as these. black lives matter rallies founded by us democrats call for the abolition of america's police force warning that officers conviction for george floyd's killing will not suffice. defense minister announces an end to a large scale military exercise in the country's crimean peninsula after claims from western powers in moscow was preparing for war with ukraine. and the u.k. government is caught up in a corruption scandal as report reveals that over 20 percent of the money spent on

the response went to firms connected to politicians. who are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas to have you with us right now the conviction of former officer derek shelving for the murder of george floyd has only fired up black lives matter demonstrators have poured back on to the streets saying the police shooting of a black teenage girl 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 a probe has been launched however protesters have run out of patience calling on the police to be defunded and denouncing killer cops archies don quarter comments

now on those rallies and how they have been encouraged by the democratic party the verdict of guilty but the mass is far from satisfied it wasn't long before celebration over chauvinists fate once more turned into anger. don't want you here. you don't want your area. or. 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. for sacrificing your life for your name will always be synonymous with justice also spoke to john and george was george's young daughter you guess he changed the world. you told her this afternoon . yeah 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 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.

would you dishes system to deliver a just just basic countability naturally the administration's pandering to 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 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 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 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 you were with today the armed forces have successfully completed complex drools will defending russia's souls and don't. believe that the aims of this chick have been fully carried 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 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 in moscow to clarify 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 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 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 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's 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 relevant goods or services r.t.c. sali is in london with more. 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 she so that 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 lecturing other countries about corruption for its part downing street says everything was done above board all p.-p. procurement went through the same assurance process and due diligence is carried out on every contract ministers have no role in awarding them the priority list was widely advertised across government as a way of more quickly tree arching offers of support we heard from the co-chair of the advocacy group keep our n.h.s. public he thinks the u.k. government response has been severely damaged by government cronyism. i think few people would complain if it made good decisions should good reasons and with good results alongside transparency but in fact they've made fareed bad decisions for a very bad reasons including this crew is them friends and political allies and

terrible results you'll be aware that the public accounts committee looked at the impact of the private contracts for example on one contact tracing. 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 seen me they've betrayed public trust. staying with britain our border guards say around 100 people a day are riving in the country carrying fake covert certificates potentially bringing in new variants of the virus undetected partridge picks up the story for

us. 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 spot puts 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 officers have no way of checking whether they're genuine it's predominantly taken on trust we do get a $100.00 more and do fake coverage certificates that would 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 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 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. you 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 is reportedly planning to use celebrities to entice the public into getting the astra zeneca coverage shot but will it work 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 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 mornings that's where those celebs coming into reported the government is wheezing a 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 too easy for people to put the swathes 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 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 authority 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 bad taste 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. 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 of parties accountable ago. 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 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 it's utterly express 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 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 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 and you know these steps will set america on a path of nudge 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 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 into it 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 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 just 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 i can quote 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 to the 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 our horses are overconsumption that led to the degradation of the environment in different places so i think what we are going to see are emerging joe. little differences in who should lead this process who should contribute to this process and whether it should be about. corporate average or state average. president of iran has said u.s. sanctions are preventing his country from receiving covert vaccines and potentially

putting millions of lives at risk. tehran signed a contract for almost 17000000 vaccine doses through the w h o's kovacs scheme back in january but 3 months on only a tiny fraction of those have been delivered the time when covert deaths are soaring president rouhani says that entirely down to the trade restrictions being enforced by the u.s. and its allies. there were no sanctions we would be getting deliveries through that 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 iran 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 cautious progress at talks in vienna on reviving the iran nuclear deal the biden administration wants to revive the pact which previously gave the run sanctions relief in exchange force a scaling back of its nuclear energy program but there is a key sticking point washington wants iran to act 1st and limit its uranium enrichment before sanctions can be lifted or iran says the u.s. which left the pact unilaterally under trump needs to take the 1st steps are 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 cum pleat implementation of the nuclear deal and iran says 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 has once again implemented i don't see any major shift in u.s. or you e.u.

policy towards iran let alone towards russia china or any other part of the world. that doesn't mean the sars 32 minutes i'll be back with another full and fresh look statements.

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interests and those red lines need to be taken seriously and the problem the west refuses to acknowledge russia has its own national. greetings and sally. you know just when you thought that the united states postal service couldn't fall any further or take any more hits after 2020 well so are humans to post man but it appears 2021 isn't going to be any kinder to one of the united states of america's oldest institutions yes not even a year after former president donald trump and postmaster general louis the joy scorched earth war on.