italy's prime minister says rome will have to make its own decision about whether to purchase russia's food could be shot if the e.u. regulator doesn't give the covert vaccine its approval. to british controlled territories reject a government plan to send migrants there for processing the u.k. opposition brands the idea inhumane and ridiculous. and denmark unveils plans to reduce the number of non-western residents in some neighborhoods in a bid to improve integration. broadcasting live from moscow to the entire world this is our to international law

donald quarter here with you in the studio welcome. italy's new prime minister says rome will be forced to make its own decision on the use of the russian covert vaccine sputnik the if it's not approved by the european medicines agency archies peter all over has more. mario druggies not long been in the job as a tally and prime minister but already he's facing a real crisis as the country stares down a or uneasy sense of deja vu when it comes to covert 19 it was a year ago that italy was at the very forefront of the virus arriving in europe and right now intensive care beds in the country are filling up at an alarming rate as fears of a 3rd wave of the virus have become a reality now that is prompted mr druggy to say that should european one for all and all for one procurement measures not be doing the job he thinks they should be then italy will go out on its own and look after itself and that could include

turning to russia's sputnik vaccine even if the european medicines agency doesn't give it approval let's order sputnik be and see what happens if you're a peon coordination especially in health care does not work we have to be ready to act on our own and it's not only me saying this chancellor merkel told me that if the european medicines agency certify sputnik be then ok but if it does not germany will do so itself this is normal pragmatism we have to work on the basis of european unity but if it's not achieved we have to try other ways vaccination was also top billing for angle merkel if she wrapped up a summit with the leaders of germany 16 states. local g.p.'s are going to be able to give out the job here from the end of april this vaccination summit also saw the chancellor talk about russia's sputnik v. job she said that should the may not give it the approval anytime soon that germany

would still be looking to go out on its own and of taine sputnik the us in also send him stuff as fired the russian vaccine is considering have held the view for some time that we should use each vaccine that is approved by the. be an imagist says agence singh but if a new such european order were mate and have seen no indication that it will be germany would have to go it alone that is a possibility and this what would do. or the worst some reports on friday morning that a facility in budden verdant book in germany was being prepared in order to be the site for production of sputnik the jobs inside the european union it's understand may rely on the job getting the approval from the european medicines agency under merkel wasn't just talking about the sputnik job though she also spoke about astra zeneca as vaccine said that she would take that vaccine herself this comes after

a difficult week for astra zeneca earlier we saw around 20 nations suspend the use of astra zeneca jobs over fears related to blood clots on thursday the european medicines agency gave a extensive press conference in which they said that the risks from any type of blood clot were far outweighed by the protection against covert 19 that the astra zeneca vaccine provides while the majority of those that had placed a suspension on the use of astra zeneca resumed using it following that announcement from the a denmark finland and norway of all said they want more information before they'll resume use of astra zeneca due to several serious cases in norway we want to thoroughly review the situation before we make a conclusion across the world we are looking at a real mixed bag some countries taking leaps and strides ahead when it comes to vaccinating their citizens while others are staring down the barrel of

a 3rd wave of coke at 90. sweden is among the countries continuing to hold back on using the astra zeneca vaccine that's despite the company being partly based in the country sweden's national medicines regulator has stressed it's a precautionary measure while cases of blood clots within the country are investigated and epidemiology professor we heard from thinks the am a report has nothing to do with potential side effects of the astra zeneca vaccine well that's happened in sweden and that there are 37 identified some cases still. new it's a difference in the interim and what is important to do to students here is that when we're in a saying that. says or. wants our norm to. not have your leisure receive intimacy in the pollution where the she's not the

case of the sequence. side effects that to be describing it's. done. compulsory for the authority to take it. kosher. even moment the government changes the sylvan on these 2 whether. i mean how to introduce precision of the essence and they with the union so. it was the european union who sent to do different factors here so that's what happened. over in the u.k. the uptake of the astra zeneca vaccine has been widespread in in comparison to europe but a british nurse did tell us many people there are still reluctant to take the shot . people were concerned about the speed at which the vaccinations we develop so that it's now compounded with tools and concerns around blood clots in the connection with these these brain blood course that can develop or that you know

