his prime minister brushes aside geo politics is the country receives its 1st 200000 doses of vaccine. as new zealand encourages people to call out covert rule breakers we ask if snitching is becoming a symptom of the pandemic. know the news the armenian prime minister says that he's ready to hold elections as political unrest over a standoff with the military intensifies. to it is in trouble as russia accuses it of failing to remove material linked to child pornography suicide and drugs.

other thanks for joining us this is r.t. international. corona virus was 1st detected here in russia exactly a year ago today the country then became the 1st in the world to register a covert vaccine namely the which is since been distributed around the world with slovakia becoming the 39th nation to give it the green light on monday bratislava received its 1st batch of 200000 doses of the russian jab slovakia battles with the world's highest covert 908 the 2nd day you nation to register sputnik v. despite recent skepticism from the block respondents to said that when it comes to viruses geopolitics shouldn't be a factor. anybody. 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 covert 1000 pandemic does not pay attention to geopolitical issues in 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 current virus vaccine. is expected to be lost later in the month we spoke with the director of the center that's behind the job when you argue across 4 pulled out of a can you explain what makes the kovacs back seem different he uses a deactivated virus but what does that actually me. was were in the queue works 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 mark of center are based on this method

a significant number of our vaccines form part of the russian national vaccination calender. causing a lot of the book at the what how long did it take to develop the vaccine how did you test it. where 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 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 which will give you go across the sky doesn't ease the 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 has encouraged people to call out covert

rule breakers including friends and family to the authorities. and looks into whether snitching on your neighbors has become a symptom of the pandemic. amid the many lockdowns thousands of face masks and gallons of hand sanitizer kind of it has 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 the full understanding of human fallibility it is not appropriate and it is not ok a members of the team of 5000000 to meet the rest of us down and it seems it's a proven practice remember last year when the shit number of do that is snitching on their neighbors was so overwhelming it crashed a police website we've had 4200 reports of people

believing others were complying 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 encourage as though to tell allays mare 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 inslee 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 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 there's some police stations in the u.k. were receiving so many calls that they had to create a separate special hotline for the hold 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 coburn 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 watchdog has accused twitter maliciously violating the country's law

saying the social network failed to remove almost 3000 posts in turning prohibited material that related to child pornography suicide drugs. auntie's don't hold its been across this story for us dan 1st of all what is the content that the russian regulator 1st was referring to when recent times social media giants of really found themselves at the center of controversy all over the world in russia has been no exception zoar the russian media and telecommunications regulator has said they've submitted around 28000 requests through twitter since 2017 to remove various items of content now these relate to various categories some of them 2000 posts relating to self harm or inciting suicide posts involving child sex abuse pornographic continuity minors as well as hundreds of posts relating to drugs our drug production and use really posts that would raise eyebrows and questions in any country across the world and in that sense russia really isn't unique for example

if you take the u.k. investigators there recently from the internet watch foundation discover that twitter was actually responsible for nearly half of all content and relating to child sex abuse $1400.00 incidents out of around $2800.00 across the pond in america twitter face the federal lawsuit in california back in january again for content posted that related to child sexual abuse material so this sort of problem really transcends boundaries and has often pitted social media giants against governments or government regulators in multiple countries yes some disturbing sounding content there what are the possible consequences that the twitter although it is a really faced multiple small financial penalties in russia for breaching the country's laws these are likely to increase or more not talking very big sums from 10000 dollars to $110000.00 is really a drop in the ocean if you look at the company's size and revenue but if they are

found guilty of repeated breaches if the cake that goes to court they're found guilty and fined this could increase to a 5th of the company's. revenue for repeat offenses and that could of course run into billions of rubles which is millions of dollars and now the company will be hoping to avoid this hopefully the 2 can come to some sort of amicable conclusion so far though it is going to court and it will be settled legally. i would have thought. i can't be alone in thinking that it would do would have policed this kind of content sharply and in great incentive to do so they seem to be quick enough on political content why not this well that's the big question as you say twitter's been very quick recently to ban to block certain types of posts and accounts if you take america for example twitter was very quick to a group of around 70000 accounts relating to the q. and on conspiracy theory that donald trump was fighting satan worshipping paedophiles in the media and big business they were very clear to crack down on

