ah ah ah, breaking news this our nazi a german navy admiral steps down after he spots a diplomatic ra by publicly stay in the crimea is now part of russia. also coming up recently notified congress of our intent to deliver and 17 helicopters. after the latest round of the escalation folks, the u. s. joins or the nato member states in ramping of weapons supplies to kia with south russia to pull back its own troops from its border with ukraine. rallies against covey restrictions are breaking out across europe with anger in front of a vaccine mandate and across the channel. in britain,

there are protests against mandatory jobs for health care workers. medical experts appeal to the international olympic committee to toughen rules about transgender athlete, saying they have an unfair advantage in women sports. we speak to one of the scientists behind the complaint. what the i is he's trying to do is focus on conclusion. and i think that is fine, but they are all way if you, par, archives, inclusion, and then you won't have famous with come and see a lie from moscow. you're watching r t international is just gone to a, i'm here in the russian capital. my name is peter scott taking over from daniel hawkins . thank you for joining. we start with breaking news this our, the german navy chief has resigned after admitting that crimea is now part of russia and proposing to stop demonizing vladimir putin less cross live

now to our europe correspondent, pizza oliver pizza. there's been a lot of pressure on this navy chief and now he's felt the need to step down. what's behind them even walking? tell us about the situation. yes, care are him shown by his no longer the but he's no longer vice admiral k, admiral shown by restart and he certainly no longer the head of the, the german navy. it follows comments he made. and she, he said that the russian president, vladimir burton just wanted to respect and that crimea was for all intents and purposes, going to remain a part of russia. these comments came as he gave a speech to a think tank in india, following those comments. so he tended his resignation to the defense secretary, defense minister here in berlin, saying his position had become untenable. i have just asked the federal minister of

defense to release me from my duties as inspector of the navy with immediate effect . the fall as comments i made in india on security and military policy are increasingly weighing on my office in order to prevent further damage to the german navy. i consider this necessary staff. the federal minister has accepted my request . well, these comments became public after they were put up on youtube. the video shows vice admiral shown back as he was then speaking to the thing signed in india, saying that vladimir putin was looking for respect in this probably respect should be given to ward flooded me. if per the crimea would not be returned to ukraine. we should pretty much forget about, but ever happening. he also moved, well, in this video, particularly went on to, to talk about what needed to happen in terms of normalizing a relationship between russia and the west. we can listen to some of the clips of

it now. a shot because he can do it is easy to give him the respect he need. also deserves the crimea penance was. it's got no commer. this is, well, once that video became public, there was a vocal outcry from some sections of society saying he just had to go that's unbelievable. he's putin already financing parts of the navy. vice admiral k. r. cam shun bark must be recalled immediately. fire hen and navy chief must not play his own foreign policy game in a crisis. clearly vice admiral shamrock thought he was off the record, but he was also fundamentally wrong on prospects of appeasing russia. vice admiral playing down the russian sabre rattling this is a shocking statement since crimea was annexed by russia. it's all nice sounds like

carte blanche happy 10 or ukraine are far from happy about these comments. either the foreign ministry in clear the said that germany must officially distance themselves from there for the navy chief and what he had to say. 3 they've said that what was said was an acceptable for ukrainian serenity. and they've also said that the foreign minister, while the foreign minister in care of is described them, is wholly inappropriate. but this is just the latest issue between keith and berlin . it follows on from a dispute last week, over berlin, deciding that it wouldn't be sending weapons towards ukraine, also. germany blocking estonia from sending german made weapons into ukraine. well, peter, thank you for bringing us the latest from that developing story in germany. that's archie is your correspondence? peter oliver,

thank you. we discussed the situation with maximilian craw and then the p from the alternative a german party on formal austrian foreign minister carried ne. so it is that there is simply no was ability of to, to pronounce opinions to have some sort of opinions. i don't see here for the mistake in as it is pronounced by the german media buddies, nationally, by and large. i mean, where is the crime scene to turn that into something like breaking international use that to turn it into headline is like really everybody i would say a simply, every fraction of a very cumbersome situation. the war long have taken over. there is an atmosphere within the parliament and then everyone wants to have to even tougher

sanctions against russia. and at least really prepare for war. daniel, have a real soldier and he says that is nonsense. and of course, they are very angry on him because he is making clear to everyone. so thinking on that yet your entire russian says it man long ring has nothing to do with real security threats, but just put mad at you. so of course, he has a lot of trouble and he already resign nato members have pledge to send more lethal arms to ukraine with washington confirming plans to send military helicopters to kill if both at the same time they've told russia to pull back its own troops. on the border with its neighbour, i will note that the united states has delivered more security assistance to

