and i had lines this hour out of the white house but still causing a huge. first major post-presidential speech for repeating these 2020 election claims. the hyatt hotel chain is facing boycott calls to the u.s. conservative conference featuring the states that appeared to resemble a nonsense. when the news americans appear to be getting fed up of so-called council culture after a poll found 64 percent of people believe it poses a threat to freedom we put the issue. we have to keep in mind that the. only ones. that simply should no longer exist well i would hate to live in

a world where one people or heck even a group of people got to decide what was and wasn't racist and therefore what was and was not acceptable. back in the e.u. and u.s. for imposing sanctions over jailed opposition figure that the saying that they're interfering in russia. very good morning to you and thanks for joining us here on r.t. . he may be out of the white house but that doesn't mean that he's off the radar of social media giants. donald trump's 1st major post-presidential speech for violating its content rules. well trump's repeated his claim that the 2020 election was rigged that was while

addressing the conservative political action conference something the u.s. supreme court ruled as misleading the american public has deleted videos from r.t. reuters and a.b.s. legal and media analyst lionel believe social media platforms are actively trying to silence conservative voices the google and you tube and other other platforms like this are of such in the main in nature that you're almost like utilities today imagine if you're on the phone over saying your phone drops because you dared mention hydroxy chloroquine or said something in favor of donald trump you wouldn't have it and if the utility said well maybe you should start your own phone company he would say that's ridiculous so it's time for us to recalibrate and redefine what these platforms are they're not they're not the union platform this is you tube this is international it's more than that and these distinctions have to change and

what it is is these agencies these platforms are if you will agencies or instruments of whatever the shadow government the ruling class the deep state i don't know but you're being used as clenching devices to punish people to get in line and people love these platforms so much that they will not talk about or think about anything in fear of losing their beloved you tube or facebook or whatever so they know exactly what they're doing. however the video is still up on a number of western outlets without any warning messages there's also been no response from you chimp on how this information should be provided in a live feed former pennsylvania senator bruce marks who represented donald trump in the supreme court believes the former president still has a right to express his opinion whatever it is. he hasn't brought it upon himself because he's doing what he's allowed to do under the us constitution we have the

1st amendment it protects freedom of speech doesn't protect speech simply because it's right it doesn't protect speech just because it's popular it protects all speech so i don't think he's brought it upon himself at all i think he's absolutely entitled to his opinion well there's no doubt that there's a double standard and as lionel said it's the old they can kill 2 birds or even more than 2 birds with one stone you tube is been biased against president trump obviously against r.t.d. it what's ludicrous is nobody was telling you to take down all the false statements that adam schiff and nancy pelosi and chuck schumer made about the russia hoax investigation i mean if there's anything it could be has been demonstrated to be absolutely untrue over the last 4 years is that donald trump didn't conspire with russia to win the 2016 election and where is you tube taking down you know videos that have to do with the infamous steal you know the gossip it was just made up

absolutely scandalous allegations about donald trump and his hotel room at the ritz carlton moscow but there is a liberal organization who will structure in america that wants to suffocate free speech and sadly enough you tube and facebook and twitter are part of. the but the conservative political action conference n n a c pac has caused trouble not only for the media airing it but also for the hosts of the event the hyatt hotel chain is facing boycott calls over a controversial stage design the scale of more pain explains. when it comes to political conferences it's supposed to be the people on the stage who make the headlines not the stage itself but the shape of the stage at the annual conservative political action conference has become a headline in more ways than one after members of the liberal establishment noticed that it was the shape similar to a nazi rune and claimed this was intentional it was the hyatt hotel that hosted the

event and now it's getting it in the neck such as 2 potential sites a business decision by her yet i've stayed in that hotel chain countless times over the years never again enough of hayat is so silly find hosts not says. hate high out hotels highly inclusive does not mean hosting people who are not highly inclusive hosting a fascist nazi convention is the antithesis of inclusiveness you have made a grave error in judgment the imminent boycotts you're going to feel for years to come some fact checking websites are now even questioning whether it was done on purpose the shape of the nazi symbol is eerily similar to the shape of the stage at sea pink however we are presently unable to confirm whether this was a deliberate choice made by the event organizers the moments we rate this claim is unproven. the theory is that the sea pack stage resembled the odal room used

