the russian foreign minister warns moscow's ready to end ties 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 prepare to war. a member of the world health organization just back from the coronavirus epicenter in china tells us the humans probably didn't catch the virus directly from bats but from other animals instead. and outrage in france grows over american values supposedly being forced on the country as the renowned parasol provides to diversify performances after complaints from black dancers 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 come and they tell us how wrong. this is r.t. international just one of the morning on saturday here in the russian capital money was called in bright welcome to world news 1st the russian foreign ministers warmed to that moscow is ready to break ties with the european union if it imposes new sanctions that key sectors of the economy. you sort of will still wish to go 2 years we're just saying that we're ready to do this if we see once again like lucy numerous times before that 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 as well it is a pretty straightforward message especially coming from

a veteran diplomat which serve 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 al behavior not only e.u. foreign policy chief brill 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 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 on facts 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 the buz the visit of high representative bordello to you merely 8 and offend the european union your ill executed visit you know only a shame to european citizens you also helps putin and harms dressin 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 you member states and yourself to to adopt a more realistic and principled russian foreign policy and to move toward sanctions finally among other side. of human rights where late just under sanctions least and to suspension of north stream to choose country to 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 if that was and he said fish yes i see immigrants racist and made before proceeding. sense of the support and we wouldn't be discussing him oh if you've been arrested anywhere else other than in russia so circle of 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 this door we won't we won't be standing there knocking political analysts go but dr believes a tit for tat strategy could lead to enormous economic damage on both sides. if the 1st year which occurred to me gently to gesticulate into russia's economic existence as they did as the west cherry was access to the script to iran where i could see the drastic extreme we order for action in the economic sphere taken by russia where he was given war. even more so you actions that have long been distrust among the national watching

me western western your specific of all the destruction of orm energy security we did and he has getting used to frustrate. nordstrom to 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 capsule passport warms shipped out here can cause enormous to both sides medical leaders very close to a good. number of the world health organization team that's just back from china has told r.t. that it probably wasn't bats the past coronavirus to humans he says that even if the disease originated in bats it was likely transferred to humans via other animals scientists believe it or cough it's been investigating the source of the pandemic and the chinese city of.

we know from past epidemics for example sars covert and mares cause of 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. the virus was 1st detected in the city in december 29th in the team's initial findings debunk claims that the disease originated in a laboratory however the u.s. 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 cover about how much access his team had in 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.

french intellectuals are stepping up their attack on what they call american values they claim fashionable leftist ideas imported from the us have no place in france and say they both have threat to french society although these warnings are particularly new for the country they've 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 universities. or some national thinkers blame the us for france's mass protest against police brutality similar to america's black lives matter movement america's made to campaign on awareness about sexual abuse has also gained traction with french feminists shala dubrovsky 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 this is a combination of incredulity and. annoyance i wouldn't 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 chris cruel theory for

a few few years and it seems the french of really had enough of council culture so when the director of the paris opera issues it diktats 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 there are 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 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 should somehow be canceled 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 this 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 enlightenment 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 to that high drama in the high arts there to the paris opera. is promising a radical rethink of its approach to diversity but don't everybody is ready to see the classics get a 21st century reboot is just one of the things we'll discuss after the break.

the reason to doing this study and the reason it's. those controversial and still important is that it demonstrates the power of social situations and playing roles that can lead. good ordinary people to do really bad things. welcome back facebook's privacy policies are in question once again the platforms disclosed its cooperated with us nor enforcement sharing private data of those who took part in the riot on capitol hill in washington on january the 6th. we were monitoring this out in real time and made appropriate referrals to law enforcement this includes helping them identify people who posted photos of themselves from the scene even after the attack was over we're continuing to share more information

with law enforcement in response to valid legal requests as they continue their investigation number one snitch in america big brother is facebook surreal farce the storming of the capitol building last month has so far resulted in charges against a reported 221 people if found guilty they could face up to 20 years in prison democratic officials have dubbed the offenders domestic terrorists the f.b.i.'s task of identifying offenders was aided by more than 200000 photos and videos mostly gained from social media and it's not all going without consequences for her facebook either the tech giants lost more than $30000000000.00 of its market value its investors have been spooked by the platform's coziness with the feds f.b.i. has revealed it's getting users personal messages from the platform in order to trace suspected capital rioters let's talk more about this now with us mr moves executive vice president of the eurasia center welcome back to r.t.