that similarly closer to home in february twitter actually brought around 100 twitter accounts from russia which they claim were linked to the russian government and many of which $69.00 of which used narratives that were aligned with the russian government or according to twitter on the mind faith in the nato alliance and it's the this is something clear to the text very seriously and more seriously than child abuse pornography drugs or suicide. bombers or has responded asking through to for evidence of these accounts for proof of their links to the government they're still waiting i believe to get any response on that so the case has now gone to court twitter is locked into contest these accusations the russian media regulator is also unlikely to back down but really in an arena that is increasingly becoming politicized through social media it's unlikely we're going to see the last of these cases both here in russia and across the world as well many thanks for the details. well we'll stay with the story because we spoke to

journalist commentator account with more about twitter's clinton 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 or 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 those and by by our laws so why would they we expect them to abide by laws in other countries i would expect them to listen to other governments now in this case i know that a couple dozen of those posts that twitter as yet your move are legibly child pornography twitter is not a problem with child pornography even here in the united states well they've been obsessed with sensory 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. next the case of social justice or discrimination that's poet is pulled out of a translation of a poem by an african-american all through criticism that a black translate to wasn't paid for the job to mention pound takes a closer look at the story. amanda gorman a young black author recited her poem on 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 palm inspired many including dutch author marie clueless 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 amend 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 there is white and as we know in 20 to 41 that is just simply unacceptable naturally the mounting criticisms lead ryan rolled 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 that and this 10 people who feel heard by the choice. so yet again the fragile her always offended apps of god 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. that's come for you a white employee with an elite u.s. college steps down over what she called an atmosphere of racial discrimination at the school store end of this still to go. to. the banks are supposed to be distributing the money that's their job but instead they hold onto and say we're just going to buy more houses for ourselves and we don't care that we're not distributing it you know all these relief programs they

go to the banks 1st and they don't distribute the whole lot to. become a billionaire he didn't actually produce anything he just keeps all the money that the government prints. so it's seemed wrong. will just don't. let me. get to seep out these days become educated and in gains from it equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

welcome back let's turn to media now where thousands of people taken part in rallies on monday as the political crisis between the country's prime minister and military intensified speaking to his supporters. 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 our 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 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 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 this. major political crisis of the last couple of years. ok let's give you a quick recap than events that led to the current political turmoil last week the prime minister faced calls by the country's military to step down in following months of unrest all that stemming from russia's conflict with neighboring as a vice which resulted in a peace deal many armenians views a humiliating defeat and in turn accused the military of attempting to kill you and fight the country's top general that sparked a mass rallies from both supporters and opponents of the prime minister and later the presidents that overruled the p.m.'s order to fire the armed forces chief of staff who spoke to global relations on this market gas it shows how little future.

but what's going on here is that after the defeats in the normal kind of. lenient lation is looking for a strong leader and pressure 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 couldn't 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 inflation because all he's watch essentially turkish drones are destroyed the medium's defenses even they're going to cut back but i was saying 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 were depended against in syria. a white employee of a elite liberal arts college in america has quit of what she called an atmosphere of racial discrimination at the school judicial system environment there affected both a physical or 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 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 weight fragility and it is power play the president of the college is denied dictations in fact call them baseless in a resignation letter jody szell said the climate at the college had changed following an incident in 2018 when a so-called cultural war erupted. if

you don't know where you are you owe me is eating lunch i'm working in the summer program so he says realizing how many calories it's ok's is like trying to stuff like this happens way too often where people just feel like trained. to spot the outcome of the $28000.00 of us cation jodi show believes that the probe only served to stoke racial tensions at 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 has been accused of being too soft to arabia who failed to deliver on a promise to punish the kingdom's crown prince for his alleged role in the murder of a prominent journalist 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 i 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 know it's going to sell more weapons to them we're going to make them pay the price and make them in fact the pariah that they are close with this week to saudi arabia and i have to say this little depend on individuals neither by the north. built on a historical record at all 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's 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 that's a step 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 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 ship 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 them accountable so the tail is wagging the dog as we say the government has been then in states but it's basically controlling u.s. policy more than the other way around precise time without international return without in half an hour. tactics that can be used to get innocent people to confess to crimes they didn't commit i don't even think people in the us really get that the police are allowed

to lie to you the person who falsely confessed actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior. confession a stake in the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession one that is. since it other than. come with me pay them is going to the both of us to him i'm. only do so. for one. crock if you're not just the type to use a penny to tie me in the next tongues arms mom i'm going to have. been. used in feel good to know it is a. little too melodramatic doesn't it but again it was on those on the other.

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