regime change nations being. the. ministration. translates into a real. freaking ranks with the block the czech republic becomes the latest e.u. country to go its own way. requesting deliveries from russia. explosion occurred testing center in the netherlands police say it was intentional what comes amid increasing hostility in recent weeks over lingering. on the international criminal court is

a formal probe into alleged war crimes in the palestinian territories including during the $24.00. around the clock across the world this is our to international from the team and myself you know hello and welcome to the news hour let's start with 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 that's the statement made a number of hours ago by secretary of state. is anything to go by and with mup and as the story. well we have a speech given by the new secretary of state appointed by joe biden anthony blinken in 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 nicolas maduro 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 juan guede 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 blinken 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 continuing its foreign policy activities but only time will tell whereas benedict a u.s. libertarian party campaigner has low expectations when it comes to the biden administration turning words into election. he did leave that huge loophole where he said vital interests vital interests can mean almost anything mars the moon you name it it could be a vital interest to america if

a politician wants to say that's the case it seems like rhetoric 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 we've seen no change and i think it sounds like rhetoric not something that we can count on yet you know president trump 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 biden i see him rebranding a lot of the same old thing. a spluttering vaccination program in europe has now the same the czech republic fall out of line with the e.u. is instead looking to russia and its sputnik feed job to give its o. and occupation campaign

a shot in the arm or senior correspondent iraq as they have 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. czech republic hungry and now serve vacuum which has just received its 1st batch of . vaccines there's going to be millions more that are going to be delivered by summer so the problem is 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 shell over here 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. with 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 by the actions by themselves we'll handle so we'll get you the vaccines but then of actually and 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 the 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 hoop 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 they're 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 was shared liability among member states you remember in the early days of the pandemic when countries all over the world and nato allies are good 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 whedon stay the blast cause the only minor damage to surrounding buildings no one was injured it comes amid an increasingly tense atmosphere in the country over continuing locked on with more on the incident here sorties charlotte devinsky. well this explosion took place in the

early morning just outside that could send in an 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 a security guard was in scientists 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 center in the netherlands back in january just when we're seeing this 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'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 with this ration 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 it ministrations so many people are unhappy about how his government handles the cove 819 pandemic this is what opposition parties have had to say still looking everybody up having to see measures done showing our economy like this our social life would be you know stupid by this. social life for you to stay or should i go see our elderly people well the point of view of the current caretaker government is that these measures have be necessary as restrictive is 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 been anger directed towards the health authorities it's really an issue that's been spiraling out of control but fury in israel is the international criminal court launches a probe into possible war crimes committed in the palestinian territories that story and more for you after the shortest of bricks. the economy is to cherry rating rapidly but the government is redefining c.p.i. redefining g.d.p. redefining everything and all the metrics so that the chips and the vix and their redefining all these measurements to give a different to give a more favorable picture of something that is deteriorating.

seems wrong why don't we all just don't hold. anything. yet to shape out these days become educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. join me every thursday on the elec simon shore and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. the international criminal court said it is opening

a war crimes probe into potential offenses in the palestinian territories including during the $24.00 to war israel repeatedly opposed any such investigation taking place or middle east 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. investigate israel for fake workrooms this is pure anti semitism. has 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 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 for either of 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 off to try 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 that means to be seen is just what comes out of this investigation earlier i discussed the i.c.c. probe with enough to ali bennett israel's former defense minister and the current prime ministerial. this is a perversion of justice of any basic morals you know when one side or another the 2nd side has a right to self-defense the court is not a court you know they call it the i.c.c. i view it the international circus of clowns let me tell you something you know i thought in quite a few wars defending my family come us shoots rockets at israeli from within

hospitals within homes within schools and then when we want to fight back then this i.c.c. thing tells us that we're immoral and you are saying that the militants were based in hospitals on schools but by firing bach were actually schools and nurses and doctors where working civilians were killed there is very much a sense of proportionality to be to be held here isn't there an israel did not do is there you know if if someone is shooting your kids your kids from within the school how proportional are you going to react well there's a sense of self defense of course i agree with but in terms of doing that do you not prolong the war on the victims in israel as well as palestine making it even worse for future generations surely there's a stage where you have to say listen we're going to go after these people but we're not going to try to kill as many civilians as we did before oh no you're distorting

things we never are out to kill civilians being killed. oh they've been killed by their own government hamas which places rockets next to their children so let me but you know if your weapons ever places rockets from within civilians he is murdering his own people not israel there is an evil side that is an attack in there's a good side that's defending and the only side that holds any responsibility is the offender let me be very clear you know if there's a list of people who are going to the ha going to be at the top of the list we will never the hands of an israeli soldier while defending itself. 8 people have been stabbed in sweden in what police have not labeled as a suspected terror attack our europe correspondent peter all of i 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 '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 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 due 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 charge 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 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 was his 1st major comeback speech since the parting the white her just hours after donald trump took to the stage the former american president tom fall and fall of you tube censors the platform deleted his speech a number of news organizations sites including a reuters associated press a.b.c. and our team citing a lack of content warnings with her take here's polyploid. sir donald trump was back giving his big return speech at the packed 2021 the conservative political action conference for the uninitiated and it attracts

a breakthrough world by which. i would show you some more of the highlights but it's not bad 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 content warning this video contains an orange man saying things which may not be 100 percent correct and worship her to mr yang. you see our t.v.'s streamed live on and convert 3 to say whatever he wants in the tradition of freedom of speech only through you tube to take it down and threaten our t.v. 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 aren't explanatory information must be provided essentially you to 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 plant so the folly is clear because for example i can still watch the video on the independence you tube channel actually

as you know they just morse the words one of which is our environment and so watch out there while you still can put 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 was democratically elected by millions of people. and that 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 if you would like to have your say on any of this our stories are websites on facebook pages have you covered always

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