in the archaic norse an anglo-saxon alphabets as the equivalent of the modern letter o and also meaning estate or heritage the nazis used this symbol during their rule in germany and many groups that track anti-semitism and white supremacy ism classify it as a hate symbol now the hyatt hotel has denounced the symbol and said they had no power over how the stage was designed at the c. pac conference however the organizers of c. pac say this is all a conspiracy stage design conspiracy is outrageous and slanderous we have a long standing commitment to the jewish community council culture extremists must address don't assume it isn't within their own ranks broadly stands with jewish allies including those speaking from these states moreover some jewish people have even mocked the attacks on c pac as the grandson of holocaust survivors and as a proud american marine and jew i find these types and see parts to be outrageous

and grotesque so as to destroy a narrative but he was a friday night critics of the liberal narrative a pointed out that nazis are far from the only people to use old norse runes for example the symbol of bluetooth is. derived from ancient european writings symbols that were also appropriated by fascists and the lord of the rings books and movies also contain similar symbols i was at sea packed and i you don't need anyone who told me that sea pact was an anti sematic event i would have just actually laughed in their face 1st of all the stage would have been an upside down version of the a little room so if they were really trying to put it in a position of of saying that that's part of their sensibilities then why would they put it upside down secondly as a member of the audience i didn't even know what the stage looked like until i saw it on twitter you couldn't even see it from the audience perspective so who designed the stage was an intentional is see pac responsible is hyatt hotel

responsible we may never really know the answer but one thing that is for sure is that this controversy is certainly a sign of the times in the united states of america caleb up and r.t. new york. political blogger anthony braun logan believes that the conference is received too much media attention. well i think the whole thing has been overblown by the media over here and they want to take every little thing and blow it totally out of proportion i mean nobody would really see that if you look at the state you're not going to think of it as a nazi sign no regular average person would see that but of course they've got to take everything and take it to the extreme to make conservatives their goal has been to would say conservatives every chance they get because they stage resemble other things like some of the little cartoon characters from old school cartoons back in the day it resembles a regular state squares and triangles and diamonds is not one thing sure it could be but come on now on the word there are plenty of jewish speakers at sea pig

there were also jewish people on board so if somehow this stage were so bad in so egregious then maybe they would approve the state or funded the state and maybe the jewish people or no borders would have been a state it doesn't make any sense. saying in america and the rise of socal council culture is being seen by some a such a threat to freedom of speech that one us little michael is calling on congress to address the issue. council culture is a dangerous phenomenon whether you agree or disagree with the views being censored if cancel concert continues unchallenged it is not just the unpopular controversial viewpoints that are its risk in fact a recent poll found 64 percent of americans agree the boycotting or removing certain types of content does pose a threat to freedom in the country and also found 80 percent of republicans consider council culture a threat only 48 percent of democrats to this has been highlighted by

a number of high profile cases over the past year for example last week i was on hold a book by a conservative author that challenge the transgender movement pulled it from its web store early 2 democratic representatives called on cable companies to stop posting conservative leaning news channels and 2020 an editor of new york times resigned over an opinion piece by republican senator vacating the use of military force in braces and protests it's an issue we discuss with a panel of guests a problem with cancel culture is that when we're looking into people's past 20 years ago 30 years ago in some cases what does it look like holding people responsible now for things that they have done i mean almost a generation ago can't people change can't people become better people as time goes on cancel culture does not allow for that have i said things that i think you know in 20 years maybe you'll look and say oh you should have sent that well that's true and it makes us all need to be more mindful of how we conduct ourselves and what

