the headlines in r.t. nato starts its largest military exercise in decades right on russia's doorstep but the alliance claiming the drills in albania are transparent and defensive also to come tempers fray in the waters off jersey with britain sending its navy is a dispute over fishing rights with france boils over and parents in the u.k. are sounding the alarm about their government's approach to long we speak to a mother whose son has been ill since last autumn. as a mom when you see your son really suffering and there is no way of him getting back so you still help us no dots really know what to do.

good afternoon welcome has just gone 4 o'clock here in moscow you watching r.t. international major nato military exercises have kicked off in albania defended europe is an annual event but this year's troops are supposed to be the largest in decades our senior correspondent says the reasons for it are not hard to guess. nato immediately after coming down and russia with the propaganda equivalent of 5 and brimstone for daring to stage a snap military exercise has followed suit with the biggest nato war games the confident it seen in 3 decades but it's different they say you just don't understand i'm going to continually talk about what we're doing it's called transparency it's a wonderful thing and we're not getting that at a mosque alan and we and we haven't so that's a big difference right there and it's a defensive exercise which is you know

a lie straight and in you'll face they don't really takes a cursory look at the brochure or a visit to a u.s. embassy website for all the talk of russian aggression that isn't russian paratroopers practicing offensive operations in mexico along the border with texas it's american paratroopers dropping deep into simulated enemy territory and alice drive from russia's very real border with. the scoop that the sexes is lost they were announced well ahead across 16 nations near enough 30000 nato troops thousands of vehicles ships and jets will

pound away at targets and dummies to send a message usually you don't say to who it's understood but again ukrainian officials to the rescue ukraine by the way also taking part in these war games with the purpose of the exercises from the baltic to the black sea is to train and let us speak plainly. for war with russia when most of us the thing is every year these nato war games get bigger and bigger more hardware more countries more american troops somehow defending themselves closer and closer to russia's borders drills are getting bigger too and we know how irritable nato gets when someone outs there is hold large military exercises for all who are concerned about a massive military buildup on the russia the most and this miserable dog per

person provocations. escalate the level of hysteria that followed the crimean military exercises was deafening was everywhere and on everything how bare russia do this in the general vicinity of nato countries and not for a moment since all before has nato even considered our other countries feel when american troops are practicing invasion scenarios kilometers from their borders jonathan steele an international affairs commentator told us that the continued expansion of nato 1st and foremost benefits america's huge military industrial complex. i think it's mentor shows and the major is able to bring in all of the countries that aren't directly on the border of russia or former members of the warsaw pact to nature is trying to enlarge itself and get more and more

members trying to justify its existence it's part of this american imperial germany to try and get as many countries internet are and you know the next stage of course once they've got everybody nater in europe would be to push around to the north and north africa and men in the middle east and try to get countries to join from there as well so it's clearly an organization which should have ended at the end of the cold war in the way that it was about ended but it hasn't in its own launching itself its course also advise for selling american weapons to countries and getting them to spend money on defense it's not nearly always means buying weapons from america not from anybody else so it's part of the corporate industrial complex of united states. the u.k. is sent in its royal navy is a post break says bath with france over fishing rights intensifies to gun boats have been deployed to the waters off jersey after paris threatened to leave the

island without power it's all because french fisherman claim that they've been denied licenses to fish in the area now the waters between france and jersey have been shared fishing territory for hundreds of years the island belongs to the u.k. but relies on france for some of its i mean it is however you case the force from the u.k. has scuppered the status quo french fisherman a sailing to jersey to protest a liaison getting licenses to fish from the islands authorities and he can see their boats arriving in fact at the port of st helena where they are angry too about new limits on how long they can spend in shared waters the last couple of days it is the speaker's got really heated to it was charlotte now reports. with paris and london 2 more heads over fishing rights in british waters the noise out of french minister has now threatened to plunge the u.k. island of jersey into darkness unless french trawlers continue to have

access. to government provides free tell you terry measures and these measures every tell you that we are ready to use europe france has means they're inscribed in the agreement and so far as jersey's concerned i'll remind you for example of electricity transportation by undersea cable so we have the means and even if i regret that we could get to this point it will get there if we must be fair with france supplying almost all of the islands electricity this is a c.u. years warning electricity. travels through you not to go as well so that. you know hospitals etc would be left with just. really really. sort of. threat to my it's a very draconian. measure and it's not the only threat coming from france the u.k. is expecting a number of authorizations from us on financial services we will not give any until

we have guarantees that's one fisheries and other issues the u.k. respects its commitments its give and take each side should respect its commitments otherwise we will be as brutal and difficult as necessary until the brig's that deal french vessels have the right to continue fishing in british waters if they had done so before the u.k. left the e.u. what's causing problems now is the required proof to show that french a fisherman claim that they are having problems obtaining licenses. were discovered that had given a number of authorizations but even more so they have put in place conditions for the right of fishing conditions that limit us to today's conditions that limit the number of days we can fish in the year limitations of fishing gear for the fishing zones they have been created all of a sudden without saying anything without warning anyone and without going through

this all channels with this ng measures suddenly everyone discovers the drop on except it will fish in conditions economically unbearable for french norman and breton fishing companies to complicate matters while jersey is a u.k. crown dependency its response a bill for its own waters and the islands fishermen think that they are the ones getting the rough and of the deal you know that he reports to stand by these principles. regulated controlled fishing and protection of indigenous fishermen and yet we have had a massive fleet of really big fishing you know waters at the same time the boats are being prevented from landing. just strange. that almost all these are the rich. but it doesn't really matter so much. a little i would like to see tensions have been rising for some time now with claims that only 22 from

