coronavirus restrictions are eased in the russian capital is the vaccination campaign against. hearing from some of those who've already had the job. i want to get vaccinated against the corona virus but i'm afraid of getting sick and dying it's dangerous for me because the disease at least with qantas it is proving to be a great way to put everything on the body. in countries that opted for the pfizer jhumpa supply problems in europe and north america with some of the us having to travel to neighboring states just to be inoculated. prism promises university students that they will get access to cheap meals as the study finds lock down has

had a severe impact on their ability. to help. us not being able to properly. by their very good morning this is. a museum will now be open to moscow residents as of today that some of the mud decided to ease coronavirus restrictions in the russian capital following a steady drop in cases let's go live now to a correspondent constantine good morning to you constantine remarkable when you look around europe you see countries timing up their restrictions things seem to be getting worse and yet some ray of hope here in moscow was the. really it

is safe to say. this news has been long awaited by moscow residents and do you know who are especially excited now parents distant learning for school children which lead to be honest didn't sit well with a lot of working parents is now over kids can go back to classes and this morning i was passing by a school on the way to the studio and i saw a lot of people kids parents coming in an early sign that life in europe's largest capitalist starting to get back to normal also sports and leisure facilities for children can now reopen or return to regular working hours university students however will have to continue studying remotely now moscow struggling entertainment industry will also feel a much needed relieve to some extent at least seating capacity in cinemas theaters concert halls has increased from 25 to 50 percent also museums public

libraries are galleries can reopen there is no easing up however on nightlife with bars clubs restaurants still being forced to shut down at 11 pm also all company owners have to keep at least a 3rd of their employees work remotely where possible that matter also remains unchanged but anyway this indeed is the most significant a relaxation of the lockdown since autumn moscow mayor sergey sit down inside positive statistics as the main reason behind. this he's recent move to lift restrictions russia's capital has seen a decline in registered alien factions and a fall in cases requiring hospitalization and that is despite there being a week long nation holiday just 12 days ago. the spread of.

19 in moscow suggests cautious optimism last week daily recorded cases were between 200-4000 which is significantly less than at the end of december vaccination rates have increased significantly more than 220000 people in moscow have already received reliable protection from the virus in december a russian president vladimir putin announced the start of the nationwide mass vaccination campaign here in moscow it's already in full swing. points being set up across the city in addition to regular hospitals you know the other they were filming inside an opera house where they had minister shots now also you can take a jab while shopping at a mall or grab a bite to eat at a food court so let's have a listen to the visitors of those vaccination points. well like everyone i want to get vaccinated against to grow the virus i'm afraid of getting sick and dying my friends were seriously ill some of them even the way i believe in science and

medicine. if you want our lives to be as they were before we need to do something we can't just sit at home and be afraid waiting for everything to be 1st of all is dangerous for me as a single because the disease affects will kill abilities and of course it also has a strong impact on the lungs which is not good for most of course it's too early to celebrate their further liftin though the anti covert measure is in moscow and the rest of the country will now entirely depend on whether this positive trend that we're seeing now can continue here you're right too early to celebrate it is lovely though just a little bit of positive news for once spending thanks to the thank you. meanwhile russia spinning the vaccines been getting the green lights in more countries around the world with hungry becoming the 1st e.u. country to register the job the united arab emirates has also approved a shot for emergency use the move has been welcomed by the head of russia's direct

investment fund which is behind the global rollout of sputnik very little dimitri of spoke to r.t. . almost this partnership means disputant vaccine will be available in the united arab emirates and that's very important not only for the u.a.e. and russia but for the entire middle east and the rest of the world i would like to highlight a few crucial points firstly the decision was made after it was registered in more than 10 other countries it was based not only on clinical trials in russia but also in data that we received from its own trolls and. secondly the tests have shown the high safety and efficacy of. today we received news that hungry has become the 1st state of the european union to register dispute with the vaccine so we can see that it's being accrued not only in the middle east latin america africa and asia but also in europe. host of vaccines being rolled out around the world to combat

the pandemic each of them have their pros and cons it's the cons the weighing on people's minds of course in europe canada and america countries that opted for the pfizer drug main problem right now is simply getting old of enough doses as the of . what was supposed to be an orderly vaccination across the western world is turning into a debacle supply of the desperately needed vaccines is suing to a drip in europe and the cabinet and states are collaborating to get their hands on the few deuces available. the health care of italian citizens is not a negotiable issue the vaccination campaign cannot be slowed down especially for given the 2nd doses to the many talents who are already received the 1st phase or has decided that now is the best start to upgrade their european production plant which means for italy for example around 30 percent fewer deuces will be delivered

