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just after midnight in baghdad. right here in moscow this thursday march the welcome to r.t. . russia summoned its u.s. ambassador to moscow to discuss future diplomatic ties with washington it is in response to a t.v. interview where president biden agreed when questioned the russian leader vladimir putin is a killer the foreign ministry given this response 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 the data and in recent years we are interested in preventing they irreversible degradation 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 u.s. state department said that america will continue working with russia but it will

also hold moscow accountable my colleagues under former and earlier 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 but 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 the 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 brought 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 while 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 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 this would probably be the 1st thing that i asked joe biden why

exactly is a lot of our 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 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 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 nerve agents 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 and that also the intelligence report we will find out possibly in the next hours maybe in the next few days well let's start off the point it was going through expanding arms export restrictions on russia the u.s. department of commerce there as you could read citing russia's alleges use of chemical weapons something law school repeatedly denied less crossing to where is valid funder of the libertarian booster pack away to help fund libertarian party candidates always good to have you on the program was what do you think the sanctions actually mean for relations between the 2 countries. i i hope that the sanctions are minor enough that this is more political posturing than actually trying to damage russia. the american government interferes

too much in fares of other foreign countries and especially in russia blaming russia for too many things a lot of which was was. part of our own domestic creation are problems that we've created here at home so i don't know for sure how strong these sanctions would be but i hope they're just minor in more cosmetic than anything else. america has imposed sanctions on countries all over the world cuba venezuela russia china you name it trade restrictions and taro's and we are the ones that are intervening too much in the affairs of other countries and here we are trying to blame russia for interfering in our elections i just don't think it's appropriate it was quite the day in terms of accusations flying the u.s. department of commerce also said it's quote committed to preventing russia from

accepting sensitive u.s. technologies i have to say why would the u.s. think moscow needs these technologies. i don't know from from the explanations it sounds like russia has all the technologies and all the skills to interfere in our elections to you know to interfere in countries all over the world if you believe what the american government saying so it doesn't sound like russia needs all these special technologies from america but in any case the point is america should not be intervening in interfering in the affairs of other countries and because we are so much it should not at all be surprising that russia would be interested in who is the leader of the united states what was your response was when you heard joe biden agree in the a.b.c. interview that he thinks putin is a killer. it's a strong and very negative thing to say i think it was inappropriate were you

surprised you keep in well i was surprised to hear him say that of course although biden is somewhat of a loose cannon so he he may even regret the way he stated that now that it's been put in the press and put in front of him for him to see himself yes he went on to say russia will pay a price what sort of price do you think he's talking about increased sanctions or something more. i would guess it's mostly the sanctions but you don't know biden came up during the cold war and it doesn't seem like he's ready to let go that make peace with russia and other countries and that's what we really need for the safety and peace of the world in for the strength and safety of americans here we need to be nicer to the world community and not treat the entire world as enemies those are pretty conciliatory response to reply from the foreign ministry here in moscow but nevertheless the end buster to the u.s.

has returned to moscow for talks 'd what do you read into that how serious of a signal is that sending. well president biden made this very serious by his statements so hopefully. people are talking and deciding that escalating things is the wrong way to go and instead we need to forgive each other's mistakes and deescalate and have more dialogue and have a commitment to leave each other alone and in work together peacefully or work together or work separately and peacefully and not always trying to get one up on the other or damage the other there's a strange sense of deja vu for me and i'm sure it's for you as well claims of election meddling by russia but again no concrete evidence do we assume at this stage there still isn't any. the way those reports sound

election meddling and influence almost anything someone did could be claimed to be influence if someone in russia preferred trump over biden or if someone in russia preferred biden over trump is that influence is that influencing the election here i mean everything could be claimed to be influence and the actual things that they presented are very vague and there's not concrete influence there's plenty of influence there's plenty of evidence that the united states has invaded other countries and calls for the overthrow of governments in other places so it's hypocritical but also the accusations against russia and the evidence seems vague and maybe not even there just finally was that you know there seemed to be a little bit of chest beating you know by biden today as you say he may take back the statement somewhat in the future but you think statements like what was said is

that playing to the gallery somewhat because when it comes to major issues the nuclear arms treaties for instance both sides want to cooperate they're going to have to communicate and there's many more like that under the table the props the public doesn't see. it is it is possible there are negotiations behind the scenes that don't make the head high instead are more important then the political posturing that biden does on television you know he wants to assert himself as in control and capable and the right choice for the recent election but i i think i would respect him more and i think a lot of more of the world would respect him if he acted more like a peacemaker and show that he's strong enough in america is strong enough that we can be at peace with others rather than appearing weak and having to fight back any time there's an accusation or this or that happens where thanks very much for your

time today speaking to us from texas where benedict founder of the libertarian poster. thanks. moving the program on the e.u. commission has proposed to create a digital green certificate that would allow european citizens who have been vaccinated against covert to travel across the block without having to quarantine a rival now the controversial move comes following pressure from tourism related states are to charlotte devinsky picks up the story. the european commission outlining on monday that its member states need to look at a common approach 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 seems

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 . restriction rules restrictions such as quarantine. testing that are currently in place but those restrictions will only be obligatory for 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. 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 approval one of the commission's she's talking at a press conference on wednesday this is terry had this to say about the vaccine. because if. we don't have a. way. to. be able to have an agreement vaccines have already provoked a lot of skepticism here within the e.u. but we also know that there's been a love of grumbles about the idea of this sort of. 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 measures agencies do to rule on thursday whether that vaccine is safe or not if it decided that 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 this digital past all know so really still a lot of questions. and. before this digital green pass comes into force around mid june a prison lawyer we spoke to say is europe might be rushing too far ahead with its vaccine certificate travel plans. this digital green set 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 guidance so they want to set up these passport was no answer from the santee question 1st in fact it's to kill me should we 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 is your opinion that this is one there is 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 4 for 4 for their european citizens. to lead a large international the health service in need of her itself hospitals in the

u.k. one of service cuts if they don't get an injection of cash that story and more after the break. banks figure out new ways to rip people off they get caught and what they do is they change the law introduce new laws and if there is any problems they just make the church longer and lower but now looks like that big american game of fraud which is the american business model is coming to an end.

