it's a huge cash register that is ran by people who don't care about people's lives being lost. breaking news an arctic joe biden vice landing that paid the price for moscow's alleged election meddling and degrees where now the russian president is. also to come to you most of digital code because it's difficult to allow free travel between member states and the u.s. department of health admits pressuring brazil not to adopt russia's covert vaccine all in the name of american safety and security also this hour a few u.k. hospitals that they could start cutting move unless they get billions in support with a pandemic already stretching n.h.s. waiting lists.

for him or scare you watching our international stars i was breaking news because in an interview with t.v. in t.v. the u.s. president joe biden as agreed when questioned that russian leader vladimir putin is a killer so let's get more in what was said now and what with it is. good afternoon just. the significance of what was said and put it into some context for us well this is incredible it's amazing it's clearly an insult but it's not just an insult it's not groundbreaking phrase in the diplomatic sense that could prove to be a catastrophe and at this point it is crucial to wait for the reaction from the kremlin to wait for what putin and his team have to say what if president putin and his administration decide that this was the u.s. . president crossing some kind of red line what if they decide not to turn

a blind eye on this personal insult this really puts contacts direct contacts between the u.s. and russian leaders in jeopardy but also something that's very important here is the actual wording and the actual details of that conversation between the a.b.c. journalist and joe biden so once again i just want you to take a look because it wasn't biden's own phrase it was an answer to a question you know vladimir putin you think he's a killer. or do so what price must he pay pray she's going to pay well you'll see shortly. so again as you can see this was an escalation from the journalist so the us media is at it again they don't want a vague statements about the russian leaders from their own leaders what they want is labels so this was a direct question is he

a killer but regardless of that the answer from joe biden was yes and i can tell you that i don't remember presidents like george w. bush or barack obama or donald trump ever using these kind of words against vladimir putin so this is truly unprecedented and again like i said this puts their personal contacts in jeopardy so how should we assess their relationship then joe biden and peter because at the start of his presidency things seemed to be on a positive note they did have a long conversation we are back in january well every time there's a new man in the white house we always waiting for some kind of a new start some kind of a new page while i understand that you shouldn't really be you should really think that things improved right away but at least the you know the presidents always

want some kind of new good start and we were member they had a long phone conversation we remember that the new start treaty which is a very important nonproliferation agreement that was extended for 3 years without any long conversations still though we heard from the russian side for example remember lot of reports press secretary dimitri pascal saying that for now there really aren't any prospects for for a personal meeting between these 2 so this is something that needs to be prepared this is something. that needs to be worked on for a very long time and like i was saying. are you a little earlier what if the kremlin takes this is a personal insult what if they say that this just isn't right for these 2 people to talk or to meet after hearing that. a lot of our putin is

a killer and joe biden said so as a journalist i would definitely ask joe biden if he really meant what he meant and when he also said that mr putin was going to pay the price for it. paying the price for what for being a killer or for that intelligence report that came out a little earlier and just to remind you that once again we heard from the american intelligence community about meddling but it wasn't meddling in the 2016 elections it was meddling in the 2020 elections so they're out of again they're talking about again the u.s. media over and over again but let's just take a listen to a bit of that report that i mentioned says that russian president putin also rise to a range of russian government organizations conducted influence operations aimed denigrating president biden's candidacy and the democratic policy supporting the

former president trump undermining public confidence in the electoral process and exacerbating satiate political divisions in the us. so it seemed that following the inauguration with all the joy among the ranks of the democratic party and their supporters they seem to forget about that meddling interference rhetoric for a while and in that sense also the prospects of improve ties between moscow. and washington looked a bit promising but as you can see we're coming back to that again and the russian diplomats are saying that this is the reaction that we've been. we're hearing from them for quite some time they are saying that this is groundless and again what they want is they want to see proof of what the u.s. government is calling direct attempts ordered by the russian government to meddle

in the u.s. election 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. so like i was saying what i would like to hear right now is something from the russian president possibly maybe from his press secretary because this is something that they're clearly going to have to react to and then they will understand what will see what's going on from there also we have to look at this in the context of potential sanctions against russia because we've been hearing from sources in the white house that a new wave a new round of anti russian sanctions could be on the way maybe that's

a coincidence maybe not we don't know at this point that that this is what we'll find out in the next few days or maybe even hours and maybe at night we'll get some sort of reaction from the kremlin ok we'll leave it there thanks any that was artie's in the protests. ok with. me jonathan he's a university lecturer in history am politics science in paris you very welcome thanks for coming on john are you surprised that joe biden has come out and said that he thinks peyton is a killer. no really no i'm not surprised because the way the american political system works is that when there is a change of president in the white house particularly when there's a change between one party and the other all the stuff and all the as it were ministers and other people involved in the old administration simply go into think tanks and into other para governmental organizations they wait their

