thousands of women in the british army suffer harassment and abuse from within their own ranks that's according to testimony is being heard by parliament. when did you meet. you had betrayed. me woman feel like she's to blame. italy blocks a shipment of covert shots meant for australia and what some are calling vaccine nationalism canberra is now demanding the e.u. commission reconsider the move. texans lash out at joe biden after he labels the decision to relax coronavirus restrictions in the state has neanderthal thinking. the democrats in the group love having their boots on the next 2 people in this

country telling them what to do. while the texas governor hits back calling the president's new immigration policy a neanderthal of approach to the issue that says a study shows that biden's plans could lead to a drastic increase in america's migrant population. broadcasting live from our international headquarters in moscow your watching our team i'm donald quarter welcome to the program. bullying harassment and sexual abuse that's 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 in a position and it starts going wrong that's where and when you're vulnerable this is when the problem really starts 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 boating and harassment to serious sexual assault when it gets to 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 yeast in a child that brains to be able to identify that the subject traumatic. and people can access help in this country 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 $130.00 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 them that 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 wait here to teach me a service company. is a criminal act in the field i am with the investigation at the school was done excess student so i think that investigation was you know i civilian chiefs i think that women which feel more support i mean our system you report you know 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 fan shot at

woodstock r.t. in london an activist group called justice for troops has been organized with the aim of eradicating harassment and abuse within the armed forces we spoke to member justin montgomery who says her commanding officers turned a blind eye to a medical complaint which led to serious health complications but let's hear 1st from the group's founder graham house. but spent 30 years in the lords force mostly from. got involved whether it 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 taken to by an organization focused on protecting the reputation of the people the building. that my knee injury wasn't investigated and became

increasingly unwell and started experiencing quite extreme 7 times and i was alert and the medical team get on one of the basis mustn't being listened to the whole condition of my needless to g.-d. and i ended up having to be rushed to the hospital layman terms i was in internally bleeding which my life was risk from that was medically discharged sort of follow up into the condition that i was being discharged in in comparison to when i 1st joined and when i'm sick to leave the flat it clearly over this could have been prevented if they had only up to the one at that time. australia has asked for the european commission to review its decision to cancel a shipment of astra zeneca vaccines to the country it will use the new export control mechanism to block the delivery after the company failed to meet its supply

contract with the e.u. our europe correspondent peter all over 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. an uneasy precedent pandora's box opened mystique if transparency mechanism leads defacto to an export ban unfortunately foreseeable and avoidable carte blanche for imitators could have fatal consequences on supply chains pro-u. to 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 the. 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 u. member state should look inwards and focus on 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 e.u. is one for all and all for one vaccine for cumin 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 if you can 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 the e.u. nations that are either already in the grip paul 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 you very shortly here's some of the reaction we've been getting 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 the 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 viable vaccine was in the effluent my shins of the world or ny sions were missing out of the countries that i think i'm most at risk from vaccination with these 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 told 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 vaccines so is normal that our government led by dr decide to stop the shipment of some buses that are produced immediately to outrun the other things a country not in the european union. of course 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 back at the proposed surveillance describing it as purely political afr it's an effort to undermine the party ahead of federal elections in september according to the f.t. as well. pseudosphere france the aim of the federal office for the protection of the constitution and counterterrorism is obviously in the short term to weaken

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. the federal intelligence services 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. so far the authorities have not commented on either the proposed surveillance of the party or the recent court ruling meanwhile hundreds of far left and tif activists this week rallied against the a.f.d. during a campaign event on the in the city of often by 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. they believe all the actions are orchestrated. they have the political mandate in order to get this rid of the competitive 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 fos 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 to millions in the very same day when the. domestic secret service got to call it all into knots to call the 8 of 50 an extremist group next was all the material was given to leftist papers which are very critical towards 50 years they got all the material why we are still in the dark and i mean if this is not

a sign for clearly political move on i don't know what such a move else could be. insults fly between joe biden then the texas governor over immigration and coronavirus plans we've got the story right after this break.

because there's a survival guide book stacie just the start. of all this is. this is a repatriation scheme will look at the rest in 70 years. bill of the separate guys report. welcome back to the program now 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 donald

trump's remain in mexico policy the biden team promised amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants 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 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 his whole plan to deal with the border issue boils down to hope

and a prayer. 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 jimmy energy 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 on. for schooling it could create a situation where they may be vulnerable to criminal organizations trying to view critics say the white house is just not being realistic about the potential dangers of its policy the green light is on now for business again and that is the message should be sent to the traffickers who are smuggling these kids across a border polls show that trumps a 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 hold the process allow people to come in without buy in or that. it wouldn't be jobs is going to be a major threat to handle and i don't think big government big u.s. government is ready and capable to handle all of these illegal immigration that's they already a lot of them in death due to death and that make it a lot of business is going to close a 1000000 people. and now. 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 up and artsy new york the governor of texas is among those who fired back at the immigration plans. by the administration

was releasing illegal immigrants in legal immigrants into our communities who had cove it that is neanderthal type approach to dealing with the cove a situation. people in the state also took aim at biden after he slammed the state governor's decision to relax covert restrictions in texas. in the last the last 3 years old think you have to be taken. for granted it still matters after that it should not be saying those kind of things it's very insulting or he. criticized everybody else it. is the better the democrats and they drove 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 i can for the name calling and i don't think you should be calling us neanderthals if you want to start from our unique

was the 1st piece 1st being ok then you cannot call people names you just have respect and 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 at joe biden to save the species was smarter than you might think and while texas is still registering over 75100 new coronavirus cases a day and although there's been a decline in infections and deaths in recent weeks at almost 45000 fatalities it does have the 3rd highest covert death rate per state in the u.s. nevertheless texans overwhelmingly support the decision to relax the 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 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 making sure we don't have any problems with. i work with the public so i don't have any problem with viruses because politically. speaking here. the texas governor justified the decision citing economic concerns on the rollout of a vaccination program in the state he also said the coronavirus hospitalizations were at their lowest since october but some believe the lone star state should be penalized for the move and not remove and not receive vaccines. texas we hear you you didn't want to be part of the electrical grid and now you've removed your mask mandate and overlearning large 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 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 allen root about the about texas' plans to open up despite the pandemic and the reaction to it. 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 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 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. and other news mass 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 reunion ceremony ended in chaos when frustrated parents began throwing stones at officials drawing fire from security forces artie's nicky aaron examines whether the international community should be doing more to improve stability in the region

. from gangs kept nothing for ransom the 2 groups of a running anti a town's the nigerian government faces a minefield of security challenges. you know. 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 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 did a security guarantee in the protection of our fellow citizens makes the fight against islamic terrorism the 1st priority of our foreign policy. let's do this 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 skating 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 arise and it's not nigeria as

a whole that's the focus significant changes will undoubtedly be made to our military system in the sawhill 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 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. so what will it take before relief is brought to nigeria counter-terror experts told pay a lot of says a combined effort is needed to help bring about an end to such situations in

nigeria. one of the biggest challenge tonight you have to say seems to be easier on the t.v. mentation. to reduce extremism so nigerians in the similar situation and the need to walk would translate into we'll all get caught on west africa to make sure we was to make sure that he show up on this it's true music is dealt with collectively and not individually help nigeria have done build a tele just because it helped them close to 5. plus minutes on the ground because if no goes into chaos your group would do away with it. for more details in your world news stories make sure to check out our check out our website r.t. dot com and follow us on twitter i'll be back with more in just about half an hour and i hope c.n.n. . was

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