still search for grown children. for their parents. down showdown brussels precious reluctant members to open up their borders to get the block back on the move but 6 key states say they're staying shot. across the atlantic harf a 1000000 american covert deaths and counting yet no mass vaccination in sight but despite the president biden escapes the criticism previously leveled at donald trump's handling of the crisis. we hear from a canadian man who received hundreds of death threats and felt forced to move across the country after testing positive for cope with.

life and worldwide this is r.t. international from moscow welcome to world news this hour 1st for you the e.u. is urging 6 member states to ease their covert control measures in particular bans on entering or leaving countries that cause border tension disrupt economies commissions given the state's 10 days to respond with the details he is peter oliver in berlin. the e.u. commission currently after all do with 6 member states who've 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 you commissioned are 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 it 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 recognise 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're 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 travel is coming from the czech republic from 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. 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. for reaction this hour live to italy and powell bernadino who's professor of european history at its subarea university there welcome back to r.t. the coalition be good to have you on the program the commissions given these 6

countries 10 days to respond what do you think they'll do will they yield. well i don't know what they're going to spawn from my point of view there is one point it's very important to you is right in the expecting the who the border 3 do that in order to let the mob people angle i mean and get out there on the. gotta see the thing time i don't think is in the commission to force congress to change the policies of. the trade off look at what the bass the solution. what is the goal to put. on the economy the free market the free. roaming people the good or the national house and then that would damage this thing by.

the economy which is already struggling with a lot. so i don't know how those states are going to reform and the standing of the a lot. of the aleutian into what the european union a don't know think it's also being said a very late stage in the european union. and a day actually force or a bite of the base to be more i mean to be more to. the border more close and to let the less let's less people and less. trouble. some people know what is going to happen at the time particularly countries that are usually songs in the sight of brussels are they the kind of countries they usually stand up to him items that come from brussels and strasburg we're talking the likes of denmark and germany and and belgium here and as you say presumably they've got their reasons for doing this so why an ultimatum like this. while i think it

doesn't make them is really a little disturbing i think we are all in that situation the european union and i think every state or local song for the when we talk about the state or the let them think about badgeman denmark when we talk about germany we immediately report if i didn't said i learned to do asian encounter one of the. situations not so bad my many other land of the situation was really bad so when we talk about the drug talk about the huge out and if they decided. after the war in some way or they should be allowed to do that because it wasn't going to be very rare is this and we've heard from one region for a number of. enough he said before for the for downmarket not because what we call dancing which is more guns will tell your people that we can be said for the

sweetness we the. people know is that as you know a very large otoh if the decision to leave one far. i think you're doing idea leave is very good when that when we reopen on the markets all the well. because at the end of the shang going to area. i mean i think doubt her dating new shoe policy or forcing this date. back again the daughter said before then given the earlier the a violation now. you are also on the ass and the spirit of the european and i guess we'll know in 10 days who's going to blink 1st for half an hour though in genoa as it happened amy thanks for joining us on r.t. thank you so much thank you going live. from the authorities in belgium slanders region are desperate to get their hands on more astra zeneca jabs but they say the firms left them in the lurch after saying they wouldn't be able to deliver an

agreed number of covert shots. the flemish health minister the men to the shortage and also took a turn for delays in delivering their job currently there are 3 vaccines available to belgians pfizer and the oxford astra zeneca job the country's also ordered more shots from other suppliers which is still undergoing trials people wishing to get a job don't get to choose which one they'll receive or they won't find out which one it isn't and it's about to be administered we asked people in brussels what they thought of that. we have a different criteria for different facts in this that one is better than doubt and deploys to that effect if people aren't important and if the information is without i understand why some people are refusing they afraid to make their own choice and distended but i think we don't know much when we're being given a little information but there are certainly people who are suspicious and the lack of information doesn't help we have been in the situations very strange that we don't know what we're being inoculated with if it's good or bad that's not the

