in germany politicians are at loggerheads over how to solve the worsening cope with 19 crisis as a public support for tougher restrictions on. the spend their anger over vaccine shortages in the just ticklish uses the country's. place is teething problems we hear from one of the regional officials the main thing and this is just a joke we have to go and get the vaccine ourselves. wave of allergic reactions california calls for a batch of modernity jumps the big withdrawn it comes to the number of countries try to allay vaccine safety. drones various troops in checkpoints

washington d.c. is looking a bit like a war zone out of joe biden's inauguration down amid fears of an insider attack from among the $25000.00 national guard sent in to secure the big event. basically every street has this fencing up and if you follow me as i walk out on the street there are no vehicles only security vehicles only police vehicles. either thanks so much for joining us this afternoon on r.t. international. the german authorities are split over how to deal with the double whammy of new coronavirus strains and some stubbornly high infection rates the country's already past 48000 deaths public support for tougher measures has plummeted and it's not the government and the real tight spot our correspondent

peter other has details. with germany looking for a solution to the covert 19 crisis there are a number of options available to the government in the fight against the pandemic there is a selection of options on the table from the requirements to work from home and to wear the f f p 2 mosques in rail traffic to clear a contact restriction or curfews the problem though is the thora t's are all split when it comes to taking measures and far from reaching any type of agreement it seems so messy increasing the severity of lockdown is the only option is fears over a new take sions of covert 90 are rising the leader of the state of bavaria wants to see more action being taken in swifter fashion the basic problem in our handling of the pandemic was often that the counter measures were taken too late and then loosened too early it also weakens our if it safe decisions made together in berlin were only implemented half heartedly and in different ways some are already looking

for an escape like german foreign minister heiko musse who's floated the idea of loosening restrictions on boats who've already have the job those who have been vaccinated should be able to exercise their fundamental rights again if they're only vaccinated people in a restaurant or cinema they can no longer in danger each other those comments of put the foreign ministry at loggerheads with the interior and health ministries as long as it's not clear whether a vaccinated person can transmit the virus they can be no exceptions there will be some agreement from angela merkel's meeting with the leaders of germany 16 states later on tuesday because there simply has to be but it won't be smooth sailing a number of those states are particularly on happy at the moment while berlin officials pulling different directions over restrictions it's clear from one poll that the public is becoming more fed up only 28 percent of the population. in

support of top of measures that's down 21 percent on previous polls it's the chancellor who has the job of balancing the bickering when it comes to what's right and what's wrong dealing with covert 19 and as always it's a case of trying to choose the least bad option peter all or r.t. . as countries around the world ramp up their covert vaccination programs the world health organizations warning of what it calls a catastrophic moral failure in how supplies are distributed. is a real danger that even as vaccines bring hope to some. they become another brick in the wall of inequality between the worlds of the world's haves and have nots the problem is of equitable axis is at serious risk. more than 79000000 doses of

vaccine have now been. in at least 49 higher income countries. just 25 borders have been given in one lowest income country not 25000000 not 25000 just 25. i need to be blunt. the world is on the brink of a catastrophe moral failure. and the prize of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world's poorest countries however it's not always smooth sailing for those lucky enough to have access to the vaccine for example france's mass vaccination programs come under scathing attack from regional mayors he said that there aren't enough doses and the

rollout is riddled with just the core problems. it saddens me to say it but it's a mess the state decided brutally to transfer all the burden of the organization of local vaccinations to the mayors who found themselves in total distress france is one of the european countries hit hardest by the pandemic is vaccinated more than $400000.00 people so far but it's aiming to reach a 1000000 people by the end of the month and over $2000000.00 by the end of february. commenting on the delays a french official promised overhaul for a 1000000 doses a week from next week meanwhile we spoke to a mare in a suburb of piracies very concerned with the situation. if you begin to understand that everything is built on improvise ation we have to admit that in fact we are responsible for everything from aids is a 1st for the completely chaotic recording process as well as for the mobilization of doctors medical staff the organization of all the logistical processes up to the orders for syringes and cotton wool but the main thing and this is just

a joke of the day we have to go and get the vaccine ourselves there is no delivery my myself as mayor drove my own a road zoe car to the hospital for 25 doses of the vaccine obviously everything is built on improvise ation it would be ridiculous if people's lives were not at stake as well as other serious issues such as the possibility for a country finally getting out of this crisis and returning to something similar to normal life and economic prosperity. heard of joe biden's inauguration and following the capitol hill riots washington d.c. looks like there are barriers checkpoints and troops deployed across the city but intelligence officials now fear some of the 25000 national guard sent in to provide security could actually pose a threat and carry out an insider attack if you always worried they might have links to the riotous so members are routinely screened for extremists connections to america's correspondent reports from d.c.

