this is our breaking news the e.u. announces new sanctions against russia over the case of opposition leader alexina valmy. also heads him full tracing russian language media of leaked documents suggest the u.k. government sorts of negative coverage and weaken russia. a renowned italian opera singer gets the sputnik the job all of moscow that is a 3rd russian covert vaccine is registered in the country. as a coca-cola worker leaks its all mine training course that tells its employees to quote the last white.

either live from moscow this is r.t. international my names call them going to start with the breaking news that came in to us a few minutes ago the european union's decided to expand sanctions against russia over the case of kremlin critic an opposition figure alexina valmy. in response. to events around the situation of not only. we reach a political ribbon to impose to give measures against those responsible for his arrest and sentencing and persecution. and for doing that for the 1st time ever. make usual to be in union global human gretsch regime to descend. ok live to our europe correspondent peter all of a member led hi there peter we knew this was coming in way but the devil's in the detail what do we know. right what we've heard from

the high representative foreign affairs your suburban is that the sanctions will be put in place he stopped short and has refused questions on exactly who would be targeted but it has come out through monday that it's expected they'll be looking at 4 particular individuals these involve people from the investigative committee in russia the national guard the prosecutor general's office as well as the penitentiary service in russia that they'll be they'll be individuals they're targeted with the sanctions now joseph birrell went on to describe the discussions that have taken place with e.u. foreign ministers at this meeting also present down the line from washington was the u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken as well he said he described as the shared assessment from that meeting that russia was drifting away from the european union

that it wanted to present itself for moscow in his opinion want to the present itself as an adversary to russia what's in direct contrary to what we heard from sergey lavrov the russian foreign minister earlier on monday he said that brussels of the century trashed the real. lation ship between itself and moscow mr lavrov went on to say that russia was willing to. take part in a reporter mark but it was up to the you to make the 1st steps forward. not just. the framework of the relations between russia and the you has been deliberately destroyed by brussels we must be a group for any developments it's up to the e.u. to choose if they decide that relations must be rebuilt or burst also be ready for it. well more and what we heard from yossi beilin the e.u. high representative for foreign affairs talking about russia following this foreign

ministers meeting that's taken place he said that there was 3 types of action that the e.u. is ready to take against russia or they could be summed up as to push back when russia breaks the rules as the e.u. sees it to contango russia when it so what it sees as misinformation and to engage russia when there are issues in which the e.u. deems it necessary to do so strong words coming from the equivalent basically of the use for a mistake he's also vice president of the european commission. what we are going to see is it take around a week to find out exactly who will be the target of these sanctions against. against russia targeted against russian individuals that have been announced by the e.u. on monday ok frosty spring in prospect then from brussels towards moscow for now peter oliver in berlin thank you. max the british government

appears to be behind a multi-million pound push to quote weaken the russian state leaked documents allege that russia and the london hopes to boost negative coverage of the country by seeking journalists and contractors to infiltrate russian media what i guess to have as the story. the plan was or it is simple enough the british government and its agencies recruit independent media sometimes even desired and direct their programming manage that in order to and i quote weaken the russian state it's all in the leaked papers the foreign and commonwealth office is looking for an implementor or consortium to scope a design deliver an evaluative program of interventions that will enhanced the skills and capacity or for us and journalists this project will support a wider regional her majesty's government program to counter the russian government's narrative and domination of the media and information space so there's

even more there since what these papers paint is a picture of the british government perverting independent media twisting their reporting to suit britain's needs and once they are getting those with we call will or opinions the young and using them to subvert older generations get them to turn on the kremlin or on russian values by capitalizing on close family ties among russian speakers and revoking the spirit of the baltic way we will use young russian speakers as agents of change to influence their parents and grandparents generations and amplify distance you are able to identity through family centers direct outreach events propaganda by air land and sea a number of russian language outlets were mentioned specifically some radically adze government and whose claim to credibility has been their independence claim that

will be now much harder to make if indeed they pocketed british money that came with strings attached and judging by these papers they weren't so much strings as cables. we are currently deliver an audience segmentation and targeted support for 2 of russia's lead in independent media outlets madieu than media zona and the range of independent investigative journalists in conjunction with data analysts and kids college london the british government allegedly adjusting the independent media's editorial and commercial strategies imagine russia was caught devising and directing independent media in britain scandal would have been deafening naturally moscow wants our answers the foreign office documents leaked to the internet reveal that the british government financial support and directly manage its various informational outlets as worse created and network of influencers and russian

social media there are hundreds of documents revealing the london propaganda machine we have written down and waited for london's reaction maybe it is all life the documents detail dozens of potential programs and strategies it is impossible to verify how many were brought to life how many journalists were drafted into this propaganda offensive and how deep this corruption goes out much damage has been done what is clear is that combined with other recent revelations linking russian language media outlets to foreign governments hostile governments title independent media and independent journalist is going to spawn much more skepticism than trust. i mean i guess they have there we have been on to the british foreign office to comment on the story of their remarks and what's been raised so far we've not heard anything back we're going to stay in the u.k.

