for the very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the international. news. first at the head of the european commission says that she's become a scapegoat for europe's extremely slow inoculation right and laid the blame on. a correspondent as the story. well the e.u. commission are not happy at all with vaccine manufacture astra zeneca care it's got to do with deliveries of the jobs to the e.u. as a bloc they were told that for the 1st quarter of 2021 they'd receive 100000000 doses they have received 10000000 doses even i can do the mathematics there 90 percent is the shortfall the e.u. commission has come in for a lot of criticism over failures in logistics and planning in its vaccine program underlying the e.u. commission president though is saying that astra zeneca needs to bear some of the responsibility as well we see esther's any case delivering below 10 percent of what had been contracted for the 1st quarter we are tired of being the scapegoat the european commission president did say that we could see repeats of vaccines being blocked from leaving the european union we saw this last week when italy stopped a shipment of around 250000 doses of the astra zeneca job for heading to australia the australian trade minister called that vaccine protectionism what we don't want to see is a repeat of the well scramble we saw for resources at the beginning of the pandemic where everybody was trying to outbid everybody else when it came to mosques and p.p. and everything else on the line though has said yes there have been problems with the way the vaccine program is being rolled out there's been problems with the way the e.u. commission has handled things we aren't where we want to be in combating the virus we were late in granting authorization we were too optimistic about mass production and maybe we also took for granted that the doses orders would actually arrive on time we must ask ourselves why and what lessons we can draw from it even when you have vaccines there's still problems in austria they've suspended the use of one of the astra zeneca john. up there one woman died and another person was taken seriously ill after they received it it's until a full investigation can be carried out as it stands at the moment they say there is no direct link between them having the vaccination and becoming ill but they want to make sure that that's definitely not the case when it comes to getting the vaccines into the country though there is one other avenue you that the european union could be looking at not importing them from the united states but in order to do that they're going to have to convince washington to overturn their own protectionist rules that don't allow vaccines to be exported outside of the u.s. . russia has dismissed claims of spreading disinformation about u.s. vaccines ultimately calling them nonsense the state department earlier flagged for russian websites as supposedly trying to discredit the pfizer and more doing a jobs in favor of sputnik v artie's saskia taylor reports. the world changed big time over the last year but some things stay the same remember russia madelyne as well that our global engagement center has identified 4 russian online platforms that are directed by russian intelligence services and spread disinformation about 2 of the vaccines that have now been approved by the f.d.a. in this country we are aware of it we're monitoring and we are taking steps to address back just in time to wage vaccine war because while hackings a bit passe in electing foreign presidents is a bit while not vaccines are where it's at in 2021 and when it became clear that american scientists might out vaccine the russian ones the kremlin aborts had no choice but to raise that disinform in heads again the emphasis on denigration pfizer is likely due to stay just as the 1st besides it wouldn't be to see mass use resulting in a greater potential threat to sputniks market dominance who said to a global pandemic couldn't be politicized now some would say these madness a bit late to the game i mean sputnik freeze already registered in around 40 countries many of which didn't even consider not because they'd been brainwashed by mean anti flies and notes left by undercover agents but because that is logistically a much trickier vaccine it used to fall apart if it wasn't kept in specialized minus 17 degrees celsius that's now been improved to minus $25.00 while sputnik v. chills out plus 8 on is around hof the price and then there are countries like iran which on exactly buddy buddy with the us so why buy their fraxinus when there's another one on the market without the political trauma. not tickle right well unfortunately political games and logic on friends and paranoia is alive and well it's nonsense russian special services have nothing to do with any criticism against vaccines if we treat every negative publication against the sputnik the vaccine as a result of efforts by american special services then we will go crazy because we see it every day every hour and in every anglo-saxon media the wall street journal's resurrected disinform ation for the sake of a few critical articles well just imagine what all means over madly as it would have had twin vent if i had got the onslaught of doubt criticism hate that sputnik we got back in the day the speed of the road now is a concern for some health professionals it's a new kind of global race that russia wants to lead there are concerns about its safety with questions of how much of it russia can produce now timing is everything the e.u. struggling with this vaccine rollout paid by production