where why not me. why did i come here. in the headlines today on r t international spain is wrong smiling west of the jailing of catalan rapper pablo self i thought that he was hands a 9 month sentence to stronger and the crown and glorifying terrorism. millions of texas residents are left without electricity and heat as all 40 struggled to cope with a deadly winter storm sweeping the southern states of america. so this is it. would be. done the fire for concealing thousands of pat home deaths at new york

state assembly members pushed to strip governor andrew cuomo of his emergency powers. very welcome it's may day here in moscow when you're watching r t international with me making erin it's great to have you with us our top story large protests broken out in spain over the jailing of cattle on a rock popular hersel force laundering the crown and glorifying terrorism hundreds of celebrities have spoken out in support of the artist want honesty international described his arrest as an excessive restriction on his freedom of expression.

it. was such. a heavy clashes erupted in catalonia as her cell was arrested in his hometown as he gave up on tuesday around 2000 people rallied in barcelona where they were met with a strong police presence around for the protests to set a barricades set bins on fire and 3 projectiles that officers regional or in force one said several people were arrested local journalist evilly nicotine skull was at the scene. people are searching like they already started yesterday going out on 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 laid out where. in the end he's a new person thinking 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 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 1000 years old and she got basically like a bullet. in hair in her face and now it seems like those are even. bigger than yesterday and they might continue for the next couple things

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

local catalan elections back in 2018 public hersel was convicted by a spanish court of glorifying terrorism and insulting state institutions he fell foul of legislation covering spaniards his right to freedom of expression dubbed the gag law by critics talking about the ruling the supreme court said free speech has its limits and just subject to constitutional demands a member of the catalan national assembly told us suppressing free speech is inexcusable. hispanic over many is sick or dying the fundamental rights artists have their right to free speech and free free creation 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 it 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 contrary with a more open and free laws we want to know more over the system no 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 power for days texas has seen a red cold winter freeze with temperatures dropping as low as minus 18 degrees celsius for the 1st time ever 30 years that has led to rolling blackouts with many houses destroyed during the storm. this is this is

a. very this float is. clear. look it is real and bro oh it's good to talk to regular person being right here for the birds. meanwhile photos circulating online claim to show texas senator ted cruz flying to cancun during the disaster cruise and hasn't commented on the pictures yet but they have caused a massive blood back back last on on social media and he's not the only politician in hot water after form a mess still in response to residents pleas for help pretty bad that yes texans just came for a whole other part of the country this would have been an issue in the late we've

seen mark for the search term. actually. called the old hope. you 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 bear we were no one owes you or your family anything nor is it the local government's responsibility to support you joining trying times like this sink or swim it's your choice the city and county along with power providers or any other service. nothing. of artes in texas struggle to keep our grades up and running some officials are blaming frozen wind turbines for the disaster many locals however are placing the blame squarely on the local government doorstep more pay reports. without electricity texas residents are resorting to some rather desperate measures in the hopes of staying warm they are 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 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 every source of power the state of texas has has been compromised whether it be renewable power such as wind or solar but also as i mentioned today. access to coal generated power access to gas generator power also have been compromised 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 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 in 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 caleb aren't seeing new york health way the u.s. thousands of national guard troops are. beg to differ day in washington d.c. until mid march as the over concerns of possible on the rise in coming weeks we'll have that story a bit later in the program. the corona virus pandemic

has pushed 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 in 2020 the number of people on the bread line in italy grew by 173000 or just under one 3rd of italians are now at risk of poverty as according to the organization for economic cooperation and development we heard our tally ins are coping with the pandemic. on several troll boy picture articles on the 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 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. for the new it tally any government is facing growing calls to change its strategy for dealing with the pandemic 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. and then get over 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. 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. over in the united states 9 new york state assembly members are pushing for governor andrew cuomo to be stripped of his emergency powers 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 of ministration of undercounting covert does to nursing homes by 50 percent the state's health department that disclosed over 6000 previously unreported victims despite wide criticism andrew cuomo has stopped sort of inequality apologized look i have 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. it's also being 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's i.o.c. last her mother's a covert in a new york care home and went on to set up the voices for c.n.n. as an 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 independent investigation and

a federal investigation into cuomo and his and his ministry. coming up after the break the italian service sector has been devastated by the pandemic forcing some business owners to open their doors in defiance of coronavirus rules more on this story coming up after the break. no one else seemed wrong. why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out these days come to educate and in detroit 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 taken ourselves out of the game by throwing the keys to the economy to private equity groups wall street hedge funds financier's and money pressures and now it's too late. welcome back we're following the defeat of nazi germany in 1945 you might think that right wing extremism would not be limited to the very fringe is of society but

it's not a threat fish 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 our international as well here's a quick preview for you. true to my list also. but aging. wise that is from france and should since finished it in this light at. the for the i will quote more. than you. can see and therefore. the premier in the. bombay arca avoided crying because i've gotten. we spoke to reign of our 1st the chairman of the alternative for germany and lindau

who claims that the policy has been demonized by political rivals ons 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 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 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. $5000.00 national guard troops are expected to remain

in washington d.c. and for the middle of next month decision was reportedly made over lingering concerns of violence has not been found 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 could 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 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 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'd have barbed wire fence and 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. push to boost limited vaccine supply isn't get its faltering vaccination program off the

ground the european union has signed contracts for millions of vaccines with mcdonough. who is around 5 percent of the population receiving that dose and saw frustration within the block is mounting his office 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 coded 19 it already accounts for 22 percent of cases that have been reported 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 x. 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 mecca of 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 amy p's not pulling any punches in slamming the process

a fiasco i called 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 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. ask your office 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. 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 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 they are going to be made it would take more than 2 years to vex need 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 or that there are you know 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 peter all over r.t. berlin. restaurant tim along has set up a rapid code testing booth and opened its doors to the public in defiance of code curbs despite being fined the owner insists his idea could help the hospitality industry stay afloat. here just. leave already open legally for one week and we were only 16 people want to go out to. college.

you know. you could keep your good looks like. to put in all. you have to book in advance then you come here give your name and they don't just sign the paper once the test is positive or negative. we're back with more in 30 minutes.

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this is how one doctor his theories were allegedly used in psychological warfare against prisoners deemed a danger to the state that was the foundation for the method of psychological interrogation psychological courtroom. disseminated within the u.s. intelligence community and worldwide among our allies for the next 30 years. the victims say they still live with the consequences today. they're true to it right mr also. i am of. the end of it you're in for being a good but aging. devise in the fossil record since then you stood on the side that.