in the foreseeable future tally and angry ready planning to sue pfizer these are people's lives we're talking about after all and it seems the corporate bosses they never even asked anyone and last friday we were all surprised by the announcement of pfizer down biotech to have a delay i immediately called the c.e.o. of pfizer and i explained to him that it is of utmost importance that we get the doses that are fixed in the contract pfizer's european production plan supplies europe and canada much of the world the plant in the united states for now is solely focused on satisfying america needs this is left canada literally begging its southern neighbor for a handout murmur mine american friends hope we need help once again you have a new president no more excuses we need your support. unfortunately for canada

things aren't rusian the southern side of the border either the highest number of infections in the world the most deaths and in this race against time they're losing we will have literally nothing left to give as of friday what does that mean it means if we don't get more vaccine quickly our new supplier of vaccine we will have to cancel appointments this is crazy this is not the way it should be we have the ability to vaccinate a huge number of people we need the vaccine to go with it. the way it's handled in the states is that the federal government every week ships out that scene quotas to various states trumpet boasted that they have millions in reserve but that may have been untrue according to various governors who say there's nothing left vaccine quotas the states are fooling the dwindling number of duces of being delivered the

bottom line is that we don't have enough of the accidents it's a jewel problem we need more and we need to get them out more quickly it's soo bad that people have engaged in what's being called that scene tourism so americans all over the country indeed even canadians a driving to states where vaccines are available to get the shot florida for example we know right now based on. our reservation to me and it's very late and i think i. think we had a real problem last week with trying to get last week. that traffic was more on the way we could get to get close to the site last week but they did just 1st come 1st serve it is been a fiasco from the get go from day one of the pandemic remember when it all started our allies jump to very each other to buy up all the mosques and ventilators and

even neighbor. as with nothing then they boosted about buying up billions of deuces of vaccines which hadn't even been produced again leave in poorest states with nothing and now that they're here there's not enough for everyone. french president of on your microns address students in the country about ongoing coronavirus restrictions and has promised that they will soon be able to return to university at least on a part time basis. you know the student should have the same rights and the same needs as an employee and if he or she needs it's a student should have the possibility to return to university in person once a week it becomes after students took to the streets of paris demanding help from the government over the pandemic many say in the government's doing little to ease the psychological strain of lockdown. he spoke to one of the students. this is emma she's a 21 year old was a student in paris her dream is to become

a history teacher but like students across france and even the world the comb very dependent makers turned life upside down and inside out in october there was the governor on this idea that every university would because then i just stayed up my place and i was remotely running for the world so mr i want perspective and also having to sit in that some of the best years of my life wasted i have some friends that are we destroying handymen but they don't call tom to have traveled this there's a kind of shame of not being able to properly those concerns have been heard by the president says he look to ensure universities provide daily meals price to one euro a day for one of the key tasks for the 2nd semester is the provision of meals the aim is to ensure the miss jews who need it can have 2 meals

a day for one of us. it's a picture playing out across the higher education system in france and for some the distress is manifesting in tragic ways one student threw himself out of a 4th floor window in little he remains in a critical condition another student was restrained off the threatening to do the same according to the observatory of student life a 3rd of france's 2700000 university students are suffering from depression anxiety and loneliness many also run the risk of dropping out and tells me she's had enough and now with other students they are taking action.

universities are in limbo the government to suggested a limited number will be able to return to the lecture hall soon but for the majority life will remain a constant cycle of online lessons and isolation all from the cramped cell like sizes of the student accommodation of prison for me. i mean i like to stop argument i've chosen to that burden but i'm not sure i really be able to stay in the south argument after the crazies because there is no like so much memories that are negative into this place it's not that easy and i come for peace for more than let's say certain years then i need to have a brain because i don't see anyone. i can't go outside that measure because there's not so much activity outside sometimes i'm ashamed of my country i mean where friends where she was to be a rich country and where in that event he will to our students in this situation i

think the best for me next year if the situation is the same we're. doing a gap here and then go back to my street is my normal cities there is help for those feeling that the weight of the pun demick is too much one student union has taken to twitter to advertise where students can get help the health service says the number of people suffering from depression doubled between september and early november last year the majority of cases from those aged 18 to 24 the government is committed to increasing the number of psychologists available to help students must says she would benefit from speaking to a psychologist but there is a long wait the students we've spoken with are angry and despondent they see 3 years they've been raising it. over their living conditions a lack of resources in teachers with the government and nothing was done they feel

