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no well reduce a lot of. that's undercutting but what's good for market is not good for the global economy. and the headlines today on r.t. international spain is long spot on the list over the jailing of thomson on the ground how low can sell after he was handed a 9 month sentence for small to read the crown and glorifying terrorism. and millions of texas residents are left without electricity and he says all parties struggle to cope with the deadly winter storm sweeping the southern states of america. this is.
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to. close. calls as a column food or medicine that's the choice facing many of its in these posts vulnerable as the pound takes its toll. i have to buy some medicine result anyone's help i also can't afford them which we need to be treated myself i choose to fema i can't buy medicines a process which is increasingly they're saying this could be them so we don't have a better future for which there is no hope. a very warm welcome it's 9 am here in moscow and you're watching r t international with me becky airing. riot police in spain have dispersed thousands of protesters who took to the streets off the jailing of consonantal pablo hersel who was handed
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a 9 month sentence for so long during the spanish well family glorifying terrorism and his tweets. thank. you for having clashes erupted in castle lonia as has cell was arrested in his hometown as on tuesday counted 1000 people rallied in barcelona where they were met with a strong police presence and handful of protesters that a barricade set buildings on fire and 3 projectiles at offices which no law enforcement said several people were arrested local journalist evelyn a kocinski i was at the scene. people are starting to like they already started
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yesterday going out in the streets of bar so long and they want. to be released he basically was criticizing the spanish crowd and 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 others in catalonia especially a lay down where. in the end we continue basically barricaded himself and now he said 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 plus a couple is the main square in the 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. course yesterday there was a woman who was injured who were there only 19 years old and she got basically like
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a bullet spawn in hair in her face and now. it seems like there are those are even . bigger than yesterday and they might continue for the next couple things. or something and demand back. there in the rest of the might have just been an excuse because it's been months since a cut the lungs were actually among whole grain like you said. and others other big. bank people are 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 to you know have a normal life again go back to work and go to restaurants and and and they are just
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wired and. 32 year old has cell was taken to prison early this week after barricading himself and i counsel on university with his supporters it comes in the wake of last weekend's historic showing of true independence parties in los catalan elections back in 2018 public hersel was convicted by a spanish court of glorifying terrorism and insulting state institutions has been given until last friday to turn himself in and begin his sentence talking about the ruling the supremes court said free speech has its limits and is subject to constitutional demands a member of the catalan national assembly told us suppressing free speech is inexcusable. spun it over many years it creating the fundamental rights artists have their right to free speech and free free creation
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through government is they call themselves the most progressive government in the history for spain on saw for them the case of. a big problem because is a clear sign that this is not true or not this is one of the reasons why we want independence not because we want to build a new a new contract with a more open and free laws we want one more open system not a system which accept. the killed and creation like the one on her cell or others like. so of course we need this this change so we are fighting for this for a more free. 3. a deadly winter storm sweeping across the southern united states has left millions of americans without
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power for days and texas their record went to freeze as lead to rolling blackouts as authorities struggle to keep power grids up and running pellet more pain 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. i. think it is the other imbra oh it's good to go to regular pay and be right here for birds and. texas residents say the state was simply unprepared for cold weather conditions in the late we've seen mark or it was an urgent time i suppose likes. to
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go into the home with open 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 try 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
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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. thing 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 is 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 bill back better recovery plan is building a modern resilient climate infrastructure and clean energy future that will create
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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 if proven and the thing 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. are seeing new york. a coronavirus pandemic has pushed its allee's most vulnerable to the brink with many facing a daily decision of whether to feed themselves will take care of their medical needs and 2020 the number of people on the breadline in italy grew by 173000 and just under one 3rd of autonomy and are struggling to make ends meet as the country
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faces this was the economic crisis since world war 2 we spoke to people in italy about the situation. ensemble troll boy picture articles are on there we are my situation has worsened due to the pandemic i'm a small cross man who worked in fairs and since everything is now closed due to the curve 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 eaten 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. i'm also finding it difficult to purchase drugs that always cost a lot i can't buy medicines the price of which is increasing more and more we're now talking about different covert variants they're saying the could be a new lockdown so we don't have a better future to look forward so there is no hope. the new italian government is
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facing growing calls to change its strategy for dealing with the pandemic with leading health experts insisting that the current head system of regional restrictions is ineffective the government scientific committee on monday urged ministers to follow other european countries in implementing stricter measures we spoke to people in italy about the situation. that was to go this year has definitely been a strange one the global pandemic has brought a number of sectors to their 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 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. the pandemic has increased poverty and palermo is 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
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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 are also struggling with this. in the united states new york governor andrew cuomo is reportedly under investigation for concealing the number of covert deaths in nursing homes apologize look i've said repeatedly we made a mistake 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. if you desire has lost her mother to covidien
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a new york care home and went on to set up the voices for cv is advocacy group which was the phones to call for an investigation 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 knew that the numbers were because my mother's a 70 had only 40 people reported dead however almost 10 months later the numbers were changing so we knew that there must have been something wrong the administration revealed that 15000 care home residents had died from 8500 disclosed previously the scandal erupted 2 weeks ago when the new york attorney general accused the quiver of ministration of undercounting missing home kovi death vivian zions again told us about their fight for the truth. my sister
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and i were the ones trying to find out really what was going on in my mother's facility we had no idea that this was a statewide nationwide 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 state wide in the penn investigation and a federal investigation into cuomo and his and his administration's. coming up after the break be a tell yourself this sector has been devastated by the pandemic forcing some business owners to open our doors in defiance of coronavirus rule book on this story later in the program.
