common ground. the russian foreign minister warns that moscow is ready to end with the european union if it imposes new sanctions on key sectors of the economy. we don't want to distance ourselves from the international community but we need to be ready for this if you want peace. also this hour a member of the world health organization just back from the coronavirus epicenter in china tells us humans probably didn't catch the virus directly. from other animals instead. of france grows over american values supposedly being forced on the country. through diversified performances after complaints from black we get reaction. i think there's a kind of laziness of the intellectual process where they say well we're going to

copy and paste. and they tell us how wrong we. see international is just turned midnight here in moscow it's now saturday the 13th of february the story from across the we head into a new weekend the russian foreign minister has warned moscow is ready to break ties with the european union if it imposes new sanctions that key sectors of the economy . use who you will still wish to go to you are just saying that we're ready to do this if we see once again like lucy numerous times before the brussels imposes sanctions that pose restore economy specifically to the most sensitive sicked is once again we don't want to distance ourselves from the international community but we need to be ready for this issue if you want peace prepare for war. well it is

a pretty straightforward message especially coming from a veteran diplomat which. certainly is but here the russian foreign minister he's rather showing his hand he's explaining what will happen if the e.u. decides to follow through with a plan to impose new sanctions and if these sanctions are crippling to any of the key sectors of russia's economy world this is what will happen but again moscow has already confirmed that it will not initiate the process and will only react to what the e.u. will do this frustration it stems from from his meeting with the use foreign policy chief joseph burrell and even moscow some about a week ago sergei lavrov clarified moscow's and reiterated moscow's position that the these swap at the swapping of the suspended sentence for a real one for legs in a valley it's an internal matter but at the same time jos a burrell called on russia to release the kremlin critic and world saying that this

case is politically motivated is politically charged and according to. the e.u. diplomats in including jobs are borel they are being strong armed into a tough into an unreasonably tough position on russia and essentially they are stripped the ability and the opportunity to do their job of diplomacy or goodness knows where you're. sure to travel to us knowing the complicated situation many were against his visit and publicly declared that he shouldn't come to russia until we quote fix behavior not only e.u. foreign policy but also his. predisposes do not have the capacity to negotiate the whole you point of view was focused on the idea that we could turn this novell me into a political prisoner as with their russian state laws and they need to be respected as for human rights i reminded mr burrell that we've long shown readiness to hold a constructive dialogue based firstly and secondly not on the unilateral basis for your stability and from the very get go joseph burrell was put in

a very tough conditions by his e.u. counterparts because there were critics who were saying that he shouldn't visit prussia at all but when he came back from that visit just all hell broke loose they did the diplomats in the e.u. parliament they didn't mince any words moscow to be used the visit of high representative bordello to you merely aid and offend the european union your ill executed visit you know not only ashamed to european citizens you also helps putin and harms direction people who are real and the on the other hand made a fool of himself last week you must go wake up call that finally prompted to your member states and yourself to to adopt a more realistic and principled russian foreign policy and to move toward sanctions finally among others. of human rights under sanctions least and to suspension of stream to use country european and its to security police but this quiet car

plowed quiet of condemnation it was interrupted by and i wish member of the european parliament who pointed out that as she sees it the the only reason that election of only gets so much attention is because he was jailed in russia and that the e.u. is using him simply as a political pretext to slap more sanctions on moscow imus happy as anybody else to stand up for anybody's rights including the 1000 east but let's be honest about this and he's got to finish this i'm seeing the current racists on made before proceeding. sense of the support and we wouldn't be discussing him oh if he'd been arrested anywhere else other than in russia so made the following point as well he said that russia is already independent of him militarily so russia does not rely on anybody or russia is in arms expects it's exporting arms and basically saying that russia should do the same thing but with its economy. if anybody decides to

