headlines an r.t. it takes one to know one that splatted me putin's response to joe biden labeling him a killer in a recent t.v. interview we look at whether the american president's promise that diplomacy is back is in fact a stab in the back also to come. in the crisis of the century. and i'm not ruling out anything anything except for now. the european union threatens its allies with the vaccine next pulled back in the attempt to fix its floundering job while other states suggest that sputnik the big . and the u.k. should strike trade deals with countries even if they have a poor human rights record that's according to a leaked from calling u.k.

foreign secretary. and. i welcome good afternoon you're watching r.t. international gone 3 o'clock here in the russian capital. has commented on a recent t.v. interview with his american counterpart where joe biden in sorry labeled him a killer here's what the russian president had to say. because although. i would wish him a good health i'm not joking i mean it secondly i want to say that in the history of every country there are many tragic and dramatic events but when we judge people

or other nations we look into mirror we see ourselves there we impose on others what we see in ourselves when i was a child and we had arguments in the courtyard we were saying it takes one to know one and it's not just the children saying dominion is very deep. meanwhile russia's ambassador to the united states is on his way to moscow for crisis talks after ties with washington hit a new low it has come in response to that t.v. interview in which president joe biden said that his russian counterpart will pay the price for trying 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 the irreversible degradation if the americans realize the risks associated with that this will be discussed your own consultations between the russian foreign ministry and other

relevant departments and with the russian ambassador to washington well in the same interview there that the primacy gloves were clearly off biden laying a very serious allegation as we heard at vladimir putin's door. 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 through 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 l. like sion 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 she had 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 what 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. . well on wednesday washington also increased arms exports frictions on russia the us department of conus cited the country's a lead sheet of chemical weapons something that moscow has repeatedly denied i guess told us that biden and his team have a cold war mindset and that is bad 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 a 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 with 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 enemies. that he was threaten his allies with a vaccine export ban in the latest twist in the books on getting vaccinations saga commission a slave on the line has said she is prepared to invoke canola 50 years ago to stop

vaccines 1000 year from being sent out of side of 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 also vaccines have been exported from the e.u. into the u.k. the row have gone the other way for a manufacturer is 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 we do you can you team up with projects with other countries with 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 distribution of vaccines sebastien courts the austrian chancellor heading up. group of 6 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 e.u. bodies issue an authorization for safe vaccines as soon as possible the more vaccines we have the better 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 p 12 reporting that will franceschi believes the president of the italian think tank any future and he says that bureaucracy is to blame for europe's current crisis. the european union it's a very long and tittie we are we need that as soon as possible and we are leaving iraq vaccine soon because of the political choice of the european union of the problem of this implication is a link not that we the national states but is link with the book sir that we're ocracy we have a 2 star that using this book nick and because after country all over all that maybe 40 countries all over the world that use this book and this book to me is the same vox's so i don't understand why the european union is so slow to approve the

use of this board meeting inside the european union. sacrificing human rights at the alter of trade that's what the u.k. foreign secretary has been accused of by right screech after a recording revealed he wants the u.k. to strike deals with countries even if they have 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 well britain has trade deal. it's worth billions of pounds for the countries topping the list of human rights violators in the last 4 years saudi arabia carried out over 500 executions as capital punishment on india and 2020 there were over 1300 deaths in judicial custody we spoke to the director of the global justice now holding a zation he wasn't surprised by dominic robb's comments. anything 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 are closed so there are backbenchers 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 is a basic human rights free zone and dominick grabs response to democracy apparently being in retreat around the world seems to be the democracy should also be a retreat in this country because the state 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 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. watch not extend the deadline for u.s. troop withdrawal from afghanistan fast approaching the afghan government and the

taliban a cover the meeting in moscow to rethink takes a process will have the latest from the talks just on the front. make taste or make sites or unlike hearing the brain doesn't have an organ for time right we have no organ for time nor could we because time isn't material physical substance like matter or like light so the brain has to create that perception of time. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation

or community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maybe in the shallows. hello again imo sky was hosting talks between the taliban and afghan government at the moment to try and restart the peace process representatives from the us pakistan and china are also taking part in negotiations and speaking at the event the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov called on both afghan sides to deescalate

tensions. we encourage both sides to remain committed to the provisions of the doha document supported by the un security council resolution we are convinced that given the deterioration of the military and political situation further delays are an acceptable we urge the opposing sides to reduce the level of violence in the country. like i would ask i live now to central moscow and talk correspondent then were gassed on the sidelines of these talks good afternoon would add just run through that have significant these talks are. well look at it this way the current agreement the current deal between the united states and the taliban is failing it is failing because the united states says that now it perhaps won't keep up its end of the deal and withdraw troops from afghanistan by the 1st of may as they agreed in doha last year and these talks

