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tv   The Alex Salmond Show  RT  February 25, 2021 8:30am-9:00am EST

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rates 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 to 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
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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'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 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 in that border which we eat only and house 2 yeah. i know.
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some trucks and we think 2 heads are from heat to house because if you want to call it roxanne to have even test it i mean if we are inside a european union if we are inside all the c c. i don't understand why there are subsidies big problems in. if you want to be in the united states of europe. leave out some time to explain this is not the. correct way. the world health organization special envoy 19 is told r.t. that the world should prepare for a new pandemic reality dr david nabarro i also won't say that we should expect other dangerous strains to spread. this some who say we should be striving towards eliminating the virus completely others and i'm
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in this 2nd group to say that we must strive towards being able to live with the virus as a constant threat but putting in place a mix of defenses in our societies that mean that we hold of our interests at play at the center of that is vaccination which can protect people from getting seriously ill and dying but there's also how we behave there's also help governments create the conditions in which we can behave in a really helpful way but we're going to avoiding the virus and this international cooperation because if one country is brilliant and the neighbor is not so good that's not helpful to the people especially if they're able to move between the countries so that last point of international cooperation is absolutely vital.
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i want to be clear you always need to have traction nations to be good so that's good practice or even just for many years i've carried a little yellow book next to my passport which 'd indicates that i've had yellow fever vaccinations it includes tito's of the data i've received the vaccination who vaccinated me and very importantly will number of vaccine i received i really think that's good practice now how the significance it used as possible for being able to get on a plane or get into a hotel or go into a building or go to a festival that's a different story and right now i don't think anybody is in a position to start saying to our vaccinations if it gets will be used in practice it's early days on the football matters that is that there is a good international cooperation between countries to really work out what the protocols for using vaccinations to the kids when enabling people to travel or
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enabling people to benefit from going to a particular event that needs to be discussed internationally. there's been as is most of your viewers who know a recent investigation into how this virus appeared through an independent scientific group that was sent to the auspices of the world gopher organization a joint independent group together with the chinese authorities and they are in the process of producing a report looking for live prophecies about the origins and their report will detail where they've got to in relation to each of these hypotheses finding out the origins of any kind of pathogen whether it's the one causing this corona virus damage or james for example like it or particular kinds of influenza
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these investigations are difficult to do and as far as i'm concerned this is a process it's on track where it's very political and a lot of people are watching it we have to wait until the report appears but already for the judgments could be made. ok let's go back to our breaking news today because i mean is prime minister has no call for early elections it does follow a day of standoff between opponents and supporters of prime minister nicole passion yann in the capital of yet a van with a few planes were earlier seen over the capital and police were deployed in large numbers but after passion man fired the head of the country's army and said that they had attempted a military coup opponents of the prime minister though have gathered in the city center saying they want him to quit but a rally in support of the armenian leader or say gathered in large numbers that opposing crowds have faced off in the capital with clashes erupting between the
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grapes. was earlier in the day passion and took to facebook to tell supporters that he needs them passion yan and his son there met them to assure that the situation is manageable and that he's ready to discuss any problems in the country he also insisted today that the army chief he dismissed for maine's quote his brother in the last hour or so then addressed his supporters in caravan central yellow van calling for early elections he's also demanding to the country's military a bay him after he sacked the head of the armed forces saying that he was part of that attempted. no i don't want to also hold assault the solicitor general said it's still your job guard borders and the territorial integrity of army would this
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is my order and no one can disobey the prime minister and the government of armenia no longer able to make adequate decisions in this fateful and critical situation for the armenian people given the current situation the armed forces of armenia demand the resignation of the prime minister and the government at the same time we call to refrain from using force against people whose children died defending their homeland and care about. ok well maligned that we have. yet and for she's i mean to my and she's been following the rallies that have been taking place today in the city good evening to you just tell us what the situation is like the moment please. do you know i am all revenue this is. something me i am.
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looking for. a low 3. well do you or do you want to. hold back these thurlow. let's get that. little simple just to get a multinational or some day and. right now. ok it is a difficult line can you tell us how many people still on the streets can you give us an idea of whether it's thousands or hundreds. if you do you. will say that equals i am. not 60 minutes away from god demonstrates i have not seen the pope.