this is fission that they may develop off to this particular vaccination i had a conversation yesterday with perry as a patient who actually said that he would not be getting that one and he has now gone on to prefer a different brand of vaccination because he's lost confidence in that one. prime minister boris johnson was given the astra zeneca shot earlier on friday and urged others to do the same but me bennett again thinks members of the public are right to be cautious but i think the big concerns are warranted as we are because we don't really want to be gambling with people's lives you know it's not and there was a lot of talk around this speed at which the facts in the nation develop so there is a lot of concerns about you know how safe are the facts and now this you know i just i just hope that every something nice. the british government planned to

process asylum seekers and overseas territories has sparked anger gibraltar and the isle of man are believed to be 2 options to which migrants could go before being potentially sent back to their original countries local authorities however say they want nothing to do with this scheme though boris johnson has defended the idea the objective here is to is to save life and avert human misery because people are crossing the channel who are being fooled who are being combed by gangsters into paying huge sums of money risking their lives people have died to beaking this trying to make this crossing and it is a deeply repugnant traffic that we need to stop well that idea was 1st suggested by pretty patel the home secretary and made the escalating my current crisis though at the time it was branded a sick joke however that idea has now resurfaced from the prime minister. well

critics have long said that this kind of policy will only make the journey all the more risky and that the government should really be prioritizing legal alternatives and safe passages for migrants to enter the united kingdom but on this latest policy they've branded as exacerbating the hostile environment it is an inhumane polis that undermines our nation. tradition of providing protection to people fleeing persecution and terror many of whom have gone on to work as doctors and nurses and they chose these absurd ideas so the government has lost control and all sense of compassion well even the united nations has waded into this latest plan of shipping asylum seekers and refugees to remote areas in exchange for cash by calling it a risk to eroding international protection for refugees but at this point we have heard from some of those remote territories british remote territories are saying they're having none of it along with ideas to build

a road tunnel under the irish sea or a bridge above it this latest idea simply as to the reached of life we're dealing with at present april the 1st isn't until next month but nonetheless the idea is expected to be included in policy papers as of next week as part of a wider shake up of asylum rules in a post bricks in britain so the situation is looking critically bleak for asylum seekers here in the united kingdom in fact right now asylum seekers are being housed in temporary accommodation including former army military barracks that have long been described as a prison like we've seen outbreaks and totally. hygiene facilities there as well which has also met huge criticism from charities 6 organizations and the labor party as well it seems as though the case of asylum seekers has long been a thorn in the government's side and so now this latest idea to ship them off to remote chuck territory seems as though the government is changing its tactic of lock them up and throw away the key to out of sight out of mind what you're in my

great migration policy at the london school of economics joseph downing believes such an offshore processing plant is misguided. he's referencing people trafficking in criminal gangs which are important right people reach nikkei as they are in people reaching the whole of europe but whether sticking with asylum seekers the process the art of money to produce will save lives about 100 g.t.s. there's a logic in terms of trying to trying to stop losing people in the general population right this is basically what's happened in the past 1520 years here in the u.k. when people decide in claims have been rejected the rates of deportation are extremely low it's extremely expensive it should be difficult extremely cumbersome and the idea between behind this policy is essentially to isolate people in remote areas easier to survey and then easier to remove now how you would get

people from the mainland u.k. to due process also the isle of man without significant issues that's the bit for me that remains to be seen and i don't see there being a clear call for the british government to do that. that mark has proposed legislation to reduce the number of quote non-western residents in neighborhoods to a maximum of 30 percent within a decade out of denmark's population of just under 6000000 people around half a 1000000 are non western migrants or the descendants of immigrants that's around 9 percent of the population there's been a mixed reaction to the plans as daniel hawking's explains. multiculturalism means different things to different people and has been described by bullet oceans as both a strength and a force for good and a failed experiment bringing more problems and solutions the danish government has its own view and vision of the future where many non-western immigrants settle in certain residential areas it increases the risk of create in parallel religious and

