international at the weekend my name is kevin owen just turned 9 in the morning here now whatever time it is with you thanks for dropping by as i take you through those stories than brief again and this made big headlines the e.u. commission vice president this weekend as admitted the blocks covert vaccination strategy is struggling amid a worsening crisis as a number of european countries have suspended the use of the astra zeneca this week over reports of blood clots and even death nor hawkins reports. what could be more boring than covert surely not the very thing meant to protect you from the virus yet some are worried countries more than just one or 2 of choosing to put vaccinations with astra zeneca as job on hold concerned about potential serious side effects are officially no link has been found denmark was the 1st with norway and iceland following suit the effects snowballed with another half a dozen nations suspending at least one particular batch of $1000000.00 doses the european medicines agency is urging calm giving it a jab at the benefit of the doubt until further notice

dot com one of a social media but for now this wednesday kevin owen selling off a stake in the time to tune in and watch and hope the day goes great for you whether you are in the world. no. there was very eager cultural community it was mostly just cattle and farm on. you had this small little town walk herd and then all of a sudden all of these people move in. this is crude oil and so they need to actually physically pump it out of the ground you know well well well well well well well well. in 2016 we had a 1000000000 barrels marco produced oil. and said things that need to cut a streamlined phone number will place the influx of man. with a lot of money. before it's current you know just like all the oil field workers came flying you know by now and then boom right along with 18 in the in the set and got. they work 1216 hours a day you know it's hard work well work is not easy and so they want to relieve their stress and how do they relieve their stress these men that outweigh these many that comfort these many. people have been murdered people been raped they're massive drug issues

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good morning from russia this is r t international with me kevin owen thanks for checking in or to take you through those monday morning headlines in some more detail and 1st a lawmaker at germany's ruling party is stepping down that over revelations his company and a quarter of a 1000000 euro for brokering a face mask deal and another is being investigated for allegedly profiting from an even bigger contract to provide protective equipment in a pandemic to get across it all with our correspondent in europe in berlin the funeral of a morning paper what more do we know about the scandal struck scandals developing this morning then. yes huge problems in the ruling coalition here in germany the scandal coming out over the weekend that one member of angler merkel c.d.u. party would be standing down after he was the middleman in a number of deals for masks in p.p. in which case company earned around a quarter of a 1000000 euro it comes just a few days after another politician in not a center right block from the bavarian sister party was accused of doing the same thing this he's facing a wel

sanctioned both countries and drew them together it was a model because the talking of my colleague kevin owen a bit earlier in the day. so the u.s. is struggling with an unprecedented migrant crisis on the southwest border families along with a record $5000.00 unaccompanied children are reportedly being held in border patrol custody investigative journalism group project veritas has released shocking images from them i can facilitate and donna texas 3000 immigrants are being held in severely overcrowded paul does most of them without beds or proper sanitation we understand 50 refugees are reportedly tested positive for covert in just a few days alone the managing editor of project veritas told us more. there is a major influx of illegal immigrants and that is according to the source might you 50 of them are coded posit that sexual assaults he does it will salt take place daily our sources told us that there is many as 3000 migrants in this facility and donna texas at one time they're very cramped from the photographs you can see it's very spartan living there's not a lot of mats or beds or co

which is what i have speaking earlier with my colleague kevin owen there now meanwhile a diplomatic spat between beijing and the e.u. continues to gain momentum several european countries including germany and france have summoned their chinese ambassadors to talks earlier china slapped retaliatory sanctions on several european officials this followed western powers decision to punish the country over alleged human rights violations against of the. muslim minority now to discuss the latest we can now cross to. joseph gregory mahoney who's a professor of politics at east china normal university thanks for being with us and helping us wrap our mind around this tense situation to say the least how much of a blow is this really in tensions to chinese relations i think it's a considerable blow you know i think that we've seen that there are going to be media reports. for. you know in a minute their nightmare tonight and in fact over the past year we've seen 3 rounds of us thanks michel nevertheless getting all 27 countries would be you to go along with the younger somewhat surprised but there

