the headlines in our t.v. you demands the free movement of people and goods within member states urging 6 countries to relax their covert restriction measures before legal steps are taken also to come half a 1000000 american deaths and counting yet no mass vaccination in sight but despite the morbid milestone joe biden escapes the criticism previously leveled at donald trump's handling of the crisis and we hear from a canadian man he received hundreds of death threats and felt forced to move to after testing positive because of it 90. good evening just gone 7 in moscow you're watching r.t. international now the researching 6 member states to ease their covert control

measures in particular bans on entering or leaving countries that cause border tension and disrupt economies the commission has given the states 10 days to respond so let's get more information and i was a bird in our europe correspondent is waiting for us pay to get even just tell us more then back to concerns that the e.u. commission has. yes the e.u. commission currently at all through with 6 member states who've unilaterally put in place border restrictions of one type or other in order to try and stop the spread of covert 19 whether that's the spread of the virus in general or the stop of the spread of mutated versions particularly here in germany that's been a top issue you commissioner are buying up though they're not happy with the situation. commission has been clearer to coordinate that approach among 27 member states we risk recommendation and disruptions to free movement to supply chain is

something we have for witnessed again in the past 2 weeks. so who's on the naughty list belgium germany denmark hungry finland and sweden of all being given 10 days to provide a good reason why they put these restrictions on freedom of movement in place or to relax the restrictions that have been put there the e.u. commission's unlikely to win easily on this one we've heard from the german side who've defended their move. these measures obviously put a massive strain on border regions commuters and the transport of goods and the single market but the protection of our citizens aspire amount finland has also issued a statement saying that yes they recognize this is far from ideal but they deem it necessary the recalcitrant member states of all received letters this week

saying that they a means that they are trying to achieve can be reached through different means we believe that the objective justifiably pursued by germany the protection of public health during a pandemic could be attained by less restrictive measures. here in germany any travelers coming from the czech republic from slovakia or from the tirol region of austria well you've got to provide aid on arrival at the border a negative covert test that's resulted in these huge tailbacks of traffic causing real disruption all on the border with germany brussels is essentially fighting a battle now with the member states over their. national interests they want to keep covert out of their countries but the e.u. has a duty as it sees it to keep freedom of movement going within the block and those 2

things coming together over this pandemic. yes clash of interest isn't it see how it develops thank you peter as artie's people over there coming to us live from berlin we can cross now to to talk to francesco really he's the president of the conservative think tank massey any future and we're very well you're very welcome thanks for your time tonight francesco how do you think this will play out i mean these countries have been given 10 days to respond what do you think their response will be. thank you very much for your invitation i mean the situation he said the european union is quite confusing what confuses not only in the border between for example france and united team because united came in not still having more inside the european union but the situation is confused also inside the borders between that countries of the european union for example the in the border between eataly and aus to a few days ago there were 40 kilometers

a line between of sound trucks and that are waiting to hands or from he tell it to house to have because it wanted to have all of the trucks and to have it in legatee even called to test it i mean we are inside a european union so if we are inside the union where all the states at the same. i don't understand why there are still subsidies big problems and this equation is quite difficult for a lot of workers because you have 2 major that hold the trucks that come from imported from italy to austria camp also from the south of italy and can also from the mediterranean harrier because a lot of cross come from that bartok of green this is the part of bali that part of the very so if the big problem for all the european union and if you wanted to build the united states of europe. sometimes explain this is not the.

