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we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for him to let it be an arms race is on all fronts theory dramatic development the only move really. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down in tom. black lives matter roddy's found by us democrat school for the opposition of america's police schools warning says conviction for george floyd's killing will not suffice. russia's defense minister announces an end to a large scale military exercise in the country's primate peninsula after claims from western powers that moscow was preparing for wolf with ukraine. the u.k. government is caught up in a corruption scandal was a report reveals that over 20 percent of the money spent on the covert response
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went to bombs connected to politicians. and at least a 100 people a day all found to be entering britain with fake certificates potentially bring me a new variance and undermining the entire containment strategy. live from moscow this is our national i'm very glad she is us. well stopping us all from this conviction. and for the mud to of george freud has only fired up black lives back to demonstrators they've pulled back on to the streets saying that the police shooting of a black teenage girl on the day of the verdict just goes to show a total lack of progress.
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the office says claimed they were justified in shooting the 16 year old and have launched a probe however protesters have run out of patience putting on the police to be defunded and to announcing cops quarterly reports on those fridays and how think mean encouraged by the democrat party. the verdict guilty but the masses far from satisfied it wasn't long before celebration over chauvinists fate once more turned into anger. i don't want you 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 tops independent agency to investigate
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police misuse of force criminalized 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. for sacrificing your life for your name will always be synonymous with death oh so stupid you know that your original is yours young daughter if you. change the world. you told her this afternoon. that he did. 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 or jury who heard the evidence carried
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out there should be a duty in the midst of extraordinary moment under extraordinary pressure. for so many. it feels like it took all of that for the judicial system to deliver just just basic countability naturally the blithe and ministrations 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 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
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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. russia is on full says have wrapped up in large scale exercise and crimea more than 14 warships 1200 vehicles and 10000 soldiers took part in the trials.
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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. pierce because he would 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 you know and notice that the exercises have now finished. for moscow this was business as usual and now that's been wrapped up all the troops
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and their military equipment are headed back to their permanent bases a pretty anticlimactic ending to all the hype over his 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 flate 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 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 go. around this nothing happens russia didn't invade ukraine just like moscow was saying all along the
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exercise was held ahead of nato as military drills near russia's borders called defender you're of twenty'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. close friend u.k. the conservative government is fending off corruption claims over the waves dished out covert. a new report shows that many contracts were awarded to companies with political connections and with no track record of supplying relevant goods or services. and lumped in with all the details. well this is really blown the lid off the contracting and tendering processes that took place when of course the
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pandemic was at its peak and 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 v.i.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 prioritize 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
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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. fail to comply with their legal obligations 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 cell capital and he had reached out to the. chancellor and also the health secretary matt hancock all of whom have denied any wrong doing
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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 out to keep our n.h.s. public he thinks that response has been severely damaged by government cronyism. i think few people would complain. that it 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. and they could not
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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 kerner 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 . for to god say around a 100 people a day are arriving in the country carrying fake certificates potentially bring in new variants of the virus undetected. a partridge picks up the story. in the u.k. cases of corona virus and cope with 19 deaths before the following the look of the
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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 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 it and 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 officers have no way of checking whether they're genuine it's
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predominately taken on trust we do get a 100 or more and do fake coverage certificates that we catch while the e.u. so 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 are for us who are in the large group of exam jobs and people
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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 could either a challenge is around international travel you only 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
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partridge r.t. london or france is reportedly planning to use celebrities twenty's the public and getting the astra zeneca the chop but will it work well charlotte dubinsky took to the streets of the capital to find out. celebrity power could be about to be harnessed for its most bizarre campaign to date helping to convince people to have the astra zeneca job questions over its possible links to rare 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
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that given his previous buz own 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 nice 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 minds that's where those celebs coming into 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
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with social media it's stupid 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 for breach i'm not going to do that. we know that these are product placements and it turns out that they themselves have not been for. actually it did 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 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 were still is the
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loser 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 authority are continuing to stress the benefits of the vaccine or 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 think it's. a social media discussion. because of the bad reputation in other countries that have decided not to take the risk a tool since the 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.
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itself has admitted that they may not be renewing its contract which begs the question why pull the convincing people i told. r.t. . we've got plenty more stories here off this short break so don't go yet.
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extenders survival guide book stacy gives more to the story simply reading all the super. bowl it's no good repatriation team will get the rest in 7 years. military treasury board. welcome back now joe biden's new special envoy for climate change has given a strong endorsement for president putin's speech on a video summit and none usually positive statement john kerry describes the russian
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need his views as visionary and rational my colleague roy says she discussed some of the key moments with. 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 believed implied an administration or to the president you 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 gassed he was given the floor but 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
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from this greens are just i thought that that was well provided for by me it quite ironic. suddenly expressed the tension that existed between the 2 sides but at the end of the day you know who's been slow 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 and there were some strong differences in how various world leaders want to address the issue of climate crisis what what was said about that there are lots of talk about mother nature and things like that but for the time being the americans and their european colleagues have committed to cutting greenhouse gas and you know the 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
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particularly those of us who represent the world's largest economies we have to step up that formula in. you know what we have at south is an issue of still pretty large disagreement the russian president for example. are 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 he says messages around $2500000000.00 tons of c o 2 could lend per year to. the europeans and the americans are not suki in the army including that absorption capacity into 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 for
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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. over in the labor distribution and around the world and disappointing that the suspicion. john kerry. the violence administration special envoy on climate has said not so long ago that no government can officially deal with this subject and that it should be essentially a left to be private sector meaning turns national corporations and yes i think in many parts of the world it is those transnational corporations that. make
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a huge our horses are all over it consumption that led to the degradation of the environment in different places so i think what we are going to see are emerging do . little differences in who should lead this process who should contribute to this process and whether it should be about. her doubt heard or stay there for. the president of iran has said that 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 for 17000000 vaccines doses through the w h o's kovacs scheme in january but 3 months on only a tiny fraction of those have been delivered at a time when covert deaths are soaring president ronnie says that's entirely down to the trade restrictions being enforced by the u.s. and its allies. there were no sanctions would be getting deliveries through the scheme and today millions of people could give the barracks and i would like oh
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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 you run 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. while this comes amid reports of cautious progress talks in vienna on reviving iran it could a deal the biden ministration wants to revive the pact which previously gave iran
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sanctions relief in exchange for a scaling back over its nuclear energy program but there's a key sticking point washington wants around. act fast and limit its uranium enrichment before sanctions can be lifted while iran says the us which left the pact unilaterally under 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 u.s. 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 be complete implementation of the nuclear deal and iran says
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that is completely unacceptable the 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 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 poor russia china or any other part of the world. well that's good bye from now for now for all of us here in moscow coming up next the way it's.
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