way well you. don't. want to strive for is great. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or immediately shallows. russia's defense minister announces an end to a large scale military exercise in the country's crimean peninsula optik claims from western powers that moscow is preparing for war with ukraine. the u.k. government to support top in a corruption scandal as a report reveals that over 20 percent of the money spent on the covert response went to farms that connected to politicians. at least a 100 people per day off found to be entering friction with fake covert sceptics potentially bring in new variants and undermining the entire containment strategy

also. black lives mopsa roddy's found by us democrat school for the opposition of america's police force warning that novices conviction for george floyd's killing will not suffice. working hard to make sure you never miss a story this says all tubes national life. let's jump straight and russians armed forces have wrapped up a knowledge scale exercise in crimea more than 40 warships 1200 vehicles and 10000 soldiers took part in the drills.

russian defense minister sergei should go wraps up military drills in crimea on the ones they were at least send 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 carried don't know and notes 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 missed it here's a little sampling of what's been said on that front as a fleet 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 edging 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 think it wise is high 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 military drills near russia's borders called defender year of 20 is

once you one this region is facing increased military activity for me too including reconnaissance operations and massive 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 gramont costs of artsy crimea . or if in u.k. the conservative government is fending off corruption claims over the way that dished out a much fun a new report shows that many contracts were awarded to companies with political connections and with no track record of supplying relevant. r.t.c. sally is in london with all the details well this is really blown the lid off the contracting and tendering process is that took place when of course the pandemic was at its peak and government spending to get people in place 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 v.-i peel 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 and 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 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. fail to comply with their legal obligations provide timely access to information on contracts now 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 capital and he had reached out to the chancellor of 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 co-chair of the advocacy group keep our n.h.s. public he thinks the u.k. covert response has been severely damaged by government creating its own. 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 fairy bad decisions 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 covert 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 advice in this country when 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 are staying in britain border guards say around a 100 people a day are arriving in the country carrying fake certificates potentially bringing new variants of the virus undetected as our take part explains. in the u.k. cases of corona virus and cope with 19 deaths before the following the look of the vaccine rollout but there are concerns this progress could be scuppered by the

variance of the disease being brought into the country by people using fake coded negatives certificates foreign holiday travel 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 organized 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 of all us 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 covert

passport scheme could work in siri or in practice because of their 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 france meanwhile wants to be europe's 1st state to enforce covert passports

a move has any criticized by rights campaigners as discriminating against the un faxon ated ministers insist it's about freedom. said to do this summer i hope we will reclaim our freedom thanks to the vaccination restraint and this digital certification the demand for the possible to all messed peoples in alternation day or immunity status and will be child on in tunnel flights this week officials hope to expound that hints across europe with the coming weeks shops and restaurants will be accepting this quantum of it thinks the scheme simply won't work 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 meant 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 citizen 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 this is going to have a hard time going through the after moment if it's an obligation to have this have to travel is 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 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 from this is reportedly enlisting the celebrities to get people to say that a vaccine reaction to that a bit later on. in the meantime the conviction

of full office attack chauvin for the motto of george floyd has only fired up a black lives of demonstrators they pulled back on to the streets saying the peace shooting of a black teenage girl on the day of the day it just goes to show a total lack of progress. the officers claim they were justified in shooting the 16 year old on how to launched a probe however the protesters have run out of patience calling on the police to be defunded and denouncing cops don't know cool to reports on those rallies and how think meaning courage to tell the democrat party. the verdict guilty but the mass is far from satisfied it wasn't long before celebration over chauvinist faith once more turned into anger. oh god here. you don't want your career. or birth.

right 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 tops 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 cured. for sacrificing your life for just your name will always be synonymous with justice also spoke to john george was george's young daughter if you guess he changed the world. you tore this afternoon

