they want to relieve their stress out of a relieve the stress. he's making and move back out he said that comfort many. people have been murdered up here people raise their massive drug issues up here give a boom you have everything else that comes along with money. in the headlines this wednesday the 10th of february 1st of our sister channel deutsche souza top german newspaper clearly it was spying on russian opposition figure alexa developing. other headlines across the smalling medical authorities in france old rick huge reduction in norman covert procedures as hospitals failed to cope with a fresh coronavirus. minister's wish to delay any investigation lawyers and doctors accusing the u.k. government of refusing to probe critical failures in their handling of the pandemic

and launch a people's covert inquiry instead many of the families do believe that their loved ones did die needlessly not everyone obviously but a large number. 801 moscow time good morning from russia of watching us around the world this is our to international with me kevin 0 in for the next half hour and as i said in those headlines there are top stories this one. german sister channel r.t. do it she's filed a lawsuit against the building tabloid for claiming it's reporting was actually spying for the kremlin our correspondent trying to join my colleague colleen brayley iran to go through the claims in more detail. first of all it's time to take a look at the wording that was used by built it sounds absolutely sensational that

was putting into the title the headline a rough quote from the whistleblower which says i had to or i was forced to spy on a like say in a volley and then in one of the top paragraphs of that built article they said this exactly according to research by bill to the other group of this regime had this public enemy number one the and to have his employees spied on in berlin last year for this russia's leadership used a russian foreign broadcaster which in return relies on to jim one employee spying on the orders of kremlin through german nationals who worked for the german branch of r t that sounds scary some would call it appalling but let's continue reading this article and at least trying to get to the point under standing what the basis of it is the whistleblower danny along the way is describing his assignments during the time when russia's number one opposition activist

a like scene of ali was being treated at the sherry tay hospital in berlin after an alleged poisoning but how does that lead from being just reporting in to being spy exactly that's what i was going to get to the article contains screenshots from what built and the whistleblower are calling a secret chat with the our team management but i'll tell you what i actually know these people from that personally and yes they are in charge of our voyage and they're saying that there was nothing secret about this chat it was just something that they created for communication on that particular assignment and we know that in the news business in news or t.v. production for every simon do you create a new chat and that's something that's absolutely common at this point moving all. and with the artes alleged wrongdoings ordered by the kremlin that was lifted by the built daniel's assignments included filming or taking shots of what was

happening outside the sherry tate hospital including the vast security presence well that is news but also trying to get inside the hospital to inside that clinic to get some exclusive shots of anything that's linked to the story possibly the vollies associates relatives there the corridors at the doors which is again i believe a core basic element of investigative journalism at the time of breaking news if you think of it that that's absolutely it and to be fair these kind of things trying trying to get these kind of pictures was exactly what built itself was ever since the volley was flown to germany for treatment because we saw them publish the photos of the door of the room where in a volley was also the inside of the plane etc so this is what the head of r t deutsche had to say about this aspect specifically to accuse us of spying and at

the same time to post images of every little step develop he makes including pictures of his garden hospital word expression intelligence wanted to get any additional information they would buy a subscription to build plants and of course we want to remind our colleagues of german that islay sion that for now at least protect the media and loving it to collect information and metis that are considered to be of public interest so far just sounds like the day job of journalism here is there any made to this what else does daniel accuse us of another claim that the whistleblower is making that is that the senior r t staff members were always directly in touch with the bosses of the government and what we see in the bill article is a picture of my colleague with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov of wow i can tell. that it was from a christmas party that christmas party 2 loads of journalists were invited there

even foreign journalists tens of them maybe even hundreds of them and everyone wanted to take a photo with sergei lavrov so that doesn't prove anything and my colleague is saying that no she doesn't have a direct line with members of the russian government. payments that he actually made and signed not just a member of the media looking back it's my job and my view. that any. next there was a part about ra please the parties video agency about the van staying day and night outside the charity hospital streaming that is something that video agencies do all the time that's their job i can tell you that when it comes to doing a song for example ruptly was able to catch the moment when the founder of wiki leaks was being dragged out of the equivalent embassy in london thanks for thanks

