down showdown brussels pressures reluctant members to open up the borders to get the block back on the move but 6 states say that's taking shots. across the atlantic a 1000000 american covert and counting yet no mobs vaccination in sight but despite the. president biden escape the criticism previously leveled donald trump's handling of the crisis. and we have from a canadian man who received hundreds of death threats and felt forced to move off to testing positive for cope with 19.

bring you new news around the clock this is our 2 international hello and welcome from the home team here in moscow. well stop yourself this hour the e.u. is a 6 member states to ease that code of control measures and particular bounds on entering will need even countries that cools boom to attention and disrupt economies the commission has given the states 10 days to respond with details his pieta all of a. 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 e.u. commission buying up though they're not happy with the situation the commission has been clearer to coordinate that approach among 27 member states we risk

fragmentation and disruptions to free movement into supply chains 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 travelers coming from the czech republic from slovakia or from the tirol region of austria we've got to provide on arrival at the border a negative covert test that's resulted in these huge tailbacks of traffic causing real disruption on the border with germany brussels is essentially fighting a battle now with the member states over their. national interest 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 well has some of the reaction we've been getting to all of this from political commentators. in the eatery and our last year

. there were 4 kilometers to the line between some trucks in that are waiting to head to the front he told to house whoever because. he wanted to hold trucks and to have a negative test i mean if we are inside a european union if we are inside a human where all this is the same. i don't understand why there are subsidies big problems and if you want to build the united states of europe. there are sometimes planes is not the. correct way and it seems to me that the e.u. is only as usual that people have been leaving europe people out of the geneva bit of dream believing your. yes to distil. and those with the best is to be elections

and usually the elections and they will be those how much the bulk of the european union has a well there are those including for this question. because you can disagree. with see what happens but it can do with them when they do the. religious bullshit of god the guns will disappear unseen so you can do anything little freedom with the. need to send belgians flanders region are accusing astra zeneca of leaving them and then after the notified them that wouldn't be able to deliver an agreed number of covert shots the flemish health minister and the man took the shortage and also took aim at medinah for delays into levering that chap well currently there are 3 vaccines available to belton's pfizer medina and the oxford astra zeneca job the country is also ordered more shots for other suppliers which are still undergoing trials people wishing to get a job they don't get to choose which one the receiver they won't even find out

until it's about to be administered well we asked people in brussels what they thought of that. we hear different created for different vaccines that one is better than the other and reports to that effect if people aren't informed 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're being given a little information but there are certainly people who are suspicious and the lack of information doesn't help. the situation is very strange is we don't know what we're doing and knock your weight with if it's good or bad that's another question it's not a problem for me but i can understand it could deter some people who had one brussels intensive care unit says not giving people a choice could and fusty affect the vaccination program. they're in their books in issues important but it's also something you have to choose just so 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 to not 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 victims were inducing more reaction than others and therefore a thing 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 are we noticing it is a rush towards those look. for him to try to see him and many people question whether they would accept the other warm meaning you know astra zeneca vaccine and therefore it seems that it's slowing the number of people getting vaccinated. us president joe biden has altered all flags on

federal property to fly at hof mosque. to mock the hoff a 1000000 american deaths from k. if it is caleb maupin reports need to still glowing in that praise for his approach to the pandemic despite that being a little difference to that 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 rick 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 it 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 maleness everyone be mandated to wear a mask mask mandates mask mask implants or mask for godsake. word mask if not to 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 the 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 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 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 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 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 dear remember when all the coded

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 that 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 'd 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. and the u.s. security officials in charge one right to stone the u.s. capitol how being giving evidence at the senate's fast public hearings into what happened on january the 6th but that we're finding major inconsistent scenes and

that testimony as they blamed all the agencies on for various shortcomings it also seems that was no contingency attack on the herring so far has left questions that all says police officers were not trained on how to respond to an infiltration of the camp of building. is that correct this was and when you talk about infiltration you talk about a large insurrection like we saw in the january 6 know 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 a d h s reaching out no lo and contacted thank you and stay with me senator no contact at all with me or my office are all capitol police officers out there with right here no they're not sir well to recap on january the sec that huge crowd of mostly child support to storm to the capitol building the

rioters were angry with the results of the 2020 lection claimed the presence of the presidency had been stolen the trunk had one of the mob faced little resistance from us security. well joining us now as need a lot of us to justified to moscow jennifer with a touch of the program the files that i want to ask is picking up on what we said that some of the security officials testimony reportedly didn't really match shop

but this hearing what do you think that tells us. it tells us that we have 2 different storylines going on right now and i think that's the most crucial part about this the 1st story line is coming from the united states mainstream media it's coming from the media outlets here in the u.s. they've got their story line in fact they had their story line lined up before this thing was even played out they have their story line and then now we're seeing the story line up from more of a legal perspective hearings testimonials evidence of that x. we're seeing that play out and it is conflict with the media story line it's conflicting with the news story line it's conflicting with the democrats story lines and so that's that's what we're seeing that's what the hearing that showed us one example perfect example is the death of patriotic officer brian sic nick who's whose family had already previously caution about talking but for a days we heard a media blast 247 rotation that of that officer sic nick was killed

a capitol officer was was killed by being bludgeoned in the head with a fire extinguisher by a truck alleged trump supporter and now it comes out he did it he had no blunt force trauma in fact nobody even knows the cause of his death but he did not die at the capitol and there was no trauma there was no fire extinguisher violence at all and so this is just one of many stories and that's what i think people are starting to realize is that perhaps something is being perpetuated by our own media outlets by the democrats and anybody who tries to question that including senators such as ron johnson and others are ques have been conspiracy theorists but really in a court of law that's just trying to ascertain actual facts talking about stories not ready i ching up we also had that the f.b.i. reported in fonts that some protesters were preparing for a whoop what the capital if that is indeed the truth why wasn't that information acted upon. and that is another very good question you know another thing because now again if all the information that people have had about about what happened in

