a monster or someone bad or you chose to be there most of the time it's not the case see how it is to be in the world's richest country. the european council president accuses britain of vaccine nationalism through imposing an outright ban on the. something that few are you from the government. also in the headlines on this wednesday cover ups. lawyers and doctors launch a people's choir blasting the government for fatal error of. many of the families believe. their loved ones did. not everyone but a large number. of top. claiming it was spying on a russian opposition. wednesday

worldwide news headlines live from moscow this international a very warm welcome to you. european council president charlotte mashal has denied accusations of nationalism levelled at the bloc he also accused britain itself of export bans on shot supplies which ultimately infuriated the u.k. government with more on the latest feud. well we wouldn't did what the relationship post breaks it was going to be like between london and brussels the u.k. in the e.u. the pandemics meant we've got to see that speeded up faster than real time and it looks pretty messy from here on out at the moment the latest incident involves a you council president child machelp he put out a statement in which she seemed to accuse the united kingdom of having an outright

ban on exports in any covert vaccines that are manufactured in u.k. territory i am shocked when i hear the accusations of vaccination elysium against the e.u. the u.k. and the us have imposed an outright ban on the export of vaccines or a vaccine to components produced on their territory but the e.u. has never stopped exporting the thing is the u.k. says they haven't got any such ban in place whatsoever the u.k. foreign secretary dominic robb rejected those claims and says that he's written to shell michel for clarification on the e.u. council president's comments the british government has never blocked the exposed to a single vaccine any references to u.k. export bone or any restrictions on vaccines are completely false clarification may well be necessary because later on tuesday evening michelle puts out a tweet always a way to make sure that the message gets across without any misunderstanding

whatsoever in that tweet he didn't repeat the claims that britain had a ban on export of vaccines he also didn't retract any of the statements he'd made earlier on what he did was. essentially say that his statement it prodded the u.k. towards transparency when it comes to this vaccine issue that caused a lot of upset the most conservative party m.p.'s in the u.k. who've been doing the rounds on the breakfast radio and t.v. saying that this is absolutely outrageous what we have though is a situation between the u.k. and the e.u. you look at it a little bit like a divorce or. we break up with one site that seems to be doing better than the other on one glaring issue and not issue is vaccinations if we look at the united kingdom just under 35 percent of the population there have received at least one job of a covert vaccine in the e.u. that number is just on the 10 percent mark difference and what we've seen is these

clashes over vaccines this isn't the 1st time this year that they've gone head to head on this back in january the e.u. for a short period anyway said that they would perhaps going to put in place controls on vaccines moving into northern island that would have caused a whole lot of mess that was eventually scrapped that idea but what we are seeing is vaccines becoming an increasingly important issue a little more on what we've seen in terms of the diplomatic fallout from these comments from charles michel the u.k. attempted to summon the e.u. arm for talks on this some of them to the foreign office the problem is the u.k. currently doesn't recognize the e.u. ambassador to the u.k. not a good look the trouble seems like it will continue for a little while yet and i'm just a bit earlier in the program here on r.t. i spoke with political analyst gilbert doctorow the things that officials are pointing fingers to divert attention away from their own missteps in the vaccine

process. the situation here in europe just to rid of those who was chaotic as regards the vaccination programs. first going back to reach the public was waiting for the 1st of the lower level of vaccinations seeking and found the cure for the door of the condition president tom blum what we see now is. in assistance from the show to try to relieve the pressure on his colleague but the commission to to send up a smoke screen to center for diversion from the gross incompetence. has been seen in the way the european a situation. with actually programs the they are terribly envious here in brussels of the success the stunning success of britain they have to record

it going its own way with humans they have done everything possible to divert attention from their own inability to negotiate properly and. with proper priorities with the pharmaceutical companies going back to worse than. the russian capital is lifting some of its remaining covert restrictions after a drop in case numbers this week moscow ended its stay at home advice for people over the age of 65 and across russia the situation continues to improve they really knew coronavirus cases are down to around $9000.00 that is less than a half the average figure from january and it is partly down to a mass inoculation campaign launched in december our total of 3 russian made covert vaccines have been approved for public use well let's now live to the world health organization's representative to russia optimally to avoid an overt thank you doctor for joining us here on r.t.

