it will be successful very critical time to sit down and. choose the morning's headlines partisan divisions in the u.s. reach the boiling point as a top economist thanks pro-trade neighbors who played the dr away for a lie comparing them to terrorists. police in germany warn of growing attacks on officials and journalists by code with deniers as conspiracy theories flourish in lockdown for. south africa meantime puts its rollout of the astra zeneca vaccine on hold after trials point to lower effect this against a fast spreading local code strain. tetons to beirut residents trying to brave build their lives 6 months now after

that huge blast tore through the lebanese capital as top rights groups warn justice is not for the thousands of victims. good morning this is art international my name's kevin 0 in here for the next half hour with our latest from eunice just turned in the headlines the president biden's inauguration call for unity appears of a little effect so far as a new poll finds most americans think the country will stay as divided or get even worse almost 2 in 3 agree the situation they think will not improve in the coming years mainstream media appears maybe to be playing a key role in those divisions just the latest example in an l a times journalist linking pro neighbors who cling to a driveway of snow for free for an act of kindness to hezbollah are the lebanese

group designated as terrorists by the u.s. well it's not his khaled mopin explains next it's not the only case of whipping up the tensions. the rift between red america and blue america has been widening for years nobody can say that the media is blameless if you voted for you voted for the person who claims supported you voted for the person who nazis support or millions of little or. so very or. somehow you to be deprogrammed if you consider those people cult members. i do i think they were deceptively recruited by an author terry and political cult now we all know that the media has been stoking the flames but every so often we have to do a double take and say really did they just say that take a left wing columnist virginia heffernan who is not sure if you should say thank

you when our neighbors offer a friendly gesture the trumpets next door to open them again to wait to see as devoted to the next president as you can get without being cute fance just plowed own driveway without being asked and did a great job of course on some level i realize i owed them thanks and man they truly looks like the guy back drag the driveway like a prong on how much thanks. she wrote an op ed saying that her neighbors helping her out after a snowstorm was aggressive niceness it was an attempt to manipulate her she compared it to hezbollah and the nazis hezbollah the shiite islam is a political party lebanon also gives things away for free they offer protection and hospitality and we loyalty that way and they also demand devotion to their brutal us versus them and to sunni cools. the article didn't go down so well not surprising did it ever occur to halford and that she may have been wrong that the

political beliefs she holds do more harm than good or at least not as much good as she thinks that the people with whom she disagrees politically may not be bad individuals. she should consider that in the country helping your neighbors is not smelly courtesy extended to one some tribe is a survival tactic the neighbor probably doesn't expect some happen and. but if you need his help i think he'd expect that bridge in your half and in writes about politics for the l.a. times and about culture for wired she wrote a book called magic and loss and was praised as a public intellectual for the 21st century and one of the finest living writers for english prose but her recent article lamenting the evil of her trouble supporting neighbors offering a helping hand is getting her widely shamed online the article is said to be a sign of the times and

a sign of how divided americans really are i would love to see neighbors who small loan tractors all get together and put the stone back in should draw a way that would just feel right my trump called neighbors blasted my biden harrison with a shotgun a couple of days after i put it up on my yacht i don't care if they plow my driveway i'll never unite with somebody who uses a shotgun to discuss politics i know a professor who would show will his elderly neighbors dry we should put up a drum sign in 2016 he stopped blowing 2 story years ago american school children were taught the golden rule do unto others as you would have them do unto you however it seems that rule has now been replaced with a new one calculate carefully the political implications of everything and hold those of different viewpoints in constant suspicion ala mup and r.t. new york. tuesday march and president of the event in the us presidential history

with the 2nd impeachment trial of the 1st with the accused no longer in the white house donald trump's accused of inciting the violence on washington's capitol building last month 5 people died as riots a stormed the us c. to government in opposition to joe biden's. victory to trump made provocative remarks about the election. i know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the capitol building to peacefully patriotically make your voices heard what trumps lawyers deny that his words amount to incitement out of the case against him is unconstitutional is lead impeachment attorneys already said he would use videos of democrats themselves supporting violent protests and the party itself resorting to questionably aggressive rhetoric against the former president and his supporters i just don't even know why there are uprisings all of the country and maybe there will be when people realize that this is a policy that they defend you know when they go low we go out you're.