ukraine last year than any point history. and these deliveries are ongoing, including today there's more deliveries coming. we recently notified congress of our intent to deliver and 17 helicopters. it seems all the stops have been pulled at this point. from the, from the side of nathan lethal weapons are flooding into ukraine at, at record speed when record amounts. ukraine has confirmed that it has received the latest shipment of american lethal arms amounted to 100 ton. so $100.00 tons of lethal arms in just the length of shipment. estonia, latvia, lithuania have also voiced their desire to supply. perhaps i have begun to supply you credit with the guided missiles, javelin guided missiles that they have in turn received from the united states, as well as stinger shoulder, launched anti air missiles, estonia, latvia and lithuania,

and the allies of working together expeditiously to hand over security assistance to ukraine, this 8 will further enhance ukraine's capability to defend its territory and population in case of possible russian aggression. this is of course, in addition to other suppliers, the ukraine has received an over recent weeks including this week with more than 2000 guided missiles supplied by the united kingdom alone, var sky bridge, endless military cargo flights. you had the czech republic say that it allows supplies, again, vast quantities of 152 millimeter artillery shells which, which have caused a lot of destruction in east the new cray. that poland with drones and the armored vehicles in addition to helicopters, to patrol craft supplied by other countries. nevertheless, there, there has been some disparity. this unity among native states. with regards to this,

to this on supply route that has been open to ukraine flood. i would even say some nations have stayed out of it more or less, including germany. estonia has sorta transferred german artillery systems to ukraine, and germany has refused to sanction this move. the federal government has had a clear stance regarding arms exports in recent years. we have not supported the export of lethal weapons from germany. germany has been on the huge pressure from certain native member states should occur, which include the united states, great britain, certain about the country's eastern european countries to open up and send lethal arms to ukraine as well. but germany has so far stayed there. as i said, stayed out of it, the german chancellor, olaf schultz has also been invited to the united states by, by biden, reportedly he refused saying that he has other responsibilities to attend to. but

the, the, the, this is stand off continues at this point. as you mentioned, the united states is called in russia to remove its troops from its own soil near you crate, to move them out when russia. at the same time, nato troops are arriving in again, record cur, quantities to ukraine, which russia has always seen as a, as a security concern. there has also been an opinion in russia that these build up is, is justified that more securities needed on the border with, with ukraine, given that this again, vast quantity of lethal arms are being sent to you create and maimed bolden. the regime in key of said to, to vap, seek a military solution to the crisis in, in east and ukraine. so was certainly no end to the stand off inside.

in other news, demonstrations against covey restrictions have erupted in major cities across europe. this weekend, the french are outraged by requirements for everyone over 16 to show proof of inoculation to enter public places while across the channel in britain. people want the recent removal of pandemic rules to be extended to national health service stuff. sharia it was dusty in london, ashad depends in paris or on the ground for us possession that just passed me is one of several that are taking place across the city to day. as well as many of those taking place across france. there is a mixture of issues here, but one of the big issues is that vaccine, passports is going to come into play. from monday. anybody age 16 rober will have to be fully vaccinated or have recovered from coverage within the last 6 months to be able to access very basic things like going to restaurants or balls even now being able to go and trains between different regions. now the protesters have

spoken to say that, you know, this is stripping away their rights as citizens, and they're not the only ones that are concerned about this is also m. p, 's and senators who all said that they are against this idea of vaccine mandate. and they're of even been legal experts raising some particularly different difficult questions. 5000000 unvaccinated citizens will become pariahs, even though there is no vaccination obligation, asking a person for their vaccination status to access certain activities as an anomaly. we are in the midst of a dystopian. this law is in essence, a concentrate of attacks on multiple freedoms and fundamental rights that protest had been dying down in france. so the coven 19 restrictions, but they were reinvigorated just a few weeks ago when president mack on gave a highly controversial interview in that he said, and these are his words, not mine, that he wanted to the unvaccinated. and essentially said that they would known the

