when some find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. one year old says the 1st coronavirus case was detected in russia we speak to the director of the research center behind russia's 3rd coronavirus banksy. or the prime minister of new zealand surging people to call out said they were breaking coded rules including family and friends. but still the prime minister says that he's ready to hold early elections as political unrest the standoff with the military intensify its. twitter is in trouble as russia accuses it of failing to remove material linked to child pornography suicide and drugs.

by that on a very good morning to you watching our international. corona virus was 1st detected here in russia or exactly one year ago to the day later the country became the 1st in the world to register vaccine sputnik v which is since been distributed around the world with slovakia becoming the 39th country to give it the green light monday bratislava received its 1st shipment of 200000 doses of the russian job as slovakia battles the world's highest bid 900 death rate is the 2nd day you nation to register despite recent skepticism coming from the bloc countries prime minister said that when it comes to viruses geopolitics shouldn't be a factor. buying this russian vaccine was the right thing to do it's trustworthy anyone who wants to jam to get one in the next 2 months will get 1000000 vaccines and then many in june another i believe by meeting with deadline he promised

surprise russia will prove it's a stable partner you can rely on these hard times since the coded 1000 pandemic. does not pay attention to geopolitical issues the protection of human life or prevention is above all else we've seen fit to buy a russian vaccine so that slovak's who wish to can get vaccinated. now russia has registered its 3rd homegrown coronavirus vaccine which is expected to be lost later this month we spoke with the director of the center behind the tap. when you pulled out of the can you explain what makes the kovi vaccine different and uses an activated virus but what does that actually me. we used a process called in activation which basically means killing the virus maxine's usually use a live virus or an already dead one we're dealing with an inactivated a whole cell vaccine approach that we've been developing for many years all of the

vaccines at which you mock of center are based on this method was a significant number of our vaccines form part of the russian national vaccination calendar but it would have been a good review. they were how long did it take to develop the vaccine how did you test it quickly with we don't know. but it took almost a year and that's a very short time no western company has ever managed to produce a vaccine like this in such a short timeframe there are other technologies involved a key step was extracting the viruses we want to various clinics and took blood samples from sick patients and tested for the presence of the virus and one patient turned out to have a strain that was particularly amenable to our and we were able to multi-line it and to cultivate it this was followed by the technological stages which manufactured the virus and then purified it and then killed it just so-called in activation process and as a result we get an industrial strain of the virus fit for mass production. because

i was there anyone who should avoid the vaccine looks and what are the country indications what's in the both of them so that's. the vaccine has no contraindications and no side effects another issue is that of associated diseases which in principle do not contribute to a good immunological response for example people with diabetes mellitus they're doing this work now and it is quite possible that in phase 3 when we identify groups with associated diseases we will learn how different groups react it may not be a question of contraindications but of the need for additional injection. yeah. does he's divine manufacturers said it was impossible to create an effective vaccine in such a short period of time but then the lancet magazine published advocacy data and many more people wanted to buy our faxing for you when you convinced the west that your vaccine is as effective a board simply really salacious but what's. the word cure if you do not have to

prove the prestige of our institution in the products it makes the institute is 60 years old and it's connected to the victory over polio and yellow fever and we deliver drugs for these diseases abroad so we don't need any promotion the pandemic has created something akin to a state of war so all our resources have been redirected towards launching the vaccine into civilian circulation but it is not about convincing anyone with everything we do meets the requirements of the world health organization with which we have close cooperation with the state has the task of solving the civil circulation issue and of doing the promotion the 1st challenge is to obtain the product to get it out there. because it's puzzles to over to the good in prague so when can we expect to see this vaccine in civilian circulation. hurts when we've set ourselves the goal of industrial production the 1st shipment will be made once additional demands have been met this should take place after the 20th of march would you the. people in new zealand have been encouraged to call out

rule breakers including friends and family to the authorities it comes after it emerged an infected person concealed contacts from disease traces auntie's nicky evan looks at the fine line between doing the right thing and snitching on your loved ones. amid the many lockdowns thousands of face masks and gallons of hand sanitizer coverage is also encourage families and friends to reconnect check in more often to family quizzes but also question who we can really trust in new zealand kiwis have been encouraged to turn detective and report to any rule breakers they come across whether they be your friendly local greengrocer or your dear old grandma even with a full understanding of human fallibility it is not appropriate and it is not ok a members of the team of 5000000 to leave the rest of us down and it seems it's

