welcome to our see here with a breakdown of some of the stories that shapes the week is the e.u. struggles to get it back to nation program off the ground among the states to look for alternative jobs slovakia becoming the 2nd country in the block to get better splitting the. break ranks with the e.u. to get the risky job its medicines watchdog fronts a rolling review of the vaccine we hear from the head of the fund behind sputnik. he made sure your view of leaders should be very true to the most valuable but if you search a little bridge between russia and europe. you begin our friends and family new zealand says no one should be off limits when it comes to forming on

the focus group break this. down the end of nations being bombed into democracy the bonds of ministration says no more u.s. backed regime change we ask though whether old habits may die hard. other thanks so much for joining us this sunday morning watching the weekly. europe's faltering vaccination program has already seen hungry in slovakia break ranks with the bloc and get russia sputnik feet that is lava gave its own inoculation campaign a shot in the arm only this weekend brugge is considering doing the same senior correspondent as the evidence into why the e use fax scene program is struggling to get off the ground. so there's 3 european nations that have a green light to dispute it despite the european medicines agency taking its time

really taking its time to approve sputnik so these 3 nations have already sidelined the european union and of the said look the situation is incredibly desperate the czech republic hungry and now slovakia's which is received its 1st batch. vaccines there's going to be millions more that is going to be delivered by summer so the prime minister's obviously very happy that he's managed to secure more vaccines for the people nevertheless there is now a scandal there's a scandal because the president of slovakia has come out she paid lip service to people's lives but all that would be she says she said that vaccination shouldn't be carried out at the expense of political stability of course saving lives goes beyond any political controversy but even exceptional actions can be taken in such a way so as not to destroy the ruling coalition humiliate opponents or question

people's confidence in vaccinations and cause further conflict in society it is remarkable coming out in front of your people in the middle of a pandemic and telling them. you know your health is important but what is even more important is the stability of the ruling coalition. you know it just goes to highlight that the deep divisions in europe and there are incredibly deep divisions in europe over the way the pandemic vaccination in the rule out of the vaccines has been handled it isn't the russian vaccine that is undermining people's faith in the european union it is their handling of this crisis in germany for example 51 percent of people asked in a recent poll whether you know the the vaccination has been handled well or badly by the european union 51 percent more than half of germans have said it's been shambles the way the us. paean union has handled it so initially the european union came out and said look let's let's all do it together so give up your power new

nation needs to buy vaccines by themselves we'll handle so we'll get you the vaccines but then of actions and what ultimately happened is they bungled it 1st they were too expensive then they were too late because the united states britain snatched up all the vaccines look at the statistics only 5 percent of europeans have been able to get a single job that is compared to 30 percent in the united kingdom so europe is lagging far far behind that european nations understand that this is a catastrophe this is a catastrophe a huge number of levels of a political level on the health care level and ultimately what has happened is that all these nations have said look we're going to do this ourselves obviously the european agencies the euro kratz they have fumbled this so we'll have that ourselves you have poland running to the chinese with hands outstretched begging for that she included you have austria going out and saying that you know we're

going to now cooperate with israel to develop a 2nd generation vaccines denmark as well saying that will work with israel and 2nd generations vaccine to target all the strains and ultimately the austrian chancellor so this is a leader of a european nation coming out and saying they've lost hoop in europe the way that europe handles vaccine rollout. we must prepare for further mutations and should no longer be dependent soley on the e.u. in the production of 2nd generation vaccines look brussels understands that what has happened has been a catastrophe you have officials the european union coming out and say we're sort of apologizing to citizens all over europe for the way they've handled things but saying that you know it isn't it is a do over yet we can still recover we'll get your vaccines there's no need to run around and make shady deals and you know buy up vaccines the supposed to be received by other european nations you have a situation where it's

a free for all now nevertheless the europeans assure that they can fix things and then now saying that perhaps perhaps we'll try to speed up the whole bureaucratic process that has caused all of this and get you a merge and see approval for vaccines now it could be an emergency authorization of vaccines that you level was shared liability among member states remember in the early days of the pandemic when countries all over the world and nato allies the neighbors board bought up supplies from each other we're talking about mosques ventilators we all we all remember the diplomatic crises that that caused this situation now is remarkably similar so so there is no united front you know what you can get your hands on you get your hands on and this is a situation that obviously isn't optimal for europe in these difficult times