more news from there britain could see its schools reopen as early as next month despite the daily number of covert cases remaining around the 10000 mark addressing parliament earlier prime minister boris johnson said that all other restrictions could hopefully be phased out by late june let's get the latest now live to westminster our correspondent there is shaadi edwards daschle hi there for the lockdown weary nation they've had these kind of false dawns before haven't they how realistic is it this time. but boris johnson the prime minister senshi says this time around this lockdown will absolutely be the last one and so he has announced his route out of the lock down scenario saying and describing as a one way road to freedom although he says it will be cautious but this time around irreversible. the threat remains substantial with numbers and only beginning to feel blue the peak of the 1st wave. but we're able to take the

steps of the resolve of the british public. success of already. in battle 80 more than 70500000 people across the u.k. and of course the united kingdom has been this all scale national knocked down 3 times and this time around for at least 2 months and so many people are really welcoming this move as we just heard from boris johnson the prime minister he said one of the driving factors has been the success of the government's vaccination rollout where now over 17700000 people have been vaccinated in the united kingdom however the prime minister did actually acknowledge the substantial threat remains quite high with covert 19 does so the number of cases still remain very high indeed so some people are quite critical about lifting that up down measures at this time when the data dictates the absolute opposite having said that what is being proposed is a 4 step process which is why weeks in between each step to allow for the

government to pause reflect analyze and then move on to the next stage of the process so the 1st key date is the 8th of march when all schools will reopen once again from that date as well as some outdoor socialising will be permitted once again with one other person then from the 29th of march the focus will be on outdoor activities and things like socialising with that rule of 6 comes back into play with any number of people. any number of households outdoor sports will also resume like sunday league football and rugby but that's all phase one and depending on how all of that goes non-essential shops and beauty pubs bars and restaurants could all reopen for an outdoor service no earlier though than april the 12 step 3 then moving on will see the mixing of rules lifted outdoors and indoor mixing in places like pubs and bars will be allowed up to 6 people again no earlier than may

the 17th and finally step 4 will see the removal of all limits on social contact but no earlier than the 21st of june of course that essentially means back to normality that is of course the goal with people being able to live their lives relatively freely now the government the u.k. government is not alone in its plan of lifting the lockdown measures we have to look only across the english channel to other countries across europe like germany is also lifting its lockdown measures as well even though in a very similar situation to here in britain the number of cases of 1000 remain quite high and in fact in germany are also on the rise and that's prompting some fears with many people in germany. from my point of view you want to do. becomes clear infection risk is rising considerably the regions that are now opening the cerise and schools are running high risk. well covert 9 has gripped

the world for almost a year now and it is safe to say that many people are incredibly desperate for all of the lockdowns to end but the key question is is it actually safe enough to do so when the number of cases remain quite high ok well here's hoping you might get to see the nearest and dearest come the summer for now those shaadi edwards ashley at r.t. u.k. thank you. thanks to a renowned italian opera singer has been inoculated with the sputnik 3 covert job one for in moscow and ahead of her performance at the bolshoi theater she told us why your new school was that which you know since i am in moscow to work at the bolshoi theater i had an opportunity to take this politically short term took it in europe's politically is considered one of the most effective it is amazing that russia made its vaccine available to wherever it wants to get it as a foreigner i had the opportunity to get inoculated for free but many people even asked me whether they can come to russia and get vaccinated it one will surely i

didn't experience any side effects. the vaccines helped to bring down the number of daily new kovi cases here in russia and on saturday a 3rd national shot was registered and scheduled for distribution next month ana maria curie compare the situation with the european union and hope sputnik very we'll get to the block to. right and what i'm that when it comes to europe it is a huge problem that it is failing to vaccinate all citizens as quickly as possible it hampers their return to work however here in moscow everything is up and running on quite a regular basis shops theaters everything is open we musicians feel shocks to have all the theaters as well as other cultural facilities closed i can't understand why there is the slowdown in europe my telly and friends are very preoccupied afraid that it will complicate the postcode recovery and i'm in favor of sending sputnik the supplies to europe and elsewhere if it helps overcome the problem of vaccine shortages and allows everyone to get vaccinated if you. are of course here in the

