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from moscow this is international money. treating him thanks for checking in with us this hour these are the top stories a diplomatic feud has erupted between the e.u. and the u.k. over vaccine supplies european council president charles michel accused britain of blocking all exports of covert shots prompting angry dolls' from london our europe correspondent peter all of a house more on the standoff. 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 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 u.s. 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 sharm 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 a u.k. export ban or any restrictions on vaccines are completely false clarification may well be necessary because later on tuesday evening charlotte michel 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 you 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 of births 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 child 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 that e.u. officials are pointing fingers to divert attention from their own missteps in the vaccine process. the situation here in europe of jittery the world is chaotic

as regards the vaccination programs. first going back to reach the public was when fully incensed at the low level of vaccinations seeking and found the guilt of the door of the commission president tom blum what we see now is we are now in assistance by michel to try to relieve the pressure on his colleague but the commission to to send up a smoke screen to send up a diversion from the gross incompetence. that is been seen in the way the european a situation of the vaccination 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 and negotiate proper priorities with the pharmaceutical companies going back to work 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 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 for january and it's partly due to the mass inoculation campaign which launched in december we discussed russia's anti covert measures 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 are not logged out although in some regions they were more close to that. and i would say

in a very nice 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 meet mother to monitor the situation and be flexible also in case of needs to be flexible of returning some of the restrictions public health measures need prefer to call them and i have seen in some countries a surge of cases in. girls of cases so we have very cautious everywhere. nobody's safe until everybody saves stronger tolerates even coming from any place my power and the trust of the people so. it is very important to rollout to go with the vaccination to encourage people especially the priority health care workers and elderly to get the vaccine and there are always together we can win

this battle around the world health organization did not reply and vaccination passports and evidence to give privileges or enable travel however good data on rats the nation are extremely important and the countries are encouraged to actually have information systems actually name all the long term effects in asian . legal or medical professionals are rounding on the british government refusing to probe chronic failures in its handling of the pandemic and they've arranged their own public overt inquiry it comes after the u.k. death toll from covert passed 124000 the highest figure in europe that figure also includes more than $40000.00 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 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 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 eagerly those who work on the front line who've been susceptible everybody knows that it's being alledging 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 to 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 tork passed away long before cave it became a national diagram 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. 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 lock down 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 it 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 20 or 20 years of covert 19 will go down in history as being totally unknown and precedented jane so 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. star german sister channel r.t.

deutsche has filed a lawsuit against bill after the german tabloid claimed that artie's reporting was actually spying for the kremlin to ask israel 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 and 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 and his and what one inspiring 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 schooled 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 hose to word it fresh in intelligence wanted to get any additional information they would by 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 r.t. does that it's going to tinge of hypocrisy that claim that this work. group was 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 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 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 counter 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 does assignment was photographed with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov at a public christmas party the horror never mind that this was one of hundreds of photos taken all but that were hundreds including foreign journalists apparently this one photo is incontrovertibly proof that r.t. to 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 summed up a smear campaign appeared then. 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 all colleagues in

germany convinced. their attempts 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 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. broadcasting your clocks that are to doj was merely following standard journalistic practice by keeping track of the valley. seen 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 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 with spidey i think it's quite ludicrous because build we're following this story extremely closely putting up photographs of your bounty in hospital you know really making this a major news story and their life seems to be well we can do this but we're sure media outlets operating lawfully in germany better allowed to follow this story than latter to try and find out what's going on i mean egypt the hypocrisy really

is off the scale here i think. still ahead russia's media regulator cracks down on twitter accusing it of spreading and legal content we'll get into that in less than 2 minutes. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and obviously going to get us on the world of politics or. i'm sure business i'll see you there. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe.

isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is faith. in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. for a mate in the shallowness. of the back russia's media regulator has slashed the speed with which twitter users can view videos and download photos on the platform accusing the social network of repeatedly breaking the mole. discussed the story with correspondent daniel all kinds. 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 what effect 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 does 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 an 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 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 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 our political commentator andrew walker thinks social media giants use their monopoly position to disregard locals. i have a significant amount of sympathy with the russian or forty's and it's simply on

this point of hypocrisy what we see all 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 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 of a similar most people who want to tweet in that way you could only use twitter poller words 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 candidates but publish the serious side material publishes child all of fate 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 plain clothes officers began probing the streets of the belgian capital to stop a shocking rise in sexual harassment cases the measure follows women complaining they have now they now face leaving their homes over the growth in sexual assaults there brussels police say they hope to catch assailants in the act as attacks are ready reported by victims and women's rights activists welcome the initiative. i'm too so even faber on these ideas 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 just is we need to change and our politicians there finally listen to this voices and that's why they needed to

get a budget a big one in order to tackle this problem and find all the best solutions like this one a troll in the streets in order to help women however turns out the trust in the police there is so low that many residents fear offices more than the threat of a soul. i don't feel safe around police i see police as a grasses and violent people and repressive people that are protecting me. i prefer the police and gentrified 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. i don't think it's a good idea because there is a lot of. pressure when this policeman is you know from. the women's rights activists we have for awards for 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 ringback who come to our countries especially if they come from kountry where they don't respect women and 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. new york city's 1st lady has told people to physically intervene if they see a hate crime taking place the murders wife singled out the rise of assaults on specific ethnic minorities as a texan asian american communities continue where asking new yorkers to show up for

their neighbors intervene when weakness in hateful violence harassment i know that can be frightening when you are unsure what to do or say but you can learn. the city's suffering a rise in crime across the board including homicides shootings of burglaries and car thefts shooting incidents almost doubled last year reports say there's been another 75 percent jump in the last month alone last summer the authorities slashed a $1000000000.00 from law enforcement budgets after pressure from protesters to defund the police the city said they would reinvest the money in youth and social services we are reducing the size of our police force by not having the next recruit class we are reducing our overtime levels were shifting functions away from police to civilian agencies but a retired new york police deputy inspector says the advice to intervene and possible crimes could leave more people hurt. well you talk about hammond

civilians and if it were people as being assaulted you almost put now a call for vigilantes to go and divvying or you know almost like you know the superman for superwoman we can't have that because it's very irresponsible people are going to be hurt got a bit somebody dies we're trying to help somebody daily lawyers going to sue the city and say hey we're made his wife told us to do this if you get in a call from the top lean in city government telling you to go out there in protection 8 was believed there will be some liability and that regards when you call it for people to go out and do that the only thing that civilians should be doing is maybe videotaping from a very safe distance getting a detailed description of the person or persons who's committing the assault and then calling them want those at 3 things that people should be doing that's now on police officials that he is for now thanks for checking in with us this hour on

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