we. ask. russia slams the u.s. for undermining free trade unfair competition after washington post about european companies pulling out of the stream to pipeline project in the face of u.s. sanctions. also ahead u.s. democrats demand cable and satellite providers justify hosting right wing media outlets a move republicans say is an attack on freedom of speech. israelis face being banned from public places and even their jobs unless they've been vaccinated against the covert about the so-called green pastures are raising concerns over human rights. always a choice has a consequence and it shouldn't be that everybody. because some people make

a bad choice i think it's a sort of i think it's ridiculous basic human rights are being ignored. and i agree french fertilizer and old tires outside government buildings to protest against the removal of meat from school been in the news. world wide this is r t international from moscow money welcome to world news this 1st for you russia is accusing washington of undermining free trade and putting its geopolitical interests above fair competition after a report on u.s. sanctions against the north stream 2 gas pipeline project revealed that a total of 18 european companies have dropped out because of u.s. pressure across developments. from the very outset the u.s.

has been hell burned on do you really ignored stream to me so this time the u.s. state department has compiled and submitted a report to us congress kind of detailing the measures they have taken so far in this direction and how effective these measures have been this report by the way also comes at a very sensitive timing because the biden administration has been accused of world inaction of not being keen enough on preventing nordstrom too from coming to fruition this report is not yet available to the public but ned price the spokesman for the u.s. state department has revealed or that some 18 companies european companies have decided to pull out of the north stream to a med u.s. pressure and when i say pressure i mean sanctions so far the united states has been sanctioning the russians of the u.s. for excuse me the e.u. firms have remained sort of in the clear but that's only so far this constant threat of sanctions coming from washington while it has always been and is still

hanging over european firms so well 18 of them have decided that better safe than sorry and while they decided to cut ties with the project now when it comes to russia moscow has always been saying that the north that north stream too has nothing to do with and with the united states it is strictly a matter of relations between russia and europe and germany in particular because that's where the pipeline is going and all these efforts that the u.s. that the u.s. has been taking russia views it as world geo political warfare here is the latest reaction that we have on this the u.s. state department has acknowledged that america is undermining the principles of free trade and competition subjugating market laws to its own geopolitical interests and acting inspired of the wheel of silver nations but there's an added layer of irony to this story because remember how. they said that 18 companies have

decided to cut ties with nordstrom to the right and the way this information was delivered to the media by price the spokesman for the state department one might you might be misled into thinking that all of that was achieved under the under the biden administration which turns out is not the case and it only came to light when price was confronted by a piece of matley over the issue of how to listen. strategy including the legislative strategy of the strategy of course congress is has been behind has been working to good effect. to the winding down all of this work was done of the previous administration and out of all they didn't want all the money. are you telling me that i am all we these 18 but he is all of a sudden of all while the. only thing i am speaking for is.

the man. i am not oh i are studying for the department of state ok the people who have been working miss the people who are working this now or the same people a month ago or the same people. 3 months ago. so essentially what happened there could easily be interpreted as the state department kind of trying and taking credit for what was achieved when donald trump was still president here price effectively confirming just that and again quite ironically because this is something that happened with the trumpet ministration at the very start of his presidency when basically the democrat leaning media they were just trying to pin all the successes of his administration on the legacy of obama and his cabinet and so on and so forth but basically now this is all is revolver now around the nordstrom to project which is by the way 97 percent complete out of the total of the. well of 100 kilometers of the pipeline only

a few dozen are left to be well laid on the seabed so there is that and basically this whole thing germany for instance is very keen on finishing this project it has repeatedly said that they are very much interested in world flicking the on switch on the on the north stream to pipeline so effectively it pitches the u.s. against its ally in europe germany and we'll see who will come out of this victorious. us democrats are calling on cable and satellite t.v. providers to justify hosting channels labeled by them as spreading this information some to put to news outlets of longer misinformation rumor mill some conspiracy theory hard but that produce can't and that leads to real harm yet to our knowledge the cable satellite and over the top companies that disseminate these media outlets to american viewers have done nothing in response to misinformation by these. are

