for the. welcome to the program. while the european council president charles mashal has accused of export bans on vaccine supply but. the e.u. may also be guilty of the very same offense that europe correspondent has this report. well we wouldn't did what the relationship post breaks it was going to be like between london and brussels the u.k. in the e.u. the pandemics meant we've got to see that speeded up faster than real time and it looks pretty messy from here on out at the moment the latest incident involves e.u. council president child machelp he put out a statement and what she seemed to accuse the united kingdom of having an outright ban on exports in any covert vaccines that are manufactured in u.k. territory i am shocked when i hear the accusations of vaccination elysium against the e.u. the u.k. and the us have imposed an outright ban on the export of vaccines or vaccinate components produced on their territory but the e.u. has never stopped exporting the thing is the u.k. says they haven't got any such ban in place whatsoever the u.k. foreign secretary dominic robb rejected those claims and says that he's written to sharma shell for clarification on the e.u. council president's comments the british government has never blocked the exposed to a single vaccine any references to u.k. export ban or any restrictions on vaccines are completely false clarification may well be necessary because later on tuesday evening michelle puts out a tweet always a way to make sure that the message gets across without any misunderstanding whatsoever in that tweet he didn't repeat the claims that britain had a ban on export of vaccines he also didn't retract any of the statements he made earlier on what he did was. essentially say that his statement had prodded the u.k. towards transparency when it comes to this vaccine issue that caused a lot of upset amongst conservative party m.p.'s in the u.k. who've been doing the rounds on the breakfast radio and t.v. saying that this is absolutely outrageous what we have though is a situation between the u.k. and the e.u. you look at it a little bit like a divorce or. we break up with one site that seems to be doing better than the other on one glaring issue and not issue is vaccinations if we look at the united kingdom just under 35 percent of the population there have received at least one job of a covert vaccine in the e.u. that number is just on the 10 percent mark difference and what we've seen is these clashes over vaccines this isn't the 1st time this year that they've gone head to head on this back in january the e.u. for a short period anyway said that they would perhaps going to put in place controls on vaccines moving into northern ireland that would have caused a whole lot of mess that was eventually scrapped that idea but what we are seeing is vaccines becoming an increasingly important issue a little more on what we've seen in terms of the diplomatic fallout from these comments from sharp michele the u.k. attempted to summon the e.u. on bassett or for talks on this some of them to the foreign office the problem is the u.k. currently doesn't recognize the e.u. ambassador to the u.k. not a good look at this trouble seems like it will continue that is what all of our. legal and medical professionals have accused the british government of refusing to probe chronic failures in his handling of the pandemic now arrange their very own public covert inquiry card comes as the number of new u.k. covert cases passes 4200000 including more than 40000 care home deaths in the hundreds of health care workers top lawyer michael mansfield chairs the inquiry and says countless deaths simply put could have been avoided. people's inquiry is the 1st inquiry of any kind that is taking place in to covert pandemic and the handling of it by the government right now the public want art and spit to kill or leave the bereaved of which there are thousands unfortunately but others who are the relatives of plainly the relatives of those who fortunately haven't died also have questions because those have been a lot of hospitalizations as well and it's no use waiting we need the answers now and they can be provided people have got very strong views about what should have happened in the 1st place and what is continuing not to happen many of the families do believe that their loved ones did die needlessly not everyone obviously but a large number but equally those who work on the front line who've been susceptible everybody knows that it's been a lurching from crisis to crisis that's no way to do it and so we need to know now because it's not going to be over in june the lockdown may be eased by then but of course the virus it still self will still be present somewhere in our region. and where the number of u.k. covert deaths parting 125000 now one woman has come forward asking for her father to be recognized as the country's 1st victim adding it raises questions about what the government might have done differently. we just saw remember him as a father as a loving father as a lot of our he was a lovely man he would have done anything for you and we can. understand but we need to learn some serious lessons from this so this doesn't happen again back in january 20 2083 year old peter to it passed away long before cave it became a national dialogue and when the concern was limited mostly to china the only just come about in china so we we were told you know without a shadow of doubt it was not in this country at the time so there was no why it was on our radar at the time the tipping point for me i think was the inability to get off the oxygen he struggles to march as time went by and we knew more more about coven we saw these patients in hospital with the. public health experts claim peter afterwards case lays bare the case failure to monitor the virus in its early stages and that there may have been many more deaths in the early months of 2020 than was 1st thought the 1st covert death in the u.k. was recorded on the 5th of march of 2020 weeks before the government succumbed to lockdown on the 23rd of march by that time the pandemic had already sunk its teeth into the country but jane's father passed on the 30th of january of 2020 and that was only days after the city of rwanda where the 1st case of it were detected went into lockdown she's now calling for the world health organization and the n.h.s. to publicly recognize the historical significance