development only loosely. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. russia's defense minister announces an end to a large scale military exercise in the country's crime and to planes from western powers that moscow was preparing for war with ukraine. the u.k. government is poor tough in a corruption scandal as a report reveals that if 20 percent of the money spent on the coke that response went to farms connected to politicians. at least a 100 people per day off found to be entering threats and with fake covert

certificates potentially bring in new factory and said i'm to mining the entire containment strategy also. black lives macho rallies founded by us democrats call for the abolition of america's police force warning that novices conviction for george floyd's killing will not suffice. making sure you never miss a story and this is a national live from the call from moscow if i well. while jumping straight and russia's armed forces have wrapped up now a large scale exercise in crimea more than food she will ship's 1250 miles and 10000 soldiers took part in the trolls.

russian defense minister sergei should go wraps up military drills in crimea only once they were at least sent 1000 ground and marine troops to fort. stewart today the armed forces have successfully completed complex drools will defending russia's souls and. i believe that the aims of this chick have been fully cherry don't know and notice that the exercises have now finished. for moscow this was business as usual and now all that's been wrapped up all the

troops and their military equipment are headed back to their permanent bases a pretty anticlimactic ending to all the hype over its so-called russian aggression that we've been hearing about for the best few weeks right in case you've missed it here's a little sampling of what's been said on that front as a plate tensions are rising in ukraine as russia continues to ramp up its military force on the border between the 2 countries a pentagon spokesman has called the deployment of russian troops deeply concerning aging moscow to terrify its intentions ukraine is seeking international support against russia's military buildup along its borders in that direction just a few miles the russian border and beyond that that is where the pentagon says more than 40000 russian troops are now massing the ukrainian government why says i and as you can see all this fear mongering has proven. around this nothing happens russia didn't invade ukraine just like moscow was saying all along the exercise was

held a head of nato as military drills near russia's borders called defender 20 s. once you won this region is facing increasing military activity for many too including reconnaissance operations and must've preparatory activities the grand plan for april is to hold more than $4000.00 various exercises in all of russia's military districts over almost all of the country's time zones or among koester of artsy crimea. think conservative government in the u.k. as fending off corruption claims over the way it's dished out a much unseen funs now a new report shows that many contracts were want to companies with political connections and with no track record of supplying relevant goods will solve a says. in london with the details. well this is really blown the lid off the contracting and tendering processes that place when of course the pandemic was

at its peak in government spending to get people in place as personal protective equipment and other vital equipment to fight the pandemic when all of that was going on contracts were being handed out and there are accusations in this report of contracts being handed out to those with the right political connections and concerns even being raised about the emergence of a so-called vi p. lane that fast tracked offers of contracts from companies who had been directly approved from politicians or lords and others and according to the report all of these processes raising a number of red flags it is very surprising for the u.k. government prioritise recommendations from politicians given in most of the areas of economic activity this type of association raises red flags and they are not known for their expertise and procuring medical equipment what is even more surprising is that it did not engage professionals such as the british medical

association and the royal college of nursing now the focus of this report centers around almost a 1000 contracts awarded between february and november of last year totaling 18000000000 and there's also been accusations of a lack of transparency and a lack of accountability with public bodies less than forthcoming with information about these contracts public bodies across the u.k. failed to comply with their legal obligations to provide timely access to information on contracts and all of these contracts and all of this focus on political connections the lid of which has been blown off by revelations that former prime minister david cameron was attempting to lobby the government during the pandemic on behalf of a company called green silk capital and he had reached out to the. chancellor and also the health secretary matt hancock all of whom have denied any wrong doing

but investigations are going on into the role that politicians play when it comes to contracting and many here in the u.k. worried about what impact this will have on britain's role on the global stage on britain's image on the global stage particularly when they come to lecturing other countries about corruption. we heard from the coach child advocacy group keep our n.h.s. public he thinks the u.k. covert response has been severely damaged by government cronyism. i think few people would complain if they made good decisions for good reasons and with good results alongside transparency but in fact they've made very bad decisions and for a very bad reasons including this crew news them friends and political allies and terrible results you'll be aware the public accounts committee looked at the impact of the private contracts for example on on contact tracing for curb it and they

