ways of attacking the body to deplete the body even more of that chemical which we need to fight infections. headlines in our to the european medical agency launches a rolling review of russia's vaccine countries already receiving the. drug these tactics in the us. however well intentioned they have worked. the end of nations being bombed into democracy by this administration says no more u.s. backed regime change we asked whether old habits might die hard the u.s. government watchdog believes that washington has wasted billions of dollars in afghanistan on the maintenance. poll finds 64 percent of americans believe that cancer culture poses a threat to freedom we put the issue that. we have to keep in mind that you have a lot of people only ideologies that simply should no longer exists 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. hello good afternoon just gone 4 o'clock in moscow you watching international you're a pain medicines agency has started a rolling review of the safety and efficacy of russia's vaccine it does come after a number of countries in the bloc have already given the job the green light so let's get more in the south and speak to our caller from the hawkins who is across the story 1st good afternoon dan just run through then exactly what this rolling review is and how significant it is well this is very significant news indeed of course last year became effectively the world's 1st coronavirus vaccine when it received regulator approval here in russia it was amiss. really met with

a dose of skepticism by many western states in the western media with regards to its safety and efficacy and the speed with which it was developed. less than 8 months on that is pretty much turned full circle the latest news as we say that the european medicines are you see has begun to roll in review of the russian made vaccine though what exactly does that mean the e.u. regulates it will begin to analyze all the data which have been submitted by the gallon to institute the creators of the sputnik vaccine and published in international medical journals they will study that data and compare it to the e.u. standards of safety of quality of effectiveness and should that be met the sputnik vaccine will be able to get its marketing authorization in the e.u. that process could take anything from a few weeks to a few months it's likely to be closer to the latter but regardless of time span this is definitely good news and given the politicize ation which has really

affected the distribution approval of this faction across the world this step really is a positive one as confirmed by the head of the investment fund responsible for backing the sputnik the vaccine vaccine partnerships should be above politics and cooperation with me is a perfect example of demonstrating that pulling efforts is the only way to end the pandemic following me approval we would be able to provide vaccines for 50000000 europeans starting from june 2021. now the sputnik vaccine has already been approved in 40 countries across the world in the middle east africa asia south america as well so it is proving popular for many reasons number one its high efficacy rate in efficacy of 90 percent over 90 percent in fact the ease of storage and transportation it can be stored at relatively high temperatures compared to other vaccines which require pretty much a deep freeze and perhaps most importantly it's cost for many developing states

they have been unable to afford the west the made pfizer or modena jobs for example and for them the availability of sputnik v. has proven and will continue to prove quite literally a life saver so a lack of e.u. wide approval so far at least that hasn't stopped this vaccine moving forward in other european states countries such as hungary and slovakia they've broken ranks with the e.u. water policy they've chosen to independently approve this vaccine for their citizens the czech republic is perhaps the next in line to do so as well but of course the main green light should come around june that's the date we're hearing when all 27 e.u. member states were able to import undistributed this vaccine freely and given the faltering e.u. wide vaccination program which has been riddled with problems this can only begin to be good news and that's been confirmed as well by dr hans kluger who's the

w.h.o. european region director he said that any expansion of the e.u. vaccine portfolio can only be good news so all eyes on june to see if sport does get its approval and green light to be distributed across the e.u. yeah let's hope that happens ok thanks for the update dan that was the r.t.s. down hawkins reporting. now washington has said it will no longer carry out military interventions abroad for some are questioning its new commitment given america's long record of backing coups and joe biden supporting nato bombing of you can kill more pain assesses this which in foreign policy in essence by the secretary of state we will incentivize democratic behavior but we will not promote democracy through costly military interventions or by attempting to overthrow author oratory 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 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 we will continue to work with our partners in the international community to press. the to leave the time has come for nicholas murderer 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 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 see. a changing of rhetoric looks like the

united states will most likely be continuing its foreign policy activities but only time will tell he did leave that huge loophole where he said vital interests vital interests can mean almost anything are the moon you name it it could be a vital interest to america if a politician wants to say that's the case 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 trying 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 what anthony i think in has for paty echo joe biden's america is backs like this we've been saying some are skeptical about what exactly that means. was. america is back.

