anywhere why not me. when i come here. to. play. in the headlines today all nazi international stuff holds up rubber bullets and slash bands and spain is walks by unrest over the jailing of catalan rock the problem has south africa he was handed a 9 month sentence the stronger i'm glorifying terrorism. leaders held vaccine deals with madonna on find the block attempts to get its vaccine campaign off the ground. over the coming food old medicine that's the choice facing many of these most vulnerable as the pandemic takes as tall. as you

and it was going on the book you go this year has definitely been a strange one the global pandemic has brought a number of sectors to the knees and among these is certainly the poorest people having the greatest difficulties finding drugs and buying medicine. millions of texas residents are left without electricity and heat down so far it's a struggle to cope with that deadly winter storm as we take the southern states of america. this is how. to. do this for. a very good morning to you from our team here in moscow you're watching r.t. international with me. now starting in spain where raw. it police have dispersed

thousands of protesters who took to the streets across the country after the jailing of catalan rapper pablo cell he was handed a 9 month sentence for insulting the spanish world family and glorifying terrorism in his tweets and lyrics. well have a clashes erupted in catalonia castle was arrested in his hometown of on tuesday around 2000 people rallied in barcelona where they were met with a strong police presence handful of protesters set a barricade set pins on fire and 3 projectiles at police regional or enforcement forces said several people were arrested local journalist evelyn kaczynski was at the scene. people are starting to like they already started yesterday going out on the streets of mar so long and they want. to be released he basically was criticizing the spanish crowd and she's in his songs in his rap there are lots

of teenagers a protest think mostly young people and not just in barcelona but also in other sneakiness in catalonia especially a laid out where. in my kitchen you versity you basically barricaded himself and now he says that she just wanted the truth to come out and he's very happy happy about it they are just like the streets on fire and the plastic at the you know just the main square in there in barcelona and so the police are getting quite angry because it's like the 1st process since many months in the barcelona because of corbett of course yesterday there was a woman who was injured who was there she's only 19 years old and she got basically like a bullet form in hair in her face and now it seems like there are for the star even . bigger than yesterday and they might continue for the next couple things

famous or something and demand a back they're there in the iris of well might have just been. used in. been months since a couple lungs were actually among whole grain like you said. and others other big. banks. actually also tired of all the restrictions. so they are using you know different uses such as the iris of pablo basically also they want who you know have a normal life again go back to work and go to restaurants and and and they are just wired and. well 32 year old hersel was taken to prison early this week after barricading himself in a catalan university with his supporters and it comes in the wake of last weekend's

historic showing of pro independence parties in local catalan elections back in 2800 sound was convicted by a spanish court for glorifying terrorism and insulting state institutions he had been given and to last friday to turn himself in and begin serving his sentence a member of the catalan national assembly told us suppressing free speech is inexcusable. this bunny over many is sick creating the fundamental rights artists have their right to free speech and free free creation through government and. they call themselves the most progressive government in the history of the spain on saw for them the case of capital has been problem because is a clear sign that this is not true or not this is one of the reasons why we are only

independence not because we want to build a new a new contract with a more open and free loss we want to know more open system not a system which accept. the killed and creation like the one on the cell or others like. so of course we need this this change so we are fighting for this for a more free. push to boost its faltering coronavirus vaccination program the european union has signed contracts with my done that and 5 f. and millions of extra job doses has artie's piece all of it with the details here in germany the authorities are worried about the spread of the so-called group a variant of covert 19 it already accounts for 22 percent of cases that have been

recorded and the fear is that this much more complex version of the virus could become the dominant strain from march the 1st all citizens should be able to be tested free of charge by train staff with rapid and tests. even self tests should be accessible to everyone once approved these test options can contribute to a safe everyday life especially in schools and daycares and the health minister also wants to see more comptrollers on those coming into germany from hind risk areas vaccination has being slow across the e.u. in germany just under 4 percent of the population of had at least one cova job more doses over the vaccine are on order and are expected to arrive soon but there is frustration with the sluggish rollout among the population is and realistic because

people still aren't taken khurana seriously enough they don't want to be vaccinated because of the conspiracy theories and social media but there is so much fake news that when my doctor says something is safe i listen they have only decipher the neck of. the nation but. it's not as good as the other ones i guess and now they want to use death but the people are very skeptical about the death of the neka vaccinations always get it got to leave it complicated now the a use one for all and all for one vaccine procurement has come in for quite a lot of criticism for being slow to get into gear with senior m.e.p. is not pulling any punches in slamming the process a fiasco i call it and fiasco it is let's look to to the fact well after nearly 2 months the rollout of excise in dramatically low when you were