question but it's not a problem for me but i can understand it's good to some people would be bad if one proselyte intensive care unit says they're not giving people a choice could adversely affect the belgian vaccination program. they do their vaccination is 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 inform 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

there's a rush towards getting those of the one vaccine but he defied the rock scene 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. charity officials in charge when riots a storm for u.s. capital have been giving evidence in. the senate's 1st public hearings into what happened on january the 6th but there were apparently major inconsistences in their testimony as they blame the other agencies and each other for the various shortcomings it also seems that there was no contingency for such an attack and the hearing so far as left more questions than answers. police officers were not trained on how to respond to an infiltration of the capitol building. is that correct but. when you talk about infiltration you talk about

a large insurrection like we saw in the january 6 know are all capitol police officers out there with riot gear. no they're not sir anyone from the department of homeland security contact you about a potential national special security event designation no i'm not aware of anybody from d h s reaching out no one contacted me thank you and stayed with me senator no contact at all with me or my office. to refresh your memory on january the 6th a huge crowd of mostly trump supporters and stormed the capitol building the rioters were angry with the results of the 2020 presidential election and claims that the presidency had been stolen and the trump and one of the mob faced little resistance from security.

i live now to the executive director of the wrong paul institute for peace and prosperity down here mcadams welcome back swati international as i mentioned reportedly discrepancies in the testimony given so far what does that tell you. well i think it is fascinating and these kinds of hearings within congress are going to produce very little of any value of the usually involved in covering things up rather than getting to the bottom of things but as you point out there are some very key discrepancies let's not forget from the beginning that the persons in charge of security ultimately on capitol hill are the speaker of the house nancy pelosi and then senate majority leader. you know in the senate

so you have you have a situation where they are all to me in charge and it goes downhill from there it goes to the sergeant at arms on either side and then down to the capitol police chief what we saw in the hearings the other day is that the capitol police chief said that he. urged he said the sergeant at arms at the house and senate side 2 days before the event to call in the national guard to be prepared that was denied by the sergeant at arms were by the way both been fired so there's a real discrepancy did they see this coming is it just the usual government incompetence in the agencies that we dump billions of dollars into or is there something else afoot if there is something else afoot guarantee these hearings will not bring it out because i suppose the thing that's overriding for a lot of people on this is that no matter who did water which decisions were made was that the riot police as we've seen coming out in these public airings that they

were so unprepared for what happened and this being the seat of the united states government that that was the protection that. well there's always the possibility that incompetence can answer a lot of these questions but it does raise a lot of questions why were they unprepared what was the reason for it and let's not forget the fact that the media particular the mainstream media in the united states has played this up to the hilt they're treating the event on january 6th like they treated the russia gate scam for 4 years playing it up as an armed insurrection when clearly it was not that there's not a single glenn green greenwald writes about this there is not a single example in public we see of anyone wielding or using a weapon who was charging into the capitol this is not an armed insurrection it's a bunch of rioters you can condemn the rioters and condemn what they did without buying into all of the hype which is really just designed to damage trump even further and that's what we're seeing here with all of the members of congress and senators talking about their lives being in danger when in fact they sensually were

not it was all hype that was damage that would deaths donnell and the f.b.i. did send a report warning that there was going to be trouble or the likelihood of trouble in the capital generated 6 why wasn't that acted upon. well there was one death of a capitol hill police officer but unfortunately again the media lied i had nothing to do with what happened inside the capitol the new york times went with this for day saying that he was killed by one of the insurgents with the fire extinguisher that even made it into the impeachment kate that can strum and even biden repeated it before it became obvious that that was not true and in fact the new york times reporting in their sources were very sketchy on this so again there is a lot of hype going on the f.b.i. i'm afraid to say i hate to disappoint anyone is not an agency at this point to be trusted when you look at their behavior over the past 4 years of the trumpet in the strait of double trump not hold any responsibility for what happened on january the