time they wait for the 4 years and then when the pendulum then swings back in their direction as it did in the united states following the presidency of donald trump they're all able to hit the ground running because in the intervening 4 years they've been doing nothing except preparing their return and we've heard the expression deep state used a lot during the trump presidency well it's a reality but it's not the deep state it's the state in other words it's the state department it's the pentagon and above all i would say it's the congress all those organs of state plus of course the intelligence agencies but all those organs of of the american state not even the deep state have been baying for russian blood as we know throughout the trump presidency obviously the whole russia gate business which dragged on for years but they are also looking forward in time these people who are obviously in a majority in the american administration in the in the part that doesn't change

they're looking forward as we know from the sanctions bill the exercise extraterritorial sanctions bill that they passed when trump was still president last year in 2020 preventing european companies from building the north stream 2 gas pipeline that bell which forced trump's hand had massive cross party support so i interpret this. latest outburst. by biden in that context i think that they are absolutely determined both biden and the majority in the congress to prevent not stream 2 from being completed and as you know there are only a few kilometers left to build an ai and i think it's in that specific context that we need to understand this latest up as a is not a dangerous game to play that way because they really limit the impact of saying such a thing. of course i think it's a dangerous game but it's groundhog day isn't it is like this all the time trump

was a brief respite from it because he didn't say things like that against russia instead he turned his hostility towards china where we know that biden is pro chinese in february biden made a long apology of chinese totalitarianism saying that china needed to remain coherent and cohesive internally in order not to fall prey to foreign pressure from outside so so biden is well known and talks of course the whole links through his son hunter biden is well known for his friends list to china and for his hostility to russia i mean all the old anti russia hands like saki in the who's now of course the white house spokesman spokes person or or victoria nuland from the 2014 ukraine crisis all these people have been bought straight back in so so the dangerous game which yes it is playing these people have been playing it for years and they intend

to carry on playing it for years to come for as long as they can and there is no end in sight to this. what we haven't had a response from the kremlin yet what sort of response would you expect and we have to also underline there are many big issues where the u.s. and russia would like to cooperate. well there are many issues where russia would like to cooperate but i'm not sure if there are very many where the united states wants to cooperate with russia it's difficult to predict what the reaction will be i suppose my guess is that it will be rather muted that's been the whole mark of russian diplomacy now for a very long time under the influence of love are off but also thanks to peskov who's already made a few remarks about these latest accusations concerning meddling in the 2020 alexion they tend to be rather understated whether russia can make any other kind of major. response is difficult to say in

a way russia has already been doing it including for example by developing these hypersonic missiles which are intended to overcome the problem posed by the end of the so-called anti missile shield so i suspect that russia will probably react in an understated way to this particular provocation but will continue with its long term strategy of defending itself as much as it can for these attacks which as i say i think are likely to continue for the foreseeable future yeah i mean i said many john but if you look at it you're right there aren't that many but one in particular i was looking at was the nuclear proliferation treaty i mean do you think they are in jeopardy. well of course they're in jeopardy because the united states withdrew from the last year under trump's presidency but the thing about a story not last year i think in in 29000 but the the. the thing about trump was

trump as we realized after a year or so had a very special way of behaving he word as it were go into a room he would say all kinds of absolutely outrageous things he would flounce out of the room and he would leave everyone wondering what on earth he was what on earth he meant and how how terrible he had been and so on and then he would come back later and smooth things over he did it with north korea you remember he called kim jong un rocket man before going to meet him twice he did it repeatedly he was if i'm not mistaken he was quite aggressive at one point against. what he was he was famously aggressive of course against iran but then you know shortly afterwards he would say well we want to do a deal with the iranians i don't think that's true unfortunately and biden i think his remarks when they are aggressive as they have been in this case they're not a tactic they are instead. a much though it took quite the opposite they are an announcement of what he intends to do in policy. ok john fascinating good to talk

to you we have to leave it at that don't run university lecturer in history and political science in paris thanks very much. now the commission has proposed to create a digital green certificate that would allow european citizens to travel across the block without having to quarantine on arrival the move comes following pressure from tourism reliant states that have been heavily affected by the pandemic so let's get more information at and go to paris to speak to all of these days about this charlotte what more then do we know about this new scheme that's being put forward. well the e.u. members have been told to prepare for a coleman approach a common approach to lifting covert restrictions across the bloc now that will be including a framework which will look at things such as vaccination testing for covert 19 and

also the recovery of people who have had the virus is going to come in this digital green pass that you mentioned there something that we've heard talk of now for the last few months up pressure coming from certain countries that are really reliant on tourism it's now something that's being adopted by the 27 members of the block and the idea is to make it easier to level the playing field and facilitate. freedom of movement which is seen as a fundamental right here in the e.u. this is what commission president von delenn had to say. with this digital certificate that we aim to help the member states reinstate the freedom of movement in a safe responsible and trusted manner. so it's due to come into force around to mid june of this year it will be in a paper or a digital format and it will come in with a q.r. code so that it can be easily scanned the data we're told will be protected for the

individuals but territories will be able to gather information about those individuals who are coming into their territory now the idea is that member states would therefore accept this it difficult as being proof that somebody didn't have. such they wouldn't be required to quarantine or even to have more tests but that would only be obligatory for the vaccines that have been approved by the european medicals agency this is the e m a now so far as we know there are only 4 vaccines that have received really light from me but there are countries across europe that are using other vaccines some countries in eastern europe are using the chinese vaccine and the russian the vaccine now we heard today from the e.u. commissioner of the internal market bret on that he thought that sputnik was a very good vaccine and he wanted to see the e.u.

