as it ups the ante in a bid to try to force the prime minister we're going to go live to our correspondent there after the break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic developments only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the

day or thinks. we are here to ask. as promised them before the break at the latest from the south caucasus where there's been a particular trouble over the last couple of days like this is the armenian president now has discussed the national unrest with parliamentary group leaders as year of seize another day of mass opposition protests calling on prime minister nicola pasha yun to quit his controversial sacking of the armed forces chief. reporting for us where the protestors accompt side parliament constantine so quiet of the moment but another big rallies planned for the south to do more pressure on

the prime minister. you know you know kind of indecision ration on your of on streets is still volatile in opponents of the prime minister. they're pretty visible around here they camped overnight in front of the national parliament and with tents and barry k.'s it's become the center of a street uprising against the country's leadership right now they're putting up a stage for a mass rally planned for this afternoon and we're expecting thousands of protesters to show up in nearby later on the atmosphere in the country remains tense after prime minister accused the army top command in an attempted coup the opposition that backed the military has vowed to put even more pressure on prime minister pasha and remove him from power no matter what. has been the pressure from the public will rice and we will eventually make resign a government that has lost cannot continue to be the government they need to have the courage to things like statesman like adventurers from the streets and to

resign so on we did you at the time of the 28000 protests people were in a good state and now everyone is depressed everyone is shocked we've lost the war we've lost thousands of people we've lost territories in such a climate it's very hard to do something for a healthy society. so the prime minister partially hasn't showed signs of backsliding either ask he keeps taking armenian top military he wants to boot out the head of the general staff of their meeting armed forces who accused him of being incompetent something that the country's prime minister would have done easily in other circumstances but not at this point the armenian president still hasn't signed off on that order after a meeting with the opposition leaders who are rallying behind disgruntled army generals so what we're seeing now is that the armenian top military and political elite as well as thousands of people on the streets have squared off in anticipation of a fierce battle for power. in the armenian capital here of.

the country's been on edge since november over a peace deal with on the disputed region to go in a car but the government had vowed victory in the war but end of the day i mean even so the agreement has a humiliating defeat the protesters reacted to the truce plus told me the government building at one point. much of the current volatility too has been fueled by a top level dispute over the weaponry the prime minister claimed that russian made missile systems have failed in the war but to counter that the russian defense ministry says armenia didn't even use the kind of weapon in the conflict a lot of kids already choking up because of my car which i know my mom know. why that is candor is that fired did not explode or only exploded 10 percent.

i'm not gonna tell you. the prime minister and the governments of. able to make and equip decisions in this big full and critical situation for the armenian people given the current situation of the homes. the resignation of the prime minister and the government. that cost us the uk. us us. us was we discussed the latest 2 with the vice president of the country's national assembly and also an armenian left hand in

general a veteran of previous wars in the go in a car about 2. the regime knew that for 30 years the military has been poorly managed in terms of equipment and maintenance this led to the army becoming weed it isn't the army used to be and pushing and came to power without a team knowledge experience the prime minister was an absolute 0 in military affairs as well as in economics and politics and this management disorganization noncompliance with the mobilization plan the destruction of command and control systems and the dismissal of military officers all this led to the fact that the general staff lost all patience and demanded the supreme commanders resignation as he was destroying the army this destruction resulted in the loss of 5000 soldiers and tens of thousands of wounded. to communion. it's post-war turbulence when the military makes political statements it can only be called

a military coup in the military must carry out its immediate task of protecting the borders of the republic politics is not a military matter our colleagues from other countries are emphasizing that this is unacceptable the prime minister has problems with a few military officials following the war and i must say the authorities and the prime minister are in control of the situation putting the blame on one person is wrong it's not fair and there are millions understand that and we all have our share of the blame. dozens of us democrats have signed a letter asking president joe biden to give up his sole authority for nuclear launches on the quarter examines why donald trump is nuts for the democrats that's just an undisputed fact but it seems like they feel he isn't the only head of state who's lost a few of his marbles. you alone possess the authority to order the use of nuclear weapons this thing one person with this authority entails real risks past