kevin owen speaking just a bit earlier in the program for the meantime though israelis are now costing their balance this will be the country's 4th parliamentary election in just 2 years a correspondent paula sillier reports from tel aviv. once again israelis are hitting to the polls to on so one simple question bibi or no bibi and if there's no straight on such just like they wasn't in the last 3 elections they'll be another round of 50 election in short succession yeah most definitely definitely there will be you know maybe we'll win again for sadly i think. he's too many years we have been prime minister and he's it's affecting him or not sell like him or dislike him i just i want a different on the peace recent track record has been patchy at best he might be counting on israel's high vaccination rate pushing him over the line but the prime minister's overall handling of the covert crisis has been hugely unpopular so response one of the world's worst infection rates per capita and measures that have been questioned by locals for a long time. what small and noble allies all the work

international my name is kevin owen 1st principles over trade washington tells e.u. are lies they must be russia's nord stream to energy pipeline to europe the yet figures show when it comes to america itself importing oil from the designated enemy it's far less with the u.s. now russia's 3rd biggest crude customer even eclipsing saudi arabia his constant risk of reports. well well well look who's shopping on the russian oil market the u.s. purchased record breaking volumes of russian crude in 2020 make in moscow its 3rd largest oil supplier even saudi arabia longstanding the american ally and one of the world's largest oil exporters who's left behind while this can't be true you would say the u.s. is increasingly buying a valuable commodity filling the coffers of a country it deems to be one of the most formidable foes i mean where is the logic maybe it's a mistake you know a one time thing well not really according to the u.s. energy information administration america has been renting up its oil imports from russia for the last 5 years until they finally broke a de

from moscow just turned 11 am here kevin owen at artie's world news center for the next hour thanks for checking in with us so 1st as you heard in those headlines has been a sharp rise in french students forced to turn to free or subsidized food from support groups restaurants and supermarkets. reports from one paris health center where they offer help to buy cheap meals. every day this canteen is packed with students all coming in here to pick up a hot meal as the covert crisis continues to point to groups have been hit hard by the pandemic many are now without work and the means to support themselves demand for financial help from a public service the student life which also runs services like this canteen has increased sharply every week around 40000 meals are being distributed to students in paris by this organization meals they can take home and heat up later or meals that they can take out now and eat because their horton ready all at the price of one euro now that's been in place since january as a system to help those students who are really in need demand is so high that cruise

from moscow this monday morning is kevin owen here for the next half an hour with the latest from us for you starting with this than the u.k. crisis over covert vaccine deliveries is deepening this monday brussels has now doubled down on threats to shot exports over chronic delays in distribution amid failing inoculation campaigns. we have the possibility to ban planned exports this is a message to astra zeneca you fulfill your part of the deal towards euro before you start to deliver to other countries. showed no signs of are going to time soon if i was getting worse. that's exactly how it seems with the e.u. and the u.k. on course for another collision again over vaccine something that we've seen to and fro now for the last few months this could see the threat of millions of doses of vaccine such as astra zeneca and pfizer biotech which are produced here in the e.u. being blocked from being sent to the u.k. unless astra zeneca ships more of its vaccines produced in the u.k. to europe now as you can imagine the u.k. ministers of the wrist are incensed about this possible threat but

have to watch the clock hope not though it is the weekend and i hope you have a good time for me kevin owen of the rest of the team thanks for taking time out of you weekend to check in and we hope you enjoy the rest of it. 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 the dramatic developments only and going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. one of the worst ever mass shootings in america. it was in less vigorous in 2017 the tragedy exposed a little of the real last big women who say elected officials are controlled by can see you know knows the dangers shooting revealed. v.m.p. d. really and now it's part of the stand is sheen and the american public barely remembers that it happened i just shows you the power of money in las vegas the powerful showed that true colors when the pandemic hits the most contagious contagion that we've seen in decades and then you have a mayor who doesn't care so here's carol i goodman offering the lives of the vegas residents t

hello there thanks checking in with us today this 25th of march when i was kevin owen here for the next half hour with our latest for you as described in the top story in more detail the dispute between the e.u. and britain over the astra zeneca job delays is heating up today brussels is set to vote on toughening vaccine exports thursday widely seen as a move against the u.k. as u.k. pm boris johnson is already firing warning shots over it. why do you think that blockades of. either vaccines or. medicines of regions were. sensible big meeting in brussels on thursday the leaders of the 27 member states will have to decide whether or not they're going to give their blessing to a plan put forward from the european commission that would see or could see limits placed on the export of vaccines manufactured in the e.u. to nations that have their own vaccine production now in a lesser extent this is aimed at the united states but the main focus of this would fall on the united kingdom the reason it's been put into play is because well the glacially slow a you vaccination program desperately ne

