in the case is closed nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that is. thousands of women in the british army suffer harassment and abuse from within their own ranks that's according to testimonies being heard by parliament. betrayed. woman feel like she's to blame. italy blocks a shipment of culbut shots meant for australia in 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 as neanderthal thinking.

the democrats when they go there in their boots on the necks of the people in this country telling them what to do. while the texas governor hits back calling the president's new immigration policy meander thall 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 you're watching our i'm donald quarter welcome before we go. bullying harassment and sexual abuse that's what thousands of women have been subjected to in the british army according to testimonies 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 are vulnerable it is

when the problems really start women are paying an unnecessarily high price for serving join the army be the best it's the height of serving your country but it turns out some women are facing horrific battles of their own imagine $4000.00 people a brigade that can be deployed anywhere without very same number of women both surfing and veterans have now come forward with shocking experiences in the army from boating and harassment to serious sexual assault when it didn't meet 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 country it just didn'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 if the women wait wait here to teach me a service company. is criminal action against them they feel like the investigation at the school was done excess student so i think that investigation was you know i civilian chiefs i think the women in which feel more support i mean our system you know or do 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. . activists have set up a group called justice for troops with the aim of eradicating harassment and abuse within the armed forces we heard from its founder graham house and member justin montgomery who says her commanding officers ignored a medical complaint leading to dramatic health complications. the fact that my knee injury wasn't investigated and became increasingly unwell and started experiencing quite extreme 7 chems and i was alerting my the medical think it on anything 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 late layman terms i was in internally bleeding which my life was risk from that then was medically discharged sort of follow up into the condition that i was being discharged then

in comparison to when i 1st joined and when i'm sick to leave a flat it clearly all of this could have been prevented if they had only up to the one at the time. but spent 30 years in the role of force mostly from lawyers i got involved whether i was in a commodity or from a 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 in tune to conceal it when institutions that profess to be powerful and strong are actually weak they tend to buy an organization focused on protecting the reputation of the people the bill to. australia has asked the european commission to review its decision to cancel a shipment of astra zeneca vaccines to the country italy used a new export control mechanism to block the delivery after the company failed to

meet its supply contract with the e.u. our european 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 a well known easy 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. here some of the reactions 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 are i think a lists of the for a country orchestra then they would be for poor and around the world we not that as recently as a few weeks ago the vast majority of viable vaccine was in the effluent nations of the world and 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 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 seems 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 if he 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.d.a. is the largest opposition force in the german parliament and has hit back at the proposed surveillance describing it as a purely political effort to undermine the party ahead of federal elections in september. as for 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 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. 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 anti for activists this week rallied against the a.f.d. during a campaign event in the city of often block scuffles with police broke out with protesters attempted to reach the stage where party officials were speaking we heard from some members of the a.f.p. they believe all the actions are orchestrated. they have to put it to a mandate in order to get us rid of the competitive as

a political competitor we have the strongest opposition party then what we have to do as a pollution 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 civilians the very same day when the. domestic secret service got a cult not to call the. an extremist group. all the material was given to leftist papers which are very critical towards safety they got all the material why we are still in the dark and i mean if this is. a sign for clearly political move on i don't know what such

a move else could be. more on this story r.t. dot com has you covered you'll find there in an exclusive interview a senior a.f.p. member talking about what he calls the draining conflict within the establishment. and while you're there cancel culture strikes again in a development in one of yesterday's stories evade has now join. and amazon in removing some classic dr seuss children's books over claims of racial discrimination. and still ahead on the program insults fly between joe biden and the texas governor over immigration and coronavirus plans we've got that story after the break. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the

world of politics sports this list i'm show business i'll see you then. there's a mic metabolife a small molecule made out bodies may come. from it and make less of it as we get older this is one of the things i work on is going to be and because we have less of it we become more prone to infection and the crazy thing is that could 19th sars could be to one of its ways of attacking the body to deplete the body even more of that chemical which we need to fight infections. by the 21st century america is exhausted it's just tired and it doesn't have anything approach that in march but china after being on the margins for so long does have something to prove and they do have the capacity and they are putting

shoulder to the whale and they are working to. 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 remaining mexico policy the biden team promise 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 as artie's caleb moppin reports. 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 believe you lack 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. the answer is no i think there is a challenge at the border that we are managing and we have our resources dedicated to managing 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 this 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. only 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 worst

message to be sending to the traffickers who are smuggling these kids across the border polls show the troubles of 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 with buy in or. what it wouldn't be that 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 the illegal immigration that's they already a lot of them in depth to do to depend that nick and 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 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 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 thing before i think you have to be somebody who's going to take it. for good it still matters after that it should not be saying those kind of things it's very

insulting or he. criticized everybody else and. it's. 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 he wants to talk about you need to eat with your breasts he's the 1st thing i think you cannot call people names you just have to respect and criticism over the use of the word neanderthal has even come from germany museum felt the need to stick up for the ancient humans tweeting at joe biden to save the species was smarter than you might think meanwhile texas is still registering over $7500.00 new coronavirus cases a day and although there's been a decline in infections and deaths in recent weeks at almost $45000.00 fatalities it does have the 3rd highest covert death rate per state in the united states

nevertheless texans overwhelmingly support the decision to relax the restrictions. tired of not being able to go and do things we wanted to do 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 a new year opening up the business is great if you have to go out your wrist 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 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 politically. speaking here was. the texas governor justified the decision citing economic concerns in the rollout of a vaccine 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 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 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 allen root to about texas' plans to open up despite the pandemic and the reaction to it. texas has this image of now bricks 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 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 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 or more in those news stories and more make sure to check out our website r t dot com and follow us on twitter i'll be back with more in just about half an

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hello and welcome to crossfire 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 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 lott 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 russian treats russia as an equal partner this relationship isn't going to move anywhere it is a it is basically in a deep freeze right now and i and i and personally i think it's the e.u. that has to take the 1st step but i don't think they're up to it go ahead john i totally agree i don't think there's any prospect now of the relationship improving there are very few voices in the european union who are in favor of it improving you can count them on the thing is a large and. and instead to the vast majority of european

politicians. i want to break off or break down relations with russia as much as they can for a whole host of reasons of which i think the most important is that they actually thrive on this notion of themselves as being morally superior to russia russia is the other europe russia is the other europe russia is the europe they don't want to be it's a state which they regard as. reactionary nationalistic religious patry arctic. and so on all the things all of our use that they reject europe the european union wants to be unhistorical post national and so on and that's why russia is like a sort of guilty conscience for them and they they have their own internal political purposes they have to. hate russia and say they hate russia and when i

say internal political purposes i mean that in the strongest part.