. so we are at the corner 14th street and street just just down the just south of here is the national mall so basically all of this area has been shut down the streets the bridges the tunnels as we get closer to our knowledge aeration day and the fencing that you see behind me right there this is throughout the area basically every street has this fencing up and if you follow me as i walk out on the street there are no vehicles only security vehicles only police vehicles but just over my shoulder here as you look south you see the concrete barriers and then you see a white 10 well in order to get through into this area you have to go through various checkpoints along the way on the major surface roads here on the major streets you have to show your i.d.'s in some cases they're checking bags i didn't have that issue when i came from my hotel which by the way is full of national guard members i'm not going to say which one for security reasons but that's really

the case here bus loads of them coming in over the last couple days but anyway i went through one of the checkpoints had to show my id had to show my media badge had a bag on me then check it but presumably as we get closer to wednesday the security is going to intensify it's already very intense it's going to be ratcheted up i could tell you this over the weekend i went for a walk in the area saw drones overhead lot of convoys of vehicles going throughout the city with sirens. and basically a show of force that's expected to continue all this as now we hear that the f.b.i. and the army are looking at the backgrounds of national guard members to ensure that there are no warning signs or no flags that there is nobody within their ranks that could possibly try to incite any violence so just think about that for a 2nd the army and f.b.i. looking at basically their own army looking at their own people to ensure that there is no there there is no one within the ranks that are going to create

a problem at this point i want to be clear there's nothing to suggest that will be the case but again security they're not taking any chances at this point so all this as the security intensifies here in the d.c. metro area and we you know continue to take a look and see you know how things are going to progress as we get closer to wednesday it was booked a former u.s. army captain will just kill he says that the additional vetting of troops is unwarranted i think it's a form of censorship this is just a step towards that for troops and i think it's just a prequel to. what we will see with this by the ministry if if we knew that these patriots who swore to take an oath just like i did for the 13 years that i served to support and defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. what do they have to be afraid of and we also we all swore an oath to do so why the loss of trust in that at this point. the recent wave

of big tech censorship shows no sign of abating with apple now under pressure to ban the increasingly popular messaging app telegram the campaign group suing apple for failing to remove it from its still playing telegram is being used to spread extremist content. telegram currently serves is the preferred new nazi white nationalist communications channel fanning anti semitic and anti black incitement during the current wave of protests across america the coalition for a safer web claims telegram was used by the capitol hill rioters and violated apple's guidelines the push to get telegram taken offline comes up to big tech giants recently banned the social network parlor for hosting violent content that platform is popular with right wing americans pala by along with other online purges appears to have given telegram quite a boost in popularity it reportedly picked up 25000000 new users in just what 72

hours bringing its total user base to more than half a 1000000000 among them leaders of at least 10 countries too including brazil france and turkey earlier by calling discussed efforts to topple telegram with a panel of guests. big tel for a long time now has absolutely been acting like a cartel we see coordinated efforts being taken by amazon and google to take down for example parlor which was a main competitor to twitter and when we see them now kind of circling over other apps like telegram you know they'll claim things like oh it's about safety it's about that trying to take down violent threats i think that is absolutely i'm sorry but but look what we're witnessing here is the attempt a concerted effort on the part of this unipart of democratic machinery to consolidate media in the hands of approved democratic party apparatus is to consolidate all media and information platforms that to make sure

