for the tragedy. built to the people in that little. in the headlines this tuesday's will block it becomes the 39th nation to receive russia so what makes vaccine and the 2nd country to register it not as a block itself is struggling with job shortages. as new zealand encourages people to call up code will breakers realises if snitching is becoming a symptom of the pandemic. also this hour the european union slap sanctions on 4 top russian officials over the arrest and prosecution of. its moscow insist the opposition figurehead brokers pull terms and that the trial was fair and was about to reciprocate fossils move.

watching our 2 international coming to life in the russian capital this and every hour welcome to the program. slovakia has become the 39th country to give the green light to russia's main code vaccine that's the 2nd e.u. nation to read source but mcphee says the blocks vaccine shortages continue to mount devinsky has more on how the inoculation campaign is playing out in europe. well there is dissent in the e.u. ranks who are now saying enough is enough with this slow rollout of the vaccine process that is being watched over by the e.u. let's take slovakia that's become the latest e.u. country to decide it needs to buy doses of the sputnik reback seen from russia it's made an order of around $2000000.00 doses it is the 2nd e.u. nation to do that however is already in new york relating its citizens with the sputnik the vaccine and the czech republic has also said that it is interested in

possibly buying it now the sumac in 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 trustworthy 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 by meeting the deadlines promised supplies russia will prove that it's a stable partner we can rely on in these hard times since the cove in $1000.00 pandemic does not pay attention to geopolitical issues 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 the natives it seems that this will cause. such actions recently with some actors in particular once again christian. it trying to discredit. that human factor is why. all using racial these 2 shouldn't. race to gain geopolitical. however it's clear that it's the only countries that have been questioning the efficacy of vaccines that the mayor 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

effective for the over 60 five's germany didn't recommend that it was given to the 60 five's both have since made a u. turn and a singing a different turn 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 a while 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 seems its citizens chancellor 1 of austria suggesting could say 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 where it often took a long time before anything came out and then all of a sudden a whole torrent came out and it will be similar with vaccinations the e.u. is desperately trying to save face it's now launched a continent 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. 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 will put out of them can you explain what makes the kovi vaca vaccine different he uses a deactivated virus but what does that actually mean we can we 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

an approach that we've been developing for many years all of the vaccines at the chew mock of center are based on this method a significant number of our vaccines form part of the russian national vaccination calender. causing a lot of the book at the what how long did it take to develop the vaccine how did you test it. where a number of the new 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 across 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. was on march 1st of last year that the 1st case of corona virus was detected and the russian national country has come a long way since then and can now boast 3 russian vaccines and it's anti covert arsenal.

still to come in the program the enemy within new zealand's can encourage us citizens to snitch on their loved ones as want down rules are being broken details on that in just a few minutes. now the headline news the european union has slapped sanctions on 4 top officials in moscow brussel says are responsible for the arrest and prosecution of kremlin critic and exceed 70 all the us has imposed restrictive measures of its own against more than a dozen entities and russia claims the ball his trial was fair saying he had broken his parole terms and has accused the bloc of meddling and its internal affairs and for more on this on the latest developments we're joined in the studio by artist more august if so are the sanctions much of a surprise how significant will the hinted that would be sanctions for many weeks now and we had heard even you know down to the names who would be sanctioned in this case this was the attorney general of the russian federation the head of the

investigative committee the head of the federal penitentiary service and the chief of the national guard for individuals europe has found to be complicit facilitate the election of on these arrests the next in the volley now serving 2 and a half years behind bars. for violating the terms of his parole he was sentenced along with his brother years back for defrauding bestselling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a company in russia and election of on the was serving for you for years. probation on parole he according to prosecutors violated the terms of his parole many many times dozens and dozens of times and eventually after after his release and in germany from all spittle he refused to or didn't bother getting into contact with his parole officers and this is why he was this is why he was jailed europe of course isn't buying this they they claim that his. sentencing is politically

motivated this is another political political stunt and russian opposition figure jailed for his views rather than for any potential crimes he may have committed the russian federation says that it will respond as it usually does with mirror sanctions so tit for tat and in this case they haven't they haven't said one of these specifically though they'll sanction in europe or in the united states but we knew that sanctions will you know will come. we will definitely respond one of the basic rules of diplomacy rissa prosody still holds to be frank there's not much i can say about this we have made up position clear on multiple occasions regarding the illegitimate one sided sanctions which our american colleagues resort to with or without good reason most of the time with outs as well as e.u. officials who take their cue from the americans when they have nothing to back up

their claims with about the poisoning of novell knee when all those who treated him a carefully hiding the facts that could shed light on what actually happened to him and when at the same time instead of cooperating with russia they start punishing us well i think it does a disservice to those making such decisions should ask for a response its will come ashore probably brought by you explicitly but it was a united states announced its own sanctions merely minutes ago so they're they're targeting 14 companies that they believe a complicit again in the production of biological and chemical weapons they're also sanctioning 7 individuals highly placed officials they claim but no names they aren't releasing any names yet for whatever reason nevertheless it must be said there isn't while they're trying to present a united front that they're all behind the legs in the valley things are much more complicated juta alexina violence past i mean we heard in the european parliament.

