president meets russian vaccine developers to discuss a production hales the safety of domestically produced covert jabs. none of the 4 an equivalence of the same level of protection once again this is a resounding success with domestic science and it's been recognized to prove is the geographical adoption of the speed of the vaccine is actively growing. condemns the. program to european regulators to approve. the. vaccine supply feud with the u.k. saying it could stop blocking shipments of the astra zeneca shot also in the headlines.

of. rallies against the controversial policing bill. stories and international insight from moscow my name is khan and brian welcome to the program 1st. meeting with russia's vaccine developers to discuss ways of accelerating the rollout both domestically and overseas and he stressed the strong safety record of russian shots compared to foreign rivals. probably the biggest news of the day here in russia and also a serious call photons 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 don't 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 disputing 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 mess 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 sputnik via at all and sided issues with production pace in russia. we have absolutely no need for sputnik v. the russians are having a hard time making the manufacturers of russian made sputnik the reacted to that

statement almost immediately by accusing mr burr tong 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 do you serve 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 some of that in mind hungary's top diplomats calling on the regulators to approve sputnik veil if they personally received the russian vaccine in an interview with the foreign ministry explained why he thinks europe's an ok lation campaign has faulted. 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 hungry 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. after a long series 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 will be in the regulations also say there's another way in case of emergency and these other they 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 of gays or you're going to regulation which is which is not true you wrote the 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 that they they expect more documentation based by the russian counterpart to the sound 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 millions of people russian or chinese but there are these are not authorized here in iraq you know once again you're a graphic explanations counties in the us not just one another represent this is about the lives of the people but more wrecks and you have 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 of 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 down 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. that vaccines are also sent to station the use relations with the

u.k. brussels has now doubled down on threats to block 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 europe before you start to deliver to other countries it seems that the e.u. could be holding back on millions of vaccines that it due to be transported to the u.k. in the next the root if it takes that decision to suspend all facts in the next 2 being ok now the move has incensed and take up with ministers 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 that. 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 as once again rubber stamped it that's not good enough for some e.u. countries who are still holding back and while on delay any big wigs are talking about the idea of not getting enough astra zeneca day 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 there's 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 they're 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 something it itself has admitted and of course let's not forget the u.k. was invited to join a joint procurements scheme with the e.u.

despite breaks at the e.u. politely declined and said we're going to do it our own way and as a result of that they speed 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 and the fake is really sort of paint a picture of how big of a tantrum and it's ready to throw the baby out with the bath water. british government condemned sunday night's rioting in the city of bristol with the home secretary describing it as thuggery police firms were torched and 20 officers injured during a protest against controversial bill to expand police powers. i. think .

what we've seen over the weekend was protest against. the legislation being introduced by the british government but many have accused the government of attempting to try to calm down on people's ability to protest freely given the policeman of powers as to when and where people can demonstrate now of course a lot of this is taking place against the backdrop of the cove it's a pandemic and there are fears that this legislation will be that's a long term if not permanent changes and so to that extent the protests to in the southwestern city of bristol last night was the evening wore on things became progressively more violent. clashes took place feed a number of the protesters and police away here in the center of bristol bridewell police station where number of officers 20 officers reinjured one suffering

a punctured lung one with broken ribs and another with a broken arm so quite serious scene 7 arrests may then it lead to condemnation of all those violent scenes from christmas all 170 degrees was one of the most of the morning texts behind the legislation to have sparked this heightened bristol. unacceptable scenes in bristol tonight secor induced by a minority will never be tolerated our police officers put themselves in harm's way to protect us all my source this evening a with those police officers injured now we've seen it already it said it's a cleanup operation taking place a number of forensic police officers on the roof of the police station perhaps gathering evidence. which though it's had to use to make more arrests in the coming days and weeks but so we also spoke to a number of the locals here in bristol many of them supportive of the rights for people to protest the perhaps some of them as well not very keen on some of the

more violent scenes we saw last nights but overall we can perhaps see this is something of forbearance of what is to come if the government doesn't the try to limit its people's right to protest peacefully as they've been accused by their critics. here without say on the way a humanitarian crisis unfolds on the united states southern border where thousands of unaccompanied children are being held in makeshift shelters with beds and sanitation in short supply that story and more when we come back. change your paper the great recession or. something's going to meet is you liberalism. recent truly better and truly people have any say in any.