to staying there 247 and the claim was that none of these broadcasts were made public but i can show you screen shots even from you tube that's available to everyone that know we were showing them to everyone and it's easy to get all that online so like i was saying you get to the bottom of the article you keep reading and you like you said you want to get this meat where's the evidence that this is specifically spying ordered by the kremlin but even when you get to the very end you don't see it but speaking of tabloid built though my colleagues have showed me a large number of pieces on the build website with criticism against r.t. that came out ever since r t deutsche announced that they were launching a fully fledged t.v. channel at the end of this year. and my colleagues even called it a smear campaign against us and if you think that it didn't lead to anything it

could be a coincidence it could be something else but last month a german bank closed the accounts of r t torch and ruptly so what i've just described to you the latest bombshell by built could be the culmination of that smear campaign. of the people. george galloway hosts a shared their thoughts on the case on the state of media freedom right now in germany. the idea of build magazine all magazines are get accusing one of the largest television stations on earth. of being some sort of spying organization is quite something i'm going to remember the editor just the other day was accusing china of a virus and deliberately sending mosques around in some sort of what appeared to be some kind of conspiracy films have been made about build this of 990 film called the man inside about the ethical way that their magazine works if i was the editor

of build i would be very concerned about a law case because this magazine is notorious for breaching german press standards and now it's going to be in court accusing journalists or people comporting to be journalists stringers for r.t. as spies i'm sure of the r.t. dortch is doing exactly the right thing and taking prompt legal action to resolve this matter a reckless and dangerous and defamatory act and dangerous for journalists and broadcasters working for broadcasters all over the world like german state broadcasters or british state broadcasters if a journalist for the b.b.c. is now routinely going to be accused of being

a spy for the british government because he or she works for a state broadcaster in britain where is that going to end we have to draw very clear lines in these things the protection of journalists from false accusations and from harassment such as this is an important part of a free society and germany presumably and. so in the country. french medical workers have sounded the alarm is not covert treatments been slashed amid a worrying rise in coronavirus lack of hospital beds. reports hospitals in the paris region know once again preparing to be overwhelmed by couvade cases with nearly all i.c.u. beds filled the authorities in the phones of all the hospitals to slash all known coven procedures by 40 percent this is

a very tense situation we needed to react very 1st of course falls the country now has the highest number of intensive care patients seen since november during the 2nd wave of the virus for those who work in hospitals the situation is more than 10 . do you need more hospital beds hospitals are closing and there are thousands of bags that have been lost is unacceptable and we have demanded a real adjustment of our salaries and generally of our profession there has been no difference on the ground since june the rest to people who are quitting the hospitals perhaps it's time to ask the question as to why health care workers are stepping down and take a fact of measures in order to convince them to stay we see the reason awareness but it's only facade because in reality there is no understanding of the gravity of the dangerous situation that we are in what is different though this time around is

that more of the patients in intensive care and said to be from younger age groups the ones haven't yet had access to a vaccine the government has relied on a road campaign to make a dent in infections to sticks however the vaccination program has been heavily criticized for its slow progress now french doctors are up in all most of the being told that they'll have no vaccine deliveries of astra zeneca. for a week instead the jobs will be sent to follow missy's the government has decided to exclude doctors and allocate the rare vials to pharmacists but does imagine that increasing the numbers of vaccination size will increase the doses meanwhile measures taken to try and curb cases still appear to be insufficient france has been under nightly curfew for months now and over the last few weeks more and more regions have been placed into weekend lockdowns so far paris has avoided that fate but for how much longer ripples i think the french people have had enough and that

it would not be so effective they have been obedient and they are fed up. concern and lock down for the weekend i hope not but all these measures in place not to mention the curfew it gets complicated we cannot do much if in addition to that we introduce lockdown and we can't make it even more complicated anyway should we really have no choice will have to go through we don't know exactly the reason why sometimes we are in lockdown and sometimes we are and and i think that the top authorities are facing other problems that they have failed to resolve but if there is not a lockdown we will suffer according to france's director general of health still a foregone conclusion to use your to daniel this is a measure of last resort would be offered to the government if we had the impression that the hospital could not hold out we are in a tense situation and we are monitoring the situation day by day yet it's clear tough decisions will have to be made in the coming days and hours so what do you

