military a warm welcome to you from all of us here at the international in moscow it's now it just after 6 pm here. the european a council president. has denied accusations of vaccine nationalism levelled at the bloc he also accused britain itself of export supplies which has infuriated the u.k. government with more on this latest feud is ati's europe correspondent peter all of . 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 charles 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 u.s. have imposed an outright ban on the export of vaccines or a vaccine to 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 shell michel 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 charlotte michel 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 it prodded the u.k. towards transparency when it comes to this vaccine issue that caused a lot of upset the most conservative party m.p.'s in the u.k. who'd 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 if you 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 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 child michele the u.k. attempted to summon the e.u. arm 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 for a little while yet i spoke just a bit earlier in the program with our political analyst gilbert doctorow he things easy you officials are pointing fingers to divert attention away from their own missteps amid the vaccine process. the situation here in europe of just you would have those things chaotic 1st regards the vaccination programs. first going back to reach the public was waiting for the incensed at the little devil of vaccinations seeking and found the cure for the door of the condition president tom delay and what we see now is we are in assistance find a show to try to relieve the pressure on this crime rate but the commission to to send out a smokescreen to center for diversion from the gross incompetence. has been seen in the way the you're in a situation. with actually she programs the they are terribly envious here in brussels of the success the stunning success of britain they have to record it going its own way with sins they have done everything possible to divert attention from their own inability to negotiate properly and negotiate with proper priorities with the pharmaceutical companies going back to work the. legal and medical professionals have accused the british government of refusing to probe chronic failures in his handling of the pandemic and now they've arranged their own public covert inquiry and comes after the u.k. death toll from covert past 124000 the highest figure in europe that figure includes more than 40000 care home residents and hundreds of health care workers the lawyer chairing the inquiry michael mansfield says many of those fatalities 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 service particularly 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 of the 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 a 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 being alert ching 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 room meantime a british woman has come forward asking for her father to be recognized as the country's 1st coronavirus victim. 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't. 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 to the tipping point for me i think was the inability to get off the oxygen you struggle started march as time went by and we knew more more about and we saw these patients in hospital with the brays the. public health experts claim peta 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 credit were detected went into lockdown she is now calling for the world health organization and the n.h.s. to publicly recognise 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 day of that 1st person and i think it's really you have remembered well 2020 year of 19 will go down in history as being totally unknown and precedented jane so it's not just about her father's. 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 at all 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 but not the country. or german sister channel r.t. deutsch has filed a lawsuit against bill after the german tabloid claimed r.t. is reporting was actually spying for the kremlin has artie's saskia to. on the face of it a sin sation old story it's got all the words 7 to draw or read or spotlight 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 rights were not quite because the evidence seems more taken from a manual called john ism water one than spying one are 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 just tickle stuff and despite claims his chart was pretty boring to yes he was also to go inside the shower take clinic one found he was cooled 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 develop he makes including pictures of his garden to host to word it fresh in 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 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 rule john as it's trying to get the latest on a top developing story does that it's more than a tinge of hypocrisy that langdon's claim that this. while it was just filled with nefarious spying requests it's also undermined by the fact that when he questions whether getting a hidden camera recording of what's inside is appropriate his boss writes clearly no i don't think so not exactly the most ruthless of spying attempts than 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 took about month to cover in the same way our tireless cameramen come to 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 horror never mind that this was one of hundreds of photos taken all but the hundreds including foreign journalists apparently this one photo is incontrovertibly proof that off on the russian government are in cahoots you also have to ask yourself do you believe in coincidence not long ago. it's opening a channel in germany shortly after problem started headlines some dubbed a smear campaign appeared that. bank accounts in germany was shot fast forward and now are being labeled a kremlin spies like i said coincidence you decide for that part all colleagues in germany convinced. them to see this is an attempt to this is history to be. i was going to love those staring and in the media at every turn against me and fools allegations and suppressing our journalistic freedoms and make an impossible task this is what it means to be an alternative voices in germany and it's also walk mentioning that doesn't exactly have the best track record between 20152028 was hit with 72 reprimands from the job and media regulator that's almost a 3rd 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 delivers well but day in the life of any journalist anywhere in the world. russia has a media regulator has slashed the speed with which twitter users kind of watch videos and photos on the site accusing the social network of repeatedly breaking the law earlier in the program i discussed the issue with artie's daniel. well disagreements between twitter and the russian media and telecommunications regulator go back a number of years the social media giant has previously received both warnings and fined for failing to add here to russian laws and this slowing down of twitter here in russia is a step taken by the regulator to encourage shared pressure twitter to comply with those laws the slowdown what affects all mobile devices and half of 9 mobile devices here in russia largely affecting videos and streaming services that action was taken because of twitter's apparent refusal to remove thousands of pieces of content largely relating to the protection of children that these requests go back several years and the regulator says if twitter does fail to comply and continues. to to not remove such images and such content further measures could be taken from 2017 to the present time to it as not