if you want. to be a. top stories here and president putin meets russian vaccine developers to discuss a production boost sales the proven safety of domestically produced jobs. essential. procedure managed by brussels has failed speaking to walk see hungary's foreign minister condemns the e.u.'s handling of its inoculation program and urges the european regulators to approve ruptures a sputnik. the european commission chief threatens to prevent 19000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine from being shipped to the u.k. if the fails to meet his supply commitments also in the headlines.

of animals. to lash out at the rioters who were injured 20 offices in rallies against a controversial policing bill. worldwide news stories live from moscow this is the international thanks for joining us today . a lot of speed meeting with russia's covert vaccine developers to discuss various ways of accelerating the rollout both domestically and overseas he's also stressed the strong safety record of russian shots compared to foreign rivals. picks up the story probably the biggest news of the day here in russia and also with serious call friends boost for those who are still worried about the vaccination is . the announcement from president vladimir putin that he is going to get the

vaccine tomorrow that is going to be chouse day march 23rd but we don't know which of the 3 russian made vaccines registered in this country he has chosen and it looks like the kremlin doesn't want to reveal that in order not to give any preferences to any of the 3 manufacturers but mr putin has praised all of them saying all 3 russian vaccines are great so what you mean is today with full confidence we can say this something has been proven that russian vaccines are absolutely safe and effective none of the for an equivalence should the same level of protection once again this is a resounding success for domestic science and it's been recognized approved is the geographical adoption of the speed of the vaccine is actively growing the russian leader said that after providing the latest numbers on the vaccination in this

country so far 6300000 russians have received the 1st component of the jab 4.3 are good to go with the complete 2 components now a broad 55 countries have approved the use of the v. although a lot of our putin is making it clear that for the russian government the campaign to immunize the public for now is the number one priority in the meantime a senior european union official has battled back after saying last week that sputnik v. was one of the candidates for official use in the european union in his latest t.v. interview teary bread tone said that the blog pretty much doesn't need to put me at all and sided issues with production pace in russia. we have absolutely no need for sputnik v. the russians are having a. the manufacturers of russian made sputnik he reacted to that statement almost

immediately by accusing mr berg of being biased against just because it's russian they made it clear though that the only ultimate goal for them is to carry on saving more and more lives around the world the response from president putin also came quite quickly 1st he blamed some western officials and western media for leading a deliberate campaign to discredit russian made vaccines and also questioned the genuine goals of the people who make such statements. we are not forcing anyone to do anything but when we hear such comments from officials the 1st question that comes to mind is who of do you represent the interests of pharmaceutical companies well to citizens of european nations what are you doing and these people are trying to lecture us so the bottom line is that despite what the russian side is calling

bias and attacks against russian vaccines moscow wants to accelerate the pace of the production and vaccination both at home and they're looking forward to that abroad as well but hungary's a top diplomat in the meantime has called on e.u. regulators to approve sputnik very softly he personally received the russian vaccine in an interview with the foreign minister explained why he things europe's inoculation campaign has folded. vaccine is not a question of ideology for us it is a matter of saving lives and if we had not contracted the chinese and the vaccine and have saved the health care ahead of health and the lives of many hungry areas the hungary a national regulator has approved the emergency use authorization for nukes so i had no answer i was the one that asked by our

government to negotiate with the russians on the ration of purchasing when you after a long serious of negotiations and we were able to sign our contract which. a lot in accelerating the vaccination in hungary. there are 2 ways you know europe according to the european regulations how a vaccine gonna get approvals one day is definitely julianne 8 european medicines agency through a l.s.e. organ the rehab procedure but you don't get the regulations also say there's another way in case of emergency and that these other way should be completed by the national regulators would use for the emergency even. so the fact that the hungary a national regulator has issue with emergency use or fraud offer a zation is nothing you know against their regulations and and that's what made us

a little bit fed up you know that the way hungary has approved this we knew it was going to do dirty in the western part of the rope and in global media as if we had made something against a europe in regulation which is which is not true you wrote your regulations say very clearly that in a case of emergency you can make such an. icon give you an explanation why e.m.e.a. is so slow of course of course i mean bureaucratic explanations can be given any time they can say to day to day expect more documentation based by the russian look on their part to do the standard but i don't know what i see is what i see is that there are vaccines in the world which are used by millions and millions of people to be in russian or chinese but the these are not authorized here or even in europe you know once again europe i think explanations can be easily given in the fine but not this is not about the reference if you says about the lives of the people but

