i will fuck around with respect for a gentleman and i hope that after leaving the court. i. look at the words good dance off me and sticks to you. part of a lot of my patients new response to joe biden labeling him a killer in a recent t.v. interview look at whether the american president's promise that diplomacy is back is in fact a stab in the back or trying to come. we are in the crisis of the century. and i'm not ruling out anything anything for now european union threatens its allies with vaccine export ban in a bid to fix its floundering job while other e.u. states call for russia's spawning thing back seem to be approved in the fall and the u.k. should strike trade deals with countries even if they have

a full human rights record that's according to police calling of the u.k. foreign secretary dominic graf. and. the afternoon is just gone 5 o'clock in moscow you're watching r.t. international. responded to being labeled a killer by his american counterpart joe biden during a recent t.v. interview. because only. just a little. i would wish him good health i'm not joking i mean it secondly i want to say this in the history of every country there are many tragic and dramatic events but when we judge people or the nations we look into a mirror we see ourselves we impose on others what we see in ourselves when i was a child and we had arguments in the playground we used to say bounces off me and

sticks to you and it's not just the children saying the meaning is very deep a response to this bombshell remarks made by joe biden was highly anticipated and everyone's been here is swap the russian president would say to this and how it's going to affect the relationship between the 2 countries well for now it definitely seems that mr putin has chosen not to get deeper down and this war of words and diplomatic statements but you know at the same time he led everyone know that he is under no illusion about the nature of the u.s. policy towards russia. is that you. the united states government wants to maintain certain relations with us but only issues of interest to the united states itself and on that. they think we're just like them but we're different we have a different genetic and cultural moral code but we know how to protect our interests yes we'll work with them but in areas that are of interest to us on terms

of benefits they will have to deal with it while this whole story is started when joe biden was asked if he considers vladimir putin a killer in an air of you a few days ago when the reply was unprecedented even for russia and the u.s. with all their tough recent history so let's have a listen to the segment you know vladimir putin you think is a killer. or do so what price must he pay the price is going to pay well you will see shortly well the harsh statements and the relationship between the 2 nations to a new low before that biden's administration announced a new wave of anti russian sanctions which included a blanket ban on important export of weapons and military technology to russia washington cited the alleged meddling in the presidential elections as one of the reasons only this time around we're talking about 2020 elections not 2016 and i would say hard to mix it all obgyn this never ending stream of accusations leveled

against russia in the recent years and russian ambassador by the way russian ambassador to the u.s. is now on his way back to moscow for consultations it's one of the diplomatic moves that russian side made to show does not take all that lightly and will adjust its policy accordingly and according to the russian foreign ministry statement it's the u.s. to blame for bringing the relationship between the 2 countries. quote dead and. or i would ask the thoughts now of patrick henningsen he's a geo political analyst and also executive editor of the 21st century wired dot com website good afternoon to you patrick what's your response so you what putin has said in his response to the accusations made by joe biden. well 1st i'm not surprised by by putin's response i. detected some as aspiration in his response i mean after all it's been years now since the 2016 election and you

know so i mean in terms of biden's statement. this is a president can't even give a press conference where past 50 days now he's you know effectively politically speaking anyway in hiding you know compared to past presidents and so he's now scoria 18 comes out just flippantly excoriating another member of the u.n. national security council or the u.n. security council member in russia so you know this is a problematic situation for the democrats because they've relied on donald trump and they've relied on the the the anti russian narrative to to really carry them in opposition for 5 years now and ratings are down with all the major networks and you just saw what the result of that is is that this is the only thing that biden can do to i guess throw a solid to his base to throw

a solid back to the media that really carried the russia gate narrative for for 5 years so it's sad but i'm not surprised. it was this the response that many people are expecting from climate hate and which do you think you know if joe biden made those accusations presumably he was expecting expecting something more severe from the crime and i think. i think it was i'm not surprised because if you look at vladimir putin's been very consistent over the years he's very he's very predictable in in his responses it's always very measured he's magnanimous i dare say he's the adult in the room in this particular situation so you know he wishes him well i mean so you know in terms of a statesman you just compare the 2 in this exchange and it really tells you all you need to know about you know the u.s. president the state of the white house right now in terms of foreign policy you

