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struggle to cope with. the united states. of. america is descending into something that i would never have. stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly r.t. a little welcome. of politicizing the. e.u. chief. made controversial comments questioning moscow's motives in offering to help

the block with its. we are perplexed to hear assessments by the head of the you exactly as it is either in an effort to politicize the issue in an insubstantial dated and indeed deplorable way or indicates an inadequate level of awareness of the top level official we still wonder why russia is offering theoretically millions and millions of doses while not sufficiently progress in vaccinating the own people rushes dismayed by the lack of to promo see but also the lack of humanity that the chief has recently shown again politics beats cooperation when it comes to the cope with 19 facts seen for the e.u. it really has been a struggle a struggle to get production off the ground a struggle to get jobs and arms a struggle with the u.k. of the who gets however many doses and the slowness in inoculating its 450000000

strong population has got people angry and frustrated this was in that view a political test russel's failed to the point that wonderland had to publicly apologize and didn't notice the senate this fact is that today we're not where we want to be in combating the virus we were later drawn to authorize ation we were too old to mystic about mess production and maybe we also took for granted the doses that would actually arrive on time we must ask ourselves why and what lessons we can draw from it while one lesson that did come out was that the been so inefficient that individual member states have been forced to go out on the road looking for alternatives and then looking at russia hungry for example has rights to from urgency you sputnik see we also heard austria in the czech republic showing up a tight for the russian facts seen as soon as russia became the 1st country globally to write that 1000 facts and president putin came out and said russians come fast that is and always will be our priority and this was something that was reiterated

by the representatives in brussels representatives of the russian authorities saying too for community. business entities have repeatedly publicly stressed that vaccination of its own citizens constitutes an absolute priority for russia in its fight against covert 19 in full compliance with the principles of democracy and human tarion law inoculation and russia's voluntary and to date all interested citizens are provided with the vaccine without delay and free of charge without free accessibility is undeniably a scene success washers and top 3 if you're a pen nations in terms of facts nations at last count 2200000 including many of our colleagues who described how smooth the process was and this discrepancy between internal and external demand is something that moscow raised recently putin and said he just we haven't had any reports about vaccine shortages and us domestic demand for this vaccine is still gathering momentum as for demand for the russian

vaccine of it is indeed high it's so high that it suppresses our production capacity that's why we are actively working on quickly launching production of the vaccine in several foreign countries production in foreign countries will kill the demand of brought while manufacturing inside the country will cover the domestic market so clearly that's the logical response to vonda lens quite hostile comments but hit pretty throwing up political punch was more important than logic perhaps not surprising we obviously know the e.u. russian relations are going through a slightly bumpy potch moscow says it's the straighted by brussels consistently interfering and it's an ton and it looks like a we might be seeing at the same story instead of trying to resolve its own issues the e.u. is trying to deflect attention and undermine your country he's trying to offer a helping hand. marks just the latest in a long line of critical remarks from brussels over sputnik it is the spite some states in the bloc voicing support for the russian shot as the e.u.'s own

inoculation program struggles with its role at some of the european union's neighbors including montenegro serbia they've already receiving shots of sputnik the. he's been discussing a number of issues but russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman here's some of it. that's not that it's an experience our vaccine developments were denied by the west they said lots of different things that it does not exist is bad and nobody should use it was necessary to invent something very fast in order not to destroy the created myth that russia is an aggressor how can aggressor offer its facts into the world not without hiding it making it too expensive or blackmailing with it this is what their gresson would do instead we offered it as a tool as a method maybe not as a panacea but one of the means of overcoming the crisis in some ways it can be compared to space of course the scale is different between the yuri gagarin went on

his flight and when he returned what did the soviet union denounce that outer space is for peaceful exploration that what they used to saw proposed to the world city new trend in the direction the same with the vaccine we're open to corporations we're ready to join production we're ready to study and share our experience some people from the west couldn't deal with it this is a blow and this is not envy this is a blow to the longstanding model of representing russia as an aggressor delia establishing that i seek a. campaign to boycott facebook launched in australia this week but after the tech giant block news posts on its platform in the country over a proposed law to make social networks pay publishers for news content has called it abuse of power r t satirist in chief simon wright gives us his take. australia's government is fully coming to terms with the founder of facebook has told it where to go and there's

nothing you can do about it might use what happened social media giant facebook has followed through on a script restricting people in australia from viewing news content to or desire streaming you know it's better someone with an australian out and explain that this morning if you visit a news site and astronomy aside by the social media platform you'll find there are no posts you can't view washington news articles. winner is australia could just be there wasn't any news that day so the australian government wants facebook to pay for content which is shared on its platform but made by other media organizations those media organizations make the point and it's a good one that they pay to produce this stuff but big tech like facebook benefits for free facebook gave a completely b.s. response that making it pay for that stuff would be penalizing him for taking content that it didn't take or ask for which is a bit like finding a bag of cash on the floor and then saying well officer i didn't ask for it or take

