nice inherent to stories of its residents one group in particular russian wives of syrian man. look up to. the headlines in r.t. grim footage from a german crematorium highlights the extent of resurgent pandemic in europe and the claims that. vaccines at the expense of other stuff. you know what you see in the ritual snake oil service really i'm sure the big good. for a leader in more than. u.k. police crackdown on lockdown violators but a caught on camera apparently breaking the very rules that they are enforcing and you cheat joins the list of tech giants opposing donald trump and his supporters from their online pages but it is sparking claims that online companies become

simply. unable to go as far as they can because drunk with power like it in gorge that they are now controlling pretty much d.d.a. entire communications system a little bit the wall. or the well here watching r.t. international this wednesday afternoon just gone 2 o'clock am in the russian capital now europe is suffering. cases with france germany and spain registering some of the highest daily brights footage emerging today from one of germany's worst affected region is highlighting just how bad the situation has become some 300 bodies here are piling up in the queue for crime atory him in sacks in a coffin stacked one on top of the other are often. simply labeled with the words

like good and infectious risk but it comes as the european union struggles to maintain unity over code vaccine purchases brussels is urging member states to keep to the block centralized distribution scheme but not all seem to be keeping to the greenman society's peter all over explains. the european union's one for all and all for one vaccine plan is called the against the problem of members self interest when it comes to obtaining the jobs germany has snapped up an extra 13000000 doses of the pfizer vaccines being criticized by its partners for doing so it is selfish behavior to buy medicine by yourself disrespecting common decisions is another example of the german policy of respecting their own interests above the interests of other e.u. countries berlin insists it is playing by the rules and that those extra doses would be sent out until the vaccine is being dispatched across the rest of the

european union germany says the real problem lies with problems when it comes to production it's not correct to see the germany secure vaccines at the expense of other countries. that would see it we have ordered enough vaccines and the question is how can they be produced how fast they can be produced and if we would have ordered more it would not have been possible to produce it quicker the shortage is due to the lack of production capacity it isn't just germany that's being accused of looking out for itself cyprus is courting israel for vaccine delivery saying that the european union isn't forthcoming with the new doses to provide a mass switch to rollout the initial indications were very encouraging but at some point there was a setback in its effectiveness 2 companies came up with the vaccine 1st phase the buy into can be done but the number of vaccines is not enough for rapid mass

vaccination e.u. commission president has live on the line is telling member states to cut it out into it to the plan that they all agreed on we have all agreed legally binding that there will be no parallel negotiations no parallel contracts so the framework we are all working. in is a framework of 27 together and we are negotiating together we are procuring and together we are bringing forward this vaccination process brussels is calling on member states to come clean about any side deals they may have going on the president has asked commissioner this to send a letter to all health ministers asking them to provide us with all the necessary transparency on the way in which they are complying with the provisions of our vaccine strategy in terms of contacts or lack of contacts rather

with with those pharmaceutical companies that we have been or are negotiating with the commission on doing themselves any favors demanding transparency from member states when it comes to vaccine procurement when they are being a lot clearer on who will get what when the 27 agree that brussels would negotiate on their behalf the accusation is that that is being undermined by member states looking out for number one as we see the the e.u. were very slow compared to other countries both in their regulation approvals bowls and there are a vaccination campaigns and. again no surprise that there is unsaid disaffection we we indeed have a across the across the whole front we have a very poor performance by the european union the central administration of the

european union and all they managed was to secure so the $100000000.00 doses for a population of $450.00 so taking into account that you need 2 doses per person this was one 3rd of the population for which the vaccine was secured because of some budget constraints it is officially said so no wonder the e.u. population is not very happy with that performance 'd in brussels. now the red cross has warned that the development of vaccines does not mean that people should ease up on basic preventative measures we spoke to the head of the humanitarian groups health and cat department it's something that we need to be prepared and we need to do is physically sensing is moscow is avoiding being in crowded places is making sure that one gets gets isolated and people are in contact with somebody sick we are in thailand up for some provide the support that is needed and to the