the former top european officials are calling on brussels to stop caving into u.s. pressure when it comes to sanctions including those against iran and russia they published an open letter demanding countermeasures is the care of the details. well that is the open less so which has been jointly penned by a former french diplomat pierre the months alongside 3 institutes in paris berlin and brussels calls for insurance europe to stand up to washington now the letter suggests that europe 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 council measures as well let's take a listen we could 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 or 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 bold call from europe clearly comes as the block has grown dissatisfied with this

pressure coming from the u.s. with europe really finding itself not on the same page as the u.s. on a number of issues recently bit the iran nuclear deal being the u.s. pulling out of the climate change accord under donald trump and then of course there's an 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 of the president of the geopolitical think tank euro continent told r.t. that he thinks the e.u. needs to form its own alliances without interference from washington. it's a good idea now to try to put new i.d.'s to have more european strategic autonomy isacson exactly what the e.u. should do to retaliate against extraterritorial measures from the united states

which dummy g.'s european or companies but all saw the autonomy and the her ability to europeans to decide to use sovereign way about we've loomed viduka mers we would exchange treaties where they'd buy garzon oids the united states strategy is to fragment eurasia and to prevent too much cooperation between europe and union under rush hour in order to slow down murty put our rechy and to prevent to europeans to be too much independent from united states as wrong as e.u. doesn't fink itself as in not to know was power or and doesn't decide. in a more sovereign way each we're going to be difficult.

united states is grappling with a severe migrant crisis on have southwestern border and a record $5000.00 unaccompanied children are now being held in border patrol custody local authorities have run out of space to house them and many youngsters are being housed in cramped conditions in overflow facilities these images from the city of donna in texas were released by a democratic lawmaker it's one of several border shelters that are now running at around 16 times capacity of many children have been stranded there for at least 10 days sleeping and eating on flaws border crossing from mexico are now at a 20 year record and it's presented a huge challenge for the biden administration has cared more but now reports. well it does point we've got washington d.c. officials going back and forth about whether or not what's happening at the border is really a crisis we've got biden promising that he will visit the border meanwhile we've got the border officials and leaders of the democratic party in congress urging the

administration to get back to reality take their share of the blame for the policies that seem to have the momentum this crisis and really get a grip on what is happening you have a breach of national security levels that have never before been seen in modern history it just blows my mind how disconnected from reality they are or maybe they do know maybe they just don't want to call a spade a spade you know because it's uncomfortable it's a slap in the face i said hey i just want to let you know what's going on we need to get a handle on this before it gets out the hand even within a week i was over to call in the white house to say hey guys you've got to take a look at it when you create a system that incentivizes people to come across and they are released that immediately sends a message to central america that if you come across you can stay while there are big calls for the administration to get things under control and start responding to what many are calling a crisis it seems like the biden administration does not want there to be media

access to what is happening on the border and the u.s. facilities that have been set up one journalist was quite outraged about the fact that he had to go to another country just to take photographs of what was happening here in the united states he had to stand on one side of the border. i respectfully ask u.s. customs and border protection to stop blocking media access to their border operations i have photographed c.b.p. under bush a bomb and trump but now 0 access is granted to media these long lens images taken from the mexican site until now u.s. faces journalists have needed to stand in another country to photograph what's happening in the united states how many will recall that while donald trump was president so to graps of children held in facilities detention facilities that were set up during the obama administration were widely circulated and there was mass discussion and outrage about you know what they referred to in the media as huge as