going to go lol we kill. you they. are political pod cast i was just and robert young agrees the whole case is full of a pole christie. the argument that's being made right now is this is protected by the 1st amendment and i would say not speaking as a lawyer but just a random guy that that would seem to make sense to me that both what was said during the summer by democrats and what donald trump said is protected under the 1st amendment because either directly said hey go break that window right now but

where in a very politically charged environment and ultimately it doesn't really matter because the republicans have enough votes to make sure that donald trump is not removed despite the fact that he has already been voted out by the people it's kind of a a one side hypocrisy and the other side legally we did not hold them account for it so why should we do it with. another poll finds most americans also now find this system of government unsound it's the 1st time a majority of that view just in robert young says there's a good reason why they've reached that point it shows that we live in a very polarized society we i think that you could probably do secondary questioning on that and say if the democrats were to have total control or if the republicans were to have total control do you believe that the government would work better or less and you would find that hardass in lienz

dictate whether or not people believe that the government is working right now we're just in a very interesting moment in transition where the both republicans and democrats have a reason to distrust the government because we're still kind of in this the mushy middle transition between trump and biden. number of covert cases in germany is falling along with a drop in patients in intensive care but these insist the 2nd wave of the pandemic is not over there its peak may be passing thanks to lock downs and other restrictions. this is it this development is very good and there's also prove that the manual limitations work that we and the citizens have to weave with that the star and the guild to reach a national incidence of 50 or lower has not been achieved yet so with a lockdown still in place across the country the situation is complicated by coded skeptics and conspiracy theorists even sparking attacks on officials and

journalists in fact german police are saying they're finding the rising levels of violence disturbing peter all of our reporting next them from berlin. germany remains under covert restrictions comes the research about the virus and the methods used to try and stop its spread of lead to tempers flaring and it times boiling over into violence. was. was new figures from the police show that there's been a rise in attacks on politicians in 2020 the right wing opposition alternative to germany pasty faced far and away the most attacks with the greens and the social

democrats some way behind in 2nd and 3rd place and it isn't just politicians that are seeing themselves targeted we are concerned that the threats and hostilities are steadily increasing the supplies to politicians but also to other people such as virologists who are particularly visible in the media during a pandemic we are registering attacks on journalists more and more often emotions are running high almost half of the offenses registered amounted to insulting behavior however there were 17 cases of bodily injury 7 cases of arson. warned of attempted murder and one involving explosives conspiracy theories involving covert have been blamed as a catalyst for extremist behavior conspiracy ideologies created just occasion for attacks sometimes there is only a spark missing which is lead by lone perpetrator it was the debate about how awful

cold it is and then i told them my story and i had covered my aunt who died from it and then one guy he was one of those people he said well you're lying and started harassing me that he told me yeah he's going to track me down and i was actually quite scary and it was a really scary experience for me just because i told my experience of the virus and they didn't believe me because it was in. their brain that it's not that awful and i'm hearing people who said that it's actually. really hard to deal with it they're starting to get really aggressive and harassing people obvious explanation will always be the one provided by conspiracy theorists and so these problems will be with us for a long time and they will. not only society

but also politics will have to. prime a way to deal with them in the coming years because they can really reduce the powers the society yet it seems on wednesday angle of merkel will meet with the leaders of germany 16 states to discuss the prospect of extending the lockdown again and she's expected to face pushback from some local leaders who want to see restrictions lifted and while most concerned about things like when schools and head dresses will open there are those that are very worried about the radicalizing effect covert conspiracy theories can have on a small minority peter all over r.t. early in. well with mass vaccination developing across the world south africa medical workers are tackling a new more contagious strain of the virus but just recently kovacs in the u.s. has been shown in recent roles to provide only minimal protection they do the

