in the day's headlines european parliament members led by lithuania call on the e.u. foreign policy chief to resign claiming he was too friendly with moscow on his recent trip there. also this hour the european medicines agency starts reviewing a russian repassed to approve the sputnik the vaccine prima job a step closer to widespread adoption and the e.u. . and protests break out across france calling for tougher laws protecting children as the country's top court hears the case of a 13 year old girl who was allegedly raped by 20 firefighters.

watching aren't international bring your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. european parliament members spearheaded by a lithuanian lawmaker are calling for the e.u. foreign policy chief to step down the group claims for all was too soft on russia during his recent visit here. burrell smith's judgment and proactively deciding to visit moscow in his failure to stand for the interests and values of the european union during his visit have cost severe damage to the reputation of the e.u. we believe that the president of the european commission should take action if mr burrell does not resign by his own accord more than 70 any piece of put their name to a letter saying that yosef must step down from his role as high representative for foreign affairs of the european union this is after his trip last week to moscow in which is intention was to try and put pressure on the kremlin to release alexei

navalny from jail you are following this move by any piece on the line the e.u. commission president has stood by her man saying that your house has full support but if we look back to what happened last week while he was in moscow meeting with russian foreign minister sergey lavrov of the e.u. high representative for foreign affairs said that the meeting took place in a trusting atmosphere certainly our asians are on the c.v.s. tree. and a number on the cages and all pointing now are pretty. but. we are connected not only by geography. but put out wide range of the story cool called little konami that soon changed when your super l. arrived back in brussels his assessment then of the meeting in russia was that moscow was not interested in improving relations with the european union the same

as something as a as a surprise to the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman alan really a secret about our western partners when they fail to carry out a flogging they throw a tantrum the aim was to carry out that public flogging which i think had been planned very thorough only an avalanche of sorts to talk about the rallies the journalists to make the valley the main topic to lump together everything dump it out and gleefully scarper well that didn't come off yossi beilin facing calls to resign over his trip to moscow if he doesn't go and it doesn't look like he will any time soon there's going to be mounting pressure on commission president on the line to dismiss him from his post no sign of that coming any time soon either there will be a big debate on this issue coming up in the european parliament a little later on choose day afternoon brussels time of the keeping an eye on that for you here on r.t. . sputnik really has passed a major milestone on the road to e.u.

approval russia's direct investment fund arranging its distribution has confirmed the european medicines agency has received an application to register the coming back seen it 1st on the breaks down the process. sensually sputnik v. has entered the homestretch towards approval all across of the bloc right now it's in the final stage which is called a rolling review well here's how the russians themselves are describing the stage that the process as is at the audio if the registration in the e.u. on general 29th 2021 and still to submitting information to the e m a for ruling review the fund has received official confirmation from the in may that its application has been received it's up to the emmy to determine the speed of the review process so this process is called a rolling review but what does it mean effectively it means that the european medicines agency the e.u. is regulating body is right now requesting document after the document from the

russians to see how safe how effective the vaccine is and so on and so forth there's no way of giving an estimate as to how quickly they will make the decision because the ball has left the russian court it's entirely in the hands of the may but the russians are saying they're hoping it will happen rather sooner than later and it could spell great news for all europeans looking to get immunity against a covert 19 because right now the e.u. has 3 vaccines proved to be used on their soil by pfizer by madonna and by astra zeneca but when it comes to fides of for instance there has been an extreme shortage in supply and it has led to basically the pace of the vaccination has slowed down to a trickle sputnik we has proven it has been proven that it has its efficacy stands at over 91 percent and in fact some countries are already looking to cooperate with the russians like germany they are looking to become one of the sputnik producers

hungary sort of in defiance of brussels not only has it already ordered more than 2000000 doses of sputnik the they have already received the 1st batches and the czech republic is kind of contemplating. templating to do the same but well aces of cause are going to hate for instance the prime minister of lithuania she called the sputnik russia's hybrid weapon well a weapon that most school happily uses zone and soil own soil against its own citizens because here in russia mass vaccination has been in full swing and quite successfully too i should say a lot of people have already gotten the jobs have been no reports of any serious side effects and in fact the russian government is hoping to get about 60 percent of the whole russia's population vaccinated by mid summer and while russia is happy to share its success but only to the one willing. meanwhile new data is pointing

