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nobody really can tell the difference between a good commercial someone that isn't. in the headlines this hour protesters stormed government buildings in armenia as the heat is turned up on the political unrest in the country but the prime minister now saying he's ready to hold early elementary elections. guilty as charged former french president nicolas sarkozy is convicted of corruption and handed a year behind bars that gives him the dubious honor of becoming the 1st former president in the country to get a jail term also coming up. clashing out at lockdown as the violence erupts in several countries around europe as people fight back against coronavirus curbs. and the never ending nightmare we
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investigate the plight of these so-called cold with a long haulers people still battling to get back to health months after their 1st infection. you're watching our international bring your live news updates from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. we start this hour with the growing unrest in armenia protesters have stormed a number of government buildings in the capital today 2 mass rallies are currently underway in the city both for and against the prime minister when they last hour hust pledge to hold early parliamentary elections we cannot cross to the heart of the action in the council and artie's constantine so constantine it's been a tense situation lots of changes going on what's the latest you can tell us.
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you know well this situation really pretends and a lot is going on right now and a year of on the rally of supporters of prime minister nicole pashtun has just and that you probably can still see the stage of behind my back and most of the people they have set out for a march around a city and their house holding a big armenian flag and shouting slogans in support of nicole pashtun and this is probably one of the this is going to be a really tense moment because there is another rally that is going on right now at the different location and this is the rally of the opponents of the prime ministers those are the people who have been demanding his resignation for the last several days and of course you know tension is very high and chances are very high that all that might end up in clashes and that's exactly what happened here last last week when both the opponents and supporters of the prime minister as scheduled their rallies on the same day let me tell you that the prime minister he called
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question and he used his rally to make several major and now instruments and 1st he offered to hold a constitutional referendum in october to change the country's political system and give more power to the president he also insisted that the head of the general staff of the armenian armed forces on a guest around needs to quit and let me just give you quickly a little bit of back story he wants to get rid of this army commander after he and other top generals accused the prime minister of basically being incompetent and called for his resignation and for that they were accused of an attempted coup so it seems right now that the generals fades the fate of on a go around becomes a key cornerstone in the ongoing political crisis in armenia and also let me add that earlier. today opponents of the prime minister storm several government
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buildings and. demanding equal passion on to resign and you know footage on social media. shown chaotic scenes as the crowd was storming into the hallways and people who were at their desks that at that time were probably very scared but again this just shows you the tension that is in the air right now and yet of on as a country plunges into the probably the worst political crisis of the last couple of decades of its history. reporting live from the armenian capital bank. the former french president nicolas sarkozy has been convicted of corruption and sentenced to one year in jail sarkozy was found guilty of bribing a judge and exchange for inside information on an investigation into his presidential campaign finances is the 1st former president of france ever to have been given a jail term
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a journalist and political commentator analysts both were to doesn't think this is the end of the matter. is the 1st president to be condemned to jail this is a condition that you could have nation that is already going to heal so i don't think he's jailed yet. but it's d.c. also has interesting although the 1st president to be the object of 70 different court cases 16 of which were dismissed without merit and he expects that his appeal sort of well during his life will hold and appeal but it still isn't it's a strong setback to something that in some jurisdictions would have been thrown out of court because it was based on the almost continuous hour phone tapping by magistrates without a specific mandate of the specific object which in french all is illegal so it's a really interesting case and that really demonstrates that french justice has become quite as has become quite politicized in recent. simmering
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anger at tightening covert restrictions has boiled over and ireland and denmark where thousands took to the streets demanding their freedoms back. well those protests in several countries come as there is an increasing transmission rates over 19 here in france the health minister has described the situation as. the epidemic with tens of thousands of new cases being registered
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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 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 the astra zeneca
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vaccine the efficacy of which in older people had been questions 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 some figures suggest up to 85 percent in germany have not been used and possibly around 90 percent of doses 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
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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 approved 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 have an efficacy rate 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 deciding to make their own way more than a year since i 1st started to take a crippling hold on the world the pandemic has left a trail of devastation and its wake 2 and a half 1000000 people are dead and around 115000000 have been infected but despite
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this little is still known about the long term effects of the virus known as long. as the latest now and his special cover documentary series. for more than a year now humanity has been dealing with cove it great he just understands what symptoms have been identified with oxford only now do we start to understand that there is also a long coat of it in use names way between 5 and 50 percent of people struggle with this disease or 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 the same day for precisely the comprehensible symptoms everything is
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just like in that series of of. the other i thought that i was cured and everything would return to normal but unfortunately this was not the case and i started choking of the felt that i 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 cuff and it cut in the most severe cases of 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 kovi tail long coded a young people who have never been in intensive care and moreover have not even consulted doctors about. you know i did not have any fever a cough at all because. then i start to cough up blood and i got
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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 launce. it was just endless but they're going to it it is if you are sick with something both of what exactly went on with. it definitely hits the nervous system that this is its main target then 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 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
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people who do not have any heart pathologies 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 why 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. a hugely controversial security bill which would stop people sharing images of police officers online is back up for debate in france this time in the senate it comes after the country's interior ministry are real but attacks on officers have more than doubled in the past 2 decades with recent nella best and anti-lock out protests only exacerbating the situation.
