this is the u.s. making amends for the tragedy in laos built to the people need in that little land of mine. several countries in europe have been rocked by violent protests after the tightening of coronavirus curbs. on the banks of the paris the world health organization says countries are struggling to meet the needs of those with long coverts we have an exclusive interview with scientists and those suffering from the condition. also had a proposal by the israeli government to electronically tagged people returning to the country as an alternative to quarantining in a hotel is met with a mixed reaction.

either thanks for joining us this is r.t. international. one year on since the corona virus outbreak was declared a global pandemic and despite around $150000000.00 people being infected globally relatively little is known about the long term effects of the disease and the world health organization has suggested that the needs of people with what's known as long covert and not being met the burden is really and it is significant about one. remain. 12 reaks and many for much longer. well coverts long haul is a people who experience coronavirus symptoms for weeks or even months after the initial infection around one in 10 people still have health issues 12 weeks after having covert 90 they've reported a range of health problems that include chest and muscle pain heart palpitations

fatigue and autoimmune conditions in an exclusive interview artie's entendres softly spoke with scientists and those with the condition we have come out of a neck to fighting stage so now we can start thinking about what happens next. you're sick with something but what exactly nobody can tell you so the brain sends you some kind of signal stay sick yes something like this. for more than a year now humanity has been dealing with cove it heats of us understands what symptoms have been identified. but only now do we start to understand that there is also a long cove 8 times way between 5 and 50 percent of people struggle with this disease for much longer than expected people have been treated at our hospital they are coming back and these situations are becoming even more common than simple i got sick cases this is very worrying.

is there anyone who hasn't had experience of working in the red zone everybody has everybody ok. almost no one talks about this at all but this situation sucks a brain being affected with cove it is a common case it's so frequent how frequent well my mom was treated here she's an absolutely normal person working as a design engineers she has the clearest head when i brought her here i realized that she could not think so clearly anymore i attributed it to intoxication or fever but when she left the hospital she hadn't started thinking more clearly it was only 4 months later when she was back to normal this is just like house m.d. precisely and indistinct clinical picture everything is just like in that serious.

little figure before the little thing i thought that i was cured and everything would return to normal but unfortunately this was not the case i started choking felt bad and had to call a doctor again when i realized that i couldn't walk more than 100 to 150 meters i was getting tired immediately and i would get a burning feeling in my chest. in their list articles when the 1st hence the p.r. that not all people were immediately recovery and they calculated that about 5 percent of those affected with 7 to grow so-called covert tail and they couldn't get treated fairly for a very long time however according to the figures that we have. now at least 20 percent of people experience such consequences not 5 accordant are the sources and the number can reach almost 50 percent of those who recovered and what is especially worrying is that the severity of these symptoms only partially correlates with the severity of the any child to say is. i did not have any fever cough at all.

then i start to cough up blood and i got a very severe pain in my legs. some symptoms were ending other were starting headaches and even congestion in my chest despite not damage to my lungs it was just endless. it is as if you are sick with something but what exactly nobody can tell. it would be logical if complications off the covert occurred in the most severe cases have patients who lie like this in intensive care on ventilators but in fact this is not the case the majority of people with the so-called tail or long a young people who have never been in intensive care and moreover have not even consulted doctors about it. covert definitely hits the nervous system this is its main target then which way the. small from both these occur in the vessels of the brain little haemorrhages all this becomes evident via very different symptoms

sometimes rather obvious and sometimes not a headache is something understandable and this is not due to intoxication but due to covert micro bleeding and swelling. massive weakness is also what everyone describes and what is completely unusual for other diseases visual and hearing impairment dreams become weird even hallucinogenic and techie cardia can be terrible and completely inexplicable even young people can have it. even young people who do not have any heart pathologies they go through an e.c.g. and i go the doctors find nothing. all this made us realize that this is damage to the central nervous system so the brain sends you some kind of a signal to stay sick yes something like this. virus does not affect something in particular and equally for everyone here a chain is only as strong as its weakest link if you had a certain weakness in your body the virus will target it and there is one huge unaccounted indicator which we already see in scientific articles people experience

in post called the symptoms are likely to live shorter than they initially could. anyway these people who feel unwell after covert 19 should seek help even if it is a phobia it is better to make sure that this is actually true and then see a psychologist or psychiatrist to deal with it. every day we see more and more patients for whom kovi did not end with them leaving the hospital sometimes the consequences last for months and how long it will last is completely incomprehensible the most important thing here is not to miss the moment and see a doctor in time. turn to europe now where violent protests have broken out in ireland and denmark as people have taken to the streets to demonstrate against stricter coronavirus curbs .

