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from within their own. testimony being heard by. stories from the past 7 days on the latest developments welcome to the. latest country to take deliveries all. it follows hungry. europe's own vaccination program continues to other european nations could join them to with the czech republic saying this week it was also considering. our

senior correspondent. 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 so that 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 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 the 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 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 i'm a huge number of levels of a political level or 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 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 rollout we must prepare for further 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 of the european union coming out and say we're sort of colleges into citizens all over europe for the way they've handled things but saying that you know it isn't it is a do we 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 was shared liability among member states remember in the early days of the pandemic but 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 do believe that they can. russia will soon have a hard trick of vaccines in its arsenal against the pandemic in addition to sputnik vient eppy for the country expects to launch it could be later this month. spoke with the head of the center behind the show. when you put out of them can you explain what makes the kovi vaca vaccine different he uses a deactivated virus but what does that actually mean when we can we would you know 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 in approach that we've been developing for many years all of the vaccines at the of center are based on this method a significant number of our vaccines form part of the russian national vaccination calendar. causing

a lot of the book at what how long did it take to develop the vaccine how did you test it with where none of the 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 you know which from the give you go across the sky doesn't ease the 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 vaccine how will you convince the west that your

vaccine is as effective. as you know to because it would 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. we did 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 for you just over a year ago the 1st case of coronavirus was the tech did in a russian citizen needless to say a lot has happened in the time that's the brief look back in the past 12 months in

russia has unfolded. another story we are 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. you do find themselves in

a position and it starts going wrong that's where and when you're vulnerable which 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 $4000.00 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 often to appear to treat somebody here simply a must and makes out woman feel like she's just lame like she was asking for each 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. 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. is a criminal act. the feline aids investigation at the school was stunned existant so i think that investigation was you know i severely i'm cheesed i think that women which feel all support i mean our system or do not 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 edward stashed r.t. in london. a global cyber security crisis is the velour ping after a hook on microsoft's exchange e-mail accounts which are used by governments individuals and institutions the u.s. sees all system users need to take immediate action. this is a 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. all in the u.s. alone an estimated 30000 customers have been affected including state and local government agencies and whatever its full scale has yet to be determined some 250000 customers globally could potentially be at risk among their many businesses microsoft alleges that the hook was carried out by

a group linked to the chinese government but beijing denies any connection we spoke to tech expert roger k. who points out the ongoing problem with cyber security in the u.s. this is one hack of a large number of them that have occurred in the last little while and in fact the u.s. economy and government. is riddled with servers that have also been breached one way or the other and a lot of your permission has been kagan and we can presume the amenities servers remain carter miles for various reasons including by the word that a lot of the targets with this one were smaller businesses which are typically worse good at keeping things together and patching things quickly and so on so those are all ballroom bellew's will remain until it gets cleaned up better than it is now. washington promises to stay away from further military adventures abroad

but with some exceptions in the us and more besides after the break. eh i.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. hello again russia's communications watchdog slow and facebook after it bonded a number of articles flagging them fake news that pertain to the arrest of alleged supporters of a radical ukrainian group operating inside russian and were based on data provided by the country's federal security service. hawkins told me more. to get to the

bottom of the story we have to go back to february of this year when the f.s.b. the russian federal security service completed an operation in know the russian city of volunteer ship during the course of which 3 individuals 3 men had been detained aged 181933 at legibly on suspicion of promoting inciting into racial ethnic hatred and violence the f.s.b. the federal security service has claimed the man had links to the m k u the far right. extremist youth activist group these men have subsequently been tamed ramadhan in custody and charged with these offenses on the russian law this is what the f.s.b. said in their official statement the russian federal security service incorporation with the interior ministry and the investigative committee has shut down the work of the kremlin 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 now the story was

naturally picked up by a range of russian media outlets some of the major ones tass at a burka sport nicholas here subordinates name a few published on their social media pages where the social media giant facebook was quick to block these news reports labeling them affectively as fake news now the russian telecommunications and media regulator ofcom nods or has now written to facebook seeking an explanation as to why the social media giant would block these news reports which is simply a cited official press statements official press releases from the russian federal security service labeling this effectively a restriction on freedom of information on the freedom of the media and seeking a full explanation as to why this has happened this is what the regulator had to say broadcom that still has sent a letter to facebook demanding it was still access to the information published inefficiently cans of russian media. such actions by facebook violate the key

principle some unlimited 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 a 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 being responsible for determining effectively what is fake news what is not fake news what is real and what is not. those 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. washington this week promised to avoid currying military interventions abroad but some are questioning the new commitment given america's long track record of bucking coups and joe biden himself supporting nato was bombing of yugoslavia gillum up and has been assessing the switch in foreign policy in months by the secretary of state we will incentivize democratic. but we will not promote democracy through costly military interventions or by attempting to overthrow or thora 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 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 this will simply be a changing of red. it 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 dull trump took to the stage the former american leader had fallen fall of you tube censors the platform deleted his speech on a number of sites including r.t. citing a lock of content warnings years polyploid has taken 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. if i would show you some more of the highlights but it's not bad easy because our 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 mr yang. you see our t.v.'s stream to trounce 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 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 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 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 plant so the folly is clear because for example i can still watch the trump video on the independence youtube channel actually as you know the just watch the word house but it's one of those which is our environment and so watch out that while you still can put social media platforms which always try 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 affirm a president who despite what any of us may say was democratically elected by millions of people. and that all getting russian channels 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. and worker programs going in moments here all more to find out what's on offer reverie you are today off to the shortest of brakes hope to catch you again in 30 by for naught.

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