the. european union threatens its allies with a vaccine and in an attempt to fix its floundering job rollout while other e.u. states are just putting the my. feet and other vaccines i still believe says that he has a big issue with rice asian vaccines the. new low in after the u.s. president brands his russian counterpart a killer look at whether joe biden's promise that diplomacy is back is in fact a stab in the back. and the u.k. should strike trade deals with nations even if they have a poor human rights record that's according to a leaked recording of u.k. foreign secretary dominic let's put him in the firing line of human rights

activists. by their very good morning this is. the vaccine spat between the european union and its allies deepens after commissioner of underlined said she's prepared to invoke a law last 50 years ago in order to ban job exports outside the block. we are in the crisis of the century and i'm not ruling out anything anything for now because we have to make sure that europeans are vaccinated as soon as possible if the situation does not change we will have to reflect on how to make exports to vaccine producing countries dependent on their level of openness to a lot of other people as our correspondent good morning peter doesn't sound like

but statement will go down too well with the e.u. are lies. strong words from you commission president of the fonda line she's talking about implementing emergency powers that haven't been put in place since the 1970 s. it would stop vaccines that are manufactured within the european union or it could at least stop those being exported to other countries it's. certainly veiled in how much it's targeted essentially toward the united kingdom the u.k. is received millions of vaccines from that have be made inside the e.u. you know vaccines made in the u.k. have gone the other way it's worthwhile pointing out but what we've heard in reaction from the united kingdom is foreign secretary dominic robb saying he was surprised by this movement said that it was much more like the discussions between

less diplomatic partners than one of its closest allies. frankly i'm surprised we're having this conversation because normally what would you care that you team up with to object when other countries are less pretty quick to produce the right gauge and that kind of brinkmanship. it's not just the united kingdom that might be asking a few questions in the direction of brussels the united states as well receives vaccines that have been manufactured inside the european union. there is also an issue inside the e.u. when it comes to vaccines sebastien coats the austrian chancellor seems to be heading up a group of 6 to you many of the states that are very unhappy with the way vaccines are being distributed throughout the block he wants to see more vaccines being added to the arsenal that they were approved to you in the to be used in the fight against covert 19 he's got his eyes on russia sputnik vague.

and other vaccines i strongly insist that it was relevant. vaccines as soon as all silenced offering a vaccine should. i have the office of interest the world health organization just released a damning report looking at how the e.u. it handled the pandemic fighting with its allies over vaccine exports isn't the way to well fix those problems that were highlighted. many thanks spring is there live from berlin peter oliver. another news russia's ambassador to the united states is on his way to moscow for crisis talks after ties with washington hit a new low came in response to a t.v. interview in which president joe biden agreed when asked if putin was a killer russian foreign minister had this to say for us the main thing is to determine ways of improving russian u.s. dose 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 on wednesday washington also expanded arms export restrictions on russia the us department of commerce cited the country's alleged use of chemical weapons something moscow's repeatedly denied it will be trying to look at how russia has increasingly become an american obsession. you didn't really think the u.s. administration would all of a sudden warm up to the kremlin with mr biden live can be full of surprises but not in this case even after the presidents of the 2 mightiest nuclear powers agreed to keep a major arms reduction treaty called start alive for another few years something was ballard to go wrong. president biden goes for a big t.v.

interview and refers to vladimir putin as a killer you know vladimir putin you think he's a killer. or do so what price must he pay the price she's going to pay well you'll see shortly you don't have to be an expert in diplomacy to realize how serious this is we might end up hearing from the kremlin that russia chose not to accept the insult period so what then not even a chance to sort out anything at all between the behemoths of world politics no wait after agreeing with the killer part joe biden gives russia and his counterpart a chance through places where it's in our mutual interests to work together that's why our renewed to start agreement with them that's over roman in interest of humanity that we diminish the prospect of a nuclear exchange but like i said i'm not so sure the russian side will simply forget the offensive label anyway these mood swings are probably exactly what you

should expect from how mr biden treats russia and the next 4 years but perhaps these aren't actual mood swings they've become a classic feature of how washington's been dealing with moscow for years there will always be something to blame the russians for even if it means reviving the election meddling narrative for real they just did it. we assess that russian president putin authorized 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 says you have political divisions in the us you realize what happens next right this sighting what kind of punishment russia deserves although u.s. lawmakers still haven't fully decided on what russia deserves for some of the older

sins the bottom line is whether the man who took over at the white house was saying america is back america is back diplomacy is back hinting at a smoother or more predictable foreign policy it could have been about anyone in the world but not russia unless mr biden confused yes and no or i do and i don't when he heard the word killer on a.b.c. . guess totus biden and his team have a cold war mindset that's bad news for global stability. there's been this red scare since the beginning of the trumpet ministration we had 2 years of you know that russia investigation hoax the place of the democratic party base to attack russia and i think that's one of the things that president biden is doing he's playing to the base which is entirely russian it's unfortunate because there are so many things in which the united states and russia should be cooperating obviously

