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saying it's business as usual with. pleasure. to the u.s. to moscow to discuss a future diplomatic ties with washington. for a t.v. interview president biden agreed when questioned the russian leader vladimir putin is a killer my colleague. statement more. oh

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 pray she's going to pay will 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 the rails the entire prospect of a mean thing between the russian and u.s. leaders because to me honestly i don't remember any other u.s. the george w. bush brought the donald trump making that kind of statement against vladimir putin so this is definitely unprecedented initially in the opening 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 they're 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 with 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's 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 authorized 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're 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 mind 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 his 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 well guess we spoke to think harsh rhetoric even of the kind of a stream words the personal words used by biden has now become the norm when it comes to russia. 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 sucky in the who is now of course the white house spokesman spokes person or victoria nuland from the 24000 ukraine crisis all these people have been bought straight back in so so the dangerous game which yes it 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 you know and so 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 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 finicky careful about oil about we need to bow to you not that they don't want to get involved into a. war off 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 individual stuff will be punished. to another of the day's headlines stories the e.u. commission has proposed to create a digital green certificate that would allow european citizens who've been vaccinated against cobra to travel across the block without having to quarantine on arrival of a controversial move comes following pressure mainly from tourism reliant states are to charlotte 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 bloc that is a fundamental right here in europe this is what the european commission president. had to say with this digital certificate to help the 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 decided to open all the routes because of the slow vaccine rollout here and they are using the chinese vaccine also the russian vaccine noise or 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 this vaccine we know that is currently being revealed by the european medicals agency 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 don't have a. way. to. show the truth there could be a bill to have an agreement with 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 medical agency's due to rule on thursday whether that vaccine is safe or not if it decided that the extras and 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. let's stay with this story and cross to paros to speak to lawyer for the voice. good to see you the idea of colbert certificates

it's a controversial one isn't it a lot of issues surrounding like to fuck to force vaccinations for healthy people expense duration of effect of this do more variance mean yet more jobs etc without in mind do you think the proposal is going to be parsed through regardless . well thank you good afternoon well this digital green set if you get looks like a european union tendency because in fact. we have to wonder ourselves many questions 1st isn't it too soon to propose kind of passport like that because we have no distance to see it the vaccines are fine against the new values so they want to set up these passport was no answer from the cent if you question 1st so going there is a big matter for me as a lawyer because in fact it's the commission would like to to impose this kind of

vaccination passport and did they ask any question to the people of the 27 countries making these european unity these european union this is one there is it's a very important question of our low our rights and is not is it not. in that tent to our freedom of movement of force for for their european citizens it should be pointed out as well that not all states agree to such a system but are they going to have a choice. you know what i would shows the european union is very. very tough it's you don't have too much choice in fight i think united kingdom and just to dump them the this is why they're met the brits see it and that he'd sign with the vaccines with the nica on the senate because. these vaccines.

have been a big you don't have any kind of problems in in fact i have heard that the vaccine they started the nica was met in belgium and the problem could be from the belgium vaccine met in europe so. in fact this kind of my support is too soon and is not going in the in the spirit of the. if it is made a reality couldn't a uy vaccine passport alpha phi social inequality as well well in fact i think your european commission interfere too much in the freedom of the people in europe and in fact we need time and because there is another question regarding these passports if they propose these passports i know that means we have to have to live a long time with the barriers and. that something they should say before to impose

any kind of bus point for for travelling over europe yeah i was just saying you know there's been a lot of issues in the e.u. just getting people vaccinated you know they want to perhaps out in what would be a huge bureaucratic rollout across these many countries in the super state i can forsee a number of problems without alone. yes yes but you know. you can't afford to. give an example if you can't you have to remember to refresh my mind that we don't need was a disaster and europe was not there we have russia we have china to help italy in the 1st strike of the virus over. europe was not there and then we can see all the mess we have with the vaccine the vaccine the common for all the

countries in france the they have to go through europe to buy the vaccines and in fact where our lack of vaccine or good creation so i think we can see that your europe in europe is a failure for all these kind of issues well it's going to be a big question over the next days and weeks for sure a phillipe divorce lawyer speaking to us from paris thank you for your take you millions of 'd britons in need of hospital treatment helping forced to wait for months june to the covert crisis and the u.k. hospitals are now warning they may have to cut more services unless additional funding is made available let's go through this story new data revealing some 4600000 people on n.h.s. waiting list at the end of january it is the highest number since records began in 2007 more than 300000 have a ready within a year or longer to start hospital treatment gregory metcalf is one of the patients

to surgery date keeps being pushed back. i'm very much in sickle 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 types of all types are not life threatening i really don't know of a donor who's asked 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 list for the surgeries some are specifically meaning covert 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 in them at the moment with any chance management saves hospitals need 8000000000 pounds of additional funding to cover day to day running costs without that hefty influx the n.h.s. may have to further postpone non-life threatening operations where 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 it's 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 the keeper 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 huge 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 of crisis you know when the n.h.s. started 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 but i mean now the cracks definitely are exposed and something really has to

be done i think. well let's keep focus on britain foreign secretary dominic rob he's under scrutiny after a leaked audio recording revealed in saying the u.k. should strike trade deals with nations even if they have low human rights standards shoddy edward she has been looking deeper into. 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 in 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 but 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 depressing 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 and severe belt so the kremlin has branded pressure on countries to stop using russia's sputnik we've seen the remarks come after the u.s. department of health published a report which boasts it tried to dissuade brazil from using the russian job

digging into this here's her senior correspondent. we've all heard the bat back door deals to secure the shipment countries trampling each other to get those precious jobs these says the 1st star we've heard of backdoor 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 that is 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 qubit 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 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 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 knew 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 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 coronavirus 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 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 fishes and washington can go to sleep at night feeling good and safe. it's admission in the report the u.s.

department of health say it cannot comment on vaccines notes approved by the nation's food and drug administration. is still awaiting approval in brazil. or reminder for up to the moment midweek developments our twitter page keep up to date by giving us a full you know neal goodbye from. join me every. time i'm sure. i'm sure i'll see if.

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