it from the bank so i thought i'd keep it finished in a carry on yeah so about that carry on on the other hand media companies do start their own pages and upload their own content of their own accord and as mark zuckerberg says every time his company is accused of ruining life on this planet it's a private company so that's what i believe but the future is private. this whole news blackout thing i'm absolutely i mean who cares honestly if you've got a computer it is go on through twitter or google instead. news australia ministers are angry because they say facebook is among other things restricting access to health information during a pandemic. to which i say don't get your health information from facebook what's wrong with you it's an advertiser not dr quinn medicine woman. australia's prime minister seems so close to grasping the reality of what happened

here scott morrison said that facebook. thinks they're bigger than governments and that the rules should not apply to them i promise that they don't think they're bigger they know their governments have little to no power over these companies anymore. treasury gets today's events to confirm for all the strains is the immense market power. of the media digital giants these digital giants loom very very large. in our economy. and on the digital landscape there let's not get carried away here i mean it's only facebook in the only people that use facebook now as your mom and her friends but the bigger issue is what happens when big tech decides to get together and define governments i mean even the protest about this week facebook is on another social media platform. or murdoch to skardu with google that will see

his media outlets get paid for their content one australian he's really cornered the market in the brainwashing going you know what there is always a bigger and. in addition to news pulse facebook also blocked a number of curious trillion government pages including health but part. services on trade unions the company leader commented on the issue saying those accounts i've been inadvertently impacted the international weighed into saying facebook's willingness to control information that people rely on is extremely concerning the rights group also pointed out that the move started in stark contrast to the tech giant what's it for content and dissent from asian. an account of them back to australia and it spot is considering similar legislation to make facebook page news publishers say it will not be intimidated earlier i got the thoughts of

a number of guests on the stand off down under. although i don't like facebook by any means i also don't blame them for trying to put a stop to what i think is a very bad policy that in the end well only end up hurting smaller independent and perhaps even dissident sources in favor of a larger more establishment media sources these news organizations are disappearing that's really what's at stake and they really don't have any choice because they're not generating the kind of revenues necessary to run these news desks content of which facebook reliance on it we have seen a whole cloth disruption of paid you know professional journalists guys that spent 30 years cutting their teeth and there are a lot of jobs because who's going to pay him $80.00 grand plus benefits to write a story when you can get to me on his you know no unfair of by no real credentials in journalism typing out something and make more money on those clicks so the question is for democracy is what is the threshold where people deserve to

have real information and should they have to pay for it should facebook profit on someone else's work without giving them some look you can understand facebook's desire not to give in and start paying for news stories like google did once the box opens there's $200.00 other countries surely saying we want some to facebook of what you do to their shareholders right if we start saying all right facebook will have to pay to feature news articles and news links what's stopping other forms of content from doing the same this whole social media i guess ecosystem has really spun out of control in terms of how it is monetize and actually a i think more equitable if i can use that word solution to this would be to start talking about ways to break up the monopoly that facebook does have on advertising and also on user data basically the biggest problem with facebook is that they're utterly controlling that narrative and they're completely shutting out news that

doesn't obey the narrative miss and this goes for almost. every issue down the line that's of the importance today let's remember back in around 2007 i happen to be one of those lucky ones who interviewed this guy who started facebook he was a nobody was still on my space my space everywhere and he said that he wanted to create an ecosystem similar to a a well at the time if we all remember dial up you know well it closed circuit environment where all your dating your shopping your opinions and basically people who weren't able to have real friends in life could have thousands of friends make believe friends and call them their friends and you would never have to leave that world and it would do everything for you well that dream has come true and now all of us are sitting in the middle of it going well wait a minute it's either all capitalism where anything goes and we can all charge for everything or it's part capitalism or it's something but we're at that time of growth now we actually have to make the grown up decisions. deadly winter storm

sweeping across the southern united states have now taken the lives of 58 people and left millions of americans without electricity heat and clean water for days one of the worst hit states texas has seen a record seasonal freeze with temperatures dropping as low as minus 18 degree celcius for the 1st time in over 3 decades and above has led to rolling blackouts and extensive damage to homes this is this is a very. very these ladies. and that is the other imbra. again due to the 2 to wriggle the parent being here for the birth of. meanwhile texas senator ted cruz has come under fire after he flew to the mexican resort city of cancun during the disaster he described the

decision as a mistake when he returned the next day but that didn't have birth a twitter storm that followed the only official in hot water a local mayor was forced to step down after his response to residents pleas for help. 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 owes you nothing it's pretty bad that texans just can't we're told every other part of the country this wouldn't but issue any we'd see mark for this action. so i see. 2 fold to hold the rope over. the blanket sowed would 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. a while authorities

in texas struggled to keep our grades up and running some blamed wind turbines that completely froze for the business or however lay the blame squarely on the local government's doorstep killer pup and takes up the story for us. 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' energy last year have frozen to a standstill every source of power that 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 the gas generated power also. uncompromised alternative energy sources have been a key aspect of the democrats' push for ecofriendly 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 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 lish ows 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. artsy new york this is our team from nashville a book lives must have been arrested after attacking a conservative journalist at a demonstration we spoke exclusively to the victim her reaction and more coming your way after the short. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy.

