several countries in europe are being rocked by violent protests the tightening of coronavirus curbs. the plight of people experiencing health problems months after they got. the proposal by the israeli government to use electronic tanks to be sure people self returning to the countries been met with mixed reaction. thanks so much for joining us mid day here in the russian capital this is

a. violent protests have broken out in denmark as people have taken to the streets to demonstrate against strict coronavirus curbs. lead. feel odd. feel. all those protests in several e.u. countries as there is an increasing transmission rate over 19 hearing from the health minister has described the situation. in the epidemic with tens of thousands

of new cases being registered every day now as a result of that over the weekend several times in france went into new weekend lockdowns and it does look as if that is going to be expanded to other across the country here in paris the various discussing a mini 3 week lockdown it seems to many that the p.c. that's been in place for several months now is more working but that's not the case according to the country's director general of health the situation is obviously very tense the government has taken strong braking measures particularly with the curfew the latter works very well well the e.u. of course is still having problems with its vaccine rollout it's been slow from the start only around 8 percent of adults have beem. across the book fall behind say their counterparts in the u.k. we're almost 30 percent in there are still questions particularly over the astra

zeneca vaccine the efficacy of which in older people had been questioned not just by phones but also by germany and as a result of that many people are refusing in those countries that have not particular vaccine. so much so that something to suggest up to 85 percent doses in germany half will be used in possibly around 90 percent of doses haven't been used in france so much so that there are calls now to give those extra time 16 younger individuals who might accept that fact see. we cannot afford the vaccine sitting around and not being used because some of those entitled to it rejected well as the e.u. is struggling to get the doses of the vaccines that people actually want to take some countries are now taking matters into their own hands let's take the czech republic for example which is declared a new nationwide state of emergency as the number of cases why is there so much

so that they've decided that they might reach out and obtain the sputnik v. vaccine from russia there's 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 the czech republic is not the only country that is already doing that hungry has gotten has been inoculated people with the sputnik the vaccine for the last month said to have an efficacy rate of around 92 percent but it hasn't yet been given regulatory approval he in europe but it seems as the vaccine continues to hold across the bloc countries now are deciding to make their own way. around 150000000 people have been infected by corona virus and 2 and a half 1000000 have died since the start of the pandemic but despite these figures

relatively little is known about the long term effects of the disease also known as long as he's on top examines the condition as part of his coronavirus documentary series. for more than a year now humanity has been dealing with covert he just understands what symptoms have been identified. but only now do we start to understand that there is also a long. way between 5 and 50 percent of people struggle with this disease for much longer than expected people who have been treated at our hospital they are coming back and these situations are becoming even more common than simple i got sick this is very worrying. just like how same day precisely comprehensible symptoms everything is just like in

that series of. the other will i thought that i was cured and everything would return to normal but unfortunately this was not the case i started choking of the felt bad and had to call a doctor again i realized that i couldn't walk more than 100 to 150 meters so i was getting tired immediately and i would get a burning feeling in my chest you know it would be logical if complications off the coast but it could 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 these so-called kovi tell you a little bit a young people have never been in intensive care and moreover i've not even consulted doctors about. manufactured not have any fever a cough at all. then

i start to cough up blood and i've got a very severe pain in my leg some of the consciousness some symptoms were ending other was starting headaches and even congestion in my chest just by the non damage to my lawn so it was just an less they're going to it it is if you are sick with something but of what exactly where nobody can. cope it definitely hits the nervous system but this is its main target was. in which way. the room was 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 in the visual and hearing impairment who dreams become weird you know even hallucinogenic couldn't take a cardio can be terrible and completely inexplicable even young people can have included

but the even young people who do not have any heart pathology is that they go through an e.c.g. an echo 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 by stay sick yes something like this. every day we see more and more patients for whom koby 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. in israel or a government proposal to use electronic bracelets to insure people self isolate when returning from abroad has been met with a mixed reaction by israelis but is paulus live reports from the airport where the 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 according any information and at the same time it's not taking pictures it's also say 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 at 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 passed a 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 why we eat about the direction in which this country is headed the concern is that they arose in 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 creates intolerable human situations now the pilot system sees 100 tracking systems being issued there 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 a week 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's already passed a law that gives or thirty's access to the personal data of unvaccinated people is expected to remain in force for 3 months the government itself insists the law is only designed to encourage vaccination and says the information will not be used for any other purpose this is what people on the streets of tel aviv of had to say . but i'm concerned that the government wants to share private medical information with us to change that are not relevant i see it as

a major violation of civil rights i definitely all about it to let this information out a lot of that as an incentive to people to get vaccines and as. taking us one step closer to normal life it's very simple you know very fire people because of intake you have vaccinated any door listings and basically the corner office and where we let them do it their way they doing if they're doing it strikes by these lies are going to go to plan as you noted right in the streets and then and demonstrate how we had to do it when be discrimination between people who've had the vaccine and in people who haven't haven't had everybody should do it and then everything will be open to everybody. to come for you a university professor in america has been suspended for a series of tweets opposing slavery reparations racial bias training details after the break.

