as these guys lose. sight of the music that you make them for. black lives that matter rallies founded by us the democrats call for the abolition of america's police force warning that an officer's 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 crimean peninsula after claims from western powers that moscow was preparing for war with ukraine. u.k. government is caught up in a corruption scandal as

a report reveals that more than 20 percent of the money spent on the covert response went to firms connected to politicians. broadcasting live direct from studios in moscow this is arch international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now the conviction of former officer doug sholden for the murder of george floyd has only fired up black lives matter demonstrators have poured back onto the streets saying the place shooting of a black teenage girl on the day of the verdict just goes to show a total lack of progress. god. the officers claim they were justified in shooting the 16 year old and a probe has been launched however protesters have run out of patience calling on the police to be defunded and denouncing killer cops artie's done quarter comments

now on those rallies and how they have been encouraged by the democratic 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. i don't want you here. i don't want your area. 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 police misuse of force criminalized violence against protesters do military 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 justice. george and those jurors you don't know if you had to change the world. now to read 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 out their civic 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 a just just basic countability naturally divide and 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 '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. by this that it would take a top to bottom 3rd 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's armed forces have wrapped up a large scale exercise in crimea more than 40 warships 1200 vehicles and 10000 soldiers took part in those 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.

pierce because he was 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 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 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 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 that's twice as high and as you can see all this fear mongering as proven by. 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 increased military activity for many 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 or among koester of artsy crimea. the conservative government in the u.k. is fending off corruption claims over the way it has dished out covert emergency funds a new report shows that many contracts were awarded to companies with political connections and with no track record of supplying revelent goods or services or he sally is in london with details. well this is really blown the lid off the contracting and tendering processes that took place when of course the pandemic was at its peak in government spending to get p.p. 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 in 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 in 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. fail to comply with their legal obligations to 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 silk capital and he had reached out to the. chancellor and also the health secretary that 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 lecture in other countries about corruption u.k. government spokesperson has said that all due diligence was carried out on every contract and stated that ministers have no role in awarding them 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 cronyism. i think few people would complain if they made good decisions should good reasons and with good results alongside transparency but in fact they've made fareed bad decisions and a very bad reasons including this cronyism 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 curve 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 a 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. pharmaceutical company pfizer has admitted it to an increase in coded in 1000 vaccine fraud and warned of the increasing availability of various fake injections carrying their label we are cognizant that in this type of environment fuelled by the ease and convenience of e-commerce and anonymity

afforded by the internet there will be an increase in the prevalence of fraud counterfeit and other illicit activity as it relates to vaccines and treatments for covert 19. shipments of fake inoculations were reported in mexico and poland dozens of people in mexico paid $1000.00 for a counterfeit covert shot later it turned out there were no reports of adverse side effects by those injected and no antibodies produced by the vaccine while in poland authorities uncovered the counterfeit pfizer jobs before anyone was injected with the products which were said to be branded as a treatment for wrinkles the fake shots were reportedly seized from a man's apartment. to comment let's now bring in someone who knows the health care industry dr john dombrowski from the washington pain center thanks for being with us here on our team international thank you very much so we've seen quantities of drugs developed and produced in a short time during this pandemic how much has this opened up the possibilities for

counterfeiting and the possibility of fraud. well clearly there is a lot of demand out there and there may not be enough supplies to people are willing to fill that hole and we've seen this a lot with medical medications that people really want like biographer if it serves things like that so people are willing to buy the products that you don't have you know stringent clarification terms of what their product really is so it truly is let the buyer beware in your 1st story don't it was very nicely into this because it's all about corruption there's a lot of money out there is a lot of money sloshing around and there's a lot of fear so people are willing to fill that vacuum with you know adulterated or you know not affected medications well people who took these fake vaccines in mexico they didn't seem to have any side effects but it could be very dangerous i mean let's talk about those dangers how could it be so dangerous to take fake vaccines i mean we had the ones in poland that nobody took were for anti wrinkles

