when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. to bind in ses diplomacy is back while using his 1st major foreign policy speech to lash out at russia promising a tough line against the kremlin. popular video sharing networks picked up there's little local children under 13 in italy that's not a 10 year old girl died one allegedly playing a hold your breath game on the platform we put the issue up for debate. parents take some responsibility to being aware of what their children are up to like a parent and i don't understand how powerful that is if you stop using the term top simply jump ship and go to another social media. the u.k. faces the growing poverty crisis with charities around food banks inundated with

requests but help and a problem hating people from all walks of life we spoke to a charity representative. of people who have never really had to depend on anyone much less church for help testament to have. come through the doors. a very good morning to you from our team here in moscow you're watching r.t. international with me because our. u.s. president joe biden has delivered his 1st big foreign policy speech since taking office with a timeline that diplomacy is back running throughout the address but biden seem to be anything but it's diplomatic when he came to russia railing at the kremlin and vowing to get tough with vladimir putin. i made it clear to president putin in

a manner very different from my predecessor that the days of the united states rolling over in the face of russia's aggressive actions interfering with our election and cyber attacks poisoned citizens are over. we will not hesitate to raise the cost on russia and defend our vital interest on our people the new administration had previously said it's looking into a number of russian related issues including alleged russian hacking reports of bounties placed on american forces in afghanistan by russia and of course an election into fair and celebrations. but we discuss the matter with full of pennsylvania for that's a birthmark sound from a senior u.s. security policy adolescent michelman if he just wanted to act tough and that's actually playing to his democrat base they are very very anti russian these are no an entity's to moscow and they know how to deal with them and i think they're not

surprised that as far as russia and moscow is concerned there is nothing more to sanction probably where biden will stay will stay when it comes to russia initially there are these international agreements and not get into any close close association with moscow for now a less over time we see a change in attitudes toward both countries but that may be prescribe a medic because of people who will be guiding him who are much more in the russian within his administration let's be real about this the democratic party has been engaged in an entirely russia. attack since donald trump was elected they perpetrated the russian hoax. idea for 2 years that russians somehow supported president trump when he was elected there was absolutely no evidence of that it was a complete falsehood and it was based on you know a dossier that was paid for by hillary clinton's campaign as well as the democratic national committee but this red baiting well it's not really red baiting that

russia is no longer a communist country but attacking russia has been you know a playing card of the democrats and i suspect that sooner than later in the new biden and this direction that there's going to be new sanctions on russia. of the issues tackled in bite in the speech include relations with the e.u. china and the middle east i see americans rick sanchez discuss the speech we have found from zach and john harvey to see what's way to play but when you look at the you it seems like that's been a real prickly relationship during the trial here's what do you see changing what trends are you looking at already we remember president trump he was very much build the wall anti immigration anti refugees and immigrants so while trump was against bringing in refugees we have a complete and total about face from president biden listen here i'm approving the executive order to begin the hard work of restoring our refugee admissions program to help pressure the global lead. this executive order and position are said to be

able to raise the refugee admission back up 212-5000 persons for the 1st full fiscal year the by narrative ministration this is not going to my hero with a lot of people in europe by the way europe real big refugee problem by the way caused by the united states encroachment in places like the middle east exactly you hear that number 125000 last year trump only allowed an 18000 that was the lowest number that we saw since 1980 where we had 200000 coming in now biden says that this is going to help our european allies and you can see that map here of all the countries that are having big problems germany has taken in the most refugees we remember trump always had this ongoing spat with german chancellor angela merkel saying that germany wasn't paying its fair share with nato therefore we're not going to help you you're on your own now also biden reiterated again seeing this complete opposite of trump where he said you'll see here he extended the russia start treaty for 5 years he demanded the immediate release of alexina vali he

rejoins the paris climate accord he's removing the muslim ban and also he's freezing the withdrawal of u.s. troops from germany we have about 34000 trump wanted to bring about 9500 back home . says no you're staying put let's begin with something the president said that caught our attention he seemed to be emphatic about wanting to get out of yemen correct one thing though that really stood out to me about his speech which you could title it leading with diplomacy because he kept using that term over and over but what he was not what he so much talked about but what he didn't talk about as well that being a lot of detail about iran c.p.o. a israel our alliances with you know gulf countries but as far as yemen we talked about this earlier he the president did talk about ending what he called the brutal war in yemen announcing that the u.s. would no longer support any offensive action in that brutal conflict are led to what he says sorry saudis but we're out of yemen you're on your own there oh by the