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some associates say that. and so far the saving of the supporters and demonstrating. is the situation pay school. it just don't be sort of. its. goals. are. told. me it started called. why you're not. you're not. every step for every step. you could steal. ok i mean look thank you very much for the update it was
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a difficult line to just get your thoughts there and getting a firsthand account of what the situation is like on the ground in yet a van it is peaceful for the moment we're looking at live pictures to you in the cold passion and just an hour or so ago he gave a very defiant speech in front of thousands of his own supporters calling for the military some members of the military to step down saying they should have him and serve the country and then want to went on to offer the opposition new elections it seemed to be well received and now here he is walking through the streets waving to his supporters who have come out into their balconies in the city to show their support relatively peaceful opposition rallies have also been held in the city we should say that thousands of people came out in attendance also there had been a call for them to stay overnight stay overnight a sort of campaign if you like on the streets. to show their support for the opposition well though it's not clear whether that will happen it's still not clear
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how the military will respond to passion and speech earlier saying that he believes that many top brass should now step down and also whether they will actually accept his call for early elections in the same goes for the opposition so but for the moment look it seems to be peaceful doesn't it on the streets you get events on these pictures we're looking at. maybe this country will move forward now for these new elections if they are accepted by all sides but these live pictures and. man he was under an awful. she was only this morning seems to be much more of theseus certainly giving a very defiant speech earlier but he seems to have been happy with the way things. are today and it does seem to be peaceful on the streets if you had a van as we speak. another news donald trump so-called migrant concentration camps are getting
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a media rebranding now joe biden's new facilities for kids at least that appears to be the message from u.s. outlets reporting on the president's reopening a site for migrant teens with disturbing elements though more reminiscent of prisons the new administration claims it will only operate during the pandemic because any prank now reports he asked why the coverage is so different this time around. the same famous outlet reporting on essentially the same controversial issue of how children who are legally cross america's southern border are treated by the u.s. government the general practices that they're put in camps after being separated from their parents different dates under the articles and very different titles the one from a tobar 20 reads the american tradition of caging children the one from this week is 1st migron facility for children opens under biden and told in these
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2 unmistakably different i'm not the one to judge but it seems under biden are the words that make the difference this is though how the dems were destroying trump not so long ago for oh they couldn't stop repeating. in cages there is a very clear intent and they are carrying out the intent which is to separate these families and put these children in cages they watch in horror as children are torn from their families and thrown into cages but make no mistake what's open door reopened after joe biden took charge is spelled f.a.a. c i l i t y facility that we're being. told is under fire this is not kids being kept in cages this is this is this is a facility that was opened that's going to follow the same standards as other h.h.s. facilities ok i get partisan solidarity but there must be someone in the democrat
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camp with the ballast vision who would say guys this isn't right these double standards in how you look at treating young migrants being go here's what congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez tweeted. this is not ok never has been ok never will be ok no matter that ministration a party only to backpedal in less than an hour after being struck by a hail storm of replies her next twitter post slammed the fundamentals of the immigration system putting the blame on the previous administration oh yeah under the old administration ms ocasio cortez had been much more adamant in her fight against what she wasn't just calling cages but full on concentration camps i flew to the concentration camp where the trumpet ministration was keeping children they still from their parents joe biden steam and left leaning commentators are
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defending the decision not only to maintain but to reopen camps for children by saying it's a necessity in the times of covert or cabs extra room but the head of a u.s. border patrol union says it doesn't feel like any improvement is on the way instead though he claims the biden team holds unaccompanied migrant children in border patrol custody longer than legally allowed all in the very same cages the hypocrisy from the left in the mainstream media truly shows they care nothing for the children they used as pawns to attack president trump the ironic thing is that the camps or facilities or whatever you choose to call them appeared while barack obama was in charge along with vice president joe biden mr biden didn't even shy away from admitting responsibility made a mistake made 2 took too long to get it right took too long to get it i'll be president of students by protesting outside
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a cab and homestead florida where teens detained at the border were being held well there's now plans to reopen that homestead facility to. undocumented migrants job as families and penniless pensions these are just some of the greek struggling to survive in a paris suburb branded a ticking time bomb by its man shot it's been reports now from the town where today charities have warning that they cannot. the time of the given year is just 30 kilometers south of paris and it's already infamous in france as being one of the country's poorest areas and home to one of europe's biggest housing complex is now nearly hall full of the residents who live in that complex behind me live below the poverty line things would already be bad before 19 ravaged through this community now the man is sounding the alarm saying the pandemic is causing
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a social tsunami. between last march and december the number of unpaid charges including for water and heating has practically doubled and if we can't pay for the water and heating that means we also can't pay for upkeep and emergency repairs with no money coming in local authorities will struggle to keep things afloat meaning the problems in this town could spiral we spoke to one resident you didn't want to show her face on camera but told us as people were getting poorer the price 6 that we needed for life even out of reach greenies one of the poorest towns in france and that's been known for a long time because there are many types of poor inhabitants lots of immigrants that's cousin in crisis in the town and during the coverage pandemic has worsened so many have lost their jobs and many students have found themselves without