other good afternoon my name is kevin owen here for next half hour with the latest for you and 1st the e.u. u.k. crisis over covert vaccine deliveries is deepening brussels is no double down on threats to ban shot exports over chronic delays in distribution and made a failing more general inoculation campaign. we have the possibility to ban planned exports this is a message to astra zeneca you fulfil your part of the deal towards euro before you start to deliver to other countries it seems that the e.u. could be holding back millions of vaccines that are due to be transported to the u.k. in the next few weeks if it takes that decision to suspend the next to be ok now the move has incensed u.k. government ministers as you can imagine but also opposition party the labor party standing by u.k. government on this particular point calling for calm from the new i would urge the european commission to calm down the language cool the rhetoric and that's try and work together to get through this crisis. what seems most bizarre is the fact that this is over astra zeneca jobs coming to the e.u. o

so get out of russia this is out international with me kevin owen here for the next half hour to take you through those headlines in more detail this monday starting with this german and pays a standing down of a claims they made hundreds of thousands of euro for brokering facemask deals here's our europe correspondent. make no bones about it this is a big scandal here in germany pandemic profiteering isn't a look any party wants to be tarnished with and this is part of the ruling coalition here including angela merkel's christian democratic union party the representative of that party nicolas lobel has said he's going to step down at the next election this is after his company allegedly made around a quarter of a 1000000 euro from being the middleman in deals when it came to pee pee and masks during this pandemic may not be good enough for some some of said he needs to go right now and not wait until the election in the autumn however he said he is sorry for what he's done so far but he isn't the only one that's been involved in this scandal we've also heard that. from the very insis

about an hour's time kevin owen joins you with a review of this week's top stories going underground march international well in the u.k. get ready for sputnik stay with us. i'm after a town scene welcome to another look down edition of going underground potentially less than 48 hours ahead of boris johnson's u.k. government releasing its full spectrum review of foreign policy his campaign is against weapons sales to saudi arabia hope for a change in defacto british involvement in yemen the world's worst humanitarian crisis in a moment we'll hear from the saudi capital but 1st to an oscar winning director bryan fogle whose new bafta nominated film. the dissident provides new evidence about the mother of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi joins me now from california brian thanks so much for coming on just tell me why you decided to tackle the subject of the killing of the washington post journalist after your oscar winning filmmaker as you know i think is as much of the world was in the in the couple weeks following the murder show you on october 28th. i was i was shocked i w

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counterpart sergey lavrov accused brussels of killing off all cooperation earlier my colleague kevin owen discussed the latest escalation with our senior correspondent. we don't have any relations with the european union as an organization the infrastructure of further relations was destroyed by unilateral decisions from brussels well it certainly isn't business as usual business as usual has been dead since 2044 minutes. specified because that's when all these meetings annual consultations summits between senior our profile russian officials and european commissioners and leaders that is when they ended ever since then it's been a steep it wasn't a gradual it's been a steep decline but it is important to draw the distinction he said the relations between the european union as a as a huge bureaucratic machine soulless bureaucratic machine those are dead the relations between various european states and russia there are a lot of it in some cases very healthy but sergey lavrov did say there are there is hope because if the european union changes its outlook changes its approach decides that

morning from moscow kevin owen here for the next half hour with our latest this is r t international just 9 in the morning here moscow time so 1st another row of a covert that's continuing the u.k. crisis over covert vaccine deliveries deepening this monday brussels is no double down on threats to ban a shot exports over chronic delays in distribution of failing inoculation campaign . we have the possibility to ban planned exports this is a message to astra zeneca you fulfill your part of the deal towards euro before you start to deliver to other countries. real. crosses a smaller charlotte this row showing no sign of really going to times is going to worsen it's a pretty poor picture in europe isn't it. yes it does seem that way with you in the u.k. once again on another collision course this vaccine right now it seems that the e.u. could be holding back on millions of vaccines that are due to be transported to the u.k. in the next few weeks if it takes that decision to suspend all vaccine exports to the k. now the move has incensed u.k. government ministers as you can imagine but a