country than to suspend the jobs roller. astra zeneca novak's trials in south africa have shown that the clinical efficacies diminish substantially the astra zeneca vaccine rollout needs to be put on temporary hold the british base pharma giants now working to try to adapt its vaccine to tackle the south african strain so for now the countries of the occupation campaign is going to rely on the pfizer and johnson and johnson jobs which will be delivered in the coming weeks that of a local center for health care journalism that told us the long delays in deploying vaccines are what's allowed these mutations to develop. so everyone in the country stress straight it of course because their back seen doesn't prove to be so effective against the new they are ian and that is essentially a frustration with the science of viruses that we can do anything about because that is how viruses which they evolve in order to be disinvited and that's why we see the senate ations and we're going to see more mutations around the world in

populations that haven't been. rather quickly because if we don't that's a nice quick to be give time for mutations to develop so yes this big frustration and south africa are vaccination campaign was likely to start later this week and now it can't and the best thing we can do is to seyne data to see if a stress any desperate tick tick in severe disease if it doesn't then we need to change our plan and go with added eckstein. human rights watch has issued a scathing report on what it describes as the lebanese government's failure to quote deliver justice it's following last year's act apocalyptic blast that level parts of the capital on august the 4th tons of chemical stored in that warehouse that detonated wiping numerous buildings off the map totally and many more on the pair 200 people lost their lives more than 6000 were injured following the blast

the lebanese government stepped down while the president promised political reform authorities launched an investigation which brought charges against only a few dozen mid to low level port and security staff in the end i can tell you artie's filled a special report about beirut residents trying to rebuild their shattered lives if you want to watch it it's in full here wednesday. thousands of people in beirut were made homeless by the explosion didn't just destroy the port it damaged buildings within a 10 kilometer radius 300000 residents lost their homes and so far have received no compensation from the state. government here do

you know me really bad i was really do. hope to get this but then we move no you lose you the others are may go oh they have given him a visitor. my remove them and i run as a. woman at the entries are. victims around to ensure hers then victim less here but that there won't be minimal said the a limited amount. and. yeah yeah yeah but then he shot and all. the credit and banana. 4 protests erupted in libya after the blast salesman's took to the streets calling on the governments to resign was.

a question that of he who had them. and we're going to now. and then you should read our level of. this for myself thanks for watching today still to come the u.k. documents suggesting queen elizabeth misused her powers maybe to hide her vast fortunes we will tell you more on that and the rest of the news back. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe.

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vast private wealth in a scheme that run for decades the revelations that come from national archive documents uncovered by the guardian and dating back to the 1970 s. the queen allegedly persuaded the government to make legal changes exempting firms used by heads of states from transparency procedures the newspaper says she was there able to use a shell company to conceal her finances until at least 2011 the queen's exact net worth is still unknown it's believed to run into hundreds of millions of pounds and according to the files buckingham palace his legal team used an obscure procedure called queen's consents to get the changes through parliament it allows the monarch to see bills in advance and withhold approval if the content affects crown interests but buckingham palace is rebuffed these accusations claiming the use of queen's consent was standard practice consent is always granted by the monarch requested by government and he says that the sovereign has blocked legislation is simply incorrect whether crean's consent is required is decided by parliament

independently in matters that would affect crown interests he spoke with former british home office minister norman baker who thinks that the secrecy surrounding role finances has got no place in a democracy. the queen should be treated as any other citizen is treated and to exempt herself from a distillation which is embarrassing but to allow others to be chopped up but i'll just say she was created to benefit herself the facts the matter is you have to ask where the monies come from that the queen now house where ever it really impounds it has not come from what in military it's come from tax breaks all from beneficial changes legislation the so-called private property at which a clean house for example balmoral sandringham was actually bought by queen victoria because she'd be overpaid the much money she did to undertake her g.g. victorian times the royal finances are shrouded in mystery quite deliberately so but what we do know is that they are hugely beneficial for the queen and her family