we did the start treaty earlier this year but the fight against terrorism is a very important one in which both russia and the united states have a common interest as well as issues regarding security in the middle east syria you know is is an example as well the president biden has really got to think what he's doing and you've got to think before you speak because we have a great opportunity to try to turn things around in the relationship with russia and i think president biden should be focused on that instead of trying to play to the democratic base and yet again you know criticizing russia 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 in fears 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 or problems that we've

created here at home i didn't 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 in a nice. human rights activists have hit out to u.k. foreign secretary dominic rob after the leak told you a recording revealed him saying the u.k. should strike trade deals with nations even if they have a poor human rights record. 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 with the foreign secretary dominic robb admitting that trading prospects actually could be done with the so-called enemies human rights

groups and now hitting back accusing the government of gross hypocrisy this apparent willingness to sacrifice human rights at the altar of trade is shocking but certainly unsurprising it fits a depression pattern on human rights from these government trade is obviously important to all nations but the foreign secretary shouldn't be thrown human right 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 robb'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 make good on a 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. we spoke to the director of global justice now who wasn't surprised by rob's comments the anything that really surprises me about this is that people still think human rights plays any role whatsoever in terms of british trade policy it's only been a couple of weeks now since boris johnson's own backbenchers try to amend a piece of legislation to say. they want to prevent the british government doing

trade deals with genocidal regimes and the governments of closed it so there are backbenchers don't trust them not to do trade deals with countries that are committing genocide genocide. and the british government said we don't want to have our hands tied so really which is trade policy it's human rights freezone and dominic rabs response to democracy apparently being in retreat around the world seems to be democracy should also be in retreat in this country because the hate that he put out yesterday the integrated defense route you had some absolutely chilling passages and including the fact that we're going to be increasing our new killer weapons stockpile by 40 percent and this is a deeply liberal government and you know i think that trade policy is clearly going to play a role in future years in the promotion of british power i'm british transnational corporations around the world. he's a long american southern port of re still almost her breath cold migrant numbers

with several of the newcomers testing positive. to the break we speak to the mayor of an arizona town on the.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to the world of politics or. i'm sure i'll see you there. welcome back government initiative to safeguard women has been met with heavy criticism from feminist groups and campaign is the new measures can partly in response to the highly publicized murder of a young woman in london earlier this month among them is just plain clothes policemen will be deployed in night clubs and pubs millions of pounds will be

pumped into having increased patrols at closing time as people fled on to the streets of the more street lighting and surveillance cameras feminist groups have slammed though having offices watch women in clubs as being frightening bizarre and spectacularly missing the point. any increase in police power whether it's an undercover office in bus 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 streetlights is an insult to women experiencing violence and abuse but it depends what interest that they have a ha we've seen the police and i thought quite a few times out what happened often is unforgivable so i don't know i don't think so i don't think it would make people safer people distrust the police even if a safer on the police is not something where you can just put them into

environments like cups and if that would say i mean especially the minute you know if the problem is that women don't feel safe around men because we don't know which men are safe to be around the a playing thought police over us and isn't solving the issue because how do we know we're safe from him how do you know he's a real police officer how do you know that it's not just someone pretending to be one because of the other things in mind i don't see no reason why i should be feeling like i have to look for a plain clothes officer obviously detective but you don't know who's who i just feel that educating people for a young age young boys about respect for women you know out how to treat people that's the key really. my colleague in a neil spoke to equality campaign and develops former u.k. police officer peter williams who shared their concerns on the initiative. the police have been keeping up servatius is the surveillance in bars and clubs and discos for years but this particular idea from occurring which announced by the

government obviously 1st to. the safety of females in particular during the night time economy the fact is that is our money is not on who is doing that the violence that occurred says women to feel unsafe and to be unsafe men's culture a culture of masculinity surely act stop you know it's not all men who are murders of women but there's a huge amount of violence against women is systematic it looks like it's based upon some practice that's being implemented in oxford by thames valley police for the past 18 months 2 years called project vigilance because of the ballot initiative looks like there's been a 30 percent reduction in the reporting you think that's important word of sexual violence against women and the mother of the 47 year old son and the other and i've

got a grandson who's 9 those 18 he's my you know that the men in my family should know about the rights that women have to be in the world in and not semitic he'll certainly not at this it clear piers but i'm sure later there are law abiding people why should they take the blame for actual men who do the damage the small percentage of them here solve this but. they're not doing it because and there's a culture some in a very small percentage but we're not the way to culture the world a culture in 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 when it's really we 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 war western male whether it's all this little things that. you know then they're not led threatening that they have a direct impact on individual women and their sometimes their own well i mean as a job i think it's funny 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 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 referred to as the 2nd assailant and i think there's a lot of improvements we can make in respect of that has been so but i do need to think we need to look at what what we call the cauldron of the call room those sorts of things prevent and deter females reporting sexual selves.

