big day right now moscow time in the headlines partisan divisions in the u.s. which boiling point as a top columnist thanks to pro trump neighbors by the way cling to driveway by comparing them to terrorist. acts in germany warn of growing attacks on officials and journalists by covert denies this conspiracy theories flourish in the lock down for to. south africa puts its rollout of the astra zeneca vaccine on hold after the trials point to low effectiveness against a fast spreading local strain and.

told to pay root residents trying so hard now to rebuild their lives 6 months on from that huge blast the tours through the lebanese capital as top rights groups want justice has not been served for the thousands of victims. good afternoon this is art international live from moscow with me kevin and from a world news h.q. here great to have you come so 1st then as describe to those headlines in more detail president biden's inauguration call for unity appears to have had little effect as a new poll out has found that most americans think the country will stay as divided or get even worse almost 2 in 3 agreed the situation will not improve in the coming years a mainstream media appear to be playing a key role in the divisions hence our next story this one just the latest example may be an l.a. times journalist linking her pro try. neighbors who cleared

a driveway of snow for free as an eye to kindness calling them a link to hezbollah the lebanese group designated as terrorist by the u.s. well as caleb maupin explains next it's not the only case of whipping up tensions either. 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 trump you voted for the person who claims supported you voted for the person who nazis support or millions of miller. are you so worried or. somehow you to be deprogrammed you consider those people cult members. i do i think they were deceptively recruited by an offshore 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 against we who seem 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 owe them thanks and man they truly looks like the guy back drag the driveway like 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 have her in 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 he says survival tactic the neighbor probably doesn't expect some happen and thank you but if you need his help i think he'd expect that bridge in your half or 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 into dry way then it would just feel right my trump called neighbors blasted my biden harrison with a shotgun a couple of days after i put it up in my yard 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 with 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. we tell of course choose a muslim president events in the us presidential history with the 2nd impeachment trial of the 1st with the accused no longer in the white house donald trump is accused of inciting violence on washington's capitol building last month 5 people died to storm the usa to government in opposition to joe biden's victory itself to try and make provoke a day of 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. so trump's lawyers to not do that his words amount to incitement adding the case against him is unconstitutional his lead impeachment attorneys already said that 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 you go out you know you're going to go well we keep. his distance. political podcast host justin robert young agrees the whole case is full of hypocrisy. 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 sided hypocrisy and the other side legally we did not hold them account for it so why should we do it with. a number of covert cases in germany is for living alone with a drop in patients in intensive care but authorities insist on the less the 2nd wave of the pandemic is not over although its peak may be passing thanks to lock downs and other restrictions this is this development is very good and there's also prove that the mental limitations work that we and the citizens have to weave with the star and the guild to reach a national incidence of 50 alone has not been achieved yet so with

a lot of time still in place across the country the situation is complicated by covert skeptics and conspiracy theorists even sparking attacks on officials and journalists police say they're finding the rising levels of violence disturbing reports next them from burly. 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. new figures from the police show that there's been a rise in attacks on politicians in 2020 the right wing opposition alternative for

germany party faced far and away the most attacks with the greens and the social democrats i'm 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 neurologists 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 warn 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 a long perpetrator it was the debate about how awful it is and then i told them my story and i had called and my uncle died from it and then one guy who was one of those. people he said well you're lying and 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 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. find a way to deal with them in the coming years because they can really really the partner society had it 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. . with mass vaccination developing across the world most south african medical

workers are tackling a new more contagious strain of the virus but the astra zeneca vaccine they use has been shown in recent trials to provide only minimal protection is the worry they do the country to temporarily 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 adapt it actually went to try to tackle the south african strain for now the country's not collation campaign will rely on the 5 surplus johnson and johnson jobs which will be delivered in the coming weeks that of a local center for health care journalism told us the long delays into ploy vaccines are what's allowed these new to develop. so everyone in the town priest is straight it of course because their bechstein doesn't prove to be so effective against the new they are it and that is essentially a frustration with the science of viruses that we can do anything about because

that is how barristers split they evolve in order to be disadvantaged and that's why we see decent 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 it is big frustration in south africa that our vaccination campaign was likely to start later this week and now it can't and the best thing we can do is to seyne date or just see if a stress an eager desperate tick tick in severe disease if he doesn't then we need to change our plan and go with added eckstein. human rights watch has issued a scathing report of what it describes as the lebanese government's failure to quote deliver justice following last year's apocalyptic blast the level parts of the capital a long list of 4000 tons of chemical stored in that warehouse detonated wiping numerous buildings off them up altogether and damaging many more beyond repair 200

