european council president accuses britain of vaccine nationalism imposing an outright ban on the export of vaccines something that sparks fury from the u.k. government. also in the headlines this wednesday cover ups failures and delays lawyers and doctors people. are blasting the government for fatal errors in the pandemic. the families believe their loved ones did. not everyone know the launch. system. was a top german newspaper for claiming it was spying on russian opposition figure.

a low wednesday evening and. welcome to your world news from the international 1st for you european council president charles michel has denied accusations of vaccine nationalism levelled at the blog he also accused britain itself of export bans on shop supplies which has infuriated the u.k. government with more on the latest feud is our europe correspondent peter all of a. 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 e.u. council president child machelp he put out a statement and what 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 vaccinate 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 both claims and says that he's written to sharma shell 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 ban 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 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 amongst 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 sharp michele the u.k. attempted to summon the e.u. on bassett or 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 at this trouble seems like it will continue for a little while yet political analysts go but doctorow believes e.u. officials are pointing fingers to divert attention from their own missteps in the vaccine process. the situation here in europe of gypsy would have those scenes chaotic as regards the vaccination programs the 1st going about to reach the

public was waiting for the incensed but the little devil of vaccinations seeking and found guilty for the door of the commission president. what we see now is. an assistance by michelle to try to relieve the pressure on his colleague but the commission was too to send out a smokescreen just a diversion from the gross incompetence. that is been seen in the way the european a situation. with absolutely 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 sins they have done everything possible to divert attention from their own inability to approach it properly and. with proper

priorities with the pharmaceutical companies going back to work the. people and medical professionals have accused the british government of refusing to probe chronic failures in its handling of the pandemic and they've arranged their own public covert inquiry and comes after the u.k. death toll from cope with past 124000 the highest figure in europe that figure includes more than 40000 care home residents and hundreds of health care workers the lawyer chairing the inquiry michael mansfield 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 spit to kill or leave 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 those have 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 all 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 alleging 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 region a british woman has come forward asking for her father to be recognized as the

country's 1st coronavirus victim. now we just saw remember him as far as a loving father as a lot of are 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 struggles to march as time went by and we knew more more about covert and we saw these patients in hospital with the brain 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 that were detected went into lockdown she is now calling for the world health organization and the n.h.s. to publicly recognize 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 a part of history now isn't it 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 put chained questions still remain unanswered about what actually happened and if anything would have been different had the government acted sooner to the country. our german language sister channel has filed a lawsuit against billed after the german tabloid claimed that artie's reporting was actually spying for the kremlin saskia taylor as the details. on the face of it a sin sation old story it's got all the words 7 to draw or read to read spawn i

public enemy number one russia but a closer look at not sensation falls 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 right well not quite because the evidence seems more taken from a manual john of his and water one than spying one are 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 language 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 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 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 rule john as 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 live streamed on you tube talk about money to cover in the same way our tireless rockley cameramen come to my 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 them they appreciate to drop his journalism back then but not now and the final damning allegation the anti employee in charge of line goes assignment was photographed with the russian foreign minister froth at a public christmas party the hora never mind that this was one of hundreds of

photos taken all that hundreds including foreign journalists apparently this one photo is incontrovertibly proof that all to do each on the russian government are in cahoots you also have to ask yourself do you believe in coincidence not long ago . it's opening a channel in germany shortly after problem started headline some dubbed a smear campaign period then all. these bank accounts in germany was shot fast forward and now are being labeled a kremlin spine like i said coincidence you decide for that part all colleagues in germany convinced. you to tend 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 to prove allegations and suppressing

our journalistic freedoms and make an impossible task this is what it means to be an alternative voices in germany and it's also worth mentioning that doesn't exactly have the best track record between 20152028 was hit with $72.00 reprimands from the german media regulator that's almost a 3rd of the total 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 a day in the life of any journalist anywhere in the world. the new clock thinks of the doj was merely following standard journalistic practice by keeping track of developing. seems the the the the the great crime marty torture is actually doing journalism proper journalism of course this was

a story that they had to cover about not only in a german medical facility that would mean doing investigations that would mean going to places that's what journalism is about and to and to sort of a quite that with spidey i think it's quite ludicrous because build we're following this story extremely closely putting up proto graphs of about the hospital you know really making this a major news story and their life seems to be well we can do this but russian media outlets operating lawfully in germany better allow to follow the story than latter to try and find out what's going on in egypt the hypocrisy really is off the scale here i think. russia's media regulator has slashed the speed with which twitter users can watch videos and download photos from the site accusing the social network of repeatedly breaking the law are things done hawkins has the story. 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 fines 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 remove 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 take taken this measure rather than opting for financial penalties to push to or to comply then i'll doubt 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. child sexual abuse 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 of social media landscape the relationship between social media giants and government authorities are going to develop a political commentator under walker things social media giants using their monopoly position to 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 hand-wringing about their inability to deal with problems in terms of breaches of the law in terms of 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 hold off a symbol of most people who want to tweet it that way you could only use twitter parlor 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 materials publishes child all of it 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.