of her father's passing as the u.k.'s 1st private fatality just through that he should go down in history as a part of history now isn't it you know it doesn't matter what you read in the books you know there's always that 1st person and i think my dad should really have remembered for 20 or 20 years of covert 19 will go down in history as being totally unknown and president jane says it's not just about her father's. legacy but about correcting the official records but the government says there was little transmission present at the time of peter. every death is a tragedy there is no evidence that there was sustained transmission within the community in january 2020 we acted swiftly to curb coronavirus and are told times we have been guided by the best available evidence to deliver a strategy designed to protect the n.h.s. and save lives for jane doe questions still remain unanswered about what actually happened and if anything would have been different had the government acted sooner that the country. are german its sister channel artie deutsch has filed a lawsuit against the billed tabloid for claiming its reporting was actually spying for the kremlin our correspondent saskia taylor has more. on the face of it a sin sation old story it's got all the words to draw or read to read spawn i public enemy number one russia but a closer look at not sensation apart basically daniel lined up an r.t. to each employee claims he was essentially used as a spy for the channel and then all the information he was gathering on kremlin critic alex anan found me when he was recuperating in a bill and clinic for legit poisoning was being put straight into the hands of russian president vladimir putin since ational right well not quite because the evidence seems more taken from a manual john of his and what one inspiring want to one as proof screenshots of a chat with editors i'll tell you these chats a common practice that the easiest way for reporters producers cameraman tech guys to coordinate and also tell you that pretty boring filled with the logistical stuff and despite claims his chart was pretty boring too yes he was also to go inside the shower take clinic one found he was investigative journalism it's called trying to get ahead of other outlets so that you get the scoop in fact build was one of the most active moles inside the hospital as the head of our to do each reminds us to accuse us of spying and at the same time to post images of the every little step to develop he makes including pictures of his garden to host a word if russian intelligence wanted to get any additional information they would buy a subscription to build plants and of course we want to remind our colleagues of german that you slay ssion that for now at least protect the media and lowering it to collect information and metis that are considered to be of public interest so bill does that it's true john it's trying to get the latest on a top developing story our team does that it's more than a tinge of hypocrisy that langdon's claim. this walking group was just filled with nefarious spying requests is also undermined by the fact that when he questions whether getting a hidden camera recording of what's inside the wood which is on job and military land is appropriate his boss writes clearly no i don't think so not exactly the most ruthless of spying attempt on evidence number 2 is the video agency ruptly 247 outside the shower take clinic yes that's true in fact for a long time it was live streamed on you tube talk about money to cover in the same way our tireless cameramen camped night and day outside the ecuadorian embassy in london to catch the truly sensational moment the jury and a son was dragged out we were the only ones to get these pictures and every outlet in the world was behind they appreciate to drop his journalism back then but not now and the final damning allegation the anti employee in charge of lying does assignment was photographed with the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov at a public christmas party the hora never mind that this was one of hundreds of photos taken all of that that was hundreds including foreign journalists apparently this one photo is incontrovertibly proof that all to do each on the russian government are in cahoots you also have to ask yourself do you believe in coincidence not long ago on. its opening a channel in germany shortly after problems started headlined some dubbed a smear campaign period then all. these bank accounts in germany was shot fast forward and now are being labeled a kremlin spine like i said coincidence you decide for that part all colleagues in germany hong convinced. you to tend to see. this is an attempt that is being constrained to me that i was going to love i was standing operation now and in the media at every turn against me and where the false allegations aimed to suppress the knowledge of the sitting freedoms and making powers more attacks this is what it means to be an alternative voice in germany to that and it's also worth mentioning that doesn't exactly have the best track record what between 20152028 was hit with 72 reprimands from the job and it need to regulate so that's almost a thought of the toll in that time frame something to bear in mind when you jump head 1st into this latest offering from the top lawyer and offering that promise is spiced sensation a bombshell and a juicy spy story but actually delivered as well by day in the life of any journalist anywhere in the world well the mean time across the english channel the medics have been ordered to put off operations on patients a french authorities gave the order as the country's hospitals buckle under a new coronavirus hike that's coming up just a bit later in the program. survival guide this is just the start of. this it's. been a. good repatriations to look at the rest of 70. military exercise report. