taking a shot on russia's covert vaccine slovakia becomes the 39th nation to order supplies of sputnik the it's also the 2nd e.u. member to approve the shot and it comes as the bloc itself struggles with vaccine shortages. keeping an eye on friends and family new zealand says no one should be off limits when it comes to informing on covert rule breakers. and tech giants aren't giving up their crusade against donald trump as you tube limits access to his 1st post-presidential speech for repeating claims of 2020 alexion.

wherever you are whatever you are whoever you are you're watching r t international quarter with you here in the studio welcome to the program. slovakia has become country number 39 to give the green light on russia's main kovan vaccine it's the 2nd nation to approve sputnik v. and it comes as the blocks vaccine shortages continue to mount charlotta been ski has more now on europe's struggling 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 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 its made an order of around 2000000 doses it is the 2nd e.u. nation to do that how green is already in new york elating 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 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 promised supplies russia will prove that it's a stable partner we can rely on in these hard times since the coded 1000 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. trying to discredit. that human factor is why. all using racial these 2 shouldn't exceed. to gain geopolitical. however it's clear that it's the e.u. zone countries that have been questioning the efficacy of vaccines that the e m a 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 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 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 ketchup 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 now has a 3rd vaccine in its arsenal against the pandemic back it's supposed to enter into the market later this month and we did speak with the center director behind the shot. when you put out of them can you explain what makes the kovi vaca vaccine different and 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 in approach that we've been developing for many years all of the vaccines at the 2 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 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 the 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 vs 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. but it's 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. related 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 with 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 the way it was on march 1st of last year that the 1st coronavirus case was found in a russian national now let's take a brief look at how the following 12 months unfolded.

friends family neighbors no one should be off the snooping radar when it comes to covert rule breakers at least according to a new zealand's prime minister but has been forming become yet another symptom of the pandemic that karen takes up the story. amidst 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 let 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 encourage as though 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

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 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 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 coburn 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 white employee at an elite liberal arts college in the united states has quit over what she called quote an atmosphere

of racial discrimination there jody shaw outlined the incident for. 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 late letter jodie shaw said the climate at the college shifted dramatically following an incident in 2018. you know you can. oh i know is eating lunch i'm working on a summer program so he says realizing how many calories it's ok's is like trying to stuff like this happens way too often where people just feel like crap and.

despite the outcome of the 2018 investigation jodi believes the probe simply stoked racial tensions at the school. 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 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 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 way students confess their oppressor status or their white privilege as they call it. in other news you tube has restricted access to a video of donald trump's 1st post-presidential speech citing a lack of content warnings the footage was blocked on the youtube channels of a number of news outlets though it has been left up elsewhere on the platform trump made his 1st major address since leaving office in january as a guest at the conservative political action conference on sunday he reiterated his unsubstantiated claim that the 2020 election was rigged and insinuation that the u.s. supreme court ruled had misled the american public however many republicans still see trump as their leader the leader of the party and allege that social media platforms 'd are actively trying to silence conservative voices. our guests lionel

who is a legal and media analyst and former pennsylvania senator bruce marks gave us their reactions to the trump video blog. google and you tube and other other platforms like this are of such in the main nature had there almost like utilities today imagine if you're on the phone almost on your phone drops because you dared mention hydroxy couric when or said something in favor of donald trump you wouldn't have it and if the utility said well maybe you should start your own phone company he would say that's ridiculous so it's time for us to recalibrate and redefine what these platforms are there's no doubt that there's a double standard and you tube is been biased that again those who control it against against president trump what's ludicrous is nobody was telling you to take down all the false statements that adam schiff and nancy pelosi and chuck schumer made about the russia hoax investigation there was

a liberal organization will structure in america there wants to suffocate free speech and sadly enough you tube and facebook and twitter are part of it it's it's insane these agencies these platforms are if you will agencies or instruments of whatever the shadow government the ruling class the deep state i don't know but you're being used as clenching devices to punish people to get online and people love these platforms so much that they will not talk about or think about anything in fear of losing their beloved you tube or facebook or whatever actually know exactly what they're doing 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 i mean explores whether or not this is just 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 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 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 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 apps of a god 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. it's still a long term anti-government protests continue with no end in sight.

