there's other victims say they still live with the consequences today. the e.u. is in lockdown showdown brussels precious reluctant members to open up their borders to get the block back on the move but 6 states say they're staying shots. across the atlantic half a 1000000 american covert deaths and counting yet no mass vaccination inside but despite the morbid milestone president biden escapes the criticism previously leveled a handling of the crisis. and we hear from a canadian man who received hundreds of death threats and felt forced to move home after testing positive for cocaine. global stories and international analysis this is r.t.

from moscow by name calling bright welcome to the program 1st said the 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's given the states 10 days to respond with the details of development says peter oliver in berlin. the e.u. commission currently after all do with 6 member states who have unilaterally put in place border restrictions of one type or and 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 commission buying up though they're not happy with the situation the commission has been clear without a coordinated approach among 27 member states we risk fragmentation and disruptions to free movement into a supply chain is something we have witnessed again in the past 2 weeks so who's on

the naughty list belgium germany denmark hungry finland and sweden have all been 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 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 the pandemic could be attained by less restrictive measures here in germany any travel is coming from the czech republic from 'd slovakia or from the tirol region of austria where you've got to provide on arrival at the border a negative covert test that's resulted in these huge tailed by. acts of traffic causing real disruption 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. here's some of the reaction we've been getting to this from political commentators. in the eatery and. there were 4. soundtracks and we think 2

hands are from heat to house who have. wanted to hold a cross and to have a negative test i mean if we are inside a european union if we are inside the euro where all this is the scene. i don't understand why there are subsidies be problems and if you want to be in the united states europe. sometimes explains this is not the. correct way and it seems to me that the e.u. is only as usual. i have been to live in europe and even you have seen the lead in. this. and there is only the to be elections and the elections and they will be those how much the power of the european union has a will in their lives including for this question well at least in principle

because you can does a big deal with see what happens when they do begin to wonder when they do the. git go the guns will be seen so you can do anything you little freedom with. them all local leaders in belgium's flanders region a desperate to get their hands on more astra zeneca jobs but they say the firms left them in the lurch after saying it wouldn't be able to deliver an agreed number of covert ops the flemish health minister the man to the shortage also took aim at modernity for the late in delivering their jap currently there are 3 vaccines available to belgians pfizer and the oxford astra zeneca jap countries also ordered more shots from other supplies but they're still undergoing trials people wishing to get a job don't get to choose which one they'll receive and they won't find out until it's about to be administered we asked people in brussels what they thought of up. the situation's very strange as we don't know what we're being inoculated with if it's good but that's not the question it's not

a problem for me but i can understand it's good that some people. we hear about different creative area for different vaccines that one is better than the other 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 it's understandable i think we don't know much where we are being given a little information but there are certainly people who are suspicious and the lack of information doesn't help we had of one brussels intensive care unit says not giving people a choice could adversely affect the belgian vaccination program. they get their ducks in a huge 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 in form of the vaccine 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 question whether some backseats were more effective than others some vaccines were inducing more 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 of the one vaccine but who defines a vaccine and many people question whether they would accept the other one meaning you know astra zeneca vaccine and therefore it seems that it's slowing the number of people getting being vaccinated. us president joe biden's old at all flags on federal property to be flown at hamas to mock the hof a 1000000 american deaths from that but it's kind of multiple media there are still glowing in that praise for his approach to the pandemic despite there being little

difference to that of the previous administration. america's death toll from code 19 is now more than 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 this virus and any other nation on earth. this rig knowledge the scale of this mass death in america remember each person the life they lived on the campaign trail biden asked to go to donald trump for his mishandling of the pandemic and promised that when he got into office he would turn things around he seems to have tempered expectations a bit 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 maleness everyone be

mandated to wear a mask mask mandates mask up masking player mask for god's sake. we're mask if not for yourself if your loved ones while masks are proven to stop the spread of coded but is that it he's got the same advisor that trump had doctor now says will probably be wearing masks until 2022 do you think americans will still be wearing masks for example and 2020. 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 in the next few months masks not facts 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 us by

the end of july seems like the amount of time that donald trump that it took the child ministration to develop this vaccine which is record time now the by the ministration say says that will take just as much time in order to have enough doses and 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. yes 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 covert deaths were being blamed on donald trump but think again we're seeing 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 as a joe biden giving america a message tonight them and one i think that only this president president could give not the former one 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 the major media isn't demanding the rollout 'd be sooner because there are guys in office that this is a media that said a vaccine would be impossible to get out in 2020 and trump made that happen and instead of the media focusing on what's happening with the bye to mr ration and the 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 until 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 isn't 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 unhappier. one of canada's covert victims says war but the stigma attached to the disease is stopping many people from coming forward if they have symptoms cortland received hundreds of death threats after it was revealed that he called the virus a lot of people are so worried about having kobe not because of it's going to harm them but it's because they're worried of what the put you know the population around them will think when you shame somebody and when you have this big stick 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 he began 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 for a kind of the you tube video on this so that you know creates allergies where i can't taste her might you know my nose gets blocked up in and that's what i was relating it to and that's why the 2nd day i book the tasks like weighted still