case of a french nurse who was arrested last june during at demonstrations by health care workers video of freedom violent rest calls out rage on social media platforms she's charged with throwing projectiles of police and insulting officers she faces 3 years in prison and a fine of over $50000.00 are found guilty $3.00 to $4.00 words i am here for the difficulties that health care workers encounter and i'm here for the sick who can no longer be treated as they wish hospitals are everybody's business so if we continue at this rate we won't be able to get treatment in public hospitals. video shows police officers dragging the then 15 year old by her hair a group of heavily armed riot officers can be seen shoving her face into the ground before taking her away the incident divided opinion in france with some saying that she provoked officers by insulting them showing the middle finger and throwing stones at them others though so it is a clear case of police brutality. supporters and opponents have gathered

outside the court building. what we want is a sanction sanction that will mortgage the reality of justice and that the feeling of impunity can no longer take place because otherwise to morrow this situation will happen again you judge it to be violent but i know that it is perfectly within the rules but this is not a matter of condoning for readers just as a matter of recontextualize in the situation in which it happened for it isn't the one who should be in court today. that's what drives for reader and many others to act this way is despair it's contempt is the run something of public services says these destructive policies. enough of the repression enough ok we weren't trained for this for we did the reaction she had it was human i'm sorry but every

human every human who feels in danger is to act in self-defense that's it i don't condone it but i understand it. the demonstration where for retreat was arrested was held for better pay and conditions for health care workers on the front line of the covert pandemic a lawyer says the protesters had little choice but to take drastic action. because we all know what happened everyone seen the footage such the story but the context is important here so was on the verge she was angry at the government that didn't give enough funding which is health care workers in a very difficult situation moreover during the demonstrations through a steel guest and everyone understands that under such circumstances when you're a toyota it's an angry wrong actions might occur but this doesn't mean you should be pulled by the hand coughed and prosecuted. the family of a boy who allegedly froze to death in texas are suing power companies for 100000000

dollars 11 year old died on tuesday at his family's mobile home he was sharing a bed with his younger brother under several blankets trying to stay warm. reportedly been without power for days investigators are still looking into the cause of death but the family nor suit says the boy died of hypothermia. despite having knowledge of the dial weather forecast for at least a week in advance and the knowledge that the system was not prepared for more than a decade electric reliability council of texas and failed to take any preemptive action that could have averted the crisis and were wholly unprepared to deal with the crisis at hand. but even those who do have access to heat and power in texas are directing serious questions at energy companies after a christie price is sought. i am pretty much $9.00 a kilowatt electricity but i would be very conservative with my electricity so i have no idea exactly why but it's really so much that only going that i absolutely

cannot afford it i'm not exactly sure you know who can look back to the point where some people have totally turned up their power because they can't. they just can't afford it it's a basic necessity for a living do you think utilities should not our spouse. meanwhile over $4000000.00 power outages have also been reported as the storm there's been an estimated $18000000000.00 worth of damage throughout the region $15000000.00 people have also reported disruption to their water supply and nearly 70 have died across the united states from the unusually cold conditions right now meanwhile the governor of texas has pledged to bring the spiraling energy bills under control we're moving quickly to alleviate this problem and we'll continue to work collaboratively throughout this week on solutions to help texas families and issues they do not get stuck with skyrocketing energy bills and the politicians are also stepping in to help

congresswoman sheila jackson lee delivered pizzas and water to residents in houston a killer scott amos again said ordinary people shouldn't be picking up the tab for the failure of government and power companies. of course this is a natural disaster except it's because they don't have the emperor structure and they're not ready and prepared for this type of thing but again why should the working class with the middle class have to pay for that likely to be deregulated because the government needs to step in and build my way this should be monopolized so that they can charge whatever it is that they want to everyone and surprise the employer structure and preparing they've had time they've known. chose not to invest in it and so that's what happened is the perfect storm. there's been a backlash against coca-cola after an employee revealed its training workers to be less white eagle some of us the story. club soda flavors caffeine and

ton of sugar it's a well guarded secret for sure but there can't be much more to bring up an iconic coke but how can we make it even better coca-cola thought well how about we make our white employees a less white but put down your stones at least for now this has nothing to do with blackface but rather a training course for workers the video circulating on social media is from a publicly available learning series and there's not a focus of a company's curriculum better together global learning curriculum is part of a looming plan to help build an inclusive workplace in the program and almost step by step guide on how to get the vise of whiteness out of you be less arrogant be less oppressive be more humble well let me sum this up for you real quick just quit acting like a jerk would jump and generally speaking it's great advice to follow while