among the channels mentioned of fox news the one american news network and newsmax t.v. the allegations are over their coverage of the 2020 presidential election and also the coronavirus pandemic the republicans for their part condemned the democrats for attacking free speech but democrats are sending a message that is as clear as it is troubling these regulated entities will pay a price if the targeted newsrooms do not conform to democrats preferred political narratives this is a chilling transgression of the free speech rights that every media outlet in this country enjoys the other media outlets lionel claims it's nonsense and it is not up to the democrats to decide what should be broadcast. since when is this a conservative who. what if they say something that throwing the letter where that one there's always something wrong who says it's wrong who says it's

misinformation the next time you are a spouse or a partner or a lover or relative if they say listen i want to talk to you as a no i don't want to talk to you why because you spout misinformation when you listen to that so why the name of god do we put up with this nonsense we are looking at it complete and total disintegration of the 1st amendment and freedom of speech because now we're saying oh no no no we want you to speak we just don't want to hear misinformation disinformation and bad information conspiracy theories unfounded. decides that since one is had a disqualifier on the dissemination of information my god i'm telling you right now you're not going to believe this but i'll bet you somewhere someplace somebody might think that what you and i are saying is dissent from a should surely be to shut us down if you don't like it go someplace else or

clarify it this is the most frightening i have ever seen ever. israelis who refuse to get vaccinated against cove it could be banned from jobs and most public places are never again facing fierce criticism of paul asli in our report. this is high a corn street in tel aviv which runs parallel to the coastline it's where many of the city's hotels are located but right now things could not be quieter there are no tourists and the airport is closed this is one of the few hotels that is open but this is the post this we can go assuming you want to into it you have to have what is called a green possible it's issued off to persons received 2 facts summations 21 days a pos and in a month's time just opposite the hotel you won't be able to into shops like this

you won't be able to enter supermarkets gym shopping same to synagogues in fact you won't be able to go just about anywhere in israel unless you have a green passport it comes as the government steps up if it's to vaccinate the population it's being met with mixed reaction on the street i think it's necessary i think it's a good idea and we can't force everyone to vaccinate but always a choice has a consequence and it shouldn't be that everybody in israel suffers because some people make a bad choice i think it's absurd i think it's ridiculous basic human rights are being ignored here if i choose what to put into my body and i choose not to put a vaccine in myself i'm going to be. banished from getting into a soccer game getting into a mall taking my boy to a day trip it's ridiculous and so you know human rights are important and it's very easy to slide when you start even with the good intentions to do things

like. too much government. and foresman so she was doing plans to ban and vaccinated people from certain jobs and as well meant that anyone found forging vaccine certificates will be jailed a black market for counterfeit certificates it's having on telegram already 100000 uses have joined groups. that promote forgeries i think that the government should not be bad people from having jobs i think that the government should most definitely ban. people who put others at risk from jobs in which they can put others at risk more important than my job is my life and in my life is at stake if i don't take the vaccination so i would take the vaccination and if i get to keep my job because of it that it's an extra bonus. i understand if people take this this road in for a job

a certain document i wouldn't do it personally but i can completely understand this is a crime i think that the waivers so this gobies or make them or buy them should be punished vaccine has a tendency and skepticism have become a growing concern in recent weeks as israel's a world leading inoculation program slows down just under 2000000 israelis have not received either of the 2 shots and many say they don't plan to it's forcing the government to come up with new and same tips to encourage people to receive shots thank you ladies and gentlemen we are very happy to host you in the world's 1st ever thanks to nation. thank you thank you thank you thank you thank. you thank you thank you i think it's a good idea i think there are

