to be there most of the time it's not the case see how it is to be in the world's richest country. breaking news this hour german system. launches legal action against leading german newspaper built following a piece accusing the network of spying on russian opposition figures alexina valmy . also ahead of the french schoolgirl admit she made up claims about samuel party the story sparked an online campaign against the teacher last year leading to his batting. the e.u. chief puts the blame on astra zeneca for covert vaccine supply failures with just 10 percent of voters delivered. says how the kremlin brands fresh u.s. claims of moscow meddling this time to supposedly discredit american vaccines in favor of russian shells.

headline news 247 this is a national from moscow my name's colin bright welcome to the program we're going to start with some breaking news german language system which is filing a lawsuit against the german tabloid bills after it published a piece accusing stuff of spying for the russian government across his forces correspondent hi again when did i start to become a tool of the spying. while calling 1st of all let's look at the wording used by built that something that sounds absolutely sensational putting a rough quote of the whistleblower into the title into the headline which says i had to spy or i was forced to spy on alexina volley and then in one of the top

paragraphs saying that the russian government deliberately used artie's german branch r t deutsche to spy. on alexei volley and his associates through the german nationals who worked for r t deutsche so that does indeed probably sound a bit scary or some would call it appalling but let's actually read into the article to understand what the basis of it is the whistleblower his name is daniel long day a filmmaker who had been working for a t.v. for several years is describing his assignments that the management gave him during the time when the russians number one opposition activist alike same of ali was being treated in the sherry to a hospital in berlin after the alleged poisoning. so how does bill to this article make the leap to big spying from just the day to day job of reporting exactly that's what i want to talk about because the article contains screenshots

of what they're calling secret chat a secret chat between mr. and the r t h management i can tell that the people who are in there actually know them they are indeed the people who are in charge of r t deutsch and they're saying that this wasn't a secret chatter all this was just something that was started as a means of communication for this particular assignment and we know that this is the core element of production of t.v. production nowadays for any new a small assignment you started shots of this is probably a normal thing then. moving on with our t's alleged wrongdoings on the orders of kremlin that were listed by the built daniels assignments included taking pictures of what was happening outside the sheraton hospital including the. security presence that was there which is easy to understand but also he was asked to try

and get inside the clinic to get some exclusive footage or some information of what's going on inside possibly what the entrance to the corridor where the room where alexina volley was treated looks like maybe some of his relatives or associates which again is a basic element of investigative journalism at the times of breaking news and come on to be fair built the tabloid that wrote this article this is exactly what they've been up to since the very time when alexina volley was flown into germany because we've seen pictures of that door where he was treated we've seen the inside of the plane that was used to fly in the valley to germany and cetera this is what we heard from the head of artie's german branch about that. to accuse us of spying and at the same time to post images if every little step in the makes

including pictures of his garden host to lead it fresh in intelligence wanted to get any additional information they would buy a subscription to build clocks and of course we want to remind our colleagues of german that just nation that for now at least protect the media and loving it to collect information and metis that are considered to be of public interest. of the day to day production process of everyday journalism samee will what else does daniel accuse us of while another claim is that the senior members of staff are always directly in touch with the bosses of the russian government and built even has a photo of one of my colleagues with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov wow but i'll tell you what that was a christmas party and many journalists including foreign war ones received an invitation to it there were tens or even hundreds of journalists in the russian foreign ministry and everyone wanted to take a photo with sergey lavrov so that doesn't prove anything and my colleague is

saying that she's never had any direct contacts with the senior members of the russian government and of story for her next 'd there was also a bit about the roughly that's artie's video agency a van that was there day and night outside the sheraton hospital filming again very serious accusations while tell you what this is how video agencies work and by the way this is how ruptly was able to catch the moment when julian assad was being dragged out of the quick door and embassy this is how it works they do live streams from there this is part of their job but mr langley claimed that these live recordings were never available to the public well i can tell you that we can show you screen shots from these broadcasts there were even on you tube. anyone could get access to it and then again at the time of the charity hospital the center of