20 minutes past the hour welcome millions of britons in need of hospital treatment being forced to wait for months due to the coby crisis and u.k. hospitals are now warning they may have to cut more services only said dish will funding is made available new data reveals 4 and a half 1000000 people were on n.h.s. waiting lists at the end of january and it is the highest number since records

began and it was 7 more than 300000 really waited a year or more to start hospital treatment. is one of the patients who surgery date keeps being pushed back. i'm very much does it kill pain because obviously and if even with sure the dislocation is very serious injury on page bill so to have gone through so many likes 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 well because 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 nobody seems to know i feel like the government needs to get more than. 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 but what we've got in them at the moment n.h.s. management say is hospitals need $8000000000.00 pounds of additional funding to cover day to day running costs without that hefty influx the health service may have to further postpone non life threatening operations however among the reaction we've been getting from this was an n.h.s. doctor who told us why further delays will lead to unnecessary suffering and even death. who knows how much you're spending they say it's something like 27000000000 on the on the testing which many people think in many cases it's just money that's not not being spent wisely and we have to catch up with the medical issues i mean speaking for the have 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 u.k. protocol collation 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 a career 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 but the reality is it hasn't kept pace and another reality is that people are just kind of. what it's all ok because it's never really broken like

this before but i mean the cracks definitely are exposed and something you really should be doing. in moving the program on local officials are warning about a new surge of migrants on america's southern border some reportedly tested positive for the corona virus before being sent to other parts of the united states border states including are a zone around alabama of being housing a higher than average percentage of the new arrivals and that's the spikes officials there are complaining that they haven't been provided with any details on the newcomers health in particular whether or not the immigrants have coded a recent poll suggests there is growing concern about the ability of the authorities to cope with the buildup of migrants on the us mexico border whilst at the same time dealing with coronavirus health protocols well i'm delighted to say

we can cross live now to chris chris is mere of the town of bend in our a zone chris you're really at the center of this issue your tones on the border tell us about the situation on the ground in terms of 'd the pandemic and the growing number of migrants you're dealing with. we're seeing a lot of increase and the number of crossers migrants that come across on foot that has ramped up substantially in just the last few weeks of course without there is definitely the concern of coven and how that is going to impact my community i have a large number of seniors and elders that. this could really affect so we're hoping that border patrol 'd will start testing and before they release people because right now they're saying they're going to release within the 1st 2

communities that would be arizona and of course he will ban it if they do that we're wanting to see what their health records are so that we can ensure that our our citizens are protected yeah how the challenging is that that coven issue because as you've been going through complaints have been raised by some officials about the lack of health information is that it's not really something you're directly saying you've experienced yes we are seeing that we've asked for that documentation we have yet to be provided any documentation on that out so until we start seeing that this is really opening up a pandora's box in our community we did not see the covert crisis nowhere near what some of the other arizona cities have seen and we were hoping to keep it that way unfortunately it doesn't look with them dropping these migrants in our community untested and verified not just for code but for any other diseases that they may

may be carrying that could launch through a small community like this like well far the bided ministration has insisted that the migrant surge is a challenge as opposed to a crisis here green no this is a crisis simple as a. simple as that what mistakes then have been made to bigger ones and how could the situation have been dealt with better because we need to get a tighter control of our southern border right now we need to ensure that people that are coming in that they are vetted for criminal histories we need to ensure that they are checked for health issues before even thinking of releasing them 72 hours is not enough time for border patrol to be able to functionally do their job and i'm putting none of this on border patrol i put this strictly on the federal

government as far as the current administration needs to step up and they're going to offer this they need to do their job they need to have a plan in place obviously there was no plan at the moment the head of administration joe biden has decided as of yet to visit the border is not a direct snub or do you think he will get there eventually eventually he will probably get here but yeah if you look at the the visual aspects of that is really a snow was president biden was he right in any way do you think to ease immigration policies now given the problems of a pandemic that is raging in the us me personally i would say no. it does affect our locals as far as their wages and it does affect the number of people that are currently out of work being able to find work. as i'm

sure you're aware when they have a new administration came in there was the most really a move away from what the democrats saw as donald trump's hard line immigration policies but what we're seeing you're seeing it directly migrants building up on the border will there be any other choice but to bring back more at hard line for want of a better word policies. i don't know if you want to necessarily consider him hardline but we need to actually really seriously look at how we're dealing with these people one of my big concerns is if you're going to let them in you're dropping them in the little bit and we have no services here we're a very small community of roughly about 2000 were very diverse community were predominantly hispanic and native american then hispanic are cation with other races and ethnicities mixed in there. and we get into up into

120 degrees in the summer august and july july and august and shoots are just around the corner if you dump these people here they've got no transportation to get north where there are shelters that they can actually get a roof over their heads they're going to be walking and walking means a lot of fatalities chris just finally if you had one message to give to washington right now what would you say stop rethink make a plan before you proceed chris thank you for coming on the program and sharing the views of you and i'm sure a lot of the people you represent in bandon or a zone of chris riggs mer off the top thank you sir we're all set to crack on with more great programs and moments keep watching to find out what is on offer wherever you are today he said. hastily always going to turn this into.