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your chiming in from across the globe are welcome to moscow and to our names you know neal your company. has become country number 39 to give the green light to russia's main. it is the 2nd e.u. nation to approve sputnik v. the block's vaccine shortages continue to mow and charlotte dubinsky has more now on europe's floundering inoculation campaign. 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 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 how green is already in new york relating its citizens with the

sputnik the vaccine and the czech republic is also said that it's interested in possibly buying it now the sumac 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 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 that 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 code in $1000.00 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 block but something that's actually to do with russia because the natives it seems that this will cause. such actions recently with some actors in particular once again christian. trying to discredit question. why. all using racial just to. race to gain geopolitical. however it's clear that it's the only 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 over 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 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 to boost the production to get moved back seems to its citizens chancellor 1 of austria suggesting could say in his words it was needed because it was exactly like waiting to catch up. 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 the 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. do at this point go it alone. a russian say 3rd vaccine and its arsenal against the pandemic coby is expected to enter the market later this month we spoke with the center director behind the show when you were pulled out of the a can you explain what makes the kovi vaca vaccine different he uses a deactivated virus but what does that actually me 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 that you mock 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 bike 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 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 your vaccine is as effective. as. it were but if we 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 are. the questions that well it was on march 1st last year that theodore girl case of corona virus was the tech did in a russian national that some of. the following 12 months here a little bit. friends

family and neighbors no one should be off the snooping radar when it comes to rule breakers at least according to new zealand's prime minister but has informing become yet another symptom of the mc nichiren takes up the story 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 oh you know 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 we've 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 this into a world of information 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 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 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 all 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 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. another story to bring you today washington and brussels have slap sanctions on a number of senior russian officials and to do so over the jailing of kremlin critic election of only. outside interference and has vowed to respond in kind or senior correspondent morocco's d. of talk through events in the studio work here. these latest sanctions were announced by the european union and the united states almost simulate anus so the american sanctions they're wider in scope they target for example 7 officials unnamed officials but also 14 enterprises that the united states believes are engaged in manufacturing components for chemical and biological weapons the european sanctions they target russian officials or for officials the attorney general the head of the investigative committee the chief of the national guard the head of the federal penitentiary service so these officials have been slapped with

restrictive measures travel bans visa restrictions for their role in the arrest of election of ali leg rest and sentencing to an r.v. years he's now serving behind bars for violating the terms of his parole he had been given a suspended sentence years ago now for embezzling defrauding the company in russia we've learned from russian prosecutors that he had violated the terms of his suspended sentence dozens and dozens of times now germany and other countries they they believe that russia was behind his alleged poisoning russia's response to that has been look show it's a shred of proof because all we've heard so far is claims and what they've received from the german side from the european union is silence they've been stonewalled completely and utterly and russia here now says that it will respond to these

sanctions as it always does we will definitely respond one of the basic rules of diplomacy was to process the still holds to be frank there's not much i can say about this we have made up position clear multiple occasions regarding the illegitimate one sided sanctions which our american colleagues results with or without good reason most of the time without 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 cheated 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 as well i think it does a disservice to those making such decisions as a response it's will come ashore what is interesting also is the way the united states formulated. its argument for these sanctions and that is that the intelligence community in the united states believes and we've heard this many

times before with high confidence that it was the russian state behind the poisoning of alexina valley russia has said repeatedly there's been no investigation there's been no court no trial there's been no evidence presented how are you going to come out and say that it was the russian state behind this and they you know there's been anything but a united front i mean just several weeks ago we heard european any piece coming out and say why are we supporting alexina vonnie you know if the if he had been arrested in any other country but russia we wouldn't even 3 be saying his name and this is judy his nationalist party being called you know saying very anti-semitic things anti muslim things homophobic things and this is you know presumably why amnesty international for example recently decided to deprive him of the label of prisoner of conscious they they still say that you know he's a political prisoner they believe he's

a political prisoner in the day should be released but he's not a prisoner prisoner of conscious because of the views that he holds amnesty international is no longer able to consider the election of only a prisoner of conscience given the fact that he advocated violence and discrimination and he has not retracted such statements this is obviously the opening salvo of the united states concurrently as. it was announcing these sanctions said that there would be more to come for other reasons for going for whatever out but now we've just got to wait for russia's response and i'm sure that europe will come out and say that this is unwarranted homburg parliament m.p. for germany's left party martin daughter believes the west has long been in the habit of making major decisions based on your claims to national politics is moot settle now in the last 1020 years especially by the us and our by written out by

you 'd sometimes by the german government as well on our of fire emotions i knew i wouldn't see iraq war was there you know all. that war sternberger if they had give it to the organisation for the crucial chemical weapons it was good for them to rush to have a good clear procedure which is linked to international law and then we could see what was happening if if if you just room for want something like the feeling that something has happened little i can't believe you only believe that the evidence is there and you think that that you know evidence that. for sure. political tensions continue to simmer in armenia a day after huge crowds rallied in the capital while thousands in one part of your refund demanded that the prime minister stand down in another part of the city the

embattled pm addressed supporters valving to take their country back to the polls. i think. if the parliament agrees to the terms of an early 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 in armenia. recalled also promised a referendum on a new constitution in an effort to win over his detractors but it seems not many were convinced but 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 at that i 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 were stained for the people but who are the people the people are those living in the country and they

don't need this division. so why are we seeing what we're seeing let's recap what led armenia to the current political millstream last week the prime minister face calls by the military to step down following months of unrest and all stems from last year's confident with neighboring azerbaijan which resulted in a peace deal many armenians viewed as a humiliating defeat passion yell and turn accuse the military of an attempted coup and fired the country's top general that sparked mass rallies from both supporters and opponents of the prime minister i spoke to global relations unlist marco gas which. political future. but what's going on here is that after the defeat in the government kind of back. here lation is looking for a strong leader and russia can only look strong if he stays in power otherwise. if he is a lame duck who is weak on able to control the situations are turning 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 is pro washington or inflation because only he's watched essentially drones destroy the medium's defenses in the going to cut a back but i was saying to look if drones would be shot down extremely successfully in syria i would live 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 medium's rather in the going to come out against those drones that would depend against in syria.

a white employee elite liberal arts college in the u.s. has quits over what she called up the sphere of racial discrimination at the university judicial line the incident for us. 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 fragility and it is power play the president of the college dismissed the claims of a racially hostile environment as baseless but in her resignation letter to show us that they climates the college shifted dramatically following an incident in 20th. if you don't know you're going to oh i was eating lunch i'm working a summer program so he says realizing how many calories. like china stuff like this happens way too often where people just feel like.

well despite the outcome of the $28.00 dean investigation jodie believes the probe simply stoked 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 presidents i've curriculum really is a cricket 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 usually race at smith race is a big one it's essentially telling them that their skin color is their destiny and

it's also setting up this strange dynamic or i would 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 but not the similar theme at all a dutch poet poll valid of translating a poem by enough rick an american or 3rd after criticism for the block translator wasn't picked for the job dimitri polk ponders whether this is one case of social justice that's been lost in translation. 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 chosen 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 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

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