dramatic. how. do you sit down and talk. the beginning of the changing of the guard. to china as the number one economy in the 21st century the numbers are there the statistics are there the relationships. are there the relationship with russia and iran is there. to block it lives mother activists have reportedly been charged with harassment and

attempted assault footage appears to show them attacking a conservative journalist who was covering the rally. i think that well there is something going on that the secret here are eager to get right to her progress are who are these reports was a pleasure going to bed early she supposed to be regarding the trauma of her that's right critical i think as you can see with what had happened to me it is very trying times initially when i saw they were harassing other journalists there and videographers and i went to stand with them as well and they they wanted everybody to be turning off their cameras with our 1st amendment rights which is freedom to the press and also being a public space i kept my camera on and i said now this is public space and i'm reporting the news so my camera will stay on and that's when they started attacking initially or being media and then the 2nd time they came around to attack me when they identified which media i was i feel that being conservative media is is now

very physically threatening to journalists. tara was covering the rally when demonstrators identified her as a conservative reporter there could be heard shouting she supports trump she's a nutsy the journalist also claims nearby police ignored her curls for one point and protester even appears to grab a used not be on her face. now in order for true peace to occur you need to have people to have that simple discourse it's not it's not true peace when the other side is voices are shut off and so is it may give up a saga of unity or peace but it's act the detriment of you know $75.00 plus 1000000 americans who had voted and do support donald trump at the expense of basically shutting their voices out so that is not true unity when you're 6 taking out your opponent it's not a fair fight america is descending into something that you know i would never have

imagined surely experiencing in my lifetime i don't condone the violence that happened at the capitol and i can condemn them along with other republican conservatives because because terrorism and and and destruction and what is going on that has no place in america and i do feel that we are seeing more attacks and violence actually occurring from the left onto the right we see censorship that's going on and it's not even being. occur. demonstrations have swept through spain for a 5th consecutive day with taking to the streets across the country to protest against the jailing of a castle robber for slandering the crown nor of fighting terrorism.

going out to the streets of barcelona and they want. to be released are lots of teenagers a process think i must see young people and not just in barcelona but also in others in catalonia especially a lay down where. they have been there and he's a new person he basically barricaded himself they just looked like the streets on fire and so the police are getting quite angry because it's like the 1st process since many months as a member still not because of. course we're back in 2018 public her cell was convicted by a spotless court over tweets calling former king juan carlos the 1st they muffy a boss he also accused police of torturing and killing demonstrators unlike rence

herself l. fall of legislation prohibiting certain aspects of spaniards right to freedom of expression dubbed a gag law by critics when a member of the council on national assembly told us suppressing free speech is inexcusable. the spanish government me is very sick creating the fundamental rights artists have their right to free speech and free free creation of the current government is they call themselves the most progressive government in the history for spain also for them the case of problem hi sally is a big problem because is a clear sign that this is not true or not this is one of the reasons why we won the independence not because we want to build a new a new contract with a more open and free lowell's we want one more open system no

system which accept. the kilter and creation like the one on a cell or others like. so of course we need this this change so we are fighting for this for a more free. 3. meanwhile in the u.k. new quarantine measures introduced this week to travelers think twice before heading there england requires travelers from $33.00 red listed countries to fork out $1750.00 pounds around 2400 dollars to quarantine for 10 days in a specially designed to tells there are tough penalties for anyone who flights the rules fines and front of up to 10000 pardons for those failing to quarantine a marksman prison sentence of 10 years for people who lie about where they've come from or to show the edwards dusty reports from outside one of the facilities.

foreign travelers and brits returning home from $33.00 reckless countries are now forced to isolate and government mandated hotels in the u.k. for 10 days it's all part of measures to curb the spread of the new coronavirus variants but not only are rivals like elaine and wagner are confined to the 4 walls of a small hotel room they've also got to thought they have to build themselves because . they want to know what we've got a big 2000 on it are our order i don't know i don't know yet but this couple not alone many flights being canceled and departure dates change due to complications of the kovac 19 pandemic and it's not just the financial burden that's weighing heavily other arrivals tell me the current policy is no safer than isolating a home. like.

currently the government has almost 5000 rooms available across 16 airport hotels with another 58000 on standby. but as has been throughout the entire pandemic scotland has gone one step further by enforcing hotel currently measures on any international arrivals regardless of which country they're i from even an exceptional circumstance we were to. be no on this in. it's when scotland's use managed all seen of late mr council's people just automatically once the 16th and that's. when we left if. you don't come in already absolutely you are going to england or if you

are living in england and we will have sons not on. it's just if you wait we'll be penalised for america you know you know we owe it we just leave it all feeling like captives thousands of arrivals have to wait before getting home to their families adding ever more anxiety it's already testing times had to address our to you k. . now ahead of the last us election we delved into for topics with people from all across the nation that presented a portrait of the issues affecting america today gun violence the opioid crisis homelessness and immigration the program we put together earth is next and you can catch it in moment. well the pandemic no certainly no borders just blind to nationalities.

as americans we don't observe the we don't look like seeing the whole world needs to be the chief. judge of. commentary crisis least. we can do better we should. everyone is contributing way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges create the response has been masked so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together.