you look nothing like it up. comes this several countries in europe and post regional quarantines in an attempt to avoid nationwide lockdowns germany for example is talking coronavirus controls along part of the french border following a rise in new variant cases and with more. there will be restrictions for individuals living in the northeast in what is our region travelling from france to germany unless they can for say it's a code 19

a certificate to show that they're negative from the fire s. and that comes of course as the epidemic is worsening across the country here in france that's according to the health minister himself there really doesn't appear as if the curfew measure which has been in place now since i read at the end of october beginning of everybody is really having a knuckle going in fact this is a could be this from 6 pm in the evening to 6 am in the morning but despite that that's not how they corrected general of health in france sees it the situation is obviously very tense the government has taken strong breaking measures particularly with the curfew the latter works very well now look this comes of course as the e.u. is still having massive issues the rollout in its vaccine program and to do so as quickly as it looks like now to add the difficulties to this we understand that separate members have been contacted recently about says it could be vaccine that appeared to. unfortunately we're talking about so 900000000 doses here with about

13000000000 euros according to the eaves and he told agency that's very worrying given that many countries are desperate to get more doses all vaccines there are still of course these big issues so the astra zeneca vaccine which is kind of sort of who could in terms of its efficacy for. qubit patients and it seems that that is having a massive impact on the uptake of this particular vaccine with the majority of doses just going on used and there are calls now for those unused doses not to be wasted or to be used for younger people we cannot afford the vaccine sitting around and not being used because some of those entitled to it rejected well meanwhile as the e.u. is struggling to get hold the jobs that people actually do will someone are taking matters into their own hands like the czech republic which has declared a new state of emergency as cases search that it's now looking at altering the

russians for the vaccine. there is a huge interest in the russian vaccine we cannot wait for the european medicines agencies approval the state institute for drug control must examine the documentation and if they approve it the health ministry has to issue an exemption . well it will be the 1st to do that hungry has already been administrating and doses of sputnik the sits around the beginning or february the vaccine was shown to have an efficacy of around 92 percent but it has not yet been approved for use by the european medical agency it does seem though that some each you countries feel that they have to take those matters into their own hands now deciding that enough is enough and it's not good enough to do it as part of the block is the e.u. anymore. it israel a government proposal to use electronic bracelets through sure people self isolate

when returning from abroad has been met with a mixed reaction by israelis he's pulis lear reports from the airport where the pilot program was launched. as you can see behind me it's largely deserted there are full flights that are scheduled to arrive the soft noon and passengers on those flights will be part and parcel of a new pilot program that is being launched today and which is hugely controversial a year ago one would not have imagined that we'd be in the situation now when you arrive in israel you have one of 2 choices either you quarantine in an army hotel or you can go home and do a home quarantine for 10 days but now you have to go home with an electronic monitoring system this entails wearing an electronic bracelet either around will restore your ankle now this bracelet is part of a tracking system it's connected to a smartphone which is connected to a stick that is placed on one of the walls of a person's home the company monitoring the whole system will receive some kind of

signal the moment the person steps foot out of the home so it's a way to try and stop people breaking home quarantine and it's also a way for the israelis to reopen the skies and would turn to some kind of normality the company that has designed the technology says that everything is safe and that people should not be worried in fact it is not as intrusive the stick knology as are the apps that are currently being used in israel the company has also stressed the point that it's not monitoring any kind of personal information it's not to coordinate the information and at the same time it's not taking pictures it's also said that the bracelet is to quote comfortable that it is efficient that people won't even know that they have it on them it's very light and it's waterproof they actually gone so far as to call it a freedom bracelet saying that it gives passengers arriving in israel the choice to do an army hotel quarantine or a home quarantine having said all of that it still hasn't satisfied many people who are critical of the whole program asking travelers to choose between military

