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just after 8 in the evening here in. march the 17th welcome to the program. in a t.v. interview the u.s. president joe biden agreed when questioned the russian leader vladimir putin is a killer my colleagues. talk through that statement more from what was said earlier . well this isn't just strong this is very serious this doesn't look just like an insult not just like a groundbreaking phrase because in the diplomatic sense really this could potentially be a catastrophe for u.s. russia relations but it's also very important to look at the actual wording to look at how joe biden said this and what context so it wasn't actually his own phrase it

was a response to a question from a journalist so you know vladimir putin you think he's a killer. or do so what price must he pay for pray she's going to pay well you'll see shortly it was originally an escalation from the journalists he put that question out directly using the world the word sorry killer and as you can see the u.s. media is at it again this is what they want to do they don't want vague phrases about the russian leaders they want labels and no matter who that is in the oval office they wanted from donald trump now they want it from joe biden but at this point it is absolutely clue crucial to understand what the kremlin's response is going to be what if president putin and his team decide that the u.s. leader crossed the line by making this personal insult what if they

choose not to turn a blind eye what if this rails the entire prospect of a mean thing between the russian and u.s. leaders because to be honestly i don't remember any other u.s. the george w. bush donald trump making that kind of statement against vladimir putin so this is definitely unprecedented initially in the sort of weeks of biden's relationship there was a long conversation was in there between biden and peyton well nobody expected mush . improvement to be fair with the arrival of joe biden but there are always there's always hope when the handover in the white house many of the predicted that things could even get worse with a democrat president and charge but for a while we weren't hearing much about russian meddling things like russian hackers

like you were saying at least there was a phone conversation between the 2 joe biden and a lot of our putin and the 2 decided to leave the new start treaty in place was he paying the price for i mean i haven't really gone into details have they about the accusations the reports of meddling in the reports that he's a killer but in terms of substantiate he was true as a journalist probably the 1st thing that i asked joe biden why exactly is latimer putin a killer and what is he going to pay the price for so apparently this is also something that has to do with the latest u.s. intelligence report where it said that vladimir putin was overseeing another meddling scheme and we're not talking about the 26th election we're talking about the latest u.s. presidential election says that russian president putin also rise in a range of russian government organizations conducted influence operations aimed at

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 u.s. what russia wants to get as usual is proof and explanation how russia meddled how did the u.s. intelligence community come to that conclusion so here's a statement from the russian embassy in america. 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 again the question is what's next what the reaction from the quantum level is going to be we're definitely waiting for that and also we

are looking at potential sanctions because from several sources in the white house it's been reported that they are saying that a new round of punishment against russia could be on the way the department of commerce is committed to prevent in russia from accessing sensitive u.s. technology that might be diverted to its more and chemical weapons activities by deploying illegal nor agence against dissidents both inside and outside its borders the russian government has acted in flagrant violation of its commitments under the chemical weapons convention and has directly put its own citizens and those of other countries at mortal risk so could this be a coincidence these statements by joe biden in that also the intelligence report we will find out possibly in the next hours maybe in the next few days or guess we spoke to believe such harsh rhetoric has really become the norm for russian despite the language use there's nothing really extraordinary behind. 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 and all the old anti russia hands like a yet in turkey in the who's now of course the white house spokesman a spokes person or victoria nuland from the 2014 ukraine crisis all these people have been bought straight back in so so dangerous game which yet biden 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 there is no end in sight to this but mr biden is very careful in everything he said he said one and the other not to close these options and the doors president but mention the fact that he talked for a long time to president putin in january they know each other and so you know this

is you need to be to dance and. they know each other well they still want both of them to denuclearize the the plantain and to reduce the nuclear risk which is very evident to everybody everywhere and so that's a good point if they go further there will be thinner cathal about oil about we need to bow to you not that they don't want to get involved into a. war of sanctions that go too far in terms of economics they still want to sell to russia and to to buy things from russia so it will only be probably gesticulations you know individuals that will be punished. the e.u. commissioner has proposed to create a digital green certificate that would allow european citizens who've been vaccinated against cove it to travel across the block without having to quarantine

