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in baghdad and right here in moscow welcome to the news r n r t. we will get to those headlines stories in just a moment but we start this hour with breaking news coming out of sweden 8 people have been stabbed there in what police told a suspected terror attack let's cross live to our european correspondent peter peter as far as i can see not a lot coming out so far tell us what we do know what are we learning about this suspected terror attack in sweden. well this all happened at around 3 pm local time on wednesday a man who is described as being in 'd his early twenty's stabbed 8 people who have been taken to hospital several of those are described as being in a serious condition the man himself was shot by police and is currently in custody

being guarded by offices at a hospital his state is has not been updated to the press just yet the town itself vet londo in the small is a very small town in the south of sweden only just over 13000 people live there this is sure to have come as a big shock to the town to the people in the local area and we are hoping to hear from police and investigators very soon what we do know though is that initially they charged this man with attempted murder that was later open graded if you will to a charge of. of suspected terrorism that's what this is being investigated as a suspected terrorist attack areas of the town of atlanta have been cordoned off by investigators as they carry out their work 8 people have been taken to hospital several of them in a serious condition following a stopping in

a small swedish town on wednesday police investigating it as a terrorist attack right now yes he saved media conference by local police this is supposed to start any moment and we will of course be bring the 2 of you as any and all significant developments from that for now our europe correspondent peter oliver bring us right up to date on what is known at this stage in sweden peter thank you. ok let's turn attention to a big foreign policy announcement coming out of washington the u.s. will no longer engage in regime change or wage wars in the name of democracy in faraway places at least about sophists may just hours ago by secretary of state and for me blinken is anything to go by when i'm joined on the program by our america correspondent kill up in the new york. words and deeds can be very different things history's told us that of course tickets through the what was said

today well we have a speech given by the new secretary of state appointed by joe biden anthony blinken and which he talks about how it is the duty of the united states to preserve democracy to restore democracy around the world and how he feels democracy is under threat he talks about the need to prove authoritarian regimes to be wrong what's interesting though is during his remarks he said that no more force would be used by washington to break governments they disapprove of here's what he said we will incentivize democratic behavior but we will not promote democracy through costly military interventions or by attempting to overthrow author terry regimes by force we've tried these tactics in the past however well intentioned they haven't

worked. quite an interesting use of words but the pattern from the united states intervening in the affairs of other countries destabilizing and overthrowing governments around the world is quite well known one looks at the history of iraq of libya afghanistan one looks throughout south and central america one can see many examples of the united states intervening in other countries affairs destabilizing and overthrowing governments what's interesting is that just a day ago we actually had a tweet from anthony blinken in which he gave full support to one guede 01 grade 0 is an individual in venezuela who has proclaimed himself to be the president and has been engaging in violent attempts to destabilize venezuela to overthrow the elected government there of even been u.s. military contractors that have been involved in those military coup attempts so having anthony blinken you know you know voicing support for one great oh the

unelected individual who claims to be venezuela's leader kind of flies in the face of his claim that the united states won't be using force in fact in recent years we've heard many calls from u.s. leaders for governments around the world to be overthrown and for leaders to step down here's what we've heard. nicolas maduro must go dickless material must go the time has come for nicolas maduro to go his days are numbered the brutal repression of the venezuelan people must stand and it must and soon because this material must go now there was one loophole you could say in anthony blinken remarks he did create a pretext in which the united states would be continuing to use force against governments this is another comment from the speech of course we will never hesitate to use force when american lives and vital interests are at stake. now what exactly would constitute such

a threat he did not lay out any specific criteria so it seems that though the united states through its new secretary of state is announcing that no more force will be used many wonder if this will simply be a changing of rhetoric looks like the united states will most likely be continuing its foreign policy activities but only time will tell or u.s. correspondent kill him up and bring us right up to to kill it thank you. slaughtering vaccination program in europe has no seen the czech republic fall out of line with the e.u. prague is instead looking to russian sputnik the job to give its own inoculation campaign a shot in the arm r t s d of has been looking at the blocks difficult things. so there's 3 european nations that have a green light to dispute it despite the european medicines agency taking its time really taking its time to approve sputnik so these 3 nations have already sidelined

the european union and of the said look the situation is incredibly desperate 'd the czech republic hungry and now so vacuum which is just received its 1st batch. vaccines there's going to be millions more that are going to be delivered by summer so the prime minister's obviously very happy that he's managed to secure more vaccines for the people nevertheless there is now a scandal there's a scandal because the president of slovakia has come out she paid lip service to people's lives but all directly she is she said that vaccination shouldn't be carried out at the expense of political stability of course saving lives goes beyond any political controversy but even exceptional actions can be taken in such a way so as not to destroy the ruling coalition humiliate opponents or question people's confidence in vaccinations and cause further conflict in society it is