especially economically politically all over the world nevertheless european bureaucrats aren't giving up hope they believe that they can still fix things the problem is of course that member states don't believe that they can the e.u. medicines watchdog has started a rolling review of a suspending the vaccine and of the russian direct investment fund the driving force behind the jobs said the vaccine could help relations between russia and europe. russia's most insisting on supplies but seen we hear few demand. is really very significant so we're working on the it was found trays the locals who really want a russian vaccine that is up to you to see easy ones point nuke us part of there we've seen strategy if so what the role will play there but without complaint open and that we will work very closely was in me to provide some with all of the information and we are also looking forward to preserve visits and production

facilities of wood because while we believe that those barriers of mistrust and different lobbying efforts against we see will not succeed in face off action will really 0 but we all need to date which is the road to save lives of people and i think more and more politicians understands us that rather than trying to you know beat them off the cult who'll have been the choice of which seems it's much better to actually speak things out with the major european leaders actually being very pretty magic and understanding and sort of seen if actually would bridge between russia and europe and from the new political. will reduce use of several countries like hungary in slovakia already approved this would be directly we have been approached by several other nations and it's very important that you know when do cruises directly suitable quietly in your review lesions you need you so you

actually clarified for a time period slovakia really followed leads or procedure this is you can do in piece of emergency health situations which obviously called it a good idea just so it's up to the regulator to decide on climate change. we need to make sure that people have a choice of extremes and of course different agencies need to grow their save but it's very important most political choice is a people who deserve to tell a different. it's all just. because you know we would be from human the i don't think all that shit we believe has been proven to be saved for decades and many people will choose specifically this your money to know why don't you told you because. it was almost the 1st last year the inaugural case of corona virus was detected on a russian national let's have a quick look at how the following 12 months here unfolded.

friends family neighbors no one should be off the snooping radar when it comes to cope with rule breakers at least according to new zealand's prime minister but has informing become yet another symptom of the pandemic nicky aaron has a story. amidst the many lockdowns thousands of face masks and gallons of hand sanitizer coverage is also encourage families and friends to reconnect check in

more often to family quizzes but also question who we can really trust in new zealand kiwis have been encouraged to turn detective and report to any rule breakers they come across whether they be your friendly local greengrocer or your dear old grandma even with a full understanding of human fallibility it is not appropriate and it is not ok a members of the team of 5000000 to leave the rest of us down and it seems it's a proven practice remember last year when the shit number of do good snitching on their neighbors was so overwhelming it crashed a police website we've had 4200 reports of people believing compline again it shows. determined. to ensure that everyone complies with us convinced the idea of turning us into a world of informers is the key to compliance leaders across the globe competed for

the most creative ways to encourages all to tell allays matt opted for a cash incentive you know the old expression about snitches well in this case snitches get rewards we want to thank you for turning folks in and making sure we are all safe in washington police transformed a local up for residence into an express line to rat on your neighbor with governor inslee stay home stay healthy order in effect the bellevue police have developed an easy way for residents to report violations reports logged into the my build view would generate a heat map showing where there are potentially illegal gatherings or business activity in italy such was the strength of the all seeing army they decided to make it official and created 60000 jobs for those who felt the need to daub in others and no souls were spared in germany as even politicians felt the wrath of the squeal is you'd think the public might have been appalled by those measures but the

enthusiasm was so overwhelming that some police stations in the u.k. were receiving so many calls that they had to create a separate special hotline for the whole of curtain twitching do gooders now there's nothing wrong with asking people to remain vigilant and helpful we all have to do our bit but what happens when covert itself cost it's lost in the pandemic finally blows over the curtain twitchers will just be left nervously twitching hoping to once again be friends and not enemies. washington says no more too costly for a military interventions president biden strongly supporting nato bombing of yugoslavia and so blinkered advocating to supply ukraine with weapons we asked whether the new slogan is really going to translate into a policy shift we will incentivize democratic behavior. but we will not promote democracy through costly military interventions or by attempting to overthrow

oratory regimes by force. we've tried these tactics in the past. however well intentioned they have it work quite an interesting use of words but the pattern from the united states of intervening in the affairs of other countries destabilizing and overthrowing governments around the world is quite well known one looks at the history of iraq of libya afghanistan one looks throughout south and central america one can see many examples of the united states intervening in other countries affairs destabilizing and overthrowing governments in fact in recent years we've heard many calls from u.s. leaders for governments around the world to be overthrown and for leaders to step down assad needs to go we will continue to work with our partners in the international community to press. the to leave the time has come for nicholas mcdermott to go what's interesting is that we actually had a tweet from anthony blinken in which he gave full support to one kwaito one grade