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we know no more. regular errors. the country sees around 85 incidents of violence against officers recorded every day and january alone more than 2200 cases were registered and on thursday of last week a police station near paris was attacked with projectiles and fireworks by around 30 people 4 suspects were arrested after that incident one officer revealed what he thinks 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
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climate between the police and part of the population is especially the youth and we have to focus on the background for example if we're talking about the source 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 saar cell 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. the proposed security bill would curb people's ability to share images in the media and online which identify officers guilty of violating the law could face jail and large fines but critics claim it will prevent people exposing any police brutality. again on that.
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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
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years. use of electronic monitoring tags in israel to make sure people are self isolating when they arrive in the country isn't getting the warmest every actions from israel is a flare reports from the launch of the initiative. as you can see i'm standing just outside the building in front of the arrivals hall and the security here at ben gurion international airport just outside tel aviv is not letting the media into the building the people you see behind me are journalists and ironic ironically the reason given by the security is that they don't want the media to make this into more of a story than it is and if that is to jase that the israeli authorities know just how controversial this program that they introducing this often is now the 1st flight will be a flight from frankfurt where passengers will be given the choice to either quarantine at an army hotel and to mention that they have been horrific stories coming out of these hotels we've heard of the alleged rape of
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a 13 year old girl that there's not enough food that there's not enough accommodation all people will be given the choice to quarantine at home until now the israeli police know that a lot of people have been breaking that home quarantine so what they're introducing today and what is so controversial is this bracelet that people will be os to put onto their ankle onto the wrist and it will connect with a cell phone and they'll be a sticker on the wall of the person's home and the minute they leave their home and alert will be given and ultimately the police will be notified that the person has broken home quarantine now the company that designed the technology has said that it's completely safe that there is no privacy laws being breached that they not according information they not taking pictures they say it's comfortable it's easy to wear but certainly as you mentioned it is causing a lot of controversy here in israel and raising eyebrows the rabbis in the country say that it will not be able to be implemented over the weekend because it breaks
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it and just ordinary people who don't observe it have also questioned the holy just to mysie of the program asking travelers to choose between military force quarantine motel and an electronic bracelet i don't even know where to start with it is a nightmare happening in warp speed and trialed in israel before its glow. will 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 since january the country has been in a lockdown on a pole and all borders have been closed and essentially what this has meant is that israelis who are bored cannot enter the country the question of course is being awesome what will happen to stranded israelis come the 23rd of march and to the elections and there's no definitive answers being given on that as of yet the
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independent watchdog the israeli democracy institute has said that it is increasingly walid 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 the extreme changes in policy from one of a food open air port to complete closure without warning cation unaware citizens who traveled 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 plan the program does see a 100 kids being used but this will eventually be extended to a 1000 at the same time and that of course depends on legislation at the same time we are hearing from the health ministry saying that it is investigating the whole issue and it hasn't ruled out returning to the previous mode of checking people's cell phones and to to determine the movements and see whether or not they pass in
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on the coronavirus just today a few hours ago the high court of his will woold that they need to be severely limits put on the internal security the shin bet in terms of using this method so certainly with this is a developing story and we are seeing more noise rabies raised concerns as to how the. is purporting to stock up on a virus but at the same time seems to be carrying more most human rights and that certainly is the criticism. israeli government has already passed a law giving authorities access to the personal data of unbox new people it's expected to remain in force for 3 months officials insist it's only meant to encourage vaccination and claim information won't be used for any other purposes we've got reaction on the streets of tel aviv. but i'm concerned that the government wants to share private medical information with institutions that are not relevant i see it as a major violation of civil rights i definitely all about it to let this information
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out in order that 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 very far people because of the intel you have vaccinated and the dollars things and basically the corner office and when we let them do it their way they doing you doing it strikes by these guys are going to do what it was you would rot in the streets and then and demonstrate how i really hope that there won't be discrimination between people who've had the vaccine and people who have and everybody should do it and then everything will be open to everybody. in a documentary has been released about the art and political activism of the front man of the rock band system of a down search tank and has sat down with art he's going underground show to tell us more about it you can see the full interview on r.t. throughout the day for now here's a quick preview. 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
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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 their own mind people while your music was banned up to 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
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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. 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
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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. that's been our breakdown of today's top headlines for now but if you're looking for more you can always had our website our 2 dot com thanks for tuning in this hour. on the campaign trail joe biden said nothing would fundamentally change he was right washington is again illegally bombing syria and why trump is i'm gonna go away any time soon.
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during the vietnam war u.s. forces also bomb to neighboring laos it was a secret war. and for years the american people did not know. enough to allow sell my son is a fictional mouse heavily bombed country per capita and the ball was human history millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this small agricultural country so i would have been going on a kind of a tap nothing even today kids in laos full victim to bombs dropped decades ago is the us making amends for that tragedy in laos what help do the people need in that little land on. the spring carmen's this those books going to. destroy. the country most are not in the. early ninety's. a psychologist just proposed to the west berlin senate a social experiment wanted to let paedophiles adopt don't care if
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i'm after a tens unit watching another 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 gotta tell me about truth to power in the old age old question can and 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 the activism and then you see the results of that activism and also the repercussions of an activism on an
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artist within the. because the 1st 20 minutes are 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 to remind people why. your music was banned off to 911 because in in this film i mean the idea that you specifically were questioning u.s.
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foreign policy and somehow. you get accused of homo 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 for the u.s. rather than truly bringing justice and that's what i was interested in.
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