presidents threaten to attack other countries with nuclear weapons or exhibited behavior that caused other officials to express concern about the president's judgment nearly 30 democrats signed that letter which outlined 4 different ways to reduce presidential power over the nuclear button congressional oversight creating a special counsel consulting the speaker of the house why the need for all these new rules if the guy they say is bonkers isn't in the white house anymore the dems say they just don't want to repeat of the past 4 years but some republicans think the reason is a bit more senile i mean cynical sleepy joe wasn't just a political nickname it appears to be a governing strategy a growing number of democrats who are not concerned about giving joe biden the codes for the nuclear system it's not just republicans though back in election season one poll said most voters in a number of pivotal swing states felt they had to choose between 2 old guys who were both mentally unfit for the presidency and judging by biden's campaign trail

was making things easy for him self when they shoot 37. i know i'm a creative go and you know this you know thing no man has a right to raise a hand to a woman. other than self defense and that's rarely ever occurs and so we have to just change the culture period and keep punching at it and punching out of. valerie and i. mean so the democrats might be scared with that guy behind the nuclear button but it's not much different than having biden at the head of their expanding war agenda the very same democrats for example are saying america's longest war in afghanistan should be even longer. to pull out within several months now is a very challenging and destabilize the efforts we've got to be able to assure the world and the american public that afghanistan will not be a source of planning plotting to project terrorist attacks around the globe there's the minimum i'm not sure we can do that without some presence there and there's

this year's national defense authorization act which the democrats put forward to the military budget to a total of around 740000000000 dollars today the house and a strong bipartisan message to the american people are service members and our national security are more important than politics they're clearly not trying to put forward some kind of pacifist agenda so why should biden be at the head of military operations but not have his finger on the nuclear button it could be because mutually assured destruction isn't fun for anyone but when the killing is going on far away anything goes. this morning it seems one of the easiest ways these days for multinationals to look trendy is to make socially progressive changes to plastic brands but as much love toys mr potato head involved becomes the latest victim of the social justice craze growing numbers appear to be seeing through the marketing is to be 3 public reports. if you somehow thought there

weren't enough corporations using wolk ideology as a marketing strategy well know woke bandwagon is roll when roll and roll and we have some new passengers 1st off we have hasbro who have announced a huge change so their famous potato head toit. mr potato head to you you backstab well actually it's not any more 2 genders family structure be gone with all of that says hasbro no more mr or mrs potato head no it's just potato head a proper 21st century toy woke and gender neutral now kids of all ages and genders can aspire to be a plastic potato but hasbro isn't actually changing anything about the toy it's just a name change and if you think that this is kind of a lazy and shameless p.r. stunts well you're not alone imagine thinking in the middle of

a global pandemic what's really important is dropping the mr from mr potato head and making him gender neutral in case we upset a few woke ece mrs potato head has also been killed off she will be replaced by an a sexual can of pringles but hasbro isn't the only one jumping on the woak wagon oreo have joined into with a very lazy 3 word tweet. trans people exist seriously guys that say any more genius observations like i don't know grass is green water is wet sand is coarse and rough and gets everywhere if you're going to virtue signal to promote selling your cookies at least pretend like you actually made an effort because unsurprisingly most people saw a right through the shameless p.r. stunt sunnen brave to point out the obvious trance people exist as a marketing tool for cooper ations i finished the sentence for you look we get it

there is no such thing as bad p.r. but this whole wall corporations thing is really getting old and quite frankly annoying we get your walk just go broke already dimitri poke at the weekend the way things look in thanks for watching r.t. dot com one of our socials from a thing else we're talking about but for now in moscow kevin of the team sounding off maybe see again in 32 minutes. during the vietnam war u.s. forces also bombs in neighboring laos there was a secret war. and for years the american people did not know. how much. country per capita. millions of unexploded bombs still in danger

lives in this small agricultural country jordyn we don't know what's happening. even today kids in los full victims of bombs dropped decades ago is the u.s. making amends for that tragedy and. help to the people need in that little land on . i am x. kaiser this is the kaiser report i just read somewhere there will be fear well what this means stacy what does this mean there will be sheer well we've been of

course talking about this for a while saying that this says the signs were there that it was coming and now kathy would the c.e.o. of arc invest is saying the same thing she said this on c.m. b.c. but you know she's talking about the fear coming as rates rise that the rates are going to start rising and fear will descend and you know as human beings are organisms and in a group a collective together operating in society you can see it in their sort of actions like the one fear is coming in and some like powerful big investors know stuff is about to happen and they start moving suddenly like suddenly there are all these wall streeters and hedge fund guys fleeing manhattan and running to florida right then you see the elite on the beltway media for example they're starting to vibrate and nervousness about the people.