you say it's not ok to just speak so free we about people of different colors all different races socioeconomic status or handicaps we need to be mindful that our society is locals about so many types of people there are of course racist people out there is the best way to change their minds and improve race relations to simply silence anyone who goes against the narrative or should we actually be doing more to engage with those people and maybe explain why their actions might hurt others or try to change their opinions how many people have had their mind changed by. being silence it just doesn't seem like a long term strategy that will work our society is largely built on racism our society is largely built for and things that are just and racism is something terrible to who america is that. people that racism seems anti american and so who have people who want to have a little better instead she's all know this with my great great grandfather well hopefully her great great grandfather believes that black people were being and

that they should have rights so you know we have to keep in mind that you have a lot of people holding on to ideologies that simply should no longer exist well i would hate to live in a world where one people or heck even a group of people got to decide what was and wasn't racist and therefore what was and was not acceptable in the public sphere that goes just intrinsically against the concept of freedom of expression which is essential if you hope to have a culture in a society where different people with different opinions can actually live peacefully together we're not going to continue to coddle racism in america that's simply not the role that we we should probably take it's best that we began to rip out all of the structures that are harmful whether they're on face book or a mine in a park it's time to take those down and move forward and either you're with us or you're not. washington and brussels a slap sanctions on a number of senior russian officials and organizations over the jailing of kremlin

critic alex and of army moscow hit back at the move calling it interference in the country's legal system is about to respond in kind our correspondent goes dia explains. these latest sanctions were announced by the european union and the united states almost simulate a new state the nuns are making today was done in harmony with the e.u. announcement it was not meant to be a silver bullet or an ending to what has been a difficult relationship with russia we expect the relationship to continue to be a challenge we're prepared for that and we're neither seeking to reset our relations with russia nor are we seeking to escalate so the american sanctions the wider in scope they target for example 7 officials but also for team and due process that the united states believes are engaged in manufacturing components for chemical and biological weapons the european sanctions they target russian officials for officials the attorney general the head of the investigative

committee the chief of the national guard the head of the 3 federal penitentiary service so these officials have been slapped with restrictive measures travel bans visa restrictions for their role in the arrest of election of on their leg rest and sentenced to one of years he's now serving behind bars for violating the terms of his parole he had been given a suspended sentence years ago now for embezzling the fording that company in russia germany and other countries they they believe that russia was behind these alleged poisoning russia's response to that has been look show is a shred of proof because all we've heard so far is claims and what they've received from the german side from the european union is silence they've been stonewalled completely and utterly and russia here now says that it will respond to these

sanctions as it always does absurdity reign supreme when the alleged poisoning of alexina valmy with a military grade toxic agent is been proclaimed as a reason. imposing sanctions all this is just a pretext to continue interfering in our internal affairs we are not going to put up with this we'll respond based on the reciprocity principle but not necessarily symmetrically we're calling on our colleagues not to play with fire just several weeks ago we heard european piece coming out and say why are we supporting alexina vonnie you know if the if he had been arrested in any other country but russia we wouldn't even 3 be saying his name and this is jew to his nationalist parts being called you know saying very anti-semitic things anti muslim things homophobic things and this is you know presumably why amnesty international for example recently decided to deprive him of the label of prisoner of conscious they they still say that you know he's a political prisoner they believe he's

a political prisoner in the day should be released but he's not a prisoner prisoner of conscious because of the views that he holds this is obviously the opening salvo of the united states concurrently as it was announcing these sanctions so that there would be more to come for other reasons for arguing for whatever else i'm sure that europe will come out and say that this is unwarranted earlier we spoke to vlad image of russia's permanent representative to the e.u. who questioned the logic behind the move. these are not thinking. according to international law of the 2 we just saw only in the hands of the u.n. security council everything else in the regard. is. illegitimate. and also members are in or

