but he really can tell the difference between a good compression and one that isn't. breaking news on our t.v. political unrest in our bros as protesters stormed government buildings in central europe and. also in the headlines several countries in europe are rocked by violent protests after tightening up one of our skirts. plus we look into the plight of the kobe the long haul are still experiencing health problems in the months after getting the run of buyers. and a proposal by the israeli government to use electronic tags to ensure people self isolate when returning to the country is not with a mixed reaction. you're

watching our 2 international coming to you live from the russian capital this and every hour welcome to the program we start with some breaking news this hour as protesters have stormed a number of government buildings in the armenian capital it comes as the city braces itself for 2 mass rallies both in support and against a prime minister and a call question he's been facing growing calls to step down over his handling of the newborn a cut off conflict with azerbaijan and more recently after a standoff with the country's military now we have a correspondent in the capital and he is following the crowds as they make their way through the city will be crossing live him a little bit later in the program so do stay tuned for that report. violent protests have broken out in ireland and denmark as people took to the streets to demonstrate against stricter coronavirus curbs. i.

feel. all those protests in several e.u. countries as there is an increasing transmission rates over 19 here in france the health minister has described the situation as. the epidemic here 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 50 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 breaking 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 lated across the book fall behind say their counterparts in the u.k. we're almost 30 percent in the there are still questions particularly over the astra zeneca vaccine the efficacy of which older people have been questions not just by phones but also by germany and as a result of thoughts many people are refusing in those countries that have not

particular vaccine. so much so that some figures suggest up to 85 percent in germany have not been used and possibly around 90 percent of those haven't been used in france so much so that there are of course now to give those extra time since team younger individuals who might accept that vaccine 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 the 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 been inoculated people with the sputnik the vaccine for the last month said to happen efficacy rates over around 92 percent for the house and yet being 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 115000000 people have been infected by the coronavirus and 2500000 have died globally since the start of the pandemic but despite this relatively little is known about the long term effects of the disease also known as long coated art is untimed examines the condition as part of his crown of our stock a mattress series. political show good

vision for more than a year now humanity has been dealing with cove it he just understands what symptoms have been identified but only now do we start to understand that there is also a long covert use names 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 and 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 date precisely comprehensible symptoms everything is just like in that serious of. the other 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 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 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 the so-called covert tail along a young people who have never been in intensive care and moreover have not even consulted doctors about. i did not have any fever a cough at all. then i start to cough up blood and i got a very severe pain in my leg some of the questions some symptoms were ending other was starting headaches and even congestion in my chest despite non damage to my launce. it was just analysts there go to it it is if you are sick with something

but of what exactly nobody can tell. from the cove it definitely hits the nervous system this is its main target in which way the little 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 hope of ologies or 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 stay sick yes something like this. 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. and it is there all a government proposal to is electronic bracelets to insure people self isolate when returning from abroad has been met with a mixed reaction by israelis artist paul flair 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 this off to 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 this technology as other 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 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 in warp speed and trialed in israel before its global debut these are 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 support 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 cation unaware 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 weak introducing monitoring people's cell phones and that was something that the israeli internal security the shin bet it was involved in last year but also proved to be hugely controversial. the israeli government has already passed a law giving authorities access to the personal data of unvaccinated people is expected to remain in force for 3 months the government 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 have to say about it. 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 vaccines 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 any dollars things and basically the corner office and when we let them do it their way they doing it the doing it strikes by size of it under the influence your would rot in the streets and then and demonstrate i really have to there won't be discrimination between people who've had the vaccine in people who have and everybody should do it and then everything will be open to everybody. still had donald trump makes his 1st public speech since leaving the white house others of course suggests he remains the most popular republican presidential candidate for the 2024 elections details on that story and more after this. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person of those.

