strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. this hour's headlines stories local mirrors in from the vent their anger over a vaccine shortage is just said we speak to one. main thing and this is just a joke we have to get the vaccine. health officials in california warned against using a large. wave of allergic reactions there. on the east coast washington d.c. security end of july bodies and on the ration troops being told of the ceremony

preparations. for fringe groups. on german authorities decide to extend. nationwide the country steps up its fight against the. live from moscow this is r.t. international my names you know me 30 minutes of news and views start. at the head of the world health organization warned of pending disaster due to equal distribution of. let's take a listen and he described it to it as a catastrophic moral failure. we know is there 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 axis is at serious risk. more than 79000000 doses of vaccine have now been. in at least 49 higher income countries just 25 daughters have been given in one lowes into 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 well let's concentrate on one country the vaccination campaign in france has come under fire from regional mers they say there aren't enough doses to go round and the rollout is riddled with logistical problems it saddens me to see 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 of france is aiming to vaccinate of a 1000000 people by the end of the month more than twice that number by late february so far though the figure stands at around 400000 responding to the delays the government has promised over a half a 1000000 doses a week from monday we spoke to the mirror of a participant. 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 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's no delivery my myself as man drove my own around ozai car to the hospital for $25.00 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 now germany is to tighten extend its current covert restrictions nationwide amid spiking infection rates chancellor angela merkel has been meeting regional heads this evening to work on the latest battle against the pandemic but the decision does come amid rising

public hostility towards the law let's go live now to our europe correspondent peter all over it in berlin peter bring us up to speed there on what's actually been agreed not so long ago. well this was a long discussion between chancellor angela merkel and the leaders of germany 16 states to try and work out what they were going to do about the corona virus pandemic this meeting had been scheduled for the 25th of january but it was brought forward due to some serious figures coming out when it came to numbers of infections and numbers of people in germany that have died with the coronavirus what we know from this meeting is that lockdown measures that are in place here in germany will be extended through until the 14th of february also private gatherings will be limited to one other person from a household of the own medical masks will have to continue to be worn on public

transport in shops and in places where you will have prolonged prolonged contact in a confines space specific f.-f. p 2 masks very very strong masks specific masks to target the virus droplets they will have to be worn by care home staff when it comes to them dealing with patients until all patients in those care homes have had both jobs of the via the vaccine against the virus schools and kindergartens they'll also be closed down until the 14th of february this was we understand one of the big sticking points between angela merkel and the leaders of the local governments the the state the land tag here in germany that that will extend through until the 14th of february as well 3 and people are encouraged to work from home where ever it is possible we

also heard from the german chancellor saying how there was real concern when it came to new mutated variants of the covert 19 virus and that's something we've heard expressed by the health minister of germany yet inspired. just recently as well. isn't. this mutation is 1st and foremost more transmissible than others more transmission means more seriously ill people that's why limiting contact and continuing to bring down infection numbers is so important. when it comes to sticking to the rules that are being put in place germans are pretty much on side but when it comes to toughening those measures not so much the most recent poll showed that only 28 percent of germans would opt for increasing toughening the covert measures that were put in place upon them that's a drop of 21 percent on the previous poll it is being taken the politicians are

also split in knowing what course of action is best for the country if there are only vaccinated people in a restaurant or cinema they can no longer in danger each other as long as it's not clear whether a vaccinated person can transmit the virus they can be no exceptions i would consider a curfew after 8 pm to be justified i reject nationwide curfews on principle. well the vaccine has also been discussed chancellor merkel said that she'll be speaking to leaders on thursday about the well essentially we're all for one and one for all vaccine program that brussels has put forward and is carrying out at the moment there has been a lot of criticism of the way it's been handled here in germany with the health ministry coming under fire for the slow roll out what we have seen is really quite

