in the headlines when. she made claims about. a story online a hate campaign against the teacher. that ultimately led to his beheading. the e.u. chief puts the blame on. with just. claims of. this supposedly discredit america. in favor of the russian. leader independence movement is stripped of his immunity as a member of the e.u. parliament paving the way for spain to push for his extradition.

7 pm here in the russian capital this is the international news. a french school girl whose allegations against history teacher. led to a deadly online campaign against him has admitted she made the whole thing up was murdered by a terrorist last october. has more on the case on the revelations from the 13 year old girl. i know what that entailed and what sparked all of this is a class that he taught which was to do a civics getting the children to discuss issues in france as part of that class he decided to show the controversial images of the profit my hammett now that. the chain of events that led to his death it started with a teenage girl

a teenage girl who admits she lied about what she said she went home that day and said to her father that she'd been asked to leave the class because she was a muslim and when she disagreed with the teacher she had been suspended from his class for that was furious as you can imagine called to the school and demanded that samuel patti be struck off the teaching staff there for him to resign when that didn't work he started an online campaign which became a hate campaign towards samuel party describing the teachers being discriminatory against his daughter what's now emerged is that the 13 year old fabricated all of that she was in his class on the day that she showed those controversial images she hadn't been asked to leave because she was a muslim and she hadn't been suspended for the fact that she'd spoken back to the teacher she was in fact trying to cover up for the fact that she had been playing

truant that day so her father wouldn't find out a lawyer says that the things just spiraled out of control and she was lost in that . she lied she shouldn't have been she deeply regrets she never wished for mr death she never called his murder she never to be spilled headed. for the public to know this 13 year old girl bears responsibility for her lie but not for the death of samuel patti. well the lawyer for some. parties families say that they thought convinced about this they say that the evaluations that she gave that she was a spokesperson for the individuals in the class are just not satisfactory everything in the investigation showed very early that she lied she was a spokes person a want of lies have events that never happened the sex the nation does not convince

me and makes me rather angry because the facts are serious here tragic but it's also had much much wider consequences here in france it once again raised tensions between the muslim community and of the communities in the government here in france we saw in the weeks that followed his death that there was a crackdown or mosques that would deem to have been radicalized there was a crackdown the muslim association fronts and that then led to diplomatic tensions between france and some muslim majority countries france even then forward legislation that it was working but then decided to incur late watered happened with some real party and that draft legislation which is now being passed by the national assembly and will soon be discussed by the senate is looking at promoting the republican values of france but many people see it as being in anti muslim

law so you know this was one lawyer would. not only left a teach a day but there's really uncovered a hornet's nest of problems here in france i spoke with journalist and political commentator elizabeth she things the school goes farther a large degree of responsibility for what happened to the teacher. i think she will still write some responsibility i think what's really interesting is that i think her father considered it quite a great deal of that 1st of all because the daughter knew exactly what would work with her father she knew that her father and a word had sympathy for the people who denounced us from her for by and turns she put things to him so that he would literally erupt and it's more a question of what is acceptable and why you would why would that thing be so easy to be accepted and then whenever people surge but she's lying he called and this lot of i think you know at the very least that child sponsibility which is not nil

is shared with with her father and the girl whose father started the process towards murder that girl is still in school and we don't want to know her name i don't want her to be punished in in such a horrendous way but i think that there's a kind of cowardice on one side and earned not on the other. the head of the european commissioner says she's become a scapegoat for europe's extremely slow inoculation rate and lay the blame on a vaccine maker astra zeneca as they got into the story now with artie's peter all of a. well the e.u. commission are not happy at all with vaccine manufacture astra zeneca care it's got to do with delivery of the jobs to the e.u. as a bloc they were told that for the 1st quarter of 2021 they'd receive 100000000 doses they have received 10000000 doses even i can do the mathematics there 90 percent is

the shortfall the e.u. commission has come in for a lot of criticism over failures in logistics and planning in its vaccine program underlying the e.u. commission president though is saying that astra zeneca needs to bear some of the responsibility as well we see esther's any case delivering below 10 percent of what had been contracted for the 1st quarter we are tired of being the scapegoat the european commission president did say that we could see repeats of vaccines being blocked from leaving the european union we saw this last week when italy stopped a shipment of around 250000 doses of the astra zeneca job for heading to australia the australian trade minister called that vaccine protectionism what we don't want to see is a repeat of the well scramble we saw for resources at the beginning of the pandemic where everybody was trying to outbid everybody else when it came to masks and p.p.

