not one of the morning here good morning from russia kevin now in the headlines for you this friday from moscow and this breaking news 1st of all a developing story to tell you about that we 1st alerted you to last at least one person reportedly been injured after a massive explosions told through a supermarket in southern russia the cause of the blast is just to be established preliminary investigations thinking that it's probably a gas explosion there which could always prove nasty and we've got a bit of information in them we're in now for the emergency services and the woman's been rescued alive from the ruins there we don't know 1st the injured person i was talking about a. will somebody else as i say emergency services are at the scene soon as we get more through i'm out we'll let you know i suppose we'll get some pictures in the coming minutes or hours again we'll go back to that later right other news for across the day for you tensions are growing between the u.k. and china after beijing banned b.b.c. world news accusing the t.v. channel of false reporting about we get muslims b

know one of the morning here good morning from russia kevin and here with the headlines for you this friday from international moscow 1st the we start with a developing story we're talking about the last couple of hours. ago security guards being rescued from the rubble despite the mass after a massive explosions told through a supermarket in southern russia no these are new pictures in the course of this blast is yet to be established i think it might be gas no this is the 1st time we've seen these obviously just after this explosion. in lots of pictures with the emergency services going through the rubble there with the place is absolutely flattened local authorities say some people may still be stuck under the debris emergency services are at the scene we reported before that i was some was injured yeah ok that there the more lots of pictures now you're seeing that we showed you last interesting you see those 1st one so the scale of that explosion there this morning there's literally leveled a shop in cars which is around about 1800 kilometers south of moscow to get your handle on

good morning from russia kevin owen here with the headlines for you this friday as you say say i'm just here in moscow the day is going good so far so 1st then britain's foreign minister has lashed out at china's band of b.b.c. world news round to get an unacceptable curtailing of media freedom beijing's move comes just a week after british regulators took a leading chinese network off the air as he's a rally reports. that announcement by chinese authorities that said b.b.c. wall it need not be allowed to continue their service within chinese territory coming in the way they killed for reporting on how china has held a corona virus pandemic in the country saying that they dispute how the b.b.c. of cover the issue and that they simply do not tolerate fake news and it follows in the wake of the huge case for causing the regulator taking away the license for c t n the chinese broadcaster and saying that they take not my sins away because the channel when the editorial line up dictated by the chinese government we are unable to approve the application to transfer the license to the china gl

for a good day for russia kevin o. and he would be the next 30 minutes with our latest from r.t. international breaking news coming in the last few hours russian foreign minister sergey lavrov saying moscow is ready to break up with the e.u. if it imposes new sanctions that harm key sectors of the country's economy. when we don't go those who will see will so use them when are we heading for severed ties with the e.u. we're just saying they were ready to do this if we see once again like we've seen numerous times before that brussels imposes sanctions that post risks to our economy specifically to the most sensitive sectors once again we don't want to distance ourselves from the international community but we need to be ready for this if you want peace prepare to war. it goes down of a correspondence cross this story today eagle some tough words on the face of it from the foreign minister strongly worded statement i suppose meant to draw a very firm line in the sand that attitudes have to change and change quickly as far as the use concerned absolutely basically sergey lavrov ope

for good morning to you thanks for watching us live from russia my name is kevin irwin this is art international i'm here for the next hour the latest on all those headlines you've heard so much more too but this 1st donald trump's legal team then has warned that continued proceedings towards his 2nd impeachment could push the country to civil war it says the u.s. senate ruled that impeaching the former us president is constitutional here's how day one of trump's trial unfolded they tell us that we have to have this impeachment trial such as it is to bring about unity but they don't want unity and they know this so-called trial will tear the country in half leaving tens of millions of americans feeling left out of the nation's agenda. as dictated by one political party that now holds the power in the white house and in our national legislature well it's a very serious situation on capitol hill where we've got an impeachment trial underway donald trump's lawyers they call it absurd and unconstitutional meanwhile we've got the prosecution saying this is the comeuppance for treacherous donald trump