delays and shortages ready to help but may be so to block started the approval process now 5 in the us who obviously love healthy competition in a way that twitter labs pala or trump loves music is probably looking at bought and seeing a chunk of that money party just fall away never mind that it's for the good of humanity the sputnik vaccine will not go back to russia it will save lives in slovakia i would never give it up our country is a fundamental part of the european union but i cannot turn down a quality vaccine that will save our people because it's made in russia i'm not a murderer you'll hear the good news is that 280000 doses of the vaccine arrived from russia we need vaccination as fast as possible under valving more people so. yes the pandemic might have changed the wild but something to change the madness that this information back in the game did you miss them. the european parliament has voted to strip m.e.p. and catalan separatist leader carlos put him on of immunity ultimately paving the way for his extradition to spain let's get more details now r.t. is daniel hawkins joining us live in studio daniel ultimately i guess what does this mean for carlos putin want his associates and i guess even today the whole independence movement yes certainly bad news for all 3 this has been a ticking time bomb for commerce proves your. independence activist colleagues since ongoing legal wrangling between the legal systems of spain germany and belgium since the mid living in self-imposed exile since late 2017 these legal wranglings the question of diplomatic immunity has been hotly contested in the european parliament and that vote has now come through $248.00 against $400.00 m.p.'s for waiving diplomatic immunity all 3 individuals are wanted on charges of misuse of public funds and sedition in spain this means that madrid can now issue new european arrest warrants potentially leading to the extradition and charges for that referendum in 2017 which madrid views as illegal and the organizers as criminal court will of course take a different view in his speech today you said this was an attack on freedom and a campaign of course accused against him on his associates he asked for a new unity. that there had been buried. more than that. anderson regime you know. these are communications. now the former president and his associates former health minister tony called mean former regional education minister claude up on saturday. wanted on charges of sedition on charges of misuse of public funds in spain they were protected now they've lost that diplomatic immunity that opens the way for them to be extradited and drouet will certainly view this as a victory that this question of catherine and pendants a simmering. source of met many tensions between catalonia and madrid will be resolved internally on a national level as opposed to getting involvement from the e.u. states either regional level so certainly a victory here for madrid you know some already saying that madrid trying to make an example of a man and his associates as well do you really think there madrid is is keen to put the politician on trial and potentially lock him up behind bars all for madrid the the question of course and independence has been hugely sensitive 11 that's pretty much been off the table and when putin won became the 130 of president of catalonia he was the 1st to refuse to swear oath to swear loyalty to the spanish monocultures by this constitution and it was on the his rule that in september 27th teen laws were passed that enabled that rougher and to go through the referendum was never completed madrid spent sent security forces to the region that of course resulted in these tensions between catalonia and madrid of many years many decades coming to heads with approaches clashes with security forces on the streets which shocked many who were following events around the world. we decided to strike the president vice president and other high ranking officials in the council on government. my. proposal for a d.c. should teach. the castle and independence movement is bigger than just call us proves your model should madrid succeed in getting an extraordinary charge potentially jailed as other activists have been this won't be the end of the question but boy. issuing these arrest warrants by issuing this extradition request madrid is very keen to make an example of what they would stand for somebody that goes against spanish laws and spanish constitution this is why for the last 2 years they've been trying so hard to win those legal battles and get back to spain where you could face those charges and from a legal standpoint certainly this is something many around the world be following in many countries which have their own independence movements and tensions certainly this could set a president and something many will be watching very closely indeed in the east on your balkans thanks for that and let's delve into the story just a bit further here in our international it's our bring in our maggie and out about the a professor of spain and catalonia politics at the university of east anglia thanks for joining us on the program today what do you think is behind this move by the e.u. parliament is certainly seems that madrid is not holding back any punches. well we have got them perhaps because we have many years since that will get in bees that may complicate the year that there was a process halted in 2020 and generally when which among and these 2 eights peaceful not having that way had a seat in the european parliament and good. at it poses. an exit i.t.n. and then a quest that this nation