russia slams the u.s. for undermining free trade in fact competition off to washington boasts about european companies pulling out of the nord stream to pipeline project in the face of u.s. sanctions. u.s. democrats demand cable and satellite providers justify hosting right wing media outlets a move republicans say is an attack on the freedom of speech. israelis face being banned from public places and even job son less that they've been vaccinated against coke 19 but the so-called green pulses are raising concerns over human rights 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 sort of think it's ridiculous basic human rights will be ignored you. angry french farmers dumb flat lies and old timers outside government buildings to protest against the removal of meat from school menus. 247 live from the russian capital this is our national god you chose us today what was happy to help you with us. well jumping right and russia is accusing washington of undermining free trade and putting its geopolitical interests above competition that's all to report on u.s. sanctions against the north soon to gas pipeline project revealed a total of 18 european countries have dropped out due to u.s.

pressure across developments for us it's equals donald. from the very outset the us 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 in the action 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 nord stream to amid u.s. pressure and when i say pressure i mean sanctions so far the united states have been sanctioning the russians while 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 with the united states that 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. 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 . sided 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 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 listen. strategy including the legislative strategy of the strategy of course congress is has been behind has been working to good effect the. credit for the companies winding down all of this work was done of the previous administration and out of all the been months all the months. are you telling me that i am all we. really is all of a sudden of all while the. only thing i am speaking for is.

the man. i am not so being for the department of state ok the people who have been working miss the people who are working this now were 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 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 revolving now around the nordstrom to project which is by the way 97 percent complete out of the total of the 1200

kilometers of the. by playing 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 disinformation some to put to news outlets of longer than this information rumor mill some conspiracy theory hot birds that produce content that leads to real harm 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 that misinformation by these words well among the channels mentioned are fox news the one america news network and years mocks the allegations are over that coverage of the 2020 presidential election and. pandemic republicans for that part condemned the democrats for attacking free speech the 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 when you call and need to unless lionel claims that's nonsense are not up to the democrats to decide what should be costed. since when is this a conservative who. what if they say something that is wrong to live with

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 say no i don't want to talk to you why because you spout misinformation wouldn't 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. it's disinformation short of me 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 refused to go back to the games covert could be banned from jobs on most public places but the new regulations are facing fierce criticism as point to reports this is higher 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 closest we can go assuming you want to enter it you have to have what is called a green passport it's issued after persons received 2 facts to nations 21 days

apart 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 just shopping same to synagogues in fact you won't be able to go just about anywhere in israel and 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 so you know human rights are in order and

it's very easy to do so. when you start even with the good intentions to do things like. too much government. and force money so she was doing plans to ban and vaccinated people from certain jobs and this woman that anyone found forging vaccine certificates will be jailed a black market for counterfeit certificates describing on telegram we already 100000 users 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 is 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 and completely understand this is a growing 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 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 back to nation bar. bar thank you. thank

you. i think it's a good idea i think there are a lot of people that are just. crazy. or your people come because of kind of faith and i hope everyone will come and will keep themselves safe. we spoke about the new matches with israeli political analyst out there to ask and who also warns that they do preach fundamental freedoms. green passport is not a good idea we should leave the people the 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 it and most of my family members also but if someone chooses not to do any exclusive rights to the hope to be discriminated not to be a victim of. public belief or that we just 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. french farmers have the dunked in old tires outside government buildings in the city of neil over the removal of me from school menus.

thank you. they also brought coulson go you can see to set up many farms and protest at the way of by the city mayor however the authorities claim that scrapping meat from school meals will actually help in the fight against the coronavirus. the new health brought a cold calls for to meet a social distancing in school canteens a single meat free menu will serve students faster and streamlined meals while many parents are fuming at the move warning that families from more deprived communities in particular will suffer too soon this is what i think that unfortunately is 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 off and on children are growing and we're depriving them of dietary diversity for me it's a restriction on our freedoms i don't understand how these can intervene in

questions of diet the way they do and if we have to respect their ideology they must respect us so i am absolutely against it. who are firm believers who relied on canteens on schools to provide meat in meals to children will now have no more so we can say that the move leader has absolutely no solidarity with less well off residents with working class families and that worries us was for that part farmer 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. the city will now because they can't impose their ideas bush force in particular. schools supposedly because of coronavirus while still to come on the program french professors want the minister of higher education out after her calls to draw a clear line between academic research activism and opinion in universities all the

details and more after the short break. article of faith russian liberals did not like one of your books up until now russian liberals have been chanted with the western so-called western values western ideological locus it is changing its focus disparages tradition patriotism the family and even logic for russia liberals this appears to be going too far are russian liberals falling out of love with the west. the world is driven by shaped by those.