covert job passports aren't set in stone. 11 am here in moscow good morning from russia this is art international with me kevin though in a focusing 1st and again this friday on events in armenia over the last 24 hours where it's likely to go over the coming weekend it's a country boy a country waking up in turmoil the smalling as the opposition there are military chiefs of called on the prime minister to step down and rejected his offer of snap elections potted recount here hundreds of the prime ministers opponents come overnight outside the parliament building and they're reportedly being encouraged by opposition leaders to stay there to please vote on whether or not to remove him police are monitoring the area no serious clashes reported as of yet but let's go to the seeing constantly response that is the same time with you as it is with us 11 o'clock in the morning though i gather mid day where you are is a key time being banned. why what's will slightly bring us up to speed. well here ahead in front of the nation national parliament which is i guess for today is going to be the center of everything the ce

of frustration here this really comes to the head of lay between russia and its neighbor what's been going on than well absolutely kevin and keep in mind the circle of of he is a veteran of diplomacy but here he puts it in the simplest possible terms and basically the message here is that russia while it is as you say russia wants to keep great relations with everybody but it won't be bullied into well anything into making any decisions that it feels uncomfortable with so it comes just after we after the e.u. 04 in the policy chief joseph burrell he came to moscow and the visit was rather remarkable about point and i was just but it was just business as usual it was it came by just as expected some closing statements from both from both sergey lavrov and joe's a barrel but when he came back to the e.u. when he returned his visit to moscow he didn't sit well with other european diplomats and he was absolutely in a part for not being as aggressive as they wanted him to be with sergei lavrov just have a listen to this. riza deep disappointment and growing mistrust between debian union and russia i also wanted to test to d

for russia this is art international with me kevin no in the morning's headlines and more details for you then coming up on 1st key moment for wiki leaks founder julian assange in his bid for freedom the latest is the u.s. has filed an appeal against a british court decision not to extradite him is despite a petition sent to the u.s. justice department demanding president biden drop the case altogether signatories include rights groups like amnesty international and the american civil liberties. indictment of mr sanchez threatens press freedom because much of the conduct described in the indictment is conduct that gen the single routinely and that they must engage in in order to do the work the public needs them to do in our view such a precedent in this case could effectively criminalize common journalistic practices well in a ruling that many didn't anticipate a british judge blocked a songes extradition over concerns for his mental health nevertheless days later he was still denied bail and media freedom groups were also dismayed that the judge largely supported america's case agai

to russia this 8th of february this is r.t. international with me kevin owen here for the next 30 minutes with you. so 1st the president of the european commission has called for countries to stop competing and to come together to beat the virus. u. turn on his previous row with the u.k. over vaccine supplies than live on the layers comments coming as the changes it's chewed and moves to authorize russia's sputnik v covert shot which is leading western study showing to be more the 90 percent of active. the old confrontational mindset has arrived think for instance about could 916th some countries see the quest for a vixen as a race amounts global paris like this piece race in the 1960 s. this is an illusion the only race is against the virus and the virus is spreading faster than ever before there is little on the line has being keen and in a recent comments to stress and of boycotts of vaccine nationalism saying that the european union russia china and the united states need to work together not against one another when it comes to developing a real vacc

say they just are not of the morning of morning from russia this 8th of february this is r.t. international with me kevin irwin here for the next 30 minutes with the latest for you as you just heard in the headlines there the president of the european commission them as called for countries to stop competing and to come together to beat the virus it marks a u. turn on its previous with the u.k. over vaccine supplies on the lines comments coming as the e.u. changes its chewed moves to authorize russia's sputnik shot which a leading western study shows is more than 90 percent effective. the old confrontational mindset has arrived i think for instance about could 916th some countries see the quest for a vixen as a race amounts global powers like this piece race in the 1960 s. this is an illusion the only race is against the virus and the virus is spreading faster than ever before. to figure over a 1000000000 more new broader attitudes as hussein lost out of sputnik seem to be changing window but. yes sputnik v could well be a welcome aid to the e.u. when it comes to filling in the gaps in their vaccine prog

know what moscow time good morning for me kevin oh and then from all of us here in russia if you didn't run the world this is r.t. international 1st in our headlines as you heard there are more details impeaching a former president is constitutional rules the u.s. senate on the 1st day of donald trump's 2nd trial there however his legal team warns the proceedings may push the nation to the brink of civil war along the way caleb maupin has been listening in. well it's a very serious situation on capitol hill where we've got an impeachment trial underway donald trump's lawyers they call it absurd and unconstitutional meanwhile we've got the prosecution saying this is the comeuppance for treacherous donald trump and the backdrop for all of this is a country that is deeply deeply divided take a listen they tell us that we have to have this impeachment trial such as it is to bring about unity but they don't want unity and they know this so-called trial will tear the country in half leaving tens of millions of americans feeling left out of the nation's agenda. as dictated by one political par