on arrival at the controversial move comes following pressure from tourism reliance states r.t. charlotte didn't ski has the story. the european commission outlining on monday that its member states need to look at a common approach now to easing restrictions put in place by the kovac 19 pandemic this is going to come in the sense of a framework which will look at things such as vaccination tests and also look at those who've been able to recover from the virus this is going to come in the form of a digital green certificate and the idea is to reestablish the freedom of movement across the block that is seems a fundamental right here in europe this is what the european commission president. had to say with this digital certificate to health member states reinstate the freedom of movement in a safe responsible and trusted manner we're told that the data will be protected so

there will be security around that but countries will be able to collect information all of those who are coming into the territory this proof will then be waiver restrictions restrictions such as quarantine. testing that are currently in place but those restrictions will only be obligatory for that seems they've already been approved by may when this comes into force but as we know many european countries have just signed it up all the routes because of the slow vaccine rollout here and they are using the chinese vaccine and also the russian vaccine noise are of which have yet been approved in the now we're told that it will be up to individual states whether they would accept vaccines from countries all from areas that have companies that haven't yet. approved. the vaccine we know that is currently. in medicals agency poor approval one of the commission's she's

talking at a press conference on wednesday this is here in britain had this to say about the vaccine. because if. we could have any reason to talk about the way. to. make sure the truth would be able to have an agreement we see vaccines have already provoked a lot of skepticism here within the e.u. but we also know that there's been a lot of grumbles about the idea of this sort of green digital set to fit from many countries it was pushed by countries who really rely on tourism ads in the mix there is the current question over the astra zeneca vaccine as we know the european metals agencies do to rule on thursday whether that vaccine is safe or not if they

decided that yes does that make a vaccine could be used in the future that possibly could raise a question about those individuals who've already had the shot and whether then they would be able to participate in this vaccine at this digital pass all nor so really still a lot of questions to be. said before this digital green pass comes into force around mid june. millions of britons in need of hospital treatment being forced to wait for months due to the crisis and u.k. hospitals are now warning they may have to cut more services. funding is made available new data revealed 4600000 people were any chance waiting lists at the end of january it is the highest number since records began in 2007 and more than 300000 have already waited a year or more to start hospital treatment gregory metcalf is one of the patients

who has been waiting for surgery. i'm very much does it kill pain 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 so the 40 or 50 times is very physically painful but i was very shocked as well to find out about the surgeries would be called hope these. are all types that are not life threatening i really don't know of a donor who's asked the employees of us. local authorities or the hospital but nobody seems to know i feel like the government needs to get more than the pocket. just obviously needs lots of money for the people on waiting lists for the surgeries some are specifically meaning kovi patients some more talking about people like myself that are waiting surgeries and all kinds of medical 'd

attention surgeries that what we've got and then at the moment when a chance management say it's hot suppose need 8000000000 pounds of additional funding to cover their day to day running costs that were thought that hefty influx the n.h.s. may have to further postpone known 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 speaker 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 one another though 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 elation 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 of crisis you know when the n.h.s. thought it was the world's 1st sort of pay 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 i mean now the cracks definitely are exposed and something really has to be

done i think. first thing in the country britain's foreign secretary don't like rob is under scrutiny after a leaked audio recording reveals him saying the u.k. should strike trade deals with nations even if they have question for human rights standards shall be adverse dusty has been looking deeper into the story. united kingdom is apparently facing its greatest threat since the cold war that is in calling to the foreign secretary dominic roth who is now warning the britain is heading towards a decades where and which democracy is in retreat apparently because upcoming economic powers like that of china are increasing its global dominance in the world in fact it seems as though the united kingdom's own position in the international world order is now under threat democracy is in retreat. this decade the combined g.d.p. of or to critic regimes is expected to exceed the combined g.d.p. of the world's democracy now the government has been accused of saying one thing

and doing another and that comes as a leaked all to fall was revealed to the public in the public domain where in which the foreign secretary could be heard saying that the u.k. should actually do trade deals with countries that have a huge track record of human rights abuses i believe we ought to be trading liberally around the world if we restrict it to countries with the european convention on human rights level standards of human rights we're not going to do many trade deals with the growth markets of the future to contextualize all of this of course the united kingdom's place in the world has long been defined by its relationship with america and indeed a europe of course now we are in a post britain so the united kingdom is having to look past europe further afield into other areas of the globe especially when it comes to things like trade it's all part of the u.k.'s mission to project a global britain we hope with the foreign secretary dominic robb admitting that trading prospects actually could be done with the so-called enemies human rights

