To. A very warm welcome you are watching r. T. International with meaning to. Our top story the European Union has announced is imposing export controls on coronavirus vaccines made in Member States amid a row over supply shortages brussels was also just given the green light to the drug at the heart of the dispute made by british astra zeneca arties shola dubinsky has the story. European union has confirmed that its taking this extraordinary step of introducing export controls all it could get vaccines this means that any vaccine it is manufactured within the block thats the 22nd at countries will be able to be exported outside the block now this comes amidst a huge drug thats been blowing up of the last 2 days over that delivery shortfalls of the dose of this revolution concerns to defense spending see and export of for 90 minutes each. As a protection and safety of our citizens is a period. We pay that is companies to increase production and knowledge we expect and it didnt work well for this huge public spat thats been playing out over the last few days and it really comes down to the call that this is between the European Union and astra zeneca as you mentioned and andrew swedish form a company thats been producing one of the could be 1000 facts a means that astra zeneca has said that they wouldnt be able to supply the full amount that it takes agreed on paper with the European Union saying that it was actually going to be delivering around 25 percent of the 100000000. 00 doses it then sent to the European Union local trying that at to about 30 percent but the e. U. Has rejected they still say that that offer just wasnt acceptable and that they needed to fulfill the contract theyve even gone as far as on friday publishing a redacted version of all thought a contract between themselves and astra zeneca from their perspective they wanted to show that that contract has been broken now astra zeneca says thats not the case that u. K. Signed its contract with astra zeneca 3 months before the e. U. Didnt put astra zeneca says that you know its trying to make up the shortfall and its a little table too because the production issue at its facilities in belgium now this comes at mits the. Investigators we even sent to astra zeneca has production quality in belgium to check to see if it actually was a problem with the production and miss rumors that some vaccine had been shipped to the United Kingdom now one german m. P. s said this entire spat is astra zeneca is fault astra zeneca will suffer if they treat people in the worlds biggest market as 2nd class citizens this is also now likely to cause problems for the United Kingdom which of course recently officially next the European Union foreign breaks it it was expecting at delivery of some 40000000. 00 doses of the pfizer bio on tech vaccine that are being produced all suited facility in belgium there is now question as to whether that vaccine would be allowed to leave the European Union and go to the u. K. As it was originally planned now the e. U. Has been struggling to obtain enough vaccine doses despite placing huge orders over the last year or so so much so that some areas of europe are either having to delay the rollout of the program or having just hold to temporarily all together it really feels as if protectionism is now being ramped up in essentially what is turning into a war over access to a drug and a vaccine that is supposed to prevent 19 the e. U. Vaccine shortages are being particularly felt in spain where the 2 most populous regions have halted that inoculation campaigns and of blaming brussels we must stand up to brussels and demand more doses we need more vaccines and more tests and everything the distracts from this task will prolong the fight against the virus. Catalonia and the madrid region have used up almost all the doses with remaining vials needed to give 2nd shots so those who have already had one that ruins government plans to inoculate most of the population by june and the head of the countrys vaccination association ses the shortage is nationwide so. The number of doses were receiving has been significantly reduced the vaccine is not being delivered at the rate that we anticipated its a real problem for the National Vaccination plan and it means a ton of us regions will have to review their strategies the supplies we do have will be needed to give 2nd dozers to those who have already started the vaccination process so we will not be able to knock you are very vulnerable and increase groups that were identified in the original plan its a difficult and uncomfortable situation under similar pictures playing out across the e. U. Where just 2 percent of people have been vaccinated so far the Czech Republic stopped administering jobs altogether for 2 weeks because of the lack of doses the spain inoculation chief again say is brussels should have moved quicker to secure supply from pharma giants. I do not like the lack of transparency with regards to the contracts the European Union has concluded with pharmaceutical companies we dont know about of them we dont know the Purchase Price we dont know anything at all and i think thats wrong of course were concerned that apparently those countries did purchase vaccines in a higher price than the European Union have not experienced such delay in delivery we are not at all satisfied with the current situation. Mosco has sent hundreds of thousands of doses of its good nick the vaccine tell latin america as the region increasingly bets on the russian job for argentina its the 3rd delivery of the russian shot with 5000000 doses in total expected by the end of the month bolivia has received 28000. 