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back the french senate is sent to debate a controversial security bill this week which aims to restrict the sharing of images of police officers online comes after the country's interior ministry revealed attacks on officers of more than doubled over the past 2 decades recent yellow vest and anti lockdown protest on the exacerbating the situation. that.

more than 85 incidents of violence against officers have been recorded in france every day in january alone more than 2200 cases read just that just last thursday the police station in paris was attacked with projectiles and fireworks by around 30 people officials say 4 suspects were arrested on french police officer told us what he thought was behind the attacks. 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 if we're talking about the sar 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. article $24.00 the security bill would curb people's ability to share images that identify police officers in the media and online those found guilty of violating the law could face a year in prison and 845000 euro 5 critics of the bill argue that it could stop people from exposing police brutality is now again. 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 film 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. donald trump has returned to the political stage giving his 1st public speech since leaving the white house as

a recent poll suggests that he still remains the most popular republican politician . was this speech was highly anticipated due to the fact that donald trump is not on social media giving us a piece of his mind any longer now he started off by making clear he would not be starting his own political party lou would remain with the republicans now a poll taken among attendees of the conservative political action conference indicated that a very solid majority said they would vote for him and wow the republican party has many elements within it that do not approve of donald trump among rank and file republican voters trump remains wildly popular where in the middle of a historic struggle for america's future america's culture and america's institutions borders and most cherished principles our security our prosperity

had our very identity as americans is at stake like perhaps at no other time so no matter how much the washington establishment and the powerful special interests may want to silence us let there be no doubt we will be victorious and america will be stronger and greater than ever before now trump did not say whether or not he would run for president in 2024 but he certainly left open the possibility it is far from being over. i've made even decide to beat him for a 3rd time ok was he also spoke about the issue of immigration he criticized the handling of the pandemic and gave a very harsh critique of the new administration so it is pointed people are looking on and saying that while democrats and others are saying that the country is healing and reunifying that doesn't really seem to be the case donald trump remains

the center of republican party politics and the partisanship. and division that gave birth to donald trump remains intact the last 4 years things have become more and more intense and even though donald trump is out of office the polarization of the country but certainly ask elated during his presidency is not going away the country remains intensely divided and we discussed trump speech with conservative commentator jeff childs and former libertarian party vice chair of envoy. if he chooses to run he's getting the nomination in 2024 the huge base of trump supporters is is it's young it's growing i mean it's just a larger and a more growing baze than the old guard that's kind of fading out all the people who are being you know silent through say face safe spaces or canceled or whatever all of those people are going to want a social group and a political group that speaks of their to their values right now the united states has become

a divided culture where political disagreements have shifted into the social sphere into the entertainment sphere cetera and now if you're a public figure of any kind or in many cases even if you're just a private citizen your political views put you at risk to all kinds of non political attacks because the political sphere has shifted out of the political arena we're seeing it as being more problematic division rather the kind of than the good and the healthy political debate that has shaped american culture since the beginning who was on this track even before trump and so will trump on the scene and even. when he's outside of office i mean this divided is still going to remain and i'm not sure when it will happen one when people will finally reconcile as far as fighting goes i mean that the media is going to protect him as much as possible but donald trump is going to be one of his most vocal detractors and i think we saw that tonight at the speech here noland orlando so you know he is going to be a constant thorn in biden side biden won't be able to sneeze wrong without trump

saying something about 4 years is not a short amount of time i think a lot can change between now and then maybe he'll decide that he doesn't want to run and that you'd rather support somebody to succeed him and maybe become more of the kingmaker role but i do think that even if in 2024 if he does decide to run he does stand a very good chance of securing the nomination as long as he has still has the same energy that he asked today. u.s. math professors being suspended by university. pennsylvania after he spoke out against racial bias training and reparations for slavery in a series of tweets from st joseph's university said slavery reparations were like the descendants of a murder victim husking the perpetrators relative for compensation you also question whether racial bias training only served to divide americans university called the tweets biased and discriminatory suspending mancow until the end of the semester in may he spoke to us about the decision i have

to recount it 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 screen shots of the tweet. 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

gregory mankiw there is only the latest in a series of academics his views have landed them in trouble last year university of chicago professor harald came under fire for criticizing the black lives matter and defund the police movements he was forced to apologize or professor steven pinker from harvard university was accused of playing down racial injustice in a series of old tweets gregory mankiw again expressed his concern about 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. documentaries been released about the ox and political activism of time kenya on the front man of the rock band system of a down going underground session with tons of discuss the project with the musician you can see the full interview on ati throughout the day is a quick preview. 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 a band after 911 because in in this film i mean the idea they use 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 250 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 true. to turn into a resource acquisition type of thing for the u.s. 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 p. . well we're not ready for that there was a lot of reactionism going on a lot of flag waving

a lot of. a treat to some 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. finally let's just bring you some breaking news this just in a group of protesters stormed a government building this is in the center of the armenian capital yet of it comes as the city braces itself for 2 mass rallies both in support of and against the prime minister nicole passion yeah. that wraps it up for this news hour appreciate you company here on our international bring you more on the breaking news story and the rest of the day's news in half an hour.

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