international today you recently commented on the improving coronavirus situation here in russia do you think russia has done anything differently to other nations to ultimately reach this stage. well actually we have seen very encouraging signs also across the world and europe for 7 consecutive weeks but then unfortunately so in 2 weeks that the numbers going up again and. in russia we still see a very 'd good trend apart from 3 days basically as the figures are going down and i think that there has been a very good combination all recommendations are restrictions which are not full lock the house although in some regions they were more close to that. and i would say and the various of people but this is very critical at the moment to maintain this there and this and application of the set of measures because unfortunately we

can see also a different scenario that is happening in other places. as you know moscow has lifted most of its coronavirus restrictions did you think that's the right move in the current environment i mean do you think it's possible that could be another wave to hit russia. well as that new jersey either man you know patients it is the national and local authorities both help epidemiological but also the logical authorities who can come sooner all the elements and the most important thing is to be smart to monitor the situation and be flexible so in case there needs to be flexible returning some of the restrictions public health measures we prefer to call them and go back but we don't know me and i have seen as i said in some countries a surge of cases a new growth of cases so we have very oceans everywhere constantly vision is really hard and the vaccine rollouts haven't exactly on smoothly everywhere

italy recently blocked a shipment of astra zeneca shots to australia and some nations have been skeptical about sputnik vini to what extent if any extent have geopolitics and vaccine nationalism perhaps held back in occupation campaigns well i can only repeat the words of dr tethers our director general and dr cooper our regional director for europe that nobody is safe until everybody's saved and personally i would call on everybody especially the media to calm down the rental rates because we do not understand that stronger torics even coming from any place mike how are the trust of the people so it is very important to rollout to go with a vaccination to encourage people especially the priority groups health care workers and elderly to get the vaccine and there are only together we can win this

battle over and over to a number of nations seem to be moving towards possible vaccine possible to free up travel what's the position of the w.h.o. without. that video has actually revealed its position on several times and i can all repeat that act the morans the world health organization did not reply and vaccination passports as and evidence to give privileges or enable travel however a good day to the nation are extremely important and the countries are encouraged to actually have information systems that enable them to long term effects initial . charge international has or your nation's emergency committee will definitely be discussing that in the future like vaccines like there are yellow fever are there are there are only endemic countries and when there is a point of search of using the yellow card out of the international hazard your

nation's travel in and out we have a different situation in the pandemic but this is definitely being discussed a lot also in the world health organization and let us see more of the decisions are recommendations will be in the future optimally to avoid over the w.h.o. representative to russia thank you so much for your time we appreciate it thank you . legal and medical professionals have accused the british government of refusing to probe chronic failures in his handling of the pandemic and they've arranged now their own public inquiry it comes after the u.k. death toll from covert polish 212-4000 the highest figure in europe that figure includes more than $40000.00 care home residents and hundreds of health care workers the lawyer chairing the inquiry michael mansfield it says many of those fatalities could have been avoided. people's inquiry is the 1st inquiry of any kind

that is taking place in to covert pandemic and the handling of it by the government right now the public want art and service particularly the bereaved of which there are thousands unfortunately but others who are the relatives of plainly the relatives of those who fortunately haven't died also have questions because of the been a lot of hospitalizations as well and it's no use waiting we need the answers now and they can be provided people have a very strong views about what should have happened in the 1st place and what is continuing not to happen many of the families do believe that their loved ones did die needlessly not everyone obviously but a large number but equally those who work on the front line who've been susceptible everybody knows that it's being alert ching from crisis to crisis that's no way to

do it and so we need to know now because it's not going to be over in june the lockdown may be eased by then but of course the virus it still self will still be present somewhere in our room meantime a british woman has come forward asking for her father to be recognized as the country's 1st coronavirus victim. we just saw remember him as a father as a loving father as a lot of our he was a lovely man he would have done anything for you and we can't. understand but we need to learn some serious lessons from this so this doesn't happen again back in january 20 2083 year old peter to it passed away long before cave it became a national dialogue and when the concern was limited mostly to china the only just come about in china so we we were told you know without a shadow of doubt it was not in this country at the time so there was no why it was on our radar at the time to the tipping point for me i think was the inability to

get off the oxygen he struggled so much as time went by and we knew more more about cars and we saw these patients in hospital with the. public health experts claim peter afterwards case lays bare the case failure to monitor the virus in its early stages and that there may have been many more deaths in the early months of 2020 than was 1st thought the 1st covert death in the u.k. was recorded on the 5th of march of 2020 weeks before the government succumbed to lockdown on the 23rd of march by that time the pandemic had already sunk its teeth into the country but jane's father passed on the 30th of january of 2020 and that was only days after the city of rwanda where the 1st case of credit were detected went into lockdown she is now calling for the world health organization and the n.h.s. to publicly recognise the historical significance of her father's passing as the u.k.'s 1st private fatality just through that he should go down in history as the