more x. and you have the more people you're going to say but i think very simple at least to speak about it for sure. the decentralized procurement procedure managed by brushing has failed as feared becomes regarded i saw the promise years and the expectations there are much less back seems arriving and market share slower compared to what had been before why it became obvious that the shipments. managed and coordinated by brussels are not satisfactory we've arrived there at that and by the same people by the same bureaucrats by the same politicians why we want to buy additional of axes for our own people for our own people and i think this is a this is a matter of of obligation of the state of the government to protect the lives of

its own people or covered vaccines are also center stage in the e.u. its relations with the u.k. brussels has now doubled down on threats to ban exports of a chronic delays in distribution we have the possibility to ban planned exports this is a message to astra zeneca you fulfill your part of the deal towards euro before you start to deliver to other countries it seems that the e.u. could be holding back on millions of vaccines that are due to be transported to cape in the next the roots if it takes that decision to suspend the facts of the next 2 being ok now the new president saying stink a couple of witnesses as you can imagine but also opposition party the labor party standing by the u.k. government on this particular point of calling for calm from the. i would urge the european commission to calm down the language cool the rhetoric and that's try and work together to get through this crisis. what seems most bizarre is the fact that

this is a astra zeneca jobs coming to the e.u. or not enough and that's because there is a huge amount of mistrust in this particular vaccine just for example here in france it's so high that only 20 percent of people say that they have faith in that job and as we know over the last week 19 european countries decide this to suspend astra zeneca over fears of safety in regards to blood clots and despite the fact that the european medical sage and see has once again rubber stamped it that's not good enough to some new countries who are still holding back and while gondolin in the big wigs are talking about the idea of not getting enough astra zeneca days to stay here what they're not talking about is how many doses european countries are just sitting on millions and millions of doses that have yet to be used here now i also want to talk about what's happening in france because astra zeneca has been

restarted as a campaign again but this new advice from the french health authorities here which means it can now only be used for over 50 five's completely different advice to what we had just a few weeks ago where president machen was saying that it was quasi effective for all their age groups and that some u.k. experts is causing a problem in undermining confidence it doesn't make any sense the whole thing looks completely crackers the changing the rules almost every week they're really damaging people's confidence in vaccines generally they're sitting on a massive stockpile of vaccines that they haven't deployed yet and at the same time they've got a massive wave of the new variants coming across the country you could make it up there's also a question about how much of this row is about the e.u. trying to deflect attention from how poorly it's handled this crisis some think it itself has melted and of course let's not forget the u.k.

was and. why did you join the joint procurement scheme with the e.u. despite breaks in the e.u. politely declined and said we're going to do it our own way and as a result of that they speeding ahead with their vaccination program just to put that into context 51 percent of all adults in the u.k. have received at least one dose of a vaccine compare that to around 10 percent here across the e.u. as a whole in the fake is really sort of paint a picture of how starkly different the campaigns are and some might say that this is now the e.u. throwing a bit of a tantrum and it's ready to throw the baby out with the bathwater. former top european officials are calling on brussels to stop caving into u.s. pressure when it comes to including those against iran and russia published an open letter demanding countermeasures. with more details well there is the open letter which has been jointly penned by a former french diplomat pierre vermont's alongside 3 institutes in paris berlin

and brussels calls for insurance europe to stand up to washington now the letter suggests that europe the europeans have grown weary of the domineering pressure coming from the us and encourages the block to consider acquiring the means of countering these extra territorial sanctions now one of the authors of the lesson has been very open about this in the past. we must gradually convince europeans that when we don't agree with washington's political line we must be able to see no and continue political dialogue with them so the note goes on to propose a series of tit for tat counter measures all on the par with the kind of sanctions that the u.s. is placing on european countries companies i should say now such counter measures would include ever hitting access to european territories to be the perpetrators of such sanctions also take into consideration particular banks from countries issuing extraterritorial sanctions when it comes to them asking for loans from the european

central bank and national banks there's a series of other countermeasures as well let's take a listen look at suspend the financial pass putting system which would prevent banks of this ancient country from operating in europe we could freeze the assets on european territory of certain public entities of countries see issuing sanctions we have to show that we can retaliate if we want to be listened to so this boles call from europe clearly comes as the block is going dissatisfied with this pressure coming from the u.s. with europe we find itself not on the same page as the u.s. on a number of issues recently the iran nuclear deal being the u.s. pulling out of the climate change according to donald trump and then of course this ongoing disagreements over the north stream to gas pipeline projects so what is seems like we're seeing here is really europe calling for it to come together and to stand up against this external pressure but of course in

