russia recalls its embassador to the u.s. after president biden called vladimir putin said lattimer putin would pay the price for election meddling while at the same time branding the russian head of state a killer. e.u. considers a controversial digital covert pass to open up travel between member states. and u.k. hospitals warn that they may have to take their scalpels to their home service is unless they get billions in support. is that time of the day again time for our to international donald quarter welcome to the program. russia has recalled its ambassador to the u.s.

to get the lowdown on the state of diplomatic ties with washington it comes in response to a t.v. interview where president biden agreed when questioned that vladimir putin is a quote killer the russian foreign ministry gave this reply for us the main thing is to determine ways of improving russian u.s. ties with china difficult state washington has in fact brought those to the data and in recent years we are interested in preventing they irreversible degrade ation 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 america will continue working with russia but that it will also hold moscow accountable my colleague sandra farmer and to try and go talk through the developments earlier. 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 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 most of the between biden and peyton well nobody expected much . 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 with probably 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

their 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 a 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 there 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 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 now as earlier

mentioned washington also expanded arms export restrictions on russia the u.s. department of commerce cited the country's alleged use of chemical weapons something moscow has repeatedly denied libertarian party campaign or west benedict shared his thoughts on the issue. i hope that the sanctions are minor enough to this is more political posturing than actually trying to damage russia america has imposed sanctions on countries all over the world cuba venezuela russia china you name it trade restrictions and terrorists 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 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 but i would respect him more and i think a lot 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. when you commission has proposed a special digital pass which would allow european citizens who have been vaccinated against cove a $1000.00 restriction free travel access across the block it follows increasing pressure from tourism reliance state says charlotte dubinsky reports. 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 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 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 . restrictions 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 just signed it up all the routes because of the slow vaccine rollout here and they are using the chinese vaccine also the russian. 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 this 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 jerry had this to say about the vaccine. because if. we don't have a. way. to. be able to have an agreement with vaccines have already provoked a lot of skepticism here within the e.u. 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 metals agency is due 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 at this digital past so really still a lot of questions to be. said before this digital green pass comes into force around mid june. we spoke to a paris based a lawyer who fears europe might be rushing too far ahead with its vaccine certification travel plan this digital green. looks like the european union. because in fact what we have to wonder are

so many questions 1st isn't it too soon to propose kind passport because we have no distance to see it the vaccines are fine against the new guidance so they want to set up these bus parked was no answer from the center 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 europe in you need to see your opinion that this is one there 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 or for the european citizens. britain's foreign secretary is under fire after

a leaked audio recording revealed him saying that the u.k. should strike trade deals with nations even if they have low human rights standards shoddy edwards daschle reports in ita kingdom is apparently facing its greatest threat since the cold war that has been courting to the foreign secretary dominic robb has now warning that britain is heading towards a decade where in which democracy is and retreat apparently because coming economic powers like that of china are increasing its global dominance and that well in fact it seems as though the united kingdom's own position and the international world order is now under threat democracy is him a treat. 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 standards or 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 cope 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 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 made good on my pledge bringing to force the united kingdom's 1st who told us 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

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. still ahead the health service in need of its own life support hospital chiefs in the u.k. warn of service cuts if they don't get an injection of billions of pounds that story and more after this break. banks figure out new ways to rip people off they get caught and what they do is they change the law in this new laws and if there is any problems they extend and

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welcome back to the program millions of britons in need of hospital treatment have been forced to wait for months to the due to the covert crisis to make matters worse hospitals are now warning they may have to cut more services unless additional funding is made available new data reveals 4500000 people were on n.h.s. waiting lists at the end of january the highest number since records began in 2007 more than 300000 people have already waited a year or more to get treatment and we spoke with one of them gregory mc caffe who's surgery date keeps getting 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 even more so now probably said the

thoughts of this it's times it's 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. just they obviously need lots of money for the people on waiting lists for the surgeries some are specifically meaning. patients some more talking about people like myself that waiting surgeries and all kinds of medical 'd attention surgeries that what we've got in them at the moment and h.s. management says hospitals need 8000000000 pounds of additional funding to cover day to day running costs without that more non-life threatening operations may have to

be postponed however an n.h.s. doctor told us why further delays will lead to unnecessary suffering. who knows how much they're spending they say it's something like 27000000000 on the on the testing which many people think in many cases is just money that is not not being spent wisely and we have to catch up with these medical issues i mean if we get rid of a personal issue i have a negro from a long term injury by my operation that is suspended at the moment there's much to catch up on and on those 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 if you're not detecting cancers if you're not having these operations they become life threatening down the line we have less spent any population i think this is true than almost any other western european country. and that's one of the reasons

why we had such a disaster at the start of the crisis you know when the n.h.s. started it was the world's 1st sort of hate for health service creature went to the . point of contact and that was a. thing and most people want to see that continued as much as possible but the reality is it hasn't kept pace and another reality is that people are 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 due and i think. one president did and severe that's how the kremlin has branded u.s. pressure on countries to stop using russia sporting the vaccine the remarks come after the american department of health published a report stating it tried to dissuade brazil from using the russian covert shot with more here's more i guess. we've all heard the bad back to deals to secure that

scene shipment countries trampling each other to get those precious jabs these seas the 1st star we've heard of back door deals to deny people a vaccine the us 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 death tallies right so one in 5 of those deaths are happening right now in brazil 20 percent of all coover deaths worldwide are in brazil and needs people of boosting that they help prevent inoculations in brazil with one of the objectives the and scientifically proven most efficient vaccines in the world these are the same people who claim that lives in vaccines are above politics and accused russia of undermining inoculation efforts it is very clear that russia is up to its all tricks. and in doing so is

potentially putting people at risk by spreading disinformation about vaccines well darden u.s. department of health and human services who feel safe and your organization behind sputnik the has come out and said what any reasonable person already knows this is a pandemic that is threatening and killing people equally these. as a threat to mankind it is above politics saving and we're talking here about medians of lives is paramount but the degree of cynicism and double standards here is astonishing see when it's about saving american lives they'll take all the help that they can get remember the russian planes carrying aid to new york last year oh they accepted that new 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 corona virus 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 u.s. doesn't like that it's them that have been punished it's the people that they're friends with brazilians who will potentially not receive a life saving job so if issues in washington can go to sleep at night feeling good and safe despite its admission in the report the u.s. department of health says it cannot comment on vaccines not approved by the nation's food and drug administration spokesman 3 is still awaiting approval in

brazil but for more details on sputnik vs reception around the world make sure to check out our website r.t. dot com i'll be back with more news in just about half an hour and i hope to see you then. join me everything. you can to get us to the world. i'm sure. americans love.

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