00 doses the u. N. Secretary general has that but think we can play a key role in fighting the virus as the e. U. Stuff is huge delays and shortages from other vaccine manufacturers are trying to overthrow. News on Vaccine Distribution challenges delays in deliveries you may be sick and tired of it but this is the reality around the world even the trust between e. U. Countries is being put to the test as the scramble for vaccine doses intensifies concerns over how cash strapped governments in regions like latin america will be able to secure enough jobs for their nations in time are even more serious the ultimate remedy for it is more vaccines cheaper vaccines this explains why the head of the u. N. Is counting on the russian vaccine and wants to get the green light for it asap we hope the w. H. O. Will approve russias covered 1000 vaccine as soon as possible it can play a very Important Role in the fight against a pandemic it seems though for some latin american countries waiting for the final w. H. O. Approval may prove to be way too costly. While corona virus infections in russia are pivoting bag down skepticism for sputnik v. Has all but vanished demand is on the up and moscows keen to help. The 1st shipment of the russian jab is only intended for 20000 bolivian medics but its still crucial for those on the covert front line the 1st 20000 doses of the vaccines have arrived in bolivia to stop the 2nd wave of the kovac 19 pandemic the bolivian president luis r. Say has personally welcome to shipment at the International Airport eventually bolivia will get enough sputnik the doses to immunize 2600000 people the president wants to cement confidence in the vaccine by getting the job to. The russian creation is set to become v most used vaccine in mexico in the 1st 3 months of this year and the country that is just about to certify the use of sputnik the january house proved to be disastrous with the worst spike ever in new covert cases the president tested positive last week but the leaders happy has been able to seal the deal with moscow to 12000000 people we spoke with the president of the Russian FederationVladimir Putin and he was genuine and cool deal i invited him to visit mexico and thank him for the decision to send us 24000000 doses of the sputnik the vax and over the next 2 months. Argentina was the pioneer in trying out sputnik among latin american countries the 1st jabs arrived and when osiris at the end of december and after getting the data on side effects only one percent of those who receive the shot have some sort of issues but us august went on to order 22000000 doses with the latest batch having just arrived the president and the Vice President have 0. Taken the russian vaccine argentina has been dubbed the global testing ground for moscows vaccine dr well so far so good and the infamous curve in the country has gone past its peak and you know the country with more people but in a in latin america. How we caught the bus in the only 2 percent of the workers because we had only to find the details on bugs scenes in the 1st send the use much now we are receiving 5000000. 00 more and wish to complete the box initial round with 25000000. 00 used or join us at the trend is more and more evident you probably shouldnt shy away from what they call walk or not also in spanish if you want a quicker escape from the red zone for your country. A video game retail in the us has found itself at the center of a trading battle with small time investors pitting themselves against wall street giants game stop saw its share price saw this week after amateur traders got together on online Message Boards and agreed to save the struggling company it then plunged after Brokerage Firms intervened in restricting trading although its since recovered but the market intervention caused an outcry among small investors syracuse the Trading Platforms of defending the big investment banks who were trying to crash the stock arties demitra park takes a closer look. So by now youve probably heard of the whole while should game stop credit fiasco but if youre one of the many people whose mind goes completely numb when you hear the words stock hedge fund short selling well dont worry heres a short teal the our version of whats going on game stop its a chain of Video Game Stores some people love him some people hate him but their business has been kind of bad lately melvyn capital a bunch of guys from wall street who have formed a hedge fund that essentially makes money off of businesses failing stocks or shares representations of ownership of a company so if a company is doing well then the cost of these stocks are shares goes up if its failing they go down so in this case a bunch of guys from wall street in a hedge fund decided to make a bet that game stuff will fail which it kind of was already they did this using a term called short selling its basically when you borrow a bunch of stock sell it which lowers the price of the stock then wait for it to become dirt cheap buy it back return it to whoever you borrowed it from and while up profit this was supposed to be the stop in game stop but then as then really go according to plan a bunch of crazy guys from reddit essentially decided to give the middle finger to wall street they did this using whats called a short squeeze they started buying a bunch of games up shares which made their price skyrocket like thousands of percent and now these poor Hedge Fund Guys have to return all that stock they borrowed and a huge loss theyre going bankrupt because they lost billions of dollars and wall street is very mad so are the politicians behind them but the internet sees this whole thing as karmic justice because wall street has been playing this game for literally years hence all the means. Being the sore losers that they are wall street is now trying to make a point that regular people should not be allowed to buy or sell stock only wall street robinhood in online stock Trading Platform has already barred its users from buying any more game stop shares and now theyre getting sued regular people are just now buying bad stocks all over the place and adding more fuel to the fire celebrities and politicians are also joining in on the fun the moral of the story seems to be that if wall street wants to screw over businesses and make billions of dollars well thats fine thats business as usual but if regular people want to do the same thing