now i am in our good money for russia this is art international with me kevin owen thanks for checking in and to take you through those monday morning headlines in a bit more detail than 1st a lawmaker at germany's ruling christian democrats are stepping over revelations that this company earned a quarter of a 1000000 euro for brokering a facemask deal and the senior the sister of christian social union party is being investigated too for allegedly profiting from an even bigger contract to provide protective equipment in the pandemic to get across all this morning with our europe correspondent peter all over in berlin want to get paid what do we know about the scandals in this morning. pandemic profiteering is the last thing any party would want to be involved in or accused of at any time really but for the christian democratic union the christian social union conservative alliance here in germany this couldn't come at a worse time in september they're facing their 1st election of the post angle or merkel era and just next sunday they've got big local elections in boston vote and book

crafted the least painful way to bow out caleb mop and artsy new york this is autism nationalists kevin owen here with me this company coming up among stories we're covering brussels police beginning plainclothes patrols in a bid to try to cut the rise in sexual harassment on the streets there. after the break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. good morning german the sister channel. father lawsuit against the bill tabloid for claiming its reporting was actually spying for the kremlin it's making the headlines this morning so it could tell who's got the latest on it for me pick it up this morning. a strong statement to accuse our sister channel of spying what's the background to this what the evidence if you like while on the face of it a sensational story it's going to was that you want to draw or read to read spying public enemy number one russia unfortunately scratch a little bit at the surface and that sensation falls apart so put simply an. employee says that he felt

good morning to russia this is out international live with me kevin owen from a world news h.q. thanks for checking in to take you through the monday morning headlines and some more detail than started with this 1st a lawmaker it's germany's ruling party stepping down over real revelations that his company owned a quarter of a 1000000 euro for brokering a facemask deal and on top of that another senior m.p. is being investigated for allegedly profiting from an even bigger contract to provide protective equipment in the pandemic peter all of our europe correspondent reports. make no bones about it this is a big scandal here in germany pandemic profiteering isn't a look any party wants to be tarnished with in this is part of the ruling coalition here including angela merkel's christian democratic union party the representative of that party nicolas lobel has said he's going to step down at the next election this is after his company allegedly made around a quarter of a 1000000 euro from being the middleman in deals when it came to pee pee and masks during this pandemic that may no

hello there if it's morning where you are welcome to thursday kevin owen here at r.t. h.q. today for the next 30 minutes with our latest we've got lined up ready to tell you about 1st than the 1st hundreds of millions of pounds of wasted and barely anyone treated is the headline that's the story of u.k. emergency hospitals for covert patients due to be closed this month kate partridge reports on the latest scandal over the government's handling of a pandemic. 4 of england's nightingale hospitals are being closed down they've been built at a cost of 500000000 pounds to preempt a surge in the pandemic but the east london venue treated only 54 patients in the 1st wave while others so not all n.h.s. officials say they served as the nation's safety net since the very early days of the been there mick the nightingale hospitals have been on hand as the ultimate insurance policy in case existing hospital capacity was overwhelmed but many permanent hospitals were already short staffed and are able to release frontline workers to the nightingales the government felt the need to show

international it's kevin owen here for the next 30 minutes or so in the big news just coming in the u.s. medical regulators forced astra zeneca to admit its covert shot is less effective than it. and it comes of truth or it is revealed the pharmaceutical giant may have included outdated information in the vaccine trials it's going to be concerned a lot of people it's going to cross it a correspondent charlayne to ben's piece in paris charlotte was do we know this lunchtime. well astra zeneca is hardly out of the headlines these days and now it's in them because its drug is said to be less effective than originally thought you mentioned the u.s. regulators questioned the efficacy of the astra zeneca job forcing the company to publish additional data to show what happened in trials as a result of that we now know that the astra zeneca jab is 3 percent less effective in dealing with symptomatic cases of covert 19 however it is still 100 percent effective at dealing with severe cases including those that require hospitalization this is what astra zeneca has had to say. the primary endpoint

