always a struggle on r.t. . in the headlines this hour a poll suggests trust in the media has fallen in america in the wake of the elections that the mainstream media's. going to visions in the us. major muslim federations in france reject among your micron's until extremism charter designed to combat radical islam the president of the paris islamic confederation tells us why. draw many paragraphs anyway asking muslims to. require their position on subjects that are obvious subjects that they have respected for years and years. and as they see things to come from. the spanish border crossing as it contained items from outside the e.u.

. after checking a few items they basically just told me that the majority of issues you can't see through because they're processed vegetables. thanks so much for joining us this is r.t. international. a recent poll suggests that trust in the media has fallen in the u.s. on both sides of the political spectrum despite a general upward trend among the other 26 countries in the survey. digs deeper. after became clear in november the trumpet being ousted from near for loftus no one was more relieved than his greatest enemy the media i don't dare speak for my colleagues but i can tell you how difficult it has been as a journalist to cover this dark part of our history let's hope the attack on journalists journalism and everyone and time to move into the light well don lemon

who bravely soldier through those dark years has got his wish as joe biden was anyone to the 42nd president of the united states t.v. screens across america one magical filled with the rainbows and unicorns those lights that are that are just shooting out from the lincoln memorial i look it's like almost extensions of joe biden's arms embracing america president elect joe biden and vice president harris told. to greece or to regret out of the privacy of our hearts if just for a moment so that we all could share he doesn't keep a lot of things secret when it comes to his emotions and his and his family and his love for his family now report says might have taken it easy on biden during the campaign trail but that john and mystic integrity demanded that they ramp up the pressure during his phosphates and office player who he donald trumps air force one

1st you this is such a good question such a good question because while america might be staring down the barrel of unprecedented political polarization civil unrest racial inequality a raging pandemic the annihilation of small businesses and sky high unemployment it's the future of the false one color scheme that really keeps people up at night but if journalists do decide to ask about one of the other insignificant challenges the us face says the head of state is only too willing to give a thorough answer who. may be. more of a p.c. with us right now. we're down to your city's number one. young man give him a break it's his 1st day on the job he's tired probably could do with a nap anyway what do you think this is a press conference meanwhile over in florida donald trump go thing his way back

into civilian life is probably feeling a bit hard done by because just months ago was a study showed that 95 percent of u.s. broadcast coverage of trump was negative and to make it was he could even tweet about it. yall could be embarrass himself any. further you look small he just looks like a small man. we all lived through a president who was assisted in his elevation to the white house by illegal assistance from a hostile foreign power with so much glaring bias is that anyone to trust in mainstream us media has hit a record low reporters are probably patting themselves on the back they survived the don't care if they did it a holiday right but does it show not like apart from a softball question here and there for the byington fun club sorry the mainstream media the next 4 years will be spent kicking back and taking it easy.

the media is supposed to be the bit the state of supposed to be the watchdog they're not supposed to be in the public relations business the trust in the media in the us is is has declined it's been declining for many years. the public is correct to suspect that journalists are not being fair what we need to see is a robot have all of the principles that facts count and you know if you need to hear both sides to a story what's going on going on right now is just the opposite of that and some of the so called for had checkers are anything but they're basically trying to tip the scales in again in favor of 11 side and they're not looking at it objectively. in full and trust in the media comes hops on the heels of the us elections and so divisions violently spill over in the capital c

h clashes also breaking out in portland seattle denver just hours after joe biden's unknowable address and he's just i just spoke to philosopher one chum skanking believes that deep division in the us is nothing more was always at war united states is one of those rare countries that's been at war well almost every day since its founding oh we just saw we have the most wonderful military system in the world to defend america and if you look at the oath of office that the chief of staff from chairman of the joint chiefs takes that's to defend america against enemies foreign and domestic was able to defend the capital couple of the under nurse x. . that i noticed one of the most remarkable things that trump has done was to dismantle the entire arms control regime how we perceive

reality and i want to discuss that that how is our cultivated perception of reality a form of social control of course you refer to branching well we're seeing pretty dramatic examples of that right now united states is always trying to do good things what makes mistakes here and there and we have to correct these mistakes and but everything is fundamentally wonderful and so this assault on the couple of shows the power of american democracy because we didn't collapse into a fascist state and that enabled us to show that american democracy in its magnificence of the triumph. and we're seeing a kind of a replica of that no the symbol really serious ills. or the republicans are going off the spectrum but those are not being discussed