persons can go out again these are critical measures that can save thousands of life until vaccines will be widely available in all countries we can not lower the guard right now because the. researchers are worried about what we have been seeing . the u.k. and in south africa where. developed at the further mutations occur we may see potentially also reduction of the effectiveness of some of the vaccine the majority of the gold unfortunately was not started vaccination programs yet and we know that we need to vaccinate people all over the world to assure safety for everybody around the world so we'll we'll have to accelerate the pace at which a vaccine is will be distributed around the world ensuring got a mechanism to do so. in that very safe safe way and until that moment the best line of defense will be individual behavior. well just as the red cross

warns the public must play its part to fight the pandemic u.k. police are increasingly fining people who break down restrictions but even home without a reasonable excuse could mean a 200 pound fine rising to 6400 pounds for repeat offenders but which daschle has been finding out in force meant is widely consistent and officers are sometimes forced to back down and have even appeared to have broken the roofs themselves. despite the u.k. being in a full scale national lockdown kovac 1000 cases a soaring and death rates are constantly hitting records the public has been ordered to stay at home once again but it seems not everyone is sticking to the rules and where the rule breakers rule makers have given the police more power to clamp down on the law if you do not play your part our selfless police officers who are out there risking their own lives every day to keep us safe they will inforce

the regulations and i will back them to do so to protect our n.h.s. and to save lives and england and wales police of issued 8000 penalties since november but leading by example isn't exactly their strong point you know if you sit down in the restroom. service only on through the food. so what you're doing right now. some officers are not as eager to abide by the rules as they are to enforce them to women who drive 8 kilometers to meet up for a walk in darbyshire found themselves surrounded by police their offense carrying coffee that made to the picnic so they were fined $200.00 pounds each in fact they were strictly following the rules as these later admitted receiving the fines and giving a half hearted apology. martin do you know who. it's from operational marker and if it's not take out coffee spreading kind of it it

snowballs trip. shipley's have threatened through it with 200 pounds fines there have been 2 reports of snowballs being thrown last night between 11 and 11 30 pm this is obviously not a justifiable reason to be out of your house this behavior is likely to result in a 200 pounds fixed penalty notice for breaking the locked on rules the tweet has since been deleted after dozens of angry complaints but still the message is stay at home we're going to keep the rules on the course review we have to tighten them we will but we have rules in place already now is the move to the single digits. observation observance of the group although the prime minister himself a spot it's like telling a loving kilometers away from downing street so is it a case of one rule for me and another for you shut.

the other news the u.s. house of representatives has called on vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment against donald trump a process that could see the president removed from office additionally democrats have filed an impeachment resolution 2 and a set to vote on that on wednesday however did stated earlier he would not exercise the amendment adding that attempts to impeach the president and damaging the country. i do not believe that such a course of action was in the best interest of our nation or consistent with our constitution i urge the congress to avoid actions that would further divide and inflame the passions of the moment they retreated to really a continuation of the greatest which is their politics is ridiculous i think it's causing tremendous danger to our country and it causing tremendous anger well as lawmakers attempt to remove trump from the white house tech giants have already all but to raise the president's online presence you tube has now joined the likes of

amazon facebook and twitter in suspending donald trump social media pages as well as purging thousands of his followers claiming that they could incite violence that follows last week's storming of the capitol building in washington d.c. which some leading politicians and mainstream media have branded as domestic terrorism but the race pushback against the growing role and power of big online companies party america's john hardy reports. the twitter hit list continues the social media site has permanently suspended more than $70000.00 accounts accused of promoting conspiracy theories or violent rhetoric including most prominently banning donald trump from the platform friday concluding his tweets constituted a risk to public safety and could potentially lead to more violence in the wake of these efforts twitter stocks tumbled as much as 12 percent monday and continue to fall today the crackdown has drawn ire and criticism from some republican lawmakers