0 is an individual in venezuela who has proclaimed himself to be the president and has been engaging in violent attempts to destabilize venezuela to overthrow the elected government there of even been u.s. military contractors that have been involved in those military coup attempts so having anthony blinken you know you know voicing support for one great oh the unelected individual who claims to be venezuela's leader kind of flies in the face of his claim that the united states won't be using force now if there was one loophole you could say in anthony blinken remarks he did create a pretext in which the united states would be continuing to use force against governments of course we will never hesitate to use force when american lives and vital interests are at stake now what exactly would constitute such a threat he did not lay out any specific criteria so it seems that though the united states through its new secretary of state is announcing that no more force

will be used many wonder if this will simply be a changing of red. rick it looks like the united states will most likely be continuing its foreign policy activities but only time will tell he did leave that huge loophole where he said vital interests vital interests can mean almost anything mars the moon you name it it could be a vital interest to america if a politician wants to say that's the case it seems like rhetoric you know trump certainly had his own style that was very bombastic and out there and other presidents have been more reserved in their or in their description of activities but when you look at the actual policies we've seen no change and i think it sounds like rhetoric not something that we can count on yet you know president trying started a trade war with china and now president biden's talking about well we're going to cooperate with other countries but we're also going to have trade agreements that protect our workers and do this and that which in the end probably means the exact

same policies as a national trade war biden i see him rebranding a lot of the same old thing and to the blinken is repeatedly echoed joe biden's america is back slogan and some are skeptical about what exactly that. that was. the.

america is back. it was his 1st major comeback speech since the policy in the white house but just hours after donald trump took to the stage the former american president had fallen foul of you cheap census platform deleting his speech on a number of news organizations sites including reuters a.b.c. and ati citing a lack of content warnings the 3rd take on events is probably. sir donald trump was back giving his big return speech at the packed 2021 the conservative political action conference for the uninitiated and it attracts a great 2 wild bunch. i would show you

some more of the highlights but it's not bad easy because our i would like you to be able to watch my video on you tube which is hard to say at censoring the 45th president but nobody likes live ok let's try and get one more quick clip in content warning this video contains an orange man saying things which may not be 100 percent correct and worship her do. you see our t.v.'s streamed live on the income word free to say whatever he wants in the tradition of freedom of speech only through you tube to take it down and threaten our t.v. with a content strike and deletion from the platform for violating its spam deceptive practices and scams policy hey you tube if you're going to delete every videos for

scams and deceptive practices you know basically going to be left with one video this one. you tube responded to queries by saying more details aren't explanatory information must be provided essentially you to pates the fact that trump still uses every opportunity to claim that he didn't lose the election but what's interesting about you tube's policy is that the censors 1st port of call was r.t. r t s german channel and another russian channel called sputnik it took our. before they got to the likes of reuters and the associated press and even then i bet they weren't threatened with removal from the plant core so the folly is clear because for example i can still watch the trump video on the independence youtube channel

actually as you know they just watch the word house but one of which is our environment and so watch out there while you still can but social media platforms which always try to get out of trouble by saying that they aren't publishers they just provide an outlet are openly censoring political content and deleting access to a former president who despite what any of us may say more was democratically elected by millions of people. and they're targeting russian channels for specifically allowing people to speak freely and that's all going on the news outlets are simply reporting the news and yet i can still watch things like this. it's political censorship that's all it is. legal media analyst lionel has concerns you choose actively trying to silence political opponents google and you tube and other other platforms like this are of

such in the main nature as your own most like you chill ities did. imagine if you're on the phone and overspend your phone drops because you dared mention hydroxy chloroquine or said something in favor of donald trump you wouldn't have it and if the utility said well maybe you should start your own phone company was it that ridiculous so it's time for us to recalibrate and redefine what these platforms are they're not they're not the union platform this is you tube this is international it's more than that and these distinctions have to change and what it is is these agencies these platforms are if you will agencies or instruments of whatever the shadow government the ruling class the deep state i don't know but you're being used as clenching devices to punish people to get in line and people love these platforms so much that they will not talk about or think about anything

