i gave you the. politicians in germany longer. crises public support for tougher restrictions. on the program. and. the shortages of logistical sense we speak to more regional. main thing and this is just a joke we have to get the vaccine. health officials in california warned against using a large bunch of. reactions. washington

d.c. ramps up security ahead of joe biden. truth check points are at the ready made fears of an insider attack. 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 nobody within the ranks could possibly try to incite any. earlier training from across the globe this hour welcome to moscow and to the lines you know neal our top story. german authorities are split over how to deal with new corona virus strains on rising infection rates the country has already passed 48000 deaths on public support for tougher measures house ball and 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 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 those 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. . or be head of the world health organization has warned of an impending disaster due to only call distribution of covert vaccines he's 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 axis is at serious risk. more than

79000000 doses of vaccine have now been. in at least 49 higher income countries. just 25 goals is 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 where all the vaccination campaign in france has come under fire from regional mirrors they say there are enough doses to go around the rollout 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 from says aiming to vaccinate a 1000000 people by the end of the month more than twice the number by late february but so far the figure stands at around 400000. responding to the delays the government has promised to run half a 1000000 doses a week from monday we spoke to the mayor of a part of 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 logistical prices 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 all selves there's no delivery

myself as man drove my own 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 steak 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. in less than 24 hours america will have a new president joe biden is said to be an organ rated as the $46.00 the us leader a wednesday a must have security operation is underway in washington d.c. thousands of national guard troops were bussed in to the city at the start of the week now in what is really an extraordinary security presence a total of $25000.00 personnel will be keeping order in d.c. through it in over ration. in the wake of the capitol hill riots intelligence services are bracing for trouble from pro activists borrowers have been set up

right across the city and the f.b.i. is spreading all the security personnel amid concerns of an insider attack following those checks to national guardsmen have reportedly been taken off the organization details we allegedly have links to right wing militia groups or to america correspondent reports from washington. 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 on our ration 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 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 sold ready very intense is 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's no there's no one within the ranks that are going to create a problem 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 how things are going to progress as we get closer to wednesday. earlier we spoke to former u.s. army captain roger hill who sais 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 new by the ministration if if we know 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 in time. is under pressure to bomb the increasingly popular messaging app telegram a campaign group is suing the tech giant for feeling to remove telegram from its store claiming the service is being used to spread extremist content telegram currently serves is the preferred not see white nationalist communications channel fanning anti semitic and anti black incitement during the current wave of protests across america you're not gripping the coalition for a safer web claims telegram was used by capitol hill rioters and violated apple's guidelines the push to get telegram taken offline comes after tech giants recently banned the social network parlor for hosting violent content the platform is

popular with conservative americans in the parlor bomb along with other online purchases well it appears really 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 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 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 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 are able to create and able to do that i don't see it there are 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 draft 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 about 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 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 the independents 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 a quarter of an hour into the program the news keeps rolling in 90 seconds stay with us. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. dramatic. move. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical.

continues to rampage across the u.s. with california becoming the 1st state to top 3000000 cases that is 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 patients require medical care california placed a nation with more than a 1000000 people getting the job so far however not everything is going to. 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 the available facts in then 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 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 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 or that or use

a casual connection there are 13 deaths that have been assessed and we are aware of and 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 bind take 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 endangered public health that's a question on many minds as the vaccination process continues ahead at full speed offering the hope for a post coded world finally emerging salem oppen r

t new york. a speck 2 story we brought you earlier in the hour the leader of russia's parliament has accused authorities in the u.s. of cracking down on free speech in the wake of the council riots here's her senior correspondent ghost e s. . well this was the opening session of the russian parliament the state do with the 1st session of the year and of course they reacted in disgust to what happened in the united states on the 6th of january the storming of capitol hill the halls of congress and they also discussed what happened in the aftermath in the days after when donald trump was removed from twitter for example other conservative personalities and figures mazel online on various platforms as well as apps applications where conservatives millions of people communicated with each other