but who knows what they're getting into their system. it that's exactly right well when it comes here the opiate crisis here people are buying you know narcotics or over oxycontin the talwar was truly oxycontin because adultery or other medications we see this all the time and obviously when you're buying things outside of a pharmaceutical industry you really don't know what you're getting and thankfully to your point no one was hurt or damaged and obviously in poland you know thankfully those products ever get out to the public now what about the pharmaceutical companies themselves is there anything that they can do to ensure the legitimacy of their products i mean what about the care providers who put these products out there themselves. and that's and that's a very good point so what they usually do are cure codes or some sort of barcode on each files that can show that it truly is from the pharmaceutical house where they're coming from you know if someone is very sophisticated and wants to adulterate or have some sort of illegal paraphernalia out there i guess they could

be replicate the barcode and put on their vile when you have a very good point that we do have we have or have this address the united states about putting bar codes in so there is a really tight chain of. you know getting the product out there to the patients now the people in mexico they're said to have paid a $1000.00 to get this fake vaccine i know that here in russia it's free to the public and in other places as well the government has made sure that people don't have to pay for this because we are in the middle of a pandemic. what do we have to look at about the dangers of people hoarding supplies or people driving up the cost of supplies for other people i mean what are the problems there well i can't speak to mexico nor russia but you know probably what happens in the country of mexico there are prophecies a lack of supply so maybe the government is supporting it or not but obviously people money always go to the head of the line that's what happens just like with

the you know your 1st story talked about you know people bribing in and they were you know getting. i care for these covert patients so clearly these patients were obvious see it all had tremendous we had great means and we want to go the head of the line before everyone else obviously purchasing something that was you know falsified or fake now i don't have access to a q.r. code reader and to know if it's real or not what can ordinary people do to avoid getting a fake vaccine i think you want to be the thing is like let the buyer beware if it sounds too good to be true believe 'd it if you give me a $1000.00 you learned they had a wine really so perhaps it's one of those things just follow the system follow the guidelines you know make sure are you really are at risk that you want to get this vaccine already or you are not so it's ok you know and obviously we need to just use your judgment to use the governmental systems that we have in the united states russia and probably mexico as follow the system of the guidelines don't try to jump

the line because you're probably losing a $1000.00 sounds fair to me and one thing we're all in this together dr john john dombrowski from the washington pain center thanks for giving us your thoughts on here on arch international thank you so much for the time. you're watching our international more news after a short break stay with us. when ellen so seems wrong. but all wrong just don't call. me i'll get to see her out of this thing comes after. and in detroit because the trail. went something to find themselves worlds apart we just of the 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 all chip in probably from china and paying rent if they can afford a house to someone in china. about desire to international now france is reportedly planning to use celebrities to entice the public into getting the astra zeneca covert shot but will it work surely dubinsky hit 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 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 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 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 that people like cos 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 stupid easy for people to be persuaded to anything. about it 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 and we know that these a product placements and it turns out that they themselves have not been. actually

it did 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 were still is the 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's public health authority 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 think it's. social media these discussions normal social media because of 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 told. r.t. this. joe biden's new special envoy for climate. change has given

a strong endorsement for president putin's speech at a video summit in an unusually positive statement john kerry described the russian leaders views as visionary and rational earlier my colleague discussed some of the key moments with artie's oxana boyo. finest moment was there surrounding who would you think the russian president he was 8th in line to speak which i think was assigned if you believe him slide 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 into 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. truth in it staring blankly at one another 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 in spoke 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 understand 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 for the time 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 no 0 emissions or kaname by no later than 2050 but the church in america

represents less than 50 percent of the world's admissions 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 in. you know what we have at south is an issue of still pretty large disagreement the russian president for example. what the reader 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 smith says around $2500000000.00 tons of c o 2 could lend per year to. the europeans and americans are not suki in the on including that absorption capacity in the into the formula also there is a major disagreement on the chinese side because the chinese along with our

developing countries have been somewhat late to the industrialization party so 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 as a lot of suspicions in this country and also around the world that the americans the europeans i trying to use the climate that gender to essentially. 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 that i can quote john kerry. will be 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 to be private sector meaning turns national corporations and yes i think in

many parts of the world it would 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 state average. or that doesn't mean i'll be back for more news in 32 minutes international stay with us.

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