especially so well trodden path isn't it facebook and privacy and what it does with our data but an open secret for years hasn't it but in terms of trying to get to the bottom of who did was on capitol hill on january the 6th is facebook opening up a can of worms here by sharing data with the feds. well i think. they've been doing this for quite a while a lot of people don't realize i mean a lot of your research on facebook your data is wide open. it and really a lot of the communications organizations as well twitter facebook instagram even your phone calls mobile calls when you get federal government federal law enforcement to go back to the patriot act really open it up but i mean it could be subpoenas that could be court orders or what we call a national security letter which is really broad and. in basically

it. causes or forces communications companies and platforms to share information with. you know with law enforcement fact b.s.l. some national security letter doesn't even need a court order or probable cause or a judge well this is the the thing that was not because it's still a gray area even in 2020 was that even though these were private messages and people assume the private means private or encrypted that would stand at a stage where most people haven't read the 1000000 or so i would set the terms and conditions that if you take part in any illegal activity then therefore you forfeit that right to privacy and in this case we're talking about a deadly riot facebook's damned if it doesn't damned if it doesn't in terms of handing over this kind of information isn't it. well i mean you know and the other thing too is most people i would say hundreds of thousands of people really did nothing illegal whatsoever there you had a you had some absolutely but but the majority of people in fact some people that

are being turned in and turned over investigator were not in the capitol they were perhaps on the capitol grounds but that's completely equal eat well until recently completely legal and open and public space so there was really no violation of any type of wall whatsoever but we kind of twisted that and interpret it differently and facebook seems to be and i would gather other social media platforms are turning over extensive amount of information and probably you've probably got a lot of business probably review of a lot of c.c.t.v. drone footage is or other types of video information is probably being looked at as well what are the consequences for the likes of facebook and as you said the other social networks as well because equally if they don't have this kind of information however i'm sure they've got one eye on thinking well we don't face regulation if we don't help. true in and obviously it's a little bit of a. i mean the implications are i would think you could lose users or users would

access that much less that would then create less of an audience for their advertisers which could mean a loss of advertising income also could be as you mention in some of the investors been spooked so you could see decline in stock value as well and i think i mean it's a slippery slope the whole surveillance and in the police state. it really that's what they're feeding it and they're supporting and obviously you don't we didn't release seems like we're getting much more investigation of this incident here than we did over the summer with the right with the burning of the destruction of property with the destruction of homes and businesses and a little bit to face if you look at it from that with ok thanks very much for joining us all rasmussen from the eurasia center thanks for your time. thanks to paris opera is suffering

a diversity scandal after black performers complained about almost entirely white costs and also the 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 was also quoted by the lamond newspaper warning that some performances would disappear from the repertoire if they were deemed to be insensitive but the plans have sparked condemnation from 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 bloc ballet dancers in there so i really don't know what the people who are calling for change here are all worried about we have some talented people here who are forced to

leave france to go 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 in the recruitment he's changing the way a for a critic meant cripple and it's a very new thing in france because we know that this is a very elitist 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 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 say 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 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 region of the classic is the right this is the origin but we have to say that france and england and u.k. and germany and do you. it's 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. for tickle could stay in covert lockdown until easter if 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 heard from says the system was coping better until the 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 tonight and since the start of the pandemic the country's recorded almost 780000 coronavirus cases nearly 15000 deaths health workers say they're still struggling to cope with the number of covert patients in intensive care. 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 assistance and these technicians have a very important mission to fulfill and they are fulfilling it and all together we can overcome this adversity. financial in thomas way to keep you updated in the coming hours here on the international. ok folks next up this will be see that i love this guy david or you know him from the ron burgundy movies the office i think he's all round the goldbergs now jeff garlin show over there and he's got a new wrong com coming out with another young comedian mr steve and hill

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