in the city evolved so protesters attacked police who fought back with water cannons a number of demonstrators were detained the country has been rocked by unrest since late 2019 activists are demanding the president's resignation as well as economic reforms and the release of detained protesters. an enormous plume of ash towering around 5 kilometers into the sky was visible from far and wide this week in one of the largest indonesian islands of sumatra it followed the eruption of mount cinnabon and left local villages in case in a thick blanket of ash which locals are still trying to clear away. and here is a perfect story for you to get your claws into a cat co-working space has opened in moscow designed to reach home fragile felines visitors can adopt any of these rescued cats which are all named after russian cities the number of visitors is restricted to one per cat to stop any for implying

. russian communications watchdog has accused twitter of maliciously violating the country's laws saying that the social network failed to remove almost 3000 posts containing prohibited materials related to child pornography suicide and drugs artie's daniel walking's joined my colleague neil harvey earlier in the studio to discuss the details. well recent times social media giants have really found themselves at the center of controversy all over the world and russia has been no exception zoar the russian media and telecommunications regulator has said they've submitted around 28000 requests to twitter since 2017 to remove various items of content now these relate to various categories some of them 2000 posts relating to self harm or inciting suicide posts involving child sex abuse pornographic contineu creating minors as well as hundreds

of posts relating to drugs our drug production and use really posts that would raise eyebrows and questions in any country across the world and in that sense russia really isn't unique for example if you take the u.k. investigators there recently from the internet watch foundation discover that twitter was actually responsible for nearly half of all content and relating to child sex abuse $1400.00 incidents out of around $2800.00 across the pond in america twitter face the federal lawsuit in california back in january again for content posted related to child sexual abuse material so this sort of problem really transcends boundaries and is 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 will do it as a ready face 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 $69.00 of which used. the aligned with the russian government or according to twitter on the mind faith in nato alliance and it's the this is something clear twitter 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 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 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 has yet to remove are legibly child pornography twitter is not a problem with child pornography even here in the united states well they've been obsessed with censoring you know center right voices and sort of affective conservatives and people who actively ridicule the media and the democrats and the left while they're busy with that they have let child pornography allegedly remember on the site there are accusations that people were human trafficked and

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the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. thinks . we are to ask. less than 6 weeks into the biden ministration and bombs have already been dropped but were they for the right reason also democrats want to raise the minimum wage but is this a bill which will bankrupt the small business community we are definitely going to discuss and did feminism just take a step backwards with the allowance of transgender athletes to compete in female

sports we're going to give you a 360 view of the issues with our panel all of this plus the star of a new controversial movie joins us to share whether or not his own personal custody battle inspired him to make a movie about roe versus wade i'm scott no hughes and you're watching news news use right here on our to america. house democrats have been pushing to include a federal minimum wage but raise into the $1.00 trillion dollars cove in 1900 mya spill but now things are looking so certain in the senate as not all democrats are on board with the idea if passed this could really hurt the economy more during the pandemic or to correspond in a touch of sweet takes a look at how both sides in washington are responding. divisions within the democratic party are alumina 18 as the push to raise the minimum wage to $15.00 an

hour continues house democrats have advanced a proposal to include the measure in the $1.00 trillion dollars stimulus bill but the notion of the idea of passing in the senate is still a no you got millions of workers working for starvation wages we've got to raise the minimum wage to a living wage of $15.00 an hour that's what the american people want and that's what i intend to do so enter bernie sanders the senate's leading proponent of the bill has been pushing for this wage hike for years even when he ran for president saying we are here to fight for the dignity oh wal-mart employees the senate parliamentarian advised against the move preventing democrats from using a filibuster and working on this to fight for 15 for a number of years now and it's long overdue and it will be phased in and we would hope that it could be part of this reconciliation of the idea of reason the minimum wage to $15.00 an hour has.