impose more sanctions and cripple some crucial economic sphere of russia then you should just wave goodbye and say well if you're closing the door we won't we won't be standing there knocking political analyst go but doctorow believes that a tit for tat strategy could lead to enormous economic damage on both sides. the with question here which currently genuinely want to suggest typically into russia's economic existence is they did as the west did which i mean was access to the script to iran where i could see the drastic extremely high order for action in the economic sphere taken by russia the way it was given the war. even more so you actions that have long been distrust among the national russia

haters the move west and western your specific to all the destruction of orm energy security we did and he has getting used to frustrated. with north korea into a project which was always given me the reminded him yet still it's worth. it and it was risky because the russians could turn off the taps and gas hope once it shipped out here can cause enormous to both sides many kilometers very close to home to be. a member of the world health organization tape that's just back from china has told art say that it probably wasn't bats the past coronavirus to the humans he says that even if the disease did originate in bats it was likely transferred to humans via other animals scientists believe it ted kaufman investigating the source of the pandemic in the chinese city of.

we know from past epidemics for example sars cove and mares cove that bats are the source of the epidemic moreover they contain genetic cells close to the ones that caused the pandemic but we also know that the transmission of the virus did not occur directly from the bat the previous time sars was transferred from a civet cat mers from a camel so there must be some other intermediate animal it is the most likely have participated on our knowledge of. the virus was 1st detected in a city in december 2019 teams initial findings debug claims that the disease originated in of the burra trait however the united states thinks that beijing is hiding facts from the experts. science needs to lead us out of this pandemic and in preventing the next one geo political battling has already made that path harder

it's time to trust in the global systems we set up after world war 2 and give them a chance china gave them very controlled and limited access and got a report that was inconclusive and supports narrative or we also have a dead cover about how much access his team had in where he says beijing had been transparent. how successful was our mission i believe that we have fulfilled our program this was only the 1st part of our investigation and we didn't expect to determine the origin of the pandemic already w.h.o. team and chinese specialists work together as scientists it was something like a huge conference where we shared opinions and information analyzed scientific literature that already exists discussed hypotheses and assessed possibilities i see no reason for the chinese side to hide anything they probably didn't do that

because in the scientific world it is very difficult to conceal something information could be hidden from the public but it is more difficult if it's people who really understand the issue. there are 2 hypotheses about how the virus appeared the 1st is that the virus may have been induced the suspicions have already been refuted says we're not even considering this the 2nd is that a natural virus came from the lab we were at the institute of uralla ji observing the work with viruses and concluded that everything meets safety standards and leakage could not have occurred this lab is far enough from the market if there was a leak we'd see signs of it there for such a leak is practically impossible we looked at hypotheses in the probability category it is likely that the virus came from space so it's impossible.

to french intellectuals are stepping up their attacks on what they call american values they claim fashionable leftist ideas imported from the us have no place in france and say they pose a threat to french society well these warnings are particularly new for the country they have been raised before by the president and other officials. those these certain social science theories entirely imported from the united states with the problems which i respect and which exist but which is just added to. there is a battle to wage against an intellectual matrix from american university. some national thinkers blame the us for france's mass protests against police brutality similar to america's black lives matter movement america's made to campaign on awareness about sexual abuse is also gained traction with fresh feminists. explains the transatlantic headache. french intellectuals and politicians are said to be up in arms over the cancelled culture ideology seeping over from the united

states and spoiling well the french way of life i think there's a kind of laziness of the intellectual process where they say well we're going to copy and paste and they come and they tell us how wrong we are black lives mark 2 are examples of movements that flew over the atlantic and spread their wings here now that's led to debates over race gender preferences crackdown on islam is still going on is asians and demands for the country to fess up to its colonial past they come and they tell us that we are racist. phobic about our universal values on nothing. and quite frankly i mean there's a combination of incredulity and. annoyance i wouldn't even say anger because we don't think it's rather that europe has existed for a long time. i think we can live without american christian will theory for