really ate with. or the man they were those who are all or in the room alone those gates to be alleged or even go or not our enemy without providing any evidence. of. the games lake or russia in the grass we are all c.w. in the holy in the hague in no you go home and government in. the. u.k. children under the age of 16 a bit over toward a powerful sex change hormones online without the parents' knowledge and so after an investigation found an e.u. transgender clinic was issuing prescriptions after just a few online consultations i made a brash decision as a teenager as a lot of teenagers do trying to find confidence and happiness except now the rest of my life will be negatively affected the rules for prescribing cross sex hormones

to minus in britain were tightened by a high court decision last year they must now be approved by 2 specialist doctors and the court order however loophole means prescriptions issued in the u. are accepted in u.k. pharmacies. genda g.p. has said that it describes sex almost to more than 1800 patients around one in 6 of whom are under 16 years old including a child of just 10 the founder of the clinic has been suspended since 28 t. have to see prescribe hormones to a 12 year old and a g.p. defended his practices so in that not all parents supported the chance decision to change sex but psychotherapists eleven's is the long term consequences for children we all kind of tend to on the easy answers or the sort of quick our senses and so they come across this information and in the websites inch transitions who sort of talk about the positive aspects of it and how great it is that that actually there

isn't any kind of longer term picture it doesn't really provide a full picture for these young people to see is a medication pathway that leads to irreversible damage and it's also experimental and you know there are some serious harms that might occur. to people in their later life there is a politicized element to this and that i think that there isn't misinformation provided by some of the organizations. and it's been very difficult to to speak. you know more openly about you know what is going on in the area people get afraid to comment about the situation and certainly medics clinicians get very worried about speaking out. the white house plans to pay slavery reparations to african-american people to compensate for centuries of

systematic racism issue is yet to be examined by a special commission by joe biden senior adviser says action can't be taken soon enough we don't want to wait in the study we're going to start to act and now we have to start breaking down systemic racism and barriers that have killed people of color back and especially african-americans. president biden supported studying issue of reparations and creating a special commission it would look into slavery the government's historic discriminatory policies and measures to tackle races and today these could include payments to african americans as compensation for wrongs of the past issue of race came to the fore again last spring with the death of george floyd an african-american man who was killed while being arrested provoked a wave of protests across the u.s. and around the globe headed by the black lives mass movement spoke to the executive director of an hyphenated america use against the idea of reparations. all the

people who were sleeps or did all the people who owned slaves are a bit and so who are those workers is going to go to i think i read it shipped to me i've been free for 5 plus generations why would i receive a check the logic says it's ridiculous it's absolutely absurd to say to someone whose family came here 50 years ago that now you must be penalized for something that happened to my ancestors 150 years ago long before your family even thought of come to the united states of america i'm pretty certain that we'll make it through the congress i don't think the house of representatives will do anything to remove that portion of it it's it's $5000000000.00 out of a $1.00 trillion dollars package you know just the way the congress works they're not that's that's literally pennies to them so that will most likely pass through

but the greater picture will there be some real reparations for black people as a whole most likely president by this done little so nothing for black voters so this is one of those things where 'd it's throwing a bone to black voters that is not likely to actually make it through but it gives him the oppressed people the impression that it's actually trying to do so. the social networking gap which positions itself as an alternative to twitter has been hacked those behind it are threatening to release information on people they believe belong to the far right wing or the story his then you hawkins. let's face it nobody likes to be hacked estimates say hackers strike every 39 seconds cyber crime well of course the world 6 trillion dollars by the end of this year but you don't hear about most of these incidents or the groups behind them and one man's a hacker or criminal is another man's whistleblower activist one group struck just

this weekend the culprits it is true with the denial of secrets or didio secrets group targets gab social network the aim to expose the platforms largely right wing users the transparency group did you see chris will make the 70 gigabytes of bestfoods private post and more it will bill 2 researchers john ellis and social sciences are best one of the group's co-founders previously leaked private messages for a wiki leaks chat at least in part accusing the organization of hate towards hillary clinton even though the group claims to be neutral with low political motive there was a special hatred of hillary clinton and a desire to derail the campaign they wanted to use the leaks to divide the clinton and sanders groups to prevent hillary from solidifying the base gabbers alternative social media platform favored by the all right many of whom are grated there of the