international attention because of what was going on there it's a number one new story because of everything that happened to alexina molly so it's purely a normal thing and i can tell you again you try to read through the story try to get the point where is that evidence of the government spying of the orders from the kremlin and you just don't see it at the same time speaking of guilt and it's attention that it's been giving to. we actually know that this branch of our t. is expanding but my colleagues from the german branch of r.t. are saying that lately there were so many articles in build the that they're even calling it a smear campaign against our t. dortch but that's something you can find online so you can see for her for yourself this to me looks like a culmination of all these efforts it sounds like someone's a bit afraid of the competition over in berlin or ideally but frank thank you very much for that let's get some reaction there now we could talk to patrick headings

and geo political analyst and also executive editor at 21st century wired dot com patrick welcome to the program you're in the news business yourself how do you read all this said i think out of the ordinary when it comes to producing investigative journalism. well well it is yes out of the ordinary of professional investigative journalism but i think what we have here is a case of definitely you can look at this in a geo political context there's a lot of. let's say information warfare propaganda from from the nato side towards russia this is nothing new we've seen this for years now but in this case this is interesting this is build which is a tabloid newspaper in germany and i think this is a case of for want of a better term a trash tabloid publication veering into james bond territory or more aptly probably more like austin powers rather than james bond and so anything

can be framed as russian espionage so r.t. is synonymous with the k.g.b. certainly if you polled your average m.p. in westminster or washington congressmen or senators they'd probably agree that that's true simply by the virtue of how western media portrays our t. and how there's been this kind of aggressive stance against russia having any kind of a media presence globally that sort competing with any of the international media organizations that will pay specifically accused of spying on the orders of the russian government to suggest there on that many degrees of separation between at it is an inch on the top end of the kremlin cabinet it's a fairly well intro business you expect bill to provide any solid evidence. no i don't think there isn't any solid evidence here if anything you think that they play up the fact that telegram is an encrypted message service has russian backers

behind it as a corporation but they haven't done that luckily in this case but the issue of course is front and center they the west love to portray alexina vonnie as the number one opposition activist in russia as if he is the number one political opposition figure in russia which isn't actually the case there's many other more popular opposition parties and figures if you go by just the polling but the other thing is is this a paid exclusive is was this a paid exclusive with build newspaper i don't know the answer to that i'm sure some people do though people in germany do if it was a paid exclusive then possibly the person providing the information was paid by the newspaper and i'm sure it wasn't a small sum if that was the case we don't know but certainly that's par for the course for tabloid journalism in other parts of europe and also in the united states and other countries as well so i mean that's a question i would like to have an answer to as well. ok thanks very much for

joining us. on this developing story which will in the coming hours thank. you. a friend. against his. own campaign against him has admitted that she made the whole thing up. by a terrorist. has more on the case and the revelations from the 13 year old girl. i know what that entailed and what sparked all of this is a class that he taught which was to do a civics getting the children to discuss issues in france as part of that class he decided to show the controversial images of the profit my helmet now that sparked a chain of events that led to his death it started with a teenage girl a teenage girl who admits she lied about what she said she went home that day and

said to her father that she'd been asked to leave the class because she was a muslim and when she disagreed with the teacher she had been suspended from his class the father was furious as you can imagine called to the school and demanded that some real party be struck off the teaching staff to offer him to resign when that didn't work he started an online campaign which became a hate campaign towards samuel party describing the teachers being discriminatory against his daughter what's now emerged is that the 13 year old fabricated all of that she was sent in his class on the day that she showed those controversial images she hadn't been asked to leave because she was a muslim and she hadn't been suspended for the fact that she'd spoken back to the teacher she was in fact trying to cover up for the fact that she had been playing truant that day so her father wouldn't find out

a lawyer says that the things just spiraled out of control and she was lost in that . she lied she shouldn't have been she deeply regrets she never wished for mr death she never called his murder she never to be spilled headed. for the public to know this 13 year old go bears responsibility for her but not for the death of samuel patti. well the lawyer for some. parties families say that they thought convinced about this they say that the valuations that she gave that she was a spokesperson for the individuals in the class are just not satisfactory everything in the investigation showed very early that she lied she was a spokes person a want of lies have advanced that never happened this explanation does not convince me and makes me rather angry because the facts are serious here tragic but it's also had much much wider consequences here in france it once again sort of raised

tensions between the muslim community and of the communities and the government here in france we saw in the weeks that followed his death that there was a crackdown or mosques that would deem to have been radicalized there was a crackdown on muslim association france and that then led to diplomatic tensions between france and some muslim majority countries france even then walk forward legislation that it was working but then decided to incur late watered happened with some real party and that draft legislation which is now being passed by the national assembly and will soon be discussed by the senate is looking at promoting the republican values of france but many people see it as being in anti muslim law so you know this was one lawyer one lie not only left to teach it day but