what's being discussed there's a cruise of those if they were they didn't come out of no or. 3 muslim federations in france have refused to back him on your micron's anti extremism charter the president has been touting its charter as a way to fight radical islam we regret that this charter was signed before getting the approval of all components of the french council of the muslim faith we believe that some passages and wordings of the submitted text are of a nature that will weaken the ties of trust between the muslims of france and the nation in addition some of the declarations infringe on the honor of muslims exhibiting an accusatory and marginalizing character a number of other muslim federations did sign up to the charter though after intense and drawn out discussion the charter and visions the setting up of a new national council responsible for vetting in vetting him arms practicing in

the country it projects polarized brands of islam i reaffirms equality between men and women islamist terror rid it said we had again in france 3 months ago when a teacher was beheaded the showing his class cartoons of the prophet mohammed. i'm not plugging patridge was the victim of an islamist terror attack. establishing islam is a religion that is in crisis today all over the world and we don't just see it in our country yet they don't listen to the will of the islamists is precisely to turn our citizens against the republic using their religion and we cannot let that happen. the attack on samuel party triggered a crackdown against extremist mosques and islam is dissociation as we heard from 30

sara kit president of the paris based islamic confederation which rejects my gran's charter he told us why. we disagree on a number of matters one being the group this charter was to be addressed to at the beginning it was about drafting the charter republican principles of the national council of so it was supposed to concern and mosques here we find ourselves with the charter of principles of islam and france and if they were to make the proper distinctions run many paragraphs anyway asking muslims explicitly to clarify their position on subjects that are of this subject that they have respected for years and years that don't pose any problems for them as for the principles of the french republic the french people of the muslim face all live in this country in serenity in respect of the values of the french republic that to gauge us all we do not have to ask them explicitly to measure their religious convictions to prove how

respectful they are to the values and principles of the french republic it is certain that there are and to muslim acts we call that islamophobia we're not going to get into semantics we have a commission called fight against islamophobia so we call it that the reason deaton increase and these acts especially in light of current events now i also don't want to say the results institutionalized islamophobia in france i really think that our country is doing its best to fight against and to muslim acts against islamophobia but that does not mean that these kinds of acts are not increasing. the taste of the things to come down the britains left the here of britain living in spain and working in the u.k. controlled enclave of gibraltar a saudi shopping bag emptied by spanish border guards and was forced to leave behind much of its contents of the border an individual case but it highlights a change of rules for britain's crossing the blocks front is. usually you just walk

straight say well they might be out check it out call tobacco or whatever but this time they showed them a bag and they they took the time to look for a little bit more caffeine than they normally day and they started back probably this night pulling everything out after checking a few items they basically just told me that the majority of this you can't take through because it has processed vegetables on it and saying that they were going to essentially just put them in the vent. in the complications in keeping with the travel guidelines which prohibit travelers from bringing meat dairy products and process vegetables from nonmember states among the things that got the brit we spoke to into trouble was processed onions in a spicy sauce he tried to make the best of a bad situation though eventually selling the prohibited products other lost online but i think it's reasonable i had a brief conversation with one of the guards in the in the office that made my point if i can take these items it seems to me that would be more like large quantities

not for snow items and there was no documentation to support a fact at least my knowledge of the sign that i can take these things over so if this is already happening in the 1st week after breakfast then yeah our program enters a bait a few a few other issues. as it stands going forward i think of the moment we're still in which a boater is actually having to negotiate an agreement with spain due to us being left out of the. g.'s my surroundings and some things i was going through the time for just moving around a lot i didn't get. a really wish i had had i voted and as a set of really wish i had i would have stood with the 9097 percent of gibraltar that chose to remain because that i didn't really see any benefit whatsoever for us to save the european union. and next on our post briggs's menu sour grapes as a route breaks out after the eaves ambassador to britain was denied full diplomatic

