he. called. the headlines of women unique very charming suffer harassment from within their own ranks reporting to being heard by. patriot. if you. feel. like. it's an insult to the shipments of coke. and while some are calling vaccine nationalism. demanding that the new commission reconsider is the moon. frictions in the state thinking. democrats are.

people in this country for. the texas governor hits back by calling the president's new immigration policy neanderthal after study shows that biden's plans could lead to a drastic increase in the migraine you like. that even if she's gone 6 o'clock here in moscow be watching the international. sexual abuse this is what thousands of women have been subjected to in the british army according to testimony given to a parliamentary committee. very hostile environment. you do find themselves new position and it starts going wrong that's when when you are vulnerable 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 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's to make a complaint often to appear to treat somebody here simply a missed and makes out woman feel like she's just blame and like she was asking sorry it's everywhere else in the welsh military sexual trauma is recognized in yeast in a child that parents should be able to identify that the subject traumatic puts a name to waste and people can access help in this country it just didn't recognize the sexual trauma or 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 hired 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 that women wait with here to teach me a service company and. all that. is criminal act. they feel a need to out investigation the school was stunned existant so i think if the investigation was ice wm chiefs i think that women which feel more support i mean on the system or do not being the worst brought stories to change their evidence and to generally be. almost gaslighted to draw a story and not take it all but 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. . our straightly has asked the european commission to review its decision to cancel

a shipment of astra zeneca vaccines to the country italy use the new export control mechanism to block the delivery after the company failed to me to supply contract with the you or europe correspondent peter oliver has more details. well right at the center of this are 250000 doses of the astra zeneca job they were going to be transported from italy to australia as part of a contract astra zeneca has with the australian government it's really put in place the export control mechanism that the e.u. brought in after astra zeneca failed to live up to its end of the contract it had with the european union now australia has asked the e.u. commission to review this decision but despite that the australian prime minister has said he'll understand where italy is coming from in italy people are dying at the right of 300 a diety and so i can certainly understand the high level of anxiety that would

exist in italy and in many countries or across europe well one of the reasons that scott morrison could afford to be so understanding on that is that australia does have the cillit east to produce its own vaccine in fact the deputy health minister of the state of victoria said it was lucky that they have that in light of these doses from the e.u. not looking like they're arriving in australia any time soon but while the australian side of be understanding there's been some concern expressed particularly by one german m.e.p. he says this sets a well known easy precedent pandora's box opened mystique if transparency mechanism leads defacto to an export ban unfortunately foreseeable under avoidable carte blanche for imitators could have fatal consequences on supply chains produce a global battle over coffee 19 vaccines escalation preprogrammed the rules as they

are at the moment in the e.u. allow member states to block the shipment of doses of vaccines from their territory if a manufacturer has not fulfilled the contracts that have been signed that was the case with astra zeneca and with italy france has said they. i completely side with italy in this and they french health minister said that if the shoe was on the other foot if it was france that was in this position they would have done exactly the same thing the french foreign ministry has gone even further they've said that a you member state should look inwards and focus on you member states getting vaccines and not what denmark and austria have been doing and looking abroad for cooperation all conviction remains very clear that the most effective solution to meet vaccination needs must continue to be based on the european framework well austria and denmark of both signed a deal to work with israel when it comes to the development of future vaccines the

austrian chancellor said the reason that they've done this is in his eyes and from his experience of what's going on with the use one for all and all for one vaccine for cuban program is that it can't be the only thing his citizens have to rely on discipline to make can only be overcome through global corporation and defeat we also all agree did wix soon ruler lars to return to normality in the summer. but we have to prepare our already known for the next stages of the pandemic after the some experts say that in austria alone we will need about $30000000.00 doses in the next few years while looking to the future is also important for a number of of the e.u. nations that are either already in the grip or for preparing for a potential 3rd wave of covert 19 here in germany the main area of concern is

what's going on with the mutated variants of the virus and how they will be affected or affect how they will impact upon vaccines when it comes to vaccines and that vaccine arsenal though russia's sputnik v job is currently being reviewed by the european medicines agency and that could well be rolled out given the green light to be used across the a you very shortly pay to all of the reporting there what has some of the reaction we've been getting from our guests on this story. it's a country putting its interests ahead of others in the context of the pandemic and vaccines are clearly the only guy and there is the importations or i think alyssa v. for a country orchestra then they would be for poor and around the world we know that as recently as a few weeks ago the vast majority of inviolable vaccine was in the athlon nations of the world and or nations were missing out than other countries that i think i'm