there's really uncovered a hornet's nest of problems here in france we spoke with from space journalist and political commentator and she thinks the schoolgirls a large degree of responsibility for what happened. i think she will soon some responsibility i think what's really interesting is that i think the father. went to great deal of it 1st of all because they knew exactly what would work with her father she knew that her father and the word had. sympathy for the people who denounced us from for biden turns to she put things to him so that he would literally erupt and it's more a question of what is acceptable and why you would that thing be so easy accept it and then whenever people said but she's lying he called in this letter i think you know at the very least that child sponsibility which is not nil is shared with her father and the girl whose father started the process towards murder that girl is

still in school we don't want to know her name i don't want her to be punished in in such a horrendous wage but i think that there's a kind of terror on one side and earned not on the other. the head of the european commission says she's become a scapegoat for europe's extremely slow covert inoculation rate laid the blame instead on the vaccine maker astra zeneca reporting next years peter oliver. well the e.u. commission are not happy at all with vaccine manufacture astra zeneca care it's got to do with delivery of the jobs to the e.u. as a bloc they were told that for the 1st quarter of 2021 they'd receive 100000000 doses they have received 10000000 doses even i can do the mathematics there 90 percent is the shortfall the e.u. commission has come in for a lot of criticism over failures in logistics and planning in its vaccine program

underlying the e.u. commission president though is saying that astra zeneca needs to bear some of the responsibility as well we see esther's any case delivering below 10 percent of what had been contracted for the 1st quarter we are tired of being the scapegoat the european commission president did say that we could see repeats of vaccines being blocked from leaving the european union we saw this last week when italy stopped a shipment of around 250000 doses of the astra zeneca job for heading to australia the australian trade minister called that vaccine protectionism what we don't want to see is a repeat of the well scramble we saw for resources at the beginning of the pandemic where everybody was trying to outbid everybody else when it came to masks and p.p. and everything else on the line though has said yes there have been problems with the way the vaccine program is being rolled out there's been problems with the way

the e.u. commission has handled things we aren't where we want to be in combat in the virus we were late in granting authorization we were too optimistic about mass production and maybe we also took for granted that the doses orders would actually arrive on time we must ask ourselves why and what lessons we can draw from it even when you have vaccines there's still problems in austria they've suspended the use of one of the astra zeneca john. up there one woman died and another person was taken seriously ill after they received it it's until a full investigation can be carried out as it stands at the moment they say there is no direct link between them having the vaccination and becoming ill but they want to make sure that that's definitely not the case when it comes to getting the vaccines into the country though there is one of the alvin you that the european union could be looking at not importing them from the united states but in order to

do that they're going to have to convince washington to overturn their own protectionist rules that don't allow vaccines to be exported outside of the u.s. . well coming up on staying with vaccines the kremlin dismisses u.s. claims of shopping this information as nonsense as washington accuses russian websites of spreading lies more on that in just a bit. truth

is that you just can't actually get that innovation in the us anymore because all the corporations that are in a position to innovate are shareholders in the taxpayers and using financial leisure to main street to line their pockets.

russia's dismissed claims of spreading disinformation about u.s. covert vaccines calling them. the state department early a flag for russian websites a supposedly trying to discredit the. jobs in favor of sputnik. the world changed big time over the last year but some things stay the same remember russia madelyne as well that our global engagement center has identified 4 russian online platforms that are directed by russian intelligence services and spread disinformation about 2 of the vaccines that have now been approved by the f.d.a. in this country we are aware of it we're monitoring and we are taking steps to address back just in time to wage vaccine war because while hackings a bit passe in electing foreign presidents is a bit wild being that not vaccines are where it's at in 2021 and when it became

clear that american scientists might now vaccine the russian ones the kremlin bolts had no choice but to raise that disinform in heads again the emphasis on denigrating pfizer is likely due to stay just as the 1st of a besides the 2 c.m.'s use resulting in a greater potential threat to sputniks market dominance who said a global pandemic couldn't be politicized now some would say these madness a bit late to the game i mean sputnik freeze already registered in around 40 countries many of which didn't even consider not because they'd been brainwashed by mean anti flies and notes left by undercover agents but because that is logistically a much trickier vaccine it used to fall apart if it wasn't kept in specialized minus 17 degrees celsius that's now been improved to minus $25.00 while sputnik