citizens as they had refused a civic right to go and get the vaccine and not really his anger. so many people here, the bus vex nancy that i was about the vaccine pass is a version of the german ouse vice id. i got back, it's a returned to 1944 to the worst dictatorship. it's a dis, toby, you have the more that these vaccine passes don't work. they infringe on our freedoms. my crohn has created a sanitary dictatorship. democrats, medical to new vascular deisel vocal donna, people aren't happy, we took to the streets for our freedom. every one is protesting in france to day body. i am against mandatory vaccination. this is a question of freedom to work. will go outside for a coffee to a museum. well, i do. no, we'll call another little. we must respect fundamental freedoms, mandatory vaccination, and the vaccine past, trample on our freedom. it is very important to protest to day and be here. the idea of the fact the means now that with these new restrictions,

people are going to be pushed into the going to get vaccinated or deciding to begin the heels and not for sense i got from protested pay today's, that that's what they want to do. and they will continue to refuse to have that job well, freedom day is very much upon us here in the united kingdom as all pretty good restrictions are to be lifted. and you think it would be a cause for some depression, but tens of thousands of people are capturing right here in central london. that's incredibly angry at the government and how they've handled it. didn't try upon demick. they say today, it's not the time to be fooled. by the government, so full sense of freedom and actually take control is still very much upon a disagree with with the mandate. it doesn't, it doesn't make sense to me. i haven't been coming to just walk in, but it's getting so close to me losing my job. i'm angry and i'm sad. we should have funded mental choice to decide what we put off all day. today. it's not just the front my work, but also the receptionist. it will be so

we don't have any just the monday. they're really bad thing for many people here in the united kingdom. they're also incredibly angry at the fact that children are now even being a co us into getting jobs and arguably, they say it's my body. my choice is not really, i should be the crux of all government policy, not today's protest is in conjunction and connection with various approaches across europe. and ultimately what my role calling for is mass non compliant. it all comes here in the united kingdom as the default nation to somewhat take more cautious approach to how they deal with these, prove it restrictions of whether or not they should be lifted just yet. in fact, the world's prime minister. he believes the forests don't know the doing this to distract, on and western and everything that is happening in westminster at the moment is seen entirely through the lens of how can we get something else to be reported

other than the difficulties of the prime minister has created for himself, and that's what i believe lies behind the announcements that we've seen this week. i've called that mark drake, referring to the party again, john, those who are opted through westminster in recent months. all those allocations of number 10, downing street coffee is a forest. johnson is very much himself in royalty, and they say it's time for me to go. however, many people here in the united kingdom, mccovie related say, birth is time to go because of course, many people say it's too soon to list all of these private restrictions. it's too soon to have this freedom day, especially as now and recent news, we're hearing of this sub variance of the on the chrome very and being detected by the u. k. health security agency saying it's a barriers on the investigation. and as we know, the number of private tables still reaching over a 100000 every single day. we know it's much more transmissible around us,

even every infection risk as well. however, many protests here today, so the other chrome variance is nothing more than just the common flu and should flu really be a reason to disrupt freedom. the world health organization is recommending countries now lift covey relate to trouble restrictions after missing that the rules have failed to limit the spread of the virus. the advice comes despite record corona virus infection rates been reported with the on the constrain, the failure of trailer restrictions to limit the international spread of own. the crone demonstrates the ineffectiveness of such measures. over time, the committee identify the following actions of critical for all countries lift or ease international traffic bounds as they contribute to the economic unsocial stress experienced by state parties. some nation's notably in europe are already easing the rules. the u. k. government is removing covey passports, and mandatory phase coverings in public places. the czech republic was abundant,

a mandatory inoculation scheme for those over 60 and workers in certain sectors, and sweden will drop requirements for proof of a negative cobit test. so foreign travelers we discussed apparent changes in the global approach to the pandemic with our guests. when you manage any sort of admiral viruses, vaccines are just one of many tools. so in an ideal world, you know, you have well ventilated work, places you well and i see it schools and the british government talked in policy terms about, well ventilated spaces for last year, if not longer and therefore you do get this lack of trust because then the public don't trust government because on the one on the saying, we are trying to protect, you know, the hand we're not offering them. so it seems all therefore, to only be talking about the vaccine in terms of mandation and actually lois trust . the vaccine still guarantees that you will have a weaker attack of

a covert and that you are less likely to contaminate others. it is not perfect that it's a defense, almost all people now who hospitalized in france, 90 percent of people hospitalized in front of people who not been vaccinated, but taking up hospital beds. and i see you and a resources that mean that some other patients in france cannot have operations even great pathology such as cancer. because everything is taken up in hospitals or almost have capacity. it is true to say from a nature study, we noticed very clearly that those who have been vaccinated within 3 months have antibody levels which are low and actually are not protected against spreading the virus. so unless everyone repeatedly gets the vaccine every 3 months, we're not taking vaccine to stop spread and taking the vaccine doesn't stop spread, so not respects faxing policies are ineffective and do not work. so why they're being mandated, why the health system itself will be further penalized, whatever is the reasoning behind that it's not scientific,

