our online german sister channel r t h launches legal action against the leading german newspaper billed following a hit piece accusing the network of spying on russian opposition figure election of a. differential schoolgirl admits she made up her claims about samuel patti her story sparked an online campaign against the teacher last year leading to his beheading. the chief puts the blame on astra zeneca for vaccine supply failures with just 10 percent of orders delivered. and nonsense is how the kremlin brands the fresh u.s. claims of moscow meddling this time to supposedly discredit american vaccines in favor of russian shots.

are broadcasting live direct from our studios moscow this is our 2 international i'm sean thomas have you with us our german language web channel r t is filing a lawsuit against the german tabloid build after it published a piece accusing staff of spying for the russian government correspondent joined my colleague earlier to go through their claims. well 1st of all it's time to take a look at the wording that was used by built it sounds absolutely sensational that was putting into the title the headline a rough quote from the whistleblower which says i had to or i was forced to spy on a like say no volley and then in one of the top paragraphs of that built article they said this exactly according to research by builds of lemon put in regime head

is public enemy number one of the and see if you simply spied on in berlin last year for this russia's leadership use the russian foreign broadcasts are to do each which in turn relied on 2 german employees spying on the orders of kremlin through german nationals who worked for the german branch of r t that sounds scary some would call it appalling but let's continue reading this article and at least trying to get to the point under standing what the basis of it is the whistleblower danny along gay who had worked for r t deutsche for several years as a filmmaker is describing his assignments during the time when russia's number one opposition activist a like scene of ali was being treated at the sherry tate hospital in berlin after an alleged poisoning but how does that lead from being just reporting in to being spy exactly that's what i was going to get to the article contains screenshots from

what built and the whistleblower are calling a secret chat with the art team management but i'll tell you what i actually know these people from that personally and yes they are in charge of our voyage and they're saying that there was nothing secret about this chat it was just something that they created for communication on that particular incitement and we know that in the news business in news or t.v. production for every so i mean do you. create a new chad and that's something that's absolutely common at this point moving on with the artes alleged wrongdoings ordered by the kremlin that was lifted by the built daniel's assignments included filming or taking shots of what was happening outside the sherry tate hospital including the vast security presence well that is news but also trying to get inside the hospital to inside that clinic to get

some exclusive shots of anything that's like to the story possibly move all these associates relatives there the corridors the doors which is again i believe a core basic element of investigative journalism at the time of breaking news if you think of it that that's absolutely it and to be fair these kind of things trying trying to get these kind of pictures was exactly what built itself was ever since the volley was flown to germany for treatment because we saw them publish the photos of the door of the room where in a volley was also the inside of the plane etc so this is what the head of r t deutsche had to say about this aspect specifically to accuse us of spying and at the same time to post images of every little step develop he makes including pictures of his garden hosts a word if russian intelligence wanted to get any additional information they would buy a subscription to build plus 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 matus that are considered to be of public interest so far just sounds like the day job of journalism here is there any made to this what else does daniel accuse us of another claim that the whistleblower is making that is that the senior r t staff members were always directly in touch with the bosses of the government and what we see in the bill article is a picture of my. call league with the russian foreign minister foreign minister sergei lavrov wow i can tell you that it was from a christmas party that christmas party 2 loads of journalists were invited there even foreign journalists tens of them maybe even hundreds of them and everyone wanted to take a photo with sergei lavrov so that doesn't prove anything and my colleague is saying that no she doesn't have a direct line with members of the russian government. next there was

a part about ra please the parties video agency about the van staying day and night outside the charity hospital streaming that is something that video agencies do all the time that's their job i can tell you that when it comes to doing a song for example robert lee was able to catch the moment when the founder of wiki leaks was being dragged out of the equivalent embassy in london thanks for thanks to staying there 247 and the claim was that none of these broadcasts were made public but i can show you screen shots even from you tube that's available to everyone that know we were showing them to everyone and it's easy to get all that online so like i was saying you get to the bottom of the article you keep reading and you like you said you want to get this meat where's the evidence that this is

specifically spying ordered by the kremlin but even when you get to the very end you don't see it but speaking of tabloid built though my colleagues have showed me a large number of pieces on the build website with criticism against r.t. that came out ever since our announced that they were launching a fully fledged t.v. channel at the end of this year and my colleagues even called it a smear campaign against us and if you think that it didn't. lead to anything it could be a coincidence it could be something else but the last month a german bank closed the accounts of our teeth voyage and ruptly so what i've just described to you the latest bombshell by built could be the culmination of that smear campaign. we discussed of the situation with our experts are going underground host option response and george galloway broadcaster and former british

m.p. . the idea of build magazine all magazines are get accusing one of the largest television stations on earth. of being some sort of spying organization is quite something i'm going to remember the editor just the other day was accusing china of a virus and deliberately sending mosques around in some sort of what appeared to be some kind of conspiracy films have been made about build this of 990 film called the man inside about the ethical way that their magazine works if i was the editor of build i would be very concerned about a law case because this magazine is notorious for breaching german press standards and now it's going to be in court accusing journalists or people comporting to be journalists stringers for r.t. as spies unsure of the. church is doing exactly the right thing