people lost their lives more than 6000 were injured following the blast the lebanese government stepped down the president promised political reform. authorities launched an investigation which brought charges eventually against only a few dozen mid to low level port and security stuff well out he is filmed a special report about beirut residents trying to rebuild their shattered lives if you like you can watch it in full it's really worth a watch to hear tomorrow. oh it's true it would seem that there was. good. and bad in it can matter. and a bad national. had not been a. little

hazy. and the national association. said it could be. another you. missed out on a. good. shot and now it's a one on one. in my name a few. and. ok well let me talk about what's coming up after the break here amongst the stories u.k. documents suggesting queen elizabeth misused her powers to hide her vast fortune.

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the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. i get it afternoon our top horses question social media giant censorship of a book that criticizes feminism professing carry gross says her work simply challenges modern assumptions of what it means to be a woman the best seller confronts the ideology of what it calls a rather cold toxic femininity which she says is now imposed by society but actually makes women unhappy gress told r.t. that current geology destroys the links that have held families together for centuries. the book is called the anti mary exposed and it really came about when i

started looking at elite women in the culture and i noticed that the values that they had were diametrically opposed friend the values that we see in them body men and the blasted virgin mary and many different ways that she has helped to build that culture and transform cultures throughout the centuries and the idealist in just expose and and show how much how far we have gone away from these values you know things like that the tenderness that between a mother and baby and you know the fact that we have abortion that so it's almost seem like a rite of passage and in our culture it is faring much and not seen to be something that is destroying the family industry in the culture and destroying our souls really wanted to showcase on that idea and just show that they are they really are some major problems here that we need to address because women are happy this is you know fundamentally if you look at the numbers if you look at at suicide rates depression levels and substance abuse s.t.d.

and divorce all of these things point to some incredibly unhappy women and this is just something i think we've gotten used to but the numbers certainly tell a story that feminism is not doing and what it is that we're told it's supposed to be doing which is make us happy with our books by the instagram and facebook which says it doesn't comply with commerce policies and further violates rules against selling products but gress says big tech of even blog post promoting the title while amazon blamed quote glitches for removal of links the body of work. and light of the content you know compared to a lot of the content in facebook and instagram sound it was really surprising characterization of the book because it's certainly not i mean it's adulterated but it's not i think within the category of what they would call the dark content such as pornography and other illicit materials and there was some glitches on amazon and with my book but i think a pattern as rick is emerging as well there's other books from my publisher that

have banned and banned both for sale one of them was stations across for children. of amazon is that it was to buy a land and then other books that have been banner ads have been banned on facebook i think that by silencing means silencing those books they're trying to help they're trying to prevent people from actually seeing what's going on in the culture in the way that they're trying to promote these these idiology across the board in the culture in the country you know i've been really encouraged by and then the support that i've had for my book and people went out and bought and drove and that was just amazing to see but i think people are really ready for it to be free of this and i think that you know the people that have resources whether it's ideas or arms money or infrastructure we really need to start finding new ways to to buildings and that can compete with big tech because that we just keep pouring ourselves into it and not offering enough competition to really balance and out and keep them keep them honest. britain's queen elizabeth from being accused of

lobbying the government to hide her vast private wealth in a scam that ran for decades as the accusation the revelations come from national archive documents uncovered by the guardian of the day but 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 further says that she was then able to use a shell company to conceal her finances until at least 2 of the 11 the queen's exact fortune is still unknown but it is. believed to run into hundreds of millions of pounds according to the files buckingham palace his legal team used an obscure procedure called queen's consent to get the changes through parliament it allows the monarch to see bills in advance and withhold approval of the content affects crown interests but working on palace rebuffed the allegations claiming the use of queen's consent was merely 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 we spoke with former british home office minister norman baker who thinks the secrecy surrounding war finances has got no place in the 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 just lation is created to benefit herself the facts the matter is you have to ask where the money comes from politically now i was wherever it really impounds it has not come from the military it's come from tax breaks all from beneficial changes legislation the so-called private property which a queen has for example sending him was actually bought by queen victoria because she paid the amounts of money she did she want to take her gigi's big jorian times

the royal finances all 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 situations before they're forced to do so by parliament. don't forget so much what we talk about today as always on a. chance you'd have your say as well because of the comments section and let us know it's always good to hear from the right to commit to 25 minutes a local to me what are they doing wherever you're watching thank you for it this is . international.

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