in cages and there was widespread does that ing of the facilities your recall congresswoman alexandria because you know cortez had a well publicized visit to the detention facility and there was widespread coverage but the biden administration seems to be rather adamant that it is simply not appropriate to give the media access and to publicize what is going on at the u.s. borders i don't necessarily think that it's appropriate for a journalist to be inside centers that are at that aren't are not permanent place places for children that children are not placed there permanently now white house spokesperson jen psaki says that the biden ministration is very committed to what she calls trans parents sick it seems like when it comes to the situation at the border it's much better to divert people's eyes and change the subject and try to avoid bringing attention to something that is to resolve a situation that many are referring to as

a crisis. federal judge in the u.s. has called on the supreme court to reconsider laws protecting the media from prosecution when commenting on a defamation case laurence silberman claimed the news outlets have become dangerous and heavily skewed to one side of the political spectrum. the increased power of the press is so dangerous today because we're very close to one party control of these institutions the new york times and washington post virtually democratic party broadsheets nearly all television network in cable is a democratic party trumpet a democratic party trumpet i mean what an exaggeration it's not like they treated his inauguration as the 2nd coming of christ contrast on display the night was so stark i mean those lights that are that are just shooting out from the lincoln memorial along the reflecting pool i love you like almost extensions of joe biden's

arms embracing america well they were just excited once i was actually in the white house they saw this throwing the tough questions at him. not to my corn crisis that me just not all that but they did go wild of those well c.g.i. hands or maybe they were just expecting the other president and president harrison i took a virtual tour of the vaccination center zone or i will admit though that seldom is what great in times of timing because remember that bombshell recording with donald trump pressuring elections investigated georgia to find him ballots he wouldn't have to move out of the white house while the recording revealed that the post misquoted trump's comments on the call based on information provided by a source did not tell the investigator to find the frauds or say she would be a national hero if she did so instead transferred to the investigates to scrutinize ballots as in she would find dishonesty there. you will notice that establishment

media errors missions mistakes and outright lie so we slant one way against me and against republicans meanwhile stories that heard democrats or undermined their narratives are buried ignored or delayed until they can do the least harm media outlets should be regarded as political entities not journalistic enterprise yes but that's just an exception because when it came to trump the washington post was very sad and honest and objective unbalanced and anyway trump had fox news on his side always share leading yes i have heard how some democrats want cable companies to drop fox news one american news network on newsmax but maybe you shouldn't spread conspiracy theories no i'm not interested in what silberman said he should be borne in mind that the 1st step taken by any potential for tarion or dictatorial regime has to gain control of communications particularly the delivery of news it

is fair to conclude therefore that one party control of the press and media is a threat to a viable democracy well that's a huge saturation no one watches the news anymore anyway it's all about social media just that one twitter not a democrat party trump it to be seen silicon valley also has an enormous influence over the distribution of news and it simply filters news delivery in ways favorable to the democratic party and although upstart conservative networks have emerged in recent years their visibility has been decidedly cattail voice social media either by direct bans or content based censorship well that's not true what about policy what do you mean apple amazon and google while i'm sure it was for a good reason and as the censoring content yes that was the one time that twitter brought out one link to the new york post article about one to biden's business dealings but it's a little like it was a big story that could've swayed an election and anyway there are other hard

hitting stories to report on. some media pundits warn that but could trigger an assassination attempt so anyway it's attempt to mystery to me why faith in the us media is an all time low but what happens with powerful people like joe biden he spent $2200000.00 according to f.e.c. records on public relations to squelch stories that would be just favorable to him i see the same tactic being used towards russia with anti russian propaganda that our political system is being influenced by capitalism and its kind of reach the empires kind of coming to a halt unless we focus inward and look at infrastructure so you have these corporate entities that own the media the only information. and i find it stunning

when i see them criticize other nations about propaganda when actually we need to look inward and clean our own house. and i should use for now cross talks up next after which i'll have your latest all to use in less than 30 minutes. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you there.