last fall victim to the bombs dropped decades ago is the u.s. making amends for the tragedy in laos built to the people need in that little land of mine. the slovakian prime minister brushes aside geopolitics is the country receives its 1st 200000 doses of russia's. new zealand encourages people to call outs covert rule breakers we ask if snitching is becoming a symptom of the pandemic. so in bad light field the new prime minister says he's ready to hold early elections as political unrest of a standoff with the military intensifies. twitter is in trouble as russia accuses of failing to remove material linked to child pornography suicide and.

very good morning to you thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. corona virus was 1st detected here in russia exactly one year ago today the country then became the 1st in the world to register a covert vaccine spooking feed which is since been distributed around the world slovakia becoming the 39th nation to give it the green light a monday bratislava received its 1st batch of 200000 doses of the russian jam slovakia battles the world's highest bid 900 death rate 2nd do you know nation to bridge the sputnik v. despite recent skepticism coming out of 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 trust where

the anyone who wants the job will get one in the next 2 months we will get 1000000 vaccines and then in may in june another 1000000 i believe that by meeting the deadlines and promised supplies russia will prove that it's a stable partner that we can rely on in these hard times since the coded 1000 pandemic does not pay attention to geopolitical issues and the protection of human life prevails above all else we have seen fit to buy a russian vaccine so that slovak's who wish to can get vaccinated. now russia's registered its 3rd homegrown corona virus vaccine cover fuck which is expected to be launched later in the month we spoke with the director of the center behind the jail. when you argue across the pulled out of the can you explain what makes the kovi vaca vaccine different it uses a deactivated virus but what does that actually me. was would it work we used a process called in activation which basically means killing the virus vaccines usually use a live virus or an already dead one we're dealing with an inactivated whole cell

vaccine approach that we've been developing for many years all of the vaccines that that you mock of center are based on this method a significant number of our vaccines form part of the russian national vaccination calendar causing a lot of that they were how long did it take to develop the vaccine how did you test it. 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 time frame there are other technologies involved a key step was extracting the virus we went to various clinics and took blood samples from sick patients and tested for the presence of the virus one patient turned out to have a strain that was particularly amenable to our ends we were able to multi-line it and to cultivate it this was followed by the technological stages which manufactured the virus then purified it and then killed it the so-called in activation process as

a result we get an industrial strain of the virus fit for mass production you know which will give you go across the sky doesn't foreign manufacturers said it was impossible to create an effective vaccine in such a short period of time then the lancet magazine published these efficacy data and many more people want to buy our faxing how will you convince the west that your vaccine is as effective. as it would put if we 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 it's not about convincing anyone everything we do meets the requirements of the world health organization with which we have close cooperation the state has the task of solving the civil circulation issue and of

doing the promotion the 1st challenge is to obtain the product and then to get it out there. new zealand's prime minister is encouraging people to call out coven rule breakers that includes friends and family to the authorities nick evan looks into whether snitching on your neighbors has become i said some of the pandemic. amidst 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 allays 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 governor 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 believe you would generate a heat map showing where there are potentially illegal gatherings business activity and it's really such was the strength of the all seeing army they decided to make it official and created $60000.00 jobs for those who felt the need to daub in others and no souls were spared 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 in 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 covert itself cost it's lost in the pandemic fatherly blows over the curtain twitchers will just be left nervously twitching

hoping to once again be friends and not enemies. the russian communications watchdog has accused twitter of maliciously violating the country's laws saying that the social network failed to remove almost 3000 posts containing prohibited material was it on you hawkins talked about this earlier here in the studio. they've sent over 28000 requests since 2017 to remove various items of content they've said that twitter has failed to remove many of these these include around 2000 posts that relate to self harm and suicide inciting. suicide and self harm hundreds relating to the pornographic content involving minors children and hundreds more relating to drugs or drug productions to really conduct that would raise both eyebrows and questions in many countries across the world and in that sense russia really isn't unique if you take the u.k.

for example recent investigation there by the internet what's foundation found twitter was actually responsible for nearly half of all content that related to child sexual abuse over 1400 incidents out of 2800 in the united states twitter face the federal lawsuit in california this was back in january which again related to displaying content evolving child sexual material clearly undesirable material being distributed on twitter what could the consequences be for them well twitter's already face to some relatively minor financial penalties being fined by ross kanalz or previously it's likely these are going to increase and given the company's revenue and size they're not going to be huge for repeat offenses it does get more serious twitter could be fined up to a 5th of the country's revenue for those repeat offenses and that of course could run into billions of rubles which is millions of dollars should the court find them guilty do you think that those initial pretty small fines maybe explain why twitter

hasn't been doing intend to delete the content must been stopping them well that's the 1000000 dollar question because i mean it has been very active in blocking and deleting accounts in many spears in recent times and in america for example go back to the states twitter said we've been clear will take strong enforcement action on behavior that has the potential to lead to off. and harm you think that could relate perhaps to child pornography or suicide or drug use related to blocking 70000 accounts linked to q and on the conspiracy theory that says donald trump is fighting the satan worshipping paedophiles in the media and in government those accounts are very quick to be blocked indeed closer to home in february twitter blocks around 100 accounts that they stated were linked to russian to the russian government and 69 of those accounts were to set. narratives that aligned with the russian government or underlined faith in the nato alliance and its the booty so

