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i'm sure i'll see you then. you still live when i was a child and we had arguments in the playground we used to say bounces off me and sticks to you that's part of lot of new interest sponsors joe biden labeling him a killer in a recent t.v. interview we look at whether the american presence promise that diplomacy is back is in fact a stab in the back also to come. we i mean the crisis of the century. and i'm not ruling out any anything for now the european union threatens its allies because of the cracks an export ban in a bid to fix its own floundering program while other states call for russia putting things back seem to be approved for use in the u.k. should strike trade deals with countries even if they have
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a poor human rights record that's according to elise recording of the u.k. foreign secretary. good evening watching r.t. international now flooded with putin has responded to being labeled a killer by his american counterpart joe biden during a recent t.v. interview. because. we just. 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
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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 unix that. 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 just like them but with difference we have a different genetic and cultural moral code but we know how to protect our interests yes we'll work with them was in areas that are of interest to us on terms of benefits and they will have to deal with it while this whole story is started
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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'll 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 their reasons only this time around we're talking about 2020 elections not 2016 and i would say hard to mix it all up given this never ending stream of accusations leveled against russia in the recent years and russian ambassador by the way
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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 it 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 in a quote dead end geo political analyst patrick henningsen and journalist neil clark both believe that u.s. diplomacy is currently at an all time low. i think that president putin comes out of this whole exchange with tremendous credit he stay classy is i mean when you look at what joe biden said you know you could argue this is projection certainly because when you think of biden's wreck or we talk about killers and we talk about deaths well he just about every walk of it so to hear this man use this kind of language that really is tells everything we need to know about the degradation of
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the office of the president the u.s. it is ironic this comes out of donald trump these office we were told don't trump was the one who is bringing america into disrepute and yet we get biden coming in just a few weeks off because the president according to another world leader killa well really it is time so i think what's really gone badly wrong with weston. will be to look at lois's total lack of diplomacy in recent years 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 so 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 that they're going to have to come to terms of the fact that this is a collapsed narrative they're addicted to this russia gave narrative and then there's nothing they don't have anything to go forward with in terms of diplomacy
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or really original thinking. another nice tonight the e.u. has threatened his allies for the new vaccine export ban in the latest twist in the bronx troubled and occupation campaign commissioner live on the line said that she is prepared to invoke an oil last used 50 years ago to stop vaccines made in europe 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
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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 of being 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 i'm surprised we're having this conversation is normally what we do you can you
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team up with projects with other countries with less than a critic reviews 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 a group of 6 member states who want to see a change in the way it's. 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 vi 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
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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 pays for all of their well we spoke to the head of a conservative think tank in italy he says that the year bureaucracy is that the core of europe's vaccination problems. 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 and because of the political choice of the european union the problem of this implication is a link not that we the national state is linked with the book sir that we're ocracy we have a 2 star that using this public and because of our country all over all that maybe
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40 countries all over the world that use this book and the sputnik is the same vaccines so i don't understand why the european union is so slow to approve the use of this board meeting inside the european union. now sacrificing human rights at the altar of trade what the u.k. foreign secretary has been accused of by rights groups after elite recording revealed 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 'd 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
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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 rob'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
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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 does have trade deals were. with billions of pounds with countries topping the list of human rights violators in the last 4 years saudi arabia 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 robb's comments. the anything that really surprises me about this is that people still think human
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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 would they want to prevent the british government doing trade deals with genocidal regimes and the government of closed it 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 which is 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 a retreat in this country because the state that he put out yesterday the integrated defense review had some absolutely chilling passages in including the fact that we're going to be increasing our nuclear weapons stockpile by 40 percent this is a deeply liberal government and you know i think that trade policy is clearly going
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to play a role in future years in the promotion of british power and british transnational corporations around the world. that the deadline is fast approaching for the u.s. troop withdrawal from afghanistan chadron from one of the 1st however the new u.s. administration does indicate that that goal might be difficult to achieve this thursday the afghan government and the taliban met in moscow to try and rebuild the pace process speaking at a gathering the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov cold on both sides to deescalate tensions with that is the order 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 with a joint statement included russia the us china and pakistan and all of them were
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hoping for the peace talks in afghanistan to restart parties more against the reports. 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
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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. 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 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 the foreign troops left i think as long as we we have our international engagement with the u.s.