the majority of the nearly 200000000 covered dark signs that have already been produced are coming from european factories. nevertheless there is a crucial lack of supply in every european member state france has given out a job to were around 4 percent of its population present on a set out this summer as a deadline for vaccinating everyone who wanted a short months looking very ambitious right now. urgent basket of pasta and i think that in france we did not take the problem seriously enough at the start we just thought of it as a little flu that had come from another country. exposed to a blight on this was on the books on the i think that it simply proves that people who live in europe don't have strong confidence in those in power their representatives we have already had a vaccine in france that didn't work notably for older people because a sponsor has to stop well i think because they're always late or

a question of money i don't know i don't know i don't know what to tell you about it well it looks like it started badly. in spain there currently are just under 6 percent of the population with not much confidence in hitting the goal set to vaccinate 70 percent of citizens so impossible as it goes into the accounts that are being made it would take more than 2 years to vaccinate 70 percent somehow it's mismanagement we should change the way of managing vaccination be able to get country where it should be i see the been very slow for some reason because there is bad management but if they change the mythology if we could reach 70 percent by changing the current system then great because now it's very slow. so that they sell them to the highest bidder they do not fulfill the contract i think not here in spain it is way a week. for the most part the slow rollout in europe has been down to not having

enough vaccines to give while infrastructure has been in place to give the injections some countries have had. to suspend their inoculation programs because they don't have the required doses all the while the russian sputnik v vaccine which received blistering reviews and medical journals is still awaiting e.u. approval for use in the block peter all over r.t. berlin the coronavirus pandemic has pushed to italy's most vulnerable to the brink with many facing a daily decision of whether to feed themselves or take care of their medical needs . it will. cause a lot on the real my situation has worsened due to the pandemic i'm a small grass man who worked in fairs and since everything is now closed due to the curb it i don't know how to go on i have to pay for some medicines but without anyone's help i often can't afford them between eating in treating myself i choose

the former you don't know what you have to pay for 1st between pain the house bills and medicines you don't really know what to prioritize so i decide not to treat myself. with the i'm also finding it difficult to purchase drugs but always cost a lot i can't buy medicines the price of which is increasing more and more women are talking about different coated variants they're saying there could be a new look down so we don't have a better future to look forward so there is no hope. well the pandemic has forced to many charities to redirect their efforts last year social organization feta followed district distributed over $6000.00 packs of medicine donated in pharmacies to $24.00 charities still they only met it's less than 40 percent of demand for medicines this year the number of charities has increased to 29 and the number of pharmacies participating in the campaign has risen by 3 to 79 since the start of

the pandemic italy has recorded more than 2200000 700000 coronavirus cases and almost 95000 deaths in 29000 around 1100000 600000 italians were on the breadline that number grew 517-3000 in 2020 we spoke to people in the country about the situation. it was about to go this year has definitely been a strange one the global pandemic has brought a number of sectors to the knees and among these is certainly the poorest people who are having the greatest difficulties finding drugs and buying medicine many people can't even afford to buy drugs at a reduced price. yes donating medicines brings a smile to the faces of people who can be treated the crisis is devastating and there are people who even have to make a choice between eating and treating themselves. for the pandemic has increased poverty and in palermo it's quite high in the year before

the pandemic were open 3 days a week but now due to covet we have to open 5 days a week people don't work and can't even pay for meds since we collect medicines and then we give them to people who can't afford them people can't pay for them so we do what we want we distribute food for children too we are missing many things and we're also struggling. to come the italian service sector has also been devastated by the pandemic forcing some business owners to open their doors in defiance of coronavirus rolls more on this story later in the program. the winter storm sweeping across the southern united states has left millions of americans without power for days and texas the record winter freeze has led to rolling blackouts as all 30 struggled to keep power grids up and running caleb maupin has more. the lights are out and the heat is off the unthinkable has happened in america's energy capital texas is without power amid some of the lowest

