president putin meets russian vaccine developers to discuss a production boost and hails the proven safety of domestically produced jobs. none of the 4 an equivalence should the same level of protection once again this is a resounding success for domestic science and it's been recognised the rule is the geographical adoption of disputing the vaccine is actively growing. into r t the hungary and foreign minister condemns the e.u.'s handling of it programme and urges the european regulators to approve russia's sputnik the. meantime the e.u. ups the ante in its vaccine supply feud with the u.k. saying it could stop blocking cross-channel shipments of the astra zeneca short.

live from moscow this is r.t. international money it's just 1 in the morning here in the russian capital is 4 in the afternoon in boulder in colorado that's where we're going to start with breaking news to update you on an active shooting situation is being reported in the city of boulder in the state of colorado police have surrounded a grocery store there after reports about 90 minutes ago of shots being fired the local swat team is also at the scene as are dozens of police and ambulance crews. around half an hour ago this scene was taken of a shirtless man with bloodied injured legs being led away in handcuffs by offices it's not clear what his involvement if anything in the incident is at this stage there are reports of people being injured inside that grocery store but none of

that information has been confirmed as yet we're following this ongoing developing story here on r.t. international we'll update you as soon as we get any more information. onto our headline news now though and. be meeting with russia's covert vaccine developers to discuss ways of accelerating the rollout domestically and also overseas and he's also stressed the strong safety record of russian shots compared with foreign rivals here's our teasingly. probably the biggest news of the day here in russia and also a 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 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 to prove 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 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 terry 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 it. the manufacturers of russian made sputnik the reacted to that statement almost immediately by accusing mr bird 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're 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 with some of that in mind hungary's top diplomat is calling on

the e.u. regulators to approve sputnik vai after he personally received the russian vaccine in an interview without the foreign minister explained why he thinks europe's inoculation campaign has folded. maxine 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 when you after a long serious of negotiations and we were able to sign our contract we chat house

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's definitely through the e.-m. 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 authorize ation 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. it was going to do dirty in the western part of the rope and in global media as if we had made something against the europe irregular actions 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 now they can say that they date back 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 millions of people the russian or chinese but there are these are not authorized here in iraq you know once again europe i think exploration is going to be easy even in the ninety's not another episode is about the lives of the people but more wrecks and you have and the more people you're going to say but i think very simple at least we speak about it for sure. the decentralized procurement procedure managed by russian forces has failed as fairly comes

regardless of the promises and the expectations there are much less vaccines arriving and market share slower compared to what had been used before why it became obvious that the shipments. managed and coordinated by brussels are not satisfactory weaver around there right down by the same people by the same bureaucrats by the same politicians why we want to buy additional vaccines 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.'s 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 are due to be transported to the u.k. in the next the risks if it takes that decision to suspend all facts in the next ports to be ok now the move has incensed ministers as you can imagine but also opposition party the labor party standing by u.k. government on this particular point 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 over 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 satan see as once again rubber stamped it that's not good enough for some e.u. countries who are still holding back and while. you 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 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 the joint procurement 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 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 and 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 bath water. the united states is grappling with a severe migrant crisis on its southwestern border a record 5000 unaccompanied children are now being held in border patrol custody across life now to. managing editor of project veritas whose team have been filming what's been happening on those on that border that nic welcome to the program what's your take on the security of the border after those pictures inside the facility i think these pictures seemingly created a cause for concern among americans for them

a country at least and. the question of why this was shrouded in so much secrecy to begin with the images them so you need to take a minute when you look at them to realize that you're human beings and sugar and wrapped in blankets. indeed pushed into a corner in a detention facility so i think it's sparking debate in the public square and i think that it's catching fire. played an issue for government to soul sooner rather than later presumably the images that we're saying that in just a payoff to no gration days some of this must be an inherited problem from the is of trumped government we can only speak to what our shores inside is telling us and what our source inside is telling us is that at present there is a major influx of illegal immigrants and that is according to the source of my view 50 of them are coded positive that sexual assaults and physical assaults take place daily. the question i think is not about the past but about what are we going to do

about it now and in the future and it doesn't seem as if we've gotten those answers yet even though these photos. of course these are some extremely vulnerable papal extremely young vulnerable people just take a source of the numbers and some of the conditions of oil to seeing that. we are sources told us that there is many as 3000 migrants in this facility in donna texas at one time there are grants from the photographs you can see it's very spartan living there's not a lot of mats or beds or cots i don't know if you're able to establish the ventilation situation but they are living in a difficult very tight spot and it's hard to tell exactly what's going on because we can only push what our sources give us and find but it looks like a nightmare it looks like like something out of a fiction novel and how difficult is it to get reliable information from there we

were hearing a couple of hours ago that it's been difficult for the media to get near to these facilities. yes that's actually happened your c.e.o. james o'keefe he had 1st gone out there to try to gain access to that facility doing what he thought was his journalistic duty i think what many would agree is the duty of a journalist to ask questions and they were told to leap given no explanations no explainers no photos no press material just an attitude and orders to turn around and leave so james got in a plane and took to the skies and got aerial footage of the syllabi and we relied upon our source inside to give us more information about what's going on in there you mention troubling dozens of covert to positive results there as well and also the images that way of showing right now of being of a very people living a very close quarters intense that that's not good you being able to hear from anybody in the thorax has to be able to say what they going to do about that even

