in the day's headlines one year since the 1st case of corn a virus was found in a russian national and the country now has 3 home grown back scenes becomes the 39th nation to receive one of them is what makes the. as new zealand encourages people to call out code big rule breakers we ask if snitching is becoming a symptom of the pandemic. also this hour the armenian prime minister says he's ready to hold early elections as political unrest over his standoff with the military intensifies. and twitter is in trouble as russia accuses it of failing to remove material link to child pornography suicide and drugs.

come to the program this tuesday afternoon this is art international bring your live news update this hour. slovakia has become the 39th country to give the green light to russia sputnik the coronavirus vaccine on monday abroad received its 1st batch of 200000 doses of the russian job market battles the world's highest coated $1000.00 death rate per capita at the 2nd e.u. nation to roche search sputnik 3 despite recent skepticism from the block the country's prime minister said that when it comes to viruses geopolitics shouldn't matter. buying this russian vaccine was the right thing to do it's trust with the anyone who wants the jap will get one in the next 2 months we will get 1000000 vaccines and then in may and 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 $1000.00 pandemic does not pay attention to geopolitical issues and the protection of human life prevails above all else we've seen fits to buy a russian vaccine so that slovak's who wish to can get vaccinated. on march the 1st one year ago the 1st case of crown a virus was detected any russian national country has come a long way since then and can now boast 3 homegrown vaccines and it's anti covert arsenal.

i. russia's 3rd homegrown corona virus vaccine coming back is expected to be launched later this month we spoke with the director of the center behind the job. when you will put out of the can you explain what makes the kovi vaca vaccine different he uses a deactivated virus but what does that actually me. would you know 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 in 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 the book at what how long did it take to develop the vaccine how did you test it with you know where i'm of the new 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 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 inactivation process as a result we get an industrial strain of the virus fit for mass production you know

which from the give you go to moscow 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 you're vaccinate he's as effective. as you not to because it would but if you do not have to prove the prestige of our institution in the products it makes the institute is 60 years old and it's connected to the victory over polio and yellow fever and we deliver drugs for these diseases abroad so we don't need any promotion the pandemic has. 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. is the prime minister has encouraged people to report covert rule breakers including friends and family to the authorities artistic era 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 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 day 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 the 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 encourage as though to tell allays met 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 residents into an express line to rat on your neighbor with government 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 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 ole 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 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 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 that the social network failed to remove almost 3000 posts containing prohibited material related to child pornography suicide and drugs artists and the hearkens joined my colleague neil harvey earlier in the studio to discuss the details. well reasons i'm 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 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 well twitter's 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 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 $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 here to chip in 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 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 your move or allegedly child pornography trigger 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. child pornography allegedly remember on the site there are accusations that people were human traffic that had their horrible experiences documented or broadcast on twitter. and that's poet has pulled out of

translating a poem by an african-american author after criticism that a black translator wasn't picked for the job demeter pollack asks if this really is a case of social justice amanda gorman a young black author recited her poem the hills we climate biden's inauguration in it she called for peace and unity and the togetherness of the american people and her poem inspired many including dutch author marie clucas reinfeldt who is the youngest winner of the international booker prize award and she was chosen to translate gorman's work into dutch it to tell us increasing polarization and agreement show seen her young boys a polish spoken word the power off 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 reinfeld who is translating her is white and as we know in 2021 that is just simply unacceptable naturally the mounting criticisms lead brian bell to reject the assignment completely i am shocked by their pro or error on my involvement in the dissemination of a man the government's message and i understand people who feel hurt by the choice . so yet again the fragile her always offended apps of what they wanted and turned a message about unity and peace into yet another racial and identity politics scandal and apparently from now on everything should just be segregated based on superficial features like race gender or skin color etc and if you're white and not waving the flag of surrender which is also white then you just might be

a racist. so i had a white employee add in a leap us college steps down over what she calls an atmosphere of racial discrimination at the school story and more coming up soon. 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 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.

welcome back we turn to armenia now where thousands of people took part in rallies on monday as the political crisis between the country's prime minister and military intensifies all speaking to his supporters and said he is ready to hold early

elections and backtrack 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. also tried to dismiss the chief of the general staff of the armed forces but the country's president stepped in twice to overrule the move over the military official could still be dismissed according to the armenian constitution the prime minister has also offered to hold a referendum on a new constitution and an effort to contact and shins as a rival rally was held nearby his on monday but those on the other side of the phones were not commits. the goods we're strongly against the elections will hold the elections only when he leaves office will stun till the end to force the government out 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 orange revolution 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. let's take a look at the advance that led up to the current political turmoil last week the prime minister faced calls by the country's military to step down following months of unrest it all stems from last year's conflict with neighboring azerbaijan which was altered any peace deal that many iranians indeed as a humiliating defeat fashion and in turn accuse the military of attempting a coup and fired the country's top general and sparked mass rallies from both supporters and opponents of the prime minister is about to go about relations analyst mark i'm guessing about the passions political future. but it works going on here is that after the defeat in the goma kind of. lenient lation is looking for

a strong leader and russia can only look strong if he stays in power otherwise easy if he's a lame duck who's weak on able to control the situations are getting in power until the elections is key to his chance of actually winning them i think that the population is probably a little bit divided between the kind of pragmatists who feel that he could have done much better against the johnny forces and those who feel that he's generally cost that territory to armenia because of perhaps he's a pro washington or inflation because all he's watch essentially truck is drones are destroyed the medium's defense is even going to cut 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 usual why didn't he procul 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. a white employee of an elite liberal arts college in the u.s. has quit over what she called an atmosphere of racial discrimination at the school jodi shot told us about an incident at a mandatory staff or treat. 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 way for gelati and it is power play the president of the contest that claims the institution is creating a racially hostile environment are baseless but in her resignation letter shah said that the climate at the called shifted following an incident back in 2008. 0 i'm is eating lunch i'm working the summer program so he says realizing how many

calories is ok is like trying to stuff like this happens way too often where people just feel like. despite the outcome of that investigation jodie shah believes that the problem only served to stoke rachel's 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 quickie on that teaches students that their identity is actually a social identity which is made up of immutable characteristics that is their race

their gender their ethnicity but 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 on saudi arabia after failing to deliver on his promise to punish the kingdom's crown prince reza ledger all in the murder of a prominent journalist film often 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 old of the crown prince and i would make it very clear we would know it's 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 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 yes they could put him on the piece of bad last. step they could. 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 in the united states is so far terribly powerless to hold them accountable so the tail is wagging the dog as we say government is and then the states but it's basically controlling u.s. policy more than the other way around. lastly on

a lighter note anyone here in moscow and need every bit of feline affection while they work remotely maybe and luck as a cat co-working space opened in the russian capital on monday which was also national cat day the project was launched by the urban animal protection fund to help homeless cats visitors can adopt any of the rescue cats which are all named after russia the city's owners hope to create a map with the names of all the animals that have found their forever homes the number of visitors is restricted to one per cat to stop and for flying. that's a breakdown of today's top headlines for now but if you're looking for more you can always had to our website r.t. dot com for countless articles and interviews thanks for tuning in.

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