moment. in our review of the week. program. we speak to the head of the institute. we do not have to prove the prestige of our institution in the products that meet the institute is 60 years old and it's connected to the victory over polio and yellow fever and we deliver drugs for these diseases abroad so we don't need any promotion. of women in

the british army. is according to testimony being heard by. the end of nations being. 'd ministration. stories from the past 7 days on the latest developments welcome to the weekly r.t. . the latest. new country to take deliveries of russia's

sputnik the vaccine it follows hungary's the citizen to obtain the jump as europe's own vaccination program continues to stutter other european nations could join them too with the czech republic saying this week it was also considering the shot our senior correspondent the have talked through developments on the program earlier. to the 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 sputniks of these 3 nations have already sidelined the european union and of the said look the situation is incredibly desperate to the czech republic hungry and now slovakia's which received its 1st batch. vaccines there's going to be millions more that are going to be delivered by summer so the problem is obviously very happy that he's managed to secure more vaccines for the people nevertheless there is now a scandal there's a scandal because the president of slovakia come out she paid lip service to

people's lives but all of it because 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 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 vaccination has been handled well or badly by the european union 51 percent more than half of germans have said it's been shambles 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 themselves will. handler so will get you the 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 30 percent in the united kingdom so europe is lagging far far behind that european nations understand that this is a catastrophe and the huge number of levels of a political level of 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

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 a 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 all typically 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 rollouts we must prepare for the 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 sorry it 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 you all vaccines there's no need to run around and make shady deals and you know by 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 then out saying that perhaps perhaps will try to speed up the whole bureaucratic process that has caused all of this and get you a merge and see approval for vaccines now it could be an emergency authorization of vaccines that you level was shared liability among member states remember in the early days of a pandemic what countries all over the world nato allies are good neighbors bought up supplies from each other so we're talking about mosques ventilators we all remember the diplomatic crises that that caused this situation now is remarkably similar so there is no united front 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 the member states don't believe that they can but russia will soon have a trick of vaccines in its arsenal against the pandemic in addition to sputnik and evoke the country expects to launch kovi later this month r t z tell us spoke with the head of the center behind the shot when you were pulled out of the can you explain what makes the kovi vaca vaccine different uses a deactivated virus but what does that actually meet with humans would it make you work we used a process called in activation which basically means killing the virus vaccines usually use a live virus or an already dead one we're dealing with an inactivated whole cell

vaccine approach that we've been developing for many years all of the vaccines at that you mark of center are based on this method a significant number of our vaccines form part of the russian national vaccination calender. causing a lot of the book at the what how long did it take to develop the vaccine how did you test it. it took almost a year and that's a very short time no western company has ever managed to produce a vaccine like this in such a short timeframe there are other technologies involved a key step was extracting the virus we went to various clinics and took blood samples from sick patients and tested for the presence of the virus one patient turned out to have a strain that was particularly amenable to our ends we were able to multi-line it and to cultivate it this was followed by the technological stages which manufactured the virus then purified it and then killed it the so-called in activation process as a result we get an industrial strain of the virus fit for mass production which

will give you go across the sky dozens foreign manufacturers said it was impossible to create an effective vaccine in such a short period of time then the lancet magazine published these efficacy data and many more people wanted to buy our faxing how will you convince the west that you're vaccinate he's as effective. not at the core of the word but if we do not have to prove the prestige of our institution in the products it makes the institute is 60 years old and it's connected to the victory over polio and yellow fever and we deliver drugs for these diseases abroad so we don't need any promotion the pandemic has created something akin to a state of war so all our resources have been redirected towards launching the vaccine into civilian circulation it's not about convincing anyone everything we do meets the requirements of the world health organization with which we have close cooperation the state has the task of solving the civil circulation issue and of doing the promotion the 1st challenge is to obtain the product and then to get it

out there. just over a year ago the 1st case of coronavirus was the tested in a russian citizen needless to say a lot has happened unchanged since then in every corner of the world let's take a brief look back at how the past 12 months in russia has unfolded.

bullying harassment and sexual abuse that's what thousands of women have been subjected to in the british army according to testimony given to a parliamentary committee. very hostile environment friendly and you do find themselves in a position when it starts going wrong that's when and where you are vulnerable is when the problem really starts women are paying an unnecessarily high price for serving join the army be the best it's the height of serving your country but it turns out some women are facing horrific battles of their own imagine 4000 people a brigade that can be deployed anywhere without very same number of women both surfing and veterans have now come forward with shocking experiences in the army from voting and harassment to serious sexual assault when it's to meet a complaint it's often to appear to treat somebody here simply amos and makes out women feel like she's just lame like she was asking sorry it's everywhere else in the world military sexual trauma is recognized in years didn't tell us that

parents should be able to identify that the subject traumatic. and people can access help in this couldn't really it just didn't recognize the sexual trauma or the issue has long been swept under the carpet among the ranks according to the ministry of defense figures in the 5 years to 2019 almost 130 sexual violence cases were heard at military court martials just 10 percent resulted in conviction many of course fail to even reach this stage.