and that's both improper it's an insult to democracy in my view but it's also one which is a danger to the royal family as are all family who would be well advised to amend these sort of situations before they're forced to do so by parliament. in south america medical staff in the amazonian region of brazil is struggling with chronic shortages of oxygen there for covert patients it's one of the areas worst hit in the country with the well 2nd highest number of deaths from the disease after the us and hospitals in the regions capital now are relying on volunteers for supplies. we only really oxygen using well like for the reverse

in by the plane so we don't have. roads good roads you're going next in our country and that is all receivers are there is not jaw in their eyes if the. things you this would happen for this governor the blame falls this is happening isn't him the may just took the job so i can't blame him. she's not solving anything always gives him voice. yes really tough time is the way things look in so far going to find out so we all stores were talking about adoption take a look myself there's a lot on there to digest today and our tea dot com if you get a minute want to take a look and go to the comments section is going to be decided by the stories as well as was great to hear from me either way it's coming up to 24 minutes past the hour reporting from moscow for now kevin are in signing off for

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a history of the usa america. greetings and sally you taishan. well my friends the big game on sunday may be over but the bigger game for the financial future of those of us living here in the united states of america. that is only just begun i'm talking of course about the recent ups and downs lefts rights and diagonals of $2000.00 stimulus checks and the fight for a $15.00 an hour minimum wage and well understandably many governments and countries around the world you know to them the thought of keeping their citizens financially afloat and viable during times of crisis well it's without question. but here in the united states of america we our leaders prefer

a different approach you see they prefer the old pull yourself up by your own bootstraps approach to financial aid namely making sure that our boot straps are not only too short but tied around our neck so tightly that the harder we try to pull ourselves up the less oxygen we received over the weekend u.s. president joe biden announced to the press that despite many a campaign trail promise it is unlikely a $15.00 federal minimum wage provision makes it into the next code 19 relief package and tragically that isn't the only promise on the verge of being broken it appears that many so-called conservative democrats are as i like to call them pro-choice republicans are taking issue with the $2000.00 i'm sorry for teen 100 plus these $600.00 we apparently already gave you but nobody remembers getting

stimulus checks the washington post is now reporting that quote the latest proposal democrats are considering would send $1400.00 payments to individuals earning $50000.00 or less and $2800.00 to married couples earning $100000.00 or less and that while no final proposal has been released democrats have explored basing eligibility for the stimulus payments on prior year income meaning you're more than likely getting a stimulus check if you made $50000.00 or less in 201-9020 which i guess is like your doctor basing your cancer treatment on the year before you actually got cancer. so my friends let's strangle ourselves as we poets poets hub ourselves up by our bootstraps and dive in to the u.s. government's very begrudging attempts to help its own citizens as we start watching

. on a city the streets. are so let's see this is joyce state. rice grace suggests least systemic dissent says the late show. with some pretty cool. welcome everyone to watching the harks i robot and i'm across so measure why are the democrats and the by the ministration in the us congress just so tripping over what should be an easy thing to do. it has become a lot more frustrating and powerful than it probably should be part of this i think that the american public needs to know is that you know biden is in the white house obviously he won that election fair and square we have a democratically controlled house and senate however those are very slim margins so

in order to actually get this passed without going through the filibuster filibuster process we just saw last week that that was a boy did i however a lot of concessions had to be made republicans have for the longest push to decrease the amount of money that the democrats actually want to have given out no checks but they've also added several riders to this bill that democrats didn't necessarily want to see and i think that at this point this just goes to show that there needed to be more of a majority of democrats in the house and senate to get some of the things passed from the robust plan that biden initially went with but in addition to that there are some democrats who basically already thrown in the towel when it came to fighting for things that they wanted and i think that that's when the bigger issue that a lot of progressives have with the bill is it's name one that's the real dangerous thing is that while the democrats more people to give a majority of the bottom line is with the midterms coming up if they don't you know provide doing to me start.