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The pandemic. The struggling videoGame Retailer is court up in a battle between small time investors trying to save the firm and wall street giants betting on its collapse. Very warm welcome you watching r. T. International with mean akey airing of the European Union has announced its imposing export controls on coronaviruses vaccines made in member states. Over supply shortages brussels has also just given the green light to the drug at the heart of the dispute made by british astra zeneca r. T. Is that solid dubinsky has the details. European union has confirmed that its taking this extraordinary step of introducing export controls all it could be vaccines this means that any vaccine that is manufactured within the block thats the 27. 00 at countries will not be able to be exported outside of the block now this comes amidst a huge drought thats been blowing up of the last few days over that delivery shortfalls of the dose of this negotiation concerns to the transport and sea and export of a fortnight you have 6. Is a protection and the safety of our citizens is apparently. B. P. That is from police to increase production and nobody expects 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 European Union and astra zeneca as you mentioned and andrew swedish palm a company thats been producing one of the qubit 900 back saying its now astra zeneca has said that it 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 and then said to the European Union local trying priests that at to about 30 percent that 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 contract between themselves and astra zeneca from their perspective they want to show that that contract has been broken now astra zeneca says thats not the case the u. K. Signed its contract with astra zeneca 3 months before the e. U. Didnt but 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 facility in belgium now this comes at mits the. Investigators we even sent to astra zeneca as production plant 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 net the European Union foreign breaks it it was expecting at delivery of so cool t. A 1000000 doses of the pfizer buy all new tech vaccines that are being produced also to 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. And as it was originally planned now the e. U. Has been struggling to obtain enough back seat 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 we just got the dispute where the bill average a former member of the European Parliament for the u. K. Independence party hearings brussels is covering up for its own errors in vaccine procurement. The European Union failed correctly told about things that they need in the 1st place and theyre both jealous of the speed inefficient rollout of the u. K. s most to do without having the e. U. Bureaucracy how previous it is in the case of it being more important its a case of the fact that we placed our orders 1st we planned better and were doing it more efficiently and the being found out was being a completely inefficient the News Organization and instead of. Understanding the us and trying to find a way to cooperate and work alongside partners in it to throw its toys out of the problem like an angry baby and we will warrant in the u. K. We were told if we let the we would suffer we wouldnt get medicine that we wouldnt get supplies but it looks like its the other way around doesnt it it looks like its there it will be sure and date of the problem and you know i feel for the people of europe the answer for me would be that they leave the e. U. And start dealing with things properly effectively efficiently on their own like we have. Well moscow has sent hundreds of thousands of doses of its good navy vaccine to latin america as the region increasingly bad from the russian job for argentina its a 3rd delivery of the russian shot with 5000000 doses in total expected by the end of the month but livia has received 20000. 00 doses the u. N. Secretary general has said sputnik the can play a key role in fighting the virus that the e. U. Stuff is huge still lays in shortages from other vaccine manufacturers trying to report. 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 and 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 to double your show will improve 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 jabbers only intended 420000 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 covert 19 pandemic the bolivian president luis are so. He has personally welcome to shipment at the International Airport eventually bolivia will get enough sputnik 3 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 immunize 12000000 people we spoke with the president of the Russian Federation Vladimir 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 as loudest went on to order 22000000 doses with the latest batch having just arrived the president and the Vice President have both taken the russian vaccine argentina has been dubbed the global testing ground for moscows vaccine drive well so far so good and the infamous curve in the country has gone past its peak in the country with more people bucks in name. How we could see the percent of the workers because we have only found the scenes in the theaters and the. You so much now we are receiving 5000000 more and with. The bucks initial rolling with 25000000. 00 used for join 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 Retailer in the u. S. 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 agree to save the struggling company and then plunged after Brokerage Firms intervened restricting trading although it since recovered but that market intervention course an outcry among small investors who accused the Trading Platforms of defending the big investment banks who were trying to crash the stock arties dimitry public 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 badly melvin 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 or 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 stuck 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 they must 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 at 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 next kaiser high seventys kaiser report says the small investors as such 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 the 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. 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Welcome back now street protests are raging across poland against a near total ban on abortions which took effect on wednesday the on rest is now into its 3rd night posing a major challenge for the countrys Ruling Coalition this was the scene in warsaw on thursday as thousands of womens rights protesters marched to the headquarters of the ruling law and Justice Party defying pandemic restrictions opponents say the new law violates womens rights and was forced on the country without public support and some are demanding action from the e. U. Other burden falls on the doctors who have to make a very difficult choice they can be brave in saying that no statement changes the law and continue to do abortions and back east there will be sued by the state and we will help them with this happening its like pretty much its scary and the worst thing is that actually European Union and European Community doesnt do anything to help us with it or dont want to leave bolland because its my country and i dont want someone to push me out of their actions im going to fight for the countrys future as long as i have strength and the hope that things will change under the new law pregnancy terminations due to incurable diseases or risk to the babys health or bans it means that 90 percent of the abortions that have been conducted on until now in poland have been criminalized and punishable by prison time the law now only permits terminations due to rape incest or a risk to the mothers life well under the new roles terminations will be permitted only in cases of as i just said rape incest and when the mothers life or health is endangered and doctors performing illegal abortions in poland face jail the anti abortion law was passed by polands constitutional tribunals back in october but took 3 months to take effect due to the scale of public opposition is being condemned by the European Union which saves the ruling puts womens lives at risk brussels accuse the