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. joe biden famously said nothing will fundamentally change just appears to be the case when it comes to u.s. policy regarding the middle east because we ask the question what is the strategic value of commuting least any benefits from all these forever wars. good to have you with us today for your news here on r.t. rushers slash the speed with which twitter users can watch videos and photos on the site over the social network repeatedly breaking the law the watchdog brought in supervisory technology under legislation to allow regulation of the internet and warn that it could block the microblogging service altogether if it continues with violations that shed some light on this now it is daniel baldwin is joining us here on the program what more do we know about what twitter is accused of well disagreements between twitter and the russian media and telecommunications regulator go back several years the social media giants previously received many warnings and even fines for its failure to comply with russian law yet still has not changed its behavior this putting the brakes so to speak on twitter is an encouragement from the media regulator to get twitter to adhere to comply with the laws of the land now this action was taken because of twitter's apparent refusal to remove thousands of posts relating to very serious breaches of the law and the source says that if twitter fails to change its behavior further measures could be taken. from 2017 to the present time twitter has not removed contents in the minors to commit suicide child pornography as well as information about the. the use of drugs in order to protect russian citizens centralised response measures have been taken namely an initial slowdown of the service speed if to it it continues to ignore the requirements of the law the measures will continue up to and including blocking of the service this is the 1st of the opted to take such a direct action opting to slow down twitter as opposed to use of financial penalties for example because it seems that it's deemed that this action will have more effect it remains to be seen if twitter does remove those posters comply with over 28000 requests that has sent the social media giants into 2017 if that's not taken as the regulator said further action could be taken. down it is a problem is just really confined to russia or just this issue with twitter go beyond russia's borders do you think which is in recent times had disagreements with many governments and regulators all over the world take australia for example where the government's recently said it's ready to take action against the social media giant if it fails to comply with the new code on the spread of misinformation and disinformation as well as bullying and harassment on the platform twitter has said that these measures could give the regulator too much power in the us and europe for example there are much more serious cases where twitch has been accused of failing to deal with failure to remove content relating to child pornography and child abuse in fact one of us the geisha in the u.k. discover that twitter was responsible for over half of such cases online relating to child abuse so these are very serious issues indeed and 2 questions as to why and twitter is often very quick off the mark to ban and remove certain posts certain content to large relating to politics or political conspiracy theories yet very slow off the mark to deal with content that has much more serious direct consequences especially relating to children and secondly what the social media giants relationship will be in future with governments an authority. given the seriousness of the situation given the social media giants increasing power and role in the media landscape how that relationship will shape up globally in the future and i doubt it on your horgan's thank you. that's a discusses now further with a walker joining us here live on the program a political commentator and a new york observer columnist and terry thanks for joining us here at our table today do you think this move by russia could could have been have any effect on twitter to perhaps some are calling it to stop breaking the law well look 1st of all i want to condemn this act i don't think it's right so you can say all free speech at least right however i have a significant amount of sympathy with the russian authorities and it's simply almost point of hypocrisy what we see all the side is twitter and indeed companies like facebook hound reading about their inability to deal with problems instead of breaches of the law instead breached of their own terms of service when it comes to criminality but when it comes to the sides of politics they are perfectly happy to intervene politically let me give you a classic example and went home to biden's behavior was exposed on twitter i was because he's computer he take it sort of repair shop and some of the information come from that and believes that was done by twitter because as a rule where you can't publish tax information and that sounds sensible and then a little bit later on somebody published donald trump's tax return which had actually been hacked from the u.s. government and switch decided that that was acceptable and i think work people are getting frustrated here is the doctors say and i think that's what i hate this whole thing and i don't understand why the russian government feels aggrieved to have because of course what happens if any attack on russia is allowed and anybody who defends russia is taken down who can stop people being frustrated in that scenario and i want to i want to ask you thought of obviously twitter has been deeply involved in capitol hill in recent months certainly you know up and running to the u.s. press. i don't know the presidential campaign you talk about hunter biden and these kinds of potential scandals being essentially hidden and shoved under the carpet do you think twitter well actually listen to russia's concerns no i don't because if you read reuters today what's going to said is that this is related to the fact that twitter is popular we were supposed to let's leave the valley out of it that you will not concede the bush as appointment fever look wonderful she government be they sound great if twitter wasn't so political i don't know i invite you to consider this but look in terms of the chicks my concern that people have around the world all know that policing child pornography or any other sort of indecent or violence or criminal in syria a lot that is being stored swept under the carpet because of this political consent and so i think there's got to be 2 things you've got to say they're not alone the russian government will almost certainly fail to deal with this problem about criminality on twitter but also we're not doing that well either in terms of trying to force twitter to be fair and balanced when it comes to political side it's