could not find any discernible impact on the spread of coronavirus through the contracts that have been awarded by the government in this privatized. diversion of money from the public to the private sector this is a really desperate time of 150000 people dying from current virus in this country one of the worst rates in the world and the government has claimed that they are the saviors of the country and actually they've to me they've betrayed public trust of staying in britain border guards say around 100 people a day are arriving in the country carrying fake certificates potentially bring in new variants of the virus and detected a partridge picks up the story. in the u.k. cases of coronavirus and cope with 19 deaths before that following the look of the

vaccine rollout but there are concerns this progress could be scuppered by the variants of the disease being brought into the country by people using fake coded negatives certificates foreign holiday travel or both leaving and entering the u.k. is found that business travels allowed the government website tells travelers to the u.k. before they set out they must provide a passenger locator for at proof of a negative coronavirus test taken within the 3 days before arrival this could be a printed documents an e-mail or text message failure to show it could mean no travel or 500 pounds fine on arrival the traveler must ensure the test meets the right standards and the results must be in english french or spanish with personal information matching the travel documents and the tests provide us contact details but border immigration and customs staff say these documents are very easy to forge and in many cases offices have no way of checking whether they're genuine it's

predominantly taken on trust we do get a 100 or more and do fake covered certificates that we catch while the e used police agency europol has already warned travelers to be aware of all denies to criminal gangs selling fake coded negatives certificates these have been found at british french and spanish airports online and in the netherlands via mobile messaging apps for as much as $300.00 euros each as long as travel restrictions remain in place due to the pandemic it is very likely that criminals will seize the opportunity of producing and selling fake covert 900 tests of recruits given the widespread technological means available in the form of high quality printers and different software fraudsters are able to produce high quality counterfeits forged or fake documents and talk to 20000 people entering the u.k. every. they most are poor yes who are in the large group of exam jobs and people including children under 11 who don't need to take

a test which raises the question of whether the certificate system or any passport scheme could work in siri or in practice because there are challenges around international travel you know you have to look across the continent and see the rise in case rates in many of our nearest neighbors it has been in the past the case that those rising infection rates have seen their way through to the u.k. we're hopeful that that won't happen this time around because of our progress with the vaccine and so on but we do need to be cautious about that but the big worry about fake certificates is letting people into the u.k. who were carrying you could variance like those from india south africa and brazil which could be more resistant to antibodies this would diminish the impact of the u.k.'s vaccination program and thought the economic upturn then just one forged document costing a few 100 pounds could cost thousands of lives and millions in lost revenue kate

partridge r.t. london. in the meantime france wants to be europe's 1st state to enforce covert passports a move heavily criticized by rights campaigners as discriminating against young facts any to your ministers and sess that it's about freedom. city this summer i hope we will reclaim our freedom thanks to the vaccination restraint and this digital certification of the possible tool lest people's inoculation date on what you know will be trialled on in tunnel flights this week officials hope to use across europe within the coming weeks shops and restaurants will be except time less quantum effects things the scheme simply won't walk without public support. people are jittery with the talking about putting their personal information on an app which is managed by the government again if people were confident that people met the people at the head of france today were concerned by the health of the citizens and that was paramount to them and that was their primary concern that i

think they would be ok but people see that there are huge interest personal interest big pharmacy group interest there's a lot of these interests with a lot of people think are more important than the interest of the citizens and the safety of the citizen so as long as people will be skeptical about the real intentions of the government and what this is the 1st day or 2 then i think there's going to be i have a hard time going through ask a moment if it's an obligation to have this have to travel it's going to be complicated because some people will really feel forced to take the ad because they need to be needed to see family relatives or even to work so it's going to create a lot of frustration and we risk having some sort of 2 way society with the fast track for those who got the vaccine or who go to p.c.r. test regularly and those who don't have it and who have less liberties than the 1st and so i think this is going to create a lot of confusion and. tension within the french society well still ahead france is reportedly had a listing celebrities to get people to take the astra zeneca vaccine reaction to

that in just a few moments. in the meantime conviction will form offset our chauffeur and for the model to which floyd has only fired up a black lives to demonstrate as they've pulled back onto the streets saying the police. a black teenage ball on the day of the verdict just goes to show a total lack of progress. the officers claim they were justified in shooting the 16 year old and have launched a probe however the protesters have run out of patience calling on the police to be defunded and denouncing culp's john mcwhorter reports on those rallies and how they've been encouraged by the democrat party. the verdict guilty but the mass is far from satisfied it wasn't long before celebration over chauvinists faith once more turned into anger. oh god here. i