status london insists it's not obliged to treat representatives of international bodies the same as foreign diplomats working for nation states and iceland and changes tack the use new ambassador won't be able to get approval by the queen as head of a diplomatic mission u.k.'s decision is at odds with the way the blocks representatives are treated in most other countries and london's move doesn't sit well with brussels we are not to the national organisation of the ozols we have the union i think it would be very in my view to for do you care to find. britain's foreign office has tried to allay brussels concerns saying that the representative will receive quote the privileges and immunities necessary to carry out their work in the u.k. effectively political commentator john fryer believes that london's approach could backfire. i think this is a rainy sad position that the british government has taken because after all we were members of the european union for nearly 50 years and brags and apparently is

not enough they now want to downgrade the status of the european union and although more than $150.00 countries around the world give full diplomatic privileges to. under the vienna convention and this is the situation that these landed dissin now with a government surrounded by cabinet ministers who support this nationalistic brake line which is actually not to toe championing britain's global role as he would see it the diminishing britain's role in the international stage if we want to have a good working relationship with the 27 neighbors who are our main trading partners taken as a whole we really need to have a much more. grown up attitude towards this one years after the break stay to.

join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics score business i'm show business i'll see that. i wouldn't quit supporting sort of the banning of trump per se i think long before we reached this point there should have been enough and there should have been a set of guidelines and rules. technology platforms followed around specific kinds of cases by which people might be maybe even not the platforms into steps they're on the way to there are stealing information that is going viral that is obviously false and or hateful. by these

algorithms that are influencing the visibility of content it is heat fall and viral in those cases we need to intervene. welcome back people have taken to the streets in a number of russian cities they're calling for the release of opposition activist alexei novelli who was detained on returning from germany on sunday for violating the terms of his parole that's not cross slide he's done off the protests taking place in moscow get an interview much of a turnout that. well neil we would try to get a good vantage point just for you to judge for yourself as to how many people have gathered so far we are in central moscow in fact the kremlin is just a couple of kilometers just that way just down the street and people are still

gathering some people have already been detained by the police but largely it has been going on peacefully i don't have any official figures just yet but if i was to give an estimate a good few 100 people are here about one hour to go just just. 30 minutes i should say before the official kickoff of this protest now this is just the latest in what's been taking place all across russia from the from russia's far east in vladivostok where some brutal scuffles have taken place between the protesters and the police. have been some clashes there also huge or rather large showings of protesters in other russian cities all across but right now the. sets here on moscow on the capital because it is expected to be indicative as to how large this whole thing has become in russia now just a quick reminder the crowds here have been called on to assemble by an opposition

figure of ali a very prominent figure here in russia he came back from russia from berlin a couple of days ago when he was being treated for what he and western chemical labs are calling a poisoning by a military grade nerve agent and now the russian authorities of course denying any other saying that they had nothing to do with the election of ali falling sick he was detained upon his arrival to russia because he's a subject of a criminal case says he received a suspended sentence and the authorities are saying that he violated the conditions of his of his parole so again you can hear from the megaphones you can hear the police asking people to disperse saying that the protesters not be unauthorized and reminding everybody about the coronavirus pandemic so that people so that they wear

masks and other personal protective equipment if they are gathering now what has been what has been quite concerning and has drawn some criticism is the cool the minus on people who aren't of even a legal age to vote to still gather here. like people who are still at school election of all these supporters have been calling on the children to gather and to take part in the protests and stories have been warning them against them just out of concern that people so young don't understand the potential repercussions they and their families like parents may face if anything is to happen well i will be standing by here to bring you all the latest. as the situation here on folds watching it. correspond i think just on the reporting from that valley rally there in central moscow. the african center for disease control and prevention is

sounding the alarm after the curve of $900.00 deaths right on the continent suppose the global average constantino scoffer polls simplicius a more year has become the 3rd top official in zimbabwe to die of cold in the past 6 months mr moore years served as foreign affairs and international trade minister and his passing is yet another sign of a grow when coronavirus crisis in africa. the continent's total number of registered cases might not look too dramatic if you compare it with other parts of the world 3300000 infections of the faith talent rate from cope and 19 has gone through the roof of surpassing the global average to reach 2.5 percent so when the african union announced the pre order of 270000000 doses of western vaccines it felt like a ray of hope these are historic times for the 1st time in history africa has secured access to millions of vaccine doses in the middle of

a pandemic but as with most western countries there's still a huge shortage of vaccine doses and that's why this continental collaboration has designed a fair allocation coupled with timely and equitable access of coded $1000.00 vaccines across the continent so far none of the promised western vaccines have been supplied to africa almost 2 months after the 1st doses were rolled out in europe according to world health organization officials that's partly because rich nations care about themselves 1st and foremost even those they speak the language of equitable access some countries some companies continue to prioritize deals by passing kovacs driving up prices in the time to jump to the front of the queue given the vaccine left over is that african nations are hoping to get invention he will probably cost them more than the rich countries paid the south african health ministry claims for instance that it was offered doses of u.k.

