breaking ranks with the block the czech republic becomes the latest the e.u. country to go its own way. requesting deliveries from russia. so had on the program this hour an explosion of. testing center in the netherlands police say it. comes amid increasing hostility in recent weeks with. the international criminal court launches a formal probe into alleged war crimes by israel during the 2014 or war.

247. from moscow this is r t my name's you know you're welcome to the program. spluttering vaccination program in europe has now seen the czech republic fall out of line with the e.u. it's instead looking to russia. to give its own inoculation campaign a shot in the arm. has been looking at the blocs difficulties. so there's 3 european nations that have a green light to dispute it despite the european medicines agency taking its time really taking its time to approve sputnik so these 3 nations have already sidelined the european union and of the said look the situation is incredibly desperate the czech republic hungry and now slovakia's which is just received its 1st batch of. vaccines there's going to be millions more that are going to be delivered by summer

so the prime minister's obviously very happy that he's managed to secure more vaccines for the people nevertheless there's now a scandal there's a scandal because the president of slovakia has come out she paid lip service to people's lives but all directly she is she said that vaccination shouldn't be carried out at the expense of political stability of course saving lives goes beyond any political controversy but even exceptional actions can be taken in such a way so as not to destroy the ruling coalition humiliate opponents or question people's confidence in vaccinations and cause further conflict in society it is remarkable coming out in front of your people in the middle of a pandemic and telling them. you know your health is important but what is even more important is the stability of the ruling coalition. you know it just goes to highlight that the deep divisions in europe and there are incredibly deep divisions

in europe over the way the pandemic vaccination in the rule out of the vaccines has been handled it isn't the russian vaccine that is undermining people's faith in the european union it is their handling of this crisis in germany for example 51 percent of people asked in a recent poll whether you know the the vaccination has been handled well or badly by the european union 51 percent more than half of germans have said it's been shambles the. the european union has handled it so initially the european union came out and said look let's let's all do it together so give up your power new nation needs to buy vaccines by themselves we'll handle it so we'll get you the vaccines mcgurn of vaccines and what ultimately happened is they bungled it 1st they were too expensive then they were too late because the united states britain snatched up all the vaccines look at the statistics only 5 percent of europeans

have been able to get a single job that is compared to 14 percent in the united states already 30 percent in the united kingdom so europe is lagging far far behind european nations understand that this is a catastrophe this is a catastrophe of on a huge number of levels of a political level or the health care level and ultimately what has happened is that all these nations have said look we're going to do this ourselves obviously the europeans the european agencies the euro kratz they have fumbled this so we'll have that ourselves you have poland running to the chinese with hands outstretched begging for that scene quotas you have austria. going out and saying that you know we're going to now cooperate with israel to develop 2nd generation 2nd generation vaccines denmark as well saying that will work with israel and 2nd generations vaccine to target all the strains and all that and ultimately the austrian chancellor so this is a leader of

a european nation coming out and saying they've lost hoop in europe the way that europe handles vaccine rollout. we must prepare for further mutations and should no longer be depended soley on the e.u. in the production of 2nd generation vaccines look brussels understands that what has happened has been a catastrophe you have. officials the european union coming out and say we're sort of apologizing to citizens all over europe for the way they've handled things but saying that you know it isn't it is a do over yet we can still recover we'll get your vaccines there's no need to run around and make shady deals and you know buy up vaccines the supposed to be received by other european nations you have a situation where it's a free for all now nevertheless the europeans assure that they can fix things and then now saying that perhaps perhaps we'll try to speed up the whole bureaucratic

process that has caused all of this and get you emergency approval for vaccines now it could be an emergency authorization of vaccines that you level was shared liability among member states you remember in the early days of the pandemic when countries all over the world nato allies the neighbors board put up supplies from each other we're talking about mosques ventilators we all we all remember the diplomatic crises that that caused this situation now is remarkably similar so so there is no united front you know what you can get your hands on you get your hands on and this is a situation that obviously isn't optimal for europe in these difficult times especially economically politically all over the world nevertheless european bureaucrats aren't giving up hope they believe that they can still fix things the problem is of course that member states do believe that they can. keep attention on