who dares thinks. we dare to ask. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going foundation let it be an arms race is on off and spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

welcome back donald trump has returned to the political stage giving his 1st public speech since leaving the white house it comes as a recent poll suggests he still remains the most popular republican presidential candidate for the next election. ah. 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 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. and i may even decide to beat him for

a 3rd time ok was now he started off by making clear he would not be starting his own political party he 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 of 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 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 at this point 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 which certainly ask elated during his presidency is not going away the country remains intensely divided we discuss trumps faith with conservative commentator death charles and former libertarian party vice chair ivan vera. if you 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 to the entertainment fear etc 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 when when people will finally reconcile as far as fighting goes i mean that the media is going to protect them 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 in atlanta orlando at sea so yes 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. when i go back to our breaking news this hour protesters have stormed. a number of buildings in the center of the armenian capital and that's

a promise we cannot cross live to our times constantine roscoff was on the ground just out what's the latest. well from what we know is that the opponents of the prime minister are roaming around the city storming into the government buildings and demanding the resignation of the incumbent prime minister and he called recently they break they broke into the disability of one of the central districts of your human before that that group of protesters he and other government building were several ministries are located and they. specifically addressing the employees of those government offices urging them to not do not take the orders from the call from the prime minister and do not calm to the pro pasha now rally that is scheduled for today so from what we realize from what we understand is that those protesters they do not stay inside for too long so

they simply store in they shout slogans and they they then they move on and it seems like the police simply cannot catch up with that crowd and. right now we're at the national parliament where the sort of the main camp of the opposition is being set up and we were told that those group of protesters they're coming here to take part in the larger rally against me called that is scheduled for today so all in all i guess it just shows you how much tension is in the air in iran right now and earlier today prime minister nicola met with the members of the security council and. the members of the security council they urged the president over i mean armin starkey sound to sign off on the order to boot out the head of the general staff of armenian armed forces but you know it's really worth. both the president and the head of the general staff 2 figures who are supposed to be

a part of such meeting this time around they were not invited so this is another clear sign that the rift within the political an army elite in the country is just deepening and getting wider every minute and by the way we have 2 rallies in iran for today one staged by opponents as i told you in another one by the supporters of the prime minister and he called and you know chances are very high that this will end up in clashes between groups of protesters and that's exactly what happened here last week when both the opposition and the prime minister scheduled their rallies at the same day at the same day at the same time and you know the turnout of those rallies will be crucial for both sides i guess because that will show you dominates this reasoning you actually wins the hearts of regular people in this crucial in a very complicated time for the country. artist conference in russia costing across

the latest for us thank you. now let's go to a quick recap of the events that have led to the recent turmoil in armenia the armenian prime minister faced calls to step down by the country's military last week rushing and hit back accusing military officials of an attempted coup and sacking the head of the military that sparked mass rallies from both supporters and opponents of the prime minister later the armenian president stepped in and over rule passion's orders to sack the chief of staff in the months of unrest from a conflict between armenia and azerbaijan that took place last year that resulted in a peace deal that didn't sit well with many armenians. so. it documentary has been released about the art and political activism of serge talking in the frontman of rock band system of a down going underground afshin rattansi discuss the project with the musician you can see the full interview on r t throughout the day but for now here's a quick taster. the 1st 20 minutes you know i'm not saying stand

a rock human tree because there's an element of identity culture in 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 the 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. but 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 the band 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. has been your breakdown the city's top headlines for now but if you're looking for more you can always head to our website artie dot com thanks in this hour. oh look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. i robot must obey the orders given by human beings except we're such orders that conflict with the 1st law show your identification we should be very careful about artificial intelligence to the point all of us me is to create

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how low in welcome across the uk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle on the campaign trail joe biden said nothing would fundamentally changed he was right washington is again illegally bombing syria and why trump ism will not go away any time soon. to discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest marcus papadopoulos in london he's a historian analyst and author of the new book a rise will see in the return of russian to world politics and in budapest we have joined us and well he's a podcast or at the gavel which can be found on you tube. all right gentlemen crossed out rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate his go to marcus 1st i'm having.