a proven practice remember last year when the shit number of do good snitching on their neighbors was so overwhelming it crashed a police website we've had 4200 reports of people believing compline again it shows. determined. to ensure that everyone complies with us convinced the idea of turning us into a world of informers is the key to compliance leaders across the globe competed for the most creative ways to encourages all to tell l a's matt opted for a cash incentive you know the old expression about snitches well in this case snitches get rewards we want to thank you for turning folks in and making sure we are all safe in washington police transformed a local up for a residence into an express line to rat on your neighbor with government in sleazy stay home stay healthy order in effect the bellevue police have developed an easy

way for residents to report violations reports logged into the my build view would generate a heat map showing where there are potentially illegal gatherings or business activity in italy such was the strength of the all seeing army they decided to make it official and created 60000 jobs for those who felt the need to daub in others and no souls was spat in germany as even politicians felt the wrath of the school you'd think the public might have been appalled by those measures but the enthusiasm was so overwhelming that some police stations of the u.k. were receiving so many calls that they had to create a separate special hotline for the whole of curtain twitching do gooders now there's nothing wrong with asking people to remain vigilant and helpful we all have to do our bit but what happens when code itself coughs it's lost in the pandemic finally blows over the curtain twitchers will just be left nervously twitching hoping to once again be friends and not enemies. the russian

communications watchdogs accuse twitter of malicious lea violating the country's laws saying that the social network failed to remove almost 3000 posts he says contained prohibited material and book it's been covering her 1st son. good morning to you daniel let's talk about 1st of all what is the content the russian regulators particularly unhappy about well reason is the relationship between ross canards or the russian media telling telecommunications regulator and twitter has become increasingly frayed and now the blows of come in court in the in the legal sense with these alleged violations now the regulator claims that since 2017 twitter has ignored over 28000 requests from the agency to remove various content various materials what is this material these include over 2000 posts that relate to either suicide or incitement of suicide hundreds of posts relating to

pornographic content with minors hundreds more to do with drugs or drug production so really content that would be problematic and which would face. questions in any country around the world and these. aren't limited to russia for example in the u.k. investigators there from the internet what's foundation found twitter was actually responsible for almost half of all content that was related to child sexual activity child sexual abuse nearly 1400 cases out of 2800 incidents in the united states across the pond in january twitter face a federal lawsuit again relating to display of the abuse of minors on their platforms so again this isn't the problem limited to russia perhaps it's got increased media attention given the recent allegations of twitter's involvement in those russian protests across the country so this is getting increased attention

probably given the the political contest yeah it sounds like obviously some serious concerns what can the russian regulators do to regulate twitter the myth of social media well twitter's a really face that multiple smaller fines for those breaches now those financial penalties could increase given the company's size and revenue they're not. likely to put a dent in their profits these are fines that going to be ranging from 10002110000 dollars if of course they are found guilty in court for repeat offenses though again should those allegations come forward should they be found guilty they could face fines up to a 5th of the revenue and that's going to go into the billions of rubles some of the millions of dollars should of course that go to court on twitter be found guilty of course both sides probably will be hoping to avoid that and resolve this other belief at all possible obvious question why is twitter not been deleting this discounts and the most people probably say should be out there do they have any kind of defense well that's the $1000000.00 question really because twitter over

the recent months has been very active indeed in blocking and deleting accounts in the united states for example twitter blocks around $70000.00 accounts relating to the q and on conspiracy the conspiracy claim donald trump is a war against satan worshipping paedophile $70000.00 of those accounts were banned with twitter saying in a blog post we've been clear will take strong enforcement action on behavior that has the potential to lead to offline harm that for the question does arise what you are on has been blocked to get why child sexual abuse and suicide and drugs has remained on the platform and in fact closer to home to russia in fact in february twitter blocked around $100.00 accounts which they claim has been linked with russian government users 60 on of those for example. calling to twitter a law and with the russian government as well as undermining faith in the nato alliance and its the believe you so this is clearly something twitter takes very

seriously far more seriously apparently drug production or incitement to violence at least according to russian state regulators so the case has now gone to court twitter of course is likely to contest these allegations there's probably going to be a bit of a legal back and forth here the media regulator is also on locking it up. given the previous record of breaches by the social media out of course you know social media has become increasingly politicized the arena globally. it's probably not the last we're going to hear of tensions between government agencies governments and social media the joints across all platforms tom thanks for much for the update on the whole kids with me in the studio and we spoke to jonas to come to chadwick more about stewardess come to policies. are routinely will add here to censorship and speech laws that other nations in this country are our laws are that there are no regulations reverse the minute the law is you can say whatever you