cultural societies therefore the government will now work to create a mixed house in areas and ensure that in 10 years residents with non-western backgrounds make up a maximum of 30 percent in our house in areas in denmark to be classed as a ghetto an area must have a high number of non-western migrants high unemployment and crime low income and poor education an area could be all of the above yet be majority white and therefore not be classed as a ghetto boy non westerners authorities mean anyone not from denmark switzerland or they eat a country's and by reducing the numbers of such undesirables in communities many of the above list of problems could apparently be solved this core foods is a blood flow to the. grid in a positive development in residential areas making them more attractive to words range of the population i think 30 years may be kind of a drastic number. if i don't know maybe the saddle of with like 50 i prefer

different people living side by side but it's very very difficult to implement into this is it's important that we don't push people out of their homes if i was personally and worse. they would try this way to racially divided us i would not feel such areas in denmark already face special treatment such as doubled penalties for crimes collective punishment by a vixen mandatory language tests and training it daily should be values for kids and the limits on public housing leases a policy rooted in. prejudice and racism and when you are you know labeling it as non-western which means anybody who's brown. i think is the problem probably problematic and so integration is a 2 way street it can't be the responsibility just of the people who move into any particular country and that's where european governments have built their fails to

integrate minority communities because they have always seen them as they have always seen them as not equally part of their societies similar plans came to light a few years back and caused a stir with even the un expressing his concern about what it called forced assimilation denmark isn't the only european state dealing with the issue of ghettoization france and neighboring sweden of had their own share of troubles there is a significant problem right across europe with the ghettoization i remember some terror attacks in paris i went over to one of the estates on the outskirts of town which was predominantly muslim now there's nothing wrong with that but what you have a tendency to find this in a lot of these european cities they'll be the most libertarian they'll be the african area and they'll be the kind of western areas and what happens is people fail to integrate now will be only slithered i genuinely think that the problem here is that we have less it too many immigrants to your roots you quickly thought i was this isn't a perfect solution you can understand where it comes from copenhagen to set an

ambitious and i'm president of plan to tackle a political football head on other countries will watch closely to see it sink or swim. still ahead 2 months after donald trump departed the white house it seems he took the viewers of news networks with him have to the latest figures show c.n.n. plummeting in the ratings more on that after the break. is your media a reflection of reality. in the world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you good in the right way or are you being

so. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or remain in the shallows. to the summit in alaska representatives from china and the united states will meet for the 1st time since the advent of the by in ministration what can the beijing expect what will washington demand can the 2 sides agreed to disagree will it be a meeting of low expectations. welcome back to the program now it seems the post trump white house is proving

something of a turnoff quite literally ratings have been released showing that the news new network c.n.n. has lost almost half of its primetime audience following the former president's departure from office almost 2 and a half 1000000 viewers were tuning in daily between november 4th election date and joe biden's inauguration day in january after that the numbers dropped significantly down 47 percent in the key demographic of 25 to 54 year olds media and legal analysts lionel believes donald trump was the golden goose when it came to the media's ratings. it's the only reason they existed every day people would tune in to hear the anti trump rhetoric but also to listen to what insane connections they can make between everything and trump and it was it was brutal it was exciting it was it was it was interesting that's done this is just reality who wants to hear i didn't tire day

a program you say wasn't that fantastic did you notice the show to chewed did you notice how great this president was when he's not and meanwhile fox and newsmax to an extent annoying and others are enjoying incredible ratings because they can turn that venom and excitement against the biden administration what i think people want to hear more than anything else is is confrontation but if somebody said we really are going to give you an honest to god fair and balanced attack an appraisal they would love it we live in a world now of social media of trolling of immediate reaction there's no such thing as milk toast they could have done wonders by attacking if you will anybody who deserved attacking but what they are is these are apparatchiks these are shot puppets for the democratic party and everybody knows that but now that there's no trump to attack there's nothing there. the kremlin has repeated its offer to

washington for a live broadcast of meeting between the presidents of both nations vladimir putin has been trying to return diplomacy following joe biden's killer comments earlier this week as taylor reports. well we all know that moscow and washington are no strangers to tense relations but many had hoped that this was a thing of the past however of recent days seem to show that very little has changed since the cold war the same suspicions the same war of words are alive and well decades on and in fact in a sign that such an impossible breaking point has been reached moscow was forced to admit that despite its best efforts and despite its hopes to the contrary the might be no option but to relive a kind of through back to the low points of the past of course we always hope for the best and prepare for the worst the president has clearly expressed his desire