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as long as we have to be 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 the united states for its part is still seemingly confused unsure itself whether it will abide by this peace agreement or pullets 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 towards solution or to
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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 process. the u.s. southern border calling on the government to step in as the region faces a record influx of migrants the u.s. border patrol is struggling to provide covert secure shelter for thousands of people and the mare of a town in arizona told 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 earth sort of cities have seen aaron we were hoping to keep it that way unfortunately it doesn't look with them dropping these migrants in our community and tested what border states including arizona and alabama have borne the brunt of the migrant influx a recent poll suggests there's growing back to about the ability of the authorities
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to cope with the situation on the us mexico border amid the pandemic the biden ministration has to point the disaster agency famous to try and deal with the situation chris riggs again they believe that the federal government wasn't prepared for the surge in numbers. there is definitely the concern of cove and. how that it's going to impact my community i have a large number of seniors and elders that. this could really affect so we're hoping that border patrol 'd will start testing before they release people were wanting to see what their health records are so that we can ensure that our our citizens are protected if 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
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3rd going to offer this they need to do their job they need to have a plan in place obviously there was no plan. and i with that europe's faxing right told to by supplied troubles as you mentioned earlier some i'm looking further afield to get that jap a number of italian entrepreneurs and even hyping to launch vaccination tours to russia early this month firms in a number of e.u. countries and tails to produce russian sputnik 3 jap that still waiting on the blocks regulated to approve the truck caught up with the italian travel agent behind the vaccine toas idea. in the you're upright to now. campaign is going very slowly the people who have been bassinet out the old part of the population but you know that is all they need the age of the population of the 34 to 15 years old 'd that want to be bastion it
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back to may be they have to wait 5 or 6 months we have a not a logistic 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 week to a big fat mouth. but you've. seen the grease mass i want off the stuff to have 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. well here in russia thousands of pensioners in moscow care homes have received sputnik v. including 104 year old veteran who got the job so she could safely going back to spending some quality time with her family.
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he has been living here for a long time hen she's a new 104 years old when the vaccination was and as she volunteered to get it she feels fine assured getting the short which was done to allow her to see her relative safety she's very happy i. well as the fight against 19 continues in russia the country is boosting its own high tech medical technology the state owned firm ante is now launched a new production facility and some pay to suburban it does produce highly sensitive diagnostic x. ray machines with with one model already deployed to medical institutions across russia during the pandemic now during the treatment is proved to be more accurate
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and reliable scanning patients than previous versions the company has also set the goal of using 90 percent domestically produced components in their state of the art equipment. celebrating the 7th anniversary of reunification with crimea after months of political turmoil and civil unrest in ukraine the southern region voted by more than 96 percent to break away and break away and rejoin the mainland russia artie's anton close of ski spoke to one of the most prominent figures of the time. 7 years have passed do you regret anything. like that in the referendum no definitely no into crimea feel things are better in reality different things the crimean referendum here's the date of the anniversary of the crimean referendum we're all happy because we defined as
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something of all ours we had one goal we were move into words this noble goal talk to me is me needed that and how did the change in general i remember the joy with which crimea joined but what 7 years later do they now thinking crimea about this obviously some new understanding has come. no pride in the referendum but a desire to establish a dialogue with ukraine how the rights of the crimean people effected no question of course they're affected because crimea is can't get some kind of visa to go somewhere crimea special people with a special status quo limited in dries the tie available to any other person live in either in mainland russia or in ukraine it means for the choice for they political views crimean still bear such restrictions. do people regret it. of course people are war it and people are waiting to begin to leave normally like
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everyone else for the most part is how can this happen. on the given that probably on no one it's not just moscow and kiev being listen to the results and need to ask crimean stem cells like what happened here they say you have been annexed and we would say to the international community called aches fellow citizens friends were not and that we were stupidly abandoned in 2014 those people who seized power in kiev forced us into holden and referendum we defended our allies and turned to a large amount putin and we were really hoping that he would not abandon us because they had already abandoned us in key if he didn't abandon us pushing out internationally is coming to hop os 7 even here in moscow because i have a company. of the top of the.
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