want with some very very very few exceptions to that and of course there's nobody by our laws so why would they we expect them to abide by laws in other countries why would expect them to listen to other governments now in this case i know that a couple dozen of those posts that twitter is yet to remove are legibly child pornography twitter is not a problem with child pornography even here in the united states while they've been obsessed with censoring you know center right voices and sort of affective conservatives and people who actively ridicule the media and the democrats and the left while they're busy with that they have let child pornography allegedly remember on the site there are accusations that people were human trafficked and had their horrible experiences documented broadcast on twitter. ok let's turn to all meany and now of the country's prime minister nicole passion yanna said that he's ready to hold early elections in an effort to resolve the

country's political crisis on monday protests both for and against the paid well held in his capital constantine's will scoff witness the event some felt. a lot has been going on in your of on lately and the 2 major rallies that were held both by the opposition and the supporters of the prime minister of they are officially over but people are still outside on this race and we're now let's actually follow with the supporters of the prime minister because after the rally it was over they started to march around the city they were shouting slogans in support of the prime minister there were no major clashes reported that was one of the greatest concerns of that day the police they blocked off the cordon off the area and they didn't let this a procession to go to the national parliament that's where the a position. is how they its own rally it now let me tell you that. he

used his rally to make several major political statements and now instruments and for example he said that he offered to hold a referendum a constitutional referendum to amend the constitution and change the country's political system and to give more power to the president and another another take away from his speech was that he said that he still insists that the head of the general staff of the armenian armed forces on a guest or on needs to wait and let me give you some back story here you see on a guest. along with other top generals he accused me called parchin on lately in a basically him being incompetent and of poor handling of the last war with his service john and he called for the rest of nation of the prime minister and so for that he was accused of staging a military coup and that's when the ricin crisis the recent political political crisis starts to unfold it seems like a lot lies ahead in front of the country in terms of political changes and in terms

of you know over common in general the. major political crisis of the last couple of years. here's a quick recap for you of the events that led to the current political turmoil last week the prime minister faced calls by the country's military to step down it followed months of unrest and stems from last year's conflict with neighboring azerbaijan which resulted in a peace deal many armenians view as a $1000018.00 defeat an internal accused of attempted coup and fired the country's top general that sparked a mass rallies from both supporters and opponents of the prime minister and later the presidents that didn't overruled the p.m.'s order to fire the armed forces chief of staff he spoke to global relations analyst marco gas which about russian younes political future. what's going on here is that after the defeats in the going to come about. is looking for

a strong leader and russia can only look strong if he stays in power otherwise sees . me as a lame duck who is weak unable to control the situation so telling in power until the elections is key to his chance of actually winning them i think there is the population is probably a little bit divided between the kind of pragmatists who feel that he could have done much better against the bijani forces and those who feel that he's generally cost that territory to armenia because of perhaps he is pro washington or insulation because all he's watch essentially drones are destroy the medium's defenses even they're going to cut back but i was saying to drones will be shot down extremely successfully in syria. by the same kind of russian technology that he tried to blame earlier so the question is why didn't he usual why didn't he procure all the correct technology that would have. made our media the

armenians rather in the going to come out against those drones that were depended against in syria. u.s. president joe biden's been accused of being too soft on saudi arabia to failing to deliver on his promise to punish the kingdom's crown prince for his alleged role in the murder of a prominent journalist elim orpen picks up the story you were as well recall how joe biden promised to hold saudi arabia accountable come down hard on them over the murder of jamal khashoggi. i said it at the time because he was in fact murdered and dismembered and i believe in the order of the crown prince and i would make it very clear we were not going to in fact sell more weapons to them we were going to in fact make them pay the price and make them in fact the pariah that they are but also it's just every they're going to saudi arabia sexes have been put against

certain individuals for what it is that i think suits me and we understand that hopefully it will be as individuals and if they can't give it to names i'm sure they would have the names lifted from those sanctioned lists ties with between saudi arabia and i to say it's little to depend on individuals neither by the northrop. built on historical record at all 7 decades overliteral interests and common values that these words came before joe biden became president but it seems things have certainly changed since he's taken office the kingdom of saudi arabia will continue to receive what joe biden refers to as defensive arms from the united states now it's not exactly clear who saudi arabia is defending itself as the war it is currently engaged in is taking place in yemen a foreign country as far as punishing the crown prince even though the f.b.i. has come forward and said that they have no doubt that mohamed bin solomon did

order the killing of jamal khashoggi at this point the biden ministration is saying the answer is more diplomacy diplomacy seems to be a key word of course we reserve the right to take any action at a time and manner of our choosing i will note steve that historically the united states through democratic and republican presidents has not typically sanctioned government leaders of countries where we have diplomatic relations now nobody seems happy with these actions we've got u.s. mainstream media and even fellow democrats speaking up and criticizing joe biden's . saying that saudi arabia needs to be held accountable for these actions and the moves he's taken are simply not enough leaders around the world who use violence to crush dissent really don't see any material punishment coming out of sanctioning 76 people who are not the crown prince you say hold them accountable and it just doesn't look like that when it comes to the notion of justice we now know that the