temperatures in 30 years the state's power grid has collapsed so this is a. very they split. and that is the other imbra oh it's good to go to regular parent being right here for birds where texas residents say the state was simply unprepared for cold weather conditions in the late weeks in march for it was an urgent time it was nice . to go into the home with no water it's pretty bad that you know us texans just came here we're told every other part of the country this would not been an issue you got on the blanket sound we tried to all sleep together to keep us warm and then today when we got up there was no water we have no real update of when it's

going to come on our phones barely were without electricity texas residents are resorting to some rather desperate measures in the hopes of staying warm they're firing up the grill and the generators and some of the even tried to use their cars to heat their homes resulting in several deaths and over 300 cases of carbon monoxide poisoning people are dying from carbon monoxide poisoning we have had so many calls in so many incidents that we can't even track them all with think amid this kind of chaos that local officials would have your back all the way except instead we heard a local mayor who decided to give a lecture on personal responsibility and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps no one owes you will your family anything nor is it the local government's responsibility to support you trying times like this sink or swim it's you. choice the city and county along with power provide any of the service. nothing it wasn't

exactly what people wanted to hear however with him gone colorado city and the rest of texas are still not doing very well electricity costs are up 10000 percent the major oil refineries of the state has shut down due to freezing weather that bright new future of green energy isn't working out so well in the present the wind turbines that accounted for almost a quarter of texas' energy last year have frozen to a standstill alternative energy sources have been a key aspect of the democrats' push for go friendly policies a key plank of our build back better recovery plan is building a modern resilient climate infrastructure and clean energy future that will create millions of good paid union jobs critics are blaming joe biden and the democrats saying they pushed climate friendly policies a bit too hard and branding the outcome catastrophic live shows how the green new deal would be a deadly deal for the united states of america if the last few days have proven

anything it's that we need oil and gas relying solely on renewable energy would be catastrophic many of these sources have proven to be unreliable the united states may be a global superpower but at home it's a lacking power quite literally all of this critics say are symptoms of america in decline kaleb up and aren't seeing new york elsewhere in the united states new york governor andrew cuomo is reportedly under investigation for concealing the number of death nothing heim. apologize look i have said repeatedly. we made the when we didn't provide information. it allowed press people cynics politicians to fill the void i just want to be sure people know these are the facts these are the facts. everything that could have been done was done every single time he has

a press conference he always says it's conspiracy theory or he's blaming someone else but what he doesn't understand is that families are not just our broken we have questions and what he's given so far is insufficient we know that the numbers or because my mother's a 70 had only 40 people reported dead however almost 10 months later the numbers were changing so we know that air must have been something wrong kormos administration has revealed that 15000 long term care residents have died during the pandemic passed up from 8500 disclosed previously advocacy group voices the scene is was the 1st to demand an investigation into the situation vivian zionists who lost her mother to covidien a new york home founded the group told us about best fight for the truth. my sister and i were the ones trying to find out really what was going on in my mother's

facility and we had no idea that this was a state wide mission one issue so the steps we're taking right now is against the nursing home directly they were the ones in charge of my mom they were the ones who failed to treat her they're the ones who were not prepared for the pandemic they're the ones who had a duty to my mother and to the other now 69 residents to keep them safe so what we're going to keep going in raising our voices and crying out for a statewide in the pending investigation and a federal investigation into cuomo and his and his administration. a restaurant in milan has set up a rapid covert testing booth and opened its doors to the public in defiance of coded curbs despite being fined the owner insists his idea could help the hospitality industry stay afloat.

and we were always for people who want to go out. you have to book. in the don't just sign the paper once the test is positive or negative.

well following the defeat of germany and 945 you'd think that right wing extremism that would have been all but eliminated in the country was on th redfish project discover that this may not be the case is so commensurate premie as long you chip today and you can watch it throughout the day on the international as well but here's a quick taste. they were the truth while mr. boyd. devise an. awesome shots and finished it in the shot at. the 4th you know go all. the time you. can see it on the ball this. hard in the spring your stephen king that baba yaga avoided trying to grab out it's a member of the party.

we spoke to raina rothfuss chairman of the f.t. lindau who claims that the party has been demonized by political rivals and the media. it has become quite common to misuse the term of not citizen to fight against political enemies and it's not only the a.f.p. which has become the whip him of this we have a very long and complete list of all right extremist parties and also organizations n.g.o.s etc of which it you cannot come and enter the a.f.d. as a member as to now really concerted campaign of the political parties and the media is running to demonize the a.f.d.c.

