thinks. we dare to ask. in the headlines on our t.v. dozens of european parliament members called 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 reviewing a russian request to approve the scrutiny can be a vaccine for human job a step closer to widespread adoption in the u. . and protests broke out across france calling for tougher laws protecting children and the country's top court hears the case of a 13 year old girl who was allegedly raped by 20 firefighters.

watching art international coming to you live from the russian capital this i'm every hour welcome to the program. dear pm parliament is now discussing a motion to force the top diplomat to quit after 50 i mean peace signed a letter denouncing just a borel for apparently being too soft on russia during his recent visit and several of them spoke out accusing the diplomat of undermining e.u. policy on moscow. more scout abuse the visit of high representative bordello to you millie 8 and offend the european union they just obviously can't help but show. mama's towards western representatives if you are ill executed a visit you know only a shame to drop in citizens you also helps pucci and harms dress and people who are ill and the on the other hand made a fool of himself last week you must go by his actions he made

a mockery of the ambition of the e.u. to play a major role in the world stage 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 any peace on the line the e.u. commission president has stood by her man saying that yes it bergdahl has had the full support but if we look back to what happened last week while he was in moscow meeting with russian foreign minister sergey lavrov 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 only cages and low point in our creation. but. we are

connected not only by geography. but put out wide range of historical called total have an economic ties 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 that's famous something as a as a surprise to the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman al really a secret about our west. 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 let me tell you sued there's going to be mounting pressure on commission president

on the line to dismiss him from his post no sign of that coming anytime 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. . we're joined live now by karen nice all former foreign minister of australia you're very welcome to the program as always now as we just heard in that report were all did highlight some of the disputes between russia and the e.u. but he's only a diplomat how much farther did these any piece expect him to go when i can only imagine that there would be such a russian exercise the new commission but one thing is sure. didn't go too well and what i didn't understand was the kind of if you kishen he put up on return i mean. everything was said during the press conference and so there shouldn't be any need

to. be sorry so what do you think is motivating this campaign for a more confrontational approach with russia who stands to benefit. nobody will benefit in such a constant rotation it's. 24 teams will have passed the 7 years now we have seen a decrease day shown of our relations. and there are many issues that have to be tackled and sometimes you can disconnect the one issue from the other and you shouldn't put such a kind of critical cloth on the altar just friends topics and here i think there are. certain urgency to legally rebuild some source of trust and and not go into confrontation. do you think there's any possibility how high of a chance is there that all this will actually get her out pushed out. well if you

are our pushed out by such an action that will put a dangerous president and you never know whether there will be some changes inside the commission from what i can of saw from file away. all moot is not true well in the commission but that has little to do with mr morrow's was it to moscow dep has much more to do with the failure in their distribution of mexican stock. far more of what one shouldn't go through or hear topics but i cannot imagine that miss the borrower who pushed out because of his was a if he were how could that affect russia e.u. ties what would that say to russia if that's what happened sorry i didn't get the question now if borel were actually indeed pushed out or he chose to resign over this quote unquote scandal we call it how would that affect russia e.u.

ties. well the ties on these some might a letter level who put the e.u. as a whole we have a stalemate but we shouldn't forget that there are lots of bilateral ties every capital has its interest has its wide range of bilateral connections with the russia and the discords true for germany on various levels and this whole tool for france. is to do tional lies their dialogue was russia a long time ago being aware of the wide range whether it's economics whether it's cultural whether it's political dialogue you just have to see the many conversations by phone president michel and president putin have had over the last few months all. the bilateral ties are working and when it comes to all multilateral approach yes for evidence reasons ever since 24 g.

in there hasn't been and really fruitful dialogue. what about the timing of our best the e.u. is currently losing lives every day to severe vaccine shortages and it's looking increasingly likely that they'll need russia's help with that why ramp up tensions right now is a. good question and i am stunned myself because. we really have good reasons to work together and it was also pronounced by mr borrero. he paid a statement regarding maybe some sort of concerted action on importing the next and if i have correctly understood him so at least i mean there's a strong bilateral interest that various countries hungary was harshly scolded by the european commission because they already ordered 5 several months ago and other countries are thinking of doing seoul so if i may refer to

a russian drama. a recent view. it goes if i corrected to remember. clear law gets me good lord. so you're never going to do well to want to you will drink from one day and there are lots of common ties really have to work on. we've been speaking with myself former foreign minister of austria thank you for your time and your comments of. the founder of a right wings news website the gateway pundit has become the latest to fall victim to a big tech boycott jim hoft has been banned by twitter which accused him of spreading misleading information and interfering in the electoral process the site rose to prominence during the recent election with its claims of voter fraud a few days ago it posted a video from detroit proposing to show the delivery of absentee ballots to a pulling station hours after the deadline had passed and gateway pundit is

