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to the world this is your r.t. international your company my name's you know. the prime minister of slovakia defended his decision to acquire russia coronavirus. he's faced a wave of criticism after the country received its 1st delivery of the job earlier in the day my colleagues and reformer taylor 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's 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 feed 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 yet 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 is the really facing some sort of you know substantial revote here while the purchase of those 2000000 jobs has really put the 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 to clades the sputnik the is not just a frank scene but quote a tool of hybrid war so it puts people a titian's who all 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 brits paused looking at will this play . infighting said ok we'll take the axels back and we won't even ask for the compensation as per the contract and this is something that the suboxone pm actually wrote about specifically how it expose the hypocrisy of his critics they have been saying 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 why couldn't the

prime minister just adopt a vaccine that had been approved then by the uighurs he decided to take this route and take sputnik fee and of course then we've seen all the arguments than she. well it's no secret that the european union is failing in its tasco 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 fools to publicly apologize so frustration desperation pushing sutton member states to look beyond the block for help and they're looking to russia so hungry has registered sputnik the slovakia to now. submarine so it's easy you approved of vaccines were delayed there are rumors that the czech republic and also you're also next in line 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 bloc 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 venice will nicolas maduro and 1st lady scilly flores have been inoculated with their 1st dose of sputnik b. the inaugural 100000 shots arrived in the country last month and were given to the

most vulnerable sectors and health personnel footage of the presidential couple receiving the russian job was broadcast on state television there. a kick in the teeth british medical association has called the government's proposed one percent pay rise for health care workers union say it undermines the value of those who quote kept the country alive during the cold crisis the spike to the u.k.'s national health service said to receive an extra $500000000.00 pounds per year onto the deal it would still likely result in a real term pay cut for stuff as inflation in the u.k. is predicted to reach 1.5 percent this year it comes to spite the government's repeated promises of rewarding. 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 property 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 one percent you know what's that's not going to have any impact on them it just feels like a very 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 that but those who've been in the middle of it haven't done so well and jess's critically on the fund it. you know the government can afford lots of other things you look at all the contracts they've been giving to friends all the leading british nurses union has set up a phone to prepare for possible strikes over the deal labor party leader cure starmer has also the smiths the proposal saying quote coburn heroes the reserve

better support but the british health secretary has the fend of the offer calling it affordable given coburn's devastating impact on the colonies we got the opinions of the u.k.'s think tank firstly let's hear from a nurse on the. but not least because one can say nor academics can 2nd everything that nazis have done and any chance for us in general for this country jed in the course of the. record it had taken years of my stay to tea and ask loizeaux to meet you not that i think you can imagine any. anti the demoralized the tango and the same people or speech some government as we had at least a small of an a hole that asked our government for is and to be quite honest watch it you might actually szell. we are and the appreciation for it is an unfortunately that was a missed opportunity for the government i think it's fairly understandable that

public servants who are doing a really difficult job are a really difficult time would feel that they ought to be rewarded more fair in the u.k. he's a wealthy nation if we devalued our resources fairly i think there'd be a lot more to be ample sco 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 cold but. government administration or a fairer taxation system to find the money to give the nurses who have been literally saving lives keeping the country running through this period of more generous offer. they're moving the program on our u.s. capitol police have requested about more than 2000 national guard troops to remain in washington d.c. for another 2 months and with tensions remaining high after january's riots police

authorities and the media seem intent on finding threats even when the evidence doesn't always lead their beloved larkin explained. 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 home before

commencement. we advise you to get off the streets as quickly as possible it will 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 q. and a on 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 cancelled 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 you 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've had almost only a month and a half of being you know people were talking about a $2000.00 check that's what they want. i don't know where they're. that don't want to hear about that where the money or the health care you know what's going on in our economy right now 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 accountable i promise you nobody going to the capitol. the day the 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 a 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 kaleb artsy new

york. meanwhile coverage of donald trump's high profile return to the media spotlight at the conservative political action conference has been rapidly disappearing from you tube sensibly for making false claims about last year's election result well as podcast artie's been sold a selection of guests for their take on the. governments and the public really have lost control of what's going on online it gets to a real scary place when every discussion has to be more about so who knows when in fact we need to actually hear a broader discussion it's a fine line between. protecting and censoring and creating a bunch of members of society who can't have critical conversation of the future because they're afraid and not only might they be canceled just from from existing online or in an other ways but their whole lives could in fact their lives could be

canceled if they if they step too far one way or the other when you read it in a constitutional republic where free speech and the 1st amendment is protected it's the 1st amendment for a reason it's the most important because all the others don't matter if you can't talk about them for some reason we've just focused all of our aggression on donald trump and never really looked at those larger if you logical institutionalized norms that the united states is is based on what made trump and so on it's significant and remember he was discounted in the beginning was that he was able to speak to people who felt like they have not been spoken to without donald trump if this part of the republican party would arguably should have had shrunk. to love those that would never win on this state local or national level ever again they should be thinking ringback about something. you're watching arc international still ahead holiday from hell we hear from