enforced quarantine motel and an electronic bracelet i don't even know where to start with you. is a nightmare happening in warp speed and trialed in israel before its global debut is or launches pilot program to track returning passengers using electronic bracelets and the knesset pasta law allowing disclosing identities of unvaccinated to authorities watch how the pandemic continues to erode any semblance of civil rights now land and a border is here in israel have been closed since january and at this point in time they will remain close for at least a now the 2 weeks the only people being allowed into the country are stranded israelis aboard an independent organization the israel democracy institute is a watchdog and is walid about the direction in which this country is headed. concern is that they rosen of the rights affected is not proportionate but rather extreme even in view of the current health challenge they stream changes in policy

from one of a food open air port to complete closure without warning question and where citizens who travelled abroad lawfully with the full expectation that they would be able to return and without giving them a chance to prepare accordingly it creates intolerable human situations now the climate system sees 100 tracking systems being issued it is a plan in place to expand this to a 1000 but that depends on legislation we've also heard from the health ministry that they haven't ruled out the possibility of introducing monitoring people's cell phones and that was something that the israeli internal security the shin bit was involved in last year but it also proved to be hugely controversial. the israeli government has already passed a law that gives authorities access to the personal data of unvaccinated people the measure will remain in place for 3 months and provide information on those who have only had one job at all the government insists the law those only designed to

encourage vaccination and says the information will not be used for any other purpose is what people in the streets of tel aviv had to say about the law. but i'm concerned that the government wants to share private medical information with institutes that are not relevant i see it as a major violation of civil rights i definitely all about it to let this information out and out of the as an incentive to people to get like seen and as. taking us one step closer to normal life it's very simple you know over 5 people because of him to get vaccinated and adore listings and basically the corner office and when we let them do it their way they doing you doing it strikes by slice of it under the influence your would rot in the streets and then and demonstrate how we had to do when be discrimination between people who've had the vaccine in people who haven't everybody should do it and then everything will be open to everybody.

there's a couple university professor in america has been suspended for a series of tweets opposing slavery reparations and racial bias training a story on more after this break. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe.

isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true. is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. for a mate in the shallows. attacks on police officers in france of increased significantly over the last 2 decades since according to the country's interior ministry situations been exacerbated by the recent yellow vest and covert 19 protests in the country. but. remember an almost.

0 for. more than 1005 incidents of violence against officers are recorded in france every day in january alone more than 2200 cases were registered over the past 20 years the number of attacks on police has more than doubled. thursday the police station that's there paris was attacked projectiles of fireworks were thrown by around 30 people officials say that 4 suspects were arrested on french police officer told does what he thought is behind the violence. what we need to do is to try to resolve the problem upstream and try to find

solutions to the tensions that are undermining the climate between the police and part of the population especially the youth and we have to focus on the background for example we are talking about the solar cell police station attack now journalist wrote a little less than a month ago about a pregnant woman who had been stopped by a police patrol from a veiled woman who was 4 and a half months pregnant was pushed to the wall by a policewoman and lost her baby following this even if the media doesn't talk about it people don't forget i'm not sure there is a link between the 2 cases but this kind of information circulates in the press but also circulates by word of mouth so that doesn't help to ease tensions this is not a problem that appeared suddenly it has an origin. of the attack comes as the french senate is due to rewrite article $24.00 of its global security law if passed a law would curb people's ability to share images that identify police officers in the media those found guilty of violating the law could face up to

a year in prison and 845000 euro fine critics of the bill though argue it could stop people from exposing police brutality. thinks that any changes to the law may have come too late. what really has exploded these last few years is police violence today's police violence is no longer the same as it was 10 or 20 years ago today people filmed these kind of violations and put them on the internet only the day before yesterday there was another case of police violence that was filmed in paris on the video we can see 2 police officers who insult and handle a black man quite roughly so we have to read between the lines and understand that this is a defense strategy developed by the ministry of the interior and in particular by the police force which ultimately puts on an equal footing police violence and violence committed against the police which is also real today we have to completely change our strategy but i think that during the term of

a manual micron it's already a little bit late to make changes because the presidential campaign will start in a few months and it's late to make decisions that have not been made in the last 4 years. the u.s. must professor has been suspended by university in pennsylvania after he spoke out against racial bias training and reparations for slavery in a series of tweets gregory banco from st joseph's university doubted the effectiveness of slavery reparations likening them to the descendant of a murder victim asking for compensation from the perpetrators relative use of question whether racial bias training only serves to divide americans university has called the tories biased discriminatory suspending until the end of the semester in may he spoke to us about the decision. i had to recount that didn't even have my name on it it was an organization that i used to

