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information. from the russian capital pleasure to have your company. the prime minister of defended his decision to acquire russian coronavirus he's faced a wave of criticism after the country received its 1st delivery of the earlier my colleagues. went through the story. over the past year we've heard time and time again that unity is needed in the fight against the coronavirus when it comes to vaccines though it seems that our unity falls apart and while political shenanigans begin his purchase of russia sputnik seem the latest of around 40 countries globally to do so has made very clear because the prime minister was forced to

defend his decision to critics spoke out saying they want to refund the sputnik vaccine will not go back to russia it will save lives in slovakia i would never give it up our country is a fundamental part of the european union but i cannot turn down a quality vaccine that will save our people because it's made in russia i'm not a murderer so why did the scenes all the sputnik the flying out for most go to the east of here on monday bring about such backlash well the russian vaccine has not been registered by the european union now the approval process is in fact just beginning but as prime minister much of it said he cannot in good conscience allow himself to stand by and wait for red tape to be cut while his citizens are dying so widespread then is this criticism is it a couple of voices or z. really facing some sort of you know substantial group vote here while the purchase of those 2000000 jobs has really put the stock in government in disarray so 2 of

the 4 parties who make up the ruling coalition have spoken out one in fact has proposed a reshuffle of the entire cabinet the other said it might even leave the coalition meanwhile the foreign minister foreign affairs minister very diplomatically clad sputnik the is not just a frank scene but quote a tool of hybrid war so it puts people to titian's who are supposed to put the welfare of best citizens of what else are here 5 miles thing in trying to send back a vaccine that could save thousands of lives for its part looking at will this play . cole infighting said ok we'll take the vaccines back and we won't even ask for the compensation as per the contract and this is something that the slovakian pm actually wrote about specifically how expose the hypocrisy of his critics they have been seeing hybrid war jew political russian weapons all kinds of nonsense that we should be ashamed off when the russians came and offered to take the vaccine back

with no repercussions everyone suddenly became quiet what couldn't the prime minister choose to talk device in that had been approved by the uighurs he decided to take this route and. and of course then we've seen. while it's no secret tool that the european union is failing in its toss of vaccinating its 450000000 strong population its production is slow its rollout is even slow it's been such a p.r. and health disaster that brussels was even forced to publicly apologize so frustration desperation pushing sutton even member states to look beyond the block for help and they're looking to russia so hungry has registered sputnik the slovakia to now. san marino also after its easy to approved vaccines were delayed there are rumors that the czech republic an all star also next in line so pretty appetite is growing as is

a lack of faith in brussels as food brussels and the e.u. which is obviously all about being a single cohesive union where everything is centralized all these individual member states splintering off and breaking ranks is actually quite humiliating and in a sign that it doesn't even really have faith in its own ability to handle this crisis on friday a spokesperson said that countries can independently acquire jobs approved by the block or not whether they're from russia from china or wherever else so we're clearly seeing his shift within the e.u. member states starting to lose faith and confidence splintering from the union when it comes to vaccines and this latest saga in slovakia showing as we've seen from the very beginning not even vaccines in the middle of a global pandemic are immune from being politicized. meanwhile in south america the president of venezuela nicolas maduro 1st lady sylvia flores have been had with

their affairs but in a very the in order 100000 shots arrived in the country last month and were given to the most vulnerable sectors and health personal footage of the presidential couple receiving the russian jump and was broadcast on state television there. a kick in the teeth that's $13.00 british medical association has called the government's proposed one percent pay rise for health care workers unions say it undermines the value of those who quote kept the country alive during the crisis. the spite the u.k.'s national health service said to receive an extra $500000000.00 pounds per year under the deal it would still likely result in a real term paper cut 1st off as inflation in the u.k. is predicted to reach 1.5 percent this year it comes despite the government's repeated promises of road warding front line stuff to. our n.h.s. is the b.