of men with towards him as he said in the midst of patients war school kids and where it was and all the persons targets to request. immunity to be lifted and only today oh yes they in fact it was held in recent weeks so we have seen there perhaps this missed interim in news for a long time and in ritzy vehicle taxes the role as a tactic to talk to a way. that they started well. let's guess the base decision so it was just simply an you know something that was to be resold and was up in the air until not what marian if i can jump in and ask you because the e.u. parliament was fall from you not of us on this summit 248 lawmakers voted against stripping karla's portion of his immunity if the extradition does go ahead could it further cause even a large of rifts between member states do you think. if i didn't know well there's . a vote would someone to simone's case particularly were something like $400.00 in favor of mixed. in u.t. and 248 against that and 45. extensions so. these are women it was obviously there and it is suspected to be the case i mean this is at the. surface every now and people have different views on a controversial topic anyways so no way you can say that was some you know you know . it among artists critical and substance additional. or they have flagging that as the main benefit there. and motivation behind. this request so they support this request however and there's some arses on the left which can not seen this way of going about this topic. they way to resolve this but the baron it can get it done with a response and if it was it was back in 2018 the sort of jumping in but it was back in 2018 the belgian courts rejected the spanish arrest warrant for preacher man saying that the charge of rebellion doesn't even exist in belgian law i mean are they likely to stick to that view even though his immunity has been lifted. it is likely that again the. request for exploration that that if you could sort of. war were. based on the interpretation of the law and how different and it's the highlights that they vary it. up and say it's an interpretation of concepts in all that divert from you know one country for another so i think that highlighted this discriminating understand in what it means in different countries a particular concept and i think that was there was this argument put forward by the spanish judge. and they tried to make some form of russian not that tends. to communicate meaning in the context of the spanish. legal system of course that doesn't mean that the rebels in high court. was aligned with this way of thinking the scene things they felt it was the stupidest of the defeat and they didn't accept the case back then it doesn't mean that in the terms in the meantime they have not kept talking to each other and perhaps finding some form of common understanding concepts that quite crucial and key in this particular case so we are to see whether that actually happens or not we have a recent case in january of similarity. it's now you where another. politicized and. also. requested for submission to the court and these force and are rejected again so it is to be seen we have to actually move forward in these understanding of the laws and what some concepts. you know to be interpreted in belgian as opposed to well as much as we've seen marriage is certainly causing a lot of division among the politicians right now and certainly among the public as well omarion out of us a professor of spain in catalonia politics at the university. of east anglia thank you for joining us on our to today thanks a lot remarked. choose day marks exactly a year since italy became the 1st e.u. state to bring in a nationwide lockdown on the program to look at how the block has the disease as we are back in just the. same wrong all rolled just don't all. get to shape out of this thing to educate and gain from it because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. she still looks for common ground. it is good to have you with us today for this program italy has passed $100000.00 deaths as it marks one year of national lockdowns shot to do with the now assesses and has a good look at the growing frustration across europe and what many are calling a botched response to the virus. to sign a decree that we can describe as said home with the flu like of a pen the life changed forever more than 60000000 people placed into lockdown as imagine see measures were taken to try and stop covert 19 from spreading. or. she went on i got surely i never experienced or imagined i'd lived through something like that especially in the 1st stages there was uncertainty i didn't know what i was allowed to do or not we did not know the enemy or how to fight it but after a few weeks the whole of italy was united we were very scared because we saw really warring images especially in the news so we thought it was right to do the lockdown as rigorously as possible scenes from hospitals could have been pulled from horror movies as medical stuff desperately trying to cope with a virus that no one knew how to battle it's only may have been the 1st epicenter in europe but soon cause it was everywhere one by one countries closed their borders their shops schools parks measures were brought in at 1st it was simple things like being told essentially distance to water hearns but certainly these became more and more draconian. and it. isolation and anger in marriage just governmental advice change direction like the wind across the continent citizens have demanded the freedoms. that. i. was. was i i i i i. i i i i. happy. we were very scared because we saw really worrying images