that they're completely in compliance with the you know party messaging the modern leading this lawsuit is marc ginsberg a former u.s. ambassador he's claiming the semitic content on telegram puts him in perl as a jewish person and calls his emotional distress do you think there's any merit to his case there's no merit at all to this case again this case is going against it's trying to utilize the law to go against the 1st amendment that's the freedom of assembly it's trying to limit the freedom of speech is trying to limit that and while these are private companies there are still people that are able to or are able to create and able to do that i don't see it does either legal any legal theory where they can prevail in this lawsuit there's so much trouble stubble standard here i mean there is fine once that is caught constantly paraded around twitter and facebook these apps these platforms are notorious for left wing threats

and for inciting violence on platforms like facebook there have been murders rapes and suicides lifestream g.-mail was infamous when it was being used by islamic terrorists to actually kind of tax by. going into drafts and not actually sending messages this isn't about protecting anyone's safety or emotional wellbeing this is about big tech trying to control the public discourse could this come back to bite the liberal side of the us when the conservative side have more of a say maybe in 4 years down the line they're not going to let this lie there could be a bug buck just depends on whoever controls the reins whoever has the power at some point that pendulum is going to shift i think now we're seeing a greater danger than we thought before because if any of these people have these entanglements have these and then they can set the rules where does this and is there a merger between big political groups or will there be a concerted fight to keep that independent i would say that big tech is is feeling

pretty safe and comfortable right now which is why they're taking so many actions against their competitors because i think they know at the end of the day that biden administration is going to be very friendly with them because they say they toe the same party line. thing without international still to come a survey shows hoffa french teachers are reluctant to discuss religious issues following the recent murder of middle school teachers some will pass a story very soon. one else will seem wrong. just don't call. me. yet to see. this day come after. and in detroit it was betrayed. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the day or thinks. we dare to ask. you coronavirus pandemic continues to run page across america with california

becoming the country's 1st state to top 3000000 cases the figure has tripled in just the past 2 months the state's hospitals are struggling to meet demand with tens of thousands of patients requiring medical care california's place his hopes of vaccination with more than a 1000000 people getting the job so far a must fix a nation is not without its challenges as the scale of more pain explains. the vaccination process brings with it hope that the pandemic could finally be brought to an end however as people across the world are getting the jab problems are arising take the u.s. state of california fewer than 10 individuals required medical attention over the span of 24 hours we are recommending that provide its use of the available facts in then 3 and pulls the administration of vaccines until the investigation by the centers for disease control and prevention food and drug administration but they're not and the state is complete their cells in california have called for a temporary halt to the vaccine from the pharma giant known as madonna the stated

reason a higher than usual number of adverse effects all of the incidents are reported to have taken place at a single community clinic in california the site was closed down for several hours after the adverse reactions happened is switched to another batch of the drug and currently madonna is investigating what exactly took place but not many others would follow suit even when things got more serious in norway people die after receiving the pfizer bile an attack jab now those who died were elderly folks with serious basic disorders at this point we've got fires there and violent attack conducting an investigation along with the norwegian regulators it is important to remember that about 45 people die every day in nursing homes in norway so we does not a given that this represents any excess mortality or that or use a casual connection there are 13 deaths that have been assessed and we are aware of of the 16 deaths that's a currently being assessed all deaths of those links to this vaccine many have

noted that the official corporate response came across as rather cold and lacking the simple thing fines and by intake are when reported deaths the number of incidents so far is not a looming and in line with expectations reports from israel show 13 people developed facial paralysis after. getting their vaccinations though doctors say the number of cases is actually higher in practice the israeli ministry of health says it is safe to go ahead and administer a 2nd shot so did big pharma corporations rushed the vaccine jumped the gun and perhaps in danger public health that's a question on many minds as the vaccination process continues ahead at full speed offering the hope for a post coated world finally emerging salem oppen r.t. new york infectious disease specialist william schaffner wants to see a full investigation into the cluster of allergic reactions in california we know

that these m. or in a bag scenes are associated with more olympic reactions the last number i saw from the c.d.c. was 11 such reactions for every 1000000 doses so still rather rare little grouping in one clinic that deserves further investigation did something unusual happened in that clinic or wasn't di it that their church of vaccines report of adverse reactions gives pause to some people but i think by and large the vaccines have been shown to be safe and are wonderfully effective so across the country at the present time we have more demand than we have vaccines and so our program is rolling out and becoming more efficient we're trying to vaccinate more people more quickly. across the atlantic in the u.k.