europe and move to the netherlands where a bomb has exploded outside a covert testing center at the blast cost only minor damage to surrounding buildings and no $1.00 was injured it comes amid an increasingly tense atmosphere in the country over continuing lockdown. well this explosion took place in the early morning just outside that could send in an area called boom costco which is about 50 to 55 kilometers north of amsterdam windows were shattered and the investigation so far has been able to uncover metal pieces of around 10 centimeters by 10 centimeters the suggestion is this could have seen a metal pipe bomb that exploded outside the front of the center a security guard was inside that it was just before the center was due to open but they are said to have been injured in this incident

a perimeter has been set up in those investigations are now are continuing but the police have said that they clearly believe that this was an intentional attack we don't know yet what exactly exploded the explosives experts must 1st investigate what we can see is this something like that doesn't happen by accident it's has to be planted well this is not the 1st time we've seen an attack on a qubit center in the netherlands back in january just when we're seeing those massive tensions in the country over the fact that the government today imposed a controversial coup that there was a coup that sent that was set on fire in the village. that sparked several nights of riots rights which is being described as some of the worst violence the country has seen in decades let's just have a reminder of what happens. now

this latest incident comes of course as the country is heading towards a general election that's due to take place in the middle of march and the current through at the moment is being run. ok take ministration nuts because marc rich's previous administration decided to stand down that was over a scandal unrelated to 19 but this election is seen very much as being a referendum on mark which is administration so many people are unhappy about how his government handles the 19 pandemic this is what opposition parties have had to say we still looking everybody are having to see measures done during our economy like our social life will be you know you're

a student by the social life or you use your i don't see our elderly people well the point of view of the current caretaker government is that these measures have been necessary as restrictive as they may have been but just to give you a sense of how angry people are in the netherlands the head of the health service in the netherlands now has to have a security guard because this is also being directed towards the health authorities it's really an issue that's been spiraling out of control that. or european studies scholar at the university of amsterdam. believes the dutch government records since about handling the pandemic may have contributed to public discontent. this situation in the country is tensed the real are a lot of uncertainties with respect to the government policy containing the virus and also with the honored sectors of society and his discourse by

the non-transparency of the government policy for example the data of the public the national institute for public health it is actually managing to go for it crises are a nod to the general public which is quite unusual furder to recess or ship of all those people who have critical comments on the government policy this is supported by the big tech companies so if you put a critical remark against the covance 19 policy on facebook you will be canceled and there is of course the economic collapse of the catering industries which is almost bankrupt so the longer you are imposing a prison imprisonment of people in their own houses the more tension there will be . it's was his 1st major comeback speech since the parting the white house

but just hours after donald trump had taken to the stage the former president had fallen foul of you chub censors the platform deleted his speech on a number of channels including waters a.b.c. and r.t. citing a lack of content warnings with her inimitable take here's polly boyo. so donald trump was back giving his big return speech who packed 2021 the conservative political action conference for the uninitiated and it attracts a break through walls but. i would show you some more of the highlights but it's not bad easy because our i would like you to be able to watch my video on you tube which is hard to say at censoring the 45th president but nobody likes live ok let's try and get one more quick clip in

content warning this video contains an orange man saying things which may not be 100 percent correct and worship her do you reassure you that. you see our t.v.'s streamed live on convert free to say whatever he wants in the tradition of freedom of speech only through you tube to take it down and threaten r.t. with a content strike and deletion from the platform for violating its spam deceptive practices and scams policy hey you tube if you're going to delete every videos for scams and deceptive practices you know basically going to be left with one video this one. you tube responded to queries by saying more details aren't explanatory information

must be provided essentially you tube pate the fact that trump still uses every opportunity to claim that he didn't lose the election but what's interesting about you tube's policy is that the censors 1st port of call was r.t. r t s german channel and another russian channel called sputnik it took our. before they got to the likes of reuters and the associated press and even then i bet they weren't threatened with removal from the point of call so the folly is clear because for example i can still watch the video on the independence youtube channel actually as you know the just more of the world one of which is our own virus so watch out there while you still can but social media platforms which are always trying to get out of trouble by saying that they are publishers they just provide an outlet are openly censoring political content and deleting access to