for things they are not really responsible for if you look at the programmatic. aims of the party it is the conservative party which even has a strong elements of a left wing party it is quite obvious that the other parties attack the a.f.d. as a real opposition an opposition which is feared by everyone because also the other opposition parties of course see that the a.f.d. comes in with a totally new concept the democratic system it will only be complete if you allow also citizens to decide in. a referendum on basic issues concerning the government and the country and this was for many years the basic point in the programme off the green party for example which is to

consider to be a left wing party. $5000.00 national guard troops are expected to remain in washington until the middle of next month the decision was reportedly made over lingering concerns of violence has not been found fun jack with more on the. one of the places that i actually lived in was a news anchor was an el paso texas where you had fort bliss that is the 2nd largest army post in the country when we pulled up to the gates here this morning it looks like i was walking into fort bliss there is a there's a whole street that's blocked off here that goes right into a checkpoint you'll see that these cars they go in they get checked pointed by police by national guard and you see this is all happening literally just you know maybe 2 football fields away from our u.s. capitol you can also see to the left of the capitol here in our life that we have almost like these little trailers that have been put up we have a lot of these members where they're actually staying there was 26000 troops here

during the inauguration the numbers starting to go down but they want to have 5000 troops here scheduled again like you said chill march 4th because you have a lot of cuban members talking underground and in sub right it's in you know you have a lot of these different you know social media other outlets and they're going to talking about possibly coming back again on march 4th believing that trump will be reinstated as a president again the fence looks like it goes down for miles now it goes all the way to the reflection pool in front of the capitol you know this is the people's house kids come here on their snow days to slide down the hill and now it's completely occupied by the national guard here i want you to look at the fencing right now normally you have barbed wire fencing you have barbed wire fencing outside of federal prisons this is razor wire this will kill you if you try to breach this fence here ok that fence that goes all the way around the perimeter of the capital $50000000.00 now again there's talks of having the national guard stay here until the early fall it's it's going to cost american taxpayers $2650000.00

per day to have $5000.00 troops here. but i'm a person has promised to protect the country's upcoming parliamentary elections from foreign interference the russian president made the comments while addressing the state duma as policy leaders constitution last cough picks up the story. lattimer putin touched on a number of topics both in foreign and domestic politics but of course since it was a meeting with members of the russian parliament one issue was front and center at the integrity of the upcoming election in russia's lower chambre that is scheduled for september this year the russian president specifically mentioned that it's important to make sure there is no foreign interference in the electoral process. and. up people will decide the outcome of the vote and this choice must be protected from any attempts of foreign interference russia will not allow any blues to its sovereignty or its people's right to be the musters of their own law and

also refer to the latest developments involving us social media giants i mean we all remember the removing of donald trump from twitter silencing the voices of conservative commentators online and so latimer putin made a point that those i.t. giants sometimes can disregard the law of a certain nation and impose their own policies in such a sensitive issue as a freedom of speech. talking about so-called platforms i t companies this is a serious challenge not only for us as we've seen what's happened in the us this division is happening around the world it's an ideological division this is clear if that's the way they behave in their own country how will they treat others seeing as they consider themselves to be exceptional the russian president and members of the parliament also discuss the several foreign policy topics including the ricin shutdown of 3 russian speaking t.v. channels in ukraine which made it harder for millions of ukrainians who speak

russian to access information in their own native language and that was done simply under the direct order of the ukrainian president so putin is sad that this was another example of a double standard approach because the west that otherwise life stupid drama over freedom of speech issues in russia. was for some reason pretty much silent this time lattimer putin also touched on the north stream to gas pipeline that is still facing enormous opposition from the us and washington relentlessly pushing germany the country that is supposed to receive natural resources over that pipeline to back away from the project which would. why is everything revolving around an old stream too they want to force russia it's a pay for this so-called ukraine geo political project that sits in fact it's all quite simple after the meeting lair putin also plans to see each of the parliamentary party leaders in person. many thanks for joining us here on oxy

international we had to have a new great day we're back in 30 minutes with the latest. the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in their own interests what you see in this these techniques is the state devising methods to him to essentially destroy personality of an individual. by scientific. this is how one doctor's theories were allegedly used in psychological warfare against prisoners deemed a danger to the state that was the foundation of the method of psychological interrogation psychological torture. disseminated within the u.s. intelligence community and worldwide among our allies for the next 30 years.