to wall street well weve got a problem max kaiser host of volunteers kinds a report say is the small investors that feds should be praised for exposing the questionable practices of big wall street traders. So what these traders have done what these reddit traders have done is exposed or shine a light on the illegal practices of hedge funds and this should have been addressed many years ago because de objective of hedge funds like melvin capital which is associated with citadel that has on their board ben bernanke the former fed chairman is to put these companies out of business and to profit on their collapse and that of course doesnt help the economy at all and people lose jobs so we have to applaud their reddit and the wall street bets people for bringing back some law and order and some equilibrium to these markets theyre doing the absolute right thing and we need to support them if we believe in free markets and if we believe in capitalism if we dont and the objective is price fixing and to go to a command and control economy in america then thats what were going to end up with if we let hedge funds dominate the price discovery and engage in this massive price fixing that the reddit people have exposed. Still has need us states ease lockdown restrictions defy the u. S. Death toll well get reaction on that thought as a short break stay with us. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to get out of the world of politics or business im show business ill see you then. Welcome back the u. K. Is cracking down on trips abroad travelers will now be turned back at the border if they can provide a valid reason for travel to home secretarys announcement comes after britons a 2nd highest daily death toll from covert the rules are clear people should be staying at home unless they have a valid reason to leave going on holiday is not a valid reason britain has also announced new rules for travel from what it calls high risk countries people flying from 30 listed nations must quarantined in a government approved hotel at their own expense yet there are calls to go even further with a top official denouncing a massive failure to follow rules not just borders and monitoring news stream but time to fix the biggest flaw in our current strategy namely that 3 quarters of those with symptoms do not sell fights only jeremy hunt wants to use g. P. S. Tracking 3 peoples mobile phones to make sure they self isolate he cited poland imes taiwan successfully using the policy i discussed about idea with our guests that like to know your thoughts on the their proposal for g. P. S. Tracking what you think of that. Or just the i guess im not sure i mean i think its a bit over the top really i think what we havent done through all this process is get out test race and isolate work if you want to get domestic market economy back on the up and running you do australia and new zealand have done 0 code in the got 0 go bit by chance in their borders good tech to test race and isolate by quarantine and by providing support for people into isolation but weve got what weve got to do is weve got to accept that this disease will exist that this disease is probably not going to be seasonal forever we have got to protect the elderly and the vulnerable and britain has done incredibly well with the Vaccination Program but in terms of people who are not clinically vulnerable those people need to be sent back to work and we certainly need to open up the schools the idea of g. P. S. Tracking people is for the personnel never implemented in time anyway we know that most of the introductions of the virus into the u. K. During the 1st wave of the pandemic and indeed you in the 2nd world travel is returning from mainland europe and i think it might be too late now but nevertheless we are faced with a new virus variants and i guess this strategy is to try and stop the introduction of these more worrying variants of the virus that has been in all of piety within the British Government when the matter how crazy the idea is somebody comes along and says they want an even more crazy and draconian rule broadhead we have let these people run absolutely right and what has happened we are the Public Sector debt is now 2. 13 trillion in december we borrowed 38000000000 pounds hes absolutely bananas weve got to get back to work weve got to get back to work now because theyll be nothing to come back to if we let this continue much longer while thats most of thats ridiculous isnt it so were going to let all these early people die away were going to let this virus spread and there it is that is donated by the 50 vaccinated by the 15th in february as you well know as making. Assumption the vaccines are going to work and theyre going to transmit your make your make you know something that the economy can exist if you lock it down for a year justify that you know were going to have to learn some very seriousness and this will not be the last pandemic and i think we and many other countries were not alone in this were not prepared for this we learnt some hard lessons over march and april but we have far too much we didnt delay got that balance wrong we need to stop debating only about the medical issue and we need to start seeing it in the wider context and accept that britain does need to continue as a country and that the has to be a balance between keeping people safe and also maintaining the wealth and livelihoods and educated of this country. The u. S. Is registering some of it for highly higher if they death tolls from the virus with more than 79000. 