one year on since corona virus was 1st detected in russia and the country now has 3 home grown vaccines it was the bank of becoming the united nations receives but the very. courageous people to call out code rule breakers we ask if snitching is becoming a symptom of the pandemic. of the news the armenian prime minister says he's ready to hold early elections as political unrest over its standoff with the military intensifies. twitter is in trouble as russia accuses it of failing to remove material linked to child pornography suicide drugs.

either you're watching r.t. international thanks for joining us. colonel 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 sputnik v which is since been distributed around the world with slovakia becoming the 39th nation to give it the green light monday bratislava received its 1st batch of 200000 doses of the russian jab slovakia's battles the world's highest covert 900 death rate is the 2nd deviation to bridge the spending despite recent skepticism from the bloc countries prime minister said though 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 jab will get 1. 2 months we will get 1000000

vaccines and then in may in june another 1000000 i believe that by meeting with deadline is promised supplies russia will prove that its a stable partner 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. when our us has registered its 3rd homegrown coronavirus vaccine kovacs which is expected to be lost later in the month we spoke with the director of the center that's behind the job. when you were pulled out of a can you explain what makes the kovi vaca vexing different and uses a deactivated virus but what does that actually me. we used a process called in activation which basically means killing the virus of 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 and the significant number of our vaccines form part of the russian national vaccination calendar report. causing a lot of the book that 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 virus as we went 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 a manageable 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.

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 efficacy data and many more people wanted to buy our faxing but you know you convinced the west that your vaccine is as effective aboard sebelius elation 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 so this disease is abroad so we don't need any promotion the pandemic is. 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 interviewing the promotion to the 1st challenge is to obtain the product you need to get it out there or where your. new zealand's prime

minister has encouraged people to call out covert rule breakers including friends and family to the authorities to his nicaea and looks into whether snitching on your neighbors has become a symptom of the pandemic. the many lockdowns thousands of face masks and gallons of hand sanitizer code of it 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 for 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 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 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 bill 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 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 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 watchdog has

accused twitter of maliciously violating the country's law saying the social network failed to remove almost 3000 posts to contain prohibited material relating to child pornography suicide and drugs artie's daniel hawkins discussed this with me earlier here in the studio. well recent time 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 $2800.00 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 board which is already faced multiple small financial penalties in russia for breaching the country's laws these are likely to increase and what not 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 cage 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 i can't be 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 $100.00 twitter accounts from russia which they claim will link to the russian government and many of which $61.00 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 that 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 doesn't abide by our laws so why would they expect them to buy laws in other countries why we expect them to listen to other governments now in this case i know that. well dozen of those posts that twitter as yet your move or legend the child pornography traitor 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 or broadcast on twitter. a case of social justice or discrimination a dutch poet has pulled out of translating

a poem by an african american author of to criticism a black translator wasn't picked for the job on he is to meet you takes a closer look amanda gorman a young black author recited her poem on the hills we climb and biden's inauguration and 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 show seen here young boys a poet 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 her is white and as we know in 20 story one that is just simply unacceptable naturally the mounting criticisms led brian veld serve reject the assignment completely i am shocked by their pro or error on my involvement in the dissemination of a man the government's massive 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 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 of white employees get an elite u.s. college steps down over what she calls an obvious figure of racial discrimination at the school bus story of more on the way. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic probably the only mostly. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk.

welcome back to 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 that the environment there affected physically and mentally. 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 wait for delivery and it is power play the president of the colleges do not deficient schooling the baseless in a resignation letter szell said that the climate at the college and changed to

falling in incident in 2018. 0 i know 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.

it was fun the outcome of the 2018 investigation 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 residents of 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 that'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. u.s. president joe biden has been accused of being too soft on saudi arabia after failing to deliver on his promise to punish the kingdom's crown prince for his alleged role in the mode of a prominent journalist emote and picks up a 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 was in fights murdered and dismembered and i believe on the old 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 now 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 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 m.p.'s that could put him on the piece of bad less that's a step they could. thank you 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 oh 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 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 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 only powerless to hold them 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. so long to media now where thousands of people took part in rallies on monday is the political crisis between the country's prime minister the military intensifies speaking to his supporters and said that he's ready to hold elections. if the parliament agrees to the terms of an election we will accept the early elections because we are sure that our people are

able to freely express themselves and choose a legitimate government you know media bashing and also proposed a referendum on a new constitution in an effort to calm tensions there's a rival rally was held nearby but those on the other side of the barricades were not convinced. we're strongly against the elections will hold the elections only when he leaves office will stand for the end to force the government outs in a year there will be elections and people will choose who they want. what kind of elections should there be the country split in 2 i was in ukraine during the origin of illusion they had a similar scenario the country was also divided they say we're staying for the people but who are the people the people are those living in the country and they don't need this division. and here's a recap for you of events that led to the current political turmoil last week the prime minister faced calls by the country's military to step down following months of undressed which stemmed from last year's conflict with neighboring as

a by resulting in a peace deal that many armenians view as a humiliating defeat person done in turn accuse the military of attempting to kill you and fired the country's top general it sparked mass rallies from both supporters and opponents of the prime 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 a spark of gas each about rushing and political future. but what's going on here is that after the defeats in the. union. is looking for a strong leader and russia can only look strong if he stays in power always sees. me as a lame duck who's weak unable to control the situation so it's very unfair until the. actions is key to his chance of actually winning them i think that is the population is probably a little bit divided between a car pragmatists who feel that he could have done much better against the as

a johnny paul says and those who feel that he's generally cost that territory to armenia because of perhaps he is a pro washington or inflation because only he's watched essentially tucker drones out destroy the medium's defenses in the going to cut a back but i was saying to his 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 use or 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. staying with our team throughout the morning and early afternoon i do stick around if you can check him to get his updates for you and often out.

there are 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 the stake in the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that isn't. same wrong. but old rules just. mean you get to shape out just because get educated and engage with equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. 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 that go to the banks 1st and they don't distribute a whole lot to. become a billionaire he didn't actually produce anything he just keeps all the money that the government prints.

this is the one business show you can't afford to miss branch of war in washington coming up big oil price has yet again after a difference a major news from both institutional and national government straight ahead we get some expert analysis on the matter plus the fact the nation process in the u.s. just picked up even more steam as johnson and johnson's vaccine has been cleared for use we'll bring you up to speed on the rollout and where global numbers stand and later u.s. equities are rallying after a dismal week we'll break down the market movement impact show today so let's dive right in. and we lead the program with the latest in the world of big oil big oil has rallied again after dropping to its lowest price in weeks at a time of broadcast the world's largest crypto currency is now sitting just above $48000.00 after dropping to just over $43000.00 now even so consider this from last march until now the price of big point has climbed from

$4700.00 per quarter to that $48000.00 mark we just mentioned again $47000.00 pourquoi to $48000.00 and that's just in one year so it raises the question. is because we're now at a tipping point where it could become the preferred currency for international trade well joining us now this justice that is our panel of crypto experts who bust co-hosts ben swan and christy i thank you both so much for being here i know you guys love talking about this so much christine i want to start with you let's talk about this is big point at a tipping point as some are say. well this is a really interesting idea that citibank and it certainly as well as far back climb the fact that the international clare's now such as master card and micro strategy have now the embrace i mean this could be the start of the massive transformation into the mainstream so big crime which started out as a pure pure play.