a former president who despite what any of us may say was democratically elected by millions of people. and they're targeting russian channels specifically allowing people to speak freely and that's all getting all the news outlets are simply reporting the news and yet i can still watch things like this. it's political censorship that's all it is legal media. concerns you trip is actively trying to silence political opponents. google and you tube and other other platforms like this are of such in the main nature as you're almost like utilities today imagine if you're on the phone almost on your phone drops because you dared mention hydroxy chloroquine 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 would say that's ridiculous so it's time for us to recalibrate and redefine what these platforms are they're not they're not the union platform this is you tube this is international it's more than that and these distinctions have to change and what it is is 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 in line and people love these platforms so much that they will not talk about or think about anything in fear of losing their beloved you to were facebook or whatever so they know exactly what they're doing. or as polly earlier alluded to donald trump's speech wasn't the only thing from the sea conference the court

controversy wealthy former u.s. leader and the rest of the speakers were standing on raise more than a few eyebrows in itself. it was the hyatt hotel that hosted the event and now it's getting it in the neck such a stupid and short sighted business decision by her yet i've stayed in that hotel chain countless times over the years never again. in other words how you had to simply find hosts nonces hate high out hotels highly inclusive does not mean hosting people who are not highly inclusive hosting a fascist nazi convention is the antithesis of inclusiveness you have made a grave error in judgment and imminent boycotts you're going to feel for years to come some fact checking web sites are now even questioning whether it was done on purpose the shape of the nazi symbol is eerily similar to the shape of the stage at sea pink however we are presently unable to confirm whether this was a deliberate choice made by the event organizers the moments we rate this claim is

unproven. the theory is that the sea pack stage resembled the odal room used in the archaic norse an anglo-saxon alphabets as the equivalent of the modern letter o and also meaning estate or heritage the nazis used this symbol during their rule in germany and many groups that track anti-semitism and white supremacy ism classify it as a hate symbol now the hyatt hotels has denounced the symbol and said they had no power over how the stage was designed at the c. pak conference i whenever the organizers of see pac say this is all a conspiracy staged design conspiracy is outrageous and slanderous we have a long standing commitment to the jewish community council culture extremists must address don't assume it isn't within their own ranks broadly stands with jewish allies including those speaking from the stage moreover some jewish people have

even mocked the attacks on c. pak as the grandson of holocaust survivors and as a proud american marine in june i find these types on c part to be outrageous and grotesque so as to destroy a narrative but he was a friday night. critics of the liberal narrative of pointed out that nazis are far from the only people to use old norse rooms for example the symbol of bluetooth is derived from ancient european writings symbols that were also appropriated by fascists and the lord of the rings books and movies also contain similar symbols i was at sea pack and i you know eve anyone who told me that sea pack was an anti sematic of bad i would have just actually laughed in their face 1st of all the stage would at this stage would have been an upside down version of the overall room so if they were really trying to put it in a position of saying that that's part of their sensibilities then why would they put it upside down secondly as a member of the audience i didn't even know what the stage looked like until i saw

it on twitter you couldn't even see it from the audience perspective so who designed the stage was an intentional is see pac responsible is hyatt hotel responsible we may never really know the answer but one thing that is for sure is that this controversy is certainly a sign of the times in the united states of america kaleb up and artsy new york a political blogger and for me brian hogan believes the reaction would have been quite different if it happened being a conservative event. the conspiracies are there just to conservatives and people believe in it because there's already a bias against conservatives anyway so the mainstream media has placed it to seed ok conservatives are bad they're racist they're hateful so when we say and now language think about them well we can just make it so we believe it because you are to believe they're bad anyway so is that really a big stretch to think they would do something else days bad because it's already thing got there about them being bay to begin with and maybe the whole thing about

the rune is there but it does mean it was intended to be that they'd sanction doesn't matter all that matters is they can link it some kind of way and have regular people believe it because there was already preprogramming to exist. another story we're following closely today the international criminal court has said it is opening a war crimes probe against israel over the 24th conflict in gaza our middle east correspondent paula slayer picks up the story. well the international criminal court has announced that it's opening a full war crimes probe into the activities of both the israeli government and him us since 2014 this includes the 2014 gaza war the 2018 border crisis the israeli settlement expansion in the west bank and hamas is firing of rockets against israel it has taken the better part of half a decade for the international criminal court to reach this point the decision to

open an investigation followed a painstaking preliminary examination undertaken by my office that lasted close to 5 years our central concern must be for the victims of crimes both palestinian and israeli arising from the long cycle of violence and insecurity that has caus deep suffering and despair on all sides in february the trial chamber of the international criminal court determined that the hague court has jurisdiction for opening a criminal investigation into the activities of israel and the hamas leadership for alleged war crimes in east jerusalem gaza and the west bank now at the same time the reactions have been very mixed as to be expected the palestinians have said that this is a victory for the victims they say it's a landmark historic decision but as expected the israelis for some time have been