when america does stand to save quite a bit of money if it pulls the plug on foreign military interventions that's one of the findings of a recent report by the us government's i'm watchdog would feel that washington has wasted billions of dollars on unserviceable war abandoned buildings and vehicles and its longest foreign war in afghanistan. of the nearly $7800000000.00 in capital as says reviewed in his prior reports special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction identified to $2400000000.00 in assets that were used to rebound and had not been used for their intended purposes had deteriorated or were destroyed or the single report also found that since 2008 just over $1000000000.00 of u.s.

funded assets were used as originally intended while only 340000000 dollars worth of equipment is quote maintained in a good condition the u.s. war in afghanistan began back in 2001 but despite pledges from various presidents to withdraw troops from the war torn country there are still around $2500.00 american soldiers there brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition believes that american tax dollars should have been better spent this is amazing levels of waste fraud and abuse and perhaps now you have $2400000000.00 of equipment that's no longer available to be used buildings that were constructed in can't be used because they're industry peer but this is reflective of how the afghan war has gone from the beginning hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent. and i would say tens of billions of dollars have either

been looted by american military personnel or their elbows in afghanistan or the money has been completely disregarded so it's fraud and it's abuse the reality is the american government the congress passes these giant military budgets almost a trillion dollars a year and there's no accountability it but if you have these huge bundles of money available to be spent then there's an incentive to make a contract with someone who's going to build the building and perhaps not really build it or build a building that's not needed take some of the money in the form of profit you give it to goes who made the contract for them in other words a kickback this is a big system of criminal activity and it is a form of corruption but because it's in the name of national security in the name of defense no one asks important questions but another report from the same

watchdog of government watchdog high like the faces of american gender equality programs in afghanistan safe during this time $110000000.00 were spent to support the project but all the effort and money seems to have failed to make any significant impact on afghan society despite the apparent shortcomings though the conclusion of this report is that the united states should continue with the program u.s. foreign policy expert on the risks says that washington has failed time and time again to say there's something obviously wrong. or is this. a lack of understanding of the local culture you can't impose these western models on countries which have a completely different culture but regardless the us the consecutive you were sinners trajan's continue to pursue these kinds of policy which would follow seas which have proven to be of no avail i think this could be described as a somewhat psychological mindset or

a psychological problem the us continues to stick to policy despite the fact that these policies have proven to be other failures i think it's a kind of at the if you would like addiction of american supremacy trying to show that america is that one which knows the solutions to every single problem in the world the. international criminal court as they want to probe into alleged war crimes by israel in palestine this includes the 2014 gaza war which is one of the deadliest conflicts between the 2 sides. the decision to open an investigation full of the painstaking preliminary examination undertaken by the 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 caused deep suffering and despair on all sides.

kwaku. 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 has 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 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 why. 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 line is and this announcement doesn't make him feel for either of 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 try to open an investigation in the palestinian territories now however under his success said 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 horsley that my colleague you know many will discuss the investigation bennett israel's former defense minister and current candidate for prime minister 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 or 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 and schools but by firing back were actually schools and nurses and doctors were working civilians were killed there's very much a sense of proportionality to be to be held here isn't there and israel did not do is there you know if this someone is shooting your kids or your kids from within a school how proportional are you going to react well there's a sense of self defense of course i agree with us. but in terms of doing that do 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 yes let me but you know if your weapons ever places rockets from within civilians he is murdering his own people not israel there's 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 is 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. still to come this hour. in this book skyrocket that up to the publisher to drop 6 of them over. time will have the details of the story of this tell you in a couple of minutes.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be

an arms race based on often spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome back now i'm isn't has seen a huge spike in silence at the classic dr seuss children's book since after the publisher decided to discontinue the series for containing what it says a racial stereotypes. these books put 3 people in ways that were hurtful and wrong ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure dr seuss enterprises catalog represents and supports all communities and families of the announcement that 6 books will be scrapped was made on the late author's birthday incense sale soaring there 1 am isn't taking them to the top of

