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business as usual even with those nations. human rights. to the world this is our to international pleasure of your company. russia summoned its u.s. ambassador to moscow to discuss future diplomatic ties with washington in response to a t.v. interview where president biden agreed when question that the russian leader vladimir putin. the foreign ministry gave this reply. for us the main thing is to determine ways of improving russian u.s. ties which in a difficult state washington has in fact brought those to a dead end in recent years we are interested in preventing the irreversible did

radiation if the americans realize the risks associated with that this will be discussed you're in consultations between the russian foreign ministry and other relevant departments and with the russian ambassador to washington commenting on the situation the us state department said that america will continue working with russia it will also hold moscow accountable earlier my colleagues under former. talk through the developments. well this isn't a 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 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 want to 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 bronco bamma 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 they're always there's always hope when the handover in the white house many they'll predicted that things could even get worse with a democrat president in 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 duo biden and lattimer 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 a lot of our 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 are saying that a new wound 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 their wins by joe biden in that also the intelligence report we will find out possibly in the next hours maybe in the next few days yes we spoke to think harsh rhetoric even of the kind of extreme 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 well we know that biden is pro chinese and

all the old anti russia hands like sucky 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 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 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 also not to close these options and the doors president but didn't 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 thinner 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 just to kill a sions you know individual stuff will be punctured. the e.u. commission has proposed to create a digital green certificate felt what a large european citizens have been vaccinated against covert to travel across the block without having to quarantine on arrival the controversial move comes following pressure from tourism reliance states r.t. charlotte dube and city picks up 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've told that the data will be protected so there will be security around that but countries will be able to collect information all 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 noids or of which have yet been approved for use 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 them to go into the sputnik the vaccine we know that that is currently being revealed by the european medicals agency who are approval one of the commission's which is talking at a press conference on wednesday this is here in britain had this to say about the vaccine. i. would like science because if.

we don't have a. way. to. show the truth. to have an agreement we see vaccines have already provoked a lot of skepticism here within the e.u. 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 is due to rule on thursday whether that vaccine is safe or not if it decided that yes 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 cream past all nor so really still

a lot of questions to be. said before this digital green pass comes into force around mid june a lawyer from paris i spoke to earlier says europe might be pushing rushing too far ahead with its vaccine certificate travel plans. this digital green city if you get looks like a european union countries because in fact what we have to wonder are so many questions 1st isn't it too soon to propose kind 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 in fact it's to kill me should we like to to impose this kind of vaccination passport and ask any question to the people of the 27 countries

making these european unity is your opinion that this is one it's a very important question of our low our rights and is not is it not. in that attempt to our freedom of movement of 4444 the european citizens millions of britons in need of hospital treatment have been forced to wait for months due to the cover crisis and u.k. hospitals are now warning they may have to cut more services unless additional funding is made available well new data reveals for the half 1000000 people plus where on n.h.s. waiting lists at the end of january it's the highest number since records began in 2007 more than 300000 have already waited a year or more to start hospital treatment bribery metcalf is one of the patients whose surgery date keeps being pushed back. 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 30 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 caught hold these types of all types that 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 not out the pocket or just obviously needs lots of money for the people that are on waiting lists 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.

britain's foreign secretary donna crop is under scrutiny after a leaked audio recording revealed him saying the u.k. should strike trade deals with nations even if they have low human rights standards shadier edwards dusty has been looking deeper into the story. united kingdom is apparently facing its greatest threat since the cold war that is in courting to the foreign secretary dominic roth who is now warning that 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 democracies him a treat this decade the combined g.d.p. of water credit 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 wild 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 sadly 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 right defenders to the. well the government has actually defended dominic rob's comment 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 make good on my pledge bringing to force you know and to keep gives 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. now a u.k. government initiative to safeguard women has been met with heavy criticism from feminist groups painters the new measures partly in response to the highly publicized murder of a young woman in london earlier this month among the measures plainclothes policemen will be deployed in like clubs and pubs millions of pounds will also be

pumped into having increased patrols at closing time as people flood onto the streets more street lighting surveillance cameras groups of slow and having officers watch women in clubs as frightening bizarre spectacularly missing the point. any increase in police power whether it's an undercover office in bias or the current police crime sentencing and courts bill will eat turning christian state violence especially for those who are already additionally marginalized we need a joined up and vicious strategy that focuses on preventing all forms of male violence including domestic abuse and supporting all survivors tinkering around the edges with street lights is an insult to women experiencing violence and abuse. discuss this story let's welcome onto the program a quality campaign or linda bell us or be peter williams a former u.k. police officer you're both very welcome linda can we kick off with you are