incredibly frustrating situation what's the the most frustrating part of it is this 1st of all a lot of this infrastructure is basically universal so not only you say well your company you can decide who you sell what they use it for google says twitch research universal it's difficult then when of course twitter banned dog trot what did the vesa tech community did to that bond collar it's all said and save so effectively that forced you into using this one company and their discipline company is behaving in a biased fashion it's incredibly difficult for users like me who just wants neutrality well andrea when you talk about twitter for example banning the former u.s. president donald trump we understand this certainly politically political intentions getting involved here but let's talk about something as chilling as as suicide and child pornography and that this is just beyond the fold here beyond any norm and yet twitter apparently has no problem with letting this stuff go out. well look there's this is not the great example which is really really dreadful if you think about the behavior nasica in mind not effectively face spoke didn't have anybody who was a moderator who could speak burmese therefore every time there was a complaint against people spreading hatred against every bad minority facebook took absolutely no action and they say that that might spin the 1st social media of genocide and so my point is they say we do need people to be able to moderate these websites and of course what happens is they don't moderate the criminality what they do is moderate the politics and i think it's something that the russian regulator is quite right so pull them up oh what do you think do you think though at the end of the day the twitter policies could end up turning people off the site . pull up and turn them on so what if you will soon affected what he called micro bloggers social media you can't go anywhere else he says this is the fundamental problem with all this there are only feuds back companies in the world i mean i know look you've got no alternative to facebook but that's not true in the rest of the world most of us could own could you see the facebook olof a similar most people who want to tweet in that way you could only use twitter poller was effect to be taken down and destroyed and so consequently it's not legal puts off these products there's no alternative and therefore these companies have way too much power and i think it's disturbing the idea that you can affect the other competition the publish the serious side materials publishes child all over face and get away with it is just an old believable folds certainly if you were to tell somebody 20 years ago that was going to be the case they would laugh at you and dr walker a political commentator and new york observer columnist a great pleasure having you with us on the program thank you thank you. medical workers have sounded the alarm as covert treatments been slashed amid a worrying rise in coronavirus deaths and a lack of overall hospital beds is our correspondent charlatans. hospitals in the paris region know once again preparing to be overwhelmed by couvade cases with nearly all i.c.u. beds filled the authorities in the force of all the hospitals to slash all known coding procedures by 40 percent this is a very tense situation we needed to react very 1st of course for old the country now has the highest number of intensive care patients seen since november during the 2nd wave of the virus for those who work in hospitals the situation is more than 10. need more hospital beds hospitals are closing and there are thousands of bags that have been lost is unacceptable and we have demanded a real adjustment of our salaries and generally of our profession there has been no difference on the ground since june the rest to people who are quitting the hospitals perhaps it's time to ask the question as to why health care workers are stepping down and take a fact of measures in order to convince them to stay we see the reason awareness but it's only facade because in reality there is no understanding of the gravity of the dangerous situation that we are in what is different though this time around is that more of the patients in intensive care said to be from younger age groups the ones haven't yet had access to a vaccine the government has relied on a road campaign to make a dent in infections to sticks however the vaccination program has been heavily criticized for it slow progress now french doctors are up in all most of the being told that they'll have no vaccine deliveries of astra zeneca for a week instead the jobs will be sent to follow missy's the government has decided to exclude doctors and. pharmacists but does imagine that increasing the numbers of vaccinations size will increase the doses meanwhile measures taken to try and curb cases. still appeared to be insufficient france has been under nightly curfew for months now and over the last few weeks more and more regions have been placed into weekend locked errands so far paris has avoided that fate but for how much longer i think the french people have had enough and that it would not be so effective they have been obedient and they are fed up. concern and lock down for the weekend i hope not but all these measures in place not to mention the car a few it gets complicated we cannot do much if in addition to that we introduce lockdown and we can't make it even more complicated anyway should we really have no choice we'll have to go through it we don't know exactly the reason why sometimes we are in lockdown and sometimes we aren't and i think that the top authorities are facing other problems that they have failed to resolve but if there is not a lockdown we will suffer according to france's director general of health still a foregone conclusion to me as you are the daniel this measure of last resort would be offered to the government if we had the impression that the hospital could not hold out we are in a tense situation and we are monitoring the situation day by day yet it's clear tough decisions will have to be made in the coming days and hours so let's all see paris and i dropped out the top stories for this hour here on r.t. international we are back in about 31 minutes with more of your world like news how . is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what coleman. you 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