part. just to look for common ground. is the vacuum prime minister brushes aside geo politics is the new country receives its 1st 200000 doses of russia sputnik the vaccine. as well as new zealand encourages people to call out coded rule breakers we have snitching is becoming a symptom of the pandemic. know the news media prime minister says he's ready to hold early elections political unrest over a standoff with the military intensifies. which is in trouble as russia accuse it of failing to remove material linked to child pornography suicide and throughout the.

day here in the russian capital you are watching r.t. and. the virus was 1st detected in russia exactly a year ago today the country became the 1st in the world to register a covert vaccine namely sputnik thing which has since been distributed around the world with the vacuum becoming the 39th nation to give it the green light monday bratislava received its 1st batch of 200000 doses of the russian chap slovakia battles against the world's highest covert $900.00 death rate the 2nd year nation to register despite recent skepticism from the bloc countries prime minister said that when it comes to viruses though geopolitics shouldn't be a factor. in. buying this russian vaccine was the right thing to do it's trust with anyone who wants to jam to get to the next 2 months we will get 1000000 vaccines

and then in may in june another 1000000 i believe by meeting with deadline he promised supplies russia will prove that it's a stable partner we can rely on. 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. and now russia's registered its 3rd homegrown corona virus vaccine is called back and it's expected to be lost later this month we spoke with the director of the center behind the jap . when you pulled out of the can you explain what makes the kovi vaccine different and uses a deactivated virus and what does that actually me. was when. 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 a whole cell vaccine approach that we've been developing for many years to get all

of the vaccines at the to mock of center are based on this method a significant number of our vaccines form part of the russian national vaccination calendar report from and. they were how long did it take to develop the vaccine how did you test it 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 as well as a result we get an industrial strain of the virus fit for mass production.

does he's devoted manufacturers said it was impossible to create an effective vaccine in such a short period of time but then the lancet magazine published people the efficacy data and many more people wanted to buy our faxing but you know you convinced the west that your vaccine is as effective a board simply really salacious but what's the. word cure but if you do not have to prove the prestige of our institution in the products that may exist the institute is 60 years old and it's going to act it's a victory over polio and yellow fever and then we deliver drugs for these diseases abroad so we don't need any promotion the pandemic is. something akin to a state of wars all our resources have been redirected towards launching the vaccine into civilian circulation to put 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 doing the promotion to the 1st challenge is to obtain the product you need to get it out there your goal or your. new zealand's prime

minister is encourage people to call out rule breakers including friends and family to the authorities aunties daycare 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 a full understanding of human fallibility it is not appropriate and it is not ok for members of the team of 5000000 to let the rest of us down and it seems it's a proven practice remember last year when the shit number of do that 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 how. 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 inslee stay home stay healthy order in effect the bellevue police have developed an easy way

for residents to report violations reports log 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 spared in germany as even politicians felt the wrath of the squeal is 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 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 of maliciously violating the country's law saying the social network fails to remove all 3000 posts that contain prohibited material relating to child pornography suicide and drugs auntie's dung hawkins talk to me about this earlier in the studio. well in recent times social media giants of really found themselves at the center of controversy all over the world and russia has been no exception zoar the russian media and telecommunications regulator has said they've submitted around 28000 requests to 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 contineu creating 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 across the pond in america twitter face the federal lawsuit in california back in january again for content posted 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 then the twitter will do it as a ready face multiple small financial penalties in russia for breaching the country's laws these are likely to increase and what talking very big sums from $10000.00 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 cycle settled legally. i would have thought. me alone in thinking that twitter 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 will link to the russian government and many of which $69.00 of which used. that were lined with the russian government or according to twitter on the mind faith in the nato alliance and it's the belief this is something clear to the czechs very seriously and more seriously than child abuse pornography drugs or suicide. bombers or has responded asking twitter 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 but really in an arena that's 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 twitter routinely will hear to censorship and speech laws and other nations in this country are our laws are that

there are no regulations were 1st amendment the law is you can say whatever you want with some very very very few exceptions to that and of course those abide by our laws so why would they we expect them to buy laws in other countries why we expect them to listen to other governments now in this case i know that. dozen of those posts that twitter is yet to remove or legibly child pornography tritter is not a problem with child pornography that 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 and broadcast on twitter. now a case of social justice or discrimination hutch poetess pulled out of translating

a poem by an african-american author of to criticism that a black translator was picked for the job to me to prompt takes a closer look 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 and agreement shows in her 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 her 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 prove my involvement in the dissemination of a man the government's message and that and this 10 people who feel hurt by the choice. so yet again the fragile her always offended at sophists got what they wanted and turned a message about unity and peace and see 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 you want to employ you to an elite u.s. college steps down over what she calls an atmosphere of racial discrimination in the school story of more still to come. join me every thursday on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe.

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a said that he is 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 on a guest or on 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 procession to go to the national parliament that's where the a 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. ok so let's recap 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 all stemming from last year's conflict with neighboring azerbaijan resulting in a peace deal many armenians viewed as a humiliating defeat on in terms of queues the military of attempting a coup he fired the country's top general who spout mass rallies from both supporters and opponents of the hun minister and later the president stepped in to overrule the p.m.'s order to fire the armed forces chief of staff he spoke to global relations on this market gas at about washing and political future. but what's going on here is that after the defeats in the government kind of back. 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 those 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 were depended 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 at the school so be sure says the environment there are 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 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 the accusations and called them in front baseless in a resignation letter judicial said the climate at the college and changed full of an incident that occurred back in 2018. if you don't. mind is eating lunch i'm working 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.

this for the outcome of the 2018 investigation judicial believes that 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 presidents 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 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 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. finally u.s. president joe biden has been accused of being too soft on saudi arabia soft info to deliver on his promise to punish the kingdom's crown prince for an alleged role in the murder of a prominent journalist and i'm open house more. 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 the soldier 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 were going to

make them pay the price and make them in fact the pariah that they are guys with if you saw the rebbe and i desisted a lot depends on individuals neither by the north room. built on a historical record over 7 decades over which really interests and common values 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 yet been held accountable and they could do more they could put m.b.'s 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 the 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 poor 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 is and then the states but

it's basically controlling u.s. policy more than the other way around on the bridge right up to date appreciate company have an international join me for more now top stories in 30 minutes. 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 the person who falsely fast actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior once a false confession is taken the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between

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