considerable amount of money is being pumped into initiatives to keep women safe yet the criticism has been considerable do you think women will feel more secure with these measures what you just said he women is only sure what youth what do you mean by the term tell me what keeping women say well you know what well there's a difference isn't there there is keeping women safe and women feeling safe as well and that's 2 issues well you could say that but the fact is they lose all money is not on who is doing the violence clearly this is women's of feel unsafe and. that's what so really suggesting to you that maybe looking at it in terms of. i suspect in 6 months the problem well doesn't it doesn't help the problem and the government is reflecting oh no you know you're

a. you you're not the government but it the question comes from the government and so i'm reacting to saying that when we're round. names behavior men's culture a culture of masculinity surely act up you know it's not all men who are all murderers of women but there's a huge amount of violence and talking about britain but i can just as well be talking about russia oh any country that brian's against women is systematic it's assumed that it's ok and i take the contrary view that it isn't ok and the men have to change the approach but that's a sweeping statement isn't about but that it's seen as it's seen as ok who thinks

it's ok well what's been done in the last 30 years what in time in britain that made that island less a reality from the front for women. i mean to get a sweeping statement because i'm fed up with. the law made from time to time oh great particular case but routinely in britain 2 men 2 were in power week are murdered are murdered that the social not one this was a particular horrific case and i'm not going to talk about it in there because of course it's going to go to court but. what it brings up and the reason i'm as you might been. to say some things it is is that there's a culture that says it's ok but between men husbands delete.

and women who are. simply in the wrong place wrong time well surely there are the places the women is in the well ok so are the run closer on time ok let we will get i want to just bring peter into the conversation as well peter this legislation this idea is a by really night time events things happening in clubs things happening on the street when it's dark but of course women are attacked and harassed during the daytime at home as linda was going through does even more need to be done what's your take on this legislation well it's in respect of the proposal. which we introduced the sort of. surveillance so almost to speak in bars it was the

1st thing is the police have been keeping up the vases the surveillance in bars and clubs and discos for years it's a priority to the well it's for a variety of different reasons our deal is there's there's numerous reasons why they're so low that that's happening anyway but this particular idea from the gun which announced by the government yesterday obviously 1st to. the safety of females in particular during the night time economy and that is based upon it looks like it's based upon some practice that's been implemented in oxford by thames valley police for the past 18 months 2 years called project vigilance now that apparently is. true because of the ballot initiative i'm not actually sure of the details are so how they're actually approaching this but it looks like there's been

a 30 percent reduction in the reporting using that simple word of sexual violence against women no it must have some merits and it must be underpinned by some evidence base because project vigilance was awarded a prize by the international association of chief police officers and oxo which last year so it is based on good practice but we obviously need to know more about heart what practices it. is that horrific death of sarah everett and i completely understand we can't there's a court case pending. but is it being used to a certain degree to push a political agenda we've heard calls 'd for for instance all men to have a 6 pm curfew that's that's incredibly divisive isn't it and in reality an astonishing overreaction to the 1009 percent of men who respect and cherished daughters mothers sisters parents. i do think that was a bit of

a joke but there look we've got a problem a real problem and it was said in parliament though. well certainly a lot of things and. some of which most of which we couldn't get the time of day to that the issues as i see them and as many women see them is a lens culture which needs to be change. arnel mother of the 47 year old son. and i've got a grandson who's knight who's 18. he's my you that many in my family should know about the rights that women have to be in the world and not to ridicule certainly not to does it clear abuse not i'm sure is under their law abiding people

why should they take the blame for actual men who do the damage the small percentage of them your sons. what. they're not doing it because there's a culture some very small percentage basis but we're not the way the culture the well the culture which some of that is the extreme are absolutely great we're not talking about we're all men but masculinity is not good and we need it's really we need so really this is it their emotion of what it means to be a man and what it means to be a woman but lots of men whether it's worth listening whether it's all this is all. of them but they're not left threatening that they have a direct impact on individual women and their sometimes well i mean as

a joke i think it's funny ok we're just we're just running out of time we literally have 30 seconds left peter is going very fast peter as a former police officer how difficult is it to spot and prevent these types of crimes and why statistically do so few women report these assaults. well big question that started in really relation to the actual densification of the sort of crime itself all that sort of preparation of it very much that is going to have to be based on what we call intelligence led policing we've had a lot of success. in relation to dealing with most crime since it was in it since it was sort of initiated as as practiced now you're out soon in a wide a concept is a little difficult to answer it's often referred to the process of the criminal justice system not just the investigation but the criminal justice process as well as being to be fair to the 2nd assailant and i think there's a lot of improvements we can make in respect of that there's been so much but i do

need to think we need to look at what what we call the culture of the courtroom those sorts of things prevent and detail females reporting sexual selves but i wish we had more time to tell further into best but thank you very much for your time and your thoughts linda ballasts o.b.e. equality campaigner we heard there of peter williams a former u.k. police officer thank you both of you a lot of power in midweek new stories are shaping up i'll be back in 30 with more to hope to kathy than 10.