the obama's protect its own existence. politicians in germany. public support for tougher restrictions. seem shortages just because. we speak to one. main thing and this is just a joke we have to get the vaccine. and health officials in california warn against using. all the reactions. to the program washington d.c. ramps up security ahead of. troops checkpoints the ready

fears on the side. that the f.b.i. and the army are looking at the backgrounds of national guard members to ensure no body within the ranks that could possibly try to incite violence. 247 news live from moscow this is r t pleasure to have your company my names you know our top story. german authorities are split over how to deal with new corona virus strains. infection rates the country has already passed $48000.00 public support for tougher measures that's fallen our europe correspondent peter all of our picks up the story. 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 the varia 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 efforts if 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 ministry says 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 pull in different directions over restrictions it's clear from one poll that the public is becoming more fed up only 28 percent of the population are. in support of tougher 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. . but the head of the world health organization has warned of an impending disaster due to an equal distribution of covert vaccines he described it as a catastrophic moral failure we now face is the 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 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 ok let's bring you to another country france where the vaccination campaign has come under fire from regional quite a few of them as well they say there aren't enough doses to go around on the road is riddled with logistical 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. to vaccinate a 1000000 people by the end of the month and more than twice that number by late february but so far the figure stands at around 400000 or responding to the delays the government has promised over half a 1000000 doses at wake from next week from monday we spoke to the mayor of a parra suburban. you begin to understand that everything is built on improvise ation we have to admit that in fact we are responsible for everything from ages 1st for the completely chaotic recording process as well as for the mobilization of doctors medical staff the organization of all the logistical process is 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's no delivery my myself as mayor drove my own

a rhino 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. 24 hours from now america will have their new president joe biden is said to be an organ rated as the 46th u.s. leader on wednesday a must have security operation is underway in washington d.c. thousands of national guard troops were bussed into the city at the start of the week the total of $25000.00 personnel will be keeping order in d.c. in organization today in the wake of the capitol hill riots intelligence services are bracing for trouble from activists are yours set up across the city the f.b.i. is vetting old security personnel amid concerns of insider talk in fact following

those checks to national guardsmen have reportedly been taken off the inauguration details they allegedly had links to right wing militia groups or to america correspondent john he spoke to us earlier from bush. so we're 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 nonracial 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 tent 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 id 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. at 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 a lot of convoys vehicles going throughout the city with sirens on 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's 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 john how do you well earlier we spoke to former u.s. army captain roger hill who studies the additional vetting of troops and warranted i think it's a form of censorship this is just a step towards or 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 want to take an oath just like i did for the 13 years that i served to

support defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. what do they have to be afraid of when we also we all swore an oath to do so why the loss of trust in that at this point in time. ok let's move the program or no apple is under pressure to buy the increasingly popular messaging up telegram a campaign group is suing the tech giant for failing to remove telegram for its store claiming this service is being used to spread extreme this company telegram currently serves is the preferred. white nationalist communications channel fanning anti semitic anti black incitement during the current wave of protests across america the coalition for a safer aware claims telegram was used by the capitol hill rioters violated our guidelines the push to get telegram taken offline comes after tech giants recently

bombed the social network parlor for hosting violent content platform is popular with conservative americans well the parlor along with other online purges appears to have given telegram a popularity boost it reportedly picked up $25000000.00 new users in the space of 3 days that brings its total user base to more than half a 1000000000 among them the leaders of at least 10 countries earlier i discussed efforts to topple telegram but the public asked. 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 what we're witnessing here is the attempt a concerted effort on the part of this unipart and democratic machinery to

consolidate media in the hands of approved democratic party apparatus has 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 pearl 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 finance 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 plan attacks 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 buy back 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 these people had 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 independence 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. the coronavirus pandemic continues to run page across the u.s. with california becoming the 1st state to top 3000000 cases that's triple the number of infections compared to just 2 months ago hospitals in america's most populous states are struggling to cope with them and as tens of thousands of covered patients require medical care california has placed its hopes on vaccination with more than a 1000000 people getting the job so far however not everything is going to plan as artie's caleb maupin reports. 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 that and they will build accident been 3 and pulls the administration of vaccines and field 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 affects 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 well 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 and that is the 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 of 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 vaccination 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. r.t. new york another for a global perspective on the vaccine rule out whether attempting to find not fussed enough the possible adverse side effects to all of this really is going to change our lives let's speak with dr simon clarke microbiology professor reading university in the u.k. dr and former president of the international association of bioethics joining us from bhopal india welcome i'm not can we kick off with you on the california case

do you think regulators were right to hold folks in nations with such a large bunch of modernity. thank you for having me so whenever you roll out these kinds of vaccine thing in pandemic situations you are dealing with the risk benefit calculus the risk is one of not knowing enough about the safety profile of the vaccines and perhaps sometimes even about there because the because you are taking in dedham data and making decisions and you know the benefit of actually helping then the spread of the pandemic now if you do those decisions in such an expedited manner then you also have to be very cautious about the possibility of any kind of adverse event happening when you have a monster all out and if that indeed is. if there is a safety signal of any kind it makes sense to stop and pause and try to find out if there is anything which is linked to the vaccine and if so what do you need to do about it whether that means special populations are vulnerable groups should not be