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resources without help without anything at all and she says the problems here are getting out of control you get this it's a social catastrophe because poverty is growing people have difficulties to make it to the end of the month there's also criminality that pushes young people to worse bad things very more and more problems here there is aid in cooking me a number of associations offer help to those who are struggling through distribution as well as moral support is being doled out but more and more people are finding themselves in need people hey feel isolated forgotten so to speak it is been a very very difficult for many families because they haven't been able to hold because they've closed jobs but they had temporary contracts and i had problems finding a job it's a catastrophe i have been looking everywhere so. it's become almost with the
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pandemic in never sense if i tried to find a job i was. be able to do it at my age but it also effects our children they have nothing to do here they're struggling to find a job for many you know the key issue is how to survive but so to have to crawl out from the poverty trap jobs have been lost has been lost to and without either residents like lima see no future here i don't want my children to stay here in france in green particularly and in france in general there are fewer and fewer opportunities to find a job yet they have indications that al swear it could give them a stable future what chance they have remains to be seen so that even ski. greatly. security officials have appeared to give contradictory evidence the u.s. senate's 1st public hearings into last month's capital riot the officers blamed
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each other and other agencies for mistakes that led to this so it also seems to there were no contingency measures for such an attack and many came out of the chamber with more questions than answers the assessment indicated that members of the proud borys white supremacist groups and tea for and other extremist groups were expected to produce rain on january 6th and that they may be inclined to become violent police officers were not trained on how to respond to an infiltration of the capra building is that correct. 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
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contact with me or my office are all capitol police officers out there with riot gear no they're not sir on jeremy the 6 that tried to trump supporters still in the capitol building in washington d.c. and many were angry with the results of the presidential election claiming the failure to big study learn and that donald trump have in fact one of the mall placed little resistance from security as they broke in.
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what we talked about the senate hearing there with experts who did it created show a clear lack of coordination in the security response to the right. they have some very very strong reforms and acted in place specially here to protect and secure the capital where there is not only bit of threat from 911 but post 911 biological attacks other threats to lawmakers shootings with lawmakers across the country and it is just a really really bizarre situation to try to fathom why there was not a contingency plan in place with solid coordination between the police the f.b.i. homeland security as well as national guard which was available from 3 different locations right here in virginia and maryland the d.c. national guard as well that could have been there within minutes if they were
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activated and there were proper protocols put into place congress has always had very one of the already not only over capitol police capitol law enforcement but over j.c. was itself and so all the time that 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 that were seen nothing come out about any requests from around the capitol of course if you're looking at the capitol building itself to 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 that for this special the at the f.b.i. had intelligence and again intelligence showing that the agencies showed that even and he was named to this guy's themselves. ok well before we go let's go back to the street she had a van on our top story this hour because i mean his prime minister has called for an early election we're looking at some live pictures here it does follow
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a day of standoff between opponents and supporters of the i mean prime minister nicole passion and in the campaign you had a van on the left there waving to his supporters while on the right we showing pictures from the opposition rally i did. taking place as we speak to you earlier military planes were seen over the capitol and police word poured in large numbers as well that after passion yan fired the head of the country's army and said that they had attempted a military coup posing crags faced off then in the capital and clashes were seen a rock thing between the groups although police say things have appeared to have calmed down on the streets of kiev and as you can see we're looking at live pictures here on the left and they call passion and after making it a fine speech earlier calling for the country's top brass in the military to step down and also offering new elections although it's not clear whether the opposition will accept that our big breaking news today will be back with more stories and more analysis on that in about 5 minutes time.
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it's been decades since the fall of spain's fascist regime but old wounds still haven't healed. because for me from your. me on the bus at the serves me there were a bunch of the same question which we know. of newborn babies were torn from their mothers and given away and forced adoption but only. for. to this day mothers still search for grown children while looking in hope for their birth parents.
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the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in their own interest or you see in this these techniques. is the state devising methods to him to essentially destroy the personality of an individual. by scientific means this is how one doctor's theories were allegedly used in psychological warfare against prisoners deemed a danger to the state that was the foundation for the method of psychological interrogation psychological torture. disseminated from within the u.s. intelligence community and worldwide among our allies for the next 30 years and other victims say they still live with the consequences today. is your media a reflection of reality. in
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headlines in r.t. armenia's prime minister has called for early elections he's also saying that his country's military must obey him after he sacks the head of the armed forces saying it was part of an attempt to kill. him then why did not do it to all soldiers this is still you it states do your job god borders on the territorial integrity of our me this is my order and no one can disobey. the crashes did are up to standards of supporters and protesters of prime minister minister nicole passion and faced off in the capital of yet of water to come this hour essential vaccines for political influence critics time israel sending countries.

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