team heart of this country it is important that we support our really just want to see our fantastic frontline workers paid properly we absolutely want to. reward n.h.s. staff for what they've done i will be making sure that we fight to have that fair reward i mean i guess the government would have to prioritize and i think nurses and the n.h.s. in general is something that we should prioritize at this moment and i do think they should probably receive more than one percent but it's a symbolic ratio one percent you know but what's that's not going to have any impact on them it just feels like a very it's like a very weak offer from the government it's not right you know there's always companies that made so much money off the back of the number of those who've been in the middle of it haven't done so well and it says critically underfunded. you know the government can afford lots of other things you look at all the contracts they've been giving to their friends a leading british nurses union has set up

a phone to prepare for possible strikes over the deal labor party leader cure a storm is also the smiths the proposal saying quote covert heroes deserve better support but the british health secretary has defended the offer calling it affordable given coburn's devastating impact on economies we've got the opinions of a u.k. think tank and a nurse on the issue. well not least because one can say as nor accurate as consider nothing that nazis have done and in each case what else in general for that country jet in the course of the pandemic we've already had 10 years of my state it and ask loys north korea to meet you not that i think you can imagine any chance that. the demoralized the tango and the same people or state some government as we had at least a small amount of all that i asked our government for is actually quite a bit communist watch it you might actually szell. we are and the appreciation for

his and unfortunately that was have missed opportunity for the government i think it's fairly understandable that public servants who are doing a really difficult job or a really difficult time would feel that they ought to be rewarded more fair to the u.k.'s a wealthy nation if we devalued our resources fairly i think they'd be a lot more you know they'd be ample scope for low paid workers and critical work as such the system gets a. more substantial pay rise it's not hard to find examples of how better more competent. government administration or a fairer taxation system could find the money to give the nurses who have been literally saving lives keeping the country running through this period of more generous offer. u.s. capitol police have requested more than 2000 national guard troops remain in

washington d.c. for another 2 months attention for meeting her after the january riots police authorities are on the media meant tent on finding threats even when the evidence doesn't always lead their killer pop and explain. it is no exaggeration to say that there was serious panic in the lead up to march 4th a new threat against the u.s. capitol a possible militia plot to storm the capitol as early as tomorrow we are watching this threat stream the information social media other sources with respect to this particular day march 4th federal law enforcement is on full alert after warnings from intelligence officials that another attack on the u.s. capitol could be a minute preparations were serious hundreds of national guard patrolling the area capitol police released a statement on wednesday warning possible plot to breach the capitol by an unidentified militia group a local businesses have warned tenants about possible protests you might have

gotten the impression watching me to your reports that u.s. officials were bracing for the purge as citizens rushed to get killed before commencing. we advise you to get off the streets as quickly as possible it'll soon be a war there. so what happened when the fateful day finally arrived nothing what does it take to put the u.s. government on edge apparently just some lame internet rumors it all started with cuban conspiracy theorists on the internet they said that the inauguration of joe biden was a big false flag and that the pentagon was planning to install donald trump on march 4th the original inauguration date in u.s. history well obviously that did not happen now the main conspiracy theory of cuban on is the idea that a group of satanic blood drinking pedophiles have seized control of the u.s. government and media apparatus and that donald trump and his allies are waging

a heroic covert war against them behind the scenes some of blame donald trump for not denouncing the militia groups and cuban on conspiracy theorists who rally behind him you know the president has a responsibility to tell him to stay down this road. is credible it's real human on conspiracy theories and delusions aside joe biden won the election he has been inaugurated so why is the country still on edge and blaming the former president there were no violent actions or big protests on march 4th but law enforcement was on high alert the whole thing was taken very very seriously the department continues to work with all of them. and is based on the intelligence that we have the department has taken immediate steps to enhance our security posture and stuffing for a number of days to include much the fools the u.s. house of representatives even canceled their meeting later nancy pelosi insisted

that the meeting was not canceled just moved to an earlier time if in fact there's any troublemakers around and it makes sense. i don't think anybody should take any encouragement that because some troublemakers might show up and that we change the whole schedule now we just moved in a few hours there's now a call to extend the national guard presence around the u.s. capitol just in case internet liberals have decided that a secret nazi conspiracy has taken over the republican party their proof the shape of the stage at sea-tac apocalyptic scenarios are now starting to become a regular aspect of american political discourse and i actually have a lot of conservative friends and a lot of populous conservative friends and a lot of trump supporters. and none of the had talked about this until the mainstream media brought it up rumors only cause panic if the rumors are given air by the right you know media i just think it's