and everything else on the line though has said yes there have been problems with the way the vaccine program is being rolled out there's been problems with the way the e.u. commission has handled things we aren't where we want to be in combating the virus we were late in granting authorization we were too optimistic about mass production and maybe we also took for granted that the doses orders would actually arrive on time we must ask ourselves why and what lessons we can draw from it even when you have vaccines there's still problems in austria they've suspended the use of one of the astra zeneca john. after one woman died and another person was taken seriously ill after they received it it's until a full investigation can be carried out as it stands at the moment they say there is no direct link between them having the vaccination and becoming ill but they want to make sure that that's definitely not the case when it comes to getting the

vaccines into the country though there is one other avenue you that the european union could be looking at not importing them from the united states but in order to do that they're going to have to convince washington to overturn their own protectionist rules that don't allow vaccines to be exported outside of the u.s. . russia has dismissed claims of spreading dissent from asian about u.s. vaccines calling them nonsense the u.s. state department earlier flagged for russian web sites i was supposedly trying to discredit the fires there and modernity jobs in favor of sputnik v. is our correspondent saskia taylor. the world changed big time over the last year but some things stay the same remember russia madelyne as well that our global engagement center has identified 4 russian online platforms that are directed by

russian intelligence services and spread disinformation about 2 of the vaccines that have now been approved by the f.d.a. in this country we are aware of it we're monitoring and we are taking steps to address back just in time to wage vaccine war because while hackings a bit passe in electing foreign presidents is a bit wild being that not vaccines are where it's at 2021 and when it became clear that american scientists might vaccine the russian ones the kremlin aborts had no choice but to raise that disinform in heads again the emphasis on denigration pfizer is likely due to stay just as the 1st besides putin could be to see mass use resulting in a greater potential threat to sputniks market dominance who said to global pandemic couldn't be politicized now some would say these madness a bit late to the game i mean sputnik freeze already registered in around 40

countries many of which didn't even consider not because they'd been brainwashed by mean anti flies and notes left by undercover agents but because pfizer is logistically a much trickier vaccine it used to fall apart if it wasn't kept in specialized freezers minus 17 degrees celsius that's now been improved to minus $25.00 while sputnik v chills out to plus 8 and is around hof the price and then there are countries like iran which own exactly buddy buddy with the us so why buy their proxy when there's another one on the market without the political trauma. logical right while unfortunately political games and logic on friends and paranoia is alive and well it's nonsense russian special services have nothing to do with any criticism against vaccines if we treat every negative publication against the

sputnik the vaccine as a result of efforts by american special services then we will go crazy because we see it every day every hour and in every anglo-saxon media the wall street journal's resurrected this information for the sake of a few critical articles just imagine what all means over madly as it would have had twin vent if i had got the onslaught of doubt criticism hate that sputnik we got back in the day the speed of the road now is a concern for some health professionals it's a new kind of global race that russia wants to lead there are concerns about its safety with questions of how much of it russia can produce now timing is everything the e.u. struggling with this vaccine rollout paid by production delays and shortages ready to help but may be so to block started the approval process now 5 in the us who

obviously love healthy competition in a way that twitter loves paula bore trump loves music is probably looking at that and saying a chunk of that money party just fall away never mind that it's for the good of humanity the sputnik vaccine will not go back to russia it will save lives in slovakia i would never give it up our country is a fundamental part of the european union but i cannot turn down a quality vaccine that will save our people because it's made in russia i'm not a murderer you'll hear the good news is that 280000 doses of the vaccine arrived from russia and we need vaccinations 1st as possible under valving more people so. yes the pandemic might have changed the wild but some things never change madness and disinform ation back in the game did you miss them. the european parliament has voted to strip cattle on the separatist leader karla's

push him and on 2 of his colleagues of their community paving the way for the extradition to spain just a bit earlier in the program i discussed all of this without sees daniel hawkins. these legal wranglings the question of diplomatic immunity has been hotly contested in the european parliament and that vote has now come through 248 against 400 m.p.'s for waiving diplomatic immunity all 3 individuals are wanted on charges of misuse of public funds and sedition in spain this means that madrid can now issue new european arrest warrants potentially leading to their extradition and charges for that referendum in 2017 which madrid views as a legal and the organizers as criminal court will of course take a different view in his speech today you said this was an attack on freedom and a campaign of prosecution against him on his associates he asked every new need to . been buried in. more than that. and it's

