just don't believe. us health department openly admit surface to prevent brazil one of the country's worst hit by the pandemic from adopting brushless cope with vaccine all in the name of american safety and security. u.k. hospitals water they could start to cut more services unless they get billions in support for the pandemic already leaving millions on n.h.s. waiting lists we've been hearing live from the british doctor this hour. as the 3rd coronavirus wave sweeps we ask what lessons the book has learned over the past year to w.h.o. report criticizes europe's angling of the pandemic.

hi thanks for joining us this is r.t. international. precedented and harsh that's what the kremlin has branded pressure on countries to stop using buses spinning vaccine the remarks come after the us health department published a report that openly admitted attempts to dissuade brazil from using the russian jump against the it has the story we've all heard that that deals to secure that shipment countries trampling each other to get those precious japs these seas the 1st star we've heard of back door deals to deny people a vaccine the u.s. department of health health and human services boosting that it had denied hundreds of millions of brazilians a jab. the office of global affairs used diplomatic relations in the americas

region to mitigate efforts by states including cuba venezuela and russia who are working to increase their influence in the region to the detriment of u.s. safety and security examples include using the office of global affairs health a touchy office to persuade brazil to reject the russian copied 19 vaccine and this what is essentially a grand perversion of simple human decency and moral values they argue that brazilians vaccinating themselves with a russian vaccine is apparently a threat to u.s. security they are explaining how they just say that it is let me put that in perspective for you we will see and hear of the daily death tallies right so one in 5 of those deaths are happening right now in brazil 20 percent of all couvade deaths worldwide are in brazil and these people a boosting that they help prevent inoculations in brazil with one of the objectives

the and scientifically proven most efficient vaccines in the world these are the same people who claim that lives in vaccines are above politics and accused russia of undermining innoculation efforts it is very clear that russia is up to its all tricks. and in doing so is potentially putting people at risk by spreading disinformation about vaccines. u.s. department of health and human services who feel safe and your organization behind sputnik the has come out and said what any reasonable person already knew this is a pandemic that is threatening and killing people equally. this is a threat to mankind it is above politics saving and we're talking here about

millions of lives is paramount but the degree of cynicism and double standards here is astonishing see when it's about saving american lives they'll take all the help that they can get remember the russian planes carrying aid to new york last year oh they accepted that no threat to national security there apparently but brazilians vaccinating themselves with sputnik god forbid no no no america current allow brazilians to do that some western states are trying not only to politicize the humanitarian aspect of the fight against corona virus but also to take advantage of the pandemic to punish governments they don't like i'm not sure i entirely agree with the russian foreign minister yes they are politicizing vaccination politicising lives that's obvious but i'm not entirely sure that the

countries that the u.s. doesn't like that it's them that have been punished it's the people that they're friends with brazilians who will potentially not receive a lifesaving job so we're fishes in washington can go to sleep at night feeling good and safe so despite its admission in the report the us health department says it can't comment on vaccines not approved by the f.d.a. and cannot dissuade countries from using drugs they've authorized themselves spurning fee though is still awaiting approval in brazil. millions of brits in need of hospital treatment have been forced to wait for months because of the crisis and u.k. hospitals are now warning that they could start to cut more services unless they get additional funding. new data reveals 4600000 people were on it just waiting lists at the end of january is the highest number seen since 2007 more than 300000

have already waited almost a year to begin hospital treatment gregory metcalf is one of the patients who's been waiting a long time for surgery i'm very much is a cocktail because obviously and if even when sure the dislocation is very serious injury on page bill so to have gone through so many like even more so now probably 40 or 50 times it's very physically pope spoke i was very shocked as well to find out about the surgeries well because whole these are all types that are not life threatening i really don't know i don't know whose ass asked the employees of us. local authorities or the hospital. obviously needs lots of money for the people on waiting lists for the surgeries some are specifically meaning covert operations some more talking about people like myself that are waiting surgeries and all kinds

of medical 'd attention surgeries that what we've got in them at the moment. and he just management says that hospitals need $8000000000.00 pounds of additional funding to cover their day to day running costs without this the n.h.s. may have to further postpone non-life threatening operations. joined on the line now by dr malcolm kendrick who's an n.h.s. general practitioner welcome dr kendrick the government has been spending money hand over fist as needed in this unprecedented time of pandemic is it realistic to expect it to or ask it to shell out an extra 8000000000 on the hospitals at the moment. well you know this is a lot of money being spent. but i mean we're looking at things that are important and really important i mean they're spending who knows how much they're spending they say something like 27000000000 on the on the testing which many people think