a few few years more and it seems the french of really had enough of council culture so when the director of the paris opera issues it picked out saying that he wanted to diversify staff and band black face the editor in chief of one of france's biggest daily papers and took issue making works of art disappear echoes the cancel culture which has been a national sport for america and aims to wipe off the map culture and creators symbolizing the domination of the white male and the oppression of minorities some say this problem it's much deeper it's a threat to its political identity is a threat to the republic and to french democracy and to the functioning of the state it's not a matter of cultural identity i do. i think that there is a big threat to civilized life and obviously freedom of speech and so on by

these kinds of movements while imposing ideas on race inequality feels for many a little bit rich coming from the u.s. considering the state to race relations in america right now it doesn't look like their solutions work so well so i'm not sure we need them really but the other thing is that there's this whole speech discussion about how colonialist it is to impose a different culture on the unsuspecting populations and the french are saying well you are imposing something that may or may not work for your country but it's not working for france i mean oh after all isn't the whole point of freedom of speech also having some respect for the point of view of others what is actionable in this room is the idea that instead of having a discussion or a debate or even an argument about it that there should be this should somehow become sold and so we are dealing sorry to say this it sounds rather rude but we

are dealing with the difference between intelligence and stupidity it's just stupid to talk like that of course we can all disagree about napoleon or any other historical figure but that's what makes us a civilization that is what civilization is there's a claim that this fight back comes from a small frightened republic that's in decline but isn't it just possible that perhaps france a country with a long proud tradition of intellectual debate the country where the unlighted movement was birthed is perhaps still ahead of the curve well at least compared to america and for now it appears that the left culture just isn't cutting the must it in france so let's even ski r.t. paris. on a tangent of this is high drama on the high arts to the paris opera xp. missing a radical rethink of its approach to diversity but not everybody is ready to see

the classics get a 21st century reboot we're going to discuss that after the break. join

me every 1st week on the alex salmond shill and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics. i'm sure i'll see you then. come back the paris opera this suffering a diversity scandal half the black performers complained about almost entirely white costs and also i think use of blackface in performances the organizations artistic director agrees. 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 hire more people of color as part of a 66 page report by the theatre the artistic director is also quoted by the newspaper warning that some performances could disappear from the repertoire if they're deemed to be insensitive but those plans have sparked a condemnation from the traditional commentators in the french media and also from the nationalist politician marine le pen has some of the reaction we've been hearing. 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 are worried about it we have some talented people here who are false to live friends express that the one where this is a huge problem and what alex underneath is saying now is he's take he's taking the problem to the roof that's mean that into recruitment he's changing the way of for a christmas cripple and it's a very new thing in france because we know that this is

a very elitist meter 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 the parasol they have their ballet school and they've changed their admissions procedure to let people in from ethnic minorities and black people to 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 the people that come through will be selected because they are talented and skilled we need of course 'd 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 is to have the most the wanted people in this new joint so for example what he's doing he's a law then so for example to have the dress who much would the court of that sit lots of because a lot of young densa 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 own and was

wondering about that 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 the region of the classic is the right this is origin but we have to say that france and england and u.k. and germany and do you. as today in 2021 it's not the same friends. or friends of the u.k. and the population in europe is different 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 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. cortical could stay in covert lockdown until health officials get their way the country's infection rate has slowed but it's still registering a high daily death toll one nurse we have from says the system was coping better until his latest spike in cases. but i mean. the situation is still very difficult we have more patients hospitalized in intensive care than the total number of beds we had prepared to make it is a huge difference from the 1st wave we were less prepared for the 1st wave we didn't have the supplies available fortunately at the time we anticipated it would get worse so we did not have the same type of pressure on our health services during this way we have the supplies we have the knowledge but we were completely overwhelmed by the number of cases reaching us and we lack human resources. since

