the. women in the british army suffer harassment. from within their own ranks. testimony heard by parliament. blocks a shipment of. nationalism. commission to reconsider the. virus. thinking. the democrats are making.

the people of this country want to do. the texas governor calling the president's new immigration policy. approach to be issue. could lead to a drastic increase in the migrant population. in atlanta 11 pm and young. school miss the 1st of march welcome to art. bullying harassment and sexual abuse. of women up 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 where and when you're vulnerable this 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'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 for each everywhere else in the welsh military sexual trauma is recognized in euston to tell us that parents should be able to identify that the subject traumatic. and people can access help in this couldn't really it just didn't recognize the 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 that women wait with here to teach me a service company. is a criminal act. the feel like the investigation at the school was done existant so i think the investigation was you know i severely i'm cheesed i think that women which feel more support i mean our 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 forward but while women on the frontline fight to protect their country it seems like their country is failing to protect than shot edward stashed r.t. in london. and other story we're closely following today australia has asked the european commission to review its the solution to current solar shipment of vaccines to the country it will use the new export control mechanism to block the delivery after the company feel to meet its supply contract with the e.u. our europe correspondent peter oliver can tell us more. 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 380 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 global bussell overcovered 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 we. really lars to return to normality in the summer. but we have to prepare already now 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 call for preparing for potential 3rd wave of covert 19 here in germany the main area of concern is what's going on with the mutated variant 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 off small though russia 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 it all of our techniques throughout we'll hear some more of the reaction we've been getting on the story from our guests so it's a country putting its interests ahead of others in the context of the pandemic and vaccines are clearly the only don challenge of their research the implications i think our lists of before a country are in stronger than they would be for poor and around the world we know

that as recently as a few weeks ago the vast majority of viable vaccine was in the athlon my shins of the world or ny sions 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 a national contrie contract with our state of them and they don't want or expect that this contract that we need we don't have in this moment so a lot of cold 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 since so is normal that our government led by dr side do so. up the shipment of some buses that are produced immediately to our strategy at the country not in the european union. a court in germany has temporarily blocked the

intelligence services from monitoring the alternative for germany party pending a judge's final decision the f.t. is the largest opposition force in the german parliament and has hit buck out the proposed surveillance the scribing it was a purely political effort to undermine the party head of federal elections this coming september students from france and the aim of the federal office for the protection of the constitution and counter-terrorism is obviously in the short term to weaken us until the elections and in the long term to destroy the only opposition party in parliament that opposes the dissolution of the nation state and unlimited immigration from foreign cultures. while the federal intelligence service intended to look into the e f t's alleged ties to far right extremists as well as attempts to undermine germany's constitution some of the party's regional branches of reportedly been monitored for some time already. well so far the authorities have not commented on

either they propose surveillance of the party or the recent court ruling in all the hundreds of far left until the vest this week rallied against the f.t. chairing a campaign event in the city of often back scuffles with police broke out when protesters attempted to reach the stage where party officials were speaking we heard from some members of the f.t. who believe the moves against them. they have the political mandate in order to get us rid of the compacted 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 with respect to to the euro rescue parties huge favor that we do 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 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. domestic secret service got a cult altar not to call the 8 of the an extremist group on xmas all the material was given to leftist papers which are very critical towards safety they got all the material while we are still in the dark and i mean if this is not a sign for clearly political move i don't know what such a move else could be. more or less story unless rather cations r.t. dot com has you covered you'll find there in an exclusive interview a senior here 3 member talking about what he calls the greening the conflict with the established. and while you're there you can check out a development in one of yesterday's stories and. removing some classic

children's books over. discrimination waiting on a website. less than 2 months in the white house president biden is already facing a growing crisis on the southern border in an attempt to reverse donald trump's remain in mexico policy he promised amnesty to millions of illegal migrants already living in the u.s. which according to one study could lead to a dramatic increase in the country's foreign born population. takes 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.