ambitious proposal being put forward by germany saying that all people in germany who want a vaccine will be offered warm by the end of the summer now that is a colossal undertaking when you think about at the moment just around 1100000 doses of the vaccine of been handed out with only just over one percent of the population having received both doses that are needed to ensure a successful vaccination against covert 19 2nd is through yet another round of restrictions for europe's biggest economy peter all of her life in berlin. less than 24 hours from now america will have a new president joe biden is said to be an organ rated as the 46th u.s. leader on wednesday a must of security operation is underway right now in washington d.c. follows ins of national guard troops were bussed into the city well those are the beginning of the week and in what really is an extraordinary security presence of

total of $25000.00 personnel will be keeping order in d.c. to write an organization day in the wake of the capitol hill riots intelligence services are bracing for trouble from activists barriers have been set up force the city. the f.b.i. is vetting old security personnel and made concerns of insider officials just 12 little guard troops being removed from jussi related to be an organization to use them we believe for possible links to right wing extremist groups there earlier john he went for a walk around the area here's his pace. 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 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 vehicles going throughout the city with sirens on basically a show of force that's expected to continue all of this as now we hear that the f.b.i. and the army are looking at the fact. grounds 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 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 how things are going to progress as we get closer to wednesday well just a lot of jones lothar points there we spoke to former u.s. army captain roger hill who says the additional vetting of troops is unwarranted

because of 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 administration 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 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. so let's move the program will know uppal is under pressure to balance the increasingly popular messaging app telegram a campaign group is suing the tech giant for failing to remove telegram from its store claiming the service is being used to spread extremist content telegram currently is the preferred. white nationalist communications channel fanning anti

semitic anti black incitements during the current wave of protests across america. you have out to coalition for a safe or a web grouping claims telegram was used by the capitol hill rioters on violated outpolls guidelines the push to get telegram taken offline comes after tech giants recently bombed the social network parlor for hosting violent content not form is popular with conservative americans. well the parlor along with other online purges appears to have given telegram up popularity boost it reportedly picked up 25000000 new users in the space of 3 days that brings its total user base to more than half a 1000000000 among the leaders of at least 10 countries an earlier i discussed efforts to topple telegram with the public is. big tel for a long time now has absolutely been acting like

a cartel we see coronated 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 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 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 but 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's 5 months that is caught constantly paraded around twitter and facebook these apps these platforms that 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 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. the corona virus pandemic continues to

rampage 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 state are struggling to cope with the mob tens of thousands of covert 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 killable been 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 who required medical attention over the span of 24 hours we are recommending that provide its use of that and they leave the accident been 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 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 well 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 have noted that the official corporate response came across as rather cold and lacking the simple thing fines and by intake are aware of 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 rush the vaccine jump the gun and perhaps endanger 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 ala mop and r.t. new york this is our change national more stories coming your way in 90 seconds and

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social media platforms today function as the public square the real key to almost everything we do in society the same plumbs continue the platform you essentially disappear you should private companies that kind of power is entirely a big. hello again the leader of russia's parliament has accused the thora he's in the us of cracking down on free speech in the wake of the capital riots your senior correspondent steve. 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 muzzled 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 used to reassure. the current president who got the votes of almost 75000000 americans 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 know 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 engler 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 and elected president no less the this is a worrying side at 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 officers 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 has called participants of unauthorized political campaigns fighters for freedom and democracy when the same thing happened in the us itself they called 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 to what happened on capitol hill happens in russia. 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 secondary school history teacher who says his job has become a minefield. also so we almost the affected by this problem are guys i personally teach in a department that's experiencing a serious increase in islam is a muslim 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 and we can't teach the curriculum 2 of them. and this comes 3 months after the killing of school teacher samuel percy he was beheaded by an islamist extremist after showing caricatures of the prophet muhammad during a lesson on ethics 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 cracked by french authorities including raids on last night he's accused of promoting radical islam president repeatedly violent to protect the french model of free speech but history teacher and boasts way again thinks the government could do more. 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 more great programs get their start in moments here all r.t. stay tuned to find out what's being shown wherever you find yourself today i'm going to 30 of the catch event.

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