own that had folded and i kept the account just for voicing opinions but i kept my name off of it because in academia people who think like me who are not far left of center and have to keep their opinions quiet people from outside the university discovered that it was me they took shots pictures screenshots of the tweets. added commentary to them docs to me which means they exposed me for as the author of them injected them put them in a sent them to students actual students at the school and encourage them to get me fired from my job sent them around and said that i was racist and i shouldn't have a job and within 34 hours of that i was put on paid leave pending an investigation and gregory banco is only the latest in a series of academics whose views of planted them in trouble plus the university of chicago professor howell's link came under fire for criticizing the blank lives

matter and defund the police movements he was forced to apologize professor steven pinker from harvard has been accused of playing down racial injustice in a series of old tweets agree banco expressed his concern over the current state of free speech and education. there's a lot of people that are afraid to be who they are because they're afraid of being of being bullied by the cancel culture crowd and i'm hoping that we can fix this i've got a lot of feedback from. students at the university much more feedback i think then is objecting to this as far as. go ahead that somebody is finally standing up to the cancel culture that is just totally it's gripping our our colleges gripping many colleges there's a certain way of thinking that is acceptable on university campuses and anything

that deviates from that. you either have to keep quiet or you risk getting what they say cancel as far as they will shut you down the command you know universities really promote diversity and inclusion on campus more and more these days and i think you know i'm fine with that that's a good thing but when it comes to diversity of ideas and opinions. it's the exact opposite. phyla new documentary about the autumn political activism of says tank young from an affront on system of a down has been released to the public going on the grounds of humor tons of discuss the project with the singer and you can see the full interview after this bulletin for now is a quick test. the 1st 20 minutes are you know i'm not saying stand a rock human tree because there's an element of identity culture the armenian quarter of los angeles and hollywood and then suddenly 911 changes everything in

the program right well it was kind of like that in our band's career as well because we launched our 2nd record toxicity right as 911 hit and it really changed the complete landscape our song was off the radio along with everyone else's song clear channel at the time had censored a lot of songs off the radio and yet we still had the number one record on billboard in the united states with a song called chop suey which talked about a self-righteous suicide you might have to remind people why. your music was banned after 911 because in in this film i mean the idea that you specifically were questioning u.s. foreign policy and somehow you get accused of somehow supporting 911 i wrote an essay called understanding oil what i was trying to do is understand how something like this could happen in the 1st place and part of that was trying to unravel to 50 years of unjust propping up of dictators u.s.

foreign policy and basically calling for a multilateral approach to deal with the issue not some jingoistic kind of you know cowboy response to the whole thing which is kind of what was going on with the invasion of afghanistan and iraq which you know iraq specifically had nothing to do with it and the whole pretense of weapons of mass destruction that never existed so you know it was a reaction to that at the time and knowing that this is just another this might serve as another ploy to. to to turn into a resource acquisition type of thing pretty us rather than truly bringing justice and that's what i was interested in and trying to understand it and it had a huge backlash back backlash because you know pete. well we're not ready for that there was a lot of reactionism going on a lot of flag waving a lot of. patriotism but also not really understanding what was going on you know there were a few artists that spoke out along with myself and donna spoke out maynard from

tool spoke out the dixie chicks spoke out but it was a handful of artists and we all got backlash for it. and this thing with anti international told me for updates in half an hour. l. look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. i robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders that conflict with the 1st law show your identification we should be very careful about artificial intelligence and the point of all of us me is to create a trance. area playing with artificial intelligence where some of the demon.

robot must protect its own existence and exist. they are tactics that can be used to get innocent people to confess to crimes they didn't commit i don't even think people in the us really get that the police are allowed to lie to the person who falsely confessed actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior once a false confession is taken the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that isn't. i

magine are tense and you want you know the log down additional going underground as the united states assumes the presidency of the u.n. security council but how will the usa use its role to advance the nato military alliance allegations against nato nations are rife in a new documentary speaking truth to power charting the rise of platinum selling artists tankian of system of a down he joins me now from los angeles so welcome to this lockdown edition of going on the ground to tell me about truth to power in the old age old question can the music change the world i sure hope so. so truth to power is a documentary of an activist journey starting from when that activist myself does not have a large voice without music as a coconspirator and then music and the success of the band system of a down gives me the ability to project that message and activism and then you see the results of that activism and also the.