these are things clearly that twitter takes very seriously and is happy to block with relative speed yet not so quick to block content that clearly could be more harmful and he has requested evidence from twitter as to what accounts exactly are linked to the russian government and what the proof of that is i believe they're still waiting for the comment on the so the case has now gone to court as we've said twitter's lucky to contest. or is likely to push on this really isn't the process that's going to go anywhere given that social media is becoming increasingly politicized the arena around the whole world certainly not the last case we're going to hear here in russia or indeed in other countries we spoke with journalist and commentator chandu more about twitter's content policies. twitter routinely will add here to censorship and speech laws and other nations in this country are our laws are that there are no regulations in a person meant the law is you can say whatever you want with some very very very

few exceptions to that and of course doesn't buy 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 that here in the united states well 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 and broadcast on twitter. now a case of social justice still discrimination a poet to supposed out of translating

a poem by an african-american all the polling criticism that a black translate to wasn't picked for the job on his to me to pound takes a closer look at the story. poetry whether a church or 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 climb and 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 to tell us increasing polarization and agreement chosen her young boys a poem 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 i 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 there is white and as we know in 2021 that is just simply unacceptable naturally the mounting criticisms lead brian veld serve reject the assignment completely i am shocked by their prove or error on my involvement in the dissemination of amend the government's message and that and this 10 people who feel heard by the choice. so yet again the fragile her always offended at god what they wanted and turned a message about unity and peace and so 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. coming up after the break a white employee it's an elite u.s. college steps down over what she's called an atmosphere of racial discrimination in the school story coming up.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. and spearing dramatic development only. exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk.

welcome back was turned to media now where thousands of people took part in rallies on monday as the political crisis between the country's prime minister a military intensifies speaking to supporters and said that he's ready to hold early elections. if the parliament agrees to the terms of an election we will accept the urgent actions because we are sure that our people are able to freely express themselves and choose a legitimate government in armenia. 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 are on it just for a needs to wait and let me give you some back story here you see on the guest. along with other top generals he accused me called parchin on lately in a basically 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 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 position. is held in its own rally 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. the kids get a quick recap then of events that led to the current political turmoil last week the prime minister faced calls by the country's military to step down in 4 months of unrest all that stemming from last year's conflict with neighboring azerbaijan which resulted in a peace deal many armenians view as a humiliating defeat and yan into nikki's the military of attempting a coup and the country's top general ban sparked mass rallies from both supporters and opponents of the prime minister they say the president stepped in and overruled the p.m.'s order to fire the armed forces chief of staff spoke to global relations analyst mark of gas it's about passion and political future. so i think what's going on here is that after the defeat in the government. 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's 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 car pragmatists who feel that he could have done much better against the as 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 turkish drones are destroyed the armenians defenses even they're going to cut back but as same turkish 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. depended on media

the armenians rather in the going to come out against those drones that would depend against in syria. and white employee of an elite liberal arts college in america has quit over what she called an atmosphere of racial discrimination in the school judicial sense the environment that affected both physical and mental health. i 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 woods talking about race and she said that's fine just don't talk about to 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 and the president of the college has denied the accusations calling them baseless in a resignation letter judicial said that the club is at the college of changed only an incident in 2018 when a so-called coatroom war erupted. if you don't know you're going to you're always eating lunch i'm working in the summer

program so he says realizing only kelly says it's ok just like china stuff like this happens way too often where people just feel like threatened. was for the outcome of the $28000.00 investigation showed the show believes the probe only served to stoke racial tensions of the college. 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 residence i've curriculum really is a critical in 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 mutually race at smith races 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 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. u.s. president joe biden's been accused of being too soft saudi arabia if they failed to deliver on his promise to punish the kingdom's crown prince for the alleged role in the murder of a prominent journalist caleb opened picks up the story. you were is will recall how joe biden promised to hold saudi arabia accountable come down hard on them over the

murder of jamal khashoggi i said that at the time she was in fights murdered and dismembered and i believe on the order of the crown prince and i would make it very clear we would not going to sell more weapons to them we are going to make them pay the price and make them in fact the pariah that they are ties with. and i just say this little to depend on individuals neither by the north. built on a historical record of 7 decades over literally interests and common values that these words came before joe biden became president but it seems things have certainly changed since he has taken office the kingdom of saudi arabia will continue to receive what joe biden refers to as defensive arms from the united states 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 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 just. yes 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. stuff they could take 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 our 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 to in the context of u.s. politics the charge of apocrypha the is the 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 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 him accountable so the tail is wagging the dog as we say the government has penned in states but it's basically controlling u.s. policy more than the other way around there's a joining me this morning here on out international updates on our top stories in 30 minutes. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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ago is the u.s. making amends for the tragedy and. to the people need in the too little. in today's world it seems like there is no absence of people willing to talk and share their opinion but are we hearing from the people whose voice is the most important today we are going to look at a new social media platform woking to put your voice in the spotlight speaking of voices we heard donald trump's voice for 90 minutes at his 1st official speech after leaving office we're going to go over all the details of his speech as well as other highlights from this past weekend's conservative pep rally in orlando plus

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