part of history now isn't there you know it doesn't matter what you read in the books you know there's always that 1st person and i think my dad should really have remembered well 20 or 20 years of covert 19 will go down in history as being totally unknown and president jane says it's not just about her father's. legacy but about correcting the official records but the government says there was little transmission present at the time of peter. every death is a tragedy there is no evidence that there was sustained transmission within the community in january 2020 we acted swiftly to curb coronavirus and at all times we have been guided by the best available evidence to deliver a strategy designed to protect the n.h.s. and save lives for jane doe questions still remain unanswered about what actually happened and if anything would have been different had the government acted sooner

that the country. are german sister channel r.t. deutsche has filed a lawsuit against bill after the german tabloid claimed r.t. is reporting was actually spying for the kremlin is saskia taylor. on the face of it a sin sation old story it's got all the words to draw or read to read spotlight public enemy number one russia but a closer look at not sensation apart basically daniel lined up an r.t. to each employee claims he was essentially used as a spy for the channel and then all the information he was gathering on kremlin critic alex anan found me when he was recuperating in a bill and clinic for legit poisoning was being put straight into the hands of russian president vladimir putin since ational rights were not quite because the evidence seems more taken from a manual cool john ism water one than spying want to one as proof screenshots of a chat with editors i'll tell you these chats

a common practice that the easiest way for reporters producers cameraman tech guys to coordinate and also tell you that pretty boring filled with the logistical stuff and despite claims his chart was pretty boring too yes he was also to go inside the shower take clinic one found he was cooled investigative journalism it's called trying to get ahead of other outlets so that you get the scoop in fact build was one of the most active moles inside the hospital as the head of our to do each reminds us to accuse us of spying and at the same time to post images of the every little step to develop he makes including pictures of his garden to host a word if russian intelligence wanted to get any additional information they would buy a subscription to build plants and of course we want to remind our colleagues of german that you slay ssion that for now at least protect the media and lowering it to collect information and metis that are considered to be of public interest so bill

does that it's true john it's trying to get the latest on a top developing story our team does that it's more than a tinge of hypocrisy that langdon's claim that this. while it was just filled with nefarious spying requests it's also undermined by the fact that when he questions whether getting a hidden camera recording of what's inside is appropriate his boss writes clearly no i don't think so not exactly the most ruthless of spying attempts than evidence number 2 is the video agency ruptly 247 outside the shower take clinic yes that's true in fact for a long time it was a live streamed on you tube talk about money to cover in the same way our tireless ruptly cameramen camped night and day outside the ecuadorian embassy in london to catch the truly sensational moment the jury and a son was dragged out we were the only ones to get these pictures and every outlet

in the world was behind they appreciate to drop his journalism back then but not now and the final damning allegation the anti employee in charge of lying does assignment was photographed with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov at a public christmas party the hora never mind that this was one of hundreds of photos taken all but that while hundreds including foreign journalists apparently this one photo is incontrovertibly proof that r t ringback 2 each on the russian government are in cahoots you also have to ask yourself do you believe in coincidence not long ago on. its opening a channel in germany shortly after problem started headlined some dubbed a smear campaign period then all. these bank accounts in germany was shot fast forward and now are being labeled

a kremlin spies like i said coincidence you decide for that power talk colleagues in germany own convinced we see. their attempts to see this is an attempt to this is the history to be. i was going to love those staring and in the media at every turn against me and fools allegations and suppressing our journalistic freedoms and make an impossible task this is what it means to be an alternative voices in germany it's also walk mentioning that doesn't exactly have the best track record between 20152028 was hit with 72 reprimands from the judgment media regulator that's almost a thought of the toll in that time frame something to bear in mind when you jump head 1st into this latest offering from the top lawyer and offering that promise is spiced sensation a bombshell and a juicy spy story but actually delivers well but day in the life of any journalist

anywhere in the world. russia is a media regulator has slashed at the speed with which twitter users kind of watch videos and photos on the site alternately accusing the social network of repeatedly breaking the law i discussed the story just a bit earlier in the program with artie's daniel hawkins. well disagreements between twitter and the russian media and telecommunications regulator go back a number of years the social media giant has previously received both warnings and fined for failing to add here to russian laws and this slowing down of twitter here in russia is a step taken by the regulator to encourage shared pressure twitter to comply with those laws the slowdown will affect all mobile devices and half of non mobile devices here in russia largely affecting videos and streaming services that action was taken because of twitter's apparent refusal to remove thousands of pieces of