for good morning to you this is r t i'm kevin owen here live from a world view center in russia 1st and germany's extending its locked into march despite a falling infection rate chancellor merkel agreed with local governors that new covert variants do pose a dangerous threat. but the word that we have made it clear once again today that certain measures will remain in place the contact restrictions non-essential private travel and visits should be refrained from and the call for home office which also applies until the 15th of march for the time being should be taken very seriously lock down in its broadest sense has been extended here in germany through until the 7th of march the german chancellor angela merkel had wanted that day to be the 14th of next month but has ceded some ground there now it does seem like this meeting between the chancellor and the heads of the 16 states that make up germany was another fraught affair they all have been during this pandemic but we heard from the ilo who's the head of the state of rhineland pollinate in the south west of germany who described th

now the only person charged in john durham's russia trump investigation a low level at the eyes lawyer kevinbeen sentenced to probation. even though he illegally and intentionally altered evidence to present to a fisa court to spy on carter page and the trump campaign. he could have received five years and fined $250,000. yet the judge felt that the loss of his job was punishment enough. really, judge? the person he targeted, carter page who worked for the cia was forced to adopt a lifestyle as a fugitive for years without any chance for her personal life because the fbi chose to illegitimately spy on him in a manufactured scandal to bring down donald trump. carter page is in the eye of the storm. kleinschmidt put him there and hear the judge feel sorry for the criminal and not the? the swamp carries on. no jail time, not a day. no one going cooperation required. he lost his law license. justice denied again in the washington swamp. thanks so much for watching. i'm jeanine pirro advocating for truth justice and the american way and i will see you next ♪ ♪ mark: hello i am mark levin this is

not in the morning here good morning to russia around the world live from moscow this is art international with me kevin i know it and the folks in 1st this friday and events in armenia over the last 24 hours or so it's a country in turmoil this morning as the opposition there and military chiefs of called on the prime minister to step down and rejected his offer of snap elections hundreds of the prime ministers opponents come to overnight side the parliament building there are reportedly being encouraged by opposition leaders to stay the 247. vote to remove him but he says monitoring the area there's been no serious clashes reported thus far let's get up to speed let's go there are constantine rose course reporting from the scene of one of those camps there bit noisier than last year i can hear beyond what's going on this morning as year of the whole country wakes up to a brand new day but a lot of uncertainty ahead. well good morning to you kevin you know right now the situation is boiling over i mean let me show you a little bit here is the crowd of people and from what i was told there was an argume

good morning for russia around the world live from moscow this is r.t. international with me kevin no it allows you heard there folks in 1st this friday and events in armenia over the last 24 hours or so country in term of this morning it has to be said as the opposition their military chiefs of called on the prime minister to step 3 in and reject this offer so far of snap elections a brief history of what's happened over the last 24 hours hundreds of the prime ministers opponents camping outside the parliament building there reportedly being encouraged by opposition leaders to stay there to please vote to remove him police are monitoring the area no serious clashes reported yet forties of course when i hope it stays that way are to constantly roast coffee at the same forest yeah quiet so far as the country wakes up to a new day a new friday is it going to stay quiet for the weekend is the question in central europe and what's happening there. good morning kevin well right now we're standing in front of the nation's parliament which became the apis center of the current political c

just to midday here good afternoon and this is our take on kevin 0 in with your world news live from our new center here in russia 1st mutating strains of means britain's will all have to get shots again probably by autumn says premier boris johnson. i think we're going to have to get used to the idea that rebound in the autumn as we as we come to place these new variants almost 4000000 have no been infected with almost 115000 deaths that's the worst toll in europe in the last day authorities have extended doorstep testing to across the country volunteers now going door to door to check whether or not people got the disease it says studies show the u.k.'s astra zeneca job offers only limited protection against new coronavirus variance and some are searchers on a slightly broader note want to continue using the shot arguing it does at least help protect against the worst effects of the mutations it comes to after the head of the parliamentary health committee admitted mishandling the coded response jeremy hunt said above all they should have acted quicker as a country we have not got everything right in our pandem