don't want your career. or. progressive's are paying a lot of lip service to it's not justice and i'll explain to you right it's not justice. it's not justice because justice is george floyd going home tonight to be with this family this is but a miniscule step on the path to justice next topps independent agency to investigate police misuse of force criminalize violence against protesters de-militarized police departments disband and deconstruct field police departments some are taking a more sentimental approach making sure everyone knows the death of their new martyr makes them very sad thank you cure. for sacrificing your life for your name will always be synonymous with justice spoke to john george was

george's young daughter if you. change the world. it'll reduce an afternoon. if you do choose to since the campaign trail biden has spoken with the victim's family multiple times assuring them that his administration was on the side of justice even appeared to border on justifying the pressure that activists and vandals were putting on the court process the jury heard the evidence carried out their civic duty in the midst of extraordinary moment under extraordinary pressure . for so many. it feels like it took all of that. or did you dishes system to deliver a just just basic countability naturally the biden ministrations pandering to anti police protesters has radicalized the republican party and the opposite direction so much so that it's now illegal for drivers to run over road blocking protesters

in the red state of florida we saw really unprecedented disorder and rioting throughout the summer of 2020 and we said that's not going to happen here in the state of florida and we wanted to make sure that we were able to protect the people of our great state people's businesses and property and it is the strongest anti writing pro on foresman piece of legislation in the country one big verdict a whole lot of unsolved problems and the 2 ruling parties at each other's throats tragedies like the recent police shooting of a 16 year old black teenager in columbus ohio just continue to pile up with neither side ready to come to a compromise the american political structure of the constitutional structure is so antiquated and so shot through with undemocratic practices and. bias that it would take a top to bottom thorough political structural reform in order to put america on a new racial footing and i don't see it happening any time soon but short of that

there will be no progress whatsoever i am absolutely convinced. and i nation isn't something most people would like to come to contemplate unless of course you'll the u.s. strategic command because they have cash and he tweeted that it could well happen. the spectrum of conflict today is neither we know predictable we must account for the possibility of conflict leading to conditions which could very rapidly drug the saree to consider nuclear use as the least bad option the u.s. strategic command is responsible for safeguarding america's nuclear arsenal and that tweet came ahead of the agency's on your posture statement informing congress of its walk and plans they out that the u.s. is facing quote 2 new killer capable strategic peer adversaries at the same time and russia and china but the notion that atomic armageddon is just another option

on the table hasn't gone down well on social media what does this mean did this need to be tweet is least a better option it would just be letting the enemy take your chicken nuggets and not new can the world only insane people would consider a nuclear conflict a clear indication that those who have the power positions in this country are not mentally fit to have this responsibility. film up ahead conspiracy policy unless as michael maloof told us the stock sneak in a statement a simply unacceptable it's an unfortunate thing that to treat it so blithely like. as a as a means of trying to scare off adversaries but it's scaring people and it's not meant to be a it's not a pleasant subject and i think there it's a scare tactic on the part of strategic command to to put something like this and i think that it's just just better to not try to create unnecessary

hysteria at a time when tensions are already high that was the whole idea of arms control was to try and minimize the potential danger of the use of any nuclear weapons whether whether strategic or tactical and unfortunately we're treating the use of nuclear weapons as as the strategic command statement said there in a rather blithely way and that something that is is should not be treated in such a cavalier dismissive way it's a very serious problem. the u.s. climate envoy highlighted russia provided rather visionary thoughts on cooperation as the world leaders was solving climate crisis up the cue to a video summit hosted by washington while my colleague voices say discuss some of the key moments with our teens sign up and boy cope we will tease out right off the break.

it's seemed wrong. when old rules just don't. meet you get to shape out just because get educated and engaged with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. i think there will be an interesting new chapter in all of this is that after all the jobs have been shipped to china the majority of american landlords will be chinese and so most people will have lost their jobs from china they'll be addicted to fence and i'll chip in a plea for china to rent if they can afford a house to someone in china.