the number is increasing year on year with the majority of alleged sexual predators still among the ranks according to women's testimonies within the current military system it is extremely hard to report a sexual crime and receive support help and justice that women wait with here to teach me a service company and. all that. is criminal action in the field i try to out investigation at the school was done except student so i think the investigation was you know i severely i'm cheesed i think that women which feel more support i mean our system the reporting you know being the worst brought

stories to change their evidence and to generally be. almost gaslighted to draw a story and not take it all but while women on the frontline fight to protect their country it seems like their country is failing to protect than shot at woodstock r.t. . still ahead social media platforms continue their crusade against donald trump as you tube to expire in his 1st major polls presidential speech the details on but plenty more besides coming your way in 90 seconds and counting. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy one sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race is on all sides very dramatic they follow only

closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

alone in washington this week promised to avoid carving military interventions by paroled but some are questioning the new commitment given america's long track record of backing coups and joe biden himself supporting nato's bombing of yugoslavia killam up and has been assessing the switch in foreign policy announced by the secretary of state we will incentivize democratic behavior. but we will not promote democracy through costly military interventions or by attempting to overthrow regimes by force. we've tried these tactics in the past however well intentioned they haven't worked quite an interesting use of words but the pattern from the united states of intervening in the affairs of other countries destabilizing and overthrowing governments around the world is quite well known one

looks at the history of iraq of libya afghanistan one looks throughout south and central america one can see many examples of the united states intervening in other countries affairs destabilizing and overthrowing governments and in fact in recent years we've heard many calls from u.s. leaders for governments around the world to be overthrown and for leaders to step down assad needs to go we will continue to work with our partners in the international community to press. the to leave the time has come for nicholas murderer to go what's interesting is that we actually had a tweet from anthony blinken in which she gave full support to one kwaito one grade 0 is an individual in venezuela who has proclaimed himself to be the president and has been engaging in violent attempts to destabilize venezuela to overthrow the elected government there of even been u.s. military contractors that have been involved in those military coup attempts so

having anthony blinken you know you know voicing support for one great oh the unelected individual who claims to be venezuela's leader kind of flies in the face of his claim that the united states won't be using force now if there was one loophole you could say in anthony blinken remarks he did create a pretext in which the united states would be continuing to use force against governments of course we will never hesitate to use force when american lives and vital interests are at stake now what exactly would constitute such a threat he did not lay out any specific criteria so it seems that though the united states through its new secretary of state is announcing that no more force will be used many wonder if the. this will simply be a changing of rhetoric looks like the united states will most likely be continuing its foreign policy activities but only time will tell he did leave that huge loophole where he said vital interests vital interests can mean almost anything

mars the moon you name it it could be a vital interest to america if a politician wants to say that's the case it seems like rhetoric you know trump certainly had his own style that was very bombastic and out there and other presidents have been more reserved in their or in their description of activities but when you look at the actual policies we've seen no change and i think it sounds like rhetoric not something that we can count on yet you know president trying started a trade war with china and now president biden's talking about well we're going to cooperate with other countries but we're also going to have trade agreements that protect our workers and do this and that which in the end probably means the exact same policies as a national trade war biden i see him rebranding a lot of the same old thing. it was his 1st major comeback speech since the parting the white house but just hours after donald trump took to the stage the former american leader had fallen foul of you tube censors the platform deleted his

speech on the number of sites including our team citing a lack of content warnings yourself take on presidential council culture. 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 world but. i would show you some more of the highlights but it's not bad easy because they are 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 clear content warning this video contains an orange man saying things which may not be 100 percent correct and worship her to do ministry and.

you see our t.v.'s stream to thomas returned live on and 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 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 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 platform so the folly is clear because for example i can still watch the trump video on the independence you tube channel actually as you know they just morse the words one of which is our environment 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

for 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 illegal and media analyst alone all told me he believes big mission creep is not a reality. google and you tube and other other platforms like this are of such in the main nature that they're almost like utilities today imagine if you're on the phone and over send your phone drops because you dared mention hydroxy couric when or said something in favor of donald trump you wouldn't have it and if the utility said well maybe you should start your own phone company 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 the. friends family and neighbors no one should be off the informing radar when it comes to those who brick covert rules at least according to new zealand's prime minister just into our dern but will grossing on each other just suddenly stop in a post cold world nuclear and looks at some recent example. amidst the many

lockdowns thousands of face masks and gallons of hand sanitizer coverage is also encourage families and friends to reconnect check in more often to family quizzes but also question who we can really trust in new zealand kiwis have been encouraged to turn detective and report to any rule breakers they come across whether they be your friendly local greengrocer or your dear old grandma even with a full understanding of human fallibility it is not appropriate and it is not ok a members of the team of 5000000 to let the rest of us down and it seems it's a proven practice remember last year when the shit number of do good snitching on their neighbors was so overwhelming it crashed a police website we've had 4200 reports of people believing compline again it shows. determined.

to ensure that everyone complies with us convinced the idea of turning this into a world of information is the key to compliance leaders across the globe competed for the most creative ways to encourage as though to tell allays matt opted for a cash incentive you know the old expression about snitches well in this case snitches get rewards we want to thank you for turning folks in and making sure we are all safe in washington police transformed a local up for residents into an express line to rat on your neighbor with governor stay home stay healthy order in effect the bellevue police have developed an easy way for residents to report violations reports log into the my bellevue generator heat map showing where there are potentially illegal gatherings business activity and it's really such was the strength of the ole seeing they decided to make it official and created 60000 jobs for those who felt the need to daub in others and

no souls was spat in germany as even politicians felt the wrath of the school you'd think the public might have been appalled by those measures but the enthusiasm was so overwhelming that some police stations in the u.k. were receiving so many calls that they had to create a separate special hotline for the whole of curtain twitching do gooders now there's nothing wrong with asking people to remain vigilant and helpful we all have to do our bit but what happens when code itself coughs it's lost and the pandemic finally blows over the curtain twitchers will just be left nervously twitching hoping to once again be friends and not enemies. it may be in the shadows both the world's oldest profession is feeling the pinch our documentary gets up close and personal with a german brothel next in red lights out. those

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