getting the vaccine immediately whether that means there might be issues with a particular batch or there is something which is of concern with the vaccine so i think it's a good thing that that i greeters are keeping a watch obviously you would want to minimize the to side with events but in this situation those will happen if it's really important to try to respond as quickly as was simon our correspondent also mention the case of norway where 33 elderly people they have died after receiving the pfizer biotech job it's tragic and it's very worrying i would suggest those numbers. yeah but like not cause the crossbowmen said that they have 45 deaths in care homes every day and it's not clear to me or we know that those people were all quite unwell they had quite serious underlying conditions proportionately whether that was more than would be expected that by i don't think all those debts were in one day so on i'm

not entirely sure that that's a disproportionate amount that in a particularly sick population within an elderly cope award so it's right to be right that the regulators are careful like dr bob just said vigilance is important but that doesn't need necessarily that things are being done incorrectly things are being been done improperly all that people are being careless i think quite the reverse and then you've been somewhat critical of the vaccine relied in india particularly the east of kovacs and produced by but are biotech do you think india may have moved too fast in distributing that drug. well my main concern i mean the the concern of many others is that we didn't read for their pick a few days to come through from the phase 3 study the data we have so far from

phase one entries to seems to indicate that it is probably as a friendly manner genic vaccine but as you know you know you do decisions on role are typically on the basis of if we could see as well now you know none of us are personally opposed to the vaccine but the process of that decision is what has raised questions so you know again because we are dealing with a pandemic we expect that there will be some decisions taken in an expedited manner but the fundamentals of science should not be done away with new york to at least base any of your regulatory decisions on a strong national and that was not available in this case at least in the public domain simon most of the data we're seeing on allergic reactions is coming from the west that's the that's the notes we're reading every day is it just a case of these countries being more open about the problems that have come up for example we don't have much information on possible adverse reactions in china as massive vaccination campaigns. well that's quite an interesting question. where all

the big problems in most countries in terms of or thought is one thing to report report adverse side effects i'd be interested in got the box perspective on that but certainly in the west we accept to make knowledge that slice adverse reactions are entirely normal indeed that some severe ones can be and we have to weigh the good the risk from that against the risk from the disease and i think even even with plenty of cases of i'm sure it's reaction that will still come down the judgment was to come down on the side all the vaccine it is much safer to have the vaccine than not it's to have it's i think and then just switching gears a little bit germany's foreign minister has suggested lifting restrictions for a vaccinated people is so that the be able to go to restaurants to travel while everybody else basically stays at home know that it's been

a controversial topic for quite a while but it seems to be getting more and more traction is it a good idea or is it creating a 2nd class citizenship. yeah and you know we've had these kinds of discussions before you now earlier it was this whole talk about immunity passports now we're talking about people with vaccination probably getting to go out more regularly or perhaps i mean employment circles also this might become a prerequisite i think we're to be a bit cautious about these kinds of steps one you know the vaccine is not widely available to some many individuals are not eligible to receive the vaccine because apparently they should make the save 3 there are many kinds of individuals who because of their health well not ability might not be able to get the vaccine so i think by imposing some kind of a preference on those who can get the vaccine and making them go out and do things which other folks can are maybe this is not the time i think we should be

encouraging vaccination keeping a watch on any safety events here not creating that kind of you know. class system where just by virtue of vaccination you get a sense that you are you know you're fine to do whatever you want to because again you know no maxine is 100 percent africa shares i think the communication should we even if you've got no maxine please take all precautions just place anyone else is expected simon the last word to you but just on that point if vaccinated people do get those extra privileges like being able to cross borders not a ramifications as it's going to provide a huge incentive for one to get the shot absolutely and just because one government doesn't want to induce introduced immunity passports or requirement for immunity to travel that doesn't mean that's another government another country won't and it may well it introduce a requirement in order to travel or or to get meters so i can see this being

a real bone of contention and there will be a lot of argument and a lot of unhappiness among people who know what you have been vaccinated if that comes to pass. dr simon clarke microbiology professor at reading university and dr and on global health and bioethics researcher and former president of the international association of bioethics. almost half of school teachers in france are self centering on religious issues according to a new poll the holocaust and evolution are among the most contentious topics we spoke to a history teacher who says that simply doing his job has become a mine. also so we all must be affected by this problem because i personally teach in a department that's experiencing a serious increase in islam is an awful lot 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 has 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. but this comes 3 months after the killing of a schoolteacher some of your party he was beheaded by an islamist extremist after showing caricatures of the prophet muhammad during a lesson on freedom of expression. i know one of our competitors was murdered because he taught our compassion it was the victim of an islamist terror attack.

the murder was followed by a crack done by french authorities including raids on mosques and charles he's accused of promoting radical islam president has repeatedly voted to protect the french model of free speech but history teacher kevin bruce way again thinks the government could do more. what just an emotion no 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 france's cautious in the name of friendship of peoples and freedom we ultimately refused to defend own values and refused to actively fight 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 a fair of stigmatizing this part of society out of fear if stigmatize ation we pass on the problem of fighting radical islam. europe's most active volcano munt has put on a striking display as molten lava lit up the night sky in sicily this week. was blown up to 4000 meters into the air telling authority. have no issue than i should by free to our lines it is the latest in a series of eruptions in recent months nobody was injured in. the zoo was released its penguins not into the wild but to walk among the visitors social distancing is in place though so guess won't be able to get too close as their king penguins the birds are all named after famous kings including. martin

luther king and even burke. a logger head sea turtle named color is finally returning to his natural habitat after being rescued from a florida canal in september the reptile was found in a poor condition when months of care in a rehab center he was fitted with a tracking device so his adventures can be tracked on life as part of the turtle conservation research. good luck to get your business fix next and a punch to the rafters boom bust it all starts. well today we're going to talk about what happens when. government is.