children are torn between. my family was very poor i thought i was doing my best to get back to school which side will have the strongest appeal. band of the u.k.'s parliamentary health committee admits mishandling the covert response while prime minister boris johnson reveals the country will need to vaccinate all over again in the autumn. china bans b.b.c. world news it's taken the t.v. channel off air in response to a week ago the british broadcasting license of china's own c g t n being revoked. and germany extends its lock down to march amid fears of new viral strains while the government admits it was too slow in its response to the 2nd wave of the pandemic.

9 here in moscow my name's calling from in the. world news 1st new mutations of 19 are likely to require a complete revaccinated of the british population later this year that's the warning coming from prime minister boris johnson. i think we're going to have to get used to the idea that rebound in the autumn as we as we come to a place where it's almost 4000000 covert cases have been confirmed in the u.k. since the start of the pandemic a nearly 115000 people have died that's the worst toll in europe the country is now accelerating its track and trace came with volunteers going door to door to check whether people have the disease studies show the u.k.'s astra zeneca job offers only limited protection against new coronavirus variants but some research is want to continue use of the shot arguing that it helps protect against the worst effects

of the mutations that comes after the head of the parliamentary health committee said the covert response had been mishandled jeremy hunt above all the government should have reacted quicker. as a country we have not got everything right in our pandemic handling we need to learn lessons and the biggest lesson of all is that in a pandemic you have to act faster than the virus despite the inoculation push one coben vaccine center in london shut down early because of the low uptake the u.k.'s nursing chief says that ethnic minority communities in particular fall in for vaccine myths r t s k partridge has the details. the u.k. has the highest coronavirus death toll in europe and research says ethnic minorities are up to 3 times more likely to die but this vaccination harbin the multicultural area of happening in east london had to reduce its opening hours because minorities are more reluctant to get the job due to mistrust of the

government i was kind of on the sure with the amount of. put on this i'm so cool. to go away a bit of. plenty of statistics reflects the mistrust a report on behalf of n.h.s. england claims that almost twice as many white overate is have had their 1st injection compared to elderly black britons while an overwhelming majority of black people said they were are likely to get a vaccine if offered one a race equality think tank says the lower numbers aren't about vaccine refusal that fear is often based on past experiences whether incidence of simple misunderstanding cultural confusion or in the case of some patients now trade fear of perceived hostility and racism but concern is also fueled by just information circulating online yet people are now keen to avid various reasons what they've seen in social media you know they believe that this vaccine was made too quickly.

too quickly not enough try for them to really test the vaccine some believe officials have been too slow to shut down myths i can send you at least 10 videos in my whatsapp that have been circulated from since about last march with doctors other professionals you don't know where they've come from but all you can say about them is they're clearly and vaccines and they claim to be protecting the minority community from something that will harm them and the u.k.'s medical chiefs say they're committed to combat in misinformation and admits it's not community could do rail only if it's in the fight against the pandemic if one particular community. vaccinated and the virus will seek them out and it will go through their community like wildfire it's not something any of us wish to see which is why we're spending a lot of time and a lot of resources in this area the big message i have for everyone is this virus just doesn't care what ethnic background you're from it just doesn't care about the

color of your skin or where you live in the world the virus does not discriminate the u.k. has made significant progress with its vaccine rollout which has been faster than most other countries but to see the program completed a key obstacle needs to be overcome convincing the most vulnerable communities to take the job of b.c. you see a continuing nation of the existence of the virus that people are already disproportionately affected by gets by this virus so it's 5 clean paulton and it's in the communities only interest to make sure that they do get vaccinated days to stay safe or to get them to that point i think and simply telling them this is in your own best healthy jessi's not a not because it was doesn't take account of fish huge history of the lack of trust of these communities in the state and there's fire they'll need to work with trust the leaders on the ground should it she's holding nice ations movements in

communities on the ground who are got credible alternative and trusted by communities. they will follow. the money to extending its lock down to march amid concerns over the new strains of covert $90.00 comes after chancellor merkel admitted the government too slow in its response to the 2nd wave of the pandemic. the bottom image for if we were not careful enough and not fast enough wouldn't shut down public life early and consistently enough and that science of a 2nd wave and warnings from various scientists it has been a year of learning together how the virus works and what works against it and learning means not always doing everything right from the start but correcting our assessments. germany's shutdown was due to expire on february 14th but it will now run an extra 3 weeks there are some exceptions though schools and daycare centers can gradually reopen depending on decisions by local authorities restaurants will remain closed but headdresses can reopen their doors for march the 1st opposition