who say twitter is attacking the president's right to free speech and u.s. lawmakers aren't alone a spokesman for german chancellor angela merkel said chancellor merkel criticized twitter is trying to ban arguing legislators not private companies should decide on free speech and expression regulations european union commissioner terry britton called the chaos on capitol hill the quote $911.00 moment of social media writing in an op ed for politico that by banning donald trump social media companies have quote recognized their responsibility duty and means to prevent the spread of illegal viral content they can no longer hide their responsibility toward society by arguing that they merely provide hosting services yet he goes on to write that the fact a c.e.o. can pull the plug on posts is loudspeaker without any checks and balances is perplexing adding it is not only confirmation of the power of these platforms but

it also displays deep weaknesses in the way our society is organized in the digital space for those who either loved or love the dons daily rants and raves well it certainly is a perplexing time though maybe not exactly surprising twitter and facebook were already flagging trumps posts and seemingly moving in the direction of suspending and or banning him altogether but another question critics of the social media slaughter are raising is why so late in the game with less than 2 weeks in his presidency many contend the social media crackdown should have been. and sooner or not at all others contend it's a dangerous power play by big tech flexing its digital muscles knowing full well that president trump's powers on the eve of his departure from office are more limited in that he doesn't have the time or ability at this point to attack the social media platforms that have launched a full scale war on him and the hits keep on coming for trump deutsche bank now reportedly cutting ties with the dawn a move that would be a major cut in funding for his hotels and golf courses and speaking of which the

p.g.a. announced it would strip trump's new jersey golf club from a major championship tournament next year a move that reportedly gutted the president for our t.v. john hardy was tight johns to continue to crack down then on the president and he and spoke to a panel of guests on whether they've now become simply too powerful. they just won an election they're going to see how far they can push this this is a stress test to see how far the law will go how long how much people will tolerate and are going to go as far as they can because drunk with power like it in gorge to kick that is filled with blood just can't get enough of this so where it ends who knows they know which way the wind is blowing donald trump is no longer going to be in the white house almost all of these companies face antitrust suits that are going to be decided by the biden department of justice and so now there is going to be less of a priority to maybe make these arguments internally that donald trump and his

account should be protected but these are self interested actors it is over years that they are now controlling pretty much the the entire communications system all over the wall which is unprecedented but we are going to see a police some backlash because it will be a matter of time before censorship pull be move on to other part of our problem they will credit bardi companies like twitter and facebook and imus and can do this to their own president and they do it anywhere in the well to any government they don't like. oh certainly so. they that the largest problems within these companies is that there really is no actual basis for which they are operating there is no bible there is no constitution there is no their terms of service are often edited and malleable and even then subject to vague enough to be

subject to the whims of internal discussions within the company this it means that we have to rewrite the 1st amendment in this country because this is a quote private company that 99 percent of all the people on the planet use our laws are outdated and unless that is changed nothing will change at least in this country now the question who should be more the rating perhaps the series this should be a form of duration but it needs to be transparent so the state of affairs at the moment they don't know who'll make those were the ration that will make that the sentence. is no going to be certainly acceptable when social media platforms where created do you think the creative intended to end like this with a massive bans and censorship. of course absolutely look one of these days we're going to find out that this this this fraudulent story about these kids these nerdy kid who came up with the idea there was so much involvement in not only

private equity but in government sponsored this was never intended to be good this isn't some kind of a scrapbook that we keep this was one of the biggest cons that we fell into hook line and sinker those the internet giants of being exposed for all they actually are this is a mission statement to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly without barriers now people used to believe this that. and you won't believe that anymore i don't think so russian made messaging out telegram has seen a surge in popularity in recent days 5600000 downloads since wednesday and people ditching whatsapp which is owned by facebook in fact turkey's president has just joined telegram as well is that an encouraging sign you think yes rising social

media is going to be a benefit the question that i have is are we now bifurcating the internet are we going to totally solve select from the point of adolescence or before or to be handed down by our parents to our children that we now only go on social networks and only interact with people and that are only hosted on servers that either are liberal or conservative or possibly even more extreme versions of that that to me is a vision that i think is something that is closer today than i've ever known it my left. you watching us he still had the same last guy whose life he is prosecution of russian speaking journalists and attack on basic democratic values we'll have a look at the details just off right. join