parlor similar platform was also targeted by activists later removed all together from major online stores and gab c.e.o. andrew talwar didn't mince his words in his response to the incident mentally ill tranny demon hackers are attacking gab right now the entire company has all hands investigating what happened it's not like the video secrets as had it all easy last summer the group published blue leaks hundreds of gigabytes of u.s. law enforcement agency data and was swiftly banned by twitter for violating rules and publishing hacked materials speaking of twitter the social media giant also tried to limit users access to the new. your post hunter biden laptop story also citing its hacked materials policy only to back down following an outcry and change the policy altogether and while we heard fierce criticism of wiki leaks release of information on the d n c into a d 16 there was no such storm surrounding didio secrets release of

a huge mass of hacked documents from inside russia in 2019 the enemy of my enemy is my friend is perhaps the most appropriate mantra in the great twilight zone of hacktivism it's hard to define black and white we can only 2nd guess the motives of the hundreds of hacker groups around the world that we can probably predict how the powers that be will respond and simply wait for the next record breaking set of leaks. as the european union's vaccination campaign continues to be marred by shortages some countries in the bloc are increasingly looking further afield for the coronavirus jobs shala doob ski has more on europe's struggling inoculation campaign. well there is dissent in the e.u. ranks who are now saying enough is enough with this slow rollout of the vaccine process that is being watched by the e.u. let's take slovakia that's become the latest e.u. country to decide it needs to buy doses of the sputnik reback seen from russia it's

made an order of around $2000000.00 doses it is the 2nd e.u. nation to do that how green is already in new york relating its citizens with the sputnik the vaccine and the czech republic is also said that it's interested in possibly buying it now this iraqi in the pm said it was necessary to buy this vaccine to boost the inoculation program. buying this russian vaccine was the right thing to do it's trustworthy anyone who wants to jam. in the next 2 months we will get 1000000 vaccines and then in may in june another 1000000 i believe by meeting with deadline he promised surprise russia will prove that it's a stable partner you can rely on these hard times it's the covert 900 pandemic does not pay attention to geopolitical issues the protection of human life preventives above all else we've seen fit to buy a russian vaccine so that slovak's who wish to can get vaccinated well that vaccine is due to be used in the next 2 weeks it hasn't of course had that regulatory

approval by the european union's e m a this is the european medicines agency but in an emergency such as a pandemic if a country in the block decides that it gives approval of vaccine that hasn't been approved on that wide spectrum that can be used now the e.u. is wos according to it though or not something that's a problem within the block but something that's actually to do with russia because the nature of that seems that this will cause action diplomacy. actions recently with some actors in particular once again christian. trying to discredit question. that she manufacture is why all all using this racial these 2 should. race to gain geopolitical. however it's clear that it's the e.u.

zone countries that have been questioning the efficacy or vaccines that year may has approved let's take the astra zeneca vaccine for example now both france and germany raised questions about this vaccine president of france describing it as being quasi affective for the over 60 five's germany didn't recommend that it was given to the over 60 five's both have since made a u. turn and a singing a different turn poland on its part is apparently in discussions with china to potentially have the vaccine from that also another vaccine that has not been given approval by a while to move to the problems that the e.u. is facing austria and denmark and now in discussions with israel about potentially money fracturing vaccines in that country in a chance to boost the production to get moved back seems to its citizens chancellor

1 of austria suggesting could say in his words it was needed because it was exactly like waiting for catch up. my danish colleague has made a good comparison i think she spoke of the catch up effect you probably all remember what ketchup bottle so used to be like what often took a long time before anything came out and then all of a sudden a whole torrent came out and it will be similar with vaccinations the e.u. is desperately trying to save face it's now launched a continent one project to try and boost the manufacturing of vaccines but for many in europe this is already too little too late and they feel that they really have to at this point go it alone. as you are right up to date our return with more for you in.