thanks residents have given a mixed response after plain clothes officers began patrolling the streets of the belgian capital to stop a shocking rise in sexual harassment cases the measure follows women complaining and they now fear leaving their homes over the growth in sexual assaults brussels police say they hope to catch assailants in the act as attacks are rarely reported by victims and women's rights activist welcomed the initiative. i'm too so even favor of this idea because finally we're seeing you know this police went to court and asked for it to end a budget into this you know horrible emergency that is violence and harassment against women finally we men have a voice and they're speaking loud and they're saying you know no i don't accept harassment i don't accept to bind you know this isn't justice we need to change and our politicians are finally listen to this voices and that's why we need it to get

a budget a big one in order to tackle this problem and find all the best solutions like this one trolling the streets in order to help women. however it turns out the trust of the police is so many residents fear offices more than the threat of assault. i don't feel safe around police i see police as a grasses and violent people and repressive rather than people that protect me. i prefer the police agenda find themselves as officers that's clear for me i don't want police dressed like civilians. police play an important role but we should find a way to communicate with the police won't be there when you really need them. think it's a good day even because there is a lot of. for sure when this policeman is you know from. the women's rights activist that we heard from

born of the roots of the problem goes far deeper. so we need to not only to her press and this is good to protect her press but we should also think about her ground so that prevent these problems to happen and that's why we need education when indication of for our children for our boys and our girth and we do cation of for immigrants who come to our countries especially if they come from kountry where they don't respect women as we do in the western countries we need to be all engaged more to tackle this problem because women's rise are humans rights and in 2021 we should and one central violence against women. next the british consumer goods giant unilever is going to be dropping the word normal from hundreds of its beauty and skincare products the firm says that the word make some consumers feel excluded we know that removing normal from our

products and packaging will not fix the problem alone but it's an important step forward for the company says that it conducted a global survey which found that 7 in 10 people objected to seeing the word normal on items like soap or shampoo so more specific words are going to begin used on the packaging instead the same news release unilever said that it's going to stop digitally altering images of its models in its advertising and it'll put out more ads featuring what under represented people it's the latest step by unilever to burnish its reputation of a global criticism last summer you might remember this over the marketing of skin whitening products in some south asian countries let's talk about this now with howard who's c.e.o. of the body london modeling agency and also talk radio host and columnist john gaunt both welcome to the program. by bt to sort of think there's a couple of marketing gurus here aspiring a few headlines but you know this is $10000.00 consumers have been asked about this

it would be a pretty naive company that ignored. his absolute tosh i don't believe it i don't believe the statistic 7 out of 10 people did they find the more in soho in the creative home of the moment in the creative agencies there's no way ordinary people think this in those kinds of numbers when it comes to the word normal the other thing about using models and changing the shots oh yea i agree with but the normal thing this is purely them over reacting to the trouble they landed themselves in when they were doing the discussed in practice of the lightning chremes this is what's happening this is another massive massive company basically playing to the gallery ates virtue signaling to those kinds of people normal means it's the norm it's for normal had not necessary for greasy hair why do you want to confuse the what is wrong with these people what planet do

they live on jabber of all the practices or terminology that my biggest in the beauty industry i think even the most sensitive souls wouldn't really have put money on the word normal being a trigger word to use by that there's a least a little bit of marketing exploitation going on here. i mean i think it's important that they are talking about this and they are going to do this because there is it's needed we need to keep pushing change in the industry i mean you know body london we have probably one of the most inclusive agencies and i don't think enough times are doing enough to how that can hanes inclusive and stay away from normal so i have to agree and then i mean we we've recently hired a model who went through an accident she has today scarring she actually you know i think. she's doing very well now a few years ago this would be shocking to see but this is imposed and this is what

we should be seeing and i think removing normal is important for a lot of people out there i read. this that the idea of normal i would agree with you that if somebody has got a disability or whatever i could do not understand what they call the models i take on board completely but it's the word normal when it comes to things like shampoo for normal hair well it is are the normal greasy or dry or cracked or damaged they're only doing this column is right in his suggestion this is marketed this is a bit like we're going to change tomato sauce so it's going to be green we're going to turn salad cream into a different color we're going to start making solid cream this is just a pathetic attempt to grab more market share and also say a couple i disagree i don't think that's that that's you know i think the 3rd even the it will spread all is no it doesn't i disagree but what else should they be doing then because presumably i have bigger fish to fry here writing they're doing

what they're doing what they're talking about removing almost stopping editing and editing especially on social media this is you know there is a definite trend against that and i think what they are doing is a step in the right direction it is not the be all and end to look at it. forward so i think it's an indication i don't think they're necessarily doing it to ground crass i think it's needed joining what else do you think companies like you believe it all to be doing that why they should not be using photoshop or whatever clever techniques have got to alter the images of women and men in their avatars and i would agree with that entirely on the father of 2 daughters and i think body image and being proud of your body whatever your body is he's the right approach so i'm not arguing that i'm arguing the word normal you're confusing the 2 they mix they're doing this purely to get market share and they're doing it purely because of their a sense of products that they had before 10000 people i'd love to see the steps of

let's see the demographic of the 10000 people that they asked them whether they confuse the question a bit like your being confused or not my friend where you think it's about normal imagery would your grandmother would normal i don't object to any of the rest of it but the word normal it's world nonsense it's all done for marketing and you shouldn't be falling for it because they're making a mug of you generating your industry kind of course between a rock and a hard place here because if you ask everybody what they would like to see the everybody would like to see normal images they'd like to see themselves i'd like to see a proper representation the reality is when people go to instagram and tech talk they look at almost impossible idealized versions of thing they could never achieve yeah i agree and i think it's difficult because you have. you know you have to look at the idea of what you want to see and reality and what people want to see as well so i think trying to find a balance but also clients have to stop the editing which they are they are doing

and i have done and it's totally different to what it was 5 years ago even 2 years ago so i think publicizing this type of they're going to remove the word normal and they're going to stop over editing i think that's been told us and maybe they should have done it years ago that making a change they're doing and now let's encourage it let's try it you know have more clients have more people to read and you know i have children myself and i think it's very important to try and steer away from this perfect image on social media and then you can all involved. in it who you know have been going off to dubai jory in the. pandemic it's those kinds of people who are so to show people are images making themselves you know look ridiculous and therefore a lot of younger women come and oh you're trying to achieve and i would agree with you but it's going to body fascism needs to be stopped.