groups have branded the measures inconsistent and urged the government to present a plan for leaving the lockdown. meanwhile the leading german newspapers dropped a bombshell claiming that the government hired scientists to come up with research that would justify harsh coronavirus measures which had already been decided by ministers it cited hundreds of pages of correspondence between the interior ministry and a research group dating back to last march journalist and political commentator thomas fassbender thinks the story highlights the lack of clarity in the way policies are being decided. these reports concerning the last year's decision and obviously to this date the government prefers to be hiding behind scientists and there is very little willingness and courage on the side of the government as the general perception when it comes to decision making after each year now we have not yet head say a crisis comedy we are not up to dealing with the crisis and this is the

responsibility of our top politicians we certainly did not do our job on the 2nd wave as the chancellor rightly admitted the vaccination does not go and have at the necessary speed at the same time we are prolonging the the lockdown which in many respects does not make sense for many people but because why is the hadrosaur open in a small shop is not. canadian psychology go to jordan peterson's counsel a string of media appearances after accusing a british newspaper of distorting his words in an interview in a blog post the bestselling author said the sunday times had shown cruelty and spite and it's right up on the point of breaks down the story. put yourself in jordan peterson's shoes you also did an interview in none other than the times and you've got a book coming out soon so your publishers suggest that you do it your commissioning

editor sells it to you as an article that celebrates your life and even office to clear up any factual inaccuracy that may have been doing the rounds while you've struggled through a harrowing near death health crisis wait i can even read you a bit of the letter from the times offering pietersen the interview i like to think we tell difficult stories with generous space time and objectivity we run long form features telling the whole story rather than short flashy headlines so you pour out your heart and soul to a nice lady on the result you get a hit piece that topped with a new and flashy headline and did lifted with factual inaccuracy as the story was written by this woman. in the head she's the chief interview at the sunday times and judging by this article she's not

a fan of jordan peterson or his daughter mchale or the peterson's have been so good by the article that they've posted the audio of the entire interview online as well as a transcript of the interview and mckay petersen's done a reaction video to the article as well there are certainly differences between the recording and the resulting article take for example the sensationalist claim in the paragraph where 8 writes it is daughters words it is like a horror movie a movie in which her father gets hooked on benzodiazepines becomes suicidal is hospitalized for his own safety and then diagnosed with schizophrenia dad do. not just to be clear and has never had schizophrenia he had. which is a very deadly and severe side effect of some psych medications and originally started with benzodiazepines used to treat insomnia and depression associated with an

autoimmune disorder his make a. telling a kid ahead about the the zia. suffering from it's a crawling sensation that makes you not want to stop moving and so it's commonly misdiagnosis schizophrenia because they don't know what it is and in order to treat schizophrenia you get put on psych meds and that causes worsening aka fuchsia and by the way the interview makes absolutely no attempt to expand on this topic of. which jordan. and trying to raise awareness about so he was misdiagnosed multiple times mis diagnosed when we finally found a competent doctor he was diagnosed with that which is what i tried to make clear in the interview because lots of people with are misdiagnosed and it kills them there are some videos of what looks like online and i have to warn you you may find

what you're about to see distressing. the woman in this video committed suicide from the relentlessness of the play here's the thing about inaccuracy in reporting when 8 can head to peterson's misdiagnosis of schizophrenia as a bona fide diagnosis in the times article it doesn't just cement that era in the one newspaper article because of the way we journalists. now stories that want to launch a slew of other news stories after the daily mail published jordan peterson claims he was suicidal and. after that. new york post

publishes jordan peterson says he was suicidal addicted to benzo is and has schizophrenia. join peaks and displayed some real vulnerability and that candid interview the recording feels lol he says if you. listen. to me that you feel like you're being. used to situation and that's certainly how it appears grotesque for sure. and you feel incredibly strong. in the last a while i just like being self-conscious being so the problem of being self-conscious so we don't know. if you're in enough pain you know longer and yet the overall tone of the article was generous to say the least there's an obsession with likening the peterson family to the trumps and similar taney

a sleek how about us comments about mikhail is a pair and. i've been recognisable from the ordinary looking brunette from photos just a few years ago today is a glossy pouting blonde and talks with a zealous spiky conviction of a president press spokeswoman his response to that by the way i can't believe. there are lip injections woman you can get them to. the offical continues to trump trophy with analogy then she compares him to donald trump because why not parallels with donald trump come to mind another unhappy man closed off from his. projecting strong man mythology while hunkered down in a bunker with his family you can see the world jordan peterson closed off from his emotions a man loves nothing better and a good cry harry is crying in

a previous interview it is only the individual after all who suffers so overwhelming. there's been no. depression or through school. question that comes close to the. you know we don't give encouragement and people need so little encouragement who's makes me i mean harry is crying during the times interview just 10 minutes into it and fact. i haven't done it. we've even had him crying on our t. well if you heard it to. bring you to tears the sad truth is that the times cynical and biased article will have no effect whatsoever on what is probably one of the world's biggest newspapers it can go on printing lies with absolutely no

