in our review of the week here in our. country to receive. the vaccine. 'd program. plans to complete a trick of homegrown vaccines the leader's just named is expected to be launched later this month we speak to the head of the streets behind it. you do not have to prove the prestige of our institution and the products of me the institute is 60 years old and it was connected to the victory over polio when yellow fever we deliver drugs from these diseases abroad so we don't have the promotion. of thousands of women in the prisons charmi suffer harassment and abuse

from within their own right according to testimony is being heard. in the development today facebook launches into yet another battle and yet another country this time with russia's communications watchdog case involving suspected ukrainian radicals on russian soil. with the top stories from the past 7 days on the latest developments to welcome to the weekly r.t. you know neil. has become the latest e.u.

country to take deliveries of russia. it follows hungry to obtain europe's 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 our 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. vaccines there's going to be millions more that is going to be delivered by summer so the prime minister's obviously very happy that he's managed to secure more vaccines for the people nevertheless there 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 directly 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 buy vaccines by themselves will. handler so will 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 jab 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 a 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 actually included 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 dependent soley on the e.u. in the production of 2nd generation vaccines look brussels understands that what has happened has been a catastrophe you have officials the european union coming out and saying we're sort of apologizing to citizens all over europe for the way they've handled things

but saying that you know it isn't 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 and 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 that member states don't believe that they can win or russia will soon be her trick of vaccines in its arsenal against the potomac in addition to sputnik v. and epi virk the country expects to launch cold be back later this month or spoke with the head of the center behind the show. when you were pulled out of the can you explain what makes the kovi vacuum actually different uses an activated virus and what does that actually mean. in the can 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 with 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 would have been causing a lot of the book that they were 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 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 and as a result we get an industrial strain of the virus fit for mass production yeah it

was from the give you go to morse code doesn't ease the foreign manufacturers 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 vaccine will you convince the west that your vaccine is as effective a board 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 then we deliver drugs for these diseases abroad so we don't need any promotion the pandemic is. something akin to a state of war so all our resources have been redirected towards launching the vaccine into civilian circulation but it's not about convincing anyone when everything we do meets the requirements of the world health organization with which we have close cooperation with 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. well just over a year ago the 1st case of corona virus was detected in a russian citizen needless to say a lot has happened in the time let's take a brief look back at how the past 12 months in russia has unfolded.

bolling harassment and sexual abuse that's where thousands of women have been subjected to in the british army according to testimonies given to a parliamentary committee. very hostile environment friendly and that he's you do find themselves new position and it starts going wrong that's when when you are vulnerable this is when the problems really start women are paying an unnecessarily high price for serving join the army be the best it's the height of 7 your country but it turns out some women are facing horrific battles of their own imagine $4000.00 people a brigade that can be deployed anywhere well that 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 cult playing to often to appear betrayed to somebody hey you simply amos and makes out woman feel like she's just lame like she was asking sorry everywhere else

in the welsh military sexual trauma is recognized in yeast and just helps that brains to be able to identify that the subject traumatic puts a name to it people can access help in this couldn't really it just didn't recognize her sexual trauma the issue has long been said. 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 now wait wait here to teach me a service company or to drop. it's criminal act. the feel like it's you out investigation the sport was stunned existant so i think that 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 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 us promises to stay away from further military adventures are broad with some exceptions more and more besides. the world is driven by a dream shaped. thing

. we ask. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. period dramatic developments only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

60 minutes into the program welcome back russia's communications watchdog facebook . kills all me arrest of supporters of a radical ukrainian group who are operating in russian the social media giant branded the information fake despondent originating from the country's federal security service to get more of this let's. talk and. take us through the story as some all the details do appear peculiar. indeed i mean to get to the bottom of what exactly happened we have to go back to february of this year when the russian federal security service the f.s.b. completed an operation in the russian city of vote on ish. of which 3 individuals 3 men had been detained aged denied 181933 the f.s.b. allege that these individuals had links to the m k u

