thousands of women in the british army report violence and hostility from within their own ranks not the front line. germany's largest opposition party accuses the government of political foul play after its placed under surveillance for alleged links to extremist. joe biden after he labels the decision to relax coronavirus restrictions in the state as neanderthal thinking. the democrats image of.

the people in this country telling them what to do. and the texas governor hits right back at the president calling his new immigration policy neanderthal after a study shows biden's plans could lead to a drastic increase in the immigrant population. good morning and thanks so much for joining us here on r.t. international. bullying harassment and sexual abuse this is what thousands of women have been subjected to in the british army according to testimonies given at an inquiry. very hostile environment. you do find themselves new position and it starts going wrong that's where and when you are vulnerable it is when the problems really start women are paying an unnecessarily high price for serving join the army be the best it's the height of serving your country but it

turns out some women are facing horrific battles of their own imagine $4000.00 people a brigade that can be deployed anywhere without very same number of women both surfing and veterans have now come forward with shocking experiences in the army from bullying and harassment to serious sexual assault when it didn't meet a complaint often to appear to treat somebody here lamest and makes out woman feel like she's just lame like she was asking for each everywhere else in the welsh military sexual trauma is recognized in euston to tell us that brains to be able to identify that the subject traumatic. and people can access help in this country it just isn't recognized that sexual trauma the issue has long been swept under the carpet among the ranks according to the ministry of defense figures in the 5 years to 2019 almost 130 sexual violence cases were heard at military court

martials just 10 percent resulted in conviction many of course fail to even reach this stage. the number is increasing year on year with the majority of alleged sexual predators

still among the ranks according to women's testimonies within the current military system it is extremely hard to report a sexual crime and receive support help and justice but ask that women with you teach me a service company. is a criminal act. the feeling. best in the school was stunning existant so i think the investigation was brilliant piece i think that women in which feel more support i mean on the system or do you have been the worst brought stories to change their evidence and to generally be. almost gaslighted to draw a story and not take it all and it's only since 2018 that women have been able to apply for military positions within the british armed forces.

you see a lot of a different side to the world here in this job and i wouldn't ever want to see something else at the main menu happy where i am to make friends feel like there are just people that you know that's got your back and you've got a. nice atmosphere ready for while women on the frontline fight to protect their country it seems like their country is failing to protect than shot edward stashing r.t. in london. germany's largest opposition party is hit back because what it sees as a purely political effort to undermine it ahead of the country's elections and start a local media reported that alternative for germany had been placed on the surveillance of the country's intelligence agency. so you this for france the aim of the federal office for the protection of the constitution and counterterrorism is obviously in the short term to weaken us until the elections and in the long term to destroy the elderly opposition party in parliament that opposes the dissolution of the nation state and unlimited immigration from foreign cultures and the party's been accused

of having ties with the far right extremists contributing to anti semitism and trying to undermine germany's constitution the federal intelligence body has reportedly been monitoring regional branches for some time now its activities will also be observed nationwide. so far the authorities have not commented on the move the german federal elections are slated for late september meanwhile hundreds of un team for supporters rallied against the party at a campaign in the city of often back scuffles with police broke out when protesters attempt to reach the stage where party officials were speaking friend christine hansel member of the f.d.a. in berlin city parliament deny that the party had any links to extremists. they have the political mandate in order to get the spirit of the competitor as a political competitor we have the strongest opposition party and what we have to

do is a position is to criticize the government and that's what we do we do it respectively to the euro rescue parties huge favor that we do it with the migration policy which is very dangerous for us in germany in the population doesn't want it we do it in the energy crisis we will face so we actually have an opposition which really harms the government and that's why they want to get rid of us using this central intelligence surveillance and you have to see that there is in no other western democracy there is an institution like the cia for internal reasons or to to check the opposition regarding constitute constitutional ideas of constitutional rights i can assure everybody we do not. one to overthrow the system we do not want to overthrow the government we are really trying to renew democracy we want to get more people into the parliament to read discussion. less than 2 months in the white house and president biden's already facing