to an alarming rise in russia's martelly rate due to cope with the federal statistics service is saying there were 320000 excess deaths in 2020 and implies an 18 percent rise in overall fatalities compared to the previous year and of the additional deaths around half can be attributed to covert 19. in the case of a french girl who was allegedly raped by 28 firefighters has sparked protests across france protesters demanding tougher laws on age of consent artist has the details. on wednesday this court is going to be center stage for a case that's provoked outrage here in france it involves a woman known as julie who says she was raped by 20 firefighters between the ages of 13 and 15. it all

began when julie not her real name had been assisted by a firefighter holding a severe anxiety seizures 13 in 2008 now it's claimed she obtained her number for medical records and then. before asking her to undress via webcam then claimed he passed it details on to other firefighters who did the same now in 2009 it's alleged a firefighter then raped julie says she was later taken to an apartment where she was gang raped in 2010 julie disclosed what happened to her mother and a complaint was filed 3 firefighters were placed under investigation but no action was taken against another 17 men also accused 2 of the men have admitted that they had sex with julie whilst on duty and whilst wearing their uniforms a 3rd admitted a sexual act in a toilet cubicle in a parisian hospital where julie had been admitted in march 20th definite judge was

appointed to investigate but after 8 years the rape charges were dropped instead replaced by consensual penetrative sex with a minor under 15 this means the maximum sentence that they could receive is 7 years compared with 20 for rape. who were $25.00 partners so the corrosion is obvious when we're talking about a 30 year old child just a sister unable to realize that we're not in the fair balance of power and that when julie was raised by 20 firefighters she was raped under duress and she couldn't consent she couldn't accept the rape since she was a child that outcome is said to julie. heart and she attempted to take her own life her family though is determined to keep fighting julie's mother is still globes marked by that decision. the facts are simple julie was 1314 and 15 at the time she was in a very vulnerable state taking medication and trying to kill herself and 20

firefighters came to her all of them admit that they performed a sexual act on her with penetration and yet in france in the 21st century the court decides that the innocent julie's case has caused consternation in france. for almost a decade we have trusted the justice system to make its ruling the court of appeals ruled that the fire rapists were justified given the success they enjoy with women moreover they stated verbal and in writing that the firefighters should be exonerated quote given the rampant sexual interest shown and by women campaigners hope that the decision reached this court will lead to an age of sexual consent being in troy and in french law schools for a minimum age of consent have been cruising in recent years and in january the senate but a bill to make the age of consent 13 but child protection associations say that

that is insufficient charlotte r.t. paris. human rights watch has issued a scathing report on what it describes as the lebanese government's failure to deliver justice after last year's explosion that leveled parts of the capital on august the 4th a several 1000 tons of ammonium nitrate stored at a warehouse detonated by the numerous buildings of the match a damaging many more beyond repair 200 people lost their lives and more than 6000 were injured in the blast the lebanese government stepped down while the president promised political reform. doherty's launched an investigation which brought charges only against a few dozen mid to low level court and security staff party has filmed a special report about the route residents trying to rebuild their shattered lives you can watch it unfold on our to international on wednesday but for now we can show you a short clip a warning you may find the following footage upsetting. knowing

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a few other. us author has questions social media giant censorship of her book that criticizes feminism professor carrie greste says her work simply challenges modern assumptions of what it means to be a woman a bestseller confronts the notion of what it calls radical toxic femininity which the author says is now imposed by society but actually makes women unhappy gress told r.t. that current ideology it destroys the links that have held him least 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 from the values that we see in the embodiment of the blasted virgin mary and many different ways that she has helped to build our 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 there really are some major problems here that we need to address because women aren't happy this is you know fundamentally if you look at the numbers you look at suicide rates depression levels and substance abuse and 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 what it is we're told it's supposed to be doing which is make us happy. the book has been banned on instagram and facebook quotes that it doesn't comply with commerce policies and violates rules on selling adult products aggressor's big tech have even blocked posts promoting the title although amazon blamed glitches for the removal of links to buy her work. and light of the content you know compared to a lot of the content in facebook and instagram sal 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 adult 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 sir other books from my publisher that have banned and banned both for sale one of them a stations across for children of amazon he said it was to my lint and other books that have been banned ads have been banned on facebook i think that by silencing means silencing this book they're trying to help they're trying to prevent people from actually seeing what's 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 people went out and bought and drove and that was just amazing to see but i think people are really ready for 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 build things that can compete with big tech because that we just keep pouring ourselves into it and not offering enough in the competition to really balance and out and keep them keep them honest we've got more global news coming your way after this short break. when i was choked seemed wrong wrong just don't call. me. yet to shape out just being active. and engaged with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