way saudis if somebody is bad to you or mean to you we're going to be there to help you yeah they're not. pulling its military assets out of saudi arabia in fact they're going to be moving military personnel equipment assets from the persian gulf to the red sea instead to keep out of iranian target range so it's not like the u.s. is cutting off all support of saudi arabia that will continue also the u.s. will continue to go after al qaeda in the arabian peninsula not based on the yemen nothing is unilateral when it comes to the middle east whatever you do for yemen affects saudi arabia the other gulf states israel and certainly iran absolutely he didn't talk about israel he didn't talk about the potential for war and there's always the potential for water between israel and iran and about how the u.s. you know the alliance between israel the u.s. the arms deals that the u.s. the billions of dollars that the u.s. makes in weapons and arms deals with with israel including f.

35 stealth fighters and on and on and on one go it. may be the by. getting that too much specifics about about china and we kind of already knew. with this speech it was in broad general terms what he said was these are direct words where confront china's economic abuses puts push back on china's human rights abuses and also technological property violations though he also added we're willing to work with beijing when it's in america's interest to do so well there are some fires as i said earlier some fires they've got to put out you know the situation between china and taiwan you know the south china sea dispute you know that all these things that you know a number of issues hot button issues that they have to negotiate navigate always a reason it's almost he almost has to reset i mean is it ever reset you know i guess in some sense sure if it is there he's moving away from the whole as i said america 1st you know trump policy and pushing as i said leading with diplomacy you

know the term that he kept kind of hammering on in this speech so in a sense it is a reset but there are when you're talking about china look you're talking about cyber you know cyber security issues you're talking about trade and. the israeli government has voted to extend and national lockdown until sunday as the country still struggles to contain the virus and many in the ultra orthodox community are still floating kind of it was tricks and something the authorities are looking to clamp down on that point to slip picks up the story this is measuring the outlook for the people coming into this community here at the seams are. right. now we're being smacked ok can we just did that we could talk to be generous next great to come to see you because you come on the streets you don't like us and they also don't like you. i'm going to take you to the camera.

shouting at us. from a situation so it's me from the right and. we're not. off a man the heartbeat of the ultra orthodox community here in jerusalem now we were forced out of there with people shouting at us this community is at the same time of over a lockdown measure has recently thousands of ultra-orthodox mourners many of them without mosques took to the streets to attend the funerals of 2 rabbis it caused an outcry in israel and of wasn't the 1st time as the country struggles to deal with its handling of the co on a virus the society is becoming more and more divided many people in jerusalem do not support the behavior of the ultra-orthodox neighbors i don't know exactly the statistics about the ultra dark or for her fury but i do know that under 65 the

statistics says that one out of every 10000 people died wrote that's a very very slowly number i actually feel that the bigger problem is the fact that the government over here is. making it convincing everyone to take this vaccine that no one has any ideas about and no one understands it was term side effects about. them that i think anyone who doesn't put on a mask is like a murderer it is against all the rules of the rabbi the rabbis are against these are the people who don't have communication and don't have television and they simply don't know what these diseases are couples they don't believe it's that they don't believe in that room virus liebling hospital stuff but i can't understand the level that people can live conspiracy in the numbers in the israeli government has voted to extend the contract down until friday it's double fines and it's keeping the airport shut it's becoming increasingly to me for the police to concho those who refuse to a shit measure as we requested

a comment from the police but they declined to comment at the same time the ultra orthodox community says it's feeling persecuted even come up with the hatred doesn't lead. anything good in the world there are a few rabbis who think i don't belong to them they think the coronavirus is imaginary this is what they think he's over having locked down it's god giving us a clue he's hinting to us that we have to fix him. while there are calls for israel to be divided into different covert 9 teams zones the country's prime minister says the lockdown drills apply to everyone regardless of the religion the ultra orthodox community comprises some 15 percent of the population but according to the health ministry it also represents more than 55 percent of coronavirus cases the latest word from the government is that the current nationwide lockdown may not be israel's last policy or r.t.