d.c. or who was responsible for protecting d.c. if all the information is certain in the media you're not really getting that but constitutionally under the u.s. constitution the entire area of washington d.c. which is federal land is under the authority of the congress is under the authority of congress not the president not to judiciary it is congress that is authorized to make those laws underneath that umbrella would of course be the d.c. mayor and so a lot of this talk about blame on trump it wasn't there but congress has always had very broad authority not only over capitol police a capitol law enforcement a but over d.c. laws itself and so all that's come out from the testimony is that the d.c. mayor ordered some minimal national guard troops just to protect me the street closures and things like that but we're seeing nothing come out about any requests from from the capitol and of course if you're looking at the capitol building itself you'd be looking at the speaker of the house nancy pelosi looking at democratic majority leadership here so it has been confusing and they still don't

have answers to that but especially if the f.b.i. had intelligence and again intelligence is showing that multiple agencies show that even and he was planning to get disguised themselves as trying supporters news outlets calling this a crazy conspiracy theory is ludicrous because anybody can put on a red hat in yellow usa and go inside there just as much videos of the opposite so that's what's going to be interesting to come out to see what comes of further investigations and finding out where the ball was actually dropped and finally i just want to ask you not claims have been made that a significant portion of the capitol police force saw trump supporters so the speculation that maybe that explains why they want preventing the storming of the capitol mall do you think that's likely and if not why do you think that that is something that people are bringing up. you know and that's that's going to be another interesting thing you know it at least it's starting to come out why did it

seem that some people were allowed in you know what happened there but again we're seeing a lot of conflicting stories and i don't think anybody would want to any police officer regardless of their political affiliation with a duty to call the log would allow that you know that of course is one narrative that could be played but but some supporters generally have been more procol least pro law enforcement and program of law as many videos that came out in january 6 about police officers letting people into the barricades there were also videos of other trump supporters saying go home what's going on here why aren't you guys stop in this violence they're just drawing this building and so this is all what we would call actual 1st hand eye witness evidence testimony of purported evidence and so that he has to be addressed but you know it is a good point to bring up why some of these police either let the men or why they didn't have the training the resources or the backup to deal with this especially with the threat and to see whether there was any infiltration from known from known

domestic terrorist related agitators who have gone and infiltrated these other organizations or peaceful protest demonstrations in order to an act of violence for a political purpose and so all of this needs to come out and hopefully these kinds of hearings are going to help generate that conversation of course if the u.s. media is not able to cover it up by having their own version of facts without the law while sucking. on john and 2nd all seem quite as clear cut as some would have us believe that was a lot of us to try to fit them off to thank you so much for showing up comments about us you know. well this is all teeth that had as if getting sick with it wasn't cotton off off to the break we meet a canadian law who says he was forced to move to the opposite side of the country because of death threats when he tested positive for type.

when a trauma changes us literally because it's a chemical change in our d.n.a. and this changes the way our genes function. sometimes for generations.

now one of canada's covert victims has warned that the stigma attached to the disease is stopping many people from coming forward if they have symptoms cortland kong received hundreds of death threats off to her field he'd caught 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 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 while he began getting hundreds of death threats a day off to 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 story kind of the you tube video on this so that you know creates allergies where i can't taste her might and 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 is like wait it's still there you know it could be covert i have to go to the states 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 caught it 19 and when i was traveling from calgary back to new brunswick i was considered an essential worker so we were 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 pass on the way to fix 6 cracks that have appeared in the 2 decades old more chill that is taking ad according to the russian space agency what's called small sol the reaches have been temporarily sealed but father investigation is needed pressure has dropped inside the operating station but it's far from that much in snuffles we spoke to a cosmonaut about what these weeks could mean for the future of the i s 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 it sells 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. as raul has been forced to shut in speed tears after an oil spill that's been described as one of the most disastrous in the country's history experts are still assessing the damage but it is expected to take decades to clean up. and it. was the 1st i just read the visual. dealing with the petition to get money for. its funding. to the south america percent of the beaches in israel polluted the

good in the ups sand and know that real. meddling in the they came to us covered in tar and 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 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 is targeting and the still coming to our beaches. used to be pretty. cool. for some reason i was. used to seeing as you.

will find some wild news in brief these stunning views from full severe cold has partially frozen not allowed mark despite the freezing temperatures the rare occurrence is still attracting many tourists and the falls have been completely as water continues to flow underneath those ships of thick ice of riots have continued in a spanish region of catalonia for night consecutive nights off the rest of local public herself he's accused of insulting the monarchy and poor fighting terrorism demonstrators gathered near a police station hold fire crackers a police vehicles and pelted offices. and hundreds of italian entertainment was have gathered outside rome's oldest that

calling on the government to provide support for the sacked the country they reopened it's been a year since at least it is anson was close to took over 1000 of restrictions actors musicians artists and dancers carried a culture. and thousands and door protesting against allowed to tell a tour of 14 recent presidential elections and. demanding a recount protest as supporting indigenous environmentalist count today yaku pres who came thugs have been marching days to reach the capital of quito he got 19.5 percent of the vote which leaves him out of the runoff in a probe the state attorney has opened an investigation to determine if a. goodbye from moscow thanks for joining and have a great day.