know. dennis biden's denigrating the russian president and the same time his cia intelligence communities accusing putin of denigrating biden's reputation during the election after talking about the 2020 election it doesn't take a lot to do that if you look at ukraine gate you look at the hunter biden story that was spiked you look at the way the media silicon valley the intelligence community all banding together to really hold coordinate this narrative to keep this narrative in place that so essential for the democrats and for joe biden himself being directly involved in what's arguably a lot of corruption in the ukraine that's that's historic record by now even on camera he said so much himself so. this is just more damage control in a sense in the really just putting off the inevitable the inevitable is that

they're going to have to come to terms of the fact that this is a call they don't have anything to go forward with in terms of diplomacy or really original thinking and i'm afraid this is a prelude to possibly more aggressive operations in the ukraine for instance the way things are going in that country just in regard to the. gave up the interest to get your thoughts on this it didn't saying this was something that joe biden panned to say the pacing was a killer was pretty much fed to him body by the interview and it could lead to just being badly handled by joe biden. i mean should be reading read that much into. yes i agree with you i think it was i think joe biden's comment easy target from the media in that sense because he himself is. you know he's been accused of being in cognitive decline i don't think he right he doesn't write any of his speeches he's very uncomfortable with the press so yes i mean that's a legitimate excuse it doesn't bode well for the president the united states to be

sort of taking being spoonfed talking points like that from the press and then just 100 running within this is the result that you get. to the whole new evolving drama as well which the white house is very much no one to always use as a kind of battering ram against russia as well so i can't imagine what the investors are going to be talking about as he's been recalled i mean it's almost like they have to you know i don't know be prepared for an impasse for i don't know maybe the next 4 years in terms of relations with the u.s. in the 1st politics especially democrat politicians never admit you made a mistake so i don't think the what the white house is going to walk this back they're just going to either move away from it completely deny it in the white house press secretary jim psaki just completely deflecting from this they just want to get away from it but it's still there it's still there it's on the record and

that's a problem and. it will leave it and i said to patrick henningsen political analyst and executive editor of 21st century why don't. you. threaten his allies with a vaccine export ban and the latest twist in the bronx troubled inoculation campaign commissioner underline said that she is prepared to. change the 50 to stop vaccines made in europe from being sent side 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. 0 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

and 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 distribution of vaccines sebastien courts the austrian chancellor heading up agree. 6 e.u. member states he 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 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 was a peaceful over there we spoke to the head of a conservative think tank in italy he says that bureaucracy is at the core of europe's vaccination struggle. the european union it's a very long and the we we need that as soon as possible and we are leaving iraq of vaccines in because of the political choice of the european union of the problem of this implication is a link and not that we the national state is the link with the book sir that we're

ocracy we have a 2 star that using the sputnik and because after that country all over all that maybe 40 countries all over the world that use this and this botany is the same vaccines so i don't understand why the european union is so slow to approve the use of this brought me inside the european union. as i can fight in human rights at the alter of trade has what the u.k. foreign secretary has been accused of by right screams after release recording revealed that he wants the u.k. to strike deals with countries 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 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 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 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. well britain has trade deals worth billions of pounds with countries topping the list of human rights violators in the last 4 years saudi arabia for example carried out over 500 executions as capital punishment while in india in 2020 there were over 1300 deaths in judicial custody we spoke to the director of global justice now who wasn't surprised by dominic rupp's comments.

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 for a zone and dominick grabs response to democracy apparently being in retreat around the world seems to be a 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 message is it 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. still to come this hour with a deadline for u.s. troop withdrawal from afghanistan fast approaching the afghan government and the taliban the current meeting in moscow to rethink the peace process we'll have the latest from there in a couple of minutes. well

it still seems wrong. just don't call. me. yet to shape out this day because educated and in good spirit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

again that the deadline is fast approaching for the u.s. troop withdrawal from afghanistan which is shared jewel for may the 1st however the new u.s. administration does indicate that that goal might now be difficult to achieve i mean afghan government and the taliban are currently meeting in moscow to try to reboot the peace process speaking at the gathering the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov called on both sides to the escalate tensions with that is that we encourage both sides to remain committed to the provisions of the doha document supported by the u.n. 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 where we are expecting a media briefing in the coming hours and sings happens we will go straight to it in the meantime artie's more aghast the eye is on the sidelines of the talks and reports next. these talks are supposed to restart the peace process restart

