the. controversial comments from the head of the european union. to boycott facebook. in the country. should facebook profit on someone else's work without giving them some. merit i think.

it is monetizing. dozens. of journalists. from the report. i feel that. america is descending into something that i would never have experienced. with the top stories from the past 7 days on right up to the moment of elements as well as the weekly an artsy one welcome. russia was accused of politicizing the. virus e.u.

chief. made controversial comments questioning. offering to help the block with its. we are perplexed to hear assessments by the head of the you exactly as it is either 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 to russia's dismayed by the lack of diplomacy but also the lack of humanity that the chief has recently shown again politics beats cooperation when it comes to the covert 1000 francs 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 don't know if this is an attractive step today we're not where we want to be in combating the virus we were late in granting authorization we were too old to mystic about mass production and maybe we also took for granted that the doses 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 last year in the czech republic showing up a tight for the russian fraxinus as soon as russia became the 1st country globally to write that 1000 vaccine 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 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 seen success russia is in top 3 if you're a pen nations in terms of vaccinations 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 to to announce it if you do it we haven't had any reports about vaccine shortages and us domestic demand for this vaccine are still gathering momentum us for demand for the

russian vaccine of it is indeed high it's so high that it's a process 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 cover 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 here clearly 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 patch moscow says it's the straighted by brussels consistently interfering and it's an ton and it looks like hey we might be seeing 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. a campaign to boycott facebook launched in a stream of this week that's after the tech giant blog news posts on its platform

in the country over a proposed law to make social networks pay publishers for news content has called the abuse of power r t satirist in chief so i mean right. is take. australia's government is really coming to terms of the fact that 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 accent explained that this morning if you visit a news science and astronomy aside by the social media platform you'll find there are no posts you can 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 the stuff 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 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. australian

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 big or they know it governments have little to no power over these companies anymore. treasury gets today's events to confirm for all strings is the market power. of the media digital giants these digital giants loom very very large. in our economy.

and on the digital landscape let's not get carried away here i mean it's only facebook and the only people that use facebook now is 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 to meet facebook is on another social media platform. or murdoch just can't deal 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. bigger and. so i mean right well in addition to news polls facebook also blocked a number of key us truly government pages including health the part with some urgency services and trade unions the company later commented on the issue saying those accounts had been inadvertently impacted the international weighed in saying facebook's will. in this to control information that people rely on is extremely concerning cuttingly quote facebook's willingness to block credible news sources

stands in sharp distinction to the company's poor track record in addressing the spread of hateful content on the platform. we rolled back to australia and it's also is considering similar legislation to make facebook page news publishers and says it will not be intimidated earlier i got the thoughts of a number of guests on the stand off done 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 if i know 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 but 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 is 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 ale well it closed circuit environment where all your dating your shopping your opinions and but 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 something united states of none taken the lines of 58 people and left millions of americans without electricity heat 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 degrees celsius for the 1st time in over 3 decades it's led to rolling blackouts and extensive damage to homes. this is this is ready to head over. to his. job every day

split is. a high. end look it is the other imbra oh it's good to go to regular pay and be right here for the birth of my. 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 hurt the twitter storm that followed and he's not the only official in hot water a local mera was forced to step down after his response to residents pleas for help no one knows you or 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 providers or any other service owes you nothing it's pretty bad that you know us texans just came here for a whole other part of the country this would have been an issue you need we'd see

much more of this action. so i see. 2 cold. water got on 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 barely work while authorities in texas struggle to keep our grades up and running some blame wind turbines that completely froze over for the disaster others however lay the blame squarely on the local governments or step up and takes up the story. 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 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 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 gas generator power also have been compromised alternative energy sources have been a key aspect of the democrats' push for ecofriendly 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 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 r.t. new york well another suggested indication of a decline the perp. military presence on capitol hill and 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 here's r t america's foreign front with more. one of the places that i actually lived in was a news anchor was an el paso texas where you had fort bliss that is the 2nd largest

army post in the country when we pulled up to the gates here this morning it looks like i was walking into fort bliss there is a there's a whole street that's blocked off here that goes right into a checkpoint you'll see that these cars they go in they get checked pointed by police by national guard and you see this is all happening literally just you know maybe 2 football fields away from our u.s. capitol you can also see to the left of the capitol here in our life that we have almost like these little trailers that have been put out 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. lines mother july arrested after attacking a conservative journalist on a demonstration we've spoken exclusively to the victim her reaction and more coming your way after this short break.

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crocker kaiser. bach with r t international to block lives monitor activists have reportedly been charged with harassment attempted assault footage appears to show them attacking a conservative journalist who is covering the rally. her i do that well there is something going on that the secret rug you're right whatever drugs are approved gurdjieff accord was a pleasure going to bed early she's a pushover you regarding the truth of your depth yeah that's right you're carrying it like that 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 because now very physically threatening to journalists. was covering the rally when demonstrators identified her as a conservative reporter can be heard calling her a trump supporter and a nazi the journalist who works independently also claims nearby police ignored her calls for help at one point a protester even appears to rob a used diaper and her face now in order for true peace to occur you need to have

people to have that some of 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 taking out your opponent it's not a fair fight america is descending into something that you know i would never have imagined 3 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. to each or

to treat the pandemic has pushed italy's most vulnerable to the brink some face a daily dilemma of whether to feed themselves or take care of their medical needs in 2020 the number of people on the breadline grew 517-3000 while just under a 3rd of a tally and are now at risk of poverty according to the organization for economic cooperation and development we asked people there are coping. on several troll boy picture articles on the 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. the new italian government is facing growing calls to change its strategy for dealing with the pandemic leading health experts insist the current system of regional restrictions is in effect the government scientific committee this week urged ministers to follow other european countries in planting stricter measures here's what local pharmacist told us about the situation. 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. so they've been demick has increased poverty and in palermo it's quite high in the year before the been damaged we 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. now once upon a time the tea party shook up u.s. national politics next we talked to the group's co-founder about post trump america and whether he thinks the former president could yet hold sway once more in the oval office worlds apart as all that and more in moment.

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what's on the cars for the next few years in american politics well to discuss that i'm now joined by michael johnson a co-founder of the tea party movement and a former speechwriter for president george h.w. bush mr jones it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time and pleasure to be with you. i give you a card player by any chance. really what the play. will bridge and. i don't know if you are aware but it was the american the north american ag game of your career that is responsible for introducing the joker into the modern deck of cards. just in the same ways i think donald trump introduced this new style of politics world by and now that he's out of office do you think his game is over. absolutely not i think he's proven

in a transformational worse in american politics. it's true that he has led to this movement this make america great again. but it's also true that that movement existed in a lot of ways and was looking for neater shit on the presidential level if you go back to 2008 with the mccain candidate sears' you don't well with ron the i don't think that these millions of what he called the forgotten men and women really felt represented they do feel and did feel represented in his own leadership so i think he has a bright future as a force in american politics i'm not sure everybody on the republican side will agree with me and i'm on i don't want to over bring you or our beer is quite mad that for us but i think that fascinating thing about the joker is that depending on the game it could be at.