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am. told. when i was told wrong. just don't call. me the all you have to shape out disdain comes to educate and in the game equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. we are now at a point where we cannot manufacture the basic foundational components of the 21st century economy we are literally taking ourselves out of the game by throwing the keys to the economy to private equity groups wall street and
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funds financier's and money pressures and now it's too late. on a push to boost its faltering coronavirus vaccination program the european union has signed contracts with mcdonough and finds a full millions of extra job doses his artie's pizza on the phone with the details here in germany the authorities are worried about the spreads over the so-called new pay variant of covert $19.00 it already accounts for 22 percent of cases that have been recorded and the fear is that this much more content ages version of the virus could become the dominant strain for march the 1st all
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citizens should be able to be tested free of charge by trained 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 high risk areas that the nation has being slow across the e.u. in germany just under 4 percent of the population have 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 not to have only decipher the nick of vaccination but. it's not as good as the other ones i
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guess and now they want to use death but the people are very skeptical about that after the mecca of vaccinations always get it got to leave it complicated no 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 coffins back science 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
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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. 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 vex need sounds of percents. it's mismanagement we should change the way of managing vaccination be able to get country where it should be i see the very slow for some reason because there is bad
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management and they sell them to the highest bidder they do not fulfill the contracts i think not here in spain it is where 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 russians sputnik of the 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. following the defeat of nazi germany in 1945 you'd think that right wing extremism. it would now be limited to the very fringes of society but as artie's redfish project discovered this may not be the case it's documentary premieres on you tube today and you can watch it throughout the day on r.t.
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international as well here's a quick preview. the road to truth while mr. i know. devise an inexact and so fast and short and finished it in this light at. the 40 i go all. the time you. can see it on the for. the beer out in the spring your stephen king that baba yaga avoided trying to grab up and it's an invalid. we spoke to raina rothfuss chairman of alternative for germany and lindau who claims that the party has been demonized by political rivals and the media. it
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has become quite come in to misuse the term of not system to fight against political enemies and it's not only the a.f.d. 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 is you cannot come and enter the f.d.a. as a member as to now really concerted campaign of the political parties and the media is running to demonize the a.f.d. 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
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a left wing party it is quite obvious that the other parties at tax the a.f.d. as a real opposition and opposition which is feared by everyone because of the other opposition parties of course see that the a.f.d. comes in with a totally new concept the democracy 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 program off the green party for example which is to consider to be a left wing party. around $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 found front jack with more on the
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story. one of the places that i actually lived in was a news anchor was and all 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 on 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 till march 4th because you have a lot of cuban members talking underground and in sub read it's in you know you have a lot of these different you know social media other outlets and they're going to
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talking about possibly coming back again on march 4th believing that trump will be reinstated as the 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 it's 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. a restaurant in milan has set up a rapid kind of a testing booth and it still is to the public in defiance of coverage cubs despite being fines the owner insists his idea could help the hospitality industry stay
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afloat. one week and we were always full of people want to go out and live. to put it on you have to book in advance then you come here give your name and the dots assign the paper once the test is positive or negative.
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thanks for joining us here on off the international plan to most always be found on our web site www dot com will be back with the latest in 30 minutes. elderly forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. i robot must obey the orders given a human beings except where such orders to conflict with the 1st law. should be very careful about our national intelligence and the point also use the. trust of the shia. areas you know with artificial intelligence where some of the demons.
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must protect its own existence and existence. the. nature of human beings to change nature so i think. this i think is what this last person that it was going to make people want to see really why should we force a good time just because nature is something that. should be in your brain why don't we just choose this. have you ever start a new job but it seems like every one of your new workplace cannot stop talking about the person you were placed well and it's been almost one month since president biden took office and yet his predecessor continues to share it's not dominate the headlines but it's also getting personal as lawmakers are having to deal with members of their own state party and their own family publicly upset with
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their vote on last week's impeachment we're going to take a $360.00 view on why is there an obsession with donald trump and more importantly is it justified but we also want to focus on the 1st major appearance of president biden at a town hall which consisted of several did he really just say that moment we're going to bring you all of the details. and a legend in media has passed we're going to reflect on just how much of an influence rush limbaugh had on politics and what this means for a movement for the future i am scotty now hughes and you are watching news use he use it right here on our to america i. thank my. we opened today show with the news of the passing of a talk radio host rush limbaugh now he had been battling lung cancer for over a year and was honored by president trump and just last year at the state of the union with the presidential medal of freedom now rushed.

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