who dares think. we dare to ask. why a stance national has changed its mind over describing jailed russian opposition forgot explain of all me as a prisoner of conscience that's how the human rights organization enable to him when he was arrested in moscow on his return from jon benet last month total quota picks up the story. well it was through a leaked email on twitter that we 1st heard of amnesty international's decision to revoke russian opposition activist aleksei devolve 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 never never made a secret about his feelings about the caucasus 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 what if the cockroach is too big in the fly is too aggressive. well in this case i recommend the gun. and that video actually is still up on the aleksey in 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. hundreds of top academics have signed an open letter demanding that a french minister quit after she called for an investigation into so-called islamic

left in education now the tamas becoming an increasingly popular way to describe an alliance between progressives and muslims that some believe we can society. i think that this lama left his muse eating a widow society as a whole and universities are not immune and a part of our society well she also highlighted that the investigation ng to determine the difference between academic research and militant activism or opinion and 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 wasps and religious schools in october another french minister claimed islamic leftism was wreaking havoc on the country's higher education facility is what we asked people in paris what they thought about the proposed inquiry. the 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 overreaction and it is completely incomprehensible i have a feeling that muslims have no right to live freely in france there is a confusion between the terms extremists and the person who practices his religion peacefully so some french have this image of muslims as serious or extremist and it is not right with one of this is 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 to school cert i don't want this concept i think is the wrong word and doesn't want to be movement but i don't really like that confusion. because one of the 600 academics who backed theory panetta told us the minister's outburst is

just the government's latest onslaught on academia. as for those who signed the letter there were over $600.00 at the beginning now there are over $13000.00 from the university sphere who demand the mr quits because we think that she must understand the consequences of such for 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're 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 saxes of this theories are very useful and there is no need at all to regulate any of the areas in finding the crowds have rallied in the corpses country of georgia off to the arrest of

opposition and. his detention comes hours off the parliament named a new prime minister his predecessor opposed malia's arrest 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 that he was released on bail but how to wear a tracking bracelet but in november he refused to wear the device and bail was increased by $12000.00 but he's refused to pay. for that all the while the news of the killing of a 16 year old protester has sparked the rowdies in the myanma city of young goan demonstrators walked over posters of a sniper who allegedly shot the boy last saturday police opened fire on demonstrators in mandalay killing 2 and injuring more than 20. and it's nice that continues to erupt. a kilometer into the

a huge plume of smoke now hangs above the peak of you. europe's most active volcano the eruption also spewed out to lava flows although the authorities say there's no need for any if i q ation it's the 5th time mount etna has erupted in the last 7 days. well that's how things are shaping up for all of us here most thanks for stopping by next stop crosstalk. this is really the beginning of the changing of the guard you know where now handing the baton off to china as the number one economy in the 21st century the

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only involved in the process things are considered. it's an article of faith russian liberals do not like a lot of your putin up until now russian liberals have been chanted with the western so-called western values western ideological wolk ism is changing this woke ism disparages tradition patriotism the family and even logic like math russian liberals this appears to be going too far are russian liberals falling out of love with the west.

to discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest paul robinson in auto where he is a professor in the graduate school of public and international affairs at the university of ottawa in also we have wendy's and he is a professor at the university of south eastern norway as well as author of the book russian conservatism and here in moscow we have to meet bob she's a political analyst and editor at you know smee internet media project originally cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it i was going to call 1st. in light of my introduction paul i'll ask the big question that i'm sure there's no easy answer but given that you're all everyone on our panel here is an expert in russia. are russian liberals following out of love with the west because if they are all i can say is it's about time go ahead paul i say got started sort of yes and no but they remain committed to it an

ideal of the west some sort of fantasy of the less they have which is so the west as it was until fairly recently but you do see a number of. now criticizing the sort of political correctness the west and the sort of modern world culture and counsel culture and so on interestingly in the process they end up sounding extraordinarily like you know consider different far rights people like exam. and some of the things that have been said later could've come straight out of his mouth what's more significant is that coming out of the liberal camp which friend is of rather more shocking because as he said you know support of the west is very much a russian live it isn't about it it's all very very closely associated historically with westernization and this idea that we should become a normal i western country so when people start criticizing the west from within the liberal camp. in interesting ideological shift you know claim that it also is happening in international relations we had a just

a burrell the high representative for form of policy for the e.u. he was in moscow and that turned into a real fiasco because again lecturing about values about western values and that russia needs essentially you know paraphrasing here in between the lines that you know russia has to learn oh oh bester new ways for it to be a genuine legitimate partner of the west in this case particularly the european union your take are all i am going liberalism consists on some very good ideas about the central role of individual rights shareholdings honestly the sort of similar role in society. to the point i was making last of the really international system contrary to the couples from power politics and sense that a liberal international system in europe effectively meant that we would keep some of this block all it takes and also making russia responsible for its own exclusion by not living up to the west ideals and also to some extent greed reshape.