a growing crisis stance on the southern border in an attempt to reverse donald trump's remain in mexico policy he promised amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants already living in the u.s. which according to one study that actually lead to a dramatic increase in the country's foreign born population on the scale i'm open picks up the story. thousands are at the u.s. border wearing joe biden t. shirts begging the u.s. president to let them in they are among millions currently headed for the same border. joe biden doesn't see a crisis brewing his whole plan to deal with the border issue boils down to hope

and a prayer. yes i do. a lot. of the. visit ministration doesn't see a problem either just a challenge and they're ready to welcome more migrants to leave right prices at the border. the answer is no i think there is a challenge at the border that we are managing and we have our resources dedicated to jimmy energy we are not saying don't come we are saying don't come now because we will be able to deliver safe. the leap process to them as quickly as possible biden move to undo the trumpet ministrations migration policy one of the 1st moves was to set up a juvenile detention facility but he insists this is not kids in cages that's prompted the work. now under all this undermines not kids being kept in

cages. that was open that's going to follow the same standards as other h.h.s. facilities the migrant crisis spawns a lot of crime in just 3 days 1600 migrants were arrested with criminals reportedly among them and criminal organizations have certainly flourished among communities they're afraid to call the police out of fear of deportation and there are people coming across a large number that are criminals a lot of people just looking for a better way of life unfortunately it could create a situation where they may be vulnerable to criminal organizations trying to abuse the minor children coming in that opened the door there and i'm sure they're looking for opportunities there. you've got people trying to get jobs any type of jobs and they're basically they're on documented illegal jobs and so you've got criminal activities will probably feed off of that as well human trafficking aspect

of this is another whole area critics say the white house is just not being realistic about the potential dangers of its policy the green light is on now we're open for business again. message should be sent to the traffickers who were smuggling these kids across the border polls show that trump's border wall remains very popular despite that congress is moving forward on what the democrats call sweeping immigration legislation presenting an 8 year path to citizenship for $11000000.00 people in the country without papers such an amnesty would be adding a new layer of u.s. citizenship roughly the size of california. this is a very dangerous approach and you live over to see this and especially in the spirit and they know now and i think it into united states saw that in order and i'm not going to be stopped and they are going to welcome me of course

i'm going to come because i want to wade into del legal system it might take years and i don't think the government the u.s. government is ready and capable to handle all of these illegal immigration that's they already a lot of them in death threats that do to death and that make it false and a lot of business is going to close 1000000 people out of war and now to add a legal process allow people to come in without buy in or that. but it wouldn't be that jobs is going to be a major task to handle the crowds at the border are getting larger and the country is becoming more polarized maybe gone the immigration debate is getting more intense it's becoming the most polarizing issue in a country that is already quite divided kaleb mopp and artsy new york. it turns out

that neanderthal is becoming the new insult of choice among american politicians as the texas governor back a joe biden over his immigration policy. by the administration was releasing illegal immigrants in legal immigrants into our communities who had tobit that is neanderthal type approach to dealing with the cove a situation texans also had banket president biden after he criticized the governor's decision to relax mosque rules. the last the last thing before think you have to be taken. for good it's still. after that should not be saying those kind of things that's very insulting oh he. criticized everybody else. the democrats and they drove my hair in their boots on the mix of the people in this country telling them what to

do oh i don't think there's anything account for the name calling and i don't think you should be calling us neanderthals if he wants to talk about you need we can list his 1st thing i think you cannot call people names you just have to respect. despite a decline in infections and deaths in recent weeks texas is registering more than 7 and a half 1000 new coronavirus cases a day at almost 45000 times the 3rd highest death toll in the us up to california and new york but despite the figures texans support the decision to relax restrictions. tired of not being able to go and do things we wanted to we're glad to get our masks to go live life again that's how i feel about it i think it's time . to open up the restaurants and everybody go different places and forget today i'm going to my chiropractor appointment for the 1st time

a new year opening up the business is great if you have to go out your risk anyway so why not just get it over with and get back to normal i think it's a good thing to get the economy back make sure we don't have any problems with. i work with the public so i don't have any problem with. politics. the texas governor justified the decision citing economic reasons and the start of vaccinations in the state you also said that hospitalizations were the lowest level since october but critics of the move believe that the state should be penalized and vaccine supplies halted. texas we hear you you didn't want to be part of our electrical grid and now you've removed your mask mandate and there are large crowds together we hear you coded as a hoax so you don't need our precious vaccine we'll send it to people who are saving lives by wearing masks why are we wasting vaccinations on texas if texas has