there you know 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 days prior tested negative for covert $191.00 of the guys that i was on the trip with who came home early from calgary he tested also negative for quote 19 which he actually had symptoms so i was like ok there's probably a very slim chance that i have 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. first a segment of the international space station has started showing signs of age repairs are underway right now to fix 6 cracks that of appeared in the 2 decades old module that's leaking air according to the russian space agency called small so all the breaches have been temporarily sealed but further investigation is still needed air pressure has dropped inside the orbiting station but it's far from emergency levels we're told we spoke to

a cosmonaut about what these leaks could mean for the future of the i.s.a.'s. installment of yes the cracks have existed for some time now this is been long known and talked about to my mind they pose no threat to the team and flight security at least for now but this is an alarming sign it shows that the station has been functioning for 20 years and that cell is under extreme conditions there's such a thing as metal fatigue and in principle we can expect these inconveniences to repeat i'll give you an example the station goes round the earth every 90 minutes so roughly speaking every 45 minutes it's and said oh well it's minus 150 degrees celsius and for the next 45 minutes the station is exposed to the sun but the temperature gets much harder to over 100 degrees so just imagine for 22 years 16 cycles a day 6 temperature fluctuations will affect the cell of 20 years any kind of metal would get tired when it comes to talk of renewing the station maybe not change it

completely but possibly it is running out of its resource in some aspects it was designed for short term and the management team and all the countries involved understand that and that's why there are thoughts about how to proceed just. makes it a very different kind of causing problems here on earth israel's been forced to shut its beaches off an oil spill that's been described as one of the most disastrous in the country's history xpress are still assessing the damage but it's expected to take decades to clean up.

as the 1st by the state of israel. dealing with it now the commission to get. if. it's from the north give yourself more dramatic percent of the beach as it is where . it could be the rocks share and all that really. in the surf and they came to us covered in tar and other necks inside an hour full of tar obviously we had to clear their breeding channels as fast as possible and after that we clean the tar from their digestive system we continue to feed them substances like the 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 we were able to release them into the sea.

came here to the beach today to clean all the tar. 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 and i want to help the environment damaged by the spill the oil is targeting and the still coming to our beaches. used to be brutus you know we still don't know for sure who do go along. the beaches. because they're underwater people example. seaview. use the investigator who. uses big.

need only for. some reason. maybe no more example was the source of the words as follows. moscow is questioning america's commitment to free trade after washington bragged that nearly 20 european companies have quit russia's north stream to gas pipeline project the threat of u.s. sanctions 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 in spite of the will of sovereign nations. is our correspondent igor start off with more on the growing scandal surrounding the u.s. response. 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 world inaction of not being keen enough on preventing nordstrom too from coming to fruition this report is not yet available to the public bug net 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 as 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. has been taking russia views it as world geopolitical warfare 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. it is not the case and it only came to light when price was confronted by a piece matley over the issue powerless and. strategy including the legislative

strategy of the strategy of course congress is has been behind has been working to good effect the plane credit for the companies winding down all of this work was done of the previous administration and out of all they've been months mabyn all they've been all this month right are you telling me that in the letter i am more weeks these 18 but he is all the sudden as always you know you better not mean anything when i am speaking for all you know. you guys are taking credit for stuff that the man is administrator i am not no i also being for the department of state ok the people who have been working this ok the people who are working this now were the same people a month ago or the same people 3 months ago 3 months ago. quickly around the world for you now a view of niagara falls that you don't see every day severe cold has partially frozen the natural lamarck between new york and canada despite the freezing

temperatures though this rare occurrence is to the tracting many tourists as you can imagine the full time completely iced over there is water continuing to flow underneath those that thick sheets of ice. hundreds of italian entertainment workers have gathered outside rome's oldest theater calling on the government to provide more support for the sector and also the country gets reopened it's begin now since italy's theatres and cinemas closed because of the covert 19 restrictions actors musicians artists and dancers carried banners saying culture is not garbage. thousands in ecuador are protesting against alleged electoral fraud in recent presidential elections and they're demanding a vote recount protester supporting indigenous an environmentalist candidate to get her parents who came 3rd have been marching for. days to reach the capital quito he got 19.4 percent of the vote but that leaves him out of. the state attorney has

opened an investigation to determine if fraud has occurred. and that's how it looks from the moscow newsroom thanks for checking in with r.t. international with your next update around 36 minutes. were more politicized than ever or more polarized than ever the 21st century when speed is measured in megabytes per 2nd. electronic mail electronic money electronic media infinite possibilities for exchanging information. while freedom of speech and social media

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are all officials reveal what they know so far about that fiery engine that forced an emergency landing in colorado and what it could mean for the future of the boeing 777 that federal reserve chairman jerome powell gives his take on the flatness of the u.s. economy and what we can expect in terms of unemployment and inflation in 2021 we have a lot to get to fill us get started. facebook and the australian government our friends once again nearly. one week after the social media giant took unprecedented steps to ban content from news pages within the country that battle surrounded a proposed law which would have required facebook to pay news publishers or be forced into arbitration australia's treasurer says they have decided to back off of some of those proposals but talks are expected to continue well facebook has raised .