a justification to not put this in a position where they have to actually face the failures that they have had through almost only a month from being in office people were talking about a $2000.00 check that's what they would. no i don't know where their checks that i want to hear about that where the money or where the health care you know what's going on in our economy right now is you know those are the things we don't see anyone once again holding biden accountable in the same way that we expected to be out accountable i promise you nobody going to the capitol to the day the me media's been claiming this blood drinking satanic pedophiles secret cryptic nazi symbols false flag inaugurations all of this would make a great hollywood movie or netflix mini series but in the real world america seems to have some pretty big problems like crumbling infrastructure unpopular wars and

cultural polarization however our political discourse seems to be stuck in fantasyland caleb mop and artsy new york. you're watching r t international still ahead holiday from hell we hear from a passenger who is trapped on the telly and a cruise ship during a deadly coated break more enough among our stories. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. the world is driven by a dream shaped. thinks

. we. ask. why the 21st century america is exhausted it's just tired and it doesn't have anything approaching more but china after being on the margins for so long does have something to prove and they do have the capacity and they are putting shoulder to the wheel and they are working. in the indian government is reportedly threatening to deal employees of facebook

twitter and what's up new delhi the tech giants of plush the over sharing data and removing information linked to muss protests by farmers who are rallying against cultural reforms the tech companies say they will abide by international law on the principles of an open internet and have called india's requests concerning specific employees in the country or allegedly at risk of arrest if the firms don't comply with the state's requests no india has been developing new guidelines for social media companies to fight the law for violent content and misinformation the firms will be required to remove questionable content even tracked on the originator of messages let's cross live your internet law expert and friend of the program good to see you your are the indian requests to be. justified.

indeed look i don't know the ins and outs of this particular protest in india but the reality is this india is the largest democracy in the world it has a law are very. lively and. the democratic system it has go to court is go to the television it's got to go to free speech in even the indian government says to facebook and twitter that they have to remove certain content because discounting is unlawful then the social media giants should comply if they don't like their request they can go to the local courts and apply to the local courts to change the decision the reality is that facebook treats instagram google they are not above the law they are not

above a middle of any country and they should obey by the rules of each and every country would choose to operate otherwise they have a choice they don't have to operate in a particular country like the rules you can companies like you've just gone through there the majority of them ticked on content pretty easily 10 to anywhere in the united states normally without a fight but are now are partly rejecting india's request why that kind of divergence not exact same since you know aureole is that we're talking about why do you think there is a difference that exists though. this is very strange because because india us for example the very same companies taking off lawful content so free speech is not allowed in many instances on their platform and then you look at a country like india unlawful speech is allowed you know they try to. encourage

publication of unlawful speech so so this is this is clearly not about democracy this is not about facebook and treat to try to promote democracy while they are bored they are fighting over is who should be the main censor who should be in charge of what people are going to listen what people are going to hear this is nothing but an attempt to take control over social media over what people here and what people what information people are exposed to. which is of course ridiculous we can see it's not about free speech if it was a buffer a speech you would never had so many people being done in america for full full follow full speech the one worrying aspect though just on the face of it. do individuals whole responsibility for what their employees make them do talking

about jail term here by the indian government if they are organizations and questions don't. go the way of what the new dehli want them to do. ultimately people have to comply with court orders we cannot encourage a situation of our narky in what seems to be the case is it those companies are trying to encourage law lawlessness they try doing to create chaos whenever they go and facebook cannot say look we are an american company we're not going to comply we are called to order of the indian court somebody has to take responsibility and i think that if the decision by the government of india that employees will be held responsible for failure by their own company to take. clinton down then duck should be respected unless a local call to his otherwise well it's stephanie a story with big ramifications whichever way it will be closely following here

won't we you're call an internet law expert life on r.t. international. french authorities are investigating months slaughter allegations against italy's costa cruises after 3 people died following a covert i prayed on one of their ships last year that was aboard the cost of magick a claim they weren't told about suspected infections and were encouraged by the crew to use the ship's facilities r.t. charlotte devinsky spoke to one of the passengers. sequoias yes the cruise was a chance to go with my son who was 5 years old to see a magical world and discover the magic of the caribbean instead it was a nightmare i wondered how i would get out of this hell because if i didn't i was going to die stephanie dubois was one of thousands of holiday makers aboard the costa munchak a last year when the covert pandemic hit for her and her then 5 year old son it was supposed to be a dream voyage instead passengers found themselves trapped on board with little