most at risk and vaccination with this is not not nationalism i mean that we have such as it in national country contract with us that of them they don't want or expect that this contract that we need less seems we don't have in this moment so a lot of told people he needs money are still dying haver day how a lot of people are still taking the coronavirus because we don't have the best seems so is normal that our government led by driving this side to stop the shipment of some buses that are produced immediately to outrightly of the country not in the european union. ok let's go back to our top story this hour because a british parliamentary committee has heard about thousands of cases of rape and sexual harassment in the u.k. armed forces now to discuss this a bit further we're joined by graham high seas the founder about the street justice the stars aim to eradicate harassment and abuse within the armed forces and

a very welcome graeme we appreciate your time tonight firstly just tell us a bit about your group and what spurred you to set it up. thank you getting very humble too to join you know your your views and your star that month my background was military most of us spent 30 years in the royal air force mostly frontline flying only operational side. i got involved with hers in a c'mon employment or a frontline unit with a rape allegation and that was really not so much the incident itself that obviously would laurie anyone it was the handling of that by the military which was . largely to conceal it because of. the risk of reputation and it was that that journey that was 8 years ago 9 years ago has led me to in a position of. earth looking to quantify how bad this is as an issue

within our armed forces and having quantified it on a scale that historically has not been seen before is allowed us to come together collaboratively. uncooperative really in order to find a solution to it and so that's really why we set up it was. it was a little bit i was asian that's not about justice for troops or or what we've done it was about the people that we've given a voice to do have sadly been on the wrong end of justice in the armed forces in the few years then it took you to set this up can you give us an idea of the think is in the scale of the problem. again next. we've got in about 6 months since we've been running the us we probably got a little over $500.00 mostly serving personnel coming to us with various issues and not necessarily rape as an isolated theme but the general themes of injustice

the management of that being concealed. because of the reputational damage that concerns us so it was that element that led us to work with parliament to create the women and defense parliamentary inquiry that is live now which i believe an ironic leigh was told by them a couple weeks ago that is one of the most successful inquiries on parliamentary rental. but i would i was soft on that with the issue that we're discussing isn't a success that there is a serious governance and leadership failure and therefore we look to those issues to trying to help those in positions of power and positions of authority to try and help them address this by collective approach rather than just a critical approach that makes sense yeah and that look in the short time that this

defense subcommittee has been hearing evidence i understand that something like 4000. cases have been heard people coming forward saying look it's happened to me it's happened to me in as you say it seems to be an issue that is being covered up and this is like the 1st opportunity that these people have to explain what happened to them i mean it was shocking to see the numbers 4000 i just wondered if you'd been taken aback today by the sheer number of people that have come forward. when it. oh incision shocked you know what yet again just a bit of context here might help the looser in the u.k. are all serious if you go back to iraq and afghanistan and the u.k. involvement in that it wasn't an easy passage because of the way iraq came about and certainly the exit of the united kingdom of forces was problematic when we left iraq nobs the afghanistan this impacts on libya and some of the challenges that the

western world there has said it's made the organization that's not naturally proud of its history to be particularly protective of all its position in the world all of today and it's it's simply a shift change that we need to see from an organization and this goes back to your previous. inquiries about the banks a nation roller on a global scale it demonstrates that when institutions that profess to be powerful and strong are actually weak they tend to buy all those ation focus on protecting their reputation and less so the people that build it well that rash requires a shift change quickly where we believe if you focus on young people. trust you to do the right thing the reputational trying to protect will generally take care of itself yeah i take your point there graeme i just want to do you think that these women and people that have been affected in the past will get justice and where the

people will be held accountable. her i think less interest if issue it will start with defense realizing the scale of the problem that was the purpose of the inquiry to assess the scale we set out really to prove or disprove hopefully just prove the issue we think we're comfortable we've proven the scale of it and that allows defense now to cooperate and respond accordingly more would hope though in terms of accountability that could be addressed in many ways certainly we look for more restore to approach is towards justice the nation is through the legal process but that it had to begin with allowing the people to be heard because there's an awful lot of people that have been silence or a long period of time over those $4000.00 or so they're looking forward not all negative in their experiences but about 30 to 40 percent of our current serving

personnel are women and. that to us is a concert that should concern any organization that professes to be a force for good ok graeme look on that note we'll leave it there but as we said before thank you very much for coming on to r.t. and explaining what they were that was graeme has the former wing commander in the royal air force and the founder of the justice for trying to scream thank you when . a court in germany has temporarily blocked the intelligence service from monitoring the alternative for germany party pending the judge's final decision the largest opposition party in the german parliament they earth day earlier hit back at the proposed surveillance describing it as a purely political effort to undermine it ahead of the general election in september. 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 a position party in parliament that opposes the dissolution of the nation state and unlimited immigration from foreign cultures and the federal intelligence service had intended to look into the alleged ties to far right extremists as well as attempts to undermine germany's constitution some of the party's regional branches have reportedly been monitored for some time already i so far the authorities have not commented on either the proposed surveillance of the party or the recent court ruling meanwhile hundreds of anti activist a rally against the hilton party during a campaign event in the city often back scuffles with police did break out saying when protesters attempted to reach the stage where party officials were speaking we heard from 2 members of the a.f.p. can tell us that the moves against them are purely political. they have a political mandate in order to get us rid of a 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 and 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 civilians the very same day when the apostle shirts or domestic secret service got a court order not to call the the an extremist group of extras r.t. all those material was given leftist papers which are very critical towards. the. you've got all the material while we're still in the dark and i mean if this is you know what's a sign for clearly a political move i don't know what such