that this is a crisis that could have been avoided but instead they've been left high and dry charlotte r.t. paris france has concluded that it has nothing to apologize for when it comes to its 130 year colonial rule in algeria a report on issue ordered by president micron in the summer has just been released authored by a french historian it does make some recommendations on cleaning setting up a memories and truth commission and changing the way colonial history is taught in schools the report the fails to address allegations of systemic torture in algeria the issue of france's global past has sparked a lot of debates within the country many details of france's decades long rule in the country remain unknown or disputed the bloody war of independence is believed to have cost the lives of up to one and a half 1000000 algerians hundreds of thousands of people were left injured and displaced like rant while running for the presidency promise to recognize french

abuse in algeria colonna zation is a part of french history it is a crime is a crime against humanity it is genuinely barbaric and it is part of the past which we must confront that including by apologizing to those against whom we committed these acts move us presidents from both countries what they think about the refusal to apologise. apologise for not enough moreover the time half will build your and people were killed by colonialism we must not lie to each other france is a clue no this country and without colonialism france would not have succeeded france has committed genocide and war crimes from 830 tonight is 62 with over 10000000 victims. our diplomacy is weak and our power is also weak historical truths remain hidden we want to know our real story to prove to the world that france has committed crimes in algeria our history has already been

falsified historians say a nation without a history is an ignorant one moreover through the history books we know that france still rules here of course france should have apologized we must recognize that we committed a great wrong over several generations so one apology is still necessary but not sufficient i don't think france should apologize for the colonization of algeria after the evian accords france withdrew from algeria so from that moment on contracts were made between the 2 countries and it's not for a country to apologize for what was done in the past. amid the ongoing division in america the democrats were saying no time in what they call a war on domestic terrorism critics though say that the party's only trying to quash alternative is republican senator lindsey graham has argued that trump's legacy cannot be simply have raised if you're wanting to raise donald trump from

the party you're going to get a racist that members of the biden team are now moving in laser like fashion to try to uncover as much they can about what looks very similar to insurgency movements that we've seen over see now that focus on internal threats seems to be resonating across the country more than half of americans think domestic enemies pose the biggest threat to their way of life according to a new poll just 8 percent think the biggest danger comes from overseas we discussed the issue with a panel of guests. donald trump's followers who were participating in over $600.00 rallies and protests and events for the last 5 years without a hint of violence suddenly are called the violent terrorist wing of the trump supporting part of the republican party the number of people in anti foreign b.l.m. or about 7 percent of the democrat party the number of people who attacked the capitol if you are stipulate that that is indeed what happened is like point 003

percent of the republican party the idea that we need to predicate an entire national movement toward laser like focus on domestic terrorists is to me a giant joke but it's got a sad part line because people are going to be made to suffer for that who had nothing to do with it and don't want that the trumpet ministration has been protecting the american people from violent groups both on the left and the right unfortunately i think part of it is it's biden is trying to politicize what has happened we have had looting and violence in the throughout 2020 by black lives matter type folke. the starbucks in the my office was burned out we had violence last night in portland in seattle again not done by people on the left side so i think it's unfortunately the new president trying to be political

instead of actually focusing on what needs to be done you have right here that usual leftist belief which is unification it just means agree with us and if you don't agree with us we're going to deep platform you we're going to get you fired from your job we're going to get you kicked out of the vents dayer idea of unification just means agree with us or shut it it's not normal in a civilized society to try to get people fired who disagree with you politically as happened in google and and other big tech companies it's not normal for a tech backend processor to basically cut the elect. kristie of a group like parlor and those are normal behaviors in a civilized society in a democratic society in a side that values free speech. and in the 1st hours of joe biden's presidency amazon sparked outrage online for what critics call a delay in its offer to help distribute covert vaccines the company has written a letter to joe biden offering assistance early leaving

a number of trumpet ministration officials feeling left out we are prepared to leverage our operations information technology and communications capabilities and expertise to assist your administration's vaccination efforts our scale allows us to make a meaningful impact immediately in the fight against covert 19 and we stand ready to assist you in this effort we did ask amazon to comment but they have yet to respond but an amazon spokes person said the suggestion they waited to offer assistance for political reasons is simply wrong adding that they did meet with the trump officials to offer assistance but that this has not been enough to placate the online community amazon is now offering china joe help to get the vaccine out to america so in other words amazon chose to let americans die instead of doing this cheering the trump admin obviously it's politics and optics over people shameful amazones certainly are for to help the biden administration with the