removed content inserting minors to commit suicide child pornography as well as information about the use of drugs in order to protect russian citizens centralise response measures have been taken and 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 and or usually must take taken this measure rather than opting for financial penalties to push to or to comply. both sides will be hoping these legal issues can be resolved before such action does need to be taken daniel does this seem to just be like some sort of internal the conflict between russia and twitter or does is perhaps bred beyond russia's borders this very much goes beyond russia's borders just one example if you take australia very recently the government there has said it's willing to take action against twitter if it fails to comply with a new code of conduct on the spread of this information on the platform was one of harassment and bullying twitter's pushed back saying such regulations could give. australian authorities too much oversight so this agreement is there if you take the united states and europe issues that have gone far beyond that into a far darker territory where twitter's been accused of failing to tackle. child sexual abuse child pornography in fact one of us to geisha in the u.k. . twitter was responsible for over half of such content online relating to child abuse and this really raises 2 questions one why twitter in recent times has been very quick to moderate certain content largely political relating to political conspiracy theories for example yet fail to tackle content which is a much more direct and imminent threat to minors and secondly how exactly in an increasingly online media landscape of social media landscape the relationship between social media giants and government authorities are going to develop political commentator andrew walker things social media giants use their monopoly position to ultimately disregard local laws. i have a significant amount of sympathy with the russian authorities and it's simply on this point of hypocrisy what we see all ringback the tide is twitter and indeed companies like facebook hound reading about their inability to deal with problems in terms of breaches of the law in terms of 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 and most of those 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 words was effectively 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 competent but publish the serious side material publishes child all on fate and get away with it is just an old believable thought certainly if you were to tell somebody 20 years ago that was going to be the case they would laugh at you . french or medical workers have sounded the alarm of a cuts in services to non co-pay to patients and an overall lack of hospital beds is our correspondent artie's seanad to pensacola. 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 days. do you 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 state 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're in what is different though this time around is that more of the patients in intensive care and 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 jabs will be sent to follow missy's the government has decided to exclude doctors and. pharmacists but does imagine that increasing the numbers of vaccination 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 lockdowns 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 curfew 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 will have to go through we don't know exactly the reason why sometimes we are in lockdown and sometimes we are and 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 not a foregone conclusion to use your to 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 jollity vinci r.t. paris. the u.s. is urging the afghan government to share power with the taliban the revelation coming from a leaked u.s. that a car balled in what's being described as a last ditch effort before a deadline for the pentagon to quit the country is our correspondent kelly. it's america's longest war ever remember why the troops were 1st sand into afghanistan to remove the taliban regime the taliban has been given the opportunity to surrender all the terrorists in afghanistan and to close down their camps and operations full warning has been given and time is running out the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime and afghanistan this military action is a part of our campaign against terrorism. the past 2 administrations have promised to find an exit strategy our troops will continue coming home at a steady pace by 2014 this process of transition will be complete and the afghan people will be responsible for their own security we will end this war bring our troops home and by the end of next year america's war in afghanistan will be over from got pretty close even promising to set a withdrawal date. we should have the small remaining brave men and women serving in afghanistan home by christmas and have a moment at the end of the year joe biden seems to have come up with a new solution peaceful coexistence between the afghan government and the taliban a proposal that was leaked to the media would give america's longtime battlefield enemies significant control over the country now the taliban would get 50 percent representation in key executive bodies that would enable them to propose new legislation and help write the new constitution however the afghan government would get one extra member so they could be the deciding vote in exchange the taliban would agree to a total ceasefire and join the new military panel essentially being absorbed into the security forces of the country the taliban will cut any ties with foreign powers and quote not expand their force configurations or recruit new fighters in the league letter the new u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken urged the afghan government to just accept this agreement i urge you to develop constructive positions on these written proposals many are currently anticipating yet another spring offensive more deaths and more killing however at this point it appears the united states is willing to hand power back to the very people they've been fighting for the past 20 years the proposed agreement has gotten a mixed reaction from afghan officials they can make a decision on their troops not on the people of afghanistan but will never accept and imposed peace. the weakness in the message of the u.s. state department is that they have not recognized afghanistan structure and it has coercive language and a coerced and tailored piece will not lead anywhere i think that if there is any lesson to be learned here it is never do anything like this ever again stop trying to overthrow governments in venezuela and elsewhere around the world immediately you this is a tragedy however it plays out however long the troops remain for the people of afghanistan most of whom are very poorly represented by either the afghan government or the taliban and this deal could have been had over 19 years ago with a lot of people still alive and trillions of dollars on spent so the obvious number one lesson is never ever do this sort of thing it is immoral and it is criminal how in the past 20 years the war in afghanistan has looked pretty on winnable but it appears the new administration and the u.s. state department may have crafted the least painful way to bow out caleb mop and r.t. new york our interests are wrapping up some of your top stories for this hour here on our to international though we return in about 31 minutes with more of your well black news headlines. lead. the world is driven by. the day. thinks. we dare to ask. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered 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 we asked the question what is the strategic value of the middle east and who benefits from all.