correct way but if we want to build a europe that is a europe of the nation i think that they are tons of books there are very good at just my original question i francesca was how do you think that the 6 countries will respond because obviously they're putting coronavirus above the needs of their economy for the moment. i think that the whole of the countries especially of the country lost their he's to europe when they say they undermined the importance of that border they underline they are sovereign countries sold their underlines that they want a whole circle defense and they see the dense and so they underline how it's important 'd to close the border for a cemetery and i didn't see it but that this is the flow of the european union this is the fault of all the policies that in the past year the european union wanted to hoping to hold the european countries but a horse understand the response of some countries such as the for example how 3 or

are there are country in the east europe that say that the borders are important in an emergency situation such as the situation in our suppose the danger is the u. hopes that its policy will unify everybody together by threatening legal action but at the same time it could push these countries further away might make them think you know what is it really worth it being part of the you can't control our borders at times like these. but the problem is not only linked to the border i think that we are leading in the fold of the european union also in another part and think. about that that since we don't have vast things for example in italy to the us that the inequality is in a very important 'd in our play off of the bus in seeing that we have to captain paul at that for a tour of that bus and from day to this summer so i don't understand for example why the country of the european union including don't take this sport me because in some countries such as the summary not that it is very small countries in history

and other countries such as how are they decided to take this book me can be called the how the stand housing bar and vaccinate all in the count all of the citizens of the european union but to date we are leaving a phone in coursera to the situation of the borders but we are wholesale leaving and the other for that is very very dramatic because we need vasant to or start our economy we need bustle to restart the political and the social situation but we don't have that much and so important to open or to what we think it's a very difficult problem to solve isn't it because there are conflicting goals on the one side you know this is kind of an issue that everybody wants to solve on the other side lots of people are losing money this huge traffic jams trucks can't move goods between borders. there's no hope of a solution and it doesn't saying to me that people are talking about it as a whole they're just talking about coded all the traffic jams money there's no sort

of beauty in trying to find a common solution hey. i ended with you because of the problem is not wholly lead to the economic situation and is on not only link with the last droughts that is not the great amazin but the problem is more deep the problem is the per because these leakage of the. unity of the european union so we have a tool to haskett each other hold the european leader has to ask each other what they want for the future of the european union if they want a european e.u. that is the united states of europe so without borders and with a common government is a solution but they have the solution that they think is the best solution if they europe of the nation where having nation as is so ranty and so where have a nation as serenity whole so for that purpose so in an emergency situation is it normal that sometimes sound national states want to girls they board this but any

if they are in said the european union they have to share or play this season absolutely and just lastly then i mean what sort of action could the european union take against these 6 countries if they don't comply. if the grid question here i don't know what they can do because because of that senator imagine c. is not a moment where you can sign salomon unified sit inside the european union so difficult for the european commission i don't know to to have. to go harder with this countries because it is not only one country there are 6 continents there are also some important countries so it's very difficult to find that issue short for or for this problem but maybe they can say to this country that they are inside the european union they have to open the borders and the situation is quite difficult

also because we are looking to a counter to the great britain where they're doing a lot of blessing in this moment and the in the meantime inside the european union we don't have any turkey for example we are really we have hospitals who have doctors who have struck course we are ready to to have to the people but we don't have bathrooms and i mean this is a fault of the european union. yeah certainly a lot of food for thought there francesca a really nice little if you're going to leave it there that was trying to do really he's the president of the conservative think tank and that's the only future thanks for coming up thank you very much. now meanwhile in belgians flanders region authorities there are desperate to get their hands on more astra zeneca jabs but they say that the farmer giant has left them in the lurch that's after the company said it wouldn't be able to deliver an agreed number of covert shots flemish health minister lamented the shortage in order to continue and the dernier for delays in delivering their job now currently there are 3 faxing available to the belgians.