the bestsellers list in 24 hours u.s. researches say that several books it contained examples of white supremacy and negative portrayals of asian people did include the depiction to japanese character with a yellow face which was deemed to be racist the study also concluded that an image of 3 asian people carrying a white person was an example of white dominance however the story of the grinch one of dr seuss's most famous works is still available. christos. crisscross music. to the core of my shop but. the author stepdaughter supported the publishers decision but said that doctors those didn't have a racist bone in his body editorial director of their police though the authors relative had no option. all this has been manufactured to the point where of course she's

probably going to say something like that because it's the smart thing to say so that long term it doesn't damage the dr seuss brand going forward to that face that i mean that's their family's moneymaker they don't want to get canceled the imagery that people are are kind of harking on and making a big deal about i guess could be considered by people who are extremely sensitive and probably looking for something to be upset about but i but again i think that this is an example of you know 1st world problems let's call it that when you've got nothing else to worry about than did this is what you're going to focus on kind of nonsensical stuff and i think that the cancel culture the p.c. police we live in a time of phony outrage maybe i'm a little bit different maybe just whatever and i don't know if it's the way that i'm wired but i don't personally find offense to it but then again i don't walk

around online watching t.v. walking the streets looking for something to be offended by you know to me that's not really you know. something that we should be upset about like you know the anti-semitism of the 1930 s. in germany is something that merits outrage dr seuss's books do not somehow he goes from being this great killed rooms all sir that you know cream up with these great stories that if you know provided wonder to children for years to being some sort of odd nazi or something. or the rise of some cool kinds of culture is being seen by some is such a threat to the freedom of speech that one us school michael is not calling on congress to address the issue. council culture is a dangerous phenomenon whether you agree or disagree with the views been censored if cancer cancer continues unchallenged it is not just the unpopular controversial viewpoints that are at risk

a recent poll found that 64 percent of americans agree that boycotting or removing certain types of content does pose a threat to freedoms in the country but also concluded too that 80 percent of republicans do consider cancer culture a threat while only 48 percent of democrats also have the same opinion the issue has been highlighted by a number of high profile cases over the past year or so last week emerson told a book by a conservative author that challenges the transgender movement and earlier democrat representatives called on cable companies to stop posting conservative leaning channels and then in 2020 an editor at the new york times resigned over an opinion page by republican senator advocating the use of military force in protests we discus discuss the issue with a panel of guests. the problem with cancell 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 council 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 said that well that's true and it makes us all need to be more mindful of how we conduct ourselves and what we say it's not ok to just speak so freely about people of different colors of all different races socioeconomic status or handicaps we need to be mindful that our society has locals of 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 silenced 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 on things that are just and racism to some integrity to who america is that strip people that racism seems anti american and some who have people who want a little better instead she's all know this with my great great grandfather well ok but her great great grandfather that black people were from some who are being and that they should have rights so you know we have to keep in mind that you have a lot of people wholly willing 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. indians can actually live peacefully together we're not going to continue to coddle racism in america and that's simply not the role that we we should probably take it's best that we began

to doubt all of the structures that are harmful whether they are on facebook or a mine in a park it's time to take those down and move forward and here with us or you're not watching out international so that's how the news is looking out so fast i hear we'll be back with more for you at the top of the i don't forget that we've got a web site full of stories as a way so you can find that at r.t. don't go.

welcome to the alex aventura from scotland where we are trying to the subject of american politics and the future of the republican party and i'm far from licking his visions don't take that faith to strengthen his political hold on a party he once played from presenting success to comprehensive defeat today we interview to talk with vastly different views on the road ahead for the grand old party as martin president of the phyllis schlafly eagles and rhenish albert outta who is fighting to of republican women for biting. all of that much more to come up in the show but 1st charity to emails and messages in response to our show last week featuring professor richard murphy in our discussion on economics and political economy terry says professor murphy is extremely eloquent he makes complex issues accessible view such as his and those of common weale are what we

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