a way that is fair on the par with those sanctions coming from the u.s. in a way that would ensure this ongoing friendly dialogue between the 2 sides. i also spoke earlier with pierre emmanuel tama the president of the euro continent g a political think tank he says the e.u. needs to form its own alliances without interference from washington. is a good idea now or to to try to put new i.d.'s to have more european strategic autonomy is excess exactly what the e.u. should do to retaliate against extraterritorial measures from the united states rouge dummy g.'s european or companies but also all the autonomy and the for bt to europeans to decide to use sovereign way about we've loom viduka most we would say exchange treaties where hit by gazan oid with the united states joe put his current strategy is to fragment eurasia and to

prevent too much compare ration between europe and union under our shop in order to slow down murty put our rechy and to prevent europeans to be too much dependent from united states as soon as e.u. doesn't fink its sense as in not to know who's powell or and doesn't decide. we need more sobering wait each week is going to be difficult. the british government has condemned sunday night's rioting in the city of bristol but the home secretary describing it as thuggery police found with torched on 20 officers were injured during a protest against a conscious bill to expand police powers.

or we can go across. the isa could you take us through what's been happening bring us up to speed. what we've seen over the weekend was protest. yes and legislation being introduced by the british government but many of accused the governments of attempting to try to 5 cut down on people's ability to protest freely giving the policeman the powers as to when and where people can demonstrate now of course a lot of this is taking place against the backdrop of the coded pandemic and there are fears that this legislation will lead to long term if not permanent changes and so to the extent that the protests in the southwestern states you bristol last night as the evening wore on things became progressively more violent.

clashes took place feed a number of the protesters and police and we're here in the center of bristol broadwell police station where a number of officers 20 officers were injured one suffering a punctured lung one with broken ribs and another with a broken arm so quite serious scene 7 arrests were made and it led to condemnation of all of those scenes from prince because all the time secondary reason. well of course the architect behind the legislation i have sparked this in bristol. unacceptable scenes in bristol tonight secor and by a minority will never be tolerated our police officers put themselves in harm's way to protect us all my thoughts this evening i want those police officers sentient. now we've seen already it's a cleanup operation taking place a number of forensic police officers on the roof of the police station perhaps

gathering evidence which they'll attempt to use to make arrests in the coming days and weeks so we also spoke to a number of the locals here in bristol many of them are supportive of the rights for people to protest but perhaps some of them as well not very keen on some of the more violent scenes we saw last night but overall we can perhaps see this is something a forbearance of what is to come if the government doesn't try to limit people's right to protest peacefully as they've been accused by their critics are seizing recently reporting live from personal thank you. germany's greens have been criticized over their calls to scrap the nord stream to gas pipeline the party was a major winner in this month's regional elections and has now claimed the project would damage the country's international standing but a member of the ruling christian democratic union told us energy imports need to be

diversified. the greens are more or less an arm of the us internationalist elite. they've been there done that for a while they are more or less completely. following the us strategy and they are not looking off to germany their parties have in their mind of the program basically to abolish money and you can see that all from. sense of a point towards ukraine and we should look for german interests 1st we should look for european interests 1st and it's very worthwhile and good for europe and for germany to diversify its energy sources and not to be dependent on one direction because if you're dependent on one direction almost looks like mafia tactics you take away the the the activity and then you provide the stuff yourself and of course it's good for germany to have energy sources from russia directly and

from the west and from wherever but not from one direction please the greens claim nor stream through would hurt the country's climate and renewable energy commitments as well as its international standing europe correspondent peter oliver reports from. germany's green party have been setting out their election promises ahead of this year's national vote scrapping the nord stream to gas pipeline is being given top billing but the greens stance puts them in lock step with the by an administration in washington secretary of state anthony blinken has also just announced that the infrastructure project should be stopped and that businesses involved in the pipeline could face sanctions and the entity involved in the north stream to pipeline risks u.s. sanctions and should immediately abandoned work on the pipeline costing just over 9000000000 euros north stream 2 is already more than 95 percent complete it will allow russian gas to flow directly into germany under the baltic sea and could be

used to bypass existing pipelines which take gas through ukraine which would cost kiev valuable transit fees the pipeline is seen by some politicians as the only way for germany to get the energy it needs while facilitating the move away from nuclear and coal. we are the only highly industrialized country which at the same time wants to get rid of nuclear energy in kovel those who use a huge amount of nuclear energy such as micron have an easier task to replace fossil fuels this is a bold move from the greens it puts at risk a potential correlation between themselves and the conservative union which had been widely talked up ahead of september's fort christian democratic union leader arm english remains on track to be angular merkel successor chancellor that's despite strong gains by the greens and a corruption scandal over m.p.'s earning extra money through lobbying taking its