decided to join the side of the virus. earlier we spoke to wayne allen breaux to form a libertarian vice presidential nominee about the situation. texas has this image of now for excess and rebels and conservatives that have voted it big for donald trump and it's the symbol that democrats and liberals and communists and socialists in america ate and so they're using texas as the whipping boy texas is a symbol of freedom and if it ever comes to an if there's ever a division of our country and there's a session or what i like to call it divorce you go our way we go our way everyone separates text this would be the leading state that would just say look we're not going to follow by its rules anymore because this is start to be ridiculous and so i think they've always aimed their guns at census because it represents freedom and it scares the big government big brother bureaucrats it's ridiculous overreaction makes no sense of course there are cases of course people get the infection it's

highly contagious nobody could say oh i have the key to what i will never get sick you have to weigh risk versus reward let everyone live their lives who's under the age of 75 and be very careful and spend a lot of money protecting the people who are over 75. there's a come following a series of mass kidnappings of schoolgirls we ask if the international community should be doing more to bring stability to nigeria story on to this after the break .

russia e.u. relations right an impasse the kremlin has made it clear it will no longer tolerate the e.u. lecturing about values and so-called international norms and the russians of the e.u. interference in russia's internal politics refuses to treat russia as an equal partner until this change and this bilateral relationship appears to be on hold.

welcome back the european medicines agency has started a rolling review into the safety and efficacy of russia's sputnik vaccine regulator said that it may make a decision on the job more quickly following a preliminary analysis of the child becomes a bit fears of a 3rd wave in europe and also good to see if there are a great many examples in europe of a dramatic 3rd wave and we don't have to kid ourselves this risk also exists for us and we must always be aware of that with. the developer say that they can provide doses for $50000000.00 europeans starting from june the russian job has an efficacy of above 90 percent it can also be stored at normal fridge temperatures and cost less than a regular breakfast we discussed the issues approval process with the c.e.o. of the fund that's behind. russia is more insisting on supplied but seen we have huge demand is really very significant so we are

working on loose countries the laws really want to look out for a russian vaccine. because registered mail in which you feel nations of his population of more than 1000000000 so we have a major demand to quote sheen and that is up to you to see the ones who need just part of their strategy if so what the role of it will play there but without complaint over them and that we will work very closely was the me to provide them with all of the information and we are also looking forward to preserve visits and production facilities of course while. we already see that several countries like hungary in slovakia already approved us would never directly with their been approached by several other nations and it's very important that you know when soup rules is directly to them of violating any regulations in the u.s. so you actually clarified for cloncurry and slovakia relive all of the exact

procedure this is or you can do in peace with emergency health situations which obviously over that just. we need to make sure that people have a choice of axioms and of orders different agencies need to grow their save but it's very important multiple image choice is that people deserve to tell all the different technologies of different machines because you know we're base from human though i don't think knowledge we believe has been proven to be saved for decades and many people will choose specifically this human to know biotechnology because of. shots were fired in nigeria during a reunion ceremony between parents and their kid not dull to security forces opened fire when prostrated parents began throwing stones at officials this is the latest in a series of kidnappings in the country on the sneaky haven't examines whether the international community should be doing more to help. from gangs kidnapping for ransom the 2

armed groups overrunning and tired towns the nigerian government faces a minefield of security challenges. and. you feel that if you. release things to be no end to nigeria's problems the most recent case thought jihad ists links to the islamic state attacked a un base trapping 25 aid workers the attack started last night and as information is still coming through i'm outraged to hear the promises of several aid agencies and a hospital reportedly set ablaze or sustained damage this violent attack will affect the support provided to nearly 100000 people who are desperately in need of humanitarian assistance and protection the long running instability has sparks

concern among the international community which has been vocal about the need to tackle the issues in this our whole region as you did a security guarantee in the protection of our fellow citizens makes the fight against islamic terrorism the 1st priority of our foreign policy. tool is of course we need international corporation above all in the fight against international islamist terrorism cooperation with the usa and cohesion within the e.u. and this international corporation must be improved. the sale is a microcosm of cascading global risks converging in one region. it is a warning sign for requiring urgent attention and resolution so what's being done well france has had troops on the ground since 2014 and there's currently no plan for there patrick ation but the numbers are me a little over $5000.00 with just over a 1000 more to arrive and it's not nigeria as

