so by then claims diplomacy is back to his 1st foreign policy speech but he didn't sound too diplomatic when it came to russia. the u.k. faces the growing poverty crisis with charities and food bags inundated with requests for help when a problem hits and people from all walks of life. popular video sharing network picked up strays it will block children under 13 and it's really a soft 10 year old girl died while allegedly take part in the so-called black down time and on the powerful we put the issue up for discussion take some responsibility you being aware of a book for children the wrong. how powerful that if you stop kids

using text talk to simply jump ship and go to another social media. a very warm welcome you're watching r t international with me. now u.s. president joe biden has delivered his 1st big foreign policy speech since taking office with the timeline diplomacy is back running throughout the address but biden seemed to be anything but diplomatic when it came to russia well hey with the details is don close in the studio don thanks for coming in so what's the main takeaway from this speech while nikki biden's 1st big foreign policy address sent a clear message that america 1st policy is out and diplomacy 1st is in but it seems like for the new president diplomacy means picking a fight with russia before the end of his 1st 2 months in office 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 elections cyberattacks poison its citizens are over we will not hesitate to raise the cost on russia and defend our vital interest on our people. and these accusations are nothing new really we've heard many of them from the trumpet ministration the obama administration we've also never seen any corrupt conclusive evidence to corroborate these claims but at this point it seems like russia's approach probably used to it in general it's all quite predictable the strategic guidelines are still the same and this still alarming it's a matter of interpretation russia has no malicious intent and does not plan to violate its obligations unless they thought up specifically for the next round of sanctions in other words if the white house wants to see another intervention cyber attack threat to american interests in any corner of the planet it will do even if we do nothing at all if it doesn't want to the space for dialogue is open the

choice is with the americans sure biden my biden's administration might be beating the dead horse of anti russian rhetoric but his comments did come alongside a number of 180 degree turns away from the previous administration's policies like for example reversing trump's decision to withdraw u.s. troops from germany and being support for saudi arabia's military conflict in yemen and also making l.g.b. t.q. politics and integral part of u.s. foreign policy all goals that the biden white house has made clear that it believes will bring america back america is back to plumb a sea is back at the center of our foreign policy. as i said of mine are going to address we will repair our alliances in gauge with the world once again not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's. after hearing that statement

though the question you've got to ask is back to what if we're talking about the obama administration for example that means the time of drone strikes on independent nations a time of poor relations with russia and even the heyday of the islamic state as the former secretary of state mike pompei o pointed out back as the mean back to when isis controlled a caliphate in syria that was the size of britain i hope not i don't think the american people can afford to go back to 8 more years of barack obama's foreign policy so we've got a new administration in the white house but a lot of new policies that hearken back to the obama days so for washington's foreign policy stance on russia that's probably going to mean another 4 years of the same old story let's watch this space then shall i don't find the command. we discuss the speech with former pennsylvania senator birthmarks implement fini u.s. security policy analyst michael mann if it's just one of the 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 moscow is concerned there's nothing more to sanction probably where biden will stay will stay when it comes to russia initially are these international agreements and not get into any close close association with moscow or now a less over time we see a change in attitudes toward both countries but that may be progress of 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 soused donald trump was elected they perpetrated the russian hoax i do. after 2 years the 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 rush 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 his direction that there's going to be new sanctions on russia. 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 national health service transferred nearly 39 patients a day double the number seen during the 1st wave we spoke with a health care consultant who's witnessed the crisis firsthand i guess this shows 2 things she says stay in the condo make it home which was the 2nd wave is the 1st just this week. and how it's affecting different parts of the country at different rates it also shows the real strengths of the national health service in our country circles the country are able to create they can offer mutual aid and

support to all the parts of the country that call so that this is what was i should also say built to do mutual aid which would be very difficult than any other sort of system although the daily infection rate remains high is around 20000 inclines chief medical officer has said the u.k. is past the pain of the 2nd wave with the number of confirmed cases over the past week drop paying 25 percent compared to the week before but student but to cherry says it's too early to celebrate. certainly i think 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 up lassoed going to last for about one being cautious of 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 she 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 condom and perhaps with our plus it will be months before we can rely on us. and it's not only the n.h.s. coming under pressure the u.k. is all thing facing a widening poverty problem with millions a break thieving the pinch because of the pandemic charities and food banks across the country have reported a surge in demand as kate partridge reports. 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 provisions 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 quantity poured so we had a lot of stray homeless people taken off the streets put in the hotels on the line

wrong for dr why we're situated and sorry day that's about 40 or 50 of them that come in and we help them there are more than $2100.00 food banks in the u.k. of which $1200.00 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 bonnie downs community association in east london helped $4000.00 people between april and june last year compared with 622 in the previous 3 months but they want least food banking less to soar numbers increased from 40 families before the pandemic to 500 a week since march the new start spewed bank in the washed ashore town of bronze groves 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. and 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 a church for helping sustenance who have come through the doors that's in addition to the normal need to fix their butts with the emergency b u k a 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 halle can say just 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 it's not just charity workers who are writing to boris johnson one of the nation's senior food policy experts has criticized 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 are well prepared to ensure people across the country have the food and supplies they need but an 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. popular video sharing network tick-tock has given in to demands of italian authorities 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 blackout challenge on the platform the girl died in hospital after being discovered in a bedroom with her mobile phone the case sparked outrage and led to italian prosecutors launching an investigation take talks that had failed to detect any harmful contents but agreed to cooperate with authorities earlier my colleague in o'neill 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 if 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 this i speak to a large number of parents who when their children reach the age of say 32 they tell their children well you can now have a social media accounts only to find that children and all of their children's pieces 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 get meant to be that you don't really get on them and to get the senior they say that tends to 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 you go to know that you're going to a she hyla they begin to get their way killed in a thin blade to