campaigning against precisely what was announced today back in february the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu had this to say when the i.c.c. investigates israel for fake war crimes this is pure anti-semitism. is probably still visual i assure you we will fight this barrage of justice with our might. what this means is that hundreds of israelis could find themselves out on the wrong side of the law and we're talking here about the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu right on the trees ministers and even ordinary soldiers the country's defense minister benny gantz has said that he's never been afraid of crossing over in the lines and this announcement doesn't make him feel for either you have for years had human rights organizations who has been warning of these really violations against palestinians.

the united states has been a longtime ally of israel and when the former president donald trump was in power way he sanctioned the international criminal court after a tried to open an investigation in the palestinian territories now however under his successor joe biden it is possible that there is pressure to lift the sanctions and of course israel is lobbying against this what remains to be seen is just what comes out of this investigation. the armenian capital is once again thronging with protesters with no change in their demand but the prime minister must go hundreds have gathered next to parliament in europe or like previous the security forces have come armed to get to today with snipers even watching over the

building constantly rushkoff is watching proceedings unfold for us. protesters in europe i have gathered in front of the national parliament again to demonstrate against the prime minister and to demand he's resignation and we have seen a lot of police officers in riot gear now right here you can see the police frontline with in riot gear is with shields and of this is quite an unusual change from what we saw here in the last couple of days we also saw a small black metal objects that were being set up behind this fence around the parliamentary building and according to the people on army and social media this might be a flash bang grenades that are being placed around here at the top security measures related to the fact that the call question on was in the parliament building p came here for a q. and a session with members of the parliament and you know the main political news of the last couple of hours is that snap elections in armenia are go in to be hold

within the next 6 months we can hold snap elections during 2021 if the opposition and more importantly the parliamentary opposition agrees that i have already invited leaders of the opposition factions for meetings and consultations but the hard core opposition and thousands and thousands of people on the streets they are very suspicious that you know the voting might be rigged in favor of me called parchin out and so they want him to step down 1st and then do not take part in any future elections whatsoever what was much of it in the might look at my our mania look to the divisions it's lead to in my country we've lost our lands only because of one surrender our lands with one signator that we demand the prime minister quits the stablish a transitional government and hold elections that trying to twist it saying that they want to hold the elections but people don't it's not true passion has already

proposed early elections but never fulfilled the promise. done to calm down the streets only if he won solely elections he should set a date elections will eventually happen but without question i think he has no other choice but to quit another contentious issue that is still a source of a lot of tension right now is the fate of on a guess very on the head of the general staff of the armenian armed forces he and 40 top armenian generals. basically defied prime minister nicole accused him of being incompetent and said that he's dragging other country to the brink of a war for that they were accused of staging a military coup and now we have contradicted information so we have the statement from the general staff of the armenian armed forces and it says that on a guess on is going to stay in office seize not going anywhere he's going to carry on doing his job but. according to the prime minister and he's team the

order to dismiss on he goes through on is valid and it comes into force tonight actually it already have come into the fore so this situation where we can see a lot of tension we don't know how is going to play out and it's free much wait and see approach so both intense political negotiations and the on go we protest on a year of on street so let me give you a look what's going on here so everything that you are seeing right now makes the situation very volatile and on predictable in armenia. the world to will have blood on its homes over yemen is the stark warning from the u.n. revealed less than needed for this year's aid program has been donated we spoke to norwegian refugee council spokeswoman suit them. it's shocking that at

a time when we have warning about a potential historic family and in yemen that countries like saudi arabia which i think pledged 430000000 that's a fraction of the one body and they pledged in 2019 the u.a.e. as well as another country which is directly responsible for the situation of hunger in yemen through its role in the whole i mean he pledged 200 and that's him and he and the u.k. . have to aid to yemen. and again the u.k. it's partly responsible for what's going on because of its sounds of weapon what this means for young children in yemen is that an entire generation of children will know nothing about how much and disease what they will see will see a generation whose development is tomtit. the united nations did not reach even

half of its $3900000000.00 target needed for its 2021 aid program with a significant number of countries giving us last year the no 6 year conflict in yemen led to the world's worst humanitarian crisis. notice to the. world. yemenis themselves are helping themselves all the time and that you know aid isn't the only thing that was keeping families.