120 boats. from or to france region have been given access leading to a blockade in the port to boulogne so the u.k. denies these claims saying the licenses have been issued to all 87 french vessels that have applied for them and met the criteria well more than 40 boats have been specifically authorized to fish in jews ease routers. as the realities of briggs it. islanders and french fishermen alike it seems have been left trawling for answers. r.t. paris. months of a stomach pains and headaches have left a mother terrified for her son's welfare already born as just one parent sounding the alarm about the british government's approach to it. everything

back. to. well mark his getting them and i'm sure they're looking and i know well that may have. the issue maybe not such a degree of my funds got or some other kid for me live a lot worse than my son the government got to. get one by rest and that we need and or children and that we can take our children and or and the main thing they need there and the port that they need if it can be mentally and emotionally and that is what we need here in the u.k. along code that involves a range of symptoms and complications the still occurs several months after the

initial infection among them are fatigue headaches difficulties thinking coughs skin rashes and also insomnia and each patient has their own set of problems for the moment is still unclear how long it lasts cording to the office for national statistics over a 1000000 people in the u.k. reported long coded symptoms in march with many experiencing at least one for 12 weeks but the percentage of children is comparatively low compared to other age groups already born again says though the main problem is that nobody seems to know what to do. he was really ill up until october and now he has. you know i got back january august they have more good days and bad we have equal attack for example he just had an attack we can't. with the week with my son's attacks he always does it really have a while there. but he you know this time his unit

i'm up all learn. he gets headache. on there and i met perry but then it could be another time it might be late he also had to prevent this kind of wow go through a wave of different from him and he really why but now he's fine can be fine for weight and then it will come back as a mom when you see your son really suffering and there is no way of him getting better you still help us no dots really know what to do and the problem you have in really long coverage is that it's not one system that's affected it's it's various systems they need to your heart is unique. and surely if you need to. you know you need to be a long russian it's in all these different people and the problem you hire he's the

one deal with everything you can all go in but will it put people and it's like you want them to join up the door for their lot and it changed me it all fit. i mean while russia has registered a new vaccine called sputnik lite it's a one shot jab with high ethical sea according to the russian direct investment fund that is behind these developments let's get more details now and speak with them of course the left our correspondent is following this for some and good afternoon again just explain then the main difference between this new job and the others that are around that. well 1st off the single shot put make light has already been called a younger sibling to see the shots make. me give you some details that was put out today nearly 97 percent of all those vaccinated with the sputnik allies have developed antibodies and it's i think it's a level at the moment stands at 7009.4 percent and apparently it's effective

against all types of the corona virus that exist in the world today and today that there hasn't been any side effects any serious side effects whatsoever now during a meeting with russian president vladimir putin the deputy prime minister in charge of health said that sputnik lights will be administered to people aged aged 18 to 60 years old and also will bed ministered to those who had already had cold it but at the moment there and what is level are a very a low now russian president welcomed the news and he brought up a very interesting comparison and if you were doing at the moment this is you know them will now includes. be used to camilla juice and blood horns those have been used with. they also would more of them leave the most reliable and the safest as long european experts as reliable as a kalashnikov rifle yes we did not see

a european expert did and he was right i believe seem to unruly like a kalashnikov rifle. now due to its single shot design that sputnik lights could be crucial in in mass vaccinations during the most critical phases of the pandemic around the world and also doesn't cost an arm and a leg up errant manufacturers have put it at below 0 send us dollars per shot now meanwhile via 2 jav sputnik v. will remain the vaccine of choice for people here in russia and sputnik light will be exported around the world ok interesting developments have things that i'm not as r.t.f.m. on cos the rest of the latest news on the rush is latest seem to find it thank you . once more to come over the next few minutes to including a new poll around the world finds that the biggest perceived threat to democracy is

actually america not russia or china well have a look at why just off the press. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on all sides here in dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome back now the russian foreign minister has his had to the used policy of sanctions against moscow he and his armenian counterpart were fielding questions from journalists after talks between the pair yet and. sent this report. well this is the 1st leg of a circular journey as he said to visit azerbaijan next now mending relations between armenia and azerbaijan countries borderline warring with each other has

somewhat dominated the agenda here in europe on today and according to both ministers russia's and armenia's the process of settling the dispute over nagorno-karabakh is perhaps ever so slowly but is moving forward what right now russia is trying to help facilitate such a basic necessities in the golan a cow back has people's access to willock tricity stable access to electricity water food and just the embry turning to their homes another matter on the agenda here is a well helping armenia deal with the call that 900 pandemic just recently russia shipped thousands of doses of its sputnik the vaccine against covert 19 and right now they are discussing a shipment of a 1000000 more doses and perhaps even moving the production and having armenia produce manufacture russia's sputnik v.