it's not based on the evidence. and it's proved to be highly ineffective measure, which is in fact lucky to make people react against vaccination. president nicole hope to be reelected in 80 days time, and he knows perfectly well that he will have the support of the surety you have almost 90 percent support with mandatory vaccination, the vaccine pulse. i haven't got sort of such high figures every french child before going to primary school to kindergarten has 11 mandatory vaccines, again, tv against polio, against a tyria, status, et cetera. and it's, it's, it's an, it's passed into, into sort of french uses. in the 1st instance, it was an outlandish claim to say that this was like, sloop, it was not true. it's all. and in fact, we could criticize our governments of being far too lax in their public health measures. now that you know the impact of covered in the well developed countries and advanced explanation program with people who wanted vaccination of taken ups is

very different. and i do feel it is time now to relax restrictions a nation because at the moment the only people i see benefiting from vaccine mandates. all these pharmaceutical companies, no one else is benefiting from. and i think we genuine the are in this together. we need to make sure we share the vaccine patterns and how those countries to build the infrastructure and get boxing roll out is a global solution. in sports news, the international olympic committees, new rules for transgender athletes, a spark controversy with medical experts and sports chief, saying they promote unfair competition in women's events. the new regulations come into effect after the beijing winter olympics next month, and would not require transgender athletes to lower their testosterone levels to compete in women's events. the international olympic committee is also calling on sports organizations to prevent gender based discrimination bought according to one

of the sciences behind an appeal to the i o. c. testosterone plays a crucial role in the performance of athletes. i think what sport needs to do is have criteria on which they can base levels of markers like to start thrown to a certain level to allow performance. that is, i think, you know, in the views of those who wrote the framework, i be probably the only one to believe that to start strand does not play a role in performance. clearly, no one is saying that performance can be brought down to one hormone and clearly, you know, sporty performance is a multi factorial aspect. but clearly at the moment, we know that to stop does play a major role and has to be considered in the solution. clearly not as the only factor, but one of the primary factors, and probably the best one that we have at the moment. the new rules about transgender athletes come after several high profile cases. new zealand,

weightlifter laurel hubbard became the 1st transgender female to take part in the olympics last year. and recently, american colleagues, formerly a thomas dominates at her sport with the record breaking performances enough despite undergoing hormone suppression therapy. according to the international olympic committee, the new rules will promote a fair and welcoming environment, both young pits, the largest ones, they could undermine the credibility of competitive sport. i think what he's trying to do is focus on, on inclusion, being the primary factor being considered in human rights is vitally important. and none of us would, would dispute that. but in addition to the human rights component, we need to consider famous. they are false way, if you, par, archive, inclusion. then you won't have famous. 3 considerations. one has to have when

integrated, transgender and the athletes as inclusion, as famous and safety. compet focusing only on inclusion is not the way for american refusal, without explanations of grunts or russian cosmonaut. visa has been criticized as a chilling and unprecedented set back for international space cooperation and travel. nikolai troob was scheduled to spend 5 weeks at nasa space center in texas, so familiarize himself with the american segments of the i s s. without the exercises he won't be able to fly to the international space station for thing a complete change in his training. the head of the russian space agency points out washington's unexpected move puts the very work of the i assess at risk. it never occurred to us to refuse a visa to any us astronaut who was heading to star city to prepare for a space flight. what the us authorities have done with our cosmic ops entry visa is a dangerous precedent for cooperation on the international space station. now, in

a statement, the u. s. embassy in moscow tried to maintain a positive tone, saying they'll do that best issue be. there's an appreciate i s s cooperation with stuff refuse to provide a reason for the rejection and experience. listen cosmonaut. andre bodies jenkins told us that this move undermines the cohesion of the i s s cru at the bill. so this is certainly a wrong decision on the parts of our foreign colleagues. this will lead to training scheduled disruption. if an astral does not undergo training on our partners facility, many questions arise about how to carry out the next expedition, or how it will be possible to act in an emergency situation successfully. the international crew is a single team on board. the station russian and foreign crew members cannot train all the procedures separately while that say your bang up to a day with all the latest news from around the world. my name is peter scott finally back again with another one down at the top of the hour. thank you for watching.

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