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a made in the shallows. again my russia's foreign ministry spokesperson has warned that his prosecution of russian speaking journalists threatens fundamental values including free speech their oppression of journalists rights is becoming ever more commonplace as some countries have set a vertical state mechanisms for exerting pressure on dissident media professionals we view this aggressive actions as a blatant disregard for press freedom and freedom of speech the basics of a democratic society where last month last year security services opened criminal probes into journalists working for the boat news and r.t. affiliated news agencies they were accused of violating a huge sanctions on moscow one of the accused told us how the insecurity agents lied to gain access to his home. the shakedown started at

9 30 in the morning on december the 3rd somebody rang the doorbell introduced themselves as plumbers well i opened it and about 12 self-proclaimed plumbers entered. you may be asking yourself who is this man what did he do is he a drug dealer a devious and loathsome russian hacker may be no the dealer is a journalist making a living by selling his articles to various outlets and from the standpoint of the latvian authorities he recently chose the wrong ones to do business with. i write articles being published in 2 sources that are subsidiaries to receive. first of all sputnik a lot and bolts news and i several times a guest contributed for ria novosti the dimmer isn't the only one a total of 7 journalists have had their homes turned upside down loudly and

authorities the fact that the e.u. imposed sanctions against retreat of head of the media holding that all 7 journalists occasionally wrote for none of the right is though can see any logic to what's happening and how exactly the vortex of penalties against one particular individual sucked them all in. as a matter of fact they are free lance employees of their actions they write and edit texts select photos in other words they do their job and exercise their right to freedom of expression indeed bound only by the shackles of their professional integrity. along with his colleagues exposed events like these in on our of latvians who food for hitler's cause in world war 2.

so what is called a nazi march elsewhere in latium is known as remembrance day of the lothian legionnaires the dimmers says the government wants to mute any voice putting this and other controversial practices in the spotlight one thing is absolutely clear the goal of such searches and intimidations is to strip roscius of order of correspondence so that people will be afraid of cooperating with them and to undermine russian media influence here russia has repeatedly called out latvia over what moscow views as persecution bringing this to the attention of the european

union to urge in the block to simply uphold the values it so proudly stands for the legal case stays open leaving journalists with the constant fear of getting that knock on the door. down of there now before we go this hour we just wanted to tell you about a new documentary that's being made by us because footage has emerged in moscow of cohen who was israel's top spy of the 960 s. he became a senior military adviser to syria's government and helped israel beat its neighbor in the 6 day war it's a story made famous too by hollywood star sasha baron cohen who betrayed his namesake's incredible story in the hit series the spy well you can watch our new documentary with this latest for teacher at the day here on alt. i got this 8 millimeter film purely by accident. time period 963 to 65 place damascus.

i've watched it many times a man posing the monuments and all poster of the hollywood premiere of town without pity and a fight in a market so without bruises. i had my doubts if i should waste my time on this but i came back to that film over and over again tracing a sequence of events happening in syria at that time anderson those who worked there. and then suddenly i saw him stop let's take another look now at low speed this is like cohen a super spy who some consider a national hero and others an evil villain an israeli double those of an.

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when so many find themselves worlds apart. she still look for common ground. become a battleground in the us. people of demanding the shut down of a local plant from yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous oh no care power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limits this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on where's the power in this country where's it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional participatory our lie with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in very real ways. a struggle.

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a sequence of events happening in syria at that time anderson those who worked there alone would have with. me and you know what you see neal curiosity is like a petrol motion machine it lives on without a lunch break and then suddenly i saw him stop let's take another look now at low speed this is he like cohen a super spy who some consider a national hero and others an evil villain an israeli double o. 7. i need because it's but it's them and they at the. at the one. still. if but. it's no one would ever see this footage if it wasn't for an old acquaintance of mine but collected from some pieces good alexei marco. he has an incredible eye for n.t.

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