the knock down showdown brussels pressure is reluctant members to open up the borders to get the block back on the move but 6 states say that 6 take shocks. across the atlantic call for a 1000000 american code the debts and counting yet no cracks a nation in sight but despite the more good milestone president biden escapes the criticism previously leveled at 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 off to testing positive for cope with 19.

global news all hours of the day this is our 2 international from the team era moscow. well let's jump right in the e.u. is a 6 member states to ease that covert control measures in particular bans on entering or leaving countries that cools boards attention and disrupt economies the commission has given the states 10 days to respond with all the 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 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 tirol region of austria where you've got to provide on arrival at the border a negative covert test that 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 here's 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 meetings. between of soundtracks is that are waiting to happen to from heat to house to have because. we wanted to hold the prices to have a negative test i mean if we are inside a european union if we are inside a human where all the c c. i don't understand why there are subsidies big problems and if we want to build the united states of europe. sometimes it's plain to see is not the. correct way. that the e.u. is. that people have been living in europe it will be doing you a bit of the leading. us to distil. and those with the best is to be in elections

and usually the elections and they will be those how much. do you have been you know how as well their lives including for this question. because you can disagree . with what happens you were there when they do the. village your budget is called the council documents seeing so you can do anything little freedom with. leaders and belgians front as reachin are accusing astra zeneca of leaving them in the lot knots after the fall notified them it wouldn't be able to deliver an agreed to number of covert shots the flemish health minister lamented the shortage and also took aim at medinah for today's internet bring that chap well currently there are 3 vaccines available to belgians finds out medina and the oxford astra zeneca job the country's also wanted more shots from other suppliers which are still undergoing trials people wishing to get a job don't get to choose which one they are receiving they wait find out until

it's about to be administered we asked people in brussels what they thought of that . we hear different criteria 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 they had one brussels intensive care unit says that not giving people a choice could adversely affect the belgian vaccination program. then there's the action issues important but it's also a something you have to choose just selves and this is

a personal decision to move to the vaccination so therefore a thing that is quite important to get informed of the type of vaccine now to be concerned over the last couple of weeks was the information spread all over the media and even in the in the sentencing world question with her some vaccines were more effective than others some vaccines were inducing more reaction than others and therefore thing that the information spread 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 for we noticing it is a rush towards getting those one vaccine but who the pfizer vaccine and many people question whether they would accept the other one meaning. astra zeneca vaccine and therefore it seems that it's following the number of people getting being vaccinated. u.s.

president joe biden has wanted flags on federal property to be flown at hof last thoughts to mock the hof a 1000000 american deaths from kind of at this kind of more power pole it's needed i'll still glowing in that praise phase approach the pandemic despite that 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 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 in plain mask 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 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. 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 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. but also stateside security officials in charge one ride to school at the u.s. capitol happening to bring evidence out the senate's fast public hearings and what happened on john to say that our party made inconsistency is not testimony as they

put all the agencies child up for cummings it also seems that was no contingency if the such an attack on the herring so far has left more questions than answers police officers were not trained on how to respond to an infiltration of the camp of building. is that correct mr zandi 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 me thank you and stay with me senator no contact with me or my office are all capitol police officers out there with riot gear no they're not sir well and john reed to say thanks huge crowd of mostly truck support to storm to the capitol building the rioters were

angry with the results of the 2020 lection and claimed the presidency had been stolen that trump had won the mob faced little resistance from security. dani what adams from the ron paul pieces chant thinks the senate hearings hold little value in this kind of case. i think it is fastening overhead these kinds of hearings with in 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 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 their ultimate lee in charge and it goes downhill from there it goes to this charge and 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 sergeant at arms at the house and senate side 2 days before the event to call in the national guard and that be prepared that was denied 2 by the sergeant at arms who 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 to put guaranteed these hearings will not bring it out. one as canada's kind of victims has warned that the stick

my attached to the disease is stopping many people from coming forward if they have symptoms call and cronk received hundreds of death threats off to my field it's called divide us. 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 or shunned and so a lot of people end up hiding their symptoms and 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 when people blaming him on social media for

the subsequent public restrictions they 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 i kind of the you tube video on this so that you know creates allergies where i can't taste her mind you know my my nose gets blocked up and and that's what i was relating it to and that's why the 2nd day i booked a task is like wait it's still there you know it could be covert i have to go 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 over $1000.00 which he actually had symptoms so i was like ok there's probably a very slim chance that i have caught it 19 and when i was traveling from calgary back to new brunswick i was considered an essential worker 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. russia segment of the international space station has started showing signs of a repairs on the way to fix 6 cracks that have appeared in the 2 decades old want to look at this and. according to the russian space agency ross caused all the breaches have been temporarily sealed but further investigation is needed pressure has dropped inside the orbiting station but it's far from at sea levels we spoke to a cosmonaut about what business could mean for the future of the i assess. 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 to do you know 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 an 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 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 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 rail has been forced to shut its beaches 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. it. was the 1st by the state of israel. dealing with the petition to get money for. its funded. give yourself denied to percent of the beaches in israel polluted the good in the rocks sand and no between. my lady and the fire and 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 then 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 the target and the still coming to our beaches.