a ukrainian far right youth activist extremist group and these men had been detained on suspicion of inciting and promoting into racial ethnic hatred and violence the security service alleged that they'd been detained in possession of extremist literature material symbolism and even weapons and these men were ramadhan in custody and later charged under russian law with these offenses the investigation carries on this was a statement from the f.s.b. . the russian federal security service in cooperation with the interior ministry and the investigative committee has shut down the work of the crinan radical group called the manics murderous cult in the city of brownish its members are involved in propaganda now nazi ideology and mass murders induction of into racial conflicts and committing violent crimes well that was the official f.s.b. press release statement you heard there and that sort of the story was picked up by a range of russian media outlets at a burka sport nicosia

a whole range of media across the russian spectrum and reported publicly out fast forward some time on the social media giant facebook has actually blocked of us access to these news reports by these russian media outlets citing the official f s b statements and now oscar nods or the russian television telecommunications media regularly has questioned as to why facebook has blocked these news reports which simply cited an official statement from the russian federal security service here's a request they sent to facebook for clarification. broadcom that still has sent a letter to facebook demanding it was still access to the information published in the official accounts of russian media such actions by facebook violate the key principle some limited access to information and is considered as an act of censorship now facebook have explained their actions so far at least saying that this is fake news the request brought this information was carried out at the

request of stop fake that's one of facebook's partners based in ukraine and key of that's part of it's fact checking program which was launched back in march last year with the 2 main partners stop fake and vox check being responsible for determining effectively what is fake news what is not fake news 2 what is real and what is not now. though as we heard there has been baffled as to why reports from official russian news sources citing official reports official press releases from the federal security service have been blocked of course whether these men are found guilty or not whether they're jailed or not is an entirely different question that will be determined during the course of the investigation the upcoming trial the news reports simply reported the facts of what happened with these arrests what the man was charged with held on suspicion with so. there is a looking for answers here as to why these articles have been blocked will update

on that story once we have more information on the response here taking us through that artie's daniel hawkins. washington this week promises to avoid carrying out military interventions or broad but some are questioning the new commitment given america's long track record of bucking coups joe biden himself supporting nato's bombing of yugoslavia and has been assessing the switch in foreign policy announced by the secretary of state we will incentivize democratic. but we will not promote democracy through costly military interventions or by attempting to overthrow author terry regimes by force. we've tried these tactics in the past however well intentioned they haven't worked 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 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 is come for nicholas mcdermott 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 great 0 is an individual in venezuela who has proclaimed himself to be president and has been engaging in violent attempts to destabilize venezuela to overthrow the elected government there of even 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 cried. tyria 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 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 now fear 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 to lead to his speech a number of sites including r.t. citing a lack of content warnings here's polly pocket his take on presidential council culture. so donald trump was back. 2021 working for the conservative political action conference for the uninitiated and extract a breakthrough one of the buttons. i would say yes to more of the highlights but not bad even. 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 clip content warning this video contains an orange man saying things which may not be

100 percent correct and worship her due respect here. you see our t.v.'s streamed to tom's return live on and convert free to say whatever he wants in the tradition of freedom of speech only for 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 video for scams and deceptive practices you know basically going to be left with one video this one. you tube responded to queries by saying more details aren't explanatory information must be provided essentially you to pate the fact that trump still uses every

opportunity to claim that he didn't lose the election but what's interesting about you tube's policy is that the censors 1st port of call was r.t. r t s german channel and another russian channel called sputnik it took hours 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 the just watch the words which were abridged which is our environment. so watch out there while you still can when 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 more was democratically

elected by millions of people. and that's all getting russian channels specifically allowing people to speak freely and that are 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 a media analyst loyal told me he believes big mission creep is no reality. google and you tube and other other platforms like this are of such in the main in 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 he 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 the i think about anything for fear of losing their beloved you tube we're facebook or whatever so they know exactly what they're doing. now anyone who's ever visited the asian nation of tend to come away thinking how incredible the people are how good the food is and the astonishing amount of all exploded bombs 'd that remain from the vietnam war the latter is explored next in this little london mines to close.

the door 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 a. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport this list i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

the president's press conference from the new state department auditorium march 23rd 1961. i want to make a brief statement about laos. it is i think important 'd for all americans. to understand this difficult and potentially dangerous problem. these 3 maps show the area of effective communist domination as it was last august and now from december 20th to the present day the end of march the communist control a much wider section of the country. the position of this administration has been carefully considered. and we have sought to make it just as clear as we know how to the government's concern 1st we strongly and i'm reserve at least for the goal of a neutral and independent layout.