in many cases it's just money that it's not not being spent wisely and we have to catch up with the medical issue i mean it was a personal issue i have a knee problem from a long term injury and my my operation. suspended at the moment so yes i mean there's a lot of suffering there's a lot of problems here there's much to catch up on and a low people say well these are not life threatening in many cases a lot of the things that are being postponed are not immediately life threatening if you're not. as if you know i mean it's not rationed they become life threatening down the line and you know again. the health of people is not just. an issue of whether people are living or dying and living in a i mean if you have extreme pain and you not getting an operation this is destruction and want to learn if that really is the effect of the in years from

your life so i think yes the money on what on earth can they spend money. protecting jobs it clearly has been a priority of the government based on an awful lot of money on furloughing employees but it is a health crisis isn't it and there is an old adage which i would argue still rings true if you haven't got your health you've got nothing. if people are unhealthy doesn't matter if they've got a job they can't do that job why hasn't health been the priority above jobs. well you know i think government's being attacked from all directions and they're trying to say look we can just get through extra pressure on the health service a list of people that work harder and longer and i'm afraid you have a pretty woman. workforce not really feeling a bit great at the edges so you know as you say quite rightly if you see i say to

people health is impressed structure it is investment in people to keep them well healthy and if you don't invest in people and their health and the interest that what they can bring if they are healthy then then you're really turning off your nose to spite your face and situation so. you know this is must be a priority for. millions of brits a bit left on waiting lists a situation that by all accounts may well get worse i mean some if they can afford it could go private lots won't be able to do that at this difficult time the n.h.s. much hailed rightly so over the years but now when people need it most it's not there for them it's still fit for service purpose i should say. well i mean this very clearly has been run by successive governments i mean if you look at the hospital bad situation for example. i think the word of the number of. pollution

a country like germany they really really. taken the attitude that well we're going to get away with it let's cut a few more we're getting away with it let's cut and. when the prices came in the u.k. was ill prepared extraordinarily prepared. and so you know now to say well we're just going to let it sort of stumble on i think is extraordinary short sighted so i think you know they really need to look at this now we have less than any huge population i think this is true almost any other western european country. and that's one of the reasons why we had such a disaster at the start because we had to clear people out of their parents because they didn't have any room to clear elderly people back into nursing homes and that was one of the reasons why there was such a peak in the mortality rate here so you know they have to look at the. flex in the

system for anything like this to happen in the future as well i think the n.h.s. used to be world renowned i think people lots of countries around the world just to look at it with great envy said they would i was a child i thought it was fantastic it seems like over the years even its reputation has been in decline is this pandemic just kind of put in a lever and widen cracks that already existed. yeah there were people making protests before saying look you're really just not investing you know. and and i think julian meant a very much been well let's see they're just doing the usual 'd when judging everybody that they want all my reality is a very close to breaking point before. and you've got to invest your money and i just thought it was. sort of a or else service return at that point of contact and that was the. thing

and most people want to see that continue much as possible the reality is the pace and another reality is that people just kind of thought it's all ok because it's never really broken like this before i mean now the cracks definitely are exposed and something you really don't i think. can do thanks so much for your time really appreciate your frank opinion stopped and malcolm can take n.h.s. g.p. my guest thank you very much. now is the 3rd wave of current virus infection sweeps across the opinion in forcing countries to tighten restrictions the w.h.o. those published a critical report highlighting flaws in europe's handling of the pandemic financial economic and social care systems were ill prepared and poorly equipped to address softcore to effectively. not a lot of surprises in this world health organization report really the ultimate

takeaway is europe wasn't ready wasn't prepared for a health emergency of the size and scale of the covert 19 pandemic if we look back through the last year it's been pretty clear from the offing we saw hospitals overwhelmed pushed to capacity and beyond in the very beginning of the pandemic and right now we're seeing continuing problems when it comes to vaccine rollout across the european union the report does highlight that inequality in society exacerbated problems but again this is not something we haven't really heard before we calling on government leaders and international organizations to fix the fractures in our societies and stop turning a blind eye to the conditions that allowed the novel coronavirus to inflict such grave damage on the world another issue raised in this w.h.o. report is a lack of a common approach when it comes to tackling health issues and yet again we do have

