the european council president accuses britain of imposing an outright ban on coded vaccine exports a claim the u.k. furiously denies. also in the headlines this hour cover ups failures and it delays lawyers and doctors launching a people's inquiry after blasting the british government for fatal errors in the pandemic. many of the families do believe that their loved ones need to straighten out every one of the state that allows them. and our sister channel r.t. deutsche sues a famous a german newspaper for claiming it was spying on the russian opposition figure alexina volley.

are broadcasting live direct from our studios most of this is our to international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. right now a fresh diplomatic feud has erupted between the e.u. and u.k. over 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 oliver has more on the standoff. where we would and 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 for mayor on out at the moment the latest incident involves a you council president child michelle he put out a statement and what she seemed to accuse the united kingdom of having an outright ban on exploiting any kovacs scenes that among your function. on 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 those 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 charlotte 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 the most conservative party m.p.'s in the u.k. who'd 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 any breakup with one side that seems to be doing better than the other on one glaring issue and not if you 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 u. that number is just under 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 the. 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 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 child michele the u.k. attempted to summon the e.u. on bass if a 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 to gilbert doctorow believes e.u. officials are pointing fingers to divert attention from their own missteps in the vaccine process. the situation here in europe just they would have those things chaotic as regards the vaccination programs. going about to reduce the

public was waiting for the incensed if the little devil of vaccinations were seeking and found at the door of the commission president. what we see now is a. man in a system spot on the show to try to relieve the pressure on this probably but the commission to to send up a smoke screen to center for diversion from the gross incompetence. has been seen in the you're in a situation. where the action is he programs he they are terribly envious here in brussels of the success the stunning success of britain they have to regulate it going its own way with the ins 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 us the. russian capital is lifting some of its remaining covert restrictions after a drop in case numbers this week moscow ended its stay at home advice for people over the age of 65 and across russia the situation continues to improve as well the daily new coronavirus cases are down to around $9000.00 that is less than half the average of figure in january and it is partly due to a mass inoculation campaign launched in december we discussed russia's anti covert measures and how they fit into the global picture with of the w.h.o. representative to russia. there has been a very good combination all recommendations are restrictions which are not fully law douse although in some regions they were more close to that. and i would say and the various of people but this is very critical at the moment to maintain this

there miss and application of the set of measures. the most important thing is to be moderate to monitor the situation and be flexible so in case of need to be flexible of returning some of the restrictions public health measures will refer to call them and go back to me i have seen in some countries a surge of cases a new growth of cases so we have very cautious everywhere. nobody's safe until everybody's safe stronger tolerates even you know 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 only together we can win this battle around the world health organization did not reply and vaccination passports

and evidence to give privileges are enabled travel however good data on rats the nation are extremely important and the countries are encouraged to actually have information systems actually named all of them along a vaccination. legal and medical professionals are rounding on the british government for refusing to probe chronic failures in its handling of the pandemic and they have a range their own public covered inquiry this comes after the u.k. death toll from past 124000 the highest figure in europe it includes more than 40000 care home residents and hundreds of health care workers chairing the inquiry is formidable human rights lawyer michael mansfield who says many of those fatalities could have been avoided people's inquiry is the 1st inquiry of any kind that is taking place in 2 coded pandemic and the handling of it by the government right now the public want art and says particularly the bereaved of which there

are thousands unfortunately but others who are the relatives of plainly the relatives of those who fortunately haven't died also have questions because of the been a lot of hospitalizations as well and it's no use waiting we need the answers now and they can be provided people have a very strong views about what should have happened in the 1st place and what is continuing not to happen many of the families do believe that their loved ones did die needlessly not everyone obviously but a large number but eagerly those who work on the front line who've been susceptible everybody knows that it's being lurching 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 recognised 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 out with passed away 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 of. march as time went by and we knew more more about kovi and 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 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 for 20 or 20 years of covert 19 will go down in history as being totally unknown president jane so it's not just about her father's. 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 that the country. are german sister channel r.t. doj has filed a lawsuit against billed after the german tabloid claimed r