and oxford astra zeneca countries also ordered more shots from other supplies to you but those still undergoing trials meanwhile those wishing to get a job don't get to choose which one will receive and this information is actually withheld until the last moment we asked people in brussels what they thought about the policy. the situation is very strange that we don't know what we're being unlock your way to if it's good but that's not the question it's not a problem for me but i can understand to some people. we hear by different grittier for different vaccines that one is better than they are there and reports to that effect if people aren't important and if the information is withheld i understand why some people are refusing to make their own choice is to understand a bill i think we don't know much we're being given a little information but there are certainly people who are suspicious and the lack of information doesn't help. what the head of the intensive care unit at the sound

of the university hospital in brussels says that the policy of not giving people a choice could actually adversely affect the vaccination program in belgium. they need their books in issues important but it's also a something you have to choose just self and this is a personal decision to move to the vaccination so therefore i think that it's quite important to get informed of the facts he now to be concerned over the last couple of weeks was that the information spread all over the media and even in the scientific world questioned whether some backseats were more effective than others some vaccines were in use ignore reaction than others and therefore i think that information spreads all over the community and therefore people are questioning whether they can select the type of vaccine they want to choose for their future so it's understandable that people want to know exactly what they get spore we noticing it is a rush towards getting those one vaccine specially deployed to iraq so you can and

many people question whether that would accept the other warm meaning you know astra zeneca vaccine and therefore it seems that it's slowing the number of people getting being vaccinated. now live in the united states joe biden has ordered all flags on federal property to be lowered to hamas to mock the tough and mean american deaths from its kind of i reports media still claiming that price for the president's approach to the pandemic despite it being a little different to the facts of the previous administration. america's death toll from covert 19 is now more than a half a 1000000 that's more than world war 2 and vietnam combined biden marked the occasion with a solemn ceremony at the white house on monday as more lives lost to this virus than any other nation on earth. but as rig knowledge the scale of this mass

death in america. remember each person the life they lived on the campaign trail biden castigated donald trump for his mishandling of the pandemic he promised that when he got into office he would turn things around he seems to have tempered expectations a did as back in january he said he was powerless to change the trajectory of covert 19 and his anti co the defense has one key aspect where malice everyone would be mandated to wear a mask mask mandates mask mask in place or mask for godsake. word mask if not to yourself true love ones while masks are proven to stop the spread of coded but is that it he's got the same advisor the trump pad dr now says will probably be wearing masks until 2022 do you think americans will still be

wearing masks for example and 20 twentieth's. you know i think it is possible that that's the case many hope that under biden massive vaccinations might save the day but so far it does not look that way the next few months masks. are the best defense against kuvin 90 biden even visited a farm a facility to show he's got a handle on things however he says that vaccines won't be available to everyone until mid-summer we're now on track to have enough vaccine supply for all of our work by the end of july seems like the amount of time donald trump that it took the child ministration to develop this vaccine which is record time now the biden ministration say says that will take just as much time in order to have enough doses biden has had since november to start planning his approach to quit what did he do what did he spend november december january doing well he had a stack of executive orders waiting on his desk to sign it seems bizarre because we

know that there are millions upon. millions of those already out there perhaps he's just lowering expectations now you might think that mainstream media would now lash out on biden just like they did on his predecessor remember when all the doubts were being blamed on donald trump but think again we see with president biden he's demonstrated to the country what a difference. the change of presidents has made president biden is confronting this enormous loss directly and publicly help americans heal on any front that something good so biden is uniquely qualified to do resident joe biden giving america a message tonight them and one i think the only this president president could give not the former one but seems that joe biden is being judged by a different set of standards deaths are rising but he is not catching any flak oh well i guess we should all just get used to wearing masks for another year but

major media isn't demanding the rollout 'd be sooner because there are guys in office and business a media that said a vaccine would be impossible to get out in 2020 and made that happen and instead of the media focusing on what's happening with the bye to mr ration and their vaccinations instead we're seeing stories about joe biden's dog and we're seeing stories about him playing video games with his grandchildren if donald trump was playing video games with his grandchildren at camp david it would be a national scandal and they would say he has graham was blood on his hands of course and joe biden's read that he could play video games with his grandchildren at camp david and say that it's going to be til the end of july and we have another vaccinations you're the president united states make it happen that's what plenty of americans are asking but of course the media is now asking that because it's their guy and they're going to protect him and they're going to do their brand of meat bad journalism and it's all going to be fluff and softball and human interest