researchers there of publish some alarming findings on coronavirus patients according to the report one in 8 people hospitalized in britain with the virus dies of related complications within months of being discharged on early one 3rd of patients who recover from the virus or later readmitted to hospital the study also reveals some severe long term effects that include heart problems and diabetes we spoke with on the scientists behind the study not only does call it a virus. cause death and most people emission but there are clear signals here of associations between medium. effect in the lungs affecting the heart effect in the liver and also the kidneys and we need to get better at seeing in stratifying who are the people that we need to act ideally we need kind of us affection if we have it we need to make sure that we treat underlying conditions

and we're monitoring these people to see if they develop and if they do develop for example diabetes or kidney disease we need to do more research to see how that progress is over time. a. recent poll has revealed that nearly every 2nd teacher in france is self censoring on religious issues survey showed that the holocaust and evolution are among the most contentious topics we spoke in history teacher kevin basu a who says that teaching the curriculum has become a real minefield. obviously affected by this problem was i personally teach in a department that's experiencing a serious increase in islam is i'm not and where there is also a large muslim community for example when we talk about the events like the holocaust some students might say we're talking about the jews again what's going on it's always the same it's their power we never talk about muslims did this holocaust really happen when we go through the palestinian israeli conflict is extremely difficult for us to talk about specific facts because students of muslim

origin of c. take a very pro palestinian and deeply anti is zionist position we consciously criticized we can't teach the curriculum 2 of them. and this comes just 3 months after the killing of school take to samuel party he died in an islamist attack last year after showing caricature of the prophet mohammed in a lesson on the freedom of expression. i know one of our competitors was murdered because he taught our competitor it was the victim of an islamist terror attack. the killing was followed by a crackdown by the french authorities saying pleated raids on mosques private

islamic schools and charities president among your microphone is also repeatedly vowed to protect the french model of free speech but some of the statements have been labeled discriminatory by muslim world leaders as strategic kevin well so again i think however that the french authorities could do more. what the us and they. know i'm not afraid my possum republican values because they need to be passed on if we the french teaches refused to do this the islamists will eventually win it look at what for example sebastian cuz immediately did in austria he made political islam and the ideology associated with political islam illegal while francis cautious in the name of friendship of peoples and freedom we ultimately refused to defend our values and refused to actively fights political islam president emmanuel macron who in 2022 when he presents his candidacy for the elections will need to solve this problem refuses to take further steps to deputies

from the party all the manual macro try to introduce a ban on wearing the hijab for young girls under this law but the president did not want to do this for fear of stigmatising this part of society and affair if stigmatize ation we pass on the problem of fighting radical islam. brief for you now europe's most active volcano mount there was put on a striking display as monk. and larva litter the night sky in sicily tell you north origins how though issued an ash advisory to where lines is the latest in a series of eruptions in recent months. i swear cincinnati's is released its penguins not to the wild but to waddle among visitors social distancing is in place so guess won't be able to get too close and as they are king penguins the birds have all been named after famous kings including larry king martin luther king and even burger king. finally a log or head sea turtle going by the name of connor is finally returning to his

natural habitat after being rescued from a canal in september the reptile was found in a poor condition and underwent months of care in a florida rehab center he was fitted with a tracking device so his adventures can be tracked online as part of the turtle conservation and research program. and while my adventures here in the studio they're over to stay with us though jacqueline vig will have the latest news headlines for you join her in half an hour. is your media a reflection of reality. in

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between the world's 2 largest economy we have a lot to get to through let's get started. and the latest controversy over the nordstrom to pipeline it appears eric insurance group one of switzerland's largest insurers is dropping out of russia's project this would make it the 3rd firm to pull out following threats of u.s. sanctions according to reuters the outgoing trump administration is preparing a final round of sanctions on companies involved with the pipeline zurich insurance did not comment specifically on customers but said they have a comprehensive compliance framework in place and are committed to fully comply. with any applicable sanctions regulations while the nord stream to backers said the pipeline can proceed german media reported the group has delayed completion once again the 1200 kilometer pipeline running from russia to europe across the baltic sea is now 94 percent complete.