jerusalem. popular video sharing network take talk has given in to demands battalion of barra tees and agreed to block children under the age of 13 the concession comes after the death of a 10 year old girl who was allegedly taking part in the so-called blackouts challenge on the platform the girl died in hospital after being discovered in a bedroom with her mobile phone they case sparked outrage and led to italian prosecutors launching an investigation to talk said it failed to detect any harmful content but agreed to cooperate with authorities earlier my colleague you know neil discussed the effectiveness of the child protection steps with a panel of experts. i don't think it's going to be in the slightest bit affective that people want to use to talk in the same way as they want to use any other social media they'll find a way to talk can say what they like but effectively they must realize that the success of their phenomena this in the users hands rather than theirs i speak to

a large number of parents who when their children reach the age of say 32 they tell the children well you can now have a social media or else only to find that their children and all of their children's peaches have had social media accounts for some years already and have simply lied about their rights and that boards important that parents take some responsibility in being aware of what their children are up to socially good meant to be that you don't really get on them and to get the senior they say that could be the 8 and i remember when there is a beginning and even now with respect i think it's quite you know like a parent that essentially you know i don't understand how how can a but also how damaging a i mean we've seen so many cases not to let your agenda then you can do a she hyla they begin to get there but when children are thin blade to a point where the take in their own mind and i think having more understanding about how these are amazing they can also be incredibly troubled the parents come

up with any good conscience say to the kids do not use this social media because the kids are just going to turn around say well you do need to run it all day so we should not underestimate the power of social media across all demographic groups if you stop kids using tech talk that simply jump ship and go to another social media should there be greater regulation is that the answer when it comes to protective measures for children and social media is it more education is there a will for the for the tech giants to actually do that should schools get more involved as the final stop of the parents i know it could be a mix of all of them but which is the most significant and you're right the platforms that share an enormous responsibility themselves. but we can't rely on them being responsible in self-regulating in terms of children thank you the social media platforms could very easily have i a form of registration when i managed to check i managed to validate this they

simply don't have the will to do this because i want to encourage people to use that platform when they want to people it's a challenge children especially to start as early as i was a permissible we need to educate young people more kids think that they want they are very often i really bad for them it's our job and if i say how then they will there really is and also know what appropriate for what and what inappropriate if there are things they are going to say that you don't want them to say i mean i'm really all for still before i was 16 the main thing in life for me was to get into x. rated movies the very fact they were x. rated made the more attractive banning something instantly makes it more attractive . to get another one of donald trump's policies by the dumb to ask president joe biden holds the withdrawal of 12000 u.s. troops from germany plan that said on to the plane.

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join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to us in the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back the pandemic is seeing dozens of covert patients being shuffled between hospitals in the u.k. due to a shortage of intensive care beds in january alone the n.h.s. transferred nearly 39 patients a day double the number seen during the 1st wave we spoke with a health care consultant who seen the crisis 1st time and. i guess this shows 2 things shows the scale of the pandemic and how much worse the 2nd wave is the 1st just as we project it and how it's affecting different parts of the country at

different rates it also shows the real strengths of the national health service and our country circles the country are able to cope they can offer mutual aid and support to other parts of the country or culture so that and this is what a national service is built to do mutual aid which would be very difficult than any other sort of system the u.k. is only just coming over the peak of the 2nd wave although the daily rate of infections remains high is around 20000 the total number of it confirmed cases over the past week did see a drop of 25 percent compared to the week before but didn't put the chair 8 days is too early to celebrate so early i think that when the infection rates are dropping gives us confidence that we're probably in the peach white now the real question is how long is our class are going to last little and that's why i'm being cautious and offering hope will we continually in asia still be able to support the health

needs of the nation of that is a really really big question because many many of our services will have to stop trying cheap intensive care and research your medicine going through the pandemic as we try and restart some of these services which we call do in the near future because we're still dealing with the kind of it and perhaps that up it will be months before we can relax. and of not only the n.h.s. coming under pressure the u.k. is now also facing a widening poverty problem with millions of brits feeling the pinch because of the pandemic charities and food banks across the country have reported as 3rd in demand a partridge report. coronavirus pandemic could push the amount of people living in poverty in the u.k. to more than 15000000 almost a quarter of the population since then the u.k. seen another surge in infections and deaths in the financial predations of looked down with more people were lying on food banks like this one in east london which

