sars cruelty to one of the. ways of attacking the body to deplete the body even more of that chemical which we need to fight infections. 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 it . came to. the tree and. they simply make sound women feel like she's to blame and. far east italy blocks a shipment of covert shots met meant for australia in what some are calling a 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 in 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 of neanderthal 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 quarter welcome. bullying harassment and sexual abuse that's what thousands of women have been subjected to in the british army according to testimonies given to be 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 bullying and harassment to serious sexual assault when it's 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 euston to tell us that brains to be able to identify that the subject traumatic. and people can access help in this country it just isn't recognized that 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 wait here to teach me a service company. is a criminal act in the field i see it 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 all 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 than 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 say her commanding officers ignored the medical complaints leading to serious health complications. the fact that my knee injury wasn't investigated and became increasingly unwell and started experiencing quite extreme 7 hands and i was alerting my knee and 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 layman terms i was in internally bleeding which my life was risk from that and 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 live a flat it clearly over 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. i got involved whether i was in a commodity logan or from a unit with a rape allegation it 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 before our country are the straw you then i would be for horror around the world we not that as recently as a few weeks ago the vast majority of viable next and 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 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 told people he needs money are still die have are 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 e. decide to stop the shipment of some buses that are produced immediately to our strong as it is a country not in the european union. in other news 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 purely a purely political effort to undermine the party i had a 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 a visa legit 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 in the city of often scuffles with police broke out when protesters attempted to reach the stage where party officials were speaking we heard from some members of the a d.m. they believe all of the actions were orchestrated. they have to put it to a mandate in order to get this writ of the competitive as

a political competitor we have the strongest opposition party then what we have to do some 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 and 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 to call it all into knots to call the aid of. an extremist group of xmas 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 an ending in an exclusive interview a senior i have team member talking about what he calls the training conflict with the established. and while you're there cancel culture strikes again in development in one of the yesterday's stories e-bay has now joined amazon in removing some. classic dr seuss children's books over claims of racial discrimination. 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 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 of getting across the frontier. and 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 do you believe right prices at the border i see. the answer is no i think there is a challenge at the border that we are managing and we have our resources dedicated to to manage 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 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 to 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 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 depth do it today and then make a lot of business is going to close 1000000 people out of war and illegal the crowds of 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 r.t. new york the governor of texas is among those who fired back at the immigration plans. by the ministration was releasing illegal immigrants it legal immigrants into our communities who had coded that is neanderthal type approach to dealing with the covert situation people in the state also took aim at

biden after he slammed the governor's decision to relax code restrictions in texas . in the last the last thing before i think you have somebody who's going to take it. for good it still matters after that should not be saying those kind of things it's very insulting or he. criticize everybody else again. it's. the democrats and they drove my hair in their boots 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 makes 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 a bit smarter than you might think in while texas is still registering over 7500 new coronavirus cases a day and although there's been a decline in infections and deaths in recent weeks at almost 45000 feet taliban as it does have the 3rd highest covert death 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 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 up language 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 was. the texas governor justified the decision citing economic concerns and 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 receive any vaccinations at all 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 a 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 texas' plans to open up despite the pandemic and the reaction to. texas has this image of now critics 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 can 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. mass kidnappings in nigeria have become an all 'd 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 actually began throwing stones at officials drawing fire from security forces aaron 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 they release things 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 sparks concern among the international community which has been vocal about the need to tackle the issues in this our whole region as you hear the 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 risk 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 at 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 a 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 a large 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 and loudly so what will it take before relief is brought to nigeria counter-terror experts told payola dos says a combined effort is needed to end such situations in nigeria. one of the biggest challenge then i do not say seems so easy. to do islamic extremism so imagine

a zionist you must be new to what would translate into well we all got caught out it was tough we got to make sure we was to make sure that he show up on this it's through music is dealt with clinically and not individually help nigeria have done build a tele just because help them look close to 5 so close meets on the ground because each knows goes into. your group with you all the way. forward more about the humanitarian situation in nigeria 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 30 minutes and i hope to see you then. on the pandemic no certainly no borders i'm just delighted to nationalities.

as a. judge you know coming crisis like this sometimes. we can do better we should be doing better. everyone is contributing your own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges created with the response has been much so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that clearing it together. since that other abundance of and. pay them is going to.

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