ruling law and Justice Party of exerting pressure on judges to pass the ruling calling it a sign of become a lapse of the rule of law in poland although the top court says the decision is merely an assertion of the right to life. The Constitutional Court once again affirmed that a person has a right to live from the moment of conception human life has the same value before birth of as when the person is young and adult or elderly the polish legal system is built on that basis abortion means taking the childs life the eugenic premises for the good in the of the unborn violate the constitutional basis. First joins now by apollo been a teeny history professor added supriya university Margaret Clarke director of Abortion Support Network and a member of abortion without borders and tim de up from christy and concern thank you all for joining us on the program this evening the 1st question to tame please if i may attend do you think poland is taking things too far with this near total ban on abortion. I think that theyve done the right thing and credit to them for deciding that eugenic abortions shouldnt be allowed just as you heard the judges say that they conceived is found on the basis of a right to life and that life is infinitely precious human life is infinitely valuable and just because some baby has got some kind of thing like Downs Syndrome or some other. Thing wrong with it doesnt mean that it gives it no right to life and i think this is good news for women as well because they wont be pressured into having abortions just because their child is got down to it was something similar to that and they will be able to see. That life and celebrated and many many disabled people will be very pleased about this and similar court cases here in the u. K. From downs activists saying that a similar law should be taking place here in the u. K. As well paolo this lori is being allowed to despite Massive Public opposition almost half a 1000000 people protested like late last year is this a dangerous situation for the government. What a. Lot of. People want to. See. Because im. Not christian catholic. Most people. Who. I think. Pretty serious challenger. Sort of 2051 or. 2 became. Whats practical effects will this ruling have we going to see women and talk to them present in poland. I think what well see is an increase in what were already seeing which is the number an increase in the number of people traveling because while one to 2000 legal abortions happen in poland every year and previously 98 percent of those were for fetal indication an estimated 80252200000 women pregnant people every year were having abortions either in their homes using Abortion Pills or traveling to clinics abroad and that is what abortion without borders does is we give people the information about what needs to happen in order for people to have a safe abortion either with pills at home or abroad in a clinic so this law we know will not stop. Women and pregnant people from having abortions it just means that more people will have to travel for care. Which is risky during a pandemic and if we want to talk simply about. Women in couples who have wanted pregnancy that they find out theres something catastrophic we wrong with them you know life limiting or life ending situations you know not only do they have to travel but then we have to navigate for them how to bring the baby home with them for a burial its basically draconian and awful i think the polish government has overplayed their hand and i think what theyre going to wind up with at the end of this instead of this horrible restrictive law that they had that theyve just made even more restrictive i think i think this hopefully will break the gates open and allow legal abortion in poland like there is in virtually the rest of europe what were saying massive protests are on the streets of poland how long do you think the protesters are will keep up this momentum. I mean theyve been out there pretty much since the 22nd of october i dont think that theyve let all that match in the last several months and i hope everybody out there is being safe you can see a lot of masks on people im sure people are going around with them with Hand Sanitizer so i hope that theyre safe and i hope that there is an election soon but i do not underestimate that people on the streets theyve been on the streets pretty consistently since the 22nd of october i tell you what about the role of the e. U. Here do you expect them to exert pressure on force all. I dont think they should i think that they let individual countries make their own decisions about these kind of conscience issues around a portion and i dont think they should intervene and lets not lets not dismiss the fact that many many polish people support this ruling in fact there was 830000 i think that signed Assistance Initiative just in october in support of this ruling saying that we want to protect these lives i want to value every live human life is there to be treasured and protected not disposed of and its barbaric to think that we shouldnt be allowing you jenny proportions like this as indeed we do in this country and in many other countries thats what barbaric what poland is doing is turning the tide on the barbarism of the rest of the world the rest of europe and saying were going to value life no matter how intimate how disabled it may be were going to probably with some treasure it and look after its the best of our intention and credit to poland i think poland is going to lead the way on this and hopefully the tide will turn in the rest of europe as well as a result paolo do you expect a showdown between process and warsaw do you think the e. U. Should stay out of it. This is. Is why i dont do the school losing the last. Poll. Because they have just lost less than most. People saw. That was. What i would get. And the issue was important were going to tackle the fact that because it will succeed and the principle its basically saying. To the state that we should keep the results and we should. And that there was only one need for that well and one of the. European union so i think it should not be to. Play because there are so many issues. Between the. Whole special into office and migration that keep people. From the. Graphics and i suspect that this is going to be ok and this case you. Know we can. We can with the graphics show should we wait to. See. What do you think about the e. U. Should get involved. I mean i feel the e. U. The European Court of human rights i you know i clearly am in a very different position to these gentlemen because i understand the human cost of these laws because we keep getting phone calls from people who are in dire straits and the idea that this law is going to stop abortions is ludicrous its going to stop abortions and its going to stop abortions for people who dont have financial means. You know my feeling is that abortion should be a decision between the pregnant person and a medical professional and everybody else can have whatever views they would like to have around that but. I think that this is ludicrous also i want to correct something there was actually a poll out this week that showed that 69 percent of people in poland support these protests so 69 percent of polands people are in support of the people who are on the streets protesting i hope the polish government listens i hope the e. U. Listens i hope the law changes i heres another figure for you mara poland has a 95 percent catholic population so how much of an influence do you think the church has had over this decision. I mean theres lots of countries that would define themselves as catholic i also know if you look at organizations like catholics for choice the fact that 97 percent of catholics use birth control. A large number of catholics have. You know have abortions we certainly helped quite a few again we operate in the republic of ireland and more and all and i think again say you know the person who is pregnant passed you think about what is right for them and their family and then speak to a Health Care Professional and where appropriate with their partner and their god but i dont think that the Catholic Church should be making legislation in democracies. Ok thank you all for joining us on the program really appreciate your time paula but its enim our clock on it tim and thank you very much. Thank you. 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