especially in the news so we thought it was right to do to look down as rigorously as possible everything the government tells us is the opposite of its contradictory instructions so it's a little bit complicated in the end we don't believe what they tell us. we can't do anything we need a revolution french people don't want to wake up we are like little dogs that are being taken for a walk we cannot live like this anymore that malays has grown even ingolf so governments but 12 months old there is no sign of abating parts of italy are back a look down here in france as a nationwide curfew during 6 pm and 6 am it's been in place for months while many terms and cities are now also on we can look down and cases a surgeon again. we do not want to lock down it was very difficult financially above all were suffering we lack work the ability to go out no more restaurants we were isolated at home everything has changed europe has failed i am paid a long down and have suffered from the like a freedom we have complete of us confidence in our government even as vaccines are approved and rolled out across the block there are massive issues trust has been lost. in the trust of the people who don't wash their hands but trust start to look for. worse made or more evident. in a time of the just and be being decreased. not even on monday generation we're just more than that and more than. people. when they want someone you know the future is unwritten it's a blank canvas and what's gone before us never has to hold us back if we take in really from our mistakes but is anyone really listening so what do you. see paris. i can say actions by prince harry's wife and meghan markle against britain's royals are dominating world headlines but as artie's erin reports they've also had the effect of masking a wider questions about the queen and her family. well you'll worrying about home schooling how to pay your mortgage and how to survive in the far reaching misery of the pandemic the witnesses are at war one royal bombshell after another sprinkled with plenty of commentary to make sure you don't lose perspective before you even have time to switch your gaze insteps the queen queen oprah that is with the interview of the decade which i know you've watched hans berg for magen as she bravely held back tears when she spoke of how stressful it was to stay up late googling royal protocols and there were no pats on the back for meghan claims that in return she was bullied by the racist royal family to the extent that she contemplated suicide i just didn't want to be alive anymore and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born with hash tag team meghan receiving a die hard following on the former actress becoming an icon of resistance to the racist outdated and downright oppressive royals' see that all reasons the royal family might be grateful for the destruction to put it this way now nobody's really talking about that little news item about the queen lobbying for a change in law to hide public wealth that's right government memos found in the national archives revealed that the queen's private lawyer pressured ministers to alter the proposed legislation to prevent her majesty shareholding from being disclosed to the coleman is otherwise known as the public just because of the risk of. discreet leaking to other people basically because disclosure it's any person would be embarrassing. and what happens all the news stories about prince andrew who were allegedly even loping at the u.s. government on behalf of pay to fall geoffrey epstein well the newspapers might have moved on the f.b.i. hasn't the department wants to talk to prince andrew that's why the south and district has been making efforts to communicate with him we have made it clear that we'd like to communicate with him and i can think of one other person who might be relieved to be out of the spotlight the british prime minister with a 1000000 spends on a brand new media briefing room and attempt to attract donor money to finance the $200.00 grand restyle of his official residence it's thanks very much for your hard work and putting your lives at risk and all that and they chose stuff but it's just a one percent pay rise for you with so we can afford it so i asked the queen celebrates unity and her commonwealth day speech and her grandson across the pond pull scorn on the royal family in front of an audience of tens of millions while still claiming he just wants the media to leave him alone is seems that it's business as usual in day old blighty just keep that stiff upper lip turn a blind eye stay calm and think of england. you some other news now from all around the world here what i see international women's day has been marked by protests around the globe calling for equality and an end to gender based violence with police fired water cannon in the chilean capitol to disperse protesters attacking and hurling projectiles at law enforcement trucks. on a similar rallies in the mexican capital as well sparking violence thousands came out against a reported 120 percent increase in gender related crimes including killings of women in the last 5 years officers fired tear gas as protesters used hammers and wooden poles to break down the fencing around the national palace. hundreds of feminist activists gathered in was. on abortion the ban took effect just over a month ago demonstrators are collecting signatures in a bid to reverse that move. for the afternoon on this tuesday here in moscow this is our international we are back with much. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have crazy. let it be an arms race.