the start of the pandemic the country's recorded almost 780000 coronavirus cases and nearly 15000 deaths health workers say they're still struggling to cope with the number of covert patients in intensive care. but my biggest personal concern is feeling that we were not able to do everything our health workers are very competent but they are immensely tired i see it in my colleagues colleagues who are tired and need holidays breaks and calmer shifts what motivates me right now is knowing that we are making a difference and to be able to achieve positive things in this moment to know that it is possible these nurses these doctors these assistants and these technicians have a very important mission to fulfill and they are fulfilling it and all together we can overcome this adversity and internationally the world health organization is still recommending the astra zeneca coated vaccine despite trolls showing limited

protection against new mutations of the virus south africa which is registered a particularly very new strain of the disease has suspended its role out of the shot over that very issue a national study from the u.k. based pharma giants job only had a 22 percent advocacy against the new variant and therefore raising questions on whether the vaccine should also be distributed in other countries south africa is already switched to the pfizer and the johnson and johnson jobs the head of the south african advisory committee on covert vaccines broke down the country's priorities in tracing and tracking the virus. the progress of course meantime we do need to protect our health care workers and we need to protect it with a break see we know who does have a track record previn trial record on preventing serious disease with the new variant so that's where you do you know and we just screen the use of issues and one of the important things of course you want to look at it is does. a still

provin series from fiction hospitalisation david in fiction or the new variant because it really don't have data on these really unfortunate this particular variant has got a mutation and a very critical part of ours the part before the virus which is needed for the bars to establish a picture as a particular attention or to particular position which is of course because the virus is not the trick and now it's in a selective advantage for it's just the effect of previous infliction and the vaccine. u.s. president joe biden's reversed his predecessors emergency order to build the mexico border wall saying no more taxpayer money will be spent on the project but the new administration is now stuck between calls to keep it in place or spend even more funds tearing it down as kind of open explains. i promise we will build the wall was you may have heard dan

a lot of times the promise some argue got donald trump elected the idea that got government to historic shutdown 20 times out of call for i will shut down the government if i don't get my will none of us if you want to know something you've said ok you want to put that in my city i'll take what the american taxpayers can relax now with biden in office no more money is being wasted it shall be the policy of my administration that no more american taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a border wall and then i am directing a careful review of all resources appropriated or redirect. to that end but what about the $15000000000.00 already spent on this wall furthermore tearing it down will still require the tax money joe biden is talking about the democrats always spend more money than they have because spending money is integral to building the power base they want to build no they don't care at all about the safety and solidity of the currency or the budget for public money is to them

a tool for power and the more they have to print and create to spend the further in debt they put us the happier democrats seem to be anyway with the political climate the way it is currently in the united states it seems that biden is really going to have no choice people are calling on him to tear it down and it's time for the by an administration to step up for border communities and commit to mitigating environmental damage and tearing down that wall so tear it down or leave it up as a monument to trump's racist policies as some democrats are calling for it looks like joe biden is downed in limbo when it comes to walls barriers and fences furthermore he also doesn't seem to know what to do about the big a razor wire fence around the u.s. capitol that seems hypocritical doesn't it nuts because it is democrats a low friends is and walls nancy pelosi has a very large security wall around her own home now they're going to try to wall in

washington d.c. and claim that it's dangerous violent trump supporters that require them to do this rumps history trumps legacy is completely unacceptable to democrats and they are determined to reverse everything so that they can pretend that trump never existed . and that's the way i look from out say this out thanks for watching i'm calling brian must go buy me a next to weld update in 33 minutes. elmwood forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. i robot must obey the orders given by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the 1st law show your identification for should be very careful about official intelligence and the point obesity is too great trust our government here.

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hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm keenly bill how do you define the word reality something like this the state of things as they actually exist as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them to say the least this is a philosophical definition let's throw in politics now is there one political reality can and should one be enforced with this in the end produce a ministry of truth. discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest tom reilly engram and she is a contributor with real america's voice in austin we have daniel one of the she is a professor of philosophy and human dimensions of organizations.