but. joe biden doesn't see a crisis brewing as a whole plan to deal with the border issue boils down to hope and a prayer. yes i do legalize a lot. is a 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 i think. the answer is no i think there is a challenge at the border that we are managing and we have our resources dedicated to to manage and 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 policies 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 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. fortunately it could create a situation where they may be vulnerable to criminal organizations trying to abuse them 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 sending to the traffickers who are smuggling these kids across the border polls 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. task to hand and i think the government the u.s. government. and. all of the illegal immigration already a lot of them. do today and then take 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 while trump may be gone the immigration debate is getting more intense it's becoming the most polarizing issue in a country that is already quite divided kaleb up and artsy new york and while the governor of texas is among those who fire back at the biden administration's immigration plans the biden ministration was releasing illegal immigrants in legal immigrants into our communities who had coded that is neanderthal type approach to dealing with the coca situation. well texans themselves also took aim by now for he slammed the state governor's decision to relax code restrictions. in the last the last thing. called thank you. for taking. it still. should not be saying those kind of things that's very insulting he. criticized everybody else and. the democrats and they drove my

hair in their boots on. the people in this country telling them what to do oh i don't think there's any 1st time he's calling list he's 1st thing i think you cannot call people names you just have to respect. criticism over the use of the word. even come from germany a museum there felt the need to stick up for the ancient humans tweeting out joe biden to say the species smarter than you might think. well on perhaps a more serious note texas is still registering over 7500 new corona virus cases per day but although there's been a decline in infections and deaths in recent weeks and almost 45000 deaths it does have the 3rd highest corporate fatality rate in the united states nevertheless texans still support the decision to relax restrictions. tired of not being able to

go and do things if we wanted to we're glad to get our masks off and go and live life again that's how i feel about it i think it's time for now. 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 you're risking your life 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 making sure we don't have any problems with. i work with the public so i don't have any problem with this because politically. speaking here. the texas governor justified the decision citing economic reasons only start a vaccination is in the states he also said that corona virus hospitalized patients were at their lowest since october but some believe the state should be penalized for the move and should not receive. texas we hear you you didn't want to be part

of the electrical grid and now you've removed your mosque mandate and the. crowds together we hear you coded is a hoax so you don't need our precious vaccine we'll send it to people who are saving lives by wearing mosques why are we wasting vaccinations on texas if texas has decided to join the side of the virus earlier we spoke to wayne o. and root swain's a former libertarian vice presidential nominee about the situation texas has this image of africa 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 ates 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 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 census because it represents freedom and it steers 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 it i'll never get sick you have to weigh risk vs 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. say let's stay stateside as the u.s. house of representatives has passed the bill aimed at tackling police brutality it's named after george floyd the man who died following an altercation with officers in minneapolis last year the move has not pleased everyone here's national

police association member state pumper. 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 on some pretty startling

figures the u.s. saw a record spike in murders and 2020 home side rates rising nationally by 20 percent the largest increase if we break down in the numbers was in new york up 40 percent chicago 37 percent police officers indeed across america left the force in the wake of protests sparked by floyd's death with some citing concerns for their safety and this by the i'd cry over police tactics the pumper again sais that 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 or imply 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 the situation dealing with a person that's presumably

a threat to their lives and they have to deal with that. you know to keep themselves safe keep themselves alive so i think that that's just an insult to say that police officers don't already used to the force as a last resort the officer from those criticisms that can come down on split 2nd decisions that later on you may be able to say oh well why didn't the officer do this why didn't the officer 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. most kidnappings in nigeria have become an all too common occurrence in the african nations almost $300.00 schoolgirls were freed this week days after being abducted but the reunion ceremony ended in disaster when frustrated parents began throwing stones at officials drawing fire from security forces artie's nichiren examines whether the

international community should be doing more to improve stability in the region. from gangs kidnapping for ransom the 2 armed groups overrunning entire towns the nigerian government faces a minefield of security challenges. and . you feel you feel you. really seems to be no end to nigeria's problems the most recent case thought jihad ists links to the islamic state attacked a u.n. 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 sparked concern among the international community which has been vocal about the need to tackle the issues in this our whole region as you heard a security guarantee in the protection of our fellow citizens makes the fight against islamic terrorism the 1st priority of our foreign policy. that yearly 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 those 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 sa into course but they were not take place immediately and while s. it's in the region have failed 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 and largest 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. so that will it take before relief is brought to nigeria. through that it will counter

terror expert to me to say it's a combined effort is needed to bring an end to the crisis in nigeria. one of the biggest challenge then i do not say seems so easy. to keep implementation well planned to reduce extremism so in the gymnasium it's us it's worse or i didn't need to what would translate it to what we all got caught out it was tough we got to make sure we was to make sure that he sort of on this it's through music is dealt with clearly not individually help nigeria have don't be able to tell it just because help them look last if i had so close mates on the ground because if not it goes into peals you would do all the way global oil prices are on the rise next and been bused asks what that actually means in the time of coal but in particular is industry finally getting back to

a semblance of normality stay close that all begins in moments. russian relations are at an impasse the kremlin has made clear all no longer tolerate lecturing about values and so-called international norms and.