last september used to provide 20 food parcels a day and now provides over 83rd as things have happened which made the our numbers of quadrupled so we had a lot of stray homeless people taken off the streets put in the hotels on the line wrong for drive where we're situated and sorry day there's about 40 or 50 of them that come in and we help them there are more than 2100 food banks in the u.k. of which 1200 a run by the soulsby based charity the trussell trust it's seen an almost 50 percent increase in demand during the pandemic with nearly half of those relying on food parcels being children the body downs community association in east london helped $4000.00 people between april and june last year compared with 622 in the previous 3 months the beaumont least food bank in leicester soar numbers increased from 40 families before the pandemic to 500 a week since march the new start spewed bank in the wish to shutout of brahms'

group said demand had risen by 700 percent over the same period and the dog more community kitchen hob in devon said that of the 130 people died helped since march only 20 had previously needed charity food aid people who are now rely on food banks come from all walks of life one volunteers said she was left in tears when just before christmas she'd given a food parcel to an n.h.s. nurse a group called the people's army set up a food bank at the angel church in north london and the pastor in charge regan king says the demand from people who were previously vulnerable is striking we have a range of people who come to us we have families with young children all the way up into their teens. we have people who previously had never used a food bank before they have used this service and we have people who have never really had to depend on anyone much less charge for helping sustenance who have. come through the doors that's in addition to the

normal need to fix their butts with the emergence of the u.k. of more transmissible variants of coronavirus some food banks have had to focus their work on deliveries one charity leader wrote to the prime minister warning him that if the government doesn't act the food banks on which many thousands of people now rely might have to close their doors we have very concerns that the halley contagious new strain of college 19 could put food bank staff volunteers and the people they support at increased risk of infection and that self isolating measures may involve the reduction in service of closure of food banks and is not just charity workers who are writing to boris johnson one of the nation's senior food policy experts has criticised the government for failing to provide its citizens with nutritious food security in response the government said the system is working we continue to work closely with the food industry who will be well prepared to

ensure people across the country have the food and supplies they need but in almost 50 percent increase in the demand for food banks during a pandemic that puts their existence in jeopardy could ultimately see the government forced to maintain a charity sector that's been sustaining the population kate partridge r.t. london. meanwhile the us will also halt its planned withdrawal for of 12000 troops from germany while the pentagon conducts a review of the trump era plans that is came just ahead of joe biden's foreign policy speech. getting our global force posture right making sure that our global force posture is consistent with our national security and diplomatic priorities secretary austin will lead a global force posture review and during the pendency of their review will free any troop redeployments from germany it was donald trump who ordered the removal of american troops in germany he accused berlin a fellow nato member of making

a fortune off u.s. soldiers and also of not contribution enough to the alliance the plans were slammed by germany which said they we can do europe security meanwhile this week military officials announced the arrival of more than 200 u.s. air force personnel in norway the 1st ever deployment to the country will also include a b. one bomber squadron which is reportedly to assist training flights in the region brian becker from the antiwar also coalition believes u.s. motorized ation only benefit to big corporations. u.s. unlike earlier empires that had colonies all over the world the united states has military bases in installations as a way to guarantee american power the extension of american power in all of these countries and so the quid pro quo with the nato allies that the resuscitate it both analyze in defeated and receiver is at the end of world war 2 was that they would agree that their countries would be occupied supplemented basically under the

control of the united states and the quid pro quo was that united states would grant them access to different parts of the world market so for the elites in europe it was fine but what's the point what's the point of american troops in germany in a big new areas of military competition between the united states and russia or the united states and china or both is the arctic and of course the ultimate high ground outer space again the american people don't gain anything from this militarization it's very good for corporations it's good for big business but it's a drain on the national treasury at a time when millions of americans don't have jobs millions have lost their health care why spend money deploying troops elsewhere occupying the arctic or planning to end outer space this is crazy. we love to hear your thoughts on all stories so do get in touch by following us on social media and leaving your comments that and

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