were removed from the google store and apple's own store year story sure but he did the current president who got the votes of almost 75000000 american mice as well as his supporters were stripped of a fundamental right freedom of speech their access to voters to the largest social media platforms was blocked why did that happen because of a court decision no it only a court could have taken such a decision it's the opponents of the president who stand behind this decision and this is nothing but a violation of the basic rights and freedoms of u.s. citizens reacting to these bans and these removals many leaders european leaders for example angle merkel the chancellor of germany they voiced alarm concern and worry that the power of these tech giants as well as symbolism behind what they did a muzzling an elected president no less the this is

a worrying side and here the russians also pointed out the irony of the united states experiencing what it had actively and happily exploited for many years which is coups in revolutions where they painted those who stormed parliaments and. marched on government offices as freedom fighters and heroes are worth the race for power that unfolded between the 2 leading parties in the united states led to the storming of congress and human casualties we have always opposed violent unconstitutional actions the united states on the country has encouraged and supported these processes in many countries around the world interfering in the sovereign affairs everywhere washington is called participants of unauthorized political campaigns fighters for freedom and democracy when the same thing happens in the us itself they call these people domestic terrorists who now face 15 to 20 years in prison these will be the real political prisoners washington has to admit

that either this is double standards or they have those who are suffering for their political views there was a point to the speech by the speaker of the russian parliament it wasn't just to mock the united states there are elections coming up in russia parliamentary elections this year and they expect it to ference they expect foreign meddling primarily from the united states and its nato allies attempts to affect the outcome and you know the lessons have been learned about what happened in the united states and their efforts are being undertaken to ensure that voters in russia don't have the sort of questions that american voters did in the aftermath of the election there and that nothing alike what happened on capitol hill happens in russia. one other story we're keeping a close eye on today almost half of school teachers in france are self censoring 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 minefield. also so we all must be affected by this. 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 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. of this comes 3 months after

the killing health school teacher samuel pertti he was be headed by an islamist extremist after showing caricatures of the prophet mohammad during a lesson on ethics and 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 crush by french authorities including raids on. charities accused of promoting radical islam president has repeatedly followed to protect the french model of free speech but history teacher kevin to sway again thinks the government could do more

. than 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 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 our 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 how to fit if stigmatize ation we pass on the problem of fighting radical islam. europe's most active volcano.

put on a striking display as molten lava let's help the night sky in sicily this week. was blown up to 4th. dollars and meters into the italian authorities issued. to our lights it's the latest in a series of eruptions in recent months nobody was injured in the. cincinnati zoo has released its penguins not into the wild both to watch the visitors social distancing is in place though so guests will be able to get too close to their king and the birds are all named after famous royals including larry king martin luther king. day loggerhead sea turtle name caller is finally returning to his natural habitat after being rescued from a florida canal in september the reptile was in

a poor condition or went months of terror. is fitted with a tracking device so his adventures can be tracked part of the turtle conservation and. if you'd like to delve deeper into any of those stories this hour our t. dot com is a solid starting point always fresh content engaging articles to be found there. well today we're going to talk about what happens when. government. is together what corporations want.

the world is driven by shaped by. thinks. we should ask. readings and sal you. welcome my friends to a brand new episode of watching the hawks in the brand new year of 2021 yes we finally we finally made it through to the other side of the god awful that was 2020

only to be greeted by who to appear absurdity and violent zealotry of the great january 6th mago raid on our nation's capital capital an exhibition not of freedom patriotism or revolution but of blind idolatry and sky and white privilege but tragically as left 5 people dead in the nation once again the verge of a nervous breakdown and you could find no better example of that nervous breakdown in the room than in the response to the apparently earth shattering soul crushing news that twitter permanently banned our brand name in chief one u.s. president donald trump instantly activists from both the left and the right in the middle of the political spectrum were losing their collective minds and either absolute joy or outrage upon hearing the news of the band from journalist glenn greenwald tweeting out a handful of silicon valley oligarchs decide who can and cannot be heard including

the president.