a lot of people that are just. lazy. thank you thank you thank. you. for putting up more people come because of kind of faith and i hope everyone will come and will keep themselves safe. thank you. or he spoke about the new measures with israeli political analyst have a go ask him who also warns that they breached fundamental freedoms. green passports is not a good idea we should leave the people of their freedom of choice as long as they don't harm others it's really gets to the basic idea of freedom of choice if somebody wants to get vaccinated i mean it's

a good idea to do it i did and most of my family members also but if someone chooses not to do many his rights not to be discriminated not to be a victim of a public bully for that which it should get back on normal lives keeping in mind there are certain groups of people whose house should be especially protected. and not to harm everybody not to harm our children not to harm our future not to harm my common. friend farmers have done fertilizer and old tires outside government buildings in the city of leone over the removal of meat from school menus. they also brought cows and goats to set of many farms in protest of the move by the city that however the authorities claim the scrapping meat from school meals will

actually help in the fight against the coronavirus. the new health protocol cool to me to social distancing in school canteens a single meat free menu will serve students faster and streamlined meals oh many parents are fuming at the move warning that families for more deprived communities in particular will suffer. this is i think that unfortunately it's a very political decision which could have been made with more consultation and in particular with the participation of parents for some families it is the only possibility to eat to have meat in their diet at least a few times a week so often our children are growing and we are depriving them of dietary diversity for me it's a restriction on our freedoms i don't understand how in peace can intervene in questions of diet the way they do and if we have to respect their ideology they must respect ours so i am absolutely against it. poor families who relied on canteens on schools to provide meat in meals to children will now have no more so

we can say that has absolutely no solidarity with less well off residents with working class families and that worries us as for the farmers they say the decision is just the latest assault on their ability to earn a living and farming is again targeted by what a minority of french people are saying and unfortunately for us it's another blow in our heads. at the city well now because they can't impose their ideas workforce in particular burning meat in schools supposedly because of coronavirus more from france a little later professors there want a higher education minister ourself the whole calls to draw a clear line between academic research activism and opinion in universities is one of our stories still ahead after the break. is your media

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hello again i'm just internationals changed its mind over describing jailed russian opposition figure alexina valmy as a prisoner of conscience and how the human rights organization labeled him when he was arrested in moscow on his return from germany last month making up a story next to his double quarter. well it was through a leaked email on twitter that we 1st heard of amnesty international's decision to revoke russian opposition activist aleksei and of all the status as a prisoner of conscience and r.t. has asked for confirmation from amnesty international with regards to this move but before we go any further let's take a look at what exactly that e-mail said amnesty international is no longer able to consider the lexan of only a prisoner of conscience given the fact that he advocated violence and

discrimination and he has not retracted such statements of all he was arrested last month a mediately upon his return to moscow from germany where he was receiving medical treatment to russia says that he violated a probationary sentence that was given to him back in 2014 and now he's facing 2 and a half years in a penal colony because of it now it's interesting that amnesty international decided to label the opposition activist a prisoner of conscience in the 1st place back in january because he doesn't exactly have a clean track record when it comes to conscientious acts i mean just last week a moscow court gave the man a nearly $12000.00 fine for insulting the 94 year old veteran of the 2nd world war he called him a traitor to the country we also know that he's never never made a secret about his feelings about the caucuses for example he said that russia needs to stop quote stop feeding the caucuses and there was another video that he came out with years ago in which he compared people from the caucasus to

cockroaches in the video and that video actually is still up on the alec scene of all these official you tube channels so for those who know that information they can make their own judgment as to whether or not amnesty international's decision was correct or not. a good of top academics have signed an open letter demanding that a french minister quit the she called for an investigation into so-called islam the left is of that education to become an increasingly popular way to describe an alliance between progressives of muslims the some believe we can society. i think that islam leftism is eating away dollars society as a whole and universities are not immune and a part of our society should also highlighted that the investigation aim to determine the difference between academic research and militant activism and opinion in universities the minister's remarks come on the back of legislation that critics say is anti islamic including a new law against radicalism that allows greater oversight of mosques and religious