welcome back now as i promised to you biden's new special envoy for climate change has given a strong endorsement for president putin's speech at a video summit and on usually positive statement he described the russian need as he was as visionary and rational. discuss some of the key moments with artie's oxana boy by a nice moment was there surrounding who would you think the russian president he was in line to speak which i think was assigned if you even tried in the administration. the president you wanted to keep him waiting for him for a little bit maybe some signal but when the time has finally come he was shown on

the screen right in the middle of the president's marker on speech president of france and the funny thing about it was that the term president roh was introduced as a live gassed he was given the floor into middle of his speech he realized that it was a tape and there was a moment of confusion on the american side and we had a few minutes of. truth in it staring blankly at one another from this green so i thought that that was well provided for by me and quite ironic . it's utterly express the tension that existed between the 2 sides but at the end of the day you know who's in skokie here expressed his point of view and this time it went on so it's on a what about the actual content of the summit on this don there were some strong differences in how various world leaders want to address the issue of climate crisis what what was said about there are lots of talk about mother nature and

things like that but when they turn being the americans and their european colleagues have committed to you cutting greenhouse gas in the sense you know the steps will set america on a path of nodes 0 emissions economy by no later than 2050 but the truth is america represents less than 50 percent of the world's inventions no nation can solve this crisis on our own as i know you all fully understand all of us all of us and particularly those of us who represent the world's largest economies we have to step up that formula is you know what we haven't solved is an issue. still in the florida largest agreement the russian president for example. what readers should take into account is not only how much each country amidst but also how much it absorbs. due to the vos capacity of our ecosystem makes

a huge contribution to proven glue missions both their own and from elsewhere it's estimated around 2500000000 tons of c o 2 could land. the europeans in that americans are not suki in the on including that absorption capacity in the into the formula and also there is a major disagreement on the chinese side because the chinese how long they are going developing countries have been somewhat late to the industrialization party so for them the commitment should not be as stringent do you think this whole climate conference. so it's an issue that will unite the country together or are we going to see more briefs down the road as a lot of suspicions in this country and also around the world the americans the europeans i trying to use the climate their gender to sensually. kickstarter the globalization 2 point old that they want to use this issue to keep that control.

over the labor distribution around the world and disappointed that the suspicion i can quote john kerry. with the violin as an administration special envoy on climate who said not too long ago that no government can officially deal with this subject and that it should be essentially a left to the private sector meaning turned corporations and i think in many parts of the world it is those transnational corporations that. make a huge our forces are overconsumption that led to the degradation of the environment in different place so i think what we are going to see are emerging geopolitical differences in who should lead this process who should contribute to this process and whether it should be about. corporate average or state average. finally france is reportedly planning to use celebrities twenty's the public into getting the astra zeneca covert shot but when it work artesia 2 bensky

hit the streets of the capital to find out. celebrity power could be about to be hollowness for its most bizarre campaign to date helping to convince people to have the astra zeneca job questions over its possible links to red blood clots and its effectiveness have essentially made it roll the undesirable for some leaving the french leadership scratching its head and wondering how to make it more appealing we have had difficulties convincing people on astra zeneca we must think about communication and our ability to convince if we want the vaccination campaign to improve though the president to may have been part of that given his previous speed use the vaccine the real problem with astra zeneca is that it doesn't work the way we were expecting it to the problem is so bad that in the city of meese

a covert vaccination center got to be closed over the weekend when only 58 people turned up despite some 4000 doses of astra zeneca up for grabs so how to change people's mornings that's where those celebs coming into ported the government is musing full blown communication campaign that would be headed by famous people because in a crisis that's who you trust right. celebrities are people like kos i don't think they have more knowledge than the specialists. if it's a celebrity who says that i don't care we don't know what influenced them to do it with social media it's too easy for people to be persuaded of anything. i will not get vaccinated because some famous person tells me to it's like they're telling me jump of breach i'm not going to do that we know that these

a product placements and it turns out that they themselves have not been vaccinated it might influence people but i personally rely more on medical expertise and scientific reports fears over the link to the rare blood clots from vaccines isn't confined to front so either in sweden several regions of reported cases of people out refusing to have the extra zeneca joab in my department we had planned for a 150 patients aged over 65 with diabetes who were to be vaccinated there were 20 who cancelled ahead of time and 7 who left once they found out which vaccine they would get one said i don't want to die and left immediately we're still is the loser a few cells all resulting in vaccines being thrown away and all of this is taking place as the european medicines agency the world health organization and

even sweden public health authorities are continuing to stress that the benefits of the vaccine for outweigh any risks so why are people still shunning it probably because of the side effects people don't believe in science and the more i think it's. the social media these discussions going on the social media because of the bad reputation in other countries that have decided not to take the risk a tool since that link with rare blood clots was raised the rollout of astra zeneca remains suspended in countries like norway. and denmark but as countries struggle to convince citizens that the short is safe to use the e.u. itself has admitted that they may not be renewing its contract which begs the question why pull the convincing people i talk.