promising to release more such videos in the coming days we can now actually speak with the man in question himself jim hoffa editor in chief of the gateway pundit twitter is saying that you violated its rules on manipulating or interfering in elections or other civic processes what's your response to that. thank you for having me on yes they banned us on saturday this was after we put a teaser tweet out saying we have more video coming from the t.c.f. center in detroit the footage is from election night. back on november 4th i can tell you that we had a source who was working inside the t.c.f. center the day after the election who called us and said that they heard that band was dropping off ballots suspect ballots in the middle of the night on a lecture night when joe biden was behind 510-0000 votes or more we we had 4

different witnesses testify and fill out affidavits and do some filming with us who confirms this happened it took us 2 months to get the footage from the t.c.f. center we put out our 1st document on this and our 1st video clip from on friday this showed the the van actually driving inside the center in the middle of the night dropping off $61.00 boxes of ballots and then coming back for a 2nd trip an hour later and dropping off more boxes of ballots so we have the proof here and it's confirms it lines up exactly with our witnesses back in november and yet twitter does not want his to release any more of this information they're citing as as spreading in violating their ethics clause that they just put in where he cannot challenge anything about the 2020 alexion and yet there are still individuals who are challenging the 2016 election that still allowed on

twitter and you report on michigan you say that the local authorities were an interested in your story why do you think that is. you know it 1st the local authorities had no interest at all in looking at this i suspect it's because they were on the other team that's what i would say and the 1st reports that came out there was really just one or 2 reports and they said they found no evidence the ballots were dropped off in the middle of the night now the same reporter reported on friday after our video released she said yes these were ballots but everything was fine this is completely normal well we don't believe that we have witnesses who said that the ballots and i could go on and on about why we believe these ballots were fraudulent but. it's interesting that they changed their complete story without telling their audience that this is what they've done well what about the fact that even trump administration officials have said that the election was the

most secure and american history people to were talking to officials in every state including democratic and republican officials who all said that there was no widespread fraud or irregularities in the election you know there's a lot of people who say that and it's interesting that these same people are the ones who are fighting the hardest. to allow people like me and reporters like me and investigative journalists like myself and our. planet to release the findings we have found so if there is so secure with their position why are they cracking down and eliminating eliminating. sites like myself from the social media platforms it doesn't make sense and this is what we've fought against for several months now jim hoffa editor in chief of the gateway punin thank you for joining us on the program today thank you. the case of a french girl who was allegedly raped by 20 firefighters has sparked protests

across france with protesters demanding tougher laws on age of consent. 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 to 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 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 it 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 it was 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 peace and $25.00 partners so the corrosion the service when we're talking about a 30 year old child just a sister unable to realize that we're not in a 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 gulps 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 calls 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 even ski r.t. paris. 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 vaccine because donna breaks down the process centrally sputnik really has entered the home stretch 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. 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 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 documents 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 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 $2000000.00 doses of sputnik the they have already received the 1st batches and the czech republic is kind of contemplating is contemplating to do the same but well he says of course are going to hate for instance the prime minister of lithuania she

called the sputnik russia's hybrid weapon well a weapon that moscow happily uses on its soil own soil. it's 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 and 2021 implies an 18 percent rise in overall fatalities compared to the previous year and that the additional deaths around the house can be attributed to covert 19. 3

weeks into the biden presidency there are so far no sign that he 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 that 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 artist has more . 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. and so very much to work and. somehow need 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 a 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 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 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 neighbor is not smelly could to see extended to once own tribe he says 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 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 they will up and r.t. new york. a bestselling author has accused social media giants of censoring ads for her book criticizing feminism professor carrie greste says her work challenges modern assumptions of what it means to be a woman the book describes the notion of radical toxic femininity which the author says it's imposed by society and actually makes women unhappy press told r.t. that current ideology destroys the links that whole 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 there there 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 had been banned on instagram and facebook which said it doesn't comply with commerce policies and violates rules on selling adult products across as big tech have even blocked teasers post promoting the title 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 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 doc content such as pornography and other illicit materials and there was some glitches on amazon 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 he said it was to buy a lint 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 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 them 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 you know the people that have resources whether it's ideas or or 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 and out and keep them keep them honest. plus a return to some world news in brief starting with charlie there's ongoing unrest in santiago over the fatal police shooting of a street juggler on friday police say the man resisted during a routine identity track leading to a dispute the officer who opened fire has been detained that any homicide investigation is ongoing. riots are sleeping hate it with crowds demanding the president's resignation a top court says the head of state was required to step down on sunday after 5 years and offer. the president argues he gets one more year because he was not

officially sworn in until 2017th. and myanmar demonstrators are denouncing last week's military takeover in defiance of a ban on large gatherings police have blocked major highways army seize power after accusing the government of election fraud and arresting the country's de facto leader on sun 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 something ice rocks and flood waters through several villages at least $26.00 people have died and 171 are still missing. that's a wrap up of the day's top news for now and that's all for me as well today but we're not calling bright will be here at the top of the hour with your live news update as always thanks for tuning in.

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