consequences and they don't still get to interview the biggest stars because that's just how the universe works but they're triple pronged crap from the peterson's the order of the interview lex is to and from the times and mchale is reaction video to the article scored and equalized for the canadians moreover with this story it is quite clear who the audience is on. headline news now the b.b.c.'s global t.v. news channels being blocked in china becomes a week off the british broadcasting regulators to china's english language channel . also use the sally is across this force what the chinese authorities saying about taking b.b.c. world news off. well it would appear that at least on the surface chinese regulates say that the b.b.c.'s for to follow their rules when it comes to broadcasting and in particular they don't seem to have taken well at some of the broad costing

around how china has handled the coronavirus pandemic in the country has said that they simply don't tolerate fake news and that that's the reason for the broadcast license being taken away or at least will there for the b.b.c. while channel to not be. so broadcast and it long enough course this comes in the wake of a decision by britain's regulator off taking the license away from c g t yet which is the chinese broadcaster and the off call of course have a history of going after channels that happen on 3 countries with sure don't have the closest of relationships with the u.k. and they released a statement outlining their reasons for doing so. we are unable to approve the application to transfer the license to the china global television network corporation because it's ultimately controlled by the chinese communist party which

is not permitted under u.k. broadcasting law we provide a c.d.n. with numerous opportunities to come into compliance but it has not done so we now consider it appropriate to withdraw the license for c.d.t and to broadcast in the u.k. this of course follows in the wake of for our press t.v. almost a decade ago having their license they are uranian broadcaster and so it would appear that taking a wait and see cnn's linus's just follows along example of taking away the billet of forecasters from countries that are not on the best of terms with the u.k. government and taking that away now or leave a response from the chinese maybe limited b.b.c. well isn't very well watched across china it's one of those channels that helps is more watched in the hotels that it is in people's homes but in any case it doesn't all go well for the relationship between the 2 sides of the sun he thought with all the trouble even the presidency perhaps the west in general and china could begin

to rebuild their relationship but that decision by prison to take away the license receded c.n.n. now this evening a decision by china to ban the b.b.c. won't bode well if the a is to rebuild those ties once more ok while still very much on air at r.t. u.k. here in london it's early thanks for that. max the paris opera is promising a radical rethink of its approach to diversity a few months ago black performers complained about the almost exclusively white costs and the use of blackface in some performances and the artistic director saying that's got to change. we're not here promoting a climate of censorship or dictatorial actions in the leadership the whole point of this initiative is we want to put on opera and ballet by 21st century artists for 21st century audiences the pledge to recruit more people of color was part of

a 66 page report from the paris opera and alexander nathan you heard i was also quoted by the them on dues papers saying that some performances would disappear from the theatres repertoire if they're deemed insensitive and the plans to spark condemnation from traditional commentators in the french media and also from nationalist politician the reed lappin who were kids the opera of anti racism gone bad well let's talk now to anti racism political action. in paris and also david gergen who's from the heritage party in the u.k. both welcome to the program. first if i could to ask you it's difficult to know of the people who've taken offense at this what they're more offended about it being that it's anti racism got mad as one politicians called it or whether it's the creeping americanization of council culture which people are getting excised about which is more offensive where we have to. remind of the story before the position. your. name

about. 5 years ago already. and this is not the 1st thing here in france and it's not america americanisation it's the reality of france and it's important to have the strong position from this new director we have to remind us he's from canada. the open mind and it's a big difference a. new kind of. david until very recently i think 2015 i read earlier on at the paris opera and ballet they still use of black face and yellow face i mean even if you're trying to stage classic ballets an opera is not acceptable in the 21st century is it. well as you said i mean it that ended in 2015 so they don't do that anymore but i mean the current mood that we got here this year is really political correctness gone mad because they actually do have 5 black ballet dancers in there so i really don't know what

the people who are calling for change here or worried about and offended about it looks like actually some people are just trying to manufacture some outrage over something where they're actually is nothing to be outraged about if you saw how much of this is about to do with the numbers in the coda ballet and in the cost themselves or is it to do with now a days those classical performances those classical works are just not off with a purpose. yeah i think it's important to give some strong example we have the story of chloe on a slope estimates that everyone know and we know that this lente the woman had to leave france and she went to moscow for example to express her talent then after she went to germany and there in germany she had some discussion of problems and we have another woman kim and mary as to the men's she left to france to go in the u.k. and there she wasn't in the opera but she was in the black company in london so that's