pharma giant asteroid that it is a vaccine at a price $2.00 times higher than in the european union but supply shortages and prize gala are not the only problems for the poor african nations when it comes to getting jabs what we're seeing in the roll out in some of the high income countries is that it's complicated it needs to be resourced and properly planned and there haven't been enough global resources to lower income. trees in other words most african nations simply can't afford the sophisticated infrastructure needed for vaccine distribution even if they receive the actual duces is especially true for the fires are by when tech shot would have to be stored and transported at minus 70 degree celsius the plan to save africa from than that make me look good on paper but the reality is very different we have to vaccinate africa as quickly as we need to rest of the world and we have to give the vaccine for free and that's what we

should do because on that's the only moral and intelligent thing to do to fight this deadly pandemic this virus has spread faster than any virus we've seen in a century this virus is deadly and therefore not true the sure that every country has if you have an idea you're only going to protect your country then you are actually going to be committing murder and the rest will put you out of that and be killing yourself because until the whole world knows that snape. the university of york in the u.k. has removed in a bunch of the 3 wise monkeys from swep site over fears some could see it as a racist stereotype upon reflection we strongly believe that our 1st post is not appropriate as it's i can only gee promulgated a longstanding legacy of oppression and exploits racist stereotypes the 3 monkeys

represent the old japanese proverb see no evil hear no evil speak no evil a spokeswoman for the uni says that the picture was used to call for research papers for an art history conference including quote papers that represented black indigenous and people of color columnist and radio host john gaunt shared his thoughts on the situation. i don't know how anyone a just do not understand how anyone can say the 3 wise monkeys that in any way that represents black people or is racist it clearly isn't it's 3 wise monkeys when i see a black person i don't think although i like a monkey the only people who see that are people who are looking for racism or in fact perhaps hold racist attitudes themselves it's not even one co-chair in a sense it's nonsense culture and complete an absurd drivel and you know what this actually does or undermines your real racism there's plenty of racism in the world

that we need to confront without looking for it where it isn't there and that brings you right up to date my colleague andre farmer bring in the latest on headline stories in half an hour. i think this is our 3rd administration we've been down the shaft for going on 12 years anyway you know a big theme in $22026.00 team was d. dollars they should dig lobel ization and now it's all coming to. right now all the. people who are overweight or obese it's full suitable to self. and sugary and salty and. it's not at the individual level it's not individual willpower and if we go on believing that

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this is the one business show you can't afford to mess i'm rachel love is in washington coming out to calling tell move below 30000 this week following an unprecedented highs so what does this mean for the future of the world's most popular cryptocurrency we'll discuss what as the u.s. attempts to expand its role out of covert 19 vaccines officials in new york and california are saying they can't keep up with the demand and they're being forced to turn away patients then tell you what forms parlor has lost yet another legal battle in its fight to get back online and it's now being used as a case study in the fight over free speech on social media we have a lot to get to so let's get started. we began with the latest in the crypto world big queen took a tumble this week with prices dropping 12 percent to below $30000.00 the sharp decrease follows record highs from earlier this month when big coin hit nearly

$42000.00 while some say this shows just how unstable the currency can be others say more record highs are still to come so joining me now to go further in debt that is boom bust co-host christiane i now kristie bitcoin sustained some heavy losses this past week so what caused the steep sell off and is this the beginning of a downward trend. no i wouldn't call it a downward trend but it is going to face downward pressure here as it when you establish it's a poor at 32000 so as you pointed out it did break 30000 but as of right now it's trading already up almost at $34000.00 so there are a few reasons why but dropped so heavily so suddenly so firstly you have the options market that was already getting overheated as we stated before with the growing put options so there was about $3100000000.00 and notional open interest rate near term clip volume rising which skew.