a move also could be. having on the story you can head over to r.t. dot com where an exclusive interview with senior team member does talk to us about what he calls the draining conflict with the establishment and why you're there you cannot check out the developments on one of yesterday stories because e bay has now joined amazon in removing the classic dr seuss children's books over trying to say they are racist you can read these stories plus others a lot into. the less than 2 months in the white house and president biden is already facing a growing migrant crisis on the southern border in an attempt to reverse trump's remain in mexico policy he promised amnesty to millions of illegal migrants already living in the united states which according to one study could lead to a dramatic increase in the country's foreign born population as more. 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. but. 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 well you laugh a lot there. is a ministration doesn't see a problem either just a challenge and they're ready to welcome more migrants do you believe right prices

at the border i see. the answer is no i think there is a challenge at the border that we are managing and we have our resources dedicated to diminishing we are not saying don't come we are saying don't come now because we will be able to deliver safe and orderly process to them as quickly as possible biden moved 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 it's prompted the migrant crisis spawns a lot of crime and just 3 days $1600.00 migrants were arrested with criminals reportedly among them and criminal organizations have certainly flourished among communities there are afraid to call the police out of fear of deportation there are people coming across a large number that are criminals a lot of people just looking for a better way of life and. hopefully it should read

a situation where they made the vulnerable to criminal organizations trying to abuse us 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 and that is the message should be sending to the traffickers who are smuggling these kids across the border show that trumps 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 the hole in the process will allow people to come in. or. out of. jobs is going to be a major task to handle and i know that government the u.s. government. and. all of these illegal immigration.

a lot of them. do today and then make a lot of business is going to close 1000000 people out of war and illegal across 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 up and new york meanwhile the governor of texas is among those who fired back at the his migration 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 coca situation. and texans also hit back at president biden after he slammed the governor's decision to relax rules on the wearing of masks. in the last the last

thing. of all thank you very. much for taking us for good still definitely should not be saying those kind of things that's very insulting oh he. criticized everybody else and. the democrats image of my hair in their boots on the 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 to eat with your list is 1st thing out there then you cannot call people names you just have to respond to. your criticism over the use of the word neanderthal has even come from germany museum there felt the need to stick up for the ancient humans and tweeted joe biden to say that the species was smarter than you might think well on

a more serious note texas is still registering over 7 and a half 1000 new coronavirus cases every day but although there's been a decline in infections and deaths in recent weeks at almost 45000 it does have the 3rd highest death toll in the united states however texans still 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 rocked and go and live life again that's how i feel about it i think it's time to open up to open up the restaurants and everybody go different places and forget today i'm going to my chiropractor appointment for the 1st time any new year or bring up the business is great if you have to go out your risk anyway so why not just but 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. our work with the public so i don't have any problem with viruses because politically.

speaking here of the worst. well the texas governor justified the decision citing economic reasons and the start of vaccinations in the state he often said things that covert hospitalizations were at their lowest since october but something believed state should not be pain elias to a not to receive faxing. texas we hear you you didn't want to be part of our electrical grid and now you've removed your mask mandate and are learning large krantz together we hear you code it is 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 why not in route he's a former 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 a divorce you go our way we go our way everyone separates text this would be the leading state that would say look we're not going to follow biden's rules anymore because this is start to be ridiculous and so i think they've always aimed their guns at texas because it represents freedom and it's gerrard's 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 can say oh i have the key to it i'll 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 so that's a nice i thought and i have not had time to get there you can always say keep yourself updated by going to our social media pages and you can. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter labelle russia e.u. relations write 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 have had

enough of the e.u.'s interference in russia's internal politics the e.u. refuses to treat russia as an equal partner until this changes this bilateral relationship appears to be on hold. to discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest john la put in paris he's a university lecturer in history of political philosophy in brussels we have look we have a he is an independent journalist and in cork we cross to geoffrey robertson he is america's professor of history at university college cork and a member of the royal irish academy original macross up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok let's go to john in paris if you heard my introduction here until the e.u. respects rushed.