if you get in the. little relax room which will be good again it was on the other. in the day's headlines slovakia becomes the 39th nation to receive russia's sputniks vaccine and the 2nd e.u. country to register at the block itself is struggling with job shortages. as new zealand encourages people to call out over the world breakers we have stitching is becoming a symptom of the pandemic. also this hour twitter is in trouble as russia accuses it up failing to remove material linked to child pornography and suicide and drugs . and the armenian prime minister says he's ready to pull the early elections as political unrest over his standoff with the military intensifies.

you're watching our 2 international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. so baka has become the 39th country to give the green light to russia's main coben vaccine as the 2nd e.u. nation to register sputnik 3 blocks vaccine shortages continue to mount and i'll cross live to our to charlotte even in paris for more on this charlotte bring us up to speed on how that knock election campaign is playing out in europe and the increasing role that russia is playing. well there is dissent in the ranks who are now saying enough is enough with this low road told the vaccine proof that is being watched by the e.u. let's take slovakia this become the latest e.u. country to decide it needs to buy doses of the sputnik the vaccine from russia it's made an order of around 2000000 doses it is the 2nd to do that how green is already

in new york elating its citizens with the sputnik the vaccine and the czech republic is also said that it's interested impulsively. buying it now this iraqi in the pm said it was necessary to buy this vaccine to boost the inoculation program. 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've seen fit to buy a russian vaccine so that slovak's who wish to can get vaccinated. well that vaccine is due to be used in the next 2 weeks it hasn't of course that

regulatory approval by the european union's e m a this is the european medicines agency but in an emergency such as a pandemic if a country in the block decides that it gives approval of vaccine that hasn't been approved on that wide spectrum that can be used now the e.u. is wos according to it though or not something that's a problem within the law but something that's actually to do with russia. because we natives it seems that this will cause action diplomacy. if such actions recently with some actors in particular when she again christian. trying to discredit question. why. all using racial just to shoot. to gain geopolitical. however it's clear that it's the e.u.

zone countries that have been questioning the efficacy of vaccines that they may has approved let's take the astra zeneca vaccine for example now both france and germany raised questions about this vaccine president of france describing it as being quasi affective for the over 60 five's germany didn't recommend that it was given to the 60 five's both have since maybe you tune a u. turn and a singing a different turn now let's survive he is not the only country looking at making those purchases sells well as we said how greece already doing up the czech republic is thinking about it poland on its part is apparently in discussions with china to potentially have the vaccine from that also another vaccine that has not been given approval by may well to move to the problems that the e.u. is facing austria and denmark and now in discussions with israel about potentially

money fracturing vaccines in that country in a chance to boost the production to get moved back to its citizens chancellor of austria. said in his words it was needed because it was exactly like waiting for . my danish colleague has made a good comparison i think she spoke of the catch up effect you probably all remember what ketchup bottle so used to be like what often took a long time before anything came out and then all of a sudden a whole torrent came out and it was similar with facts and nations. the e.u. is desperately trying to save face it's now launched a call. in one project to try and boost the manufacturing of vaccines but for many in europe this is already too little too late and they feel that they really have to at this point go it alone. are to charlotte devinsky reporting live from

paris thank you. russia has now registered its 3rd homegrown coronavirus vaccine coming back which is expected to be launched later this month we spoke with the director of the center behind the shot when you were pulled out of a can you explain what makes the kovi vaca vaccine different uses a deactivated virus but what does that actually me in the who was wounded in the queue works with 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 the 2 mark of center are based on this method a significant number of our vaccines form part of the russian national vaccination calendar school causing a lot of the book at the what how long did it take to develop the vaccine how did you test it. you know where i'm of the 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 you know which from the give you go to more 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 wanted to buy our faxing how will you convince the west that your vaccine is as effective. as 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 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. it was on march 1st of last year that the 1st case of corona virus was detected any russian national the country has come a long way since then and can now boast 3 russian vaccines and it's anti covert arsenal.

