yanks this is what happens to pensions in britain. as a report. in our review of the week. becomes the latest e.u. country to receive. the vaccine. blocks. off the ground. is expected to be launched later this month we speak to the head of the institute. would 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 diseases abroad so we don't need to be promotion. of women in the british army. from within their own ranks that's according to

testimony is being heard by parliament. being bombed into democracy so. old. stories from the past 7 days are the latest developments to welcome to the weekly an r.t. i mean enemy. has become the latest e.u. country to take delivery but nick. it follows hungary's decision to obtain the job

as europe's own vaccination program continues to start or other european nations could join them too with the czech republic saying this week it was also considering the shot their senior correspondent 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 sputnik so 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 of sputnik vaccines there's going to be millions more that are going to be delivered by itself 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 has come out she paid lip service to people's lives but all that would be 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 a 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 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 by the actions by themselves will. handler so we'll get you the vaccines but then of vaccines and what ultimately happened is they bungled it 1st they were too expensive then they were too late because the united states britain snatched up all the vaccines look at the statistics only 5 percent of europeans have been able to get a single job that is compared to 30 percent in the united kingdom so europe is lagging far far behind that european nations understand that this is a catastrophe 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 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 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 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 sort of apologizing to citizens all over europe for the way they've handled things but saying that you know it isn't it is a do over yet we can still recover we'll get you all 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 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 we shared liability among member states remember in the early days of the pandemic when countries all over the world nato allies are good neighbors bought up supplies from each other so we're talking about masks 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 that member states don't believe that they can and russia will soon have a hat trick of vaccines in its arsenal against the pandemic in addition to sputnik v. and m.p. for the country expects to launch kovi if i clear this month r t z e r spoke with the head of the center behind the shot. when you were pulled out of a can you explain what makes the kovi vacuum different uses an activated virus and what does that actually made of and. we used a process called in activation which basically means killing the virus of vaccines usually use a live virus or an already dead one we're dealing with an inactivated a whole cell vaccine approach that we've been developing for many years to get all of the vaccines that that you mock of center are based on this method

a significant number of our vaccines form part of the russian national vaccination calendar which would have been causing a lot of the book at what how long did it take to develop the vaccine how did you test it with we don't know. but 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 as we went to various clinics and took blood samples from sick patients and tested for the presence of the virus and one patient turned out to have a strain that was particularly a manageable 2 r. and we were able to multi-line it and to cultivate it this was followed by the technological stages which manufactured the virus and then purified it and then killed it just so-called in activation process and as a result we get an industrial strain of the virus fit for mass production. more sky doesn't he's due for a manufacturer said it was impossible to create an effective vaccine in such

a short period of time but then the lancet magazine published put the police efficacy data and many more people wanted to buy our faxing but you know you convinced the west that your vaccine is as effective a board simply relation but you know what's in them you know. but if you 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 then we deliver drugs so this disease is abroad so we don't need any promotion the pandemic is. something you came to a state of war so all our resources have been redirected towards launching the vaccine into civilian circulation to put it is not about convincing anyone we everything we do meets the requirements of the world health organization with which we have got close cooperation with the state has the task of solving the civil circulation issue and i'm doing the promotion of the 1st challenge is to obtain the product to get it out there to your global human or just over

a year ago the 1st case of coronavirus was the tech did in a russian citizen needless to say a lot happened in the time let's take a brief look at how the past 12 months in russia unfolded. another story we're closely following this week bullying harassment and sexual

abuse that's what thousands of women have been subjected to in the british army according to testimonies 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 make a complaint often to appear to treat somebody here simply amos and makes out women feel like she's just blame like she was asking for each everywhere else in the welsh 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 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 hired 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 wait here to teach me a service company or to draw a. criminal action against the field i try to out the investigation at the school was done except student so i think that investigation was you know i civilian chiefs i think that women which feel more support i mean on the 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 forward but while women on the frontline fight to protect their country it seems like their country is failing to protect fan shot at woodstock r.t. . the u.s. policy is to stay away from further military adventures or broad but with some exceptions or another and more besides after the break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm sure business i'll see you there.

so there are 3 big events in more than hughes 3 which could not be predicted because they were ridiculous. it was world war one because nobody really can see what would happen if you deploy machine guns on so i could call them machine guns because this was always done against the warriors for the. bribes my. friend. the serious french politician would ever ever accepted the. year he become leader of the country when we depleted was incomparable and the collapse of the soviet union because again you know soledad it was. even. the soviets themselves.