remarkable coming out in front of your people in the middle of a pandemic and telling them. you know your health is important but what is even more important is the stability of the ruling coalition. you know it just goes to highlight that the deep divisions in europe and there are incredibly deep divisions in europe over the way the pandemic vaccination in the rule out of the vaccines has been handled it isn't the russian vaccine that is undermining people's faith in the european union it is their handling of this crisis in germany for example 51 percent of people asked in a recent poll whether you know the the vaccination has been handled well or badly by the european union 51 percent more than half of germans have said it's been shambles the. the european union has handled it so initially the european union came out and said look let's let's all do it together so give up your power new nation needs to buy vaccines by themselves we'll handle so we'll get you the

vaccines but then of axioms and what ultimately happened is they bungled it 1st they were too expensive then they were too late because the united states britain snatched up all the vaccines look at the statistics only 5 percent of europeans have been able to get a single job that is compared to 14 percent in the united states already 30 percent in the united kingdom so europe is lagging far far behind that european nations understand that this is a catastrophe this is a catastrophe of on a huge number of levels of a political level or the health care level and ultimately what has happened is that all these nations have said look we're going to do this ourselves obviously the europeans the european agencies the euro kratz they have fumbled this so we'll have that ourselves you have poland running to the chinese with hands outstretched begging for that scene quotas you have austria. going out and saying that you know

we're going to now cooperate with israel to develop 2nd generation 2nd generation vaccines denmark as well saying that will work with israel and 2nd generations vaccine to target all the strains and all that and ultimately the austrian chancellor so this is a leader of a european nation coming out and saying they've lost hoops in europe the way that europe handles vaccine rollout. we must prepare for further mutations and should no longer be dependent soley on the e.u. in the production of 2nd generation vaccines look brussels understands that what has happened has been a catastrophe you have. officials the european union coming out and say we're sort of apologizing to citizens all over europe for the way they've handled things but saying that you know it isn't is a do over yet we can still recover we'll get your vaccines there's no need to run

around and make shady deals and you know buy up vaccines the supposed to be received by other european nations you have a situation where it's a free for all now nevertheless the europeans assure that they can fix things and then now saying that perhaps perhaps we'll try to speed up the whole bureaucratic process that has caused all of this and get you a merge and see approval for vaccines now it could be an emergency authorization of vaccines that you level we should liability among member states you remember in the early days of the pandemic when countries all over the world nato allies the neighbors board put up supplies from each other so we're talking about mosques ventilators we all we all remember the diplomatic crises that that caused this situation now is remarkably similar so so there is no united front you know what you can get your hands on you get your hands on and this is

a situation that obviously isn't optimal for europe in these difficult times especially economically politically all over the world nevertheless european bureaucrats aren't giving up hope they believe that they can still fix things the problem is of course that member states don't believe that they can. a bomb has exploded outside a covert testing center in the netherlands the blast caused only minor damage to surrounding buildings and no one was injured it comes amid an increasingly tense atmosphere in the country over continuing locked on with more on the incident here's our to charlotte dubin ski. well this explosion took place in the early morning just outside that couvade sent in an area called blue from costco which is about 5055 kilometers north of amsterdam windows were shattered and the investigation so far has been able to uncover metal pieces of around 10 centimeters

by 10 centimeters the suggestion is this could have seen a metal pipe bomb that exploded outside the front of the center a security guard was inside that it was just before the center was due to open but they are said to have been injured in this incident a perimeter has been set up in those investigations are now are continuing but the police have said that they clearly believe that this was an intentional attack we don't know yet what exactly exploded the explosives experts must 1st investigate what we can see is this something like that doesn't happen by accident it's haas to be planted well this is not the 1st time we've seen an attack on a qubit send in the netherlands back in january just when we're seeing those massive tensions in the country over the fact the government today imposed a controversial coup that there was a covert cent that was set on fire in the village. now that's several nights of

riots rights which is being described as some of the worst violence the country has seen in decades let's just have a reminder of what happens. now this latest incident comes of course as the country is heading towards a general election that's due to take place in the middle of march and the current through at the moment is being run. ok take good ministration that's because my previous administration decided to stand down that was over a scandal unrelated to could be 19 but this election is seen very much as being a referendum on mark which is ministrations so many people are unhappy about how

his government handles the 19 pandemic this is what opposition parties have had to say stop looking everybody up having you see measures done showing our economy like our social life would be the use. of student life. social life for you. i don't see. elderly people well the point of view of the current caretaker government is that these measures have been necessary as restrictive as they may have been but just to give you a sense of how angry people are in the netherlands the head of the health service in the netherlands now has to have a security guard because there's also being directed towards the health authorities it's really an issue that's been spiraling out of control. we just thing with this story european studies scholar at the university of. believes the dutch government

represents about humbling the pandemic may have contributed to public discontent. the situation in the country is tensed the real are a lot of uncertainties with respect to good government policy containing the virus and also with the honor sectors of society and his discourse by the transparency of the government policy for example the data of the public the national institute for public health it is actually managing to go for it crises are a nod to the general public which is quite unusual furder to recess or ship of all those people who have critical comments on government policy this is supported by the big tech companies so if you put a critical remark against the covance 19 policy on facebook you will be cancelled

