in the headlines on r t a french schoolgirl admits she made up her claims about. a story sparks an online hate campaign against the teacher last year leading to his beheading. the chief puts the blame on the astra zeneca for vaccine supply failures with just 10 percent of orders delivered. how the kremlin brands fresh u.s. claims of moscow meddling time to supposedly discredit american back in favor of birth control. leader of the council on 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.

worldwide this is r.t. international from moscow when it's called embracing these are the stories we're across for you this hour 1st french school girl who is allegations against history teacher. a deadly online campaign against him has admitted she made the whole thing up as he was murdered by a terrorist last october. he has more on the case in the revelations from the 13 year old girl. you 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 prophet mohammed 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 the father was furious as you can imagine called to the school and demanded that samuel patti be struck off the teaching staff there to offer 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 sent 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 1 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

. yes she lied she shouldn't have done that and she deeply regrets she never wished to mr death she never called his murder she never called for blood to be spilled headed. for the public to know if this 13 year old girl bears responsibility for her 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 valuations 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 this explanation 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 were deemed to have been radicalized there was a crackdown on muslim association france and that then led to diplomatic tensions between france and some muslim majority countries france even then brought forward legislation that it was working on 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 one lie that not only left the teach it day but there's really uncovered a hornet's nest of problems here in france. let's go live to paris now

to talk to who specializes in the middle east thanks for joining us on r.t. this is desperately tragic but standing aside this is a 13 year old girl the lawyer points out yes she lied she didn't incite murder to what extent cannot 13 year old girl be held responsible for what happened. first of all kinds for having me on this is really this is a really sad story because simple life has led to the nation teacher of one person and even worse than that the capitation of this teacher so that's 13 years on who lied about her story in order to cover their hair exclusion off of the school for her father she can she can actually go to jail because that that simple line her father to that story 1st of all he went and trying to complain that the police

and then he went online and started hate by the fact that the other phanatic who gave the name of this teacher and a few days after he was the captain so that small law. lead to the capitation of someone and she can go off to jail for that even a fish ringback child even if she's this 13 year old we have special injuries here in france but it's going to be. ready for it short period of what about the girl's father in this he was the one who filed the legal complaint he was the one who started the social media campaign. so for the father for the father he he's already on the investigation for for the country rinsed off a hate crime so he's there he's already on their on their investigation and for him for sure he's going to go to jail because it was him that started that legal

complaint and it was he who started the hate. program on the web site and he was the one who gave the name of that teacher. a few days later in the 18 year old church and muscle and went in so it's a do re direct link between what you need in french thought between what he did and the curious of the deputation the girls not been officially identified but these things these details do have a habit of entering the public domain as you and i both know could this child safety now be at risk. it can actually be her safety can be at risk because you have people can go after him and search her and try to find you but you're going to have the french. extremist right extremists who can wash their hair and even those those those must sanity's will probably try to see if. they can

kill her or not we don't know what's going to happen but she's really in danger and i think she's going to be on their own protection. and when details like this on such an emotive case have such a magnet ties in effect is there a danger the media attention can now just kind of focusing and have a spotlight on this schoolgirl and what she said rather than the wider implications of what led to a child lying about truancy that escalated so quickly into a brutal killing that there are a bigger issues that actually need that focus. they're there on bigger issues that needs to be focused on because you have we have from that lie a lot of things happened because now we have you locked up as as. journalists just said that's going to be discussed in the senate about a religion and france is the country they don't want they don't want people to sort their religion outside their private houses so that badly they like.

