people's lives lost. european council president accuses britain of vaccine nationalism through imposing an outright ban on the export of vaccines. from the u.k. government. also in the headlines this wednesday cover ups and delays. of people. blasting the british government for fatal errors in the pandemic. many of the family is do believe their loved ones did. not everyone in the large. german newspaper the. russian opposition.

global stories and international inside. of moscow welcome to the program 1st european council president charles michel has denied accusations of vaccine nationalism levelled at the bloc he also accused britain itself of export supplies which has infuriated the u.k. government with more on the latest feud here's our europe correspondent peter all about. 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 charles 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 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 both 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 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'd made earlier on what he did was. essentially say that his statement had 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 were perhaps going to put in place controls on

vaccines moving into northern ireland 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 the tickle analysts go but dr a believes that e.u. officials are pointing fingers to divert attention from their own missteps in the vaccine process. the situation here in europe of just they would have was chaotic as regards the vaccination programs. first going out to reach the public was waiting for the sensed of the lower level of vaccinations seeking and found the

cure for the door of the commission president on whom what we see now is. an assistance fund a show to try to relieve the pressure on this crime rate but the commission has to to send out a smoke screen to send up a diversion from the gross incompetence. that is been seen in the way the european a situation. with actually programs be 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 negotiate properly once negotiate with proper priorities with the pharmaceutical companies going back to work the december the

russian capital's 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 $65.00 and across russia the situation continues to improve daily new coronavirus cases are down to around $9000.00 that's less than half the average figure in january and it's partly due to the mass inoculation campaign that launched in december we discussed russia's anti covert matches and how they fit into the global picture with the w.h.o. representative to russia. there has been a very good combination all our recommendations are restrictions which were not logged out although in some regions they were more close to that. and i would say enter various of people but this is very critical at the moment to maintain this there miss and advocation of the set of measures. the most important thing is to be

moderate to monitor the situation and be flexible also in case of needs to be flexible of returning some of the restrictions public health measures we refer to call them and i have seen in some countries a surge of cases in a gross of cases so we have very cautious everywhere. nobody's safe until everybody saves stronger tolerates even you know 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. well tell her in addition did not reply and that summation passports as 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 actually named all of them to long term vaccination. regular medical professionals have accused the british government of refusing to probe chronic failures and its handling of the pandemic and that arrange their own public covert inquiry comes after the u.k. death toll from covert past 124000 the highest figure in europe that figure also includes more than 40000 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 plays into coded pandemic and the handling of it by the government right now the public who 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 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 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 room

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. 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 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 coven 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 day of that 1st person and i think my dad should really have remembered well 2020 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 are told 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 but not the country. argument sister channel r.t. doj has filed a lawsuit against build after the german tabloid claimed artie's reporting was actually spying for the kremlin saskia taylor has 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 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 called john ism 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 claims his chart was pretty boring to 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 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 rule john as it's trying to get the latest on a top developing story our team does that it's going to tinge of hypocrisy that claim that this work. group was filled with nefarious spying requests is also

undermined by the fact that when he questions whether getting a hidden camera recording of what's inside toward one value is remote to be which is on german military and 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 park 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 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 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 sergey lavrov at a public christmas party the horror never mind that this was one of hundreds of photos taken all that that were hundreds including foreign journalists apparently this one photo is incontrovertibly proof that r t 2 each on the russian government are in cahoots you also have to ask yourself do you believe in coincidence not long ago on t deutsche announced it's opening a channel in germany shortly after problems started headlined some dubbed a smear campaign appeared then ruptly were told that the bank accounts in germany would be shot within months fast forward and now are being labeled a kremlin spies like i said coincidence you decide for that part of our colleagues in germany convinced. him to see. this is an attempt this is being constrained to

a meter i was going to love i was staring and in the media at every turn against me and to prove allegations and suppressing our journalistic freedoms and making personal attacks 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 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 welcoming that broadcast to the all clogged things that are to do which was merely following journalistic standard practice keeping track of evolving. seems the looks the the the the

great crime but our 2 daughters are actually doing journalism proper journalism of course this was a story that they had to cover about not only in a german medical facility would mean doing investigations that would mean going to places that's what journalism is about and to and to sort of a quite with spying i think it's quite ludicrous because build we're following this story extremely closely putting up photographs of about me in hospital you know really making this a major news story and their life seems to be where we can do this but russian media outlets operating lawfully in germany better allow to follow the story they're not allowed to to drive find out what's going on i mean it's clear 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 on the site accusing the social network of repeatedly breaking the

law correspondent dan 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 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 share and pressure twitter to comply with those laws the slowdown what affects all mobile devices and half of non mobile devices seo in russia largely affecting videos and streaming services and 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 content 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. 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 this perhaps spread 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 as well as 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 the 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 commentator walker thinks the social media giants used 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 instead of breaches of the law instead it's 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 make similar to most people who want to tweet in that way you could only use twitter poller the worst 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 is disturbing the idea that you can affect the other competent but publish the serious side materials 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. residents have given a mixed response after playing clothes officers began patrolling the streets of the belgian capital to stop a shocking rise in sexual harassment cases the metafile those women complaining 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 have already reported by victims when women's rights activists welcome the initiative. i'm too soon even for a bar of this idea because finally we are 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 they're finally listen to this voices and that's why they 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. trust in the police is so low the 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 are protecting 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. it's a good day to you because there is a lot of. history. for sure when this

policeman is you know from. the women's rights activists we have. the root of the problem goes far. so we need to not only to repress and this is good to protect our oppressed but we should also think about programs 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 need to do cation of for immigrants who come to our contras especially if they come from contras 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 rights are humans rights and in trying to trying to won we should and won central by a landslide dance women. a master of news for that all thanks for watching on culebra in moscow back with the next update from avi just on the 35 minute.

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really get that the police are allowed to lie to the person who falsely confessed actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior once a false confession the stake in the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession someone that isn't. one of the worst mass shootings in america was in less than 27 the tragedy exposed a little of the real. officials are controlled by can see you know knows the dangers shooting revealed what. really is and now it's part of the standard issue as to the american public barely remembers that it happened but just shows you the power of money in las vegas the powerful showed that true colors when the pandemic hit the most contagious contagion that we've seen in decades and then you have a mayor who doesn't care so here's caroline goodman offering to go wives of the vegas

residents to the control group. deep indifference to the people could have been saved if they were to take an action absolutely. machine uses a money machine is a huge cash register that is ran by people who don't care about people's lives being lost. this is the one business where you can't afford to miss i'm rachel woman's in washington coming out of the game continues with another hearing on capitol hill will tell you what the senate had to say about the future of popular training out like robin hood. told me after hitting a 9 month low as the u.s.

dollar and treasury yields are treat so what that means for ongoing play shit that the u.k. is being praised for its exact same role as the bank of england says it is cautiously optimistic that a road to recovery around the corner. we have a lot to get to celeste get started. the brokerage app robin hood is back in the spotlight as the senate baking committee held a hearing on tuesday that called its business model into question while republicans have praised the app for its promise of 0 commission training that is meant to open the stock market up to anyone with a smartphone democratic committee chairman sherrod brown claims that firms like robin hood were founded on a model that exploits small investors by encouraging fast and loose trading and then sells their trades to market players this as robin hood faces nearly 100 lawsuits.