authorities or the u.s. southern border raising the alarm and calling on the government to step in as the region faces a record influx of migrants states on the border and are only faced with providing shelter for thousands of people but also preventing the spread of coronavirus for it emerged that some migrants tested positive for traveling to other parts of the country border states including arizona and alabama have borne the brunt of the influx of recent polls suggest there's growing doubt about the ability of the authorities to cope with the situation on the us mexico border while also preventing spread of coronavirus. many we spoke to an arizona town mer about how they're coping with the say in my case. there is definitely the concern of cove and how that it's 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 we're wanting to see what their health records are so that we can ensure that our our citizens are protected 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 this is a crisis the simple as that 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 3rd going to offer this they need to do their job they need to have a plan in place obviously there was no plan. this comes as house democrats are seeking to pass a new bill that would allow illegal migrants to vote in certain states than

hawkins' us details the u.s. is facing 2 events unprecedented in years after pledging to let in more refugees during his presidential campaign but is a ministration is facing record numbers of migrants we are on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in the last 20 years at the same time democrats have a bill in the pipeline it's been labeled the biggest electoral reform in decades affecting the financing of politics ethics security and most contentious of all voting rights and access the democrats tried and failed to pass a similar bill before it's still as divisive today as it was 2 years ago but that's nothing new for modern u.s. politics for the people act mandates the most questionable and abuse prone election rules nationwide the bill would ensure jew picket registrations and that millions of illegal immigrants a quickly ridged to devote though mr pence may be exaggerating slightly with his specific claim voting rights and fraud are

a concern for many voters on both sides of the spectrum for different reasons and some say this bill violates the u.s. constitution you are overturning constitutional justification constitutional law as this bill violates mulhall residents in the u.s. constitution and not just a u.s. citizen but they're all of that or a lot of that in past they have now been able to be constitutional where you don't have to technically be a citizen and as long as you are legally present in the united states disability to undo those constitutional norms this bill does away with state rights and it doesn't weigh with the will of the people this bill touches on many things that are incredibly troubling that's why this needs to be looked at and that's what this bill is an incredible danger to the entire fabric of america so that as i've show one mean those who just slinks over the border can just turn up at the nearest ballot box. vote and if not why all of us from republicans they say democrats have vested interests us law prevents non-citizens from voting democrats say their bill

would help groups which have historically been marginalized based on their class race even criminal record as well as migrants who have coincidentally for many years tended to vote democrat some republicans say this sounds good on paper but claim the devil is in the detail take the issue of voter id polls show id requirements are widely supported in the united states but the bill could ban all states from acquiring a full social security number or photo identification and allow people to vote based only on a signed document critics say this damages election security on the topic officials say the us presidential election 2020 was the most secure ever with controversy over issues like mail in ballots polls also showed many voters had doubts about the fairness of the process and the result every state currently has their own laws on procedures on voting but h.r. one expands provisions for mail in ballots which apparently would have to be

notarized or witnessed and automatic voter registration scrapping liability for those registered to vote without being eligible allegedly as long as they say it was done in error the automatic registration of any individual or the fact that an individual declined the opportunity to register to vote would you don't make an affirmation of citizenship may not be used as evidence against that individual add to that mandatory same day voter registration correction of voter details at the polls and 2 weeks of early voting and suddenly all the issues of contention last year are a step closer to being in the force on a federal level as the bill makes its way to the senate biden is having a slight change of heart on the all important question of immigration and thousands of moderates making their way to the u.s. border are getting mixed messages. i could show you quite clearly don't come when we're in the process of getting set up don't leave your town or city or community

supporters of the bill say it's a long overdue reform bringing the country in step with more than realities technology and values and streamlining legislation critics say it's a poor attempt by the democrats to expand their voter base and many feel that marginalized groups such as migrants have become a political pawn for both sides of the debate both parties have used them in some way or have have been able to profit off their ignorance of the situation and of what's going on republicans of failed democrats also failed on that both parties need really to be highly reevaluated of the people ourselves need to finally start coming together and say enough is enough with the optics what can we do to really change how this process works worse in such a polarized sidey right now or in such a political climate with such divisiveness obviously no unity coming at this point with demonization on both sides that that it's very difficult to come together and

to to try to amend things in a way. thousands of pensioners in moscow homes have received versus putting the bank scene including a 104 year old veteran who got the job so she could safely spend time with her relatives again. she has been living here for a long time hen she's a new 104 years old when the vaccination was announced she volunteered to get it she feels fine assured getting the shots which was done to learn how to see her relative safety she's very happy that. wraps it up for this news out thanks staying with don't forget so i'll be away for

the next half an hour you can in the meantime check out plenty more news stories on our web site at talk you don't go. 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 pretend they just make the church longer and the coupons lower but now looks like that big american game of fraud which is the american business model is coming to an end. drones are becoming the a tool of choice over unmanned aircraft and dangerous missions by many countries including the united states so much so that president biden has issued a new policy regarding their use by the u.s. military but has drone warfare become the new wild west and is it smart to put rules on one team if the other country has no boundaries we're going to ask our

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