6th. i don't believe he holds responsibility and he's clearly been cleared he is not he was not the he was not convicted at the trial if you look at anything he said and i think his defense attorneys did a great job of saying that the democrats have said things a 1000 times worse and they do it on a regular basis and they never hold held to account again this is like russia gate before anything they can into it to make donald trump look great it doesn't mean we love donald trump it doesn't mean he hasn't made some mistakes and that his rhetoric is fiery but there's no way you could accuse him of inspiring that and not think you accuse people like the current vice president of inspiring the riots that occurred over the summer when she offered to bail people out of jail who would committed violent ass still plenty being felt over this for now dani like adam from the rumpole institute for peace and prosperity thanks again for joining us on please. well u.s. president joe biden soldiers all flags on federal property to be flown. to mock the hof

a 1000000 american deaths from kobe but it's kind of open now reports media there are still glowing in their 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 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 that's more lives lost to this virus and any other nation on earth. with this rig known as the scale of the 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 it did as back in january he said he was powerless to change the trajectory of coded 19 and his anti coded defense has one key aspect where

maleness everyone be mandated to wear a mask mask mandates mask mask the planet earth mass for god's sake. word mask if not for yourself for your loved ones well masks are proven to stop the spread of coded but is that it he's got the same advisor that trump pad dr felt she 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 the next few months masks on 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 our work 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 ses 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 doses 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 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 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 so. because there are guys in office and business a media that said a vaccine would be impossible to get out in 2020 and jump made that happen and instead of the media focusing on what's happening with the by the ministration 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 'd and they would say he has graham was blood on his hands of course joe biden is right in that he can play video games with his grandchildren at camp david and say that it's going to be til the end of july and so 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 and a half years. i was getting sick with coated wasn't bad enough for the break we meet a canadian man who says he was forced to move to the other side of the country after getting death threats when he tested positive for its next.

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world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. follow again one of canada's covert victim says warns that the stigma attached to the disease is stopping many people from coming forward if they have symptoms cortland kroenke received hundreds of death threats after it was revealed that he called 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 you know 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 i began getting hundreds of death threats a day off to being infected in october with people blaming it 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 backgrounds were a kind of the you tube video on this so that you know creates allergies where i can't taste or my you know 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 like waited 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 these 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 an essential worker so we weren't required to isolate and i didn't have symptoms at that time my symptoms didn't come till the 31st and i was coming back to new brunswick on the 24th of october. russia's segment of the international space station has started showing signs of age repairs are underway right now to fix 6 cracks that have appeared in the 2 decades old model that's now leaking according to the russian space agency all the breaches have been temporarily sealed but further investigations needed a precious drop inside the orbiting station but it's far from emergency levels we spoke to a cosmonaut about what these leaks could mean for the future of the i s s. installment of yes the cracks have existed for some time now and 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 when to do you this 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 higher to over 100 degrees so just imagine for 22 years 16 cycles a day 6 temperature fluctuations will affect the shell of the 22 years and 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.

problematic leaks one has to israel's been forced to shut its beaches off for an oil spill that's been described as one of the most disastrous in the country's history expert system assessing the damage but it's expected to take decades to clean up. its because by the state of israel. dealing with it cut the pollution to get money from. its. give yourself more dramatic perceptive good beaches in israel to look at the good in the rocks. and know that real.

meddling in the they came to us covered in tar in their necks inside and out were 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 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 are able to release them into the sea. came here to the beach today to clean all the tar 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 damaged by the spill the oil the targeting and the still coming to our beaches. used to be brutus you know we still don't know for sure we did go along. the beaches. because the underwater good example seems to be severe but we do use the investigating. uses very good. need only for some reason was. in exceeded maybe not but there was still more example you would lose the. as follows i remember.

this the more you use us than the. news for now i'm calling moscow back with your next update in half an hour. i'm not sure of that you're watching another lockdown edition i'm going underground as britain already with the worst coronavirus death toll in europe now arguably faces a grave threat to its 800 act of union as scottish politics wrestles with independence the prospect of the 1st united ireland in 800 years looms after a breakfast border in the irish sea in part 2 we'll talk to the g.o.p.'s chief whip in westminster.