a point where the taking their own mind well i think having more understanding about how beat are amazing but 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 it or on it all day so we should not underestimate the power of social media across all demographic groups if you stop kids using tech talk 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 light 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 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 take our children especially just start as early as i was upon a simple 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 what and what inappropriate if there are things they are going to say that you don't want them to say i mean some really awful so before i was 16 the main thing in life for me was to get into x. rated movies the very fact that they were x. rated made the more attractive banning something instantly makes it more attractive . you'll want to see international still to come home compliance with cobra which tricks in a folder that is well to extend its national lockdown despite the country's well

beating vaccination program last story and no in-depth 92nd. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back despite a world leading a mass vaccination program israel has voted to extend a national current virus lockdown until sunday the decision was made just hours before the measure was due to expire for compliance with because including among the ultra orthodox community has certain that a top class job program isn't enough to be the pandemic on its own israel's death

toll from the coronavirus passed the 5000 mark on friday artie's poorness near picks up the story i've been a shouting at us everywhere i know our clothing and it was provoking a situation where we were not far from the heartbeat of the ultra orthodox community here in jerusalem now we were forced out of play with people shouting at us this community is at the same time of over lockdown measures we simply thousands of ultra-orthodox mourners many of them with 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 coronavirus 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 old tricks are so old for the fury but i do know that understood by the statistics is there one out of every 10000 people died wrote that's a very very slowly number i actually think that the bigger problem is the fact that the government over here is is making convincing everyone to take this vaccine that no one has any ideas about and no one for the. stands that was a term side effects about. them i think anyone who doesn't put on a mask is like a murderer it is against all the rules of the rabbi all the rabbis are against these are the people who don't have communication and don't have television and they simply don't know where this disease news is they don't believe it they don't believe in the crooner virus the bling the hospitals i can't understand there are 11 of the people can live conspiracy theory members of the israeli government has voted to extend the contract down until friday it's double fines and it's keeping the port shuts it's becoming increasingly pay for the police to control those to

refuse to a chit to lock down measures 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 here come up with the hatred doesn't lead to anything good in the world there are a few rabbis who think i don't belong to them they think the corona virus is imaginary this is what they think has over having the lock down it's god giving us clues he's hinting to us that we have to fix something while there are calls for israel to be divided into different codes 19 zones the country's prime minister says the lockdown bull's eye 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 because it is more than 55 percent of cut on a virus cases the latest word from the government is that the current nationwide

lockdown may not be israel's last. jerusalem. defense sounds political commentator and they are in ses the next new yahoo has a fine political line to tread. well you're asking. the question but it is directed at people who may not believe in russia and only by the very fact that they are all pro at the docks. to do or god don't believe their spiritual leaders they don't care about their country the government the rule of law and netanyahu is not the bad and on the box representing these very dear mourners these very grubs for the survival it's date these engage from him and throw their support for anyone else is spinach and if the spanish politically is legal situation because he has no standing trope of corruption would

be 1 much worse so he's now on a whole sort of dilemma if he does not enforce the coronavirus regulations properly and it will be secular voters we turn against him but if he does the all pro books policies will general gain steam and. that leaves it will not be amended we need to do both at the same time for the next month the same. thing while the us that will hold its planned withdrawal of 12000 troops from germany while the pentagon conduct a review of the trump plans the news came just a heads up to find inspire and 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 that review will free any

troop redeployments from germany it was donald trump who ordered the removal of american troops in germany has accused berlin a fellow nato member of making a fortune off u.s. soldiers and also of not contribution enough to the alliance plans with sons by germany which said they weaken to europe security and meanwhile this week military officials announced the arrival of more than 200 us 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 answer coalition believes u.s. to militarize asian only benefits big corporations. the 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 risk their 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

and outer space this is crazy. moscow has slammed ukraine's decision to shut down 3 opposition t.v. channels accusing kiev of politically motivated censorship ukrainian president vladimir selenski claim to the media outlets were spreading kremlin this information we should them. we see this decision as an unprecedented act of political censorship and fair competition is ukrainian law as well as their international commitments to protect freedom of speech despite the values of president dylan ukraine continues to slide into to tell a tear in regime. on twitter that it supports efforts to counter russia's malign influence they also called on ukraine to work together quote to prevent this information from being deployed as a weapon against sovereign state our goal of the american political writer diana johnston is not surprised by the u.s. reaction. so the influence you never say to him you're creating is quite strong

especially legs and body has a very special relation crane. they have position is simply refusing to submit your you know just. seems to me turn the dumb ones in the united states and its client states all in one level so you know shutting down one man's car intellectual little weakness american power has to resort to undemocratic methods because it doesn't have any good arguments with the united states is really losing its great claim which was the great value of the lies later the liberal values and they're throwing them away. thanks for joining us they were naughty international where back in 30 minutes with the latest headlines join us from my.

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hello and welcome to cross uk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle the ruling classes rarely agree on much but not when it comes to china it is agreed that u.s. needs to somehow get tough with beijing what does that really mean engaging china while trying to contain it is that even possible the bite ministration will eventually have to answer this question. to discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest michael maloof in washington and he is a former pentagon senior security policy analyst and asking major we have james

nokia's professor of international relations at new york university and in beijing we crossed away oh and he is a news anchor and host. all right gentlemen crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump any time you want and i was appreciate go to james 1st james you know we we heard when secretary blinken was being confirmed as secretary of state he made some interesting comments particular when it comes to china and he said basically with the trump administration's approach to china how do you take that on board and you see that the the bike in ministration will be nuanced when it comes to china or this will be a continuation of the 4 years of the trumpet ministration go ahead james one of my 1st rules about politics is that words are cheap and you can't always trust what people say in a public forum to be representative of their actual policy i do think they'll be a significant difference.