we are in the crisis of the century. and i'm not ruling out any anything for now european union threatens its allies with the vaccine export ban in an attempt to fix its floundering job rollout while other e.u. states desperately might be. moscow warns of a new low in ties after the us president branded his russian counterpart a killer look at whether joe biden's promised that diplomacy is back is in fact a stab in the back. in 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 has put him in the firing line of human rights activist.

good morning thanks so much for your company this is r.t. international. the e.u. has threatened with a vaccine export ban in the latest twist in the blocks ongoing vaccine supply saga commission on the land said that she's prepared to invoke a law last used 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 another day

another scandal involving vaccines in the european union this time there's been an increase in the language that's been used from the e.u. commission president on the law and she said that the law may well put in place rules that they haven't used special measures that they haven't used since the 1970 s. in order to block the export of vaccines that are manufactured on e.u. territory now this is very thinly veiled in how it's targeted the united kingdom in particular and when you look at the numbers it's quite clear since the vaccine started being rolled out around 9000000 or so vaccines have been exported from the e.u. into the u.k. 0 have gone the other way for a manufacturer as in the united kingdom to the e.u. so what the e.u. is saying is that they need to keep those vaccines inside their own territory for use on their own citizens now that hasn't gone down very well in the united kingdom

dominick rob the u.k. foreign secretary said he was shocked by the announcement frankly i'm surprised we're having this conversation is normally what would you care that you team up with to check with other countries. to produce the right gauge and that kind of brinkmanship it's not just the united kingdom will be asking a few questions of the e.u. over this the united states as well receives vaccines manufactured inside the e.u. both inside the e.u. there's also division when it comes to the district. you should vaccines sebastien courts the austrian chancellor heading up a group of 6 e.u. member states who want to see a change in the way it's done he says it's too open to back door deals when it comes to who gets vaccines when he also says that the e.u. needs to approve more vaccines for use in the fight against covert 19 and he's got his eyes on russia's sputnik v. job concerning sputnik v.

and other vaccines i strongly insist that the relevant issue and. vaccines as soon as. vaccine should we have the office of the world health organization just published a damning report into failings by the e.u. when it comes to dealing with the pandemic in the list of things that the e.u. leaves to do fighting with its allies over vaccine production wasn't there what could help though would be approving more vaccines so that more people across the european union can receive that job. russia's ambassador to the states is on his way to moscow for crisis talks after ties with washington hit a new low incomes in response to a t.v. interview in which president joe biden said his russian counterpart will pay the price per person to undermine the u.s. election last year the russian foreign ministry 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 the dad 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 in the same interview the diplomacy gloves were clearly off with biden laying a very serious allegation is in store. you know vladimir putin you think he's a killer. i do so what price must he pay the price she's going to pay will 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 for places where it's in our mutual interests to work together that's why our renewed to start agreement that's overwhelm an interest in 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 smooth there are 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. 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 has repeatedly denied i guess told us biden and his team have a cold war mindset this 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 has 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. secularizing human rights at the altar of trade that's what human rights activists have accused the u.k. foreign secretary of after a leak through coding 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 that pledge bringing to force the united kingdom's 1st autonomy 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 he 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 british trade policy is a basic human rights freezone and dominic rabs response to democracy apparently

being in retreat around the world seems to be that democracy should also be in retreat in this country because the hate that he put out yesterday the integrated defense for if you had some absolutely chilling passages and including the fact that we're going to be increasing all and you could have weapons stockpile by 40 percent this is a deeply government and you know i think the 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. there's a couple thirty's along the us southern border of raised the alarm of a wreck old migrant and some of the economists testing positive for television after the break we speak to the marrow of an arizona town on the issue. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us on the

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come back or thirties at the u.s. southern border are raising the alarm and calling on the government to step in as the region faces a record in flux of migrants border states are not only faced with providing shelter for thousands of people but also for preventing the spread of the virus after it emerged migrants tested positive for traveling to other parts of the country border states including arizona and alabama have borne the brunt of the migrant influx of recent polls suggest there is growing doubts about the ability of the authorities to cope with the situation there on the border while also preventing the spread of the virus earlier we spoke with an arizona town mayor about how they are coping with the migrant search.

how it's going to my community. number of seniors. this could really affect so we're hoping that border patrol will start testing and before they release people we're wanting to see what their health records are so that we can ensure 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 get our community untested this is a crisis the simple as that and i'm 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 to seeking to pass a new bill that would allow illegal migrants to vote in certain states downhole kids has the 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 billboards ensure jupiter at registration and the 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 also federal law that in past they have now been able to be constitutional where you don't have to technically be a citizen as long as you are legally present in the united states disability into undo those constitutional norms this bill does away with state rights and it doesn't weigh with the will of the people but 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 and vote and if not why all of us from republicans they say democrats have a vested interests us law prevents non-so. dozens 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 u.s. 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 say quite clearly don't come or we're in the process of getting set up don't leave your town or city or community supporters . of the bill so 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 expire no 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 what's going on the 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 arctic's what can we do what you really change how this process works worse in such a polarized society right now in such a political climate was such divisiveness obviously no unity at this point with demonization on both sides. that it's very difficult to come together into it to try to amend things in a way. with europe's vaccine rollout dogged by supply troubles some people are looking for the rafale for the jump a number of a telling entrepreneurs or even open to launch thanks in nation tours to russia earlier this month firms in a number of e.u. countries deals to produce russia splitting the job but they're still all waiting on the blocks regulator to approve the drug r.t. caught up with the italian travel agent behind the vaccine tours idea. in the you're upright now in the last 2 campaigns going very slowly the people who