schools in october another french minister claimed islam leftism was wreaking havoc on the country's higher education facilities we asked people in paris what they thought about the proposed inquiry. more. we have to i think the government is open least lama folded the media all say the same the bitterness towards muslims i think it's nonsense i believe that such aggression against muslims is an over reaction and it is completely incomprehensible i have a feeling that muslims have no right to live freely in france there is a confusion between that serbs extremists and the person who practices his religion peacefully so some french have this image of muslims as terrorists or extremists and it is not rate was one of assistance from the police once again we're talking about using a strategy that we have known for a long time distraction and polemics it's exhausting it takes away my powers it

makes me sick if i think of. it i don't like this concept i think it's the wrong word and by the growing movement but i don't really like that confusion. or one of the 600 academics who back the open letter told us the ministers outburst is just the government's latest onslaught on academia. i don't do. this as for those who signed the letter there were over 600 at the beginning now there are over 13000 from the university sphere who demand the mr quits because we are not mislead thing that she must understand the consequences of such her positions and of her actions during for years all the loss of projects were aimed at limiting higher education friends i think the students have the right to choose theories to study at university i'm teaching the theory of colonialism the theory of young the theory of intersexuality and to have a group of students who are absolutely capable of recessing all the information they're given and if understanding it they are also capable of seeing the reasonable things in regards to life in france particularly in regards of the

phenomena of structural racism or the phenomena of discrimination are sexism this theories are very useful and there is no need at all to regulate any of the areas. crowds have rallied in the caucasus country of georgia or after the arrest of opposition and nicomedia his detention comes hours after part of the name the new prime minister and his predecessor opposed moving is a rest over fears of a political crisis the m.p. who's the leader of the united national movement is accused of inciting violence dating back to protests in 2019 back then he was released on bail but how to wear a tracking bracelet but in november he refused to wear the device in the bail was increased by $12000.00 which he refused to pay. in other world news the killing of a 16 year old protester has sparked further rallies in the me and mass city of young demonstrators walk over posters of a sniper who allegedly shot the boy last saturday police opened fire on demonstrators in mandalay bay killing 2 people and injuring more than 20 others.

and italy's a mountain there continues to erupt its fired lava more than a kilometer into the air and a huge plume of smoke now hangs above the peak of europe's most active volcano the eruption also subpoenaed out to love afloat was all by the authorities say there's no need for an evacuation it's the 5th time out. that has erupted in the last 7 days. so better to see from a distance that it's just coming up to 25 past the hour here in moscow my name calling brought it back we go next to the international world update in around 35 minutes to see it. were more politicized than ever or more polarized than ever in the 21st century when speed is measured in megabytes per 2nd. just on the record. and of course he's

in him at a tronic mail electronic money electronic media infinite possibilities for exchanging information i mean me and my misery nationalized freedom of speech and social media bent censorship a double standards who should judge what can be said online. already planned but i want to. come down to the internet audience now totals almost 4500000000 almost all of them are active social network users put one wrong move in their pages deleted digital annihilation don't exist anymore. not who runs the show on the web how can anyone stand up to the tech giants if he from heads of state face the threat of being banned is there any limits to hold that virtual power. reasonable filleting pose for a new isp i will have reasonable way. is

your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what. oh make you feel safe. tyson nation for community. are you going the right way or are you being let some. guy away. what is true was his fate. in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or i'm a going to shallowness. article of faith russian liberals do not like a lot of your mood up until now russian liberals have been chanted with the western

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a book about his father's experiences. as he researched to me ok so he began to get a lot of attention. some strange things were happening and they always arriving in our house open. there were all these strange clicks on the telephone. and then about 2 weeks after that i'm driving to pick up my kids from a school dance clear night. clear road. from behind me comes a car with no headlights on slams into me pushes me off the road and disappears. it's something that we haven't spoken about you know nothing like this of course ever happened again but it. interesting questions. sarah has been making about her grandmother since 2009. going to film

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