of women in the british army. from within their own right according to testimony being heard parliament. blocks a shipment of jobs meant for. the

democrats and. the people in this country telling them what to do. by calling the president's new immigration policy. and the population. just a few moments into a brand new day here in moscow on events the 1st weekend of. march welcome to the new. bullying harassment and sexual abuse. of women have been subjected to in the british army according to testimonies given to 'd a parliamentary committee. very hostile environment. you do find themselves in

a position and it starts going wrong that's when and where you are vulnerable says one of 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 voting and harassment to serious sexual assault when it's to make a complaint often to appear to treat somebody here simply a must and makes out woman feel like she's just blame 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 wouldn't recognize 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 not if the women wait wait here to teach me a service company. or. is a criminal act. the feeling. best at the school was done except student so i think the investigation was i severely chiefs 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 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. in london while activist group has been set up called justice for troops with the aim of a rather catering harassment and abuse within the armed forces we spoke to member justin montgomery who sees her commanding officers turn a blind eye to a medical complaint which led to dramatic health complications and also to be groups wonder grim hopes. i spent 30 years in the royal air force mostly from oil i got involved whether i was in a commodity logan or a frontline unit with a rape allegation that was really not so much the incident itself that obviously would warrant any war it was the handling of that by the military which was largely to to conceal it when institutions that profess to be powerful and strong are actually weak they tend to by an organization focus on protecting the reputation of

the people the build it. the fact that my knee injury wasn't investigated and became increasingly unwell and started experiencing quite extreme 7 chems and i was alert and the medical team to get on then a daily basis mustn't being listen to the whole condition of my needless to g.-d. and i ended up having to be rushed to the hospital like layman terms i was an intern illegally during which my life was risk from that and was medically discharged sort of follow up into the condition that i was being discharged then in comparison to you when i 1st joined and when i was extremely athletic clean of a mess could have been prevented if they had to pony up to the one at the giant.

destroyer the european commission to review it's the solution to cancel a shipment of us trizone acoa vaccines to the country italy use the new export control mechanism to block the delivery after the company feel to me that supply contract with the or 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 or not 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. 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. to return to normality in the summer. but we have to prepare are already known for the next to each of the pandemic after the some experts say that in austria alone we will need $30000000.00 doses in the next few years while looking to the future is also important for a number of all the e.u. nations that are either already in the grip of 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 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 are small 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 very shortly and indeed here is some of the reaction we've been getting on this 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 dime challenge of the research the implications i think our lists of before a country walk in stride here then they would be for poor and around the world we know that as recently as a few weeks ago the vast majority of buyable vaccine was in the athlon my shins of the world or ny sions were missing out of the 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 a contract with a set 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 hold people he needs money are still die however they have 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 e. decide to stop the shipment of some that are produced immediately to our strong as it is a 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 by a look at the proposed surveillance the scribing it is

a purely political effort to undermine the party head of federal elections in september. pseudosphere 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 federal intelligence service how they intended to look into the f.t. her alleged ties the 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. well so far the authorities have not commented on either the proposed surveillance all of the party or the recent court ruling iraq hundreds of far left activists this week rallied against the f.t. touring a campaign event in the city of often back scuffles with polish broke 20 protesters

attempted to reach the stage where party officials were speaking we heard from some members of the f.d.a. they believe all the action was oral history and. they have the political mandate in order to get us rid of the competitor as a political competitor we have the strongest opposition party and what we have to do a solution is to criticise 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 and 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 court order 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. ok we keep the news rolling in 90 seconds keep it here on r.t. . join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see if it. is you'll be

a reflection of reality. in the world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being so. what is true what is. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. for a mate in the shallow. less than 2 months in the white house son president biden has already facing a growing migrant crisis on the southern border in an attempt to reverse donald

trump's remain in mexico policy the. 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 that's led even greater numbers to take a chance at getting across the frontier are to kill up and 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.

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. and. yes i do legalize a lot. of this is going. to. 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 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 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 they're 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 on. forcefully 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 sent 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 major task to hand them and i think the government the u.s. government. and all of these illegal immigration. a lot of them in deficit due to debt and then make a lot of closed 1000000 people out of war and illegal the crowds at 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 well let's stay

with the story because the governor of texas is among those who fired buck the immigration plans that biden ministration was releasing illegal immigrants it illegal immigrants into our communities who had coded that is neanderthal type approach to dealing with the coca situation. you know it's not just officials people in the state also took aim at biden after he slammed the state governors the city interlocks code restrictions in texas. last the last thing. of all thank you. for taking. it still. should not be saying those kind of things it's very insulting he. criticized everybody else and. the democrats and i drove my hair in their boots on. the people in this country telling them what to do oh i

don't agree. i don't think you should be calling us neanderthals wants to talk about you need list he's 1st thing i think you cannot call people names you just have to respect. criticism over the use of the word neanderthal has even come from germany a museum there felt the need to stick up for the ancient humans tweeting joe biden to say the species was smarter. meanwhile texas is still registering over 7500 new cruel of virus cases a day although there's been a decline in infections out deaths in recent weeks at almost 45000 fatalities it does of the 3rd highest rate per state in the u.s. nevertheless texans overwhelmingly 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 rockin go and live life again that's how i feel about it i think it's time

for now 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 year or being at 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 making sure we don't have any problems with. i work with the public so i don't have any problem with the virus has become political to. the texas governor justified the decision so i think economic concerns on the rollout 'd of a vaccination program in the state he also said that coronavirus hospitalizations were at their lowest since october but some believe the lone star state should be penalized for the move not received vaccine 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 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 radio host and political commentator wayne roots about texas plans to open up the spike the pandemic and the reaction to the. texas has this image of avarice 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 it 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 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 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 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. must kidnappings in nigeria have become an all too common occurrence in the african nation almost 300 schoolgirls were freed this week days after being abducted but the real union certainly end of in chaos when frustrated parents began throwing stones at officials growing fire and from security forces artie's nuclear and examines whether the international community should be doing more to improve

stability in the region. from gangs kidnapping for ransom the 2 armed groups are running anti-a towns the nigerian government faces a minefield of security challenges. and there really seems to be no end to nigeria's problems the most recent case thought jihadists 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 were 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 heard a security guarantee in the protection of our fellow citizens makes the fight against islamic terrorism the 1st priority of our foreign policy. 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 mia

a little over $5000.00 with just over a 1000 more to arise and it's not nigeria as a whole that's the focus significant changes will undoubtedly be made to a military system in the saddle in jew course but they were not take place immediately and while less 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 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 over run with the worrying a ray of intelligent security threats alarm bells should be ringing now so what will it take before relief is brought to nigeria

a lot are up for know it but don't go too far more great programs get their start in moments find out what showing revery you are today after the shortest of bricks or for no. by the 21st century america is exhausted it's just tired and it doesn't have a thing a pro that and more but china after being on the margins for so long does that something to prove and they do have the capacity and they are putting shoulder to the whale and they are working at.

a low in welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter labelle 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 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 lockwood in paris he's a university lecturer in history and 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.