content largely relating to the protection of children that these requests go back several years and the regulator says if twitter does fail to comply and continues. to to not remove such images and such content further measures could be taken from 2017 to the present time to it as not removed contents inserting minors to commit suicide child pornography as well as information about the use of drugs in order to protect russian citizens centralise response measures have been taken in initial slowdown of the service speed if to it it continues to ignore the requirements of the law the measures will continue up to and including blocking of the service and i will usually. taken this measure rather than opting for financial penalties to push to or to comply. both sides will be hoping these legal issues can be resolved before such action does need to be taken daniel does this seem to just be like some

sort of internal the conflict between russia and twitter or does is perhaps bred beyond russia's borders this very much goes beyond russia's borders just one example if you take australia very recently the government there has said it's willing to take action against twitter if it fails to comply with a new code of conduct on the spread of this information on the platform was one of harassment and bullying twitters pushed back saying such regulations could give. australian authorities too much oversight so this agreement is there if you take the united states and europe issues that have gone far beyond that into far darker territory where twitter's been accused of failing to tackle. relating to child sexual abuse through child pornography in fact one of us to geisha in the u.k. found that twitter was responsible for over half of such content online relating to child abuse and this really raises 2 questions one why twitter in recent times has

been very quick to moderate certain content largely political relating to political conspiracy theories for example yet fail to tackle content which is a much more direct and imminent threat to minors and secondly how exactly in an increasingly online media landscape and social media landscape the relationship between social media giants and government authorities are going to develop political comedy underwater things that social media giants use their monopoly position to ultimately disregard local laws. i have a significant amount of sympathy with the russian authorities and it's simply on this point of hypocrisy what we see all ringback the time is twitter and indeed companies like facebook hound reading about their inability to deal with problems instead of breaches of the law instead breached of their own terms of service when it comes to criminality but when it comes to the sides of politics they are perfectly happy to intervene politically and most of those could own could you see

the facebook olof a similar to most people who want to tweeted that way you could only use twitter poller was effectively taken down and destroyed and so consequently it's not legal puts off these products there's no alternative and therefore these companies have way too much power and i think it's disturbing the idea that you can affect the other competent but publish the serious side material publishes child all over face and get away with it is just an old believable thought certainly if you were to tell somebody 20 years ago that was going to be the case they would laugh at you. french medical workers have sounded the alarm of a cuts in services to non covert patients and an overall lack of hospital beds is artie's at charlotte who can scan. hospitals in the paris region know once again preparing to be overwhelmed by couvade cases with nearly all i.c.u. beds filled the authorities in the force of all the hospitals to slash all known

coding procedures by 40 percent this is a very tense situation we needed to react very 1st of course folds the country now has the highest number of intensive care patients seen since november during the 2nd wave of the virus for those who work in hospitals the situation is more than 10 days. need more hospital beds hospitals are closing and there are thousands of bags that have been lost is unacceptable and we have demanded a real adjustment of our salaries and generally of our profession there has been no difference on the ground since june the rest to people who are quitting the hospitals perhaps it's time to ask the question as to why health care workers are stepping down and take effective measures in order to convince them to stay we see the reason awareness but it's only facade because in reality there is no understanding of the gravity of the dangerous situation that we are in what is

different though this time around is that more of the patients in intensive care said to be from younger age groups the ones haven't yet had access to a vaccine the government has relied on a road campaign to make a dent in infections to sticks however the vaccination program has been heavily criticized for its slow progress now french doctors are up in arms after being told that they'll have no vaccine deliveries of astra zeneca for a week instead the jobs will be sent to follow missy's the government has decided to exclude doctors and. pharmacists but does imagine that increasing the numbers of vaccination size will increase the doses meanwhile measures taken to try and curb cases. still appeared to be insufficient france has been under nightly curfew for months now and over the last few weeks more and more regions have been placed into weekend lockdowns so far paris has avoided that fate but for how much longer

i think the french people have had enough and that it would not be so effective they have been obedient and they are fed up. concern and lock down for the weekend i hope not but all these measures in place not to mention the curfew it gets complicated we cannot do much if in addition to that we introduce lockdown and we can't make it even more complicated anyway should we really have no choice will have to go through we don't know exactly the reason why sometimes we are in lockdown and sometimes we aren't and i think that the top authorities are facing other problems that they have failed to resolve but if there is not a lockdown we will suffer according to france's director general of health still a foregone conclusion to the daniel this measure of last resort would be offered to the government if we had the impression that the hospital could not hold out we are in a tense situation and we are monitoring the situation day by day yet it's clear tough

decisions will have to be made in the coming days and hours so what do you see paris it's been a pleasure having you with us today for the program my colleague brought us here in half an hour's time with more of your well. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. one of the worst mass shootings in america wasn't less vigorous in 2017 the tragedy exposed a little of the real last. election officials are controlled by casino owners.

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