a regime you know democracy to me do you communicate if you can. will certainly view this as a victory that this question of catherine and pendants a simmering. source of many tensions between catalonia and madrid will be resolved internally on a national level as opposed to getting involvement from the e.u. states either regional level so certainly a victory here for madrid you know some already saying that madrid trying to make an example of preacher man and his associates as well did do you really think there madrid is is keen to put the politician on trial and potentially lock him up behind bars or for madrid the question of castle and independence has been hugely sensitive 11 that's pretty much been off the table and when putin one became the 130 of president of catalonia he was the 1st to refuse to swear oath to swear loyalty to the spanish monarchy to this planet a constitution and it was on the his rule that in september 27th teen laws were

passed that enabled that referendum to go through the referendum was never completed madrid spent sent security forces to the region that of course resulted in these tensions. between catalonia a madrid of many years many decades coming to heads with a protest clashes with security forces on the streets which shocked many who were following events around the world. we decided to strike the president vice president and other high ranking officials in the council on the government's.

proposal for a disease should teach. because an independence movement is bigger than just call us presume on should madrid succeed in getting mixture out in the charge potentially jailed as other activists have been this won't be the end of the question but by issuing this extradition request madrid is very keen to make an example of that they won't stand for somebody that goes against spanish laws and spanish constitution this is why for the last 2 years they've been trying so hard to win those legal battles that get them back to spain way could face those charges and from a legal standpoint certainly this is something many around the world be following

in many countries which have their own independence movements intentions certainly this could set a president and something many will be watching very closely indeed. a former member of the cutline parliament thank you so much for joining us here on international on this tuesday what why do you think e.u. lawmakers made this move why would it be in their interests to strip. us of their immunity. this is just another step in this in this long battle. because the spend his days high school all of us have poured a lot of pressure on there are bound by a man and at the end our 40 percent of their members out there better parliament voted against this extradition did again to waive the immunity to these members of the parliament and now the court of justice of belgium scotland . depending on which moment of the parliament. we talk about has to decide

whether to accept their solution or not so the only issue that one has done he still waved a minit is by now there is a court procedure that will decide if at the end there will be a trial against this member of parliament saw for a long for a lot of years ago that it's been house trying to to put in prison this number of the parliament and. spanish state. couldn't do it because belgian court of justice decided not to accept this nation for example with another case because that was tried to extract it but belgium court of justice didn't accept it so i think that. the democratic countries in europe not has been want to accept is a tradition where you bring up a really good point because you know they'd like to say that europe is steeped in

democracy here and here's puja on himself saying the best vote is a major loss for european democracy what's your view. well. european union likes to say that it is a complete democracy but is not true there are some issues that are not accepted by the. constitution are true it is of their opinion for example a democratic process of independence in case of get along or even gives up the skull and skull and was only accepted because the united kingdom accepted it but not because they're up there in union except that it so there are some issues that do of the union don't want to disclose don't want to accept in terms of democrats for example when you are discussing. the fact that an issue without the status that there are no one to look just a lot so when we talk about democracy when we talk about complete democracy is not

the case of pencil but a band union has to revise. their own country this has to put more attention on what. is the state member of that conforms european union has done in this case is sometimes not to look at what other countries out of european union are doing by the world countries within rebellion are doing in terms of them ocracy or along with somebody or better let's bring in a pretty practical impact i do apologize for interrupting you but let's bring in the practical impact here of the obvious vote i'm in belgium has so far rejected a spanish arrest warrant for poor john saying the charge of rebellion doesn't exist in belgium lord how do you think they will give in and hand him over to spain. that should on not only a male gym. floor. i do apologize we just lost the connection there with audiobooks turner former member of the catalan parliament

will try and reestablish that connection in fact as far as i understand we've got him back on the line right now who would be allowed to apologize a bit of a technical glitch there as you can understand the e.u. parliament there was a far from unanimous on this whole vote we're talking 248 lawmakers voted voted against stripping obvious immunity if the extradition does go ahead how is that going to impact the i guess this growing rift between member states. over the issue so it will be a shame for down parliament so it's not the 1st time of that remember that. by among them accept the condition of members for d.s. . parliament saw it was a general 1 court of justice. justice that courts their own parliament to accept these members us complete members are full members so it's not the 1st time

that. the effort and the pressure of this. force the up and up are going to start at the end the democratic courts. don't accept and forced out of that i'm battling to change that you know so i think it will happen again. our former member of the catalan parliament a great pleasure having you on r.t. today thank you. thank you very much. accusations by prince harry's wife meghan markle against britain's royals are certainly dominating the world headlines at the moment but as our teaser nicky aaron reports they've also had the effect of masking wider questions about the queen and her family. well you'll worrying about home schooling how to pay your mortgage and how to survive in the far reaching misery of the pandemic the witnesses are at war one royal bombshell after another sprinkled with plenty of commentary to make sure you don't lose perspective before you even have time to