pandemic. 11 am moscow time hi there good morning from me kevin owen in the rest of the team without international life from a world new center here in russia 1st and say that story coming from the u.k. mutating strains of covert means that britain may have to get shots all over again this year premier boris johnson warning. i think we're going to have to get used to the idea that sleeping in their rebuttal eaten in the autumn as we as we come to place these new variants almost 4000000 people have nobody infected with almost 115000 deaths the worst toll in europe study showing to the u.k.'s astra zeneca job offering limited protection only against new coronavirus variants but some researchers want to continue use of the shot as well arguing that it does at least help protect against the worst effects of the mutations it comes to after the head of the parliamentary health committee admitted mishandling the covert response jeremy hunt said that above all they should have reacted quicker as a country we have not got everything right in our pandemic handling we need to learn lessons and the biggest lesson of all is that in a pandemic you have t

good morning for russia 10 in the morning here now around the world live from moscow this is r.t. international with me kevin owen and focusing just on the events in armenia this friday morning what's happened over the last 24 hours and where it's going to go today it's a country in turmoil the smalling is the opposition there military chiefs of color the prime minister to step in and rejected his offer of snap elections hundreds of the prime ministers opponents come to overnight outside the parliament building the reportedly being encouraged by opposition leaders to stay as well there until m.p.'s vote to remove him or not police monitoring the area so far we can report no serious clashes reported. checking in every hour with constant correspondent embedded there saying hey morning. blue sky we. what it remain a sunny throughout the day. will the tempo for ional is the question what is going to happen today costa. good morning kevin well as you mentioned right now we're standing in front of the nation so parliament which became the epicenter of the current political crisis in armenia and let me just quickly

kevin, thank you. world in washington knew american president and awaiting u.s. action after the military coo. and russia ramping up jailed kremlin critic. the new york daily news board is urging the action from the president and his secretary of state. writhe biden and blinkon must move beyond words and deliver focused sanctions we don't need 2 fresh cold wars america has to stand for something. >> brian sicknick is in honor in the capitol are tunda tonight upon under the dome he lost his life sdendzing on january 6. police and the fbi released few details about the on going investigation in his death from injuries sustained at the to the during the riots. the officer was 42 years old always dreamed of becoming a police officer n. new jersey guards well and what we call a her over. now to chief breaking news trace gallager we are hearing antilaw enforcement rhetoric out there. and a lot of it on the west coast. good evening. >> good evening know that the officer reported low died after beat in the head on january 6. his police colleagues the first to pay respect it is tonight and tomorrow. 4 others in u

russia. approved back seems to fail. on the b.b.c. reveals plans to reverse the dominance of american cartoon. targets the to get children watching more british based culture. good morning live from moscow this saturday it's kevin owen here for the next 30 minutes with the latest from our news h.q. for you 1st france has suffered its worst week in the pandemic since november reporting more than 25000 new cases on friday and m.p.'s want to know why foreign consultants with deep ties to president mccrone pocketing huge contracts for a vaccine rollout plagued by delays and failures. reports. as the vaccine rollout in france gains ground questions being asked about the role of private companies and consulting firms involved they said to be playing a major role in the strategy which to many has been a major disaster several companies were hired by the french government between them they have signed contracts worth millions and millions of euros the lion's share went to american firm mckinsey the lucrative contracts signed with mckinsey and not initially disclosed to the public was supposed to help ensure vaccine doses could be transported across france work you might think is perfectly suited to france's vast networ

we didn't talk much about robert kevin, but that's the next book as well because you've got an interesting relationship with him. another question about iran, russia, china and korea noting how you saw their foreign-policy winning without fighting. the. >> a couple of things there and there's a painful part of the book for me which is the revelation that or or a period of time guy by the name of robert hansen was my unit chief at fbi headquarters. i was a brand-new young supervisor when the first promotion to washington and only years later while driving down the florida turnpike on my way to the miami office for work i hear on the radio that the fbi had arrested one of its own, robert philip hansen for espionage and we found out that for 10 years bob hansen spied for the russians undetected and for one of those years it happened to be my unit chief. where is that in the book? it's in the chapter called credibility and it frankly might have put a horrific fbi spy case of the trail of the fbi and nation in the credibility chapter,here's what i did . the focus of the fbi being perfect and your credibility, your team, your organization isn't about th