. he did change the rules 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 just just basic countability naturally the administration's pandering to anti police protesters has radicalized the republican party in 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 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 'd 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. the president of iran has said u.s. sanctions are preventing his country from receiving covert vaccines and potentially putting millions of lives at risk of terror on signed a contract from a 70000000 fact seemed a says through the top 8 shows kovacs team that was back in january but 3 months on and yet tiny functional something to fit at a time when covert deaths all soaring president ronnie says that's entirely down to the trade restrictions being in full speed the u.s. and its allies. there were no sanctions we would be getting deliveries through the scheme and today millions of people could get their backs and i would like oh people to clearly realize that this is a crime by washington what the united states has done since day one of covert 19 was that it blocked juran from using the international financial sector and that

basically blocked iran from importing test kits. importing. all sorts of hospital supplies in order to combat covert 19 now under fire in the united states continues to pursue the same policy iran can't transfer the money of the united states is blocking it and the iranian vaccine program has been delayed for months as a result iran doesn't need their help iran wants them to stop trying to harm iranians this comes amid reports of course progress talks in vienna on reform using the iran nuclear deal although biden ministration wants to revive the pact which previously gave iran sanctions relief in exchange for a scaling back of its nuclear energy program but there's a key sticking point washington wants iran to act fast and limit its uranium enrichment before sanctions can be lifted while iran says the u.s. which left the package it unilaterally on to trump needs to take the 1st step.

our definitive policy as stated by the supreme leader is that we demand the lifting of all sanctions which violate the nuclear deal and once the cancellation has been verified we will return to compliance with our commitments. there is no such thing as a guarantee and i think we have made that clear to iran that it's not something that the us can or will give there are a lot of major issues that remain the 1st is that the united states wants to keep many of the sanctions that trump imposed on iran as well the sanctions that obama imposed which impede the come pleat implementation of the nuclear deal and iran says that is completely unacceptable to americans want to be able to remove for example sanctions that are directed towards the iranian nuclear program but reinstate those sanctions in another name using another name so the americans are

playing a dirty game there or they're not sincere at the negotiating table even if the nuclear deal is once again implemented i don't see any major shift in u.s. or u.s. you e.u. policy towards iran let alone towards russia china or any other part of the world. plenty more off this short break so don't go away yet. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for and let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic to follow through the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person or those. who dares thinks. we dare to ask. joe biden's new special envoy for climate change has given a strong endorsement for president putin speech

a video summit and none usually positive a statement john kerry described the russian need to use as a visionary and rational while my connie discussed some of the key moments with. bonnie's moment was there surrounding who would you think the russian president he was in law. 9 to speak which i think was assigned if you believed implied an administration or 2 the president wanted to keep him waiting for him for a little bit maybe just send some signal but when the time has finally come high 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 gast he was given the floor but in to middle of his speech we realized that it was a tape and there was a moment of confusion on the american side and we had a few minutes of. putin staring blankly at one another

from this greens are just i thought that that was well provided for by me it 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 slope 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 honest on there were some strong differences in how various world leaders want to address the issue of climate crisis what was said about that there are lots of talk about mother nature and things like that but at the time being the americans and their european colleagues have committed you cutting greenhouse gas in the sense you know these steps will set america on a path of no 0 emissions or kaname by no later than 2050 but the church in america represents less than 50 percent of the world's impressions 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 have at south is an issue of still from the florida large disagreement the russian president for example. what readers should take into account is not only how much each country immense but also how much it absorbs. due to the vast capacity of our ecosystem russia makes a huge contribution to absorb and glue missions both around and from elsewhere it's estimated around $2500000000.00 tons of c o 2 could land per year that. the europeans and the americans are not suki in the army including that absorption capacity and get into the formula also there is a major disagreement on the chinese side because the chinese how long they are developing countries have been somewhat late to the industrialization party so are

for down the commitments should not be as stringent do you think this whole climate conference is an issue that will unite the countries together or are we going to see more beefs down the road does a lot of suspicions here in this country and also around the world that 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 at all over the labor distribution and around the world and disappointing that the suspicion. john kerry. will leave by the end of the administration special envoy on climate who said not so long ago that no government can officially deal with this subject and that it should be essentially a left should be private sector meaning turn flesh corporations and yes i think in many parts of the world it is those transnational corporations that. make

a huge emphasis on 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 stay there for it. i'm fine if the sour affronts is reportedly planning to use celebrities twenty's the public into getting the astra zeneca covert shot but will it work. 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 design a rouble 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. grabs so how did change people's mornings that's where those celebs come in it's reported 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 that 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. but i will not get vaccinated because some famous person tells me to it's like they're telling me jump for 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 red blood clots from vaccines isn't confined to front so either in sweden several regions have reported cases of people out refusing to have the astra 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 worse still is that those refusals 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 shelling 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.