also i asked circular about how he would describe the state of relations between russia and the e.u. right now because moscow and brussels they have been engaged in something like a sanctions ping-pong against each other here is how the russian foreign minister described the situation. we won't leave unanswered these attacks against russia parliamentarians are companies which are guilty only of being registered in a country that the e.u. has decided without grounds illegitimately to label an aggressor the e.u. believes it can do whatever it wants when it starts threatening us with new sanctions another main europe hears impunity it's a road to nowhere so effectively while the raw member states within the e.u. who want a much much more. positive relationship with russia brussels believes that they can do whatever they want with 0 replications. twitter has

suspended head account of donald trump's new web site just a day after it was created it was made by the former president's communications team to share his statements trump has also found out that he won't be posting on instagram or facebook either any time soon that's because their oversight board up held the ban it imposed on the former president after the capitol hill riots in january triggering quite an outburst from the former president himself. the board farms that the 2 posed by mr trump on general with the 6th severely violate the face book's community standards and instagram's community guidelines given the seriousness of the violations and the ongoing risk of violence facebook was justified even suspending mr trump's accounts on genera the 6th and extended that suspension on generally the 7th however it was not appropriate for facebook to impose an indefinite suspension what facebook twitter and google have done is a total disgrace and an embarrassment to old country these corrupt social media

companies must be a political price and must never again be allowed to destroy and decimate electoral process the chance to claim the trump violated their incitement to violence policies we discuss the implications of all of this with a former trump campaign advisor karen gio and i and also with r.t. america host chris hedges. they have created these digital monopolies which should be broken up if they can do it to a head of state like trump they can do it to a head of state like merkel or somebody else that they don't like what they really want to shut down or any critics on the right or the left of neo liberalism of corporate capitalism of the crimes of imperialism and. we just it's not a world that we want to enter because it essentially snuffs out the free flow of information we must remember they know everything about us we know nothing about

them and it sets a very dangerous precedent now it's a whole new paradigm and one that i find very terrified i think this should actually terrify every single american any single citizen in the free world because we're looking at. a private corporation who is operating as a platform and one day and a publisher the next day we can have have it both ways but apparently they are right. these individuals. whether they're the c.e.o. of the company or a boord were representative of the company itself to these decisions to silence americans or elected officials in not only becomes. a question of free speech we have a corporation an american corporation that is arguably more important and more powerful than elected representatives. m.r.

america has been named the world's biggest threat to democracy despite being touted as its supposed to be can a poll conducted by the alliance of democracies foundation placed it above china and also russia the organization was founded by and is for good as muson he was the former nato secretary general now more than 50000 people from 53 countries took part in this survey 44 percent of whom agreed that washington's influence was a threat china came 2nd and russia was 3rd on the list all the same though the us secretary of state along with his british counterpart on monday did single out beijing and moscow as malign influences. we're responding to a situation where our values are being challenged the international is at least in some respects being weakened together our 2 countries recently took measures to prevent british and american businesses from inadvertently supporting forced labor actions wrong and elsewhere and china will continue our robust cooperation to

address the atrocities and change on crackdown on pro-democracy activists and politicians in hong kong which breaches china's international commitments and the repression of media freedom across china and other parts of the world i also want to thank the united kingdom for joining us in holding russia to account for its reckless and aggressive actions store in the north in general tone says that public support for washington's power plays is on the wane including in europe people across the globe are not naive and they come to the simple conclusion that the united states is the bully on the block obviously they're seeking to launch a new cold war not only against china bet against china and russia combined it's part of the psychological makeup of those who rule united states to be the leading country on planet earth and they see that now limiting their gratz and so they want to take down china by any means necessary and there is also opposition to russia

because russia will not go along 'd with this new cold war against china i think that poll results suggest that it will be difficult to launch that new cold war because international public opinion is not only hostile to the idea but i think in europe in particular there is or knowing and growing realisation that the united states would like to fight china and russia to the last european and i don't think the europeans are sufficiently naive to go for that bad bargain ok that some of them will news in brief now 19 government protesters have been met with the violent crackdown by police in a 90 day of unrest in the colombian capital. i was i. officers used tear gas and water cannon to disperse the protests in bogota that ended in clashes at least $24.00 people have been killed

and hundreds injured in the ongoing demonstrations against tax increases the protesters claim the measures only place more pressure on the poor and middle class i else where dozens have died and thousands left homeless by flash floods and torrential rain in yemen some roads to the capital sun are reportedly cut off and the rinnai fears about the spread of water borne diseases it's another hard blow for a country that is already in the grip of a humanitarian crisis blamed in part on the society led intervention and a protest against the planned vacation of palestinian families nice jerusalem's anything violent clashes police stormed the neighborhood to disperse the tragedy some offices sing sing it sing demonstrates. so i bring you up to date that's how the news is looking so far today here not international thankfully company don't forget always plenty of stories too and i website that's at r.t. .

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