means that we have some talented people here who are forced to leave france to express that the and this is a huge problem and what alex underneath the thing now is he's take the he's taking the problem to the roof that's mean that in the recruitment he's changing the way of recruitment cripple and it is a very new thing in france because we know that this is a very elitist middle. in these traditional companies these ancient artistic organizations david the numbers themselves as you can see the number of people of color who are members on stage is incredibly low that does need addressing a degree when it can seem ridiculous to suggest that there aren't people of color who are as good dancers. well what you should do in every case is pick the best person for the job the most talented the most skilled person for the roles which need to be done and for the ballet companies that exist and you know it's we've got here we've got people coming through i mean already read about the paris opera they

have their ballet school and they've changed their admissions procedure to let people in from ethnic minorities and black people come in and as they come in through the system they're actually going up into the opera so this is already happening and hopefully that those people that come through will be selected because they are talented and skilled rather than just some kind of virtue signalling tokenism which is no good for anybody whatsoever you saw is there a danger of overreach care in trying to address historical accuracy as an historical don't have time to say quota numbers but maybe endemic racism in these organizations whereby that haven't been the opportunities for people of color to rise through the ranks and get those performance roles so there's a danger that an imposing new quotas or changing performances that it will be pushing things too far now we need of course the best dancer to be in but before

that we need to open the door the thing is to did the door close for the and the minority this is the right reality it's not true to fear that we did open the door open for people for example if you want to see how do the structure of the ballots in france we hold we have the lowest level who we call it the 1st quadri then after we go refit enough that it's subject then after you must be the 1st and then after you can be doing the start and but before being a start and so we must you must start from somewhere and to stop from somewhere you must have the opportunity and i gave the example with chloe on a stop as who left france she left fancy once most school and then after she went to. trustable in berlin to close the door was closed for her in france this is our reality and we must go into the out of the deny today the very very good relation can by this new director and we thank him and we hope that this work will

carry on david is it not the case that just opening the door isn't enough otherwise there wouldn't need to be a 66 page initiative like this in the 2021 at such a significant level of france's artistic circle. well what i was wondering about the whole debate here is that they're actually talking about reducing the repertoire and changing the kind of performances they put on because some people have chosen to be offended about things that have been there's been no problem with for decades or centuries i mean you know people talk about. certain performances where people have patrolled in a certain way but there's never been any problem whatsoever and you know when when something is done for artistic purposes where and when it's been done you know before a certain opera that's been written by one of the classical writers and musicians such a composer such as mozart for example a magic flute. you shouldn't be changing that and you shouldn't be trying to change the repertoire to pound to

a group of people who decide that they want to change something when it doesn't need changing decades if not centuries of performances of these classical works as it pandering i think the idea is not. to have to must turn to people we all know the. history of mystical but and in the u.s. for example and this new director for example what he's doing is he a low the densa who off who do the black men so for example who have the dress who much with their color for example and this is a little example but that's it lotsa because a lot of young dancer west pushed away just because they didn't fit to do to do white tour we can say we need to adapt the density of the people who are deceased what it's about so. they did. yeah i don't so i wouldn't agree at all i don't think that we need to change performances in the way that they've been written this is

this is a conservative opera house conservative company it is there to put on classical performances they shouldn't be changed just because a few people this year decide they should be changed in a certain way what will happen in 20 years time 50 years time someone else might come along and say oh well we need to change them again and again and again look they should stick to the classical way it should have been done the way that they've always been done that's what audiences want and that's what they should be sticking to but don't think it's important to say that. just remind that region of the classic is the right this is a region but we have to say that france and england and u.k. and germany and the us today in 2021 is not the same france as the right front of the u.k. change. team has changed today and the population in europe is different and the society need to adapt to the system to do the new to. the to adapt to the new

society this is what it's about we cannot only act in a 16 today we are in 2021 and even in the event if a region is a right you need to adapt to. we knew that you said that. you still need to keep the connection with your roots with your heritage with your culture and there are certain things that shouldn't be changed yet if people want to do new things and they want to improvise and create new performances written today about today's society fine but the old performances the classics they shouldn't be changed there should be an opportunity for everybody to see them as the composers originally intended ok post whatever changes happen come what may when the auditorium finally reopened i have a song to put you off buying tickets and going and going in a few performances and when life's back to normal for now though david and his lover do thank you very much for joining us thank you. that's the way to exit from

moscow so far this thursday thanks for watching i'll have your next outing international update after the alexandra. welcome to the alex simon show from scotland with a look at the future of america last year i had to apologise professor wade davis caused a sensation and rolling stone magazine when he predicted the fall of a better after seeing with an the trump presidency symptoms of a much deeper the malays in today's show on a tub to wade davis and ask him whether president biden and vice president hot us can stand the tide of history the fuss that does me no with your tweet should

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