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can and what he called the uncivil war between republicans and democrats a new poll suggests 62 percent of americans expect the country to become more divided not less. and the mainstream media appears to be playing a key role in the divisions take for example the case of an l.a. times journalist linking her approach from neighbors who cleared her driveway of snow as an act of kindness to hezbollah the lebanese militant group are to scale up and reports. 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 middle earth. or. somehow you could 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 the 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 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 you neighbors is not smelly could dizzy extended to one some tribe he says survival tactic the new book probably doesn't expect some happens thank you but if you need his help i think he did expect that bridge in your halford 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. years ago american schoolchildren 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 a little up and artsy new york. lastly we turn to some world news in brief starting with chile there's ongoing unrest in santiago over the fatal police shooting of a street juggler on friday police say the man resisted police during a routine identity check leading to a dispute the officer who opened fire had. in the tame and income aside investigation is ongoing. riots are sweeping haiti with crowds demanding the presence of a nation the top court says the head of the state was required to step down sunday after 5 years in office the president argues he gets one more year because he was not officially sworn in until 27 tape. and

myanmar demonstrators are denouncing last week's military takeover in defiance of a ban on large gatherings police have blocked major highways starman seize power after accusing the government of election fraud and arresting the country's de facto leader i'm so sick. and rescuers are still searching for survivors 2 days after an avalanche in northern india part of a himalayan glaciers crashed into a dam causing severe flooding with dust and rocks crashing through villages ice $26.00 people have died and 171 are still missing. at their breakdown of today's top headlines for now but if you're looking for more you can always had our website r.t. dot com including in this hour.

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this is the bus the one business show you can't afford to man i'm sorry mom to fail going to washington coming up big point to. record high after investing $1500000000.00 we're going to play what this for the future of the children and the other players companies are going to fall to the top of. the benefit of arcane after data showed the shot had little protection from the opening variant in the country argued from in. the report and we finally hear from president joe biden on us trying to relations a little break down his comments with the panel about later in the a lot to get a look at. a big day for bitcoin as tesla announced it purchased $1500000000.00 worth of bitcoin in a filing with the securities and exchange commission tesla's said the move was for more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash the company

also plans to start accepting payments in big quine and in the near future subject to a political laws an initially on a limited basis which we may or may not liquidate upon receipt of the move caused big going to surge to new highs up 2.5 percent in premarket trading alone it reached $44200.00 meanwhile u.s. stocks are also hitting record fresh highs the dow added nearly 200 while the s. and p. and tech heavy nasdaq they all reached intraday high for more on this we're going to welcome back. director of trading research and education for market gauge dot com michelle good to see you as always let's start with tesla here the 1500000000 dollars a big question it just purchased now you know on musk he's been extremely vocal on twitter about because especially as of late could he. have you this to kind of prop up the price of a quote for his own benefit we know musk also has been tweeting frequently about

dodge coin doors coin. which is about a fraction of the price of big quimby time he tweets about it that price jumps 20 to 30 percent. well hi sarah well i think it's a couple of things that we have to think about before we go into whether or not he's manipulating the price of bitcoin the market cap of because it is a trillion so one and i have 1000000000 is less than one percent of the market cap a big point so yes he could be a market mover mostly because he gets in and of course everybody jumps in as well but big coins been on its own should be for a while and once it took out 40000 over the weekend it dipped a little bit and then of course we saw go back there today so in terms of his ability to manipulate we know that he has a history of talking down his own stock price and then the price goes right back i don't know if i would necessarily say that this was some grand. design by him to.