we are in the crisis of the century. and i'm not ruling out any anything for now the european union threatens its allies with a vaccine export and in an attempt to fix its floundering rollout of other e.u. states just sputnik vig may be the. walls of a new low in ties after the us president brands his russian counterpart a killer look at whether joe biden's promise that diplomacy is back is in fact they stand 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 rant that put him in the firing line of human rights activists.

either thanks so much for joining us mid day here in moscow this is r.t. international. the e.u. has threatened its allies with a vaccine export ban in the latest twist in the blocks ongoing vaccine supply saga commission on the line 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 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 block 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 and how it's targeted the united kingdom in particular 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 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 claim 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 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 bodies issue an

authorization for safe vaccines as soon as possible the more vaccines we have the better for 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. needs 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 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 said his russian counterpart would pay the price for efforts 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. dos which in a difficult state washington has in fact brought those to

a dead end 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 of lead even putin's door. you know vladimir putin you think he's a killer. i do so what price must he pay but pray 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 for places where it's in our mutual interests to work together that's why our renewed to start agreement that's over roman 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 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 the siding 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 when 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. wednesday washington also expanded export restrictions on russia the u.s. department of coma cited the country's alleged use of chemical weapons something

muska has repeatedly denied august's told us biden and his team have a cold war mindset that's bad news for global stability. there's been this rain 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 entire 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 fair's 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 our 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 and 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. sing human rights at the

altar of trade that's what human rights activists have accused the u.k. foreign secretary of for a length 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 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 right defenders to the wharf like this while the government has actually defended dominic robb's comments 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 my 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 with 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 their own backbenches don't trust them not to do trade deals with countries that are committing genocide acts of genocide. and the british government said we don't want to have our hands tied so really british trade policy it's human rights free zone 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

that he put out yesterday the integrated defense route you had some absolutely chilling passages in including the fact that we're going to be increasing and you could have weapons stockpile by 40 percent and this is a deeply is 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. coming up forty's along america's southern border raise the alarm over red called migrant numbers with some of the new commission testing positive a co that after the break we'll speak to the matter of an arizona town about the issue. make taste or make sites or unlike hearing the brain doesn't have an organ for time

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the region faces a breath called influx of migrants that as u.s. border patrol struggles to provide covert secure shelter for thousands of people the mayor of an arizona town told as the crisis was unprecedented 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 cities have seen. we were hoping to keep it that way unfortunately it doesn't look good i'm dropping these migrants in our community and . border states including arizona and alabama have borne the brunt of the my good influx a recent poll suggests there's growing doubts about the ability of the authorities to cope with the situation on the us mexico border and also preventing spread of the corona virus the by the ministration has deployed disaster agency favor to deal with the situation now chris riggs again believes the federal government wasn't prepared for such a migrant surge. there is definitely the concern of the 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 before they release people were wanting to see what their health records are so that we can ensure our our citizens our project this is a crisis simple as that and i'm none of this on border patrol i put it 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. u.k. government initiative to safeguard women has been met with heavy criticism from feminist groups and campaign is the measures come partly in response to the highly

publicized murder of a young woman in london this month among the masses plainclothes policeman will be deployed in night clubs and pubs millions of pounds will be pumped into having increased patrols at closing time as people flood into the streets of the most street lighting and surveillance cameras close campaigned in the palace told us the initiative fails to target the actual assailants. if the family said it was our money's not on who is doing the violence the group says women to feel unsafe but they are worried they don't stay long married from time to time oh great particular case but routinely in britain to wait in poland week oh murdered that the surge not one this was a particular horrific case what it brings up is that there's a culture that says it's ok both to between men husbands do it

and women who will. simply in the wrong place at the wrong time the place the women is in the well we have people in london if they would feel safer knowing there were undercover police officers in pubs but it depends what interest that they have between the police and i thought quite a few times out what happened often is unforgivable so i don't know i don't think anything 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 it's 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 i think a plain talk police officer is in 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 from a young age young boys about respect you know out how to treat people that's the key really. for me u.k. police officer peter williams told us the initiative can improve the situation but needs to be looked into further. the police have been keeping up servatius is surveillance in bars and clubs and discos for years but this particular idea from the going which announced by the government yesterday obviously 1st to. the safety of females in particular during the night time economy and that is based upon it looks like it's based upon some practice that's been implemented in oxford by thames valley police for the past 18 months 2 years called project vigilance because of the ballot initiatives there's been a 30 percent reduction in the reporting using that simple word of sexual

violence against women no it must have some merits and it must be underpinned by some evidence base because project vigilance was awarded a prize by the international association of chief police officers in october. last year so it is based on good practice but we obviously need to know more about what practices. iran's foreign minister has lashed out at british prime minister boris johnson accusing him of hypocrisy of a plans to base the u.k.'s nuclear arsenal in utter hypocrisy bars johnson is concerned about iran developing a viable a nuclear weapon on the very same day he announces his country will increase its stockpile of nukes unlike the u.k. and allies iran believes nukes and all weapons of mass destruction a barbaric and must be eradicated. iran has always maintained its nuclear program

is purely peaceful in 2015 the country reached a deal with 6 world powers on its game in exchange for lifting sanctions however donald trump pulled the u.s. out of the deal in 2018 it provoked iran into increasing its level of uranium enrichment university of tehran professor aside mohammad marandi believes britain's move sends out the wrong message to the iranian people but british accused iran of . making nuclear advances towards a nuclear weapon you know but at the same time they are increasing the number of their warheads that's obvious for everyone in iran but the british are dishonest and being hypocritical dishonest about iran's intentions because there is no evidence whatsoever that iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon yet at the same time the british are increasing the number of

nuclear warheads that they have and that they have so for the iranians it just simply shows that western exceptionalism in europe centrism is still a lie and well and that as long as this mentality continues they really cannot be no real friendship and real security and stability and trust between iran and regimes like the british regime. with europe's a vaccine rollout dogged by supply troubles some are looking further afield to get the job number of italian entrepreneurs or even hope to launch vaccination tours to russia there this month firms in a number of e.u. countries in deals to produce russia sputnik the job but they're all still waiting on the block's regulator to approve the drug r.t. caught up with the italian travel agent behind the vaccine tours idea.

in the you're upright and now the massive campaign is going very slowly the people who have been vaccinated out of the old part of the population but you know it is all they need the aged 5 to the population the 34 to 15 years older 'd that won't be bassinet back to maybe they have to wait 5 for 6 months we have a not that we'll 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 give us meat week to eat fat man. but you've. seen 2nd reason mass i went off to start to wear for a lot of wear red with sticky doozy this week the russian bar scene is so we started to speak with our russian partners this year where possible in the near

future. and finally the south thousands of pensioners in moscow care homes have received the russian sputnik the vaccine including a 104 year old veteran who got the job so she could safely return to spending quality time with her 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 finally getting the short which was done to allow her to see her relative safety she's very happy. that wraps it up for this news hour do join me in just over 30 minutes of more in

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