led to a lot of the themes a lot of bad things and france problem is now with. what muslim people in france feel that the french government. is which is not france government is trying to pass a new law in order to subject all religion to restriction not only muslim culture or religion or christian days and all of their religions because your insights very much appreciated in paris thank you very much for joining us on r.t. tonight thank you very much. the head of the european commission says she's become a scapegoat for europe's extremely slow inoculation rate and laid the blame on vaccine makers after learning reporting next his printer out of. 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 combat in 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 disinformation about u.s. vaccines calling them nonsense the state department earlier flagged for russian websites supposedly trying to discredit the fines and modernity jobs in favor of sputnik here's 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 oh vaccine war because well hackings a bit passe in electing foreign presidents is a bit well been there done that 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 it wouldn't be to see mass use resulting in a greater potential threat to sputniks market dominance who said to

a 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 that is logistically a much trickier vaccine it used to fall apart if it wasn't kept in specialized minus 17 degrees celsius that's now been improved to minus $25.00 while sputnik v. chills out plus 8 and is around hof the price and then there are countries like iran which on exactly buddy buddy with the us so why buy their proxy when there's another one on the market without the political trauma. not tickle right well 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 for trump loves music is probably looking at that and seeing 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 vaccination as fast as possible under valving more people so. yes the pandemic might have changed the wild but some things never change madness disinfo mation back in the game did you miss them.

european parliament has voted to strip cotton and separatist leader colors put him on 2 of his colleagues at the immunity paving the way for the extradition to spain research show you discussed developments with correspondent 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 the extradition and charges for that referendum in 2017 which madrid views as illegal 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 for a new unity. buried in a nation that. and its regime you know to me these are key in case you can. drip will certainly view this as a victory that this question of catherine and pendants a simmering. source of met 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 victory here for madrid you know some already saying that madrid trying to make an example of preacher man and his associates as well do you really think that 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 i became the 130 of president of catalonia he was the 1st to

refuse to swear oath to swear loyalty to the spanish monarchy to the spanish 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 and madrid over many years many decades coming to a head with a process clashes with security forces on the streets which shocked many who were following events around the world. we decided to sack 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 preacher man 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 punish laws and spanish constitution this is why for the last 2 years they've been trying so hard

to win those legal battles or get him 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 and tensions certainly this could set a president and something many will be watching very closely indeed. or before that votes in the european parliament a group of former m.e.p. signed a petition urging lawmakers not to remove put demands immunity we spoke with one of them. if there is going to be parliamentary immunity i would have i would question the legitimacy of 11 parliamentarians and the opportunity to escape the rule of law what the european parliament rules that provides members of parliament with immunity and therefore 'd it needs to be used in a way in which a sparrow much is equal and it shouldn't be used and to be removed for political reasons which is what i believe a european parliament did by refusing to uphold the immunity of future montana's colleagues yesterday so to me this is

a full mental problem. shocking to be sought on any charge let's recall exactly what his krajina supported to be as the elected representative of the people of catalonia he did what he promised he would do before an election and what he was elected to the. united states is a doing the afghan government to strike a power sharing deal with the taliban the revelation come from a leaked letter to kabul written by the u.s. secretary of state let's go live to ati's kind of moping now in new york that caleb took us through this proposal from joe biden's of ministration then and how it's being received in afghanistan indeed well. it is been over 20 years of war well over 20 years there have been thousands of lives lost and at this point many are looking back and remembering there have been many attempts to settle the conflict that have been rather unsuccessful but now this new proposal seems to

indicate that may 1st could be the day if the taliban agrees that the united states fully withdraws its forces from the country at this point the biden ministration seems to have a new plan for settling the conflict that would involve a power sharing deal with the taliban blink in the u.s. secretary of state was urging ghani the taliban president about a plan for developing constructive positions about the ongoing conflict we have a letter that was leaked to the media here's some of what was in it we are considering the food withdrawal of forces by may 1st as we consider other options even with the continuation of financial assistance from the united states to forces often american military withdrawal i'm concerned that the security situation will worsen and that the taliban could make rapid turns turold gains i'm making this clear so you understand the urgency of my tone regarding the clicks of work outlined in this letter. now under the proposed deal the taliban insurgents

would get 50 percent of representatives in key executive bodies so that they could essentially a draft new laws and draft a constitution and they would even have one extra to make sure that they had the deciding vote in key matters in addition to that in exchange they're basically being asked to join a new military panel and that would essentially involve the taliban joining the afghan security forces and becoming part of the official afghan government security forces now in addition to that there is a request and a demand that the taliban cut the military ties with foreign powers and do not quote expand their force configurations or recruit new fighters now these are the same forces the united states has actually been fighting against since 2001 and if they agree to this deal according to what is being proposed the united states who would draw its forces on may 1st however there seems to be some skepticism about