and there is of course the economic collapse of the catering industries which is almost bankrupt so the longer you are imposing a prison imprisonment of people in their own houses the more tension there will be . the international criminal court said it is opening a war crimes probe into potential offenses in the palestinian territories including during the 2014 gal's a war israel has for some years opposed any such investigation taking place or maybe correspondent paula slayer picks up the story. well the international criminal court has announced that it's opening a full war crimes probe into the activities of both the israeli government and him us since 2014 this includes the 2014 gaza war the 2018 border crisis the israeli settlement expansion in the west bank and hamas is firing

of rockets against israel it has taken the better part of half a decade for the international criminal court to reach this point the decision to open an investigation followed a painstaking preliminary examination undertaken by my office that lasted close to 5 years our central concern must be for the victims of crimes both palestinian and israeli arising from the long cycle of violence and insecurity that has caus deep suffering and despair on all sides in february the trial chamber of the international criminal court determined that the hague court has jurisdiction for opening a criminal investigation into the activities of israel and the hamas leadership for alleged war crimes in east jerusalem gaza and the west bank the palestinians have said that this is a victory for the victims they say it's

a landmark historic decision but as expected the israelis for some time have been campaigning against precisely what was announced today back in february the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu had this to say when the i.c.c. investigates israel for fake war crimes this is pure anti-semitism. is prime minister of israel i assure you we will fight this barrage of justice with and our might. what this means is that hundreds of israelis could find themselves out on the wrong side of the law and we're talking here about the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu white auntie's ministers and even ordinary soldiers the country's defense minister benny gantz has said that he's never been afraid of crossing over in the lines and this announcement doesn't make him feel full either you have for years had human rights organizations who has been warning of these really violations against palestinians.

the united states has been a longtime ally of israel and when the former president donald trump was in power way he sanctioned the international criminal court after a tried to open an investigation in the palestinian territories now however under his successor joe biden it is possible that there is pressure to lift the sanctions and of course israel is lobbying against this what the mains to be seen is just what comes out of this investigation we also welcomed on to the program for the revolutionary council member dmitri really early no he woke up to the war crimes probe but said he doesn't expect much to change. it's very significant in terms

of lifting the international law. human it is even ization of the last inning cause after many efforts by the israelis of dehumanizing the palestinian case and caused this also the palestinians as victims of israeli violence and organized terror but it would not change the course of expansionary ideology in policy against also international law that has been carried out by the fire of the state of israel with the support of the united states of america i believe that this would deter some of the use of for example force 1st bombs that was clearly used against during the world

gaza it would probably deter from. targeted killings of. peaceful protesters. and such war crimes that has been actually. rejected were blood but have found support within israeli public and within the u.s. and british ration unfortunately. it was his 1st major comeback speech since the party in the white house but just hours after donald trump a taken to the stage the former u.s. president had fallen foul of you tube censors the platform deleted a speech on a number of channels including reuters a.b.c. r.t. citing a lack of content warnings with her take no political. so donald trump was back giving his big return speech at the packed 2021 once the conservative political action conference for the uninitiated and it attracts

a breakthrough wouild button. i would show you some more of the highlights but it's not bad easy because they are i would like you to be able to watch my video on you tube which is hard to say at censoring the 45th president but nobody likes live ok let's try and get one more quick clip in content warning this video contains an orange man saying things which may not be 100 percent correct and worship her due respect. you see our t.v.'s streamed live on in convert free to say whatever he wants in the tradition of freedom of speech only for you tube to take it down and threaten r.t. with a content strike and deletion from the platform for violating its spam deceptive

practices and scams policy hey you tube if you're going to delete every video for scams and deceptive practices you know basically going to be left with one video this one. you tube responded to queries by saying more details and explanatory information must be provided essentially you too pate the fact that trump still uses every opportunity to claim that he didn't lose the election but what's interesting about you tube's policy is that the censors 1st port of call was r.t. r t s german channel and another russian channel called sputnik it took our. before they got to the likes of reuters and the associated press and even then i bet they weren't threatened with removal from the platform so the folly is clear because for

example i can still watch the trump video on the independence youtube channel actually as you know they just watched the workhouse one of which is our environment and so watch out there while you still can but social media platforms which always try to get out of trouble by saying that they are publishers they just provide an outlet are openly censoring political content and deleting access to a former president who despite what any of us may say more was democratically elected by millions of people. and they're targeting russian channels specifically allowing people to speak freely and that's all going on the news outlets are simply reporting the news and yet i can still watch things like this. it's political censorship that's all it is

illegal and media analysts lying all told me he has concerns that you choose actively trying to silence political. google and you tube and other other platforms like this are of such in the main in nature that your almost like you. imagine if you're on the phone and over send your phone drops because you dared mention hydroxy couric when 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 to were facebook and whatever actually know exactly what they're doing. ok let's just recap our breaking news story this hour 8 people have been injured in a suspected terror attack in sweden the victims in the southern ton of that were reportedly set upon by an armed with an ax the attackers said to be honest twenty's was reportedly shot in the leg by police and has been taken to hospital according to a police spokesperson speaking to swedish media she said on that quote some people are seriously injured and some are slightly injured but no one is dead well we will be keeping across this story of course any and all significant developments or bring it to. and indeed for up to the minute quite literally developments today

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