of the world of politics. i'm sure i'll see that. in our review of the week here on our to international slovakia becomes the latest e.u. country to receive. the vaccine the blog struggles to get its own vaccination program off the ground. plans to complete a hat trick of homegrown vaccines the latest jab at named. is expected to be launched a later this month we speak to the head of the institute behind. 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 . and thousands of women in the british army suffer harassment and abuse from

within their own ranks according to testimony is being heard by parliament. where. you appear to treat. you. feel like she's. broadcasting live coverage from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international i'm shawn thomas certainly glad to have you with us now slovakia has become the latest you country to take delivery of russia's sputnik v vaccine it follows hungary's decision to obtain the jab as europe's own vaccination program continues to start or other european nations could join them as well with the czech republic saying this week it was also considering the shot our 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 your 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 now saying that perhaps perhaps will try to speed up the whole bureaucratic process that has caused all of this and get you merge and see approval for vaccines now it could be an emergency authorization of vaccines that you level we should liability among the member states remember in the early days of a pandemic what countries all over the world nato allies are good neighbors put 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 and i was. speaking with neil harvey earlier now russia will soon have a hatrick of vaccines in its arsenal against of the pandemic in addition to sputnik v. and epi vaca the country expects to launch kovi vaca later this month r.t. as it was done i spoke with the head of the center behind the shop. 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 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 you know where i'm 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 want to buy our faxing how will you convince the west that your

vaccine is as effective. as you not to because it would 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 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. just over a decade ago the 1st case of a coronavirus was detected in a russian citizen and needless to say a lot of happened since then 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 testimonies given to a parliamentary committee. very hostile environment. you do find themselves new position and it starts going wrong that's where and when you're vulnerable this 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 bullying 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 world 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 country it just didn't recognize that 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 heard at military court martials just 10 percent resulted in conviction many of course fail to even reach the 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 of the women wait wait here to teach me a service company. is a criminal act. the feeling i see it with the investigation at the school was done excess student so i think the investigation was you know i civilian i think that women which feel more support i mean on the system you're ordering 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 than shot at

woodstock r.t. . the global cyber security crisis is brewing after a hack on microsoft's exchange e-mail accounts which are used by governments individuals and institutions the u.s. says all systems users need to take immediate action this is a significant vulnerability that could have far reaching impacts 1st in 4 months this is an active threat and as the national security advisor tweeted last night everyone running these servers government private sector academia needs to act now to patch them. in the u.s. alone an estimated 30000 customers have been affected including state and local government agencies however its full scale has yet to be determined some 250000 customers globally could potentially be at risk among them many businesses microsoft alleges that the hack was carried out by a group linked to the chinese government but beijing deny is any connection we

spoke to technology expert roger kay who points out of 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 taken and we can presume the military service remain carter miles for various reasons including by the way 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. washington promises to stay away from further military adventures abroad but with some exceptions more on that and more besides after the president.

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join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that. facebook has picked another fight this time with russia it has banned a number of articles on its platform flagging them as fake news stories that pertain to the rest of alleged supporters of a radical ukrainian group operating inside russia and were based on data provided by the country's federal security service now moscow wants answers artie's daniel hawkins picks up the story for us. 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 or the russian city

of volunteer should 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 ukrainian extremist youth activist group these men have subsequently been detained 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 printing 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 toss

a burka sport nicholas here subordinate's a 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 oscar 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 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 for this relation 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 it's considered as an act of censorship that 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 part is 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 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 the time when 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. the reason 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. some days ago washington promised to avoid carrying out military interventions abroad but some are questioning the new commitment given america's long track record of backing coups and joe biden himself supporting nato bombing of yugoslavia. has been assessing the switch in foreign policy announced by the u.s. secretary of state we will incentivize democratic behavior. 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. 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 great 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. there is desperation and

anger in lebanon as the country's economic downturn pushes more people to the brink this week of the lebanese currency hit a new low fueling nationwide protests reporting from the country's capital here is local journalist linda tell me. and downtown they return to spears have blocked the roads they blocked them with burning tires trash trash bins they set trash bins unfired basically everybody is angry at the further collapse of the lebanese lira to the dollar the lebanese pound reached $10800.00 lebanese the rest to a dollar which is very much unprecedented the protesters are very angry at the government for being so inefficient for not being able to form a cabinet that would unlock the $1000000000.00 promised by the i.m.f. should the reforms be finally implemented it's been close to 7 months now that lebanon has been without a proper functioning government situations that is very very. very.

close this road because this is our land our country and we have become poor. we have endured so much that's why we're closing the rocks again and won't let anyone pass and. we are starving we are here at martyr square sitting tires on fire because the price of a loaf of bread has risen to $3000.00 lebanese pounds and that's a kilogram of rice to $7000.00 keeps rising there seems to be no end in sight a lot of people a lot of lebanese people are thrown deeper into poverty and a lot of people are desperate they're fleeing the country they're now jobless they're left with absolutely no hope and this is why they're expressing their anger and frustration out on the streets of beirut. or that as a female be back with more news and let's say 34 minutes this is our 2 international.

tactics that can be used to get innocent people. they didn't. even think people in the u.s. really get that the police. actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior. the case was closed nobody really can tell the difference between. the binding ministry she is still young but its foreign policy particularly in the middle east is an echo of past failures this new history should simply just not have a learning curve also because what you can really support democracy in the world ukraine's crackdown on independent media to give us pause.

the welcome to world apart girl girl which one of the most recognizable politicians of the 20th century has celebrated his 90th 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 justice pressing for capitalism today as it was for socialism something which is years ago genndy experience of this soviet collapse offer any still a share for the british sitting at the seams capitalist system well to discuss that

i'm now joined by your dad professor of social research and public policy at new york university abu dhabi and call author of das capitalism have a future professor that will again it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time if you you know it never 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 70 years ago it caused quite a stir i think it was bad at some. position is not indignation but when i read it today in the midst of all the changes brought forth by the call it wasn't condemning i cannot find this thing though controversial quine dennett isn't it striking how the discourse on capitalism changed just in the last 5 or 6 years it was predictable still it is striking a little was striking you know when when you see this happening in social science

the most difficult part is not predicting a trend is pretty predicting to speed 20 years ago we got together with several great major actually historical society religious who study. the development of social evolution since attention most of what they mean are you know so old historical systems and go extinct so we study a warrant do the systems arise and how do they come up and look at all notice that in economics for instance you know there is not even if the read of the decline of capitalism you know there's something going touchable because capitalism always overcome spits crisis not so well in fact you know if you are caught there is randall collins and emanuel are set off a very simple as i circles for having predicted the and to all that the the saudi puny and all the way back in the 19th seventy's but when they started saying that

capitalism is also approaching it's its advantage structurally that it was perceived as almost an ideological betrayal isn't that because that many people in the west see a chapter as more than just an economic system as something that is a much much bigger perhaps even sacred ideology it is a major blinder in social science. it's ever present and of course you know people using a might. favorite example is the charles darwin to a last quarter century to share his theory with the rest of society because he was a good english country gentleman because kid just understood that if he tells you know his fellow churchgoer so no originate from monkeys you know he will never be able to go to the church again you know so there.