are supposed to restart the peace process restart negotiations give it a much needed boost the atmosphere here the mood is deal enough it's polite especially given the fact that it was only a few years ago that the taliban also here in moscow agreed to sit down at the same table as the afghan government delegation and here they sat shoulder to shoulder former president hamid karzai shaking hands even hugging representatives of the taliban but this is in stark contrast to what's happening in of gotta start where violence is unfortunately ramping up the taliban is ramping up will so it's bring offensive a traditional military operation that launches every spring every summer and save the lover of the russian foreign minister said now is specially important to get the peace process doing because this violence is no one the do have agreements

between the trumpet ministration and taliban which stipulated by the way that the taliban on its part would avoid attacking american foreign troops and also make sure that its territory isn't used to launch attacks on the united states the united states on its part would make sure that it doesn't strike the taliban needlessly so that it would pull out all its troops by may 1st it appears that it be doing that. biden joe biden says that that is increasingly tough to do and the taliban says there is no alternative. all foreign troops must do with drawn from our country this issue has been resolved once and for all we have been negotiating with the americans for over 18 months so this is she has finally been resolved all foreign troops must leave our country at the end of april. there are a number of reasons being discussed why the united states is winning on it's part

of the deal why it's refusing to pull the troops out perhaps it would it would the deprive them of leverage over the taliban over negotiations with the taliban another theory that's going around is the donald trump administration simply didn't pass on the details or didn't carry out an orderly transition of power to the biden administration they'd be left in a tough spot nevertheless the afghan government doesn't want foreign troops gone because the taliban obviously is already in control of much of the country and there are fears that it would take over the rest of foreign troops left. i think as long as we we have our international engagement with the us as long as we have the b.b.c. active as long as we have the strategic military engagement with our partners and allies certainly we will be able to defend the taliban and they will not be able to

make significant progress. reiterate these talks are supposed to replace the old sideline other negotiations such as those in doha what they are supposed to do is get the 2 sides to talk to each other to perhaps discuss other details of the peace deal that difficult to implement and given that both sides amicable enough there is some hope going into the future that they'll be able to work out the 5 points that fine fine print the united states for its part is. he's still seemingly confused unsure itself whether it will abide by this peace agreement to pull its troops out or whether those troops stay in of god or start after 20 years of war whether that stay will be prolonged reviewing our own troops including may 1st deadline we haven't made any decisions yet about that

. we expect a press statement later in a few hours where we'll hear what are these that they've agreed on if anything as i mentioned the point of these talks isn't to come towards solution or to come to a peace deal the point is to facilitate dialogue and negotiation something that has been unfortunately lacking for many years in the afghan brutus. ok thanks leave it there the numbers are teach moderate gas death with the latest on those afghan peace talks that are taking place in moscow. now let's go back to our top story because vladimir putin has which joe biden well responding to some undiplomatic remarks made by the american president in a recent interview the russian president appears to harbor no hard feelings towards the american counterpart despite being labeled a killer let's get more now from our own constant rushkoff following the story for

assert constant saying everybody was waiting for brahimi response and here we have it and i wouldn't say he took it lightly but he could have been much more stern in his response to. well yeah absolutely i mean you know the response of lattimer putin to this bombshell remarks made by joe biden was of course highly anticipated and everyone's been curious what lattimer putin would say to this and how it's going to fact the relationship between the 2 countries well for now it seems that mr putin has chosen not to get deeper down in this war of words and diplomatic language. because. i wish him good health and i'm not joking i mean it secondly i want to say that in the history of every country there are many tragic and dramatic events but when we judge people or other nations will continue or we see ourselves there we impose on others what we see in ourselves when i was

a child and we had arguments in the courtyard we were saying it takes one to know one and it's not just the children saying the meaning is very deep. the whole story started when joe biden was asked in an air of you if he considers vladimir putin to be a killer so what's have a listen to the segment. you know vladimir putin you think he's a killer. or do so what price must he pay the price is going to pay well you'll see shortly well that harsh statement sent the relationship between the 2 nations do you a new low and before that biden is administration announced a new wave wave of anti russian sanctions including the blanket ban of all imports and exports of weapons and military technology to russia and vice versa. and american cited the alleged meddling in the 2020 lections and alleged poison of alexian of on the russia's opposition figure as the main reason behind those

sanctions. russia moscow called the russian ambassador in the u.s. back home for consultation but still hopes that the normalization of the relationships between the 2 nations is still possible. for us the main thing is to determine ways of improving russian u.s. ties which in a difficult state washington has in fact brought those to 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 so again this is a tough time for the relationship between the 2 countries but as you've noticed you know there is a stark difference in the language that is being used by joe biden and lattimer putin. so that he was ok thanks for the update that was consenting protocol.

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