look at washington this week promised to avoid carving a military interventions abroad but some are questioning the new commitment given american's long record of backing joe biden himself supporting nato its bombing of . killer pop 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 he 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 and 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 this international trade war biden i see him rebranding a lot of the same old thing. a global somber security crisis that is developing after 100 killed microsoft's exchange email id cards which are used by governments individuals and institutions the u.s. seems old system users need to take immediate action this is significant

vulnerability that could have far reaching impacts 1st informants this is an active threat and as the national security advisor tweeted last night everyone running the servers government private sector academia needs to act now to patch them. in the u.s. alone an estimated $30000.00 customers have been affected including state and local government agencies the biden ministration is expected to form a task force to investigate the hook however the full scale is yet to be realized there are reportedly 250000 customers of risk globally many of them small and medium size businesses microsoft is blaming a hacking group believed to be linked to the chinese government beijing for its part denies any connection to the cyber attack let's go live now to roger kay technology expert for more on this project good to see you how serious could this be high far could it spread well i think it's probably spread about as far as it's

going through because the sooner. the government and microsoft realize what was going on in those that well we can fix that these are these are vulnerabilities that had not been discovered before and they can be patched microsoft has already created the patches so now it's a kind of cleanup effort to sort of staunch the the law but i think that the context for this is important because this is one hack of a large number of them that have occurred in the last little while with the u.s. economy and government that is riddled with errors that have all the name or have been breached one way or the other and a lot of it permission has been kagan and we can presume that minute servers remain carver minus rebellious recently including by the word that a lot of the targets with this one were smaller businesses which are typically less

good at keeping things together and patching things quickly and so on so those are all vulnerabilities will remain until it gets cleaned up better than it is now i believe most victims were reportedly targeted after the breach was 1st the tech did your it roger microsoft's response so far. well you know it's sort of cleanup after the fact and they've done what they can so. i don't operate it i would give it sort of a b. minus i mean they should have known about it perhaps before but now that they know about it they've done the patches it pushed it out there warn people it's now up to the operators of those servers to complete the patching and make sure they're ok but by the way this is going to happen again i mean this is only this week's particular story they'll be another one next week and next month victims include everything from power stations to retirement homes and. what do the hackers want to gain from this i know that's an open question but generally the way shows like this

. this is actually very interesting i thought about that a bit too you know these are not considered to be terribly high value targets most of the time but it's important if you take over an e-mail server you can use it for other purposes and so for example if you have some kind of hacking attack it would be very interesting to take a perfectly legitimate e-mail server run by a legitimate business and take it over and then use it as a launching pad for much more devastating attacks by for example or rather against partners of those little companies you know for example or banks or other suppliers that there are so sick of these smaller businesses as being attacked they're actors against other targets ok we appreciate you giving us a grasp on the story today roger thanks for that roger kay technology expert speaking to us live from boston my pleasure thank you. friends

family and neighbors no one should be off the informer radar when it comes to those who break all the troops place according to new zealand prime minister and just sing to our during but will dropping on each other just suddenly stop in a post covered world next year and looks at some recent examples. amid 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 the 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 us into a world of informers is the key to compliance leaders across the globe competed for the most creative ways to encourages all 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 a residence 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 army 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 in the pandemic finally blows over the curtain twitchers will just be left nervously twitching hoping to once again be friends and not enemies. turns

90 next on worlds apart examiner discusses the last salvia leaders most famous policy programs perestroika and glasnost stay close this is. the or tactics that can be used to get innocent people to confess to crimes they didn't commit i don't even think people in the us really get that the police are allowed to lie to the person who falsely confessed actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior once a false confession is taken the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that is. that's geysers financial survival they say. it could take it easy this is

a central perk so for dying of the other problem right now it's a stop to that. during the vietnam war u.s. forces. there was a secret war. and for years the american people did not know. how much it is officially the most heavily bombed country per capita in all human history millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this small agricultural country jordyn wieber. even today kids in laos full victims of bombs dropped decades ago is the u.s. making amends for the tragedy and. help to the people need in that little land on.

earth. blown apart or which one of the most recognizable politicians of the century has celebrated. these past week and while his legacy still remains the subject of hot ideological debates it's. his brainchild perestroika was unstudied more carefully by social scientists what happens to a system when it reaches its structural limits this question is just distressing for capitalism today as it was or so she. as in some 40 years ago kennedy experience of this obvious collapse of for any celebration for the british sitting

at the seams capitalist system well to discuss that i'm now joined by a look at professor of social research and public policy at new york university abu dhabi and call author of das capitalism have a future professor though again it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you you know it navarrette ceases to amaze me how that perception of a book may change with time and i think yours is a good example because when it was 1st published 7 years ago it caused quite a stir i think it was back with some a position if not indignation but when i read it today in the midst of all big changes brought forth by the caller then to condemn it i cannot find a single controversial point in it isn't it striking how the discourse on capitalism changed just in the last 5 or 6 years. as we debate still.