and taking prompt legal action to resolve this matter reckless and dangerous and defamatory act and dangerous for journalists and broadcasters working for broadcasters all over the world like german state broadcasters or british state broadcasters if a journalist for the b.b.c. is now routinely going to be accused of being a spy for the british government because he or she works for broadcast in britain where is that going to end we have to draw very clear lines in these things the protection of journalists from false accusations and from harassment such as this is an important part of a free society and germany presumably includes itself in the category of free

society. a french school girl whose allegations against history teacher samuel paddy led to a deadly online campaign against him has admitted she made the whole thing up paddy was murdered by a terrorist last october dubinsky has more on the case and the revelations from the 13 year old girl. you 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 prophet mohammed 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 for that was furious as you can imagine called to the school and demanded that samuel patty be struck off the teaching staff there 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 girl bears responsibility for my but not for the death of samuel patti. well the lawyer for some. patty's family say that they thought convinced about this they say that the evaluations 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 spokesperson a want of lies so of events 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 that once again raised tensions between the muslim community and of the communities in the government here

in france we saw in the weeks that followed his death that there was a crackdown or mosques that would be deemed to have been radicalized there was a crackdown the muslim association fronts and that then led to diplomatic tensions between france and some muslim majority countries france even then forward legislation that it was working with 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 would. not only left a teach a day but there's really uncovered a hornet's nest of problems here in france we spoke with france based journalist

and political commentator elisabeth would turn to she thinks the school girl's father bears a large degree of responsibility for what happened to. i think she also wrote some responsibility i think what's really interesting is that i think her father considered it quite a great deal of that 1st of all because the daughter 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 she put things to him so that he would literally erupt and it's more a question of what is acceptable and why it would. be so easy to be accepted and then whenever people said but she's lying he called and this. 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 tools of murder that girl is still in

school we don't want to know her name i don't want her to be punished in such a horrendous way but i think that there's a kind of cowardice on one side and earned not on the other. head of the european commission says that she has become a scapegoat for europe's extremely slow code inoculation rate and laid the blame and vaccine maker astra zeneca steps next hears artie's piro of. well the e.u. commission are not happy at all with vaccine manufacturer astra zeneca 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 i did notice that we aren't clear 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 to learn 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. after 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. . still to come on the program staying with vaccines the kremlin dismisses u.s. claims of shot this information as nonsense as washington accuses russian websites of spreading lies more on that in just a bit this is art international. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm sure business i'll see you there. it's an inconvenient truth 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 culturing shareholders and throwing the taxpayers and using financial leisure demain on wall street to line their pockets. joe biden famously said nothing will fundamentally change just appears to be the case when it comes to u.s. policy regarding the middle east coast we asked the question what is the strategic value we'll give you the least who benefits from all these forever wars. welcome back russia has it dismissed claims of spreading disinformation about u.s.

code vaccines calling them nonsense the state department earlier flagged for russian web sites and supposedly trying to discredit the pfizer and madonna jobs in favor of sputnik movie with commentary. 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 oh vaccine war because well hackings a bit passe in electing foreign presidents is a bit wild being that not vaccines are where it's at 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 denigration pfizer is likely due to stay just as the 1st besides putin could be to see mass use resulting in a greater potential threat to sputniks market dominance who said to 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 pfizer is logistically a much trickier vaccine it used to fall apart if it wasn't kept in specialized freezers minus 17 degrees celsius that's now been improved to minus $25.00 while sputnik v chills out to 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 just imagine what all means over madly as 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 but may be so to block started the approval process now pfizer and the us who obviously love healthy competition in the way that twitter labs pala or trump labs music is probably looking at that and saying a chunk of the 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 more good news is that 280000 doses of the vaccine arrived from russia and we need vaccination as fast as possible and evolving more people so. yes the pandemic might have changed the wild but some things never change madness and disinfo mation 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 that revelation comes from a leaked letter to kabul written by the u.s. secretary of state parties killam up and has more. 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 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 who disapprove situation listen and that the taliban could make rapid turns turold 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 we spoke with a peace activist david swanson he thinks the u.s. needs to draw lessons from 2 decades of failure in afghanistan i think that if there is any lesson to be learned here it is never do anything like this ever again stop trying to overthrow governments in venezuela and elsewhere around the world immediately this is a tragedy however it plays out however long the troops remain for the people of afghanistan most of whom are very poorly represented by either the afghan

government or the taliban and this deal could have been had over 19 years ago with a lot of people still alive and trillions of dollars on spent so the obvious number one lesson is never ever do this sort of thing it is immoral and it is criminal. just under 32 minutes that's when i'll be back with another phone fresh look at the news this is our 2 international. was a pandemic no certainly no borders and just blind to nationalities. as americans we caught up with the we don't have the facts in the whole world beat's to be the chief. judge of. 2 commentary

crisis with this system to time so we can do better we should. everyone is contributing each of our own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenge is grateful for the response has been massive so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. one of the worst mass shootings in america was in less vegas in 2017 the tragedy exposed a little of the real last big where many say elected officials are controlled by casino owners the vegas shooting reveal where. the really announce part of the stand is sheen the american public barely remembers that it

happened i just shows you the power of money and. the powerful showed that true colors when the pandemic hit the most contagious contagion we've seen in decades and then you have a mayor who doesn't care so here's caroline goodman offering the lives of the vegas residents to the control group. deep indifference to the people could have been saved if they were taken action absolutely. machines doing is a money machine is a huge cash register that is ran by people who don't care about people's lives being lost.