switch your gaze to insteps the queen queen oprah that is with the interview of the decade which i know you've watched hans berg for magen as she bravely held back tears when she spoke of how stressful it was to stay up late googling grow protocols and there were no pats on the back for meghan claims that in return she was bullied by the racist royal family to the extent that she contemplated suicide i just didn't want to be alive anymore and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born with hash tag team meghan receiving a die hard following on the former actress becoming an icon of resistance to the racist outdated and downright oppressive royals' see there are reasons the royal family might be grateful for the destruction to put it this way now nobody's really talking about that little news item about the queen lobbying for

a change in law to hide public wealth right government memos found in the national archives revealed that the queen's private lawyer pressured ministers to alter a proposed legislation to prevent her majesty shareholding from being disclosed to the coleman is otherwise known as the public just because of the risk of. discreet people basically because disclosure it's any person would be embarrassing. and what happened to all the news stories about prince some group who were allegedly even low paid the us government on behalf of pay to fall geoffrey epstein well the newspapers might have moved on the f.b.i. hasn't the department wants to talk to prince andrew that's why the south and district has been making efforts to communicate with him we have made it clear that we'd like to communicate with him and i can think of one other person who might be relieved to be out of the spotlight the british prime minister with a 1000000 spends on

a brand new media briefing room and attempt to attract donor money to finance the $200.00 grand restyle of his official residence it's thanks very much for your hard work and putting your lives at risk and all that and they chose stuff but it's just a one percent pay rise for you so we can afford it so as the queen celebrates unity and her commonwealth day speech and her grandson across the pond pull scorn on the royal family in front of an audience of tens of millions while still claiming he just wants the media to leave him alone is seems that it's business as usual in day old blighty just keep that stiff upper lip turn a blind eye stay calm and think of england. it's good to have you with us today a special 3 d. mosque is providing hope for a young girl whose face was severely burned to the palestinian refugee camp the family of 8 year old model is now counting on her recovery.

when we were in school my mom picked us top and we went to the market 1st there was towns and there was fire then we got separated we didn't know where we were. 'd of therapy or doctors without borders they made this mosque they call it a 3 d. mosque that makes the skin soft and heals it up 70 percent. but when i wear the mask i feel better the doctors made it for me i used to go to the doctors to have my dressings changed then they made the mask for me now my wants are almost healed

. i have this. at home i wear the mask but i don't like to wear it when i go out i feel shy when they wear it because everyone starts looking at me but the doctors told me to wear it at least 6 hours a day. to wake up one day and see their faces back to normal because it's really affecting them both psychologically a pretty good for this full recovery. with most of europe still under heavy restrictions due to the whole demick the authorities here in moscow are taking a much lighter approach with most businesses operating as normal and according to the deputy mayor that's down to the city success in countering the pandemic over the past year as she spoke to r.t. about lock downs on the major inoculation campaign that's now happening right here in the russian capital. well it's

a good sort of the let's get straight to the main point to vaccinations in moscow so how is it going. at the moment it's going very well or what exactly is going so well we have vaccinated more than 700000 people in moscow since the beginning of the campaign this means that approximately 121-5000 are vaccinated every day depending on the day of the week we always have free slots we have made the widest range of possibilities for muscovites in order to choose a vaccination point for everyone out of this total number 300000 are elderly we have vaccinated 93 percent of all nursing home residents with the 1st and the 2nd let's go back than to when it all started when matter year ago when corby was already in moscow how did we 1st understand that the big epidemic would begin in moscow and it was clear from the middle of february last year that it would be not only chinese but the whole world this year despite the fact that we have the longest border with china we were not the 2nd country which was infected our turn

was later italy and spain were 1st new york next so we could observe how the situation might develop we did have a time lag so we can make the best sees of this time which therefore from the beginning of march we apply to 1st restrictive measures it is clear that moscow is a huge hope with a high population density and that we would not be able to ignore the situation the only question was when and to what extent we would be ready for their arrival of the pandemic can it compare moscow with some metropolis for the better or for the worse. is that if we take comparable things then it could be new york you can compare us with new york city did we do better or worse than new york la i believe we did well enough compared to new york and to greece tricked of measures on time starting lockdown in march we imposed lockdown in march with 1200 cases the day when you your close and 20000 in fact.