looking at aid its production here but so far it hasn't been approved now it's up to the individual states across the e.u. whether they would therefore accept any vaccine that hadn't been approved by mid june but there is a problem here because the commission today talked about this being norm discriminatory about the fundamental rights of individuals fundamental right in europe is that freedom of movement now if certain states do not accept vaccines that haven't yet been approved by the way then that is a bit of a sticky subject and could some say lead to discrimination now there is also another issue we know that there has been a lot of vaccine skepticism here in the e.u. and there's also been skepticism of this idea did still pass or a passport vaccine people unhappy by the i. dear of but. there's also this question about the astra zeneca watching waiting for the e m a to make a decision will thursday as to whether it will continue to stand by that vaccine or

not if it decided that the astra zeneca vaccine should no longer be used here in europe then where would that leave the millions of people who have already received that vaccine would be therefore be subjected to the additional restrictions or not we don't yet know but we do know that this is an incredibly difficult subject the e.u. commission has decided to ditch to princeton if it is the way forward but they will be countries who are resistive to that. we will ok thank you charlotte been reporting to us from france. now unprecedented in harsh that's how the kremlin has branded pressure on countries to stop using russia's v vaccine the remarks cain after the u.s. department of health published a report which boasted try to dissuade brazil from using the russian job with more on this story his. we've all heard that but deals to secure

the shipment countries trampling each other to get those precious jobs these says 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 drop. 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 clearance plane 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 qubit 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 inoculation 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 well darden 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 knows this is a pandemic that is threatening and killing people equally. the threat to mankind it is above politics saving and we're talking here about medians 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 coronavirus but also to take advantage of the pandemic to punish governments they don't like i'm not sure gree with the russian foreign minister yes they are politicizing vaccination politicizing lives that's obvious but i'm not entirely sure that the countries that the us 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 life saving job so we're fishes in washington can go to sleep at night feeling good and safe or despite his admission in the report the u.s. department of health says it cannot comment on vaccines not approved by the f.d.a. and cannot pressure countries from using the drugs they have authorized themselves

spending v.-day are still awaiting approval in brazil. it is a britain's in need of hospital treatment have been forced to wait for months due to the crisis in u.k. hospitals and i warning tim that they could be forced to cut more services unless they get additional funding new data reveals 4600000 people were on n.h.s. waiting lists at the end of january it is the highest number since records began in 2007 more than 300000 have already waited a year or more to start hospital treatment gregory metcalf is one of the patients he's been waiting for surgery are very much residual code because obviously and is even will sure the dislocation is very serious injury and codes will so so have gone through so many like 30 even more so now probably so the

thought of this is very physically popo but 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 do a lot of i don't know who's just asked. of us. local authorities hospital nobody seems to know i feel like the government needs to get more than not out the pocket or. just obviously needs lots of money for the people on waiting lists for the surgeries some are specifically really covert operations some more talking about people like myself that are waiting surgeries and all kinds of medical 'd attention surgeries but what we've got in them at the moment well n.h.s. management says that hospitals need $8000000000.00 pounds of additional funding to cover their day to day running cost and without this the n.h.s. may have to respond non-life threatening operations however an n.h.s.

doctor told us why further delays will lead to unnecessary suffering and even death . who knows how much they're spending they say something like 27000000000 on on the testing which many people think in many cases it's just money that is not not being spent wisely and we have to catch up with the medical issues i mean speaking for is a personal issue i have a knee problem from a long term injury and my my operation. suspended at the moment is 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 but if you're not detecting cancers if you're not having these operations they become life threatening down the line we have less than any use for a population i think this is true in most any other western european country.

and that's one of the reasons why we had such a disaster at the start to cover crisis you know when the n.h.s. started it was the world's 1st sort of a for health service return at the. point of contact and that was the. thing and most people want to see that continued much as possible the reality is it hasn't kept pace and another reality is that people just kind of thought it's all ok because it's never really broken like this before but i mean now the cracks definitely are exposed and something really has to be done i think there's a 3rd wave of crime of arson factions went across europe at the moment forcing countries to tight restrictions the world health organization has published a critical report highlighting the flaws in the handling of the pandemic. it has revealed that our existing health financial economic and social care systems were

ill prepared and poorly equipped to address sars corvee 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 rollouts 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 conditions that allow 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 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 this 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 fall behind ultimately though this report points out what went wrong on thai lights that not

a great deal has been done to stop the same mistakes being made again for those who say you've been watching what's going on with the european union when it comes to this pile demick thing quite a few people have been saying yeah we know all of the reports and they just come hot pos for moscow we're back again at the top of the. show seemed wrong. just don't call. me. yet to say power is the answer. and in the game equals betrayal.