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a severe cold has partially frozen the natural landmark despite the freezing temperatures though the rare occurrence is still attracting many tourists and the falls have been completely i'd stay far as we want to continues to flow underneath of the. riots have continued in the spanish region of catalonia for a 9th consecutive night after the rest of local wrap up cell he's accused of insulting the want to kill and poor fine terrorism demonstrators gathered near a police station held firecrackers up police vehicles and pelted offices with stones for. hundreds of italian was because entertainment workers have a cat outside rome's oldest that quote on the government to provide more support for the sector and that the country would be reopened it's been a year since its knees their tears and said it was close to you took over $1000.00 restrictions actors musicians artists and don says carried banners saying culture

is not garbage. and finally thousands. in ecuador protesting against a legit electoral fruited recent presidential elections and the demanding a vote recount protesters supporting indigenous environmentalist terms that you have to press you came have been munching for days to reach the capital quito he got 19.4 percent of the vote which leaves him out of the runoff in april the state attorney has opened an investigation to determine if. that's how things are shaping up thanks for tuning in coming your way now here on r t going underground soon. it's

an article of faith russian liberals did not like one of your up until now russian liberals have been chanted with the western so-called western values western ideological wolk islam is changing its focus disparages tradition patriotism the family and even logic for russia liberals this appears to be going too far are russian liberals falling out of love with the last. day or so thinks. we dare to ask.

i'm action or that you're watching another lockdown edition of going on the ground as britain already with the worst coronavirus death toll in europe now arguably faces a grave threat to its $800.00 active union as college politics wrestles with independence the prospect of the 1st united ireland in 1800 years looms after breakfast border in the irish sea in part 2 we'll talk to the new peace chief whip in westminster sami wilson about his challenge to boris johnson's breck set but now joining me from dublin is the president of violence most popular party chin fame mary mcdonald leader of errands opposition mary lee welcome to going underground before i even get to covert northern ireland protocols just tell me what you think of the significance of applications for judicial review proceedings over the british army killing of bonnie mcgregor and on bloody sunday and why bloody sunday even

resonates there and seemingly not here in the so-called mainstream media well i think this is just l.a. so so atmos so do you want to spend its very very young thank st just just for a day the families of the sunday in derry you know the sunday as you now was and ok so now which city and sells their nice set man says good gracious. and it wasn't so bad and i said i said incidents i should say and similarly and bonnet murphy and elsewhere certainly in still starry nights at their hands oh british soldiers not i think very gentle the white hairs significance of this action. is the fact that we still have to live or it's on the mechanisms that we greet are necessary to deal with the past with less. it is so yes it's cold and obvious you're a post conflict society here on this island we need to move ahead and we need to be

able to the future to get there but we also need steel with the past and there has been just an extraordinary resistance and almost simple insurance the parks are. bars johnson and us government trade they have bought are going to have to go to st john's johnson would deny that and says there would be a storm of out a fury of any soldiers with charge of a bloody sunday and there's absolutely nothing new for any trial to discover. well you need to allow the courts to discover what they just covered insurance there on derek luke lucian's i mean what we had agreed to between all of us was asked a ray different matter medicines that would be made available to everyone. who suffered extend the course of the conflict at the hands of guests british soldiers but also at the hands of republicans and loyalists and the objections here is to

give families to give to instant survivors every opportunity including going to the courts if they wish to establish for themselves the truth and to establish justice and to give them some level of quote friction in a lot of the laws can never really truthfully be compensation for but i think it is quite insulting to people from all sides who have been through a really really vicious conflict and who have suffered previously to consistently block the channels that they need and requires to get shoot them justice and just remember the storm and how supreme it i mean it's one of a litany of agreements estate between the irish and british governments the british government signed on to our allowance for all of these mechanisms for truth to recovery and free justice so for virus johnson and his administration i have to block and frustration all of that is frankly on forgivable.