it is the soul of the busy week to get you. in the headlines today are nazi international spain is rocked by all the rest of the jailing of cattle on raw power pablo has felt afterwards candy that a 9 month sentence the floundering the clown and glorifying terrorism. and millions of texas residents are left without electricity and hades as all farty struggle to cope with the deadly winter storm sweeping 7 states of america. so this is good. to. be. told so food or

medicine that's the choice facing many of its leaves most vulnerable as the permed make takes its toll. very welcome it's 11 am here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me mickey aaron. knowledge protests have broken out in spain over the jailing of council on rapper pablo herself for slandering the crown under glorifying terrorism hundreds of celebrities have spoken out in support of the artist while on the stand to national described his arrest as an excessive restriction on his freedom of expression.

thank you. so much. heavy clashes erupted in catalonia as has cell was arrested in his hometown as a guard on tuesday around 2000 people rallied in barcelona where they were met with a strong police presence a handful of protesters that a barricade set pins on fire and threw projectiles out officers regional morning school said several people were arrested local journalist every night kaczynski i was at the scene. people are starting to like they already started 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 think mostly young people and not just in barcelona but also in other sneaking in catalonia especially a lay down where. in the. basic barricaded himself and now he said that she just wanted the truth to come out and he's very happy happy about it they just looked 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 a bullet. 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 famous

or something and demand a back. there in the iris of. well might have just been. used because it's been months since a cut the lungs were actually among whole grain like you said. and others other big. bank. actually also tired of all the restrictions. so they are using you know different uses such as the iris of pablo as basically also they want who you know have a normal life again go back to work 32 year old hersel was taken to prison early this week after barricading himself in a catalan university with his supporters it comes in the wake of last weekend's historic showing just how independence party's a local catalan elections back in 2800 popular hersel was

convicted by a spanish cause of glorifying terrorism and insulting state is to choose since he fell foul of legislation covering spaniards his right to freedom of expression dubbed the gaggle or by critics talking about the ruling the supreme court said free speech has its limits and this subject to constitutional demands a member of the catalan national assembly told is suppressing free speech is inexcusable. hispanic over many is or is it creating the fundamental rights artists have their right to free speech and free free creation croom government is they call themselves the most progressive government in the history of the spain also for them the case of sell is a big problem because it is a clear sign that this is not true or not this is one of the reasons why we want

the independence not because we want to build a new a new contrary with a more open and free laws we want to know more open system not a system which accept. the killed and creation like the one off 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. deadly winter storm sweeping across the southern united states has left millions of americans without power for days texas this thing no record winter phrase with temperatures dropping as low as minus 18 degrees celsius for the 1st time and i have a 30 years this is led to rolling blackouts with many houses destroyed during the storm. so this is a very. low i.q.

. to. these 4 i did was legal. and look at it the other bro oh gee again you threw to the regular person being right here for the birds and. as authorities struggle to keep our grades up and running some officials are placing the blame on the renewable energy sector for the disaster while residents criticize local authorities for the slow response. pretty bad the states just can't we're told every other part of the country this wouldn't but issue any we've seen mark for this action turn so i seek. to go through the whole bill over you've got all the blankets out 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 $300.00 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 your 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 eco friendly policies a key plank of our build back better recovery plan is building a modern. zillion climate infrastructure and clean energy future that will create millions of good pain 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 licious 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. are seeing new york. like a run a virus pandemic has pushed italy'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 and it's in the group by $173000.00 on just under one 3rd of a tolerance on now at risk of poverty according to the organization for economic cooperation and development we have how it's how the install coping with the pandemic. boy picture articles of 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

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. 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 there could be a new look down so we don't have a better future to look forward so there is no hope. the new italian government is facing growing calls to change its strategy for dealing with the pub in delhi with leading health experts insisting that the current tiered system of regional restrictions is ineffective the government scientific committee on monday urged ministers to follow other european countries in implementing stricter measures

here's what locals told us about the situation. if you go and that was done 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 where all of. 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 comit 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 with this. when the u.s.

9 new york state assembly members are pushing for governor andrew cuomo to be stripped of his emergency powers but as he faces allegations that he broke the law by concealing covert deaths in nursing homes the scandal escalated 2 weeks ago when the new york attorney general accused the cuomo administration of undercounting cozy deaths in nursing homes by 50 percent the state health department then disclosed over 6000 previously other reported victims despite wide criticism andrew cuomo has stopped short of an apology apologized look i have said repeatedly we made a mistake when we didn't provide information it allows. 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 it's also been reported that the f.b.i. and federal prosecutors are investigating quote most coronavirus task force with a particular focus on his administration's handling of nursing homes we spoke to vivian zions who lost her mother to covidien a new york care home and went on to set up the voices for seniors advocacy group. 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 my sister 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 is raising our voices and crying out for a statewide in the pending investigation and a federal investigation into cuomo and his and his administration's. coming up to break the attorney and service sector has been devastated by the pandemic forcing some business owners to open that door was in defiance of coronavirus rogues more on this story they say the crime.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday should we let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development only to be engaged loses i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

welcome back following the defeat of nazi germany in 1945 you might think the right wing extremism would not be limited to the very fringes of society but as artie's redfish project discovered this may not be the case it's documentary premie as long you cheered today and you can watch it throughout the day on r.t. international as well here's a quick preview. there are. also. devised to satisfy some short since then used it in this light at. the 40 i will call more see. the new. zealand concede and therefore.

the premier. bombay aka avoided crying because i've gotten this part. we spoke to raina roth 1st chairman of alternative for germany and lendl 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 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 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. 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 and 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 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 programme off the green party for example which is to consider to be a left wing party. 5000 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 is not 2000 from jack with more on the 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 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. in a push to boost limited vaccine supplies and get his faltering vaccination program off the ground they were paying union has signed contracts for millions of vaccines with madonna on science but with only around 5 percent of the population receiving a dose so soft frustration within the blog is mounting his oxys piece all of us 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 content ages 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 high risk areas that's a nation 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 not to 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 that after

the neka explanations 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 amy p's 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 of the nearly 2 months the rollout of vaccines in dramatically low in europe the majority of the nearly 200000000 coverage mark 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 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. 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 they're currently at 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 sounds of percents somehow 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 management and they sell them to the highest bidder they do not fulfil 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 russian sputnik of the vaccine which received blistering reviews and medical journals is still awaiting e.u. approval for use in the block heater all over r.t. berlin. restaurant in milan has set up a rapid covert testing base and opened its doors to the public and defiance of covert cubs despite being fined the owner insists his idea could help the hospitality industry stay afloat.

and we were always funny people want to go out. and all you have to. give your name and they don't just sign the paper once the test is positive or negative. many thanks for joining us here on r.t. international we're back in 30 minutes with the latest headlines.

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