have been fascinated out of all part of the population but you know. they need the aged 5 of the population the 34 to 15 years older 'd that want to give aston it back to may be they have to wait 5 or 6 months we have a not that well gee stick to a program about these distribution and 2nd to see before they don't want to be basking in the sound bite of the population don't want to be busted weak to beat 5 man. bugs. scenes to grease my ass i want off the stuff to wear for a lot of wear red with sticky do's this week the russian bar scene is so we started to speak with our russian partners this year where possible in the near future. thousands of pensioners in moscow care homes have received russia sputnik v.

vaccine including a 104 year old veteran who got the job so she could safely get back to spending quality time with relatives. 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 allow her to see her relative safety she's very happy. and that wraps it up for this news hour thanks so much for your company don't forget we do cover plenty more news stories that we couldn't squeeze in here on our website check them out at all if you don't come.

debate is is it fair for transforming our plates to compete in women's categories and sport. as a society we've decided to categorize sports based on sex i definitely do not think that it's fair for athletes that when porn is pilot can males to compete in the women's category. come on. why do we have gender or do you have gender categories in sport because we do treat men and women differently. every single beat athletes will we all have biological advantages or for each other . are the same means a lot to me and i think friends are the stuff you need

a little here because i love to do it. and develop confidence and belief in myself and i've learned the value of hard work and dedication i'm gonna put on doubt. that these men say that they feel like a woman and they will not ever know what it's like to feel the loss of the baby her maybe biological free home of these that they will never do they really think this is fair. i just don't believe that. banks figure out new ways to rip people off they get caught and what they do is they change the law or introduce new laws and if there is any problems they extend and pretend they just regular church longer and the coupons lower but now it looks like that big american game of fraud which is the american business model is coming to an end. so what

we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going for and let it be an arms race. because i'm often scary dramatic i developed the only thing i'm going to resist are those 3 hours that strategy will be successful and very good to get darren time to sit down and talk. i don't. welcome to the alex salmond chill from scotland where we turn once again to the dominating issue of 50 now the 4 countries across united kingdom are performing well and the vaccine roll out and it does seem like the end of this

nightmare is tantalizingly insight covered 19 his last day yuki was more than $125.00 size and date one of the highest in the world and more per 1000000 of population than even brazil or the u.s.c. the u.k. has also suffered one of the biggest economic impacts in terms of g.d.p. even if the continuing struggle schemes are disguising the impact on unemployment at least thus far however from a health perspective the virus is far from done with the population in terms of suffering today we examine the condition of long cord with 2 experts on the debilitating impact of the straight for disease danny altman is an immunologist and professor of immunology at imperial college london dr nationally mcdermott treated a bowl of patients in africa but is now a victim of the debilitation of long covert. today we ask even once a virus is held to be what are the long term impacts of the pandemic but 1st your

treats emails and messages in the sports to our show last week fishing professor danny blank flow of dartmouth college professor david blanchflower applauded the new biden and they should have to help the poor in the u.s. but also warned against any attempt by the u.k. to return to austerity ray says enjoy the interview with danny blanchflower on biden's recovery package however was surprised the democrats feel they have to bring in their promise $15.00 minimum wage wasn't mentioned himself replied directly to that super missing well i wasn't asked about it in a fair play he wasn't hopeful we get him back on the show again soon to discuss that among many other issues of the economy in the u.s. and in terms of the u.k. economic response to the pandemic professor plans for also trying to say it's on the chancellor and his plans for the future and have big said a billionaire chancellor has no understanding or empathy with people on the kind of income that nurses have wendy green gordon said well that's nice to know in terms

of plans for ending austerity that's nice to know as i'm struggling to support my disabled son on my own disability since his was stopped along with my own which is returned at a lower rate and finally i has a break from a scottish perspective and says we can create a proper economic recovery in scotland when we are no longer shackled to westminster control our resources develop our potential with a clean sheet and let's face it if we can develop a huge amount of nubile energy these sources in the oceans or in scotland it starts with what's made in scotland stays in scotland just a year ago the long nightmare with gavin peace across the 4 countries of the u.k. but the vaccine has bore real hope but for so many the nightmare continues alex is in conversation with professor danny orman on this subject to 1st of all what exactly is called it so we've all been familiar with the idea.