a few weeks ago parliamentarians coming out and saying why are we supporting this guy this is after all a vicious racist who commands very little support in russia itself and this is of course because of an x. in the violence past where he has. said very anti-semitic things and he muslim things anti immigrant things where he used to headline white nationalist marches annual white nationalist marches and this is why amnesty international for it. arbel has removed the term prisoner of conscience so they've they've removed the label from election of and they still calling for his release from prison they still claim he's a political prisoner but they say they can't call him a prisoner of conscience because of what he has said in the past things that he has refused to go back on so susu he was asked in the media interview recently whether

he's still a politician whether he still holds the views that he held back then so this is 10 vive years ago and he said that his views have haven't changed amnesty international is no longer able to consider lexan of only a prisoner of conscience given the fact that he advocated violence and discrimination and he has not retracted such statements so there you go another round of sanctions again again tit for tat between the united states and europe and russia we're waiting now for fall for what russia's response will be what you know who the target what they'll target but so far they've already come out russian officials and called these sanctions and the reasoning behind them nonsense. breaking down that story for us thank you. friends family and neighbors no one should be off the snooping radar when it comes to comit rule

breakers at least according to new zealand's prime minister and i snitching become yet another symptom of the pandemic mccarran investigates. amid the many lockdowns thousands of face masks and gallons of hand sanitizer coverage 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 a members of the team of 5000000 to meet the rest of us down and it seems it's a proven practice remember last year when the shit number of do good snitching on their neighbors was so overwhelming it crashed a police website we've had 4200 reports of people

believing compline again it shows. determined. to ensure that everyone complies with us convinced the idea of turning us into a world of informers is the key to compliance leaders across the globe competed for the most creative ways to encourages all to tell las 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 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 logged into the my bellevue 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 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 good as 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. still had a white employee and elite u.s. college resigns over what she calls an atmosphere of racial discrimination at the

school story and more after the break. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

welcome back political tensions are continuing to simmer and armenia just a day since huge crowds rallied in the capital with thousands in one part of the arab and demanding the prime minister quits in another part of town embattled pm addressed supporters vowing to go back to the polls i backpacked if the parliament agrees to the terms of another election we will accept the urgent actions because we have sure that our people are able to freely express themselves and choose

a legitimate government in armenia. nicole passion and also promise a referendum on a new constitution and an effort to win over his enemies but it seems not many were convinced. but the gods know that we're strongly against the elections we'll 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. to get into the dungeon and what kind of elections should there be the country split in 2 i was in ukraine during the origin of evolution they had a similar scenario the country was also divided they say were stained 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 take a look back at the events 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 resulted in a peace deal that many armenians view as a humiliating defeat rushing and in turn accuse the military of attempting a coup and fire the country's top general last week that sparked mass rallies from both supporters and opponents of the prime minister we spoke to global relations analyst mark ask about passion and political future. what's going on here is that after the defeat in the government 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 situation so that in power until the elections is key to his chance of actually winning them i think the population is probably a little bit divided between the kind of pragmatists who feel that he could have done much better against the. forces of those who feel that he's generally cost that territory to armenia because of perhaps he is pro washington or inflation

because although he's watch the century turkish drones destroy the medium's defenses even the goal of cutting back but i was saying turkish drones what we should. i am extremely successfully in syria i would live by the same kind of russian technology that he tried to blame only oh so the question is why didn't he use will why didn't he procure all the correct technology that would have. depended on media the armenians robot in the going to come out against those drones that would depend against in syria. a white employee of the elite liberal arts college in the us has quit over what she called an atmosphere of racial discrimination at the school study shaw told us about an incident at a team building exercise i was required to attend training a professional development 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 college has dismissed as baseless the claim 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 28.

09 is eating lunch time working in 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 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. a dutch 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 artist 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 clueless 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 2021 that is just simply unacceptable naturally the mounting criticisms lead brian veld serve reject the assignment completely i'm shocked by the opera or around mine volume and 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 sophists got 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 answer breakdown of today's top headlines for now thanks for tuning in or every maybe. 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 you the person who falsely confessed 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 a good confession and one that isn't. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race on all fronts very dramatic development only mostly and.

i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. during the vietnam war u.s. forces. are in laos it was a secret war. and for years the american people did not know. how much it is officially announced country per capita. human history millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this small agricultural country 200 i don't we don't. even today kids in laos full victims of bombs dropped decades ago because the us making amends for the tragedy in laos won't help to the people need in that little landmines.

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 default the 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 and later u.s. equities are rallying after it is a whole week we'll break down the market movement but in fact show today so let's dive right in. and we lead the program with the latest in the world of bit coy big oil has rallied again after dropping to its lowest price in week.