negotiations give it a much needed boost 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 american support over 18 months so this issue is fine we've been resolved all foreign troops must leave our country at the end of april there are

a number of reasons being discussed by the united states is when they go on it's part of the deal while it's refusing to pull the troops out perhaps. it would the deprive them of leverage over the taliban over negotiations with the taliban another theory that's going around is the total trump administration simply didn't pass on the details or didn't carry out an orderly transition of power to the biden administration they've been left in a tough spot nevertheless the afghan government doesn't want foreign troops scored 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 the foreign troops left i think as long as we we have our international engagement with the u.s. as long as we have the b.s.a. 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 what will sideline other negotiations such as those in doha what they are supposed to do is get the 2 sides to talk to each other the united states for its part is still seemingly confused unsure itself whether it will abide by this peace agreement and pull its troops out or whether those troops stay in of gotta start after 20 years of war whether that stay will be prolonged we're reviewing our own troops including may 1st deadline we haven't made any decisions yet about that point of these talks isn't to come to a solution or to come to a peace deal the point is to facilitate dialogue and negotiations something that has been unfortunately lacking for many years in the afghan protests.

that authorities in the u.s. have been border according on the government to step in as the region faces a record influx of migrants u.s. border patrol just struggling to provide a secure shelter for thousands of people and the mayor of a town in arizona telling us that the crisis is 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 them dropping these migrants in our community and stood. border states including arizona and alabama have borne the brunt of the migrant influx when some polls suggest there is growing doubt to you about the ability of the authorities to cope with a situation on the us mexico border amid the pandemic ministration is to point the

disaster agency famous to deal with the situation makris briggs again i believe that the federal government wasn't prepared for such a surge in numbers there is definitely the concern. yet how that it's going to impact my community i have a large number of seniors and elders there so this could really affect so we're hoping that border patrol will start testing before they release people were wanting to see what their health records are so that we can ensure that our our citizens our project this is a crisis simple as that and i'm this on border patrol i put it strictly on the federal government as far as the current administration needs to step up and so we're going to offer this they need to do their job they need to have a plan in place obviously there was no play. meanwhile with

europe's vaccine relax don't buy surprised trouble some are looking further afield to get hejab a number of italian entrepreneurs are even hoping to launch thanks nation tours to russia but earlier this month firms in a number of e.u. countries ing day was to produce russia's sputnik 3 jap they are still waiting on the blocks regulator to approve the drug r.t. caught up with the with an italian travel agent behind the vaccine tours idea. in the euro upright to now is 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 old they need the aged part 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 not the logistic to 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 a good week to make fat man. projects. scenes the grease mass i want off the stuff to wear for a lot of wear red with sticky due to this week the russian bar scene is so we started to speak with our russian partners this year where possible in the near future. while here in russia thousands of pension is in moscow care homes have received the sputnik the jap including 104 year old veteran who got the job so she could safely get back to spending some quality time with her family. she has been living here for a long time hence she's

a new 104 years old when the vaccination was and as she volunteered to get it she feels fine assured getting the shot which was done to learn had to see her relative safety she's very happy. just approaching 5 in moscow will be back with more stories for you in about 30 minutes. banks figure out new ways to rip people off they get caught and what they do is

they change the law into this new laws and if there is any problem they extend and pretend they just make maturity longer and the bonds lower but now it looks like that big american game of fraud which is the american business model is coming to an end. this is the one business show you can't afford to miss some friendship or in washington coming up the federal reserve has revised its outlook on the u.s. economic growth and the vaccination process has ramped up in the nation we have former fed insider on hand to discuss what the u.s. has slapped sanctions on several chinese officials in the lead up to a key meeting between the 2 nations we have a packed show today so let's dive right in. and we lead the program with the u.s.

federal reserve the federal open market committee has been meeting for the last 2 days a year after lowering interest rates to near 0 all eyes are on the central banks monetary policy with inflation continuing to be in focus while equities sit near record highs fed chair jerome powell spoke following the meeting saying the central bank will keep rates at current levels today the foam see kept interest rates near 0 and maintained our sizeable asset purchases overall inflation remains below our 2 percent longer run objective over the next few months 12 months measures of inflation will move up as the very low readings from march and april of last year fall out of the calculation. however these one time increases in prices are likely to have only transient effects on inflation. the median inflation projection of a form.