navigating through life all together but when the public found out some weren't happy that all those negative traits had been dumped on one particular race sadly the irony of confronting racism by telling you to be less of your skin color will be lost on many i don't know about you but i can do in coca-cola products any more emergent cook telling employees to be less black or be less jewish is the except to bill and unethical to tell anyone to be less of their race religion ethnicity 6 you orientation it's the drug i'm ashamed to have coca-cola on my resume however some users push back and hailed coca-cola of its efforts they should have changed this to talk specifically about whiteness and not be less white but good in coca-cola for doing this work. only bigots sematic coca-cola for the less whites training that the only ones who won't even examine what else is there because they said to themselves in white the pity proving the training's very premise the majority of

that content looks to be on point it's that last slight which is an issue because of the rigidity of corporate america coca-cola is just the latest in a host of companies to help on the world bandwagon from changing profile pictures to show support for the black lives matter movement to rebranding the whole product lines deemed to be well behind the times.

to eat healthy used to be all about carbs fats and proteins not anymore though racism bigotry and intolerance literally on the menu and you better watch out after all you are what you eat. facebook has by mistake been blocking messages from public authorities promoting vaccination against covert 19 calling into question how effective a platform is in helping awareness campaign to reach their audiences. there strictures made it very difficult for the township in our efforts to inform our residents about important information regarding covered 1000 registration and updates this is very unfair starting from september messages from 110 groups and institutions in the united states in europe were removed from rotation and sent to a register of political messages since then facebook's of knowledge the mistake and

restored the posts from a few of those organizations well we have temporarily paused as about social issues selections the ripple effects we continue to allow as the blood covered 19 the promoted vaccine efficacy and have made our guidance to advertisers on how to run them publicly available we spoke to a specialist in internet law who believes this case is part of a wider problem. there is of course no suggestion that of dislocation dish is a liberal act by facebook globally suggesting that however. are we to know facebook by no deliberately be varying certain adverts certain campaigns in order to suit its own political agenda we know now that facebook is a political player and it could be it could certainly be that one day facebook will

decide to promote an agenda out there is promoting chaos there are plenty of political groups and ideologies that drive a chaos. did the problem of course now for facebook is that once facebook has declared itself is a political player once facebook is said it it has got people who are very certain political ads were very set of political opinions and views we are always going to look at facebook in a very very suspicious ari's meanwhile you tube's artificial intelligence system has temporarily blocked the world's biggest chess channels and what was described as harmful and dangerous content the algorithm apparently decided that common chess words like black and white and attack and threat were racist and a boy can look at the power and dangers of computer intelligence. what would he be without free will fully fledged sheeple well researchers in australia have

completed a study that reveals just how easy it is for a i ought to fish the intelligence to hack human decision making sure the troops. didn't use a sleeve in the commonwealth scientific and industrial research my station data 61 hated participants against and ai system called a current neural network in 3 experiments skipping the rest of the science the stuff they basically found that this and i excelled at leading participants to boards making specific decisions just influencing their behavior and even tricking them into making a mistake. in. their vast splash was about to study the participants they didn't have a clue that they were being taken for a ride by

a computer we're not sure right if you just imagine what this could mean for the future it'll be like now. we already know that tech giants are monitoring our every play and turning them into dollars they can even turn clinics into if they feel like. alexander nix told parliamentary inquiry one thing. general linux has never used facebook if you. know football in the. news just stick with the. messaging about issues that the company itself was founded on music place the fix in next time you order it out delivering because a notification just popped up old by the facebook test. bombarding you with adverts for since we ask ourselves what we need to try and you won't know the answer

the basic like monkeys pay tax people don't want to use this missive. they are accountable only built their choices the desires their understanding of what is mine what is mine most of all thanks to our aspirations these potential be the next and keep the losers side note some deep thinkers already think that free will is a myth and that homo sapiens are simply slaves to biochemical changes happening in neat suits that's for another. day that's it for me and the 100 percent human newsday mirror moscow on next update is going to be in just over half an hour from now we'll have to see that.

right. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle there are already strong signs the by bin ministration is we turning to the foreign policy of the obama years is this once obama's foreign policies were hardly a success indeed this was the time of endless wars will the biting ministration repeat the mistakes committed under.