we. ask. the european council president accuses britain of imposing an outright ban on cope with vaccine exports a claim the u.k. furiously denies. in the pandemic. many of the families do believe their loved ones did die needlessly not everyone obviously but a large number. and our sister channel zoos are told german newspaper for claiming it was spying on russian opposition figure alexina valmy. live worldwide this is r.t.

international i'm calling with the stories we're across for you this hour here in moscow 1st then fresh diplomatic futures erupted between the e.u. and the u.k. of a vaccine supplies the european council president is accusing britain of blocking all exports of covert shots prompting angry denials from london our europe correspondent peter all of a house more on the latest 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 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 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 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 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 charles michel 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 analyst 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 just they would have those things chaotic as regards the vaccination programs. first going back to reduce the public was waiting for the incensed of the low level of vaccinations seeking and

found the guilt at the door of the commission president on whom what we see now is we are now in assistance by michel to try to relieve the pressure on this chronic 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 that solution programmes 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 negotiate properly and negotiate with proper priorities with the pharmaceutical companies going back to work the number.

of some progress here the russian capital is lifting some of its remaining covert restrictions after a drop in case numbers this week moscow ended it 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 in january and it's partly due to the mass inoculation campaign launched in december we discussed russia's anti covert measures fund 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 for a lot of the dow's 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 their mis and ethic ation 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 and. growth of cases so we have very cautious everywhere. nobody is 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 roll out to go with the vaccination to encourage people especially the priority groups 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 goods data the nation are extremely important and the countries are encouraged to

actually have information systems actually made to long term effects in nations. they get a medical professional surrounding on the british government for refusing to probe chronic failures in its handling of the pandemic and they've arranged their own public covert inquiry it comes off the u.k. death toll from covert past $124000.00 the highest figure in europe that includes more than $40000.00 residents and hundreds of health care workers chairing the inquiry is formidable human rights lawyer michael mansfield q.c. who says that many of those fatalities could have been avoided. people's inquiry is the 1st inquiry of any kind that is taking place in to cove it 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 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 been 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 to come forward asking for her father to be recognized as the country's 1st coronavirus victim. we just saw remember him as far 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 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 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 brain the. public health experts claim peta 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 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 diary of that 1st person and i think it's really you have remembered for 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. agassi 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 jane questions still remain unanswered about what actually happened and if anything would have been different had the government acted sooner to the country. or german 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 or 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 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 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 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 r.t. does that it's been a 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 volume has remained 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 cameraman kept 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 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. 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 headlined some dubbed a smear campaign appeared then. told 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 our colleagues in germany convinced. him to see. this is an attempt this is being constrained to me that i was going to was 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 reprimands from the job and 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 day in the life of any journalist anywhere in the world brokaw's to milk logs thinks that r.t. george was merely following standard journalistic practice by keeping track of.

seems the the the the the great crime the naughty torturers actually doing journalism but 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 photographs of it on the in hospital you know really making this a major news story and then like seems to be well we can do this but we should meet you at its operating lawfully in germany they don't have to follow the story then laughter to try and find out what's going on i mean egypt where hypocrisy really is off the scale here i think. still ahead russia's media regulator cracks down on twitter accusing it of spreading illegal content but get on to that in less than 2 minutes.

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world of politics sports business i'm sure business i'll see you then. again russia's media regulator has slashed the speed with which twitter users can view videos and photos on the platform queues in the social network of repeatedly breaking the law. discuss the story with correspondent dan 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 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 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

our 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 twitter's 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 a far darker territory where twitter's been accused of failing to tackle. a continent 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 bow out and 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. residents are given a mixed response after plainclothes officers began patrolling the streets of the belgian capital to stop a shocking rise in sexual harassment cases the measure follows 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 because attacks are ready

reported by victims women's rights activists as well of the initiative. i'm too soon even for a bar of 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 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 however turns out the trust in the police is so low that many residents fear officers more of a threat of a sold. 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's a lot of. for sure when this policeman was you know from. the women's rights activist we had from the root of the problem goes far deeper. so we need to not only to repress and this is good to protect our breasts 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 in the rigors and we do creation 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 rights 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 mayor's wife singled out the right an assault on specific ethnic minorities. as a texan asian american communities continue we're 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 both theories and car theft shooting incidents almost doubled last year a report say there's been another 75 percent jump in the last month alone last some

of the authorities slashed a $1000000000.00 or more of 4 from the budgets after pressure from protesters to defund the police the city said it 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 in 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 or corfu vigilantes to go and do thing or you know almost like you know the superman or superwoman we can't have that because it's very irresponsible people are going to get hurt gotta be somebody dies or trying to help somebody their lawyers going to sue the city and

say hey we're made his wife told us to do this if you get not call from the top leader in city government telling you to go out there and protection neighbors there i believe there will be some liability and that regards when you call it for people to go out and do that the only thing that solution would 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 call in and want those are the 3 things that people should be doing that's now on police officials ok that's the news for now the latest crosstalk is just moments away off the web tell have your next r.t. international update and to see that.

there are tactics that can be used to get innocent people to confess to crimes they didn't commit i don't even think people in the us 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 a stake in the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that is a. hello

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