one year past maskell strikes back russia takes action against the your nation is accusing them of supporting jailed opposition leader alexei about. an n.b.a. star kevin durant's offenses anger after being with all from a game because of carnival stars coming up later in sports which are. african union leaders are meeting by video conference for their annual summit to discuss a range of shared concerns including the called the $1000.00 pandemic and the struggle to secure vaccines also on the agenda growing unrest in the region and in the central african republic that seek to markham why oppose monitoring this summit for us from nairobi kenya so a lot of items on the agenda of this summit malcolm how much attention will there be on the coronavirus crisis. one of the key items that's on the agenda and we're expecting the african center for disease control and also the vaccine task force to report to the african union to update them on progress in this summit comes at a moment where the african continent finds itself at the bottom of a lot of grossly. allocation the distribution of coded 90 vaccines around the world experts estimate that the richest coun

kevin, it does. the fact that we are more reliant on the technology makes us more vulnerable. it is one of the reasons why we have been reluctant to punch back. frankly giving russiaand other adversaries a running field, where they could attack us with almost impunity. we have done very little to respond to equifax. we still do not have a high enough responsibility standards for the private sector companies. this is how the living and a glass house analogy makes sense. this is not going away. this asymmetric type battle is one of the reasons why we need to create, not only for ourselves, but for our partners and allies, something the last administration was loathe to do. we need to create international standards that say, if the bad guys come in and attack this broadly in the supply chain -- other countries were affected. there needs to be, potentially, a stronger response, not just from us, but from the international community, at large. emily: senator mark warner there with kevin. we will be following that hearing on tuesday, throughout the day. that does it for this edition of bloomberg technology. bloomberg daybreak: asia is coming up next. this is bloomberg.

worldviews age cute kevin i am with you for the next half hour with our latest happy days going good so far so that 1st moscow sees new e.u. sanctions as an attempt to interfere in russia's internal affairs blocs demanding the release of the kremlin critic election of ali imprisoned for violating the terms of his parole in response to events around the situation not only are we rich or political that we've been doing. measures against chris principle for suppressed and sentencing and persecution. and for doing that for the 1st time ever. remake usual to be in union global human gretsch regime to dissent for the sanctions will be targeting those connected with the jailing of kremlin critic alexei novelli we don't know exactly who will be directly targeted by these but we have a good guess that it will be people involved in the investigative committee in russia the national guard the prosecutor general's office as well as the federal penitentiary service this all came about following a meeting between the high representative for foreign affairs yes that but al the foreign ministers of the 27 e.u. member states they were also joined at one point by the u.s. secretary of sta

by the way, kevin clinesmith doctored and falsified that cia email in order to get a fisa wiretap late in the game in 2017 after the fbi knew the trump-russiatigation and the case was falling aare part. they knew it. james clapper, testified there was no there there. james comey testified there was no there there. so did peter strzok. peter strzok indicated that. so did lisa page. move on to separate story. hunter biden hired a new attorney to assist with his federal defense. that attorney was christopher clark. he worked for the new head of the head of the just at this time department at the same law firm. now these two guys, know each other from latham watkins. hunter biden has a doj case against him reportedly on allegedly involving money laundering. we don't know if hunter is a target of that, but also alleged tax evasion charges. your reaction to this story? >> just another reason why a special counsel needs to be immediately appointed. we've talked about it before. i think this investigation needs to be probably put in a separate investigative team that, special counsel's office that could do it without worry that the higher-ups wheth

russia, we're susceptible. you know, the puck is going to get in the goal as kevin said. and if we've missed anything and you've got something that assures us the puck won't get in the goal, then here or privately share what it is so that we can begin to pursue and flush out that type of policy. >> but the problem is we may not know the puck was even in the goal but if you got the good cyber hygiene, chances are you will sdoofr discover the puck at some point. we'll continue the hockey analogy as we move to our next new committee member senator gillibrand. welcome to the committee. >> thank you. i want to follow up on knowing whether you've had the puck go into the goal. one of you said that the hack that shut down crowdstrike and other defense software, it affected them before they could start working. so why was there no alarm and how were they shut down? and related, why were there no alarms in the solarwinds and anti-virus software logs which should have shown the unusual behavior access on or other traces of unauthorized access? >> this is george. maybe i can take th