in fear of losing their beloved you to were facebook and whatever actually know exactly what they're doing. the international criminal court's own state probe into alleged war crimes by israel in palestine this includes the 2014 gaza war which was one of the deadliest conflicts between the sides. the decision to open an investigation full of the painstaking preliminary examination undertaken by the office that lasted close to 5 years our central concern must be for the victims of crimes both palestinian and israeli arising from the long cycle of violence and insecurity that has caused deep suffering and despair on all sides quote.

in february the i.c.c. concluded it to jurisdiction over alleged war crimes committed by israel on palestinian territories meaning israeli soldiers and politicians could find themselves being prosecuted for listings of welcome the decision saying it's a victory for the victims of the conflict with israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu slam the move labeling it and diluted anti semitism and the height of hypocrisy i call again in the near discuss the investigation with enough taliban it is israel's former defense minister and current candidate for prime minister. this is a perversion of justice of any basic morals you know when one side or another

the 2nd side has a right to self-defense the court is not a court you know they call it the i.c.c. i view it the international circus of clowns let me tell you something you know i thought in quite a few wars defending my family come us shoots rockets at israeli from within hospitals within homes within schools and then when we want to fight back then this i.c.c. thing tells us that we're immoral and you are saying that the militants were based in hospitals and schools but by firing bach were actually schools and nurses and doctors where working civilians were killed there is very much a sense of proportionality to be to be held here isn't there and israel did not. is there you know if someone is shooting your kids your kids from within the school how proportional are you going to react well there's

a sense of self defense of course i agree with but in terms of doing that do you not prolong the war on the victims in israel as well as palestine making it even worse for future generations surely there's a stage where you have to say listen we're going to go after these people but we're not going to try to kill as many civilians as we did before oh no you're distorting things we never are out to kill civilians being killed. oh they've been killed by their own government hamas which places rockets next to their children so yes let me but you know if your weapons ever places rockets from within civilians he is murdering his own people not israel there is an evil side that is an attack in there's a good side that's defending and the only side that holds any responsibility is the offender let me be very clear you know if there is a list of people. all or going to the ha going to be at the top of the list we will never the hands of an israeli soldier while defending itself.

dr seuss children's books have seen a huge spike in sales on online platforms it's up to the publisher decided to discontinue the series over what it calls harmful stereotypes auntie's to reach a pound takes a closer look at why the books of course are just a. dr seuss the famous american author known for his countless iconic children's books well now he's cancelled schools are dropping dr seuss books because apparently they have racist undertones and the dr seuss estate has officially announced it will discontinue 6 of his books because they're harmful and wrong and if you want to buy the hard copy yourself while good luck even if for example has decided to delist all bands dr seuss books which by the way are being sold for thousands of dollars right now ever since this whole thing started ironically though even had no problems with listings of hitler's line come from before this

whole fiasco so i guess that book wasn't as problematic but despite all the pushback and thousands of people raging online over how evil dr seuss's works were there is simply not a lot of people bringing up actual examples of the supposedly racist and harmful content one study of his works combed through over 2000 characters and all of dr seuss's works and came to the conclusion that there was not enough racial diversity in his characters these are children's books most of the characters are fluffy bouncy anthropomorphic creatures why the hell are you even looking for racial equality and representation in a children's book from decades ago unless of course the only intends of that study was to conjure up yet another racial controversy out of thin air and as with many

such attempts to brand a publicly like figure as racist and hateful most of the allegations aren't based on any actual facts if anything dr seuss was generally regarded as a progressive liberal even his step daughter says that there was nothing racist about the man there was a. a racist bone in that man's body he was so accurate and while it around him and can't say much in 2021 it's not about what's actually written or the intent behind it or even the character of the author it's all about the binocs asli heightened sensitivities of the chosen few who are looking to be offended and victimized any way they can and apparently a few baseless accusations of perceived offensiveness or wrong thing are now to get people on the bandwagon of cancel culture and if anybody pushes against that wagon well they're probably going to get cancelled themselves soon. rather today i'll

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