groups are now hitting back accusing the government of gross hypocrisy this apparent willingness to sacrifice human rights at the altar of trade is shocking but certainly unsurprising it fits a depression pattern on human rights from these government trade is obviously important to all nations but the foreign secretary shouldn't be thrown human rights defenders to the wharf like this while the government has actually defended dominic robb's comments saying that this leaked order far was actually clipped and actually distorted the truth but we've also heard from the opposition party the labor party hitting out saying that dominic rob's comments behind closed doors actually completely undermined their public statements at the same time but it's not just dominic rob who has been accused long before of turning a blind eye to human rights abuses but saying something else publicly. we made good on the pledge bringing to force the united kingdom's 1st thomas human rights sanctions regime which gives us the power to impose sanctions on the on those

involved in the very worst human rights abuses right around the world so when it comes to the big security and human rights challenges of our time we need this our united nations to forge a bold new multilateralism so when it comes to championing human rights across the world it seems like the united kingdom can talk the talk but can't quite walk the walk but this week it really does feel as though britain is going through some sort of existential identity crisis so now it's trying to reposition itself on the international world stage and reassert its global dominance but it seems like it will do that at any cost. precedented viewer the kremlin has branded pressure on countries to stop using russia's sputnik the vaccine the remarks come after the u.s. department of health published a report which boasted tried to dissuade brazil from using the russian job with

more on the story here senior correspondent. we've all heard the bat bags do deals to secure the shipment of 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 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 to see 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 needs people a boosting that they help prevent inoculations in brazil with one of the objective of the an 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. 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 v. 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 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 new threats to national security there apparently but brazilians vaccinating themselves with brute nick god forbid no no no america car and 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 why i gree 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 us doesn't like that it's them that are being punished it's the people that they're friends with brazilians who will potentially not receive a life saving job so we're fishelson washington can go to sleep at night feeling good and safe does the have taken us through the well despite its

admission in the report the us department of health says it cannot comment on vaccines and also approved by the nation's food and drug administration and won't pressure countries from using drugs they have authorized themselves split the bill is still awaiting approval in brazil less a 3rd wave of coronavirus infection sweeps across europe leading to countries further tightening restrictions the world health organization has published a critical report highlighting flaws in the of the pandemic. the covered 900 pandemic has thrown into sharp relief the inequalities and deep fault lines that exist in many societies it has revealed that our existing health financial economic and social care systems well prepared and poorly equipped to address cyrus callie to affect 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're 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. 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 had immunity in a few weeks one of those would like fall behind ultimately though this report points out what went wrong on tie 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 that

this pilot demick thing quite a few people will be saying yeah we know. ok another story to update you on tensions have flared between police and demonstrators in the u.k. for a 4th consecutive day over recently proposed protest legislation that's going through that the bill was introduced after police dispersed a vigil for sarah everett last saturday for flighting covert restrictions and several 33 year old was found dead earlier this month police officer subsequently been charged with her murder now the new legislation gives more powers to police during demonstrations allowing them to impose noise and time limits on release however so far it's only serve to fuel and it's the u.k. home secretary defended the bill saying it will protect people during the. well talking to our teams going on in show american actress rose mcgowan questioned

why be u.k. government is trying to pass protest legislation during a make you can watch the full interview on r t throughout the day but here's a snippet of the way credit jane and her. police force have handled violence against women and violence against our ever are is violence against humanity because i'm assuming you're probably the man in natural chest as well i would hope so it is isn't hunching of all it's unconscionable it's wrong and what boris johnson is trying to pass under the guise of coronavirus is absurd it's taking only absurd and we all can see what it is it is about keeping women in their games down so we know that crimes against women in general aren't taken seriously and instead of cleaning up our own house crescent index 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

while 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 heavily 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 shame slash certain like 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 greet me in sexual harassment massage he does not just when it's all us. lots are a lot for an hour from the new studio here in moscow but scott i know is standing by in washington with another news views hughes that starts

a moment. it . seems wrong. to me. to shape out. active. and engaged in. the trail. when so many worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. while the barbed wire and barricades around the united states capitol there seems to be a last members of the national guard.