there's ilands prime minister has encouraged people to report kobe to rule breakers including friends and family to the authorities are these mccarran looks into whether snitching on your neighbors has become a symptom of the pandemic amidst 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 heal day old grandma even with a full understanding of human fallibility it is not appropriate and it is not r.k. the 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 some of the well make it crashed a police website with had 4200 reports of people believing others were compliant 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 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 bill view 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 is 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 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 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 fail to remove almost 3000 posts containing perhaps had material related to child pornography suicide and drugs are used on the hearkens drawing my colleague neil harvey earlier in the studio to discuss the details. well 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

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 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 to twitter well twitter is a ready phrase 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 fairly 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 $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 takes 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 we 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 is yet to remove or legibly child pornography twitter is not a problem with child pornography either here in the united states while 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 get remember on the site their accusations that people were human trafficked and had their horrible experiences documented broadcast on twitter. still had a white employee at an elite u.s. college resigns of a what she calls an atmosphere of racial discrimination at the school are stories after the shop right. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit

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welcome back return 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 well speaking to his supporters nicole passion young said he's ready to hold early elections and backtrack if the parliament agrees to the terms of a noted action we will accept the urgent actions because we are sure that our people are able to freely express themselves and choose a legitimate government you know armenia. bashing and also propose a referendum on a new constitution and an effort to calm tensions as a rival rally was held nearby on monday but those on the other side of the fence were not convinced. got the goods we're strongly against the elections will hold the elections only when he leaves office will stand to the end to force the government out in a year there will be elections and people will choose who they want. but that doesn't mean 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 county and they don't need this division. let's look at the events that led to the current political turmoil last week the prime minister faced calls by the country's military to step down on months of unrest and all stems from last year's conflict with neighboring azerbaijan which resulted in a peace deal that many armenians view as a humiliating defeat crushing on in turn and queues the military of attempting a coup and fire the country's top general last week that spark mass rallies from both supporters and opponents of the prime minister we spoke to global relations analyst michael gast about political future. but what's going on here is that after the defeat in the goma kind of our. population is looking for a strong leader and russia can only look strong if he stays in power otherwise he.

appears a lame duck who is 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 there is a population that is probably a little bit divided between the kind of pragmatists who feel that he could 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's a pro washington or inflation because all he's worth much essentially chuckie's drones are destroyed the mediums 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 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 and a lead a 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 team building exercise. i was required to attend training a professional developer retreat and at the training i was asked to talk about my race in the context of my childhood i had asked i told my director beforehand that i'm uncomfortable talking about race in the workplace we're not expected to talk about why it's not legal to ask about race in a job interview so i'm not clear on why we're expected to talk about it as a part of our job so i just said i'm a coder woods talking about race and she said that's fine just don't talk about to say you're uncomfortable so that is exactly what i did at the workshop the facilitators later told our group that any white person who is resistant to

discussing their skin color when requested. is not actually uncomfortable what they are doing it is a power play it's called wait for delivery and it is power play. the president of the college though has dismissed as baseless claims that the university is creating a racially hostile environment but in her resignation letter the climate at the college had shifted following an incident back in 20 team. i was eating lunch i'm working the summer program so relaxing. like john is not like this happens way too often where people just feel like.

despite the outcome of that investigation jodi 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 usually 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. and that's a 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 to major power gives us his take. 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 at a time of increased polarization amanda gorman shows in her young fellows the power of spoken warrant the power of frequency the power of someone who looks to the future instead of looking down when i was asked to translate well 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 2041 that is just simply unacceptable naturally the mounting criticisms led brian bell to reject the assignment completely i'm shocked by the opera around mindful of meant in the dissemination of amanda garments message and i understand people who feel hurt by the choice so yet again the

fragile her always offended at god what they wanted and turned a message about unity and peace in say 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. answer breakdown of the day's top headlines here on r t for now but if all the stories haven't quench your thirst for news and a never tour website for countless articles and interviews interesting at this hour . join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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