stories for the next you know 3 and a half years. and i want to kind of just kind of think tim's has wound that he thinks the stigma attached to the disease maybe stealthing people from coming forward if they have symptoms colton chrome crossing tundras death threats after it was revealed he co-wrote the virus. a lot of people are so right about having kobe not because of it's going to harm them but it's because they're worried of what the put the population around them will think when you shame somebody and when you have this big stigma on people for having called it a lot of people who are sick you know that might have a sniffle or a sore throat or something they don't bother going to get tested because they they feel like they're going to be shamed so or shunned and so a lot of people end up hiding their symptoms that's an issue because then you're not getting a true number on cases and and you know you have people going around spreading the virus not knowingly the they have the virus because they're too worried about what people might think that they have the virus. but he begun getting hundreds of death

threats a day after being infected in october with people blaming him on social media for the subsequent public restrictions the abuse even made him feel that he had to move to the other side of the country. people attacked me for no reason in new brunswick that's my hometown that's where i'm from there's a video that was on october 31st of me saying that i couldn't taste or smell anything and the background record of the you tube video on this so that you know creates allergies where i can't taste her might and you know my my nose gets blocked up and and that's what i was relating it to and that's why the 2nd day i booked a task that equated still there you know it might it could be covert i pulled out of the state so i'm just going to double check i'm pretty sure it's not because my spouse used prior tested negative for covert $19.00 and $1.00 of the guys that was on the trip with who came home early from calgary he tested also negative for over $1000.00 which he actually had symptoms so i was like ok there's probably a very slim chance that i have caught it 19 and when i was traveling from calgary

back to new brunswick i was considered essential workers so we were required to isolate and i didn't have symptoms at that time my symptoms didn't come to 31st and i was coming back to new brunswick on the 24th of october. israel has been forced to shut his speeches after an oil spill that's been described as one of the most disastrous in the country's history experts is still assessing the damage but it is expected to take decades to clean up. the streets of his will. dealing with good. the pollution we get money for it's.

give yourself more demand people search of the beaches that is where polluted it could be the ropes. and all that really. they came to us covered in tar their necks inside and out were full of tar obviously we had to clear their breathing channels as fast as possible and after that we clean the tar from their digestive system we could tell you to feed them substances like mayonnaise which cleans the system and breaks down the tar i hope that in a week or 2 these guys will start eating on their own to that we can see that they are healthy and gaining weight and we are able to release them into the sea. you came here to the beach today to clean all the tar that was built into the ocean

and now it's on the beaches we did it work we came here to clean it up for the wildlife so that wildlife can continue living normally my heart wanted to be at the beach i came as soon as i was able to i want to help the environment by the spilled oil the target king and the still coming to our beaches. to be. sure to do. this. because the under all. of you. who. uses. already for some reason.

maybe not. more exactly. as follows. but i will before we go let's have a look at some world news in brief and the stunning views are from niagara falls a severe cold there has partially frozen a natural landmark despite the freezing temperatures though the rare occurrence is still attracting many tourists who turned out to see it and the falls there have been completely iced over we should say as waters continue to flow underneath the sheets of thick ice. was that it was. hundreds of the tally in entertainment workers have gathered outside all just there so they're calling on the government to provide more support for the sector and that the country is reopened it's been a year since his lease theatres and cinemas closed to take over 1000 restrictions

actors musicians artists and dancers carried banners they're saying culture is not garbage and thousands in ecuador hard protesting against alleged electoral fraud in the recent presidential elections and a demanding a vote recount protesters supporting indigenous and environmentalist candidate yeah competitors who came 3rd have been marching for days to reach the capital kaito he did get 19.4 percent of the boat vote which does come out of the runoff in april the state attorney though has opened an investigation to determine if fraud occurred. so that brings up so that you're watching r t thanks for company tonight but back again at the top of the.

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