00 victims this month alone yet that isnt stopping some states from lifting covert restrictions are things done quarter reports. Joe biden entered the white house masks a blazing with an executive order that promised to shut down the coronavirus but barely a week in and hes already backpedaling nothing we can do to change the trajectory the president make in the next several months not exactly reassuring especially since that trajectory is given the us the worlds highest covert death toll with january seeing record mortality over 79000 cases and the white house is projecting as many as 90000 more deaths in the next 3 weeks its one thing to hear the statistics heres the medical reality honestly the hospitals here will be on the edge of collapse but kind of in disaster mode right now were going to go through a really dark things are really really bad this is among the worst fear is that weve not a pretty picture but thats not stopping states from dropping their lockdown measures california just ended its statewide stay at home order citing a decline in new cases and hospitalizations on the east coast of massachusetts lifted its curfew and businesses can stay open late again even in the hardest hit state new York Governor Andrew Cuomo is lifting restrictions hes declared an end to the post holiday surge and is assigning guilt to some incompetent government kills people but quote most critics are calling that an overdue admission his incompetence killed soon a citizens. Kudos to him for publicly acknowledging that he is running an incompetent State Government kind of shocked he would throw himself under the bus like that wow he has some nerve to say this one just needs to look at the new york death rate compared to other states it is a disgrace largely due to his decisions the Nursing Homes as cuomo and other governors give the green light to end cold restrictions biden is embarking on his war with the coronavirus for pandemic fatigued americans really needing some direction right now it hardly seems like their leaders are marching to the same drum the hospitals are there at their limits there are people who are hospitals that have people in the hallways or hospitals that are turning people away there are ambulance to get an ambulance in certain parts of Los Angeles County is taking hours for emergency situations it is an emergency scenario in lots of places including Southern California and for the governor to turn a blind eye to that. I think is actually very problematic so this needs to be treated as an emergency situation and kobo point out which should be data show otherwise and were not quite there yet so while the numbers are slightly better than they were say a week ago seems very clear that there are still a lot of reason for concern and reason for caution. The u. S. Has issued its 1st ever National Terrorism bulletin on domestic extremists calling them a threat to the government information suggests that some ideologically motivated violence extremists with objections to the exercise of Governmental Authority and the president ial transition as well as of the perceived grievances fueled by full snarks ifs could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence. The document doesnt mention any specific antigovernment plots but claims radicals may be emboldened by this months capsule riots to attack government officials on facilities the editorial director of the reactionary times online news site face this warning will be useful sweeping curbs on conservatives the government trying to justify you know future or i guess are restrictions on you know lets say conservatives or republicans gathering to protest or to you know just come together against the agenda of the Current Administration does this look like a sign of things to come but were going to move towards a more statist its kind of society in america under President Biden were seeing it in a lot of different ways because in addition to governmental actions were seeing big tech obviously with the way that theyve all locked down and they conservatives you know you have a president from cant even use twitter anymore and he cant use other social Media Outlets and youre seeing conservatives get banned left and right i mean reactionary times weve lost our you tube channel and i have no idea why that would have happened because it wasnt like we were out there motivating people to take any sort of violent actions but i think right now because there is just told power consolidated amongst the left were going to see a lot of strange things happen. Weve been paying tribute throughout the week to legendary broadcast and r. T. Host larry king who died on saturday at the age of 87 we can now show you an excerpt from his last interview given to see americas rick sanchez you can watch the full conversation later on today on aussie and online. Always describe yourself to me and to just about everybody as a kid from brooklyn. Was i mean i think what it means is rick i never forgot. Where i came from and thats true to this minute i never forgot where i came from so im 85 years old but im the kid from brooklyn and thats what i brought to the business being curious born to do interviews where i was born to be what i do i didnt go to college my brother did a more canal on the street in new york and a friend introduces me to james sermons who was chief of staff announcers at c. B. S. Wonderful man and i said to him i want to get in a radio what should i do. And he said get down to miami and i knocked on doors in small station w. H. R. In miami beach gave me a job was a dish arche and on may 1st 1957 i saw that on the air and from that moment when that light went on. And i told the audience it was my 1st day i never never could have a Live Audience i. I found my magic. Ive been reading a long time. T. V. Is one of the few channels. I did as news this is my country the greatest show on earth tell the truth. Thanks for joining us here on out see international this friday were back with the latest and at the top of the hour. Lets measure that everything that weve learned all the world fits not right so as we learn more and more because we are learning more and more silent gropes now as any good island to island is surrounded by an ocean in this case is the ocean off the unknown most stuff we do not know right and a paradox of learning and this is why the boy did she said yes the island grows the boundaries between what is known and what is not known is also growing. 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