if they can do anything we're still awaiting comment from several agencies with ties to these types of issues we believe i believe at this time we are going to get a comment from border patrol but we still haven't received the official comment yet however no not as much as i would have expected i would have expected a lot more statements in quotes and i was somewhat surprised to see that it was nearly ignored it was sides that. and kind of pushed aside is not a crisis nothing to see here and yet the white house press secretary came out and said that these facilities are not no place for children even she is admitting that this environment is as you said these children are vulnerable to disease to 50 to being trafficked and none of that came out so i leave it to the people the american people and the people of the world to decide what's going on. the authorities that

have been charge of handling migrants in these overcrowded facilities haven't always been forthcoming over the years anyway as this problem has worsened but the wall of silence that your alluding to there is out something that's worsening or is it a new development in my experience as a journalist we know with project bird johnson for joining project. i've seen it get worse yes i've experienced it personally so speaking on behalf of myself it's very difficult to date even figure out what the truth is let alone to convince someone or perhaps someone come to you with the truth and not have it be painful the truth can hurt and i think today it seems like some people are afraid of it but others aren't we have a lot of brave people that risk a lot so much to go in to places like this or to feed us information so we know what the truth is we base our life on truth and if anyone out there listening is

one of those brave souls you could sent to vera toss tips at proton mail dot com and that's how you can be brave and step out there and help us get the truth out there another troubling development from project. releasing that leaked homeland security matter when she said a large number of migrants are being used as a distraction for smuggling drugs how widespread is that problem as you see it. nic can you say you're coming in out there and i could you know i heard also that are going on as asking about the homeland security e-mail that project veritas posted that link to e-mail that said about large groups of migrants being used as a distraction for smuggling drugs how widespread do you think that problem is. well we we have some insiders that have shared some information with us that we're still looking at to confirm said that but i think you can look back as far as comments

from this administration encouraging people to rush the border encouraging people to climb any barriers just any way you can over it under it get in and we will take care of you and i don't think that's a political statement i think it's just what's happening plain and simple people are coming over sick or not legal or not and they're being processed and it's being done in an awful matter now that we've uncovered the conditions here but it just seems like mass chaos and yes there is a kind of a caravan it seems gearing up but we're going to have to wait and see what other information comes out over the past few years of course with all the democrats on the media for his border policy of law to hate fell for that what was called a humane approach and i was saying these pictures that also there are some pictures been released by a democrat no makers well now the shoe's on the other foot do you expect the wider media to be as critical as biting early on as it is in this administration

i would be critical of any new president with such a crisis on their hands in good and bad ways to try to make sure that they're doing their job and right now it's my hope that if the media will get up let me put it this way if the mainstream media in the united states did their job. wouldn't exist so i hope they start doing their job i would love to see a united media that has an idea of what objective truth can be but we're just going to have to wait and see again it's hard to predict. without wanting to sound like a naive cynic here it will be easy for any new incoming administration to be able to lay a lot of the blame at the previous administration and saying we're trying to clear up the whole mess we're doing as fast as we can why do you think that's that tetchiness that at the white house. that was at the white house that tetchiness that that abrasiveness when this gets raised. i can't speculate as to why they

handled the way they did but i think there were issues under both presidents with immigration it's not you know it's been a longstanding issue dating back decades and i can't i can't speak to why they wouldn't want to address this i i for the life of me can understand why it is being treated this way but i think we need to know more i think if this is just the tip of the iceberg what else is waiting for us that's being ignored and discarded that the public needs to know about the troubling pictures and troubling video engage in the 7 doing the rounds online whether they gain any traction over the coming days and months we'll soon find out for now that nick davis managing editor of project veritas thanks for joining us on r.t. international. next a federal judge in the united states has called on the supreme court to reconsider laws protecting the media from prosecution when commenting on a defamation case load silberman played that news outlet to become dangerous and

they're 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 started throwing the tough questions at him. out of the.

not to my current crisis the media's not about that but they did go wild of those weird c.g.i. hands and maybe they were just expecting the other president or president harrison i took a virtual tour of vaccination centers on a i will admit though that still didn't what great and tons of timing because remember that bombshell recording with donald trump pressuring elections investigated georgia to find him ballots so you 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 trump urged the investigate to scrutinize ballots as in she would find dishonesty there. you will notice that establishment media errors missions mistakes and outright lies always 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 and balanced 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 they 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 tailed by social media either by direct bans or content based censorship well that's not true what about paula 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 that one link to the new york post article about hunter biden's business dealings but it's not like it was a big story that could've i don't know swayed an election and anyway there are other hard hitting stories to report on.

some media pundits warn that that could trigger an assassination attempt so anyway it's a total 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 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 sure it's russia with anti russian propaganda that our political system is being influenced by capitalism and it's 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 so 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 just to finish up on the breaking

news that we've been covering for the balls 90 minutes or so of an active shooting situation right now in the city of boulder in the u.s. state of colorado dozens of police have surrounded a grocery store there as a shopping mall complex after reports of shots being fired around 2 hours ago now at around $230.00 in the afternoon local time a local swat team is also at the scene these are the images that we saw about an hour ago now of a shirtless man with blood on his leg being led away by police in handcuffs. his role or otherwise in what's been happening at the shopping center hasn't been clarified by police as yet he's understood to currently be in hospital there are reports of people being injured inside the store but no official. information from the police emboldened colorado at the moment as to the level of injuries or casualties right now though a very heavy police presence continues outside the king soopers store in boulder

colorado and people being advised to stay away we'll stay on top of what's happening right there and we'll have another update on our t.v. news with sean thomas who will be here in 30 minutes. i'm afshin rattansi we're going underground front of a lock down edition we'll 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 counsel the project tribal attorney from the cutting 1st nation tara who scott joins me now from the pipeline in park rapids thank you so much i know you're holding the phone there in minnesota 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.