to maintain relations between russia and the u.s. no matter works and so he's not only in our interest but the entire world's most why is such a resigned tone from the kremlin well just to recap quickly audie of this week on national television president biden essentially called vladimir putin a killer a shocking statement that was unprecedented in its lack of diplomacy unfounded in its lack of evidence and really unexpected given moscow's insistence over the years that it wants to work with a washington and in keeping with this tradition despite that remarkable comment from his american counterpart vladimir putin reiterated russia's readiness to cooperate with all countries of the world including the u.s. but washington stopped by its guns person boy we were going forward you. know the president gave a direct answer to

a direct question i would say that the president already had a conversation already with president putin even as there are more world leaders that he has not yet engaged with and we engage with russian leaders members of the government at all levels but i don't have anything to report to you in terms of a future meeting the president will. course be in georgia tomorrow and quite busy we seem to be seeing a never admit never apologized policy regardless of the consequences for must go more and all of branch an attempt to defuse the escalating situation in fact of the admin page and did even suggest a quite unique a more sort of molten format for them to hash out their differences a one on one live streamed discussion between the 2 leaders where people from all over the world can tune in and watch them discussing a variety of political issues and he said that while she's away in siberia this weekend that's the only time he's not available otherwise he's ready to go but apparently joe biden wasn't a fan of the idea is to present

a lot of the oval office would you agree with. and it's not just biden turning his back on this invitation the white house has not responded to an official request which moscow and top prints as rejection but it is important to note that whilst this might seem somewhat playful maybe even a touch funny it was a very serious suggestion a serious suggestion for a serious situation because with washington apparently refusing to engage in any kind of dialogue pursuing this provocative rhetoric with the russian ambassador to the u.s. also having been recalled for talks there is absolutely no doubt that relations between the 2 countries are under exceptional strain at the moment. the e.u. has pledged to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by half over the coming decade but the move will come at a cost the european commission chief says the price tag will be hundreds of

billions of euros. we want to take green financing to the next level. because to achieve 2030 go alone we need to boost green investment we know that we will have to invest around 3350000000000 euros more. in the energy system in the coming decade to make it sustainable the international renewable energy agency has given its own assessment of how much needs to be spent to keep a rise of global temperatures to under 1.5 degrees celsius by 2050 after the numbers were crunched that figure is $33.00 trillion dollars on top of the currently projected investment of $98.00 trillion so that's an extra trillion dollars per year to fund the global switch from fossil fuels and all this at a time when global under spending on infrastructure is a factor

a study backed by the g 20 estimates an extra 15 trillion dollars will have to be spent mostly on transport over the coming years and earlier we discussed this climate crisis with the government the government spending plans with a financial journalist and an environmental scientist. at the same time that was spending the money we're creating green jobs so if it is doable it's going to be painful but in the long term it's going to benefit me is going to offset that damage that's happening to climate change right now and it's getting worse year on year on year where it is happening economic in patton's storms through heat waves to move to la clients that we are painful we're now all these things have to be addressed urgently and we certainly need a plan my point is as to more of a long term plan than just just funding we have to have a strategy you know has to be long term or just this obsession with governments to do what you're just looks really 6 months down the line and many years from our most people just forgot about that that applies to renewables of which i'm an

investor and the parent i meet and the quality and everything else that's going on right now we really need a long term plans all of these things and there is the money we just mentioned outrage accordingly so i want to see a long term strategy for renewables that's that's achievable in the same way as we . as with the pandemic and it seems like maybe we haven't really got a proper strategy for either at the moment before we have to do it in the in the right or that's my concern it's awful that i learned to have to spend the time on health now or to spend time on climate change later i appreciate it is a balancing 'd act and there's only so much money available but i think that the more money you spend tackling climate change as quickly as possible the less you can pay down the line. more details on your world news stories make sure to check out our website r.t. dot com and follow us on your favorite social media platform i'll be back with more in just about 30 minutes so do stay tuned.

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