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recent weeks. just a few moments into a brand new day here in moscow thursday march the 4th welcome to r.t. you know me. well let's start with big foreign policy announcement which came of washington a little earlier the u.s. will no longer engage in regime change or wage wars in the name of democracy in far flung places at least if a statement made hours ago by secretary of state and he blinken is anything to go by up and picks up the story. 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 of 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 and 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 assad needs to go yes we came we saw he died the time has come for nicholas mcdermott to go 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 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 now if there was one

loophole you could say in anthony blink ins remarks he did create a pretext in which the united states would be continuing to use force against governments 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 can. kenya ling its foreign policy activities but only time will tell. tale further into this story i'm happy to say we're joined live by benedict funder of the libertarian booster a puck a gripping into helping the bitter in electoral tell that it's good to have us not words were used to hearing from washington is this pledge by the secretary of state

something the white house is going to be able to stick to. it would be nice i'm very skeptical and how it will leave that america is going to stop intervening in foreign countries appears when we bring our troops home from so many foreign countries and cut our military budget we spend as much as the next $6.00 to $10.00 countries combined on our military and so immediately that huge loophole where he said vital interests would be a reason for us to continue to intervene and you know vital interests can mean almost anything you know the troops. specter things as you say is interesting we've heard promises pledges before including in the troubled ministration. i suppose when we see him coming home that's when we'll know. exactly and i think part of the problem is that american politicians and the american public in general

doesn't understand what has made america strong and prosperous historically and as a libertarian i think it's our free markets and is to the degree that we have limited government here that we've been able to prosper and have enough money yes to spend some of it on the military but i don't think the spending only military is what has made us prosperous it's hurt us despite the fact we're doing it if more americans understood that we could have a strong and vibrant country and an economy by spending less on the military and by leaving our foreign our foreign countries alone we would be a lot better off in the so would the world why do you think such a dramatic change of rhetoric in the 1st place whereas it is an attempt perhaps the distance between previous administrations not just trump softer whole we had people cheekily dubbing this the obeid administration and this is well this is different according to to add to biden. it seems like rhetoric i mean we just did

a bombing in syria a few days ago so you know trump certainly had his own style that was very bombastic and out there and other presidents have been more reserved in their or in their description of activities but when you look at the actual policies the countries invaded the bombs dropped the the cia and the things that are going on in other countries to destabilize or overturn the leadership in foreign countries we've seen no change and i think it sounds like rhetoric not something that we can count on yet but if he's right if they mean we're going to change that would be a great positive for america russia china and everyone else just on foreign policy joe biden had already overturned a number of trumps policies basically just the sunni's he was in the door and they in the oval office do you expect them to tear up essentially all of the former

administrations decisions. i think he's changing some of them some of them but some of them he just kind of characterizing them. you know president started a trade war with china and now president biden's talking about well we're going to cooperate with other countries but we're also going to have trade agreements that protect our workers and do this and that which in the end probably means the exact same policies as a national trade war so i don't see biden tearing up a lot that is substantial i see him rebranding a lot of the same old thing and just finally it is a pretty big get i clause isn't it mentioning force will still be used when american lives and vital interests are at stake you could write a thesis on what that means. if i don't mentors could be south america australia taiwan the middle east europe asia yes mars the moon you name it it could be

a vital interest to america if a politician wants to say that's the case whereas thanks very much for your time this hour with benedict the libertarian booster always good to have you on the program thank you. the international criminal court and it is opening our war crimes probe into potential offenses in the palestinian territories including during the $24.00 to a war israel has for some years opposed any such investigation taking place there mideast correspondent paula sneer 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 workrooms this is pure anti-semitism. is promised to resume i assure you we will fight this barrage of justice with 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 right on the trees 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 or 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 remains to be seen is just what comes out of this investigation you know we've been getting some reaction to the probably clipping from fossil revolutionary council member dimitri he welcomes the war crimes investigation but doesn't expect much to change. it's serious significant in

terms of lifting the international law. and human it is 11 ization of the destiny and cause after many efforts by the israelis of dehumanizing the palestinian case and cause this also the palestinians as victims of israeli violence and organized terror but it would not change the course of expansionary ideology in policy i guess also international law that has being 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 war on gaza it would probably deter from. targeted killings of.

peaceful protesters. and such a war crimes that has been actually. rejected were large but have found support within israeli public and within the u.s. and british ration unfortunate lots of incidents happening around europe on 'd whedon's think hitting a suspected terror attack we've got the latest on not from sweden and plenty more besides stay with us back in 90 seconds. for the. eh eh.

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a spluttering vaccination program in europe has no seen the czech republic fall out of line with the e.u. is instead looking to russian. to give its own inoculation campaign a shot in the arm our senior correspondent has been looking at the blocks difficulties. so that'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. czech republic hungry and now so a vacuum which is just received its 1st batch of. 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's 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 that would be she says 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 themselves we'll handle so we'll get you the vaccines but then of vaccines 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. 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 it 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 e.u. level was shared 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 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 eat 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 exploded outside a covert testing center in the netherlands early on wednesday the blast caused only

minor damage destroying buildings and no one was injured but it comes amid increasingly tense atmosphere in the country over continuing lockdown with more on the instant here's our tee shot of devinsky. well this explosion took place in the early morning just outside that qubits and area called bhupen 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 the 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 has 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 these massive tensions in the country over the fact the government today imposed a controversial coup that there was a coup that sent that was set on fire in the village. that spoke of 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 ministration nuts because. the 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 which is ministrations so many people are unhappy about how his government handles the 19 pandemic this is what opposition parties had to say it was still looking everybody up having to see measures done during our economy like our social life will be you know you're a student by the social life are you. going. 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. 8 people being starved in sweden in what police have now labeled as a suspected terror attack our europe correspondent peter all of her can tell us what more is known at this stage. well this all happened at around 3 pm local time on wednesday a man who is described as being in 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 officers at

a hospital his status has not been updated to the press just yet the town itself vet lando 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 upgraded if you will to a charge of. of suspected terrorism that's what this is being investigated as as a suspected terrorist attack areas of the 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 stabbing a small swedish town on wednesday police investigating it as

a terrorist attack right now. it's was his 1st major comeback speech since the parting the white house but just hours after donald trump had to contain the stage the former president had fallen foul of you chub censors the platform deleted his speech from a number of news organizations sites including reuters a.b.c. on dorothy citing a lack of content warnings with her take years political. so donald trump was back giving his big return speech at impact 2021 that's the conservative political action conference for the uninitiated and it attracts a great do wild bunch. i would show you some more of the highlights but it's not that easy because our 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 do restraint. you see our t.v.'s streamed live on and convert free to say whatever he wants in the tradition of freedom of speech only through 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 videos 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 out. hours 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 plant form so the folly is clear because for example i can still watch the video on the independence youtube channel actually as you know the just more of the world one of which is our environment so watch out there while you still can put social media platforms which always try to get out of trouble by saying that they aren't 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 was democratically elected by millions of people. and they're targeting russian channels specifically allowing people to speak freely and that's all getting all 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. well for up to the minute quite literally developments today do give or to your follow on twitter will keep you in the loop back in 30.