v. chills out plus 8 and is around hof the price and then there are countries like iran which on exactly buddy buddy with the us so why buy their proxy when there's another one on the market without the political trauma. not tickle right well unfortunately political games and logic on friends and paranoia is alive and well it's nonsense russian special services have nothing to do with any criticism against vaccines if we treat every negative publication against the sputnik the vaccine as a result of efforts by american special services then we will go crazy because we see it every day every hour and in every anglo-saxon media the wall street journal's resurrected disinform ation for the sake of a few critical articles well just imagine what all means over madness it would have had twin vent if i had got the onslaught of doubt criticism hate that sputnik we

got back in the day the speed of the rollout is a concern for some health professionals it's a new kind of global race that russia wants to lead there are concerns about its safety with questions of how much of it russia can produce now timing is everything the e.u. struggling with this vaccine rollout paid by production delays and shortages ready to help sputnik be so to block started the approval process now 5 in the us who obviously love healthy competition in a way but twitter labs pala or trump labs new thing is probably looking at that and seeing a chunk of that money party just fall away never mind that it's for the good of humanity the sputnik vaccine will not go back to russia it will save lives in slovakia i would never give it up our country is a fundamental part of the european union but i cannot turn down

a quality vaccine that will save our people because it's made in russia i'm not a murderer you'll hear the good news is that 280000 doses of the vaccine arrived from russia and we need vaccination as fast as possible under valving more people so. yes the pandemic might have changed the wald but some things never change madness dissin formation back in the game did you miss them. the united states is urging the afghan government to strike a power sharing deal with the taliban it's a revelation that comes from a leaked letter to kabul written by the u.s. secretary of state caleb maupin has the details. it's been over 20 years of war thousands of lives lost many hopes for possible settlements that have been disappointed but now as the united states faces a may 1st deadline to withdraw its forces we have the new administration in

washington d.c. the biden ministration putting forward a proposal for a power sharing agreement with the taliban a letter from antony blinken the new u.s. secretary of state written to the president of afghanistan proposed developing constructive positions we're considering the food withdrawal of forces by may 1st as we consider other options even with the continuation of financial assistance from the united states to forces often american military withdrawal i'm concerned that the security situation will worsen and that the taliban could make rapid turns to real gains i'm making this clear so you understand the urgency of my tone regarding the cliques of work outlined in this letter the taliban would be given 50 percent representation in key executive bodies so they could be decisive in crafting the new constitution and new legislation however president and the afghan government would be given one extra member to make sure that they had the deciding

vote in key matters in addition to that the taliban would be required to join a new military panel and in effect join with the afghan security forces become part of the official military and security forces of the country now in exchange for that the deal would require them to cut the military ties with foreign powers and not expand their force configurations or recruit new fighters now this is the very same taliban the united states has been fighting against since 2001 but this new deal would basically enable them to become part of the government and part of the military of afghanistan not surprising. there has been some skepticism we think the u.s. for its support they can make a decision on their troops not on the people of afghanistan and now in february of 2020 the united states brokered a deal with the taliban that led to a permanent cease fire the number of u.s.

troops in afghanistan was reduced from 130028600 at this point there are 2500 u.s. troops in afghanistan and they are scheduled to leave on may 1st the united states has been in afghanistan for the past 20 years and at this point many are optimistic about this new proposed deal however it's worth noting that many optimistic moments and proposals for settlements in the country have in the past failed and that's. the report is just moments away off to which i'll have the latest headline news from moscow. to. join me

every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then. 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 from fast 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. max

kaiser this is the kaiser report as always incredible things happening globally stacey maxwell guess what china will dominate a guy unless us invest war commission warns ai is artificial intelligence and the commission is headed by eric schmidt the former head of google well apparently you know because essentially u.s. corporations and shareholders don't allow r. and d. don't allow investments into the economy don't allow innovation to happen that's bad they don't want production they just want stock buybacks they want all the money to go to stock buybacks the company up with debt well they have to go to the government and they're looking for the government instead to do with it i tax fair to take all the risk of innovation they will get to keep their reward but this one thing really stood out for me here because of our experience of movie.