t is reporting was actually spying for the kremlin ask you taylor has more. 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 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 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 develop he makes including pictures of his garden to host to word it fresh in 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 been

a 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 volume has remained to be which is on german military is appropriate his boss writes clearly no i don't think so not exactly the most ruthless of spying attempts than evidence number 2 is the video agency ruptly 247 outside the shower take clinic yes that's true in fact for a long time it was a live streamed on you tube talk about money to cover in the same way our tireless ruptly cameraman come to 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 sergey lavrov at a public christmas party the hora 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 our team to each on the russian government are in cahoots you also have to ask yourself do you believe in coincidence not long ago on. its opening a channel in germany shortly after problems started headlined some dob a smear campaign appeared then. we're 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 colleagues in germany convinced. them to see.

this is an attempt that is being constrained to me that i was going to was staring and in the media. being smeared with food allegations and suppressing our journalistic freedoms and make an impossible task this is what it means to be an alternative voice in germany it's also walk mentioning that doesn't exactly have the best track record what between 20152028 was hit with 72 reprimands from the media regulator that's almost a thought of the toll in that time frame something to bear in mind when you jump head 1st into this latest offering from the top lawyer and offering that promise is spiced sensation a bombshell and a juicy spy story but actually delivers well a day in the life of any journalist anywhere in the world broadcaster neil clark

thinks archie george was really following standard journalistic practice by keeping track of the phone. seems the looks the the the the great crime that our 2 daughters actually do in 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 your bounty in hospital you know really making this a major news story and then like seems to be well we can do this but we're operating lawfully in germany they don't have to follow this story that only. 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 that is coming up in less than 2 minutes this is arch international some of the.

joe biden famously said nothing will fundamentally change just appears to be the case when it comes to u.s. policy regarding the middle east because we asked the question what is the strategic value of the middle east and who benefits from all these forever wars. quote them back this is r t international now russia's media regulator has slashed the speed with which twitter users can view videos and photos on the platform accusing the social network of repeatedly breaking the law artie's royce o'shea discussed 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 what effect all mobile devices and half of non mobile devices see of 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 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 centralised 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 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 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 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. 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. political commentator andre walker thinks that social media giants use their monopoly position to disregard local laws. i have

a significant amount of sympathy with the russian authorities and he simply on this point of hypocrisy what we see all the time is twitter and indeed companies like facebook hound reading about their inability to deal with problems instead of breaches of the law instead of breach 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 own nothing similar most people will tweeted that way you could only use twitter poller was effect to be 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 the publish the serious side material publishers child paloma faith and get away with it is just an old believable those 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 plainclothes officers began patrolling the streets of the belgian capital to stop a shocking rise in sexual harassment cases the measure follows women complaining that they now fear leaving their homes over the growth and sexual assaults brussels police say that they hope to catch assailants in the act as attacks are rarely reported by victims it women's rights activists welcomed the initiative. i'm too so even a bar on these ideas because when only we are seeing you know this police went to court and ask for it to end a budget into this you know horrible emergency that is violence and harassment against women finally we men have the voice and they're speaking loud and they're saying you know no i don't accept harassment i don't accept to buy and you know this isn't just is we need to change and now we're pretty sure they're finally listening to this voices and that's why they need it to could have. been won in

order to tackle this problem and find all the best solutions like this one in the streets in order to help women. however it turns out trust in the police is also so low that many residents fear officers more than the threat of assault. i don't feel see around police i see police as a grasses and violent people and repressive people that are protected. i prefer the police intensifies themselves as officers that's clear from them i don't want police dressed like. police play an important role let's we should find a way to communicate with the police won't be there when you really need. if it's a good idea because there isn't a. question of when this policeman was you from. and of the women's rights activist we heard from earlier warns that

the root of the problem goes far deeper 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 problem always in our gores 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 rights are human rights and in trying to trying to one we should and once and for all violence against women by the dozen for me this hour in about 33 minutes i'll be back with another full fresh look can you stay with us as our children.

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 u.s. really get that the police are allowed to lie to the person who falsely fast 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. 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

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