information or what was happening as the virus spread through the ship. they refused to inform us that there were cases of covert aboard the ship that they had tested positive there was no suspicion but indeed there were ill people they refused to give us information and we got it from the media when we were near the coast and could get a signal they concealed it from us and they didn't let us protect ourselves they didn't protect us either health wise they didn't treat us very well and not at all humanely but also the void had to put in place barrier measures which could have protected us and did you ask koester what measures they were putting in place to ensure that your health was the priority. attention increased very quickly we were in a state of tension and anguish which i just can't describe finally after a few days this virus spread strongly we asked them to cut the air conditioning and they refused we demanded that they open all the restaurants and all those outside

so that people could escape the crews as soon as possible to avoid gatherings they refused to put in place all these measures the cruise ship was refused permission for passengers to disembark at several ports including only island of lotsa nique now these images show the situation off to the islands authority told passengers that they had to stay confined to their cabins tensions were high and violence erupted. was was was. was was. was was a year later and french investigators approving allegations including manslaughter aggravated to seat and in danger in the lives of others against italy's costa cruises over her model could be going team cases aboard that ship 3 passengers

don't lead from the virus the company denies the accusations saying that it and the crew acted on the scant information that was available about the forests the toyman considering that at that time the situation was a valving rapidly and the ship's medical team acted on the basis of the vailable scientific information and full compliance with the instructions of the health authorities and in constant coordination with them but the lawyer who represents almost knowing 100 passengers in the complaint filed in france told r.t. that that's not the case and you can see there was no more hand sanitizer it was replaced by water very clearly or it was either totally empty or didn't exist no security or health measures there were 3 restaurants on board the shuttle 2 there was only one open and there were 2300 passengers who came for lunch breakfast and dinner one after the other without health measures and he claims that the company

was fully aware before setting sail that there were troubled waters ahead even outright lying to holiday makers he said that they had questioned whether there would be a tally in passengers on board as at that time italy had become the latest hub for the virus costing he says assured them there would be no talons on board he said me they knew a week in advance that the cruise could not last so yes it's true it was a strain. situation near the start or just a little in advance of the pandemic hence the concern of the french passengers to know if there were any italian passengers at this time it was a european country hit hard by covert and they wrote we have the emails and letters from coast which say no there will be no it's all in passengers yes they lied and they should have cancelled this cruise because they knew what could happen the passengers who have brought these complaints now have to wait to see if it will be

taken for stephanie it's already being a long journey but she's determined that costa cruises should be held responsible so it's all legal well if you're in the mood to dig a little deeper into any of this hour's stories i can recommend r t dot com as a solid starting point always fresh content being added there. was a pandemic no certainly no borders just flying to nationalities. as america would be we took a back seat. to. judge . comedy classes so. we can do

better we should. everyone is contributing each in our own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenge is great the response has been so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. since they don't have a budget and then. pay them. about the money obviously to let them do so. thank god it's not crock that's. just the type to use a penny to tie the next. moment on. you feel good. enough for them to. be putting it on the.

this is a boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss in washington coming up in a promising sign for the economy the us jobs market saw a boost last month straight ahead we'll analyze the numbers and how optimism is affecting global markets plus chinese technology firms have filed lawsuits against the u.s. government over the ongoing tech tensions between the world's 2 largest economies and later we'll go inside the emerging and have tea sector and breakdown what exactly it is and the hype that surrounds the technology impact show today let's dive right in. and we lead the program here in the united states the u.s.

labor department reported friday non-farm payrolls surged 537-9004 the month of february as the unemployment rate ticked down to 6.2 percent the economy was expected to gain just $210000.00 new jobs so this is a big boost on top of that as some areas of the country relax coping $1000.00 restrictions more than 350000 jobs are actually added in the leisure and hospitality sector with most of those employees. taking jobs in bars and restaurants the health care sector also added 460000 jobs while retail at 41000 now despite this positive news it is important to note 8 and a half 1000000 fewer americans held jobs in february compared to the same month last year just prior to covert $1000.00 restrictions going into effect so with this in mind let's go ahead and take a look at how global markets shake out for the week all eyes are seemingly on inflation and bond yields in the united states the pressure is hurting equities as

we continue to wait for the latest in this package to get through.