in the days have lined european parliament members left by the what we now call on the e.u. foreign policy chief to resign claiming he was too friendly with moscow on his recent trip. also this hour the european medicines agency starts revealing a russian request to approve the sputnik v. vaccine a step closer to widespread adoption and the e.u. . and protests break out across france calling for tougher laws protecting children of the country's top here's the case that when 13 year old girl was allegedly raped or 20 firefighters.

a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teached you in moscow let's get started with a live news update. european parliament member spearheaded by a lithuanian lawmaker are calling for the e.u. foreign policy chief to step down the group claims it was too soft on russia during his recent visit there. 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 had ghost 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 following this move by m e p's on the line the e.u. commission president has stood by her man saying that you know super l. has her 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 elations are on the c.v.s. tree. and a number on the gauges and all pointing now are pretty. but. we are connected not only by geography. but put out wide range of the story called called little that have an economic ties that soon change 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 that came

as something as a as a surprise to the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman al reveal 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 then 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 chouse day afternoon brussels time be keeping an eye on that for you here on r.t. . the case of

a french girl who was allegedly raped by 20 firefighters has sparked protests across france as protesters demanding tougher laws on age of consent solitude minsky has the details. on wednesday this court is going to be center stage for a case that's provoked outrage here in france 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 turned real name had been assisted by a firefighter following a severe anxiety seizure 13 in 2008 now it's claimed she obtained her number for medical records and then grew before asking her to undress via webcam it's 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 prison 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 is peace and $25.00 partners so the corrosion this obvious when we're talking about a 30 year old child justice system 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 have hit julie hard. 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. 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. 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 shoulder ati 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 several 1000 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse detonated i think numerous buildings aftermath and damaging many more

beyond where 200 people lost their lives and more than 6000 were injured following the blast the lebanese government stepped down while the president promised political reform authorities launched. investigation which brought charges only against a few dozen mid to low level court and security staff r.t. has filmed a special report about beirut residents trying to rebuild their shattered lives you can watch it in full on arch international on wednesday but for now we can show you a short clip and warning you may find the following footage upsetting. knowing it would seem that there was evil but i don't blog because. i know you don't buy that and it can matter a canard wow now i am a bad national. and i mean i.

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that current ideology destroys the links that hold families together. 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 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 and just expose and and show how much how far we have gone away from these values and 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 you look at 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 that we're told it's supposed to be

doing which is make us happy as for the book have been banned on instagram and facebook courts said it doesn't comply with commerce policies and violates rules on selling adult products but greste says big tech have even blocked his 1st post promoting the title of the amazon blame glitches for the removal of links to buy her work. and light of the content you know compared to a lot of the content and facebook and instagram sound 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 is or 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 he said it was to buy land and then 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 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 build things that can compete with big tech because that we just keep pouring ourselves into it and not offering enough competition to really balance that out and keep them keep them honest their global news update continues after the short right.

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called gun violence school shootings. first it was my job it was my family bill it was my savings i have nothing i have nothing and it's not like i don't trust aloof or resources i look for jobs i look for everything i can to make this house. in oil and i'm doing it's. the road to the american dream paved with good refugees it's this very idealized image of our. americans look pasta the deaths that happen every single day this is a modern history of the usa america on r.t. . the world is driven by a dream shaped by our own person. thinks

. we dare to ask. welcome back sputnik has passed a major milestone on the road to approval russia's direct investment fund arranging its distribution has confirmed the european medicines agency has received an application to register the covert vaccine your style of works on the process. sensually sputnik 3 has entered the homestretch towards approval all across of the block 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 started submitting information to the e m a for ruling review the fund has received official confirmation from the inmate that its application has been received it's up to the inmate 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.'s 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 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 provides a for instance there has been an extreme shortage in supply and it has led to the 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 races 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 on its 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 mortality rate due to coded the federal statistics service is saying there were 320000 excess deaths in 2020 that implies an 18 percent rise in overall fatalities compared to the previous year and of the additional deaths around half can be attributed to cope at 19. 3 weeks into the biden presidency there so far no sign that he can end 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 appear to be playing a key role in that take for example the case of an l a times journalists linking her pro trump neighbors who cleared her driveway of snow as an act of kindness to hezbollah the lebanese a militant group that is killed often 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 americans. 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 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 that drank the driveway like prong and 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 you neighbor is not smelly cool to see extended to one some tribe is a survival tactic the neighbor probably doesn't expect happens thank you but if you need his help i think he did 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 trumps 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 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 they will up an artsy new york . lastly return 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 arrest during a routine identity check leading to a dispute officer who opened fire has been detained. and a homicide investigation is growing. riots are sweeping haiti with crowds demanding the president's resignation a top court says he had of state was required to step down on the sunday after 5 years in office but the president argues he gets one more year because he was not officially sworn in until 2017. and myanmar demonstrators are denouncing last week's military takeover in defiance of

a ban on large gatherings police have blocked major highways the army seize power after accusing the government of election fraud and arresting the country's de facto leader aung san suu kyi. 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 at least $26.00 people have died and 171 are still missing. that's been our wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook for up to the minute reports.

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