stick around for kevin owen in about an hour's time with a full news program but 1st a check out of the kaiser report straight ahead this is our international. hi i'm max kaiser this is the kaiser report 1st slowly then quickly oh what's this all about stacey oh i think you're quoting ernest hemingway there of course he went bankrupt slowly and then suddenly and the same thing happens with hyperinflation you might call it it happened slowly and then suddenly just says recovered a few weeks ago when we covered the tweet stream of michael burry the hedge fund manager famous for the big short which was a film made about him shorting the u.s. subprime housing markets and that catastrophe well here's an interesting headline from a trusted source pers fenton he lives in new hampshire and he tweeted this our local lumberyard prices have risen so fast lately that we can't quote accurately they said so we have now moved to weekly price quotes if you are a builder and need an estimate for your customer that lumber estimate is now only good for a week sorry fed inflation is 2.2 percent they claim

kevin owen has your next news update in about an hour's time coming up on r t international it's crosstalk and renegade inc is coming up next on your screens in the u.k. stay with us. hello and welcome the cross-talk where all things are considered peter lavelle take your pick the great reset. is neoliberalism mutating reset for whom better for you than people have any say in any. to discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest when he's an in-house so he is a professor at the university of southeastern norway as well as author of the new book great power politics in the 4th industrial revolution and in budapest we crossed the george 70 well he's a podcast or i think bill which can be found on you tube and rumble originally crossed out rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok glenn let me go to you in oslo build back better the how the great reset as i said in my introduction these sound very nice they don't sound threatening here but the more you kind of dig into it and the way it's being applied in some ways you could make the argu

today here now hello from moscow than this wednesday the 24th of march i'm kevin owen with the latest from our international for you for the next half hour this is bad news isn't it here france's health care system risks unprecedented shock within weeks if the government fails to deal with a new. that's the warning from the hospital federation chief. it was a short break the prefer my actions have been taken given this delay hospitals are likely to be rocked by an unprecedented violent shock in 2 to 3 weeks. 3rd wave of infections kicked in last week there are more than 26000 patients in hospitals across the country the highest figure this month alone with 4000 in intensive care setting a grim record 2021 so far the association of a merge and see doctors telling us authorities response in their view has been woeful and this us your. own hospitals across france are struggling facing a shortage of beds in the i.c.u. there's an influx of patients their numbers are growing at an unprecedented pace the problem results from the fact that government hasn't provided any extra beds for a year

we are back live next hour with my colleague kevin owen here in the studio but right now it is time for cross talk stay with us this is our 2 international. following welcome to cross talk we're all being so considered i'm peter lavelle the most pathetic and dangerous consequence of the russia gate hoax is how it is bled into policy at the center of this hoax was to discredit and then finally destroy donald trump now it informs us russian relations the result is dire this pilot a relationship may never recover. talking u.s. russia relations i'm joined by my guest in new york he is a political analyst as well as a former foreign correspondent in russia in ohio we have all over boyd barrett he is professor emeritus of journalism and public relations at bowling green state. university as well as author of russia gate and propaganda and in sydney and we cross to joe lauria he is the editor in chief at consortium news dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always welcome it joe let me go to you 1st in sydney because they are awake

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my colleague kevin owen has it next hours update on that news from around the world but for right now stay tuned for the. i am max kaiser this is the kaiser report as always incredible things happening globally stacie k.-max well guess what china will dominate a i unless us invest war commission warns ai is artificial intelligence and the commission is headed by eric schmidt the former head of google well apparently you know because essentially u.s. corporations and shareholders don't allow r. and d. don't allow investment into the economy don't allow innovation to happen that's bad they don't want production they just want stock buybacks they want all the money to go to stock buybacks the company up with debt well they have to go to the government and they're looking for the government instead to do with it i.e. the tax fair to take all the risk of innovation they will get to keep their reward but this one thing really stood out for me here because of our experience of moving from europe to the united states in the fast few years eric schmidt says china already holds a lead in some a

almost stories when they happen on our side whatever social media today from now this wednesday kevin owen sounding off whatever you're doing how we day's a good profitable one for you. look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. i robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders that conflict with the 1st law show your identification for should be very careful about artificial intelligence and the point is to create trust so i rather than fear. politically very soon with artificial intelligence will somebody be. a robot must protect its own existence as existence. will. join me every thursday on the alex simon shore and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm sure. i'll see you then. greetings and sal you take. here in the united states the society is still in the early stages of its great metamorphosis into the 21st century a natural part of that metamorphosis involves testing the boundaries of all of our organizing principles and thought patterns never is this more apparent than in the ongoing controve