toll on his party in polling he is regarded as an economic pragmatist when it comes to the pipeline and the gas it would provide the conservatives are the only ones willing to finish the project. the greens always have a special position visibly russian state of rejecting the shameless u.s. threat and interference in german they're basically asking the us to enforce sanctions thus turning themselves into a lobbyist for dirty inexpensive u.s. fracking gas which is not green at all. there and to transition is important to protect the climate and group will be serious if we want to remain competitive if we want to secure job in this industry status and if we want to secure perspire easy for everyone transitions acknowledging bin place running with such a big foreign and economic policy front and center is a big gamble from the greens it suggests that they think that they could win the election in september because if they don't and they were to enter into

a coalition government with the concert serves as the junior partner well that could well require a large policy climb down peter all of our r.t. berlin. a genius leader or a mass murderer francis plans to mark the 200th anniversary of napoleon bonaparte and death certainly splitting opinion with the new york times launching an attack on the former emperor. as a black woman of haitian descent and a scholar of french colonialism i find it particularly galling to see that france plans to celebrate the man who restored slavery to the french caribbean an architect of modern genocide his troops created gas chambers to kill my ancestors critics blast napoleon's brutal military campaigns across europe and asia however many have also sprung to his defense insisting he boosted social institutions and ultimately laid the foundations of the french legal system and one top political

commentator says the attacks though a too selective. as the new york times and as we know the new york times has become a propaganda instrument of a certain strain of work a scholarship in which you go hunt people to oppose and on to insult i'm not going to sort of take sides on this when slavery is a bad thing it was abolished forever in france in 845 it was only abolished in america 865 it was abolished in russia uneaten 60 we're not the last there's no reason it's no reason to essentially start criticizing the podium because you have it in for france in general which is what the new york times has consistently the last few years or the new york times article comes amid a wider assault on historical figures now considered on progressive elizabeth moon again and says that simply ignoring the facts. what's going on this thing called critical race theory which is really dangerous that 1st of all you teach

a simplified caricatural of history that does not reflect anything as complex that what happened and then when people have no memory and no culture you can practically tell them anything that the whole point is to criticize a certain type of colonialism if you take the ultimate empire if you take which which is the longest. serving i mean longest acting colonial powers more than half a 1000000 euro and who are quite ferocious. against all populations and who practice slavery nobody talks about that they will only talk about a certain type of western europeans because they've decided that they were everything that is legal that's a program for this half hour here on r t international thank you for sharing some of your monday with us here my colleague a call in bray is not the helmet about 32 minutes time but you can join us in the.

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i'm afshin rattansi we're going underground for another lockdown edition will be hearing from the ground in yemen after the u.n. warns of dramatic deterioration of the world's worst humanitarian crisis as britain continues to send it to saudi arabia but 1st let's go straight to the site of the lying 3 pipeline in minnesota a project that's been described as cultural genocide on native american land as iconic actor jane fonda joins protest as calling on u.s. president joe biden to cancel the project tribal attorney from the cutting 1st nation tara who's got joins me now from the pipeline in park rapids thank you so

much i know you're holding the phone there in minnesota or it looks amazing out there but actually it's not been amazing has it just explain why native americans of london jane fonda is protesting the line 3 pipeline say jane fonda is out here in solidarity and support with indigenous people who have been leading an all out struggle against bridges landry tar sands pipeline it's a project that is almost a 1000000 barrels of tar sands a day coming out of the border canada set to go through the head waters the mississippi river to the shore of lake superior the great lakes surface the world's remaining freshwater and it passes through dozens and dozens of wild rice spots on its way which is the heart and. heart beat of our culture and our people so we've been out here for 7 years now fighting this in the regulatory systems in the courts and now and in the actual woods and on the land. playing our bodies and turning the

machines we spoke to sunrise movement spokesperson j.p. made last week but he hasn't been getting much present tension around the world obviously you have to like jane fonda being the man that local media in the us was covering it what why is it so crucial not just to the united states to native americans but to the whole world it's about this overall problem that we have that we're all ceasing together which is climate crisis climate change and irrevocable impacts that are happening rather well there is a helicopter past there right now. that it's only. sorry i have to actually document what's happening in real time of course just tell me about the arrest is it private law enforcement is it local enforcement obviously the authorities do not want you protesting this pipeline snow and actually myself when i know it's you continue our bad were not arrested we were served with summons after the fact with like.