rollout of the vaccine because orangemen battle was more important than caring for fellow americans after a peak earlier this month daily new cases in america have been slowly fall in with almost 200000 new cases reported on thursday joe biden has said numbed basis goal of vaccinating 100000000 americans within his 1st 100 days in the white house we spoke to political commentator chadwick moore who believes amazon has benefited from the pandemic. i mean now we have amazon that suddenly says we're going to help distribute the vaccine well where were they before how long are they going planning to begin building up certain infrastructure for this and they've been retrofitting their warehouses for this i don't know what kind of preparation amazon has to make in order to help distribute this but how long has it been planning to do this and why only announce it now why not announce it before the election and why not announce it when trump was still in office you know if they had just been always sort of planning to go behind the scenes and help with this in the kind of benevolent service to the country that has made them so well the amazon has

profited immensely off the fires it only makes sense amazon should you know use their vast resources and infrastructure to help get out of actually that they're able to and if they were going to do behind the scenes and never mention it well that's great good for them it's the least they can do but if. you know if this reform plan. they've announced it has been reelected so they have under seems like the just sort of why did ministration end of coded to the best of feel good news to get people a little more optimistic about the future. because of call for a major gas pipeline project was rushed to be halted for the likes in the fall in the case the european parliament passed a resolution on thursday condemning the recent to rest of the kremlin critic and demanding that sanctions spam post on moscow and to trying to has details. it's time for the european parliament to step in whether it's reaction to the arrest of

opposition activist alexei vali and this resolution that you mentioned is not binding but it is something that indicates where the wind in the you is blowing so the lawmakers are making it clear that they want to teach rochelle lesson that the authors of the document are calling for the expansion of existing and western sanctions and also for new measures against moscow sanctions should also be imposed against russian oligarchs linked to the regime members of president putin's in the so cool and russian media propagandists who possess assets in the e.u. and can currently travel there any piece stressed the importance of critically review in cooperation with russia in various foreign policy platforms and on projects such as north stream to you the cool need to meet you stop the completion of the controversial pipeline the north stream pipeline project which is very important

for moscow it's intended for direct natural gas deliveries from russia to northern germany cherished by russian officials and the european parliament wants to block this once and for all as well and this was something that has long been the goal of the u.s. government to deregulating the construction of nord stream to a regardless of the administrations that are in charge things aren't likely to change with the arrival of joe biden so this brings us to a major controversy on the one hand we do have the enemies of that project in the european union a bunch of them plus outside the e.u. america like we mentioned but the project is largely while biber led because of apparent benefits for the german economy and that's why perhaps just recently with her. from anglo merkel that said that she doesn't want to mix up the volley case with the case of north stream 2 it's better than $56.00 and i consider these extra

territorial sanctions to be inappropriate. now just to remind you alexina vali was arrested at a moscow airport this weekend after his arrival from berlin following several months of treatment there like satan avali is in trouble with russian officials for violations of probation period i can remind you that several years ago the major opposition figure was convicted for embezzlement for which he received a suspended sentence but mr novelli believes that this case is politically motivated a little earlier we heard from the russian top diplomat surrogate. he warns the european officials and western officials in general from interfering in russia's own internal affairs when it comes to trials against suspected

criminals. know melanie's case has got so much international publicity and everything that happens to nirvana regarding his return in detention is the business of law enforcement agencies we are talking about enforcing russian laws in some of the countries simply mentation of their own laws is considered to be of secondary importance to achieving some geo political goals this is their problems in our case law enforcement agencies have made their position. the volley is very likely to remain in custody for the next few weeks before a court decision and so pressure is building up now the north stream pipeline project hangs in the balance as well so let's watch out for new developments in europe today i'll be back with more for you in just half an hour's time say that.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle defenders of big tech often exclaim if you don't like their platforms then build your own well on this edition of crossfire we talk with some intrepid individuals doing just that against all the odds will they succeed.

to discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest we camp in washington he is host of redacted tonight on our team america as well as author of bullet points and punch lines in cleveland we have taylor who doc she is a journalist and activist for free speech and free press and in moscow we have susie dawson she is co-founder of tank wake dot com all right girls in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok ringback let me go to taylor person in cleveland a lot is going on online right now we had right up to before the american election we had a strangely big tech colluding to crush a story that could influence the outcome of the election then we have after the election we have.