for the next 30 years. the victims say they still live with the consequences to. the lock down showdown brussels pressure is reluctant members to open up their borders to get the block back on the move but 6 states say that they shot. across the atlantic half a 1000000 american deaths and counting yet no mass vaccination in sight despite the president biden escapes the criticism previously leveled the donald trump's handling of the crisis. and we hear from a canadian man who received hundreds of death threats and felt forced to move after testing positive for.

the international from moscow money welcome to your world. the. member states 6 of them to ease their covert control measures in particular areas bans on entering leaving countries the calls border tension and potentially disrupt economies the commission has given the states 10 days to respond with the details peter all over him belin. the e.u. commission currently at 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 you commission 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 to supply chain is something we have witnessed again in the past

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 puts 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 the pandemic could be attained by less restrictive measures here in germany any travel is coming from the czech republic from slovakia or from the terrel 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. 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 has some of the reaction we've been getting to this from political commentators. in the eatery and.

there were 4 kilometers in line between some trucks an hour waiting to head to the front he tell it to house to have because it wanted to hold the process 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. huge and. i have been to live in europe and even your habit of being the lead in. this. and there's only the british to be elections and the elections and the nobody knows how much the power of the euro been you mean hasn't won the election including for this question well at least in principle

because you can does a big deal with see what happens with the deal you can do with them when they do the village your budget of course the guns will be seen so you can do anything you little freedom with. natives in belgium's flanders region or accusing astra zeneca of leaving them in the lurch after the pharma firm notified them that it wouldn't be able to deliver an agreed number of covert shots the flemish health minister lamented the shortage and also took aim at modernity for delays in the differing there. currently there are 3 vaccines available to belgians from pfizer and oxford astra zeneca jab the countries also ordered more shots from other suppliers which are 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 which one they get and it's about to be administered we asked people in brussels what they thought of. we hear different criteria for different facts in this 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 see the situation is very strange that we don't know what we're doing and knock your way to if it's good or bad that's not the question it's not a problem for me but i can understand it's good that some people. brussels intensive care unit says not giving people a choice could adversely affect the belgian vaccination program. they need their ducks in issues important but it's also 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 is a rush towards getting those of the one vaccine to try to 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. us president joe biden's old little flags on federal property to be flown at half mast to mock the hof a 1000000 american deaths from kind of it but it's kind of open reports maybe there are still and blowing in there praise for his approach to the pandemic despite

there being little difference to that of the previous administration america's death toll from covert 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 to this virus than any other nation on earth. but as rick knowledge the scale of this mass death in america. remember each person in 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 be mandated to wear a mask mask mandates mask up mask implant or mask for god's sake. we're

mask if not for yourself or 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 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 couvade 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 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 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 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 this is 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 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 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. security have. in charge when riots is stormed the u.s. capitol being giving evidence of the senate's 1st public hearings into what happened on january the 6th but there were apparently major inconsistencies in their testimony that they blamed other agencies found each other for various shortcomings it also seems there was no contingency for such an attack and the hearing so far is left more questions than answers. police officers were not trained on how to respond to an infiltration of the capitol building. is that.

when you talk about infiltration around a large insurrection like we saw. our all capitol police officers out there with. anyone from the department of homeland security contact you about a potential national special security event designation you know i'm not aware of anybody from the h.s. reaching out. to the state with me senator no contact at all with me or my office on january the 6th a huge crowd of mostly from supporters stormed the capitol building the riots as well i agree with the results of the 2020 election and claim the presidency had been stolen and the trump of the mob itself faced little resistance from security.

than your mcadam's from the ron paul peace institute think senate hearings held little value in this kind of case. i think it is fascinating i've read these kinds of hearings with in congress are going to produce very little of any value of their usually involved in covering things up rather than getting to the bottom of things 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 have a situation where they are all timidly 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 the star janette 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 who are 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 or put guarantee these hearings will not bring it out i this is i'll tell you on the way as if getting sick with cove it wasn't bad enough after the break we meet a canadian man who says he was forced to move to the other side of the country because of deseret when he tested positive that's next.

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of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. one of canada's covert victims as one of the stigma attached to the disease is stopping many people from coming forward if they have symptoms colton kroenke received hundreds of death threats after it was revealed that he called the virus. but 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 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. he began getting hundreds of death threats a day off to becoming 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 backgrounds reckon i do 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 booked a task is like wait it's still there you know it could be covert i tweet 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 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 segment of the international space station has started showing signs of age repairs are underway to fix 6 cracks that have appeared in the 2 decades old module that's leaking air according to the russian space agency all the breaches have been temporary sealed but further investigation is needed and pressure is dropped inside the orbiting station but it's far from the emergency level we spoke to a cosmonaut about what these leaks could mean for the future of the i.s.a.'s. yes the grags 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 its 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 in shadow where 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 after 20 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 a short term and the management team and all the countries involved understand that

and that's why there are thoughts about how to proceed. israel's been forced to shut its beaches after an oil spill that's being described as one of the most disastrous in the country's history experts are still assessing the damage but it expected to take decades to clean up. is this just by the state of israel. dealing with the petition to get money for. its funding or give yourself more devoted to percent of the beaches in israel polluted the good in the works sand and know that real.

men like you as if 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 so that we can see that they are healthy and gaining weight and we are able to release them into the sea. came here to the beach today to clean all the tar that was spilled 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 target team and the still coming to our beaches. seems to be. still don't know for sure. because. we do. it for some reason. maybe not.

as follows. elsewhere around the world a view of niagara falls you don't see very often severe cold has partially frozen the natural landmark straddling the border between new york state and canada despite the freezing temperatures though this rare occurrence is still attracting many tourists on their cameras the falls haven't completely iced over water is continuing to flow just about underneath think sheets of ice. hundreds of italian at the table workers have gathered outside rome's oldest calling on the government to provide more support for the sector and to get the country reopened it's been a year since italy's theaters and cinemas closed because of covert 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 demanding a vote recount protesters supporting indigenous an environmentalist candidate in paris they came 3rd have been marching for days to reach the capital quito he got 19.4 percent of the vote and that leaves him out of april's runoff the state attorney's opened an investigation to determine if fraud occurred. and that i would look for moscow so far this hour thanks for watching on call and break your neck starting updated in 35 minutes. the be. one else chose seemed wrong when old rules just don't hold. the world to get to shape out just because the ticket and in game trade equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look

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