man most responsible is the crown prince and he hasn't been held accountable and they could do more they could put yes they could put him on the piece of bad less that's a step they could take generally when it comes to diplomacy the goal is to make everyone happy but here we have a situation where nobody seems happy when it comes to saudi arabia they denied that the crown prince was involved and say that it is time to move on further more and we've got visa restrictions for some saudi individuals meanwhile many of joe biden supporters are angry that it seems like saudi arabia is getting almost a slap on the wrist and not being fully held accountable so at this point nobody seems to be happy this is the new style of diplomacy from the biden white house. i guess i'm jaded enough the in the context of us politics the charge of a park prosy is a weak one we see it all the time he's definitely behaving differently from what he promised not 100 percent differently perhaps because there has been some shift but

this is definitely not the problem one so that was promised but the story's not over yet because congress has a say in this you have this government that basically exists because of the united states and yet the united states is so far we powerless to hold it accountable so the tail is wagging the dog as we say the government is and then it states but it's basically controlling us policy more than the other way around. a white employee of an elite liberal arts college in the united states has quit over what she called an atmosphere of racial discrimination in the school in turn joe the show's been accused of a power play she claims that a physical or mental health of been affected. was required to attend training a professional developer retreat and at the training i was asked to talk about my race in the context of my childhood i had asked i told my director beforehand that

i'm uncomfortable talking about race in the workplace we're not expected to talk about why it's not legal to ask about race in a job interview so i'm not clear on why we're expected to talk about it as a part of our job so i just said i'm a coder woodstock iraq race and she said that's fine just don't talk about is say you're uncomfortable so that is exactly what i did at the workshop the facilitators later told our group that any white person who is resistant to discussing their skin color when requested. is not actually uncomfortable what they are doing it is a power play it's called way fragility and it is power play. well the president of the college is denied the accusations calling them baseless in her resignation letter jodie sure that said that the climate change following an incident back in 2018 when a so-called cultural war erupted. if

you don't. mind is eating lunch and we're. ringback trying to stuff like this happens way too often where people just like. to show believe that the college could take a different approach to the sensitive issue of race. college is very invested in

talking about race in a way that i find is racially hostile and so i believe you for going to talk about race let's talk about it in a meaningful authentic manner which we're not they're not doing presidents i've curriculum really is a quickie on that teaches students that their identity is actually a social identity which is made up of immutable characteristics that is their race their gender their ethnicity but usually race at smith race is a big one it's essentially telling them that their skin color is their destiny and it's also setting up this strange dynamic or i would could even call it a toxic dynamic between students of color and white students in which white students of color can only be free if white students confess their oppressor status or their white privilege as they call it. in the meantime

a dutch poet pulled out of translating a poem by black american author of on the goldman after the publisher was criticized for not picking a black translate to fill the role is to me to pound takes a closer look poetry whether it's your mediums that are used to express complex feelings provoke thoughts and still hope call for unity but in 2021 it's not so much about the message anymore it's more about the skin color of those who deliver it or even translate it amanda gorman a young black author recited her poem the hills we climate biden's inauguration in it she called for peace and unity and the togetherness of the american people and her poem inspired many including dutch author marie clucas reinfeldt who is the youngest winner of the international booker prize award and she was chosen to translate gorman's work into dutch. it's a time of increasing polarization and agreement show seen here young boys

a power of spoken word the power of reconciliation the power of someone who looks to the future instead of looking down when i was asked to translate all they could do was say yes and get behind her but it seems reinfeld underestimated the increasing polarization of today's perpetually offended society the announcement quickly caused an uproar why because gorman is black and reinbold who is translating or is white and as we know in 20 story one that is just simply unacceptable naturally the mounting criticisms lead ryan veld serve reject the assignment completely i am shocked by their pro or error on my involvement in the dissemination of amend the government's message and understand people who feel hurt by the choice. so yet again the fragile her always offended apps of what they wanted and turned a message about unity and peace into yet another racial and identity politics

scandal and apparently from now on everything should just be segregated based on superficial features like race gender or skin color etc and if you're white and not waving the flag of surrender which is also white then you just might be a racist. and that brings you right up to date thanks for your company here on alt sci join me for more in the bout the. next geysers by that's all survival. when customers go by you reduce the price. well reduce some lower. that's undercutting but what's good for food markets it's

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