clear examples of the us if we look back to the beginning of the pandemic we saw e.u. nations going head to head with one another fighting it out to 4 who got the p.p.a. who got the masks and well we've seen since then the united kingdom and the european union clashed over vaccine distribution and then just this last weekend 6 e.u. member states signed a letter saying that they weren't happy with the way the vaccine was being distributed throughout the block saying that the current system left things open for backdoor deals. if the system were to carry on it would continue creating and exacerbating huge disparities among member states by this summer whereby some will be able to reach herd immunity in a few weeks while others would like far behind ultimately though this report points out what went wrong and highlights that not a great deal has been done to stop the same mistakes being made again for those who

have been watching what's going on with the european union when it comes that this pilot demick thing quite a few people would be saying yeah we know. here in russia security services have foiled a terror plot the f.s.b. has detained an islamic state supporter on suspicion of planning to carry out an attack in the south of the country here's a video released by russia's federal security service which shows how the suspect was detained the man in question later admitted to planning to carry out an attack on a local shopping center offices discovered bomb making components and an islamic state flag in the apartment where he was arrested. tensions flared between police and demonstrators for a 4th consecutive day this is in the u.k. over recently proposed protests legislation the bill was introduced after police had dispersed a vigil for sarah everett last saturday that was for flouting cope with

restrictions for 23 year old was found dead earlier this month and a police officer charged with her murder in new legislation gives more powers to police during demonstrations allowing them to impose noise and time limits on rallies but so far it's only served to fuel tension. home secretary defended the bill saying that it's needed to prevent more lives being lost during the pandemic. and speaking to arties going underground show american actress rose mcgowan said new protests legislation should not be passed during a pandemic you can watch the full interview tomorrow here's a preview. the way cressida dick and her police force have handled violence against women and violence against our ever art is violence against humans because i'm assuming you're probably the man in natural cast as well i would hope so it is it's unconscionable it's unconscionable it's wrong and what boris johnson is trying to pass under the guise of one white house is absurd it's

taken lee absurd and we all can see what it is it's about keeping women in tech in his down so we know that crimes against women in general aren't taken seriously and instead of cleaning up her own house crescents yes response is to connect more violence against well in fairness to the british government which denies its police bill is anything to do it that she she said that well the government says there's going to be an inquiry and she said it's easy for people in their armchairs to watch the pictures being beamed around the world and not realize and understand what was really going on there. well i personally have been and involved intro checks where the police have cracked down and i understand what's going on there and sometimes the camera does show exactly what's going on in this case there's always some reason to sustain that and they can slash their lives the reality is i

should be able to walk down the street naked i could get arrested for that certainly but nobody's allowed to bring sexual harassment saji does not just when it's all of us. coming up in just a moment in what might feel like a blast from the past the u.s. intelligence alleges russia muddled the 2020 likes and this time the kremlin says the claims are groundless we dive deeper after the break. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

sort of it back here we are facebook executives been caught on tape raising the

alarm over the amount of power the tech giant is wielding in an undercover video released by investigative journalism group project veritas facebook's global planning lead even suggested or 30 should intervene. in the new system. it's a better thing for the world might look. forward to when they would to. be made let's follow him he will kill you through the word the ruler of 2000000 people . what runs out of order was the issue. that's to worthing for the holy shit still. he should not have power over jesus. just. we have facebook to comment on that project veritas video will keep you updated if and when they respond in the meantime

distrusting big tech appears to be on the rise 15 states and territories have joined an anti trust lawsuit filed against google and facebook by texas it accuses them of manipulating the online ad market google denies that claim facebook has around 2800000000 active users it makes it the largest social network in the world it's acquired a number of companies to over the years think through what's up oculus and instagram company's revenue last year was roughly $85000000000.00 its current worth over $720000000000.00 we talked big tech with dr michael rector involved. it shows that they know what kind of power these big tech companies wield and facebook in particular in this case wields enormous influence and power over politics they had a tremendous impact over the american presidential election and they say they intend to continue to have that kind of power over the political system so it tells