this deal in afghanistan here's some response we've heard. that we think the u.s. for its support they can make a decision on their troops not on the people of afghanistan. now. in february of 2020 the united states brokered a deal with the taliban that resulted in a permanent cease fire and the u.s. military footprint in the country was reduced from 13000 troops to 8600 and that was in mid july of last year and now currently there are 2500 u.s. troops in afghanistan and if this deal were agreed to by the taliban all u.s. troops would withdraw on may 2021 in may 1st to 2021 now it's important to know that there have been negotiations between the united states and the taliban taking place in doha since last september those negotiations have been going on there

hasn't really been much progress made so as people look at the situation people were hoping that these negotiations would result in less violence but deadly attacks are still continuing across the country. this point people are looking on and saying will this be a game changer is this proposal from the biden administration from u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken perhaps the road to peace in afghanistan there is certainly been hope before that has been disappointed but this is certainly a dramatic deal nothing like this has been offered before so international observers are looking on to see how the united states and the taliban proceed certainly feels like a long shot us now ok in new york kind of open thanks very much for the. let's go live now to peace activist david swanson who's co-founder and executive director will be old wall welcome to see what you make of this proposal from this lesson from the u.s. does it feel like a long shot or is there the handy marker in the calendar may the 1st that's going

to force a few people's hands in the coming weeks. well i certainly hope it will force some hands in afghanistan and in washington i do not believe that lincoln is currently seriously considering withdrawing all u.s. troops and mercenaries this is not what he or biden or the u.s. military wants i think it's worth noting that there are still some 35 countries with troops in afghanistan they're not all from the u.s. and any of those countries can as new zealand recently did pull their troops out which would help very much in forcing their hand in washington there is a new u.s. congress elected with a promise to end the endless wars that could require the end of the u.s. participation in this war in afghanistan immediately should it see fit. and i think it's worth noting that even if all of this is sincere and succeeds and there is

a new government and a troop withdrawal the u.s. is is openly committing to continuing to arm and fund the afghan military which is not exactly the who lives the most likely path to peace and as it does feel like quite a few bold suggestions are here after 2 decades all those lives lost all that money that spent some of this something of an admission of defeat on the u.s. side. all well they will put it in those terms but i don't know what else it could possibly be i think that if there is any lesson to be learned here it is never do anything like this ever again us stop trying to overthrow governments in venezuela and elsewhere around the world immediately this is a tragedy however it plays out however long the troops remain for the people of afghanistan most of whom are very poorly represented by either the afghan government or the taliban and this deal could have been had over 19 years ago with

a lot of people still alive and trillions of dollars on spent sort of the obvious number one lesson is never ever do this sort of thing it is immoral and it is criminal no one mentions by the way that it's not legal to be keeping troops in afghanistan until greater minds than them have been on this but just looking at some of the items in this to even suggest having the taliban on the same table as afghan leaders is going to be unpalatable for a number of people there let alone bringing in other regional players like iran into this and the suggestion that the taliban if you don't mix with the bad guys will give you a seat at the table this will sound a little bit simplistic. well it's a it's a short outline even at 8 pages and there is a proposal in there to create a new constitution i wish there were a deadline there would have to be if this proceeds a deadline for creating a constitution since you're not going to have any elections in the in the interim.

yes to to negotiate is uncomfortable between these are he says as of very often between people who have been at war for decades and you know that's to be less to be recognized and these are horrible governments both the afghan government and obviously the taliban but you when you start to consider human rights and the outer worry just ness of the taliban being on a human rights committee and so forth there is also the right not to be bumped on the right to to live without war that has to be given some precedence after decades of prioritizing or at least create and preventing to prioritize other human rights and on that basis continuing warfare and in terms of bringing in regional neighbors like iran do you see that as something of an olive.