distances. breaking ranks with the block the czech republic becomes the latest e.u. country to go its own way. requesting deliveries from russia. also ahead on the program and. regime change being bombed into democracy. the administration. translate into a real policy shift. an explosion occurs on a testing center in the netherlands police say it was intentional and creasing hostility in recent weeks. the

international criminal court launches a formal probe into alleged war crimes by israel during the 2014. year chiming in from across the globe welcome to moscow and to our team you know new. spluttering vaccination program in europe has now seen the czech republic fall out of line with the e.u. is instead looking to russia. to give its own inoculation campaign a shot in the arm. looking at the blocs difficulties so the 3 european nations that have a green light to dispute this but the european medicines agency taking its time really taking its time to approve these 3 nations have already. opinion of

the said look the situation is incredibly desperate. czech republic hungry and now slovakia's which is just received its 1st batch of sputnik 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 also with the 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 way 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 a dog so we'll get you the vaccines but. 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 that european nations understand that this is a catastrophe this is a catastrophe of 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 she included 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 saying 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 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 that were 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 they're 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 we shared liability among member states you remember in the early days of the pandemic when countries all over the world nato allies 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. to let's bring you know on the program to a big foreign policy announcement coming out of washington the u.s. will. no longer engage in rejean change or wage wars in the name of democracy in faraway places police stuff if today's statement by secretary of state and putting clinton is anything to go by. killing my pin in new york not the kind of talk we're used to hearing coming our it's all of d.c. but given the not so peace loving history of some of the by dead ministrations key stuff is the question will be is this something many actually expect them to deliver to us through it indeed well we heard

a speech from the secretary of state antony blinken recently appointed by joe biden and in that speech he talked about the need for democracy and how precious it is he pointed to russia and china as being opponents of democracy around the world you talked about the desire for end the actions of washington being aimed at you know disproving and proving how wrong that quote unquote authoritarian regimes are however in his speech he did make an interesting remark he did say that there would be no more force used by washington to break these regimes that disapproves of here is what he said we will incentivize democratic behavior but we will not promote democracy through costly military interventions or by attempting to overthrow author terry regimes by force. we've tried these tactics in the past however well intentioned they haven't worked. now this is the same anthony blanket who has

declared unwavering support for juan guede o. who is a figure who has proclaimed himself to be the president of then his whale and was tied in with a right wing coup attempts to overthrow the venezuelan government u.s. military and private contractors were even involved in those coup attempts there have been u.s. interventions in efforts to intervene in ecuador in libya and many other countries and it seems like the united states has long been committed to destabilizing and overthrowing governments around the world it disapproves of i mean it's almost become a trend of u.s. leaders to to call for the overthrow of governments around the world let's review. nicolas maduro moscow nicolas maduro must go the time has come for nicolas maduro to go his days are numbered the brutal repression of the venezuelan people must stand and it must and soon dickless material must go now the united states often

will use an excuse when u.s. military interventionism is indeed carried out there are often justifications that are given such as this that we've heard from lincoln of course we will never hesitate to use force when american lives and vital interests are at stake. so it seems like a change in wording has come in with joe biden's new administration however we are yet to see any real change in policy certainly an interesting way of phrasing it saying that the united states will no longer engage in force in order to overthrow governments that it deems to be authoritarian quite an interesting turn of phrase let's see if it results in a change of policy you know we'll see how it plays us correspondent kill him up and taken us through that. a bomb has exploded outside a coded testing center in the netherlands the blast caused only minor damage to

surrounding buildings no one was injured it comes amid an increasingly tense up miss fear in the country we're continuing looked on with more on the instant here's our to charlatans. well this explosion took place in the early morning just outside that could send in an area called bhupen costco which is about 5055 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 the government today imposed a controversial coup that there was a coup that sent that was set on fire in the village. that's 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. 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 ministrations so many people are unhappy about how his government handles the 19 pandemic this is what opposition parties have to say still looking everybody up having seen. social life. the you know the student life the social life of you. i don't. know the 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 there's also being directed towards the health authorities it's really an issue spiralling out of control. and european studies scholar at the university of amsterdam. believes the dutch government's reticence about humbling the pun demick may have contributed to public discontent. the 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 why 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 unknown to the general public which is quite unusual furder to raise censorship 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 cancelled 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 . ok another big story this whedon's they the international criminal court has said it is opening a war crimes probe against israel and over the 24000 conflict in gals or middle

east correspondent paula sneer now 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 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. investigate israel for fake workrooms this is pure anti-semitism. is promised to resume 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 white auntie's 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 or 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 that means to be seen is just what comes out of this investigation or fatah revolutionary council member dimitri really early welcomes the war crimes probe but doesn't expect much to change. serious significant in terms of lifting the international law. human it is even ization of the. cause after many efforts by the israelis of dehumanizing the palestinian case and caused this also apply to the palestinians as victims of israeli violence and organized terror but it would not change the course of expansionary ideology in policy against also international law that has been carried out by the. state of

israel with the support of the united states of america i believe that this would deter some of the use of for example force 1st bombs that was clearly used against. the war on gaza it would probably deter from. targeted killing. peaceful protesters. and such a war crimes that has been actually. rejected were large but have found support within israeli public and within the u.s. and british ration unfortunately. it 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 censors the platform deleted his speech on a number of channels including reuters a.b.c. and r.t.

citing a lack of content warnings with her take here's polly boyko. sir donald trump was back giving his big return speech at the packed 2021 once the conservative political action conference for the uninitiated and it attracts a breakthrough wild bunch. 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 a live ok let's try and get one more quick clip 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 income free to say whatever he wants in the tradition of freedom of speech only for you to take it down and threaten r.t. with a content strike and deletion from the platform for violating its spam deceptive practices and spams 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 to 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 platform so the folly is clear because for example i can still watch the video on the independence you tube channel actually as you know the just watch the words one of which is our environment and so watch out there while you still can put social media platforms which always try 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 they're targeting 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 illegal media analyst lowell has concerned you tube 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 and whatever so they know exactly what they're doing. there i mean in capital is once again thronging with protesters with no change in their demand out the prime minister moscow hundreds have gathered next to parliament in your of unlike previous days security forces have come onto the t.v. today with snipers even watching over the building there for us constantine rushkoff. 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 hardcore 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 my thought is 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 why. surrender our lands with one signator. we demand the prime minister quits 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 wants early elections he should set

a date elections will eventually happen but without question i think it is 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 he's 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 a guest 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. some news reaching us this hour from sweden 8 people are believed to be injured in a suspected terror attack in the country it happened in the southern ton of that where people were reportedly set upon by a man either armed with a knife or. ochs the attacker who low. cool swedish reports are stating he was a mom in his twenty's was reportedly shot by police we don't know how the victims

were indeed they suspected perpetrator their health are at the moment we will of course be keeping across this story from southern sweden and when we know more developments we will of course bring it to you 8 people injured in a suspected terror attack in sweden ok that is how your midway can use all data is shaping up hope you'll join us for all the latest developments and less than 30 more great programs get going and moments as they close. i. this is.