Videogame retailer is caught up in a battle between small time investors trying to save the 3rd wall street giants betting on its collapse. Very well luckily watching r. T. International with meaning. The European Union has announced its imposing export controls on coronavirus vaccines made in Member States amid a rout over supply shortages brussels has also just given the green light the drug at the heart of the dispute made by a british firm astra zeneca arties 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 that is manufactured within the block thats the 27. 00 countries will not be able to be exported outside the block and this comes amidst a huge drought thats been blowing up of the last few days delivery shortfalls of the dose this revolution concerns to the transport in sea and export of for 90 minutes each. As a protection and the safety of our citizens physical therapy. 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 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 contact 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 that 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. That the investigators we even sent to astra zeneca is 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 full 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 for all 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 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 to hold to temporarily all together it really feels as if protectionism is now being ramped up in essential what is turning into a war over access to a drug and a vaccine that is supposed to prevent 19 but we discussed the dispute with bill etheridge a former member of the European Parliament for the u. K. Independence party he thinks brussels is covering up for its own errors in vaccine procurement. The European Union failed correctly to order the vaccines 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 we do 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 talk prose and work alongside of. It to throw its toys out of the problem and reboot and we were warned in the u. K. We were told if we live the we would so we wouldnt get medicines we wouldnt get supplies but it looks like its the other way round doesnt it looks like its there you have the issue the problem you know whats true for the people of europe the answer for me would be that they leave the store dealing with things probably of it if we were fishing on the road like we have. Moscow has sent hundreds of thousands of doses of it sputnik the vaccine to latin america as the region increasingly bets on the russian job for argentina its the 3rd delivery of the russian short 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 as the e. U. Stuff is huge delays and shortages from other vaccine manufacturers if youre trying to reports. 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 to double your show 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 covert 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 the 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 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 received the shot had some sort of issues but us august went on to order 22000000 doses with the. This badge 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 dr well so far so good and the infamous curve in the country has gone past its peak and you know that going to more people but in a lot in america. How we call that box in the only person of the workers because we have only to find the details on bugs scenes in the flu send the need to so much now we are receiving 5000000. 00 more and were spoke to complete the box initial problem 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 u. S. Has found itself at the center of a trading battle with small time investors pitting themselves against wall street giants game stops or its share price all this week after amateur traders got together on online Message Boards and agreed to save the struggling company at them plunged after Brokerage Firms intervened at restricting trading although weve since recovered but the 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 poke 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 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 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 game stop 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 max kind the hosts of the aussies kinds are a poor sales the small investors that should be praised for exposing the questionable practices of big will street trying to us. So what these traders have done what these reddit traders have done is exposed or shine a light on the eve Legal 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 what is coming up after the break. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to us of the world of politics or business im show business. No one else seemed wrong why dont we all just dont call. Me. Yet to shape out does this become educated and in detroit equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. What does the let stand for today not long ago the lets stick with working people and Civil Liberties now it appears to prioritize again a jury trial it takes over issues we hear the word would be a lot but not be quality and is there a place for merit in a politics anyway. Welcome back the mare of new york city is austin to reveal the number of deaths that occurred in Nursing Homes in the state during the pandemic thats off that report from the state attorney general called out the official statistics as misleading we have to make sense of this we have to get the full truth and we have to make sure it never ever happens again nothing like this happens again and we have to be honest about the numbers when new york states official numbers stand 8000 deaths but according to the attorney general they could be even higher as atis caleb maupin explains. The nursing home scandal hanging over new york state Governor Andrew Cuomo is head just wont go away a new report from the states attorney general indicates that deaths in the elderly care homes could actually be 50 percent higher than was originally reported thats up to 13000 lives lost in new york it only tallied up the number who actually died within Elderly Care Facilities not including those who went to the hospital after getting infected as the condemning their investigations continue it is imperative that understand why the residents of Nursing Homes in new york and the saudis suffered at such an alarming rate well we cannot bring back the individuals lost to this crisis this report seeks to offer transparency that the public deserves and to spare increased action to protect our most vulnerable residents the report singled out while most decision to send covert patients to elderly care homes it was an attempt to free up hospital space that may have cost 4800 new york the lives cuomo is office dismissed the report as an accurate the word on the count implies to remove total fatalities than has been reported this is functionally rome the department of health has consistently made clear that our numbers are reports based on the place of death those words are of little comfort to solve a local news media rolla just lost both of her inlaws last summer and she couldnt hold back her feelings my family was affected this is never a role i thought i would ever be in harris but i was so grateful to dave and we just might be served democrats and republicans have now lined up to condemn cuomo reports from new york states handing of crude 19 in Nursing Homes reveals a profound failure of executive leadership Governor Cuomo and the new York State Department of health cheating our elders as expandable as if their lives were nothing more than the cost of doing business this is shocking and unconscionable but not surprising governor actually wrote a book about leadership in the middle of the code. Pandemic but as we learned today and as many suspected he never told the whole story at the start of the pandemic mainstream us media poured the law on to Governor Andrew Cuomo for his handling of the pandemic in new york state but now it seems pretty clear that he made a bad decision and the medias darling of speccing a full blown scandal. Artsy new york. Discuss this further with i guess Dave LindorffFounding Editor of the news thought this cant be happening thank you for joining us on the program at the how do you react to the findings of this report. Well you know i think a lot of that is politics because youve got you know republicans complaining about it primarily and i think theyre missing theyre missing the bigger issue which was that cuomo says real failing and where how i think hes he may have actually done damage instead of just not admitting the number of people who died in Nursing Homes or because they got sick with covered in Nursing Homes is he was spending transferring people with coded out of hospitals and into Nursing Homes the other direction. And exposing the patients in those Nursing Homes who werent sick with cove it with the coded you know serious covered infections of the people that were being moved from the hospitals to get them out of the hospitals and make more room for more patients so i think thats a much more serious problem. And i i may be personally sensitive to that because my mother in law died of covidien a new jersey nursing home which was doing the same thing where you know the state was shifting