me that if insiders know about this and they're contrasting it out right then it's certainly the case and this is not some sort of a conspiracy theory that's an open conspiracy to him to effect enormous control over the popular. new administration same old meddling allegations though another u.s. intelligence report claims russia tried to sway a u.s. election the same report though says there was no evidence of vote manipulation moscow denies the allegations the documents prepared by the u.s. intelligence community is another set of groundless accusations against our country of interfering in american internal political processes washington continues to practice megaphone diplomacy with the main goal to maintain a negative image of russia the report also claims russia carried out an influence campaign to denigrate joe biden to support donald trump to undermine election confidence and stoke social divisions it didn't however provide any concrete

evidence to back up the allegations made reports citing official sources say the white house is considering more russian sanctions are in for a former vice chair of the libertarian party says we've heard it all before. it's just like with any advertising or just like when you have when you have any movie once you have a bunch of fans of a movie right no matter how stupid the movie is if there's a lot of people who like that movie what do you do you have a sequel and when you have a drama that was like this laughably stupid in 2016 but a lot of people got into it and your goal is to you know sell some silly story to the american public of course you would have a sequel that's just that's just basic kind of storytelling marketing common sense it would be the 1st time it's something that they've done repeatedly that when they want to you know either either create a direct conflict with a country or to increase military spending with the threat of a conflict with other countries they're going to try to vilify that country realistically politically speaking if that evidence was really strong and really

present that's exactly the type of thing that they would want to bring to the attention the american people not because they have the interest the american people and their hearts but because they could use that as an excuse to create fear you know raise taxes to get in the way to get in front on civil liberties while it theoretically could be classified the the chances that that type of information would be classified that way basically 0. the debate over whether to give up eating meat has seen 2 u.s. states going head to head in a brusque aggressively declared a probe day after neighboring colorado announced a mint for one. that's right. life raft.

if you were you mean you are you would be better but you're already going to work hard for. her health. also it's like you're our state park. colorado said may 25th would be mishaps day and prescott responded by declaring it meets on the menu day and this guy states carnivorous culture was a joy as this and a much purity competition i just ate a peanut butter sandwich as a tribute to pete these guys need to settle dead. why are people continuing to like children. some people who are v guinn or vegetarian are so heavy handed

and so obstreperous is sometimes rude that we're creating this this battle between meat eaters and those who aren't and it's sad how do you explain to somebody whose family is in the cattle business that there were people who want to put them out of business there is such contempt between carnivores and vegetarians if i go out to eat i say well i think i'm going to have and they say what you are not a you're not one of those v good things are you you're not a vegetarian. and immediately i go through the question and answer with 3rd degree what are you going don't you know you need protein. and that brings you rather to that thanks so much for your company watching on t international about the dates at the top of the hour.

we're told the deal jay's capital it right investigation is one of the largest in american history the f.b.i. has made it clear it will not leave one stone unturned to prosecute what it calls domestic terrorists all of us want answers surrounding this event but is this also a purging of trump loyalists. seem wrong when all rolls just don't. mean you get to shape out these days because that's ok and engagement equals betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

this is boom bust the one business show you can't afford it some brands are born in washington coming up to global vaccine rollout well underway the process has seen some speed bump straight ahead we dive into the latest and later we bring in a pail to break down how markets are faring of the fed federal open market committee meets to discuss the state of the u.s. economy back show today so let's dive right in. and we lead the program with the latest regarding astra zeneca in oxford university is embattled cope at 19 vaccine after a handful of member states suspended use of the drug due to issues related to blood clots the executive director of the european medicines agency says it is

investigating the link between the vaccine and these health issues but of course we know that many people many thousands of people develop blood on your the in the new for many different reasons so what we call our expert committee to do is to stop this whether there might be a cause the relationship between that box and nations these events so while the investigation is ongoing we are currently we are still firmly convinced that the benefits of the job the senate have vaccine in preventing poke at 19 when it's a good critic of hospitalized patients that outweighed the risk of the side effects and these comments from the blocks drug related come as officials from belgium and the united kingdom have said they will continue use of the back seat but we're going to get even with the evidence all regulator the n.h.l. ray is very clear that actually inside it people should take the news a regulator.