germany extends and strengthens code restrictions nationwide of the country steps up its fight against. local mayors in france vent their anger over vaccine shortages and logistical setbacks he speak so one regional head. main thing and this is just a joke we have to go and get the vaccine ourselves. health officials in california warn against using a large. number of allergic reactions. and washington d.c. ramps up security out of. that so doesn't troops are pulled from so many proper

ations by the f.b.i. 2 of them due to alleged ties to extremist groups. from moscow thanks for joining us tonight here in our to international and welcome to the program. germany is to extend and tighten its current code restrictions across the country amid spiking infection rates chancellor i'm going to regional heads on tuesday evening to work out the latest battle plan against the pandemic the decision comes amid rising public hostility towards knocked out of europe correspondent brings us up to speed. so 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 coronavirus 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 of the person from a household other than your own medical masks will have to continue to be worn on public transport in shops he specifically f f p 2 masks very very strong masks 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 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 government 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 yen spawn just recently as well isn't would do it soon for 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 they were put in place upon them that's a drop of 21 percent on the previous poll it 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 the restaurants 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 curfew after 8 pm to be justified i reject nationwide curfews on principle the vaccine has also been discussed chancellor merkel said that she'll be speaking to e.u. leaders on thursday about the essential you've 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 of the head of the world health organization has warned of an impending disaster due to the unequal distribution of code vaccines he described 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 access 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 lowest 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. or vaccination campaign in france has come under fire from regional mayors they say there are that off those is the go around the roll out is riddled

with issues 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 or france is aiming to vaccinate a 1000000 people by the end of the month and more than twice that number by late february so far the figure stands at around 400000 responding to the delays the government's valve's more than half a 1000000 doses a week starting monday we heard from the mayor of a paris suburb. 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 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 at stake as well as other serious issues such as the possibility for our country finally getting out of this crisis and returning to something similar to normal life and economic prosperity. across the ocean now in less than 24 hours from now america will have a new president joe biden is set to be inaugurated as the $46.00 us leader on wednesday a massive security operation is underway in washington d.c. thousands of national guard troops were bussed into the city at start of the week a total of $25000.00 personnel will be keeping order in d.c. and operation day in the wake of the capitol hill riots intelligence services are braced for trouble various have been set up for the city. well the f.b.i.

is vetting all security personnel amid concerns over insider attack officials have revealed 12 national guard troops have been removed from duty 2 of them a possible links the right wing extremist groups are to use drone has been a following the build up in 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 our large rationed. 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 of vehicles going throughout the city with sirens on basically a show 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 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 have how things are going to progress as we get closer to wednesday. caps and roger hill but to use the additional vetting of troops is unwarranted. i think it's a form of censorship this is just a step towards that for our 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 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 oath at this point in time. california has become the 1st u.s. state to top 3000000 coronavirus cases triple the number of infections going bad to just 2 months ago hospitals in america's most populous state are struggling to cope last tens of thousands of covered by required medical care going to foreigners places hopes on vaccines with more than a 1000000 people so far getting jobs however not everything is going to plan scalable and 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 rising 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 this is in california have called for a temporary halt to the vaccine from the farm a 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 bio tech 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 one 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 finds it and by intake are aware of reported deaths the number of incidents so far is no salome 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 coded world finally emerging hale bopp and r.t. new york. meets political pressure as apple faces a legal action of a failing to remove the telegram messaging app from its full story on the off the break. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being

so. direct. what is true what is fake. in the world corrupted you need to do and. so join us in the. forum made in the shallows. join me every thursday on the alex salmon shore and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm sure business i'll see you then. we'll come back on the pressures of buying the messaging up telegram activist group who is suing the tech shot for failing to remove telegraph from its store i mean the service is being used to spread extremist content telegram currently serves is

the preferred new nazi white nationalist communications channel fanning anti semitic an anti black incitement during the current wave of protests across america or the coalition for a safer web claims telegram was used by the capitol hill writers and violated apple's guidelines the push to get telegrams taken off line comes off the tech giants recently by on the social network paula for hosting violent content or that platform is popular with conservative americans. other paula bad along with other online poses appears to have given telegram a popularity boosts reportedly picked up 25000000 new users just in the space of 3 days brings its total user base to more than half a 1000000000 among them the leaders of at least 10 countries earlier mccauley you don't know neil 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 parler 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 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 against the other 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 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 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 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 leader of russia's parliament has accused the

authorities in the u.s. of using this month's chaos in washington to crack down on free speech with more on the story is more aggressive. 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 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 muzzling an elected president no less the this is a worrying side at the here the russians also pointed out the irony of the united states experiencing what it had actively and happily excluded for many years

which is coups in revolutions where they painted those who stormed parliaments and . marched on government officers freedom fighters and heroes words 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 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 him 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 schoolteachers in france are self censor a lot of religious issues that's according to a new poll the holocaust and the theory of evolution are among the most contentious topics one history teacher told us is job has become

a minefield. also so we also see affected by this problem because i personally teach in a department that is experiencing a serious increase in islam is another and where there is also a launched 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 that 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 because lee criticized we can't teach the curriculum 2 of them. well this comes at 3 months off the killing of a schoolteacher some well party it was beheaded by an islamist extremist off the show and controversial crossings of the prophet muhammad 0 the 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 was. the. well the murder was followed by a crackdown by french authorities including raids on mosques and charities accused of promoting radical islam president has repeatedly failed to protect the french model of free speech but history teacher kevin bruce way again believes the government could be doing more. no i'm not afraid i pass on republican values because they need to be passed on if we the french teachers refuse to do this the islamists will eventually win look at what for example sebastian kers 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 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 of emanuel macro try to introduce a ban on wearing the for young girls under this law but the president did not want to do this for fear of stigmatising this part of society out of fear of stigmatize asian we pass on the problem of fighting radical islam. europe's most active volcano belt put on a striking display as molten lava lit up the night sky in sicily persuade a volcanic ash was blown up to 4000 meters into the air italian authorities have issued an ash advisory to airlines it's the latest in

a series of eruptions in recent months nobody was injured in the explosion. cincinnati zoo has released its penguins to the wild but among visitors social distancing though is in place of course guess would be able to get too close as their king penguins the birds are all named after famous kings including larry king martin luther king and even picking. a longer head sea turtle named connor is finally returning to his natural habitat after being rescued from a florida canal in september the reptile was found in a poor condition and underwent months of care in a rehab center it was fitted with a tracking device so his adventures can be followed online as part of the turtle conservation and research program. our documentary discovers daily life on the world's coldest continent antarctica up next if you will are back in 30 minutes

with the latest join us that. nuclear power become a battleground in the u.s. in vermont people are demanding the shutdown of a local plant from yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous oh no care power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limit this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on where's the power in this country where's it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional participatory democracy is power lie with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real ways. a struggle on o.t. . shots

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