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so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic developments only mostly. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. a look in french authorities are investigating months slaughter allegations against costa cruises after 3 people died following a covert i break on one of their ships last year there was a brawl that cost that much you can claim they weren't told the suspected infections either were encouraged by the crew to use the ship's facilities or to

charlotte dubin ski 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 he 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 luck cynic now these images show this situation off to the islands authority told passengers

that they had to stay confined to their cabins tensions were high violence erupted . was was was. was. was was a year later and french investigators approving allegations including mom saw to 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 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 evolving 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 to 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 costa 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 costa which say no there will be no italian 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 been a long and tough journey but she's determined that costa cruises should be held responsible so it's even ski. legal. denmark stripped almost 100 syrian refugees of their residency permit saying they should return home now that major parts of the country are considered safe it is the 1st

european nation to make such a move we have made it clear to the syrian refugees that their residence permit distemper or it can be withdrawn that protection is no longer needed the government sees the $94.00 migrants will be sent to danish deportation camps but won't be forced to leave from there in the hope they'll want to go back to syria of their own accord the moving part of the ruling party is saying to have 0 asylum seekers applying for residency human rights groups have lashed out at the move saying it goes against people's rights the be protected from persecution we've got the thoughts on this from hello bachmann member of the alternative for germany party. perspective in denmark. in my decide to go big just really are. a subject i think it is. so the point to distinguish different groups there are

no dole syrians who fled from the sun to injury they probably don't want to go back to the audience who fled from us and for damage be an option and that might be also an option for dogs who would simply fled from the us who are because they were afraid of to live because. this. war has angered now and outsource truly are might be safe enough for them to go back you have to do you have to government which is still in charge in syria even if. they have related human rights if they want to send syrians back there you have to do you believe the syrian government because of out the agreement of the syrian government . pursued his policy. armenia's opposition is keeping our pressure in attempts to force the country's prime minister to step

down a 10th consecutive day of protests occurred on saturday in the capital your of it follows a public face off between prime minister in a call. on the military parties constantino roscoff was among the crowds for us. well the people of europe on have taken to the streets again to protest against the prime minister he called question on and they see that peace deal that he signed with his service john as a humiliating defeat have the opposition have been staging rallies like this one for over a week now demanding the incumbent prime minister to step down was another rally staged by the barons in front of the armenians the ministry of bands and battles there i joined calls from the top military command for the resignation of nicole pasha now. we're here to support our friends our top army leaders who are now literally face and unconstitutional repression so we just want to mention that

officers are shoulder to shoulder with their commanders no matter their own active duty or veterans. coals for the resignation of the prime minister and moreover i consider that. the army is not a joke we are talking about the chief of staff of this country who is empowered with certain rights and responsibilities and becomes simply be removed all of a sudden just because someone woke up in a bad mood like what happened to his deputy now all stems from the last year said a 6 week bloody war with which ended in a humiliating defeat as a lot of people here say and armenia had to cede large swaths of its territory to you as areas and of course that's when he called based increasing calls for his resignation and all in all it's quite can see 2 ways it is unclear how other countries go he didn't overcome this even in the congo we will let it go turmoil.

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i'm ashen or tantrum we're going underground for a special lockdown episode is britain one of the world's top financial services capitals issued new budget plans courtesy of former goldman sachs john celebrity so knock they join the show will be getting analysis rocks of universities professor danny dorling in the consult and editor of the london daily mail and drew p.s. but 1st joining me now from seafood in the suffix is the biographer of towering 20th century economist john maynard keynes lord skidelsky. welcome to going underground i want to get on to what you describe as a silent revolution going on there in this country about economics but as to this week's budget what do you make of it continued feeling amongst commentators certainly that. we must understand the economics of a nation is the economics of a a grocery shop. yeah well that's the that's the standard line isn't it i mean they're not they're not connected the purpose of the budget is to balance to concert the nation that's what the purpose of

a government's budget is and therefore it is the only grace shut off so to speak it alone has access to money and that it can print set in that sense the government isn't a tool like a grocer's shop a gracious shop your shop has to go to a bank if it gets into debt it borrows from bank it has to repay government to have to repay government can borrow without limit technically it can simply print the money it wants to spend now that is a fact whether it was to do so when they want to stop it by law from doing those kinds of things that's a different matter but it can do it and if it wants to spend 3 $100000000000.00 in supporting the economy during the cove it it will spend $300000000000.00 and it'll tell the bank of england to provide the money which is in fact what the bank of it .