a whole that's the focus significant changes will undoubtedly be made to our military system in the saddle in jew course but they were not take place immediately and while s. it's in the region have felt to raise any hope they have raised eyebrows here's what about the stark think tank had to say the reason germany and france is unsuccessful we've been counterproductive strategies in both crisis states is that stabilization is a goal usually plays a subordinate role nigeria is africa's most populous region its biggest economy a large just oil producer but many of its people live in poverty and it's now overrun with a worrying a ray of intelligent security threats alarm bells should be ringing. will it take before relief is brought to nigeria. counterterrorism expert to me to payloader says a combined efforts needed to bring an end to the crisis in nigeria. one of the

biggest challenge tonight you know they since there is a lot of unexpected implementation plan to reduce extremism so no gas' limits us wish i didn't need to what would translate into what we all got caught our west africa to make sure we was to make sure that the issue of violence it's through music is dealt with collectively and not individually help mentira help don't build a delegate structure because help them look towards the fire stops or force meets on the ground because if knox goes into yours you would do all the way to. the u.s. house of representatives has passed a bill aimed at tackling police brutality is named after george floyd the man who was choked to death by a police officer in minneapolis last year national police association member steve

pumper as question the move there. and when they pass a bill like this and name it after somebody who's actually a convicted felon and was allegedly committing a crime at the time. i think that the good probably look for actual real victims and not somebody like that who would want to be a police officer if they knew that somebody who's just decided afterwards that something that you were taught. is illegal because it didn't look good on t.v. and you're being sued personally or you being prosecuted personally for something that either was a mistake or somebody deemed to be a wrong technique but only after you've been done even though it was a way to train because somebody who is anti police doesn't agree with the outcome of the courts or the disciplinary system it doesn't mean it was wrong it just means that they don't agree with it and says a lot of these folks just some of this rule for bullies it's not that hard to understand that they don't agree with the decisions. well the u.s.

so a record spike in murders in 2020 with homicide rates rising by 20 percent the largest increase was in new york with 40 percent and chicago with the t 7 police officers across america left the force in the wake of protests spong by floyd's death and some citing concerns for the safety despite criticism of police tactics as they pump a says lethal force will always be a last resort. police officers are human beings we deal with human beings all the time the last thing we want to do is take another human being's life and fur somebody to be so frivolous as to say that. we don't use deadly force as a last resort is an insult but beyond that officers have always used deadly force as a last resort and especially when you have to go by the individual perception that person is in a situation of dealing with that person that's presumably a threat to their wives and they have to deal with that you know to to keep

themselves safe keep themselves alive so i. i think that that's just an insult to say that police officers don't already use deadly force as a last resort the officer from those criticisms actually come down on split 2nd decisions that later on you may be able to say oh well why didn't the us should do this why didn't the us should do that but when you're dealing with split seconds you have to be able to to act like that and they can't have officers then later on being pulled up on charges. ok and that brings you right up to date thanks for your company i'll return with more in half an hour. since it other than. come up with me at the pay them is going to. live up to him i'm not to let the movie so he's unplugged so i look for one right

you got to. get that you're not just the type to use a pen in. the in the next his tongue mom i'm going to have like as a boss is my wish. list you can feel good in the interview that i hope hello to have. a good beginning with a. going to be team goes in many with a group you are healthy and to talk about this i'm joined by david sinclair professor of genetics and good interaction of a call and biology of aging at howard medical school.

david sinclair professor of genetics and co-director of the pole s. glenn center for the balance of aging at harvard medical school great to have you with us one more time maybe not been wanting to talk to you. always but especially ever since to call it out great look the president of aging has been the focus of your work for a long time and as does the demick shipped old age dramatically increases one's chances to die i've copied do you have an explanation why a theory why does this iris target people of old age disproportionately. well you know there are a number of theories one of them is that our immune system overreacts as we get older. we have a lot more what's called inflammation inflammation generally you know a body. we have to.