mean ski altie paris one doctor who spoke to said restrictions on treating patients is a disturbing development. in france we have an infection rate at quite a high level and we have difficulties with access to the vaccine we have a lot that is badly organized with the delivery of the vaccine and in particular the prioritization of the limited number of doses that. we have in france we get told that for the following week we do not have enough doses that means that all the patients scheduled for vaccination the person is at risk they risk severe complications if they ever catch covert it is very difficult for a doctor to select from his patients those most at risk and even more difficult to tell someone who was told they would have the vaccine that it is being taken by someone who is less of a priority there is great anger at their government's response it didn't have the

capacity to vaccinate and what we are missing is simply the manpower but it is totally crazy in fact it misses the point. meantime legal and medical professionals have accused british ministers of refusing to investigate chronic failures in the handling of the pandemic and a launch in the 2nd session of what they're calling the people's covert inquiry top lawyer michael mansfield q.c. chairs the inquiry and says countless deaths could have been avoided. this inquiry the people's inquiry is the 1st inquiry of any kind that is taking plays into coded pandemic and the handling of it by the government right now the public want our spirit to kill or leave the bereaved of which there are thousands unfortunately many of the families do believe that their loved ones did die needlessly not everyone obviously but a large number but eagerly those who work on the front line who've been susceptible

now the front line isn't just in hospitals it's in care homes it's in shops it in workplaces where people have had to carry on working so what the families want to know is what the situation should have been like in terms of nightingale hospitals personal protection all these questions which haven't been satisfactory answers we need the answers now and they can be provided people have a very strong views about what should have happened in the 1st place and to what is continuing not to happen and therefore what are the strategies that the government has employed and so these are questions that you know we can ask and acquires a judicial framework and we can ask them quickly and hopefully we'll have are already this year. the u.k. has now registered more than 4200000 covered cases england's chief medical officer has called for caution in lifting restrictions warning the situation could rapidly deteriorate. i think a lot of people may think this is all over i want them to look i was happy and

content. where a lot of the answer is i'm going to rain it's going on and i was in. not being in that situation before and i think it's it's very easy to forget points how quickly things can turn out if you don't keep a very very close eye on it. with a number of u.k. covert deaths almost reaching 125000 now one woman has come forward asking for her father to be recognized as the country's 1st victim how to get raises questions about what the government could have done differently. we just saw remember him as a father as a loving father as a lot of our he was a lovely man he would have done anything for you and we can't. understand but we need to learn some serious lessons from this so this doesn't happen again back in january 20 2083 year old peter tork passed away long before cave it became a national diagram and when the concern was limited mostly to china the only just

come about in china so we inability to get off the oxygen you struck will start march as time went by and we knew more more about cars and we saw these patients in hospital with the. public health experts claim peter afterwards case lays bare the case failure to monitor the virus in its early stages and that there may have been many more deaths in the early months of 2020 than was 1st thought the 1st covert death in the u.k. was recorded on the 5th of march of 2020 weeks before the government succumbed to lockdown on the 23rd of march by that time the pandemic had already sunk its teeth into the country but jane's father passed on the 30th of january of 2020 and that was only days after the city of rwanda where the 1st case of credit were detected went into lockdown she is now calling for the world health organization and the n.h.s. to publicly recognise the historical significance of her father's passing as the

u.k.'s 1st private fatality just through that he should go down in history the part of history now isn't there you know it doesn't matter what you read in the books you know there's always that diary of that 1st person and i think my dad should really have remembered for 20 or 20 years of covert 19 will go down in history as being totally unknown precedented jane says it's not just about her father's legacy but about correcting the official records but the government says there was little transmission present at the time of peter. every death is a tragedy there is no evidence that there was sustained transmission within the community in january 2020 we acted swiftly to curb coronavirus and at all times we have been guided by the best available evidence to deliver a strategy designed to protect the n.h.s. and save lives put chained questions still remain unanswered about what actually

happened and if anything would have been different had the government acted sooner that the country. the u.s. is urging the afghan government to share power with the taliban the revelation coming from a legal us letter to kabul than in what's been described as a last ditch effort before a deadline for the pentagon to quit the country of his column opened reports this morning. it's america's longest war ever remember why the troops were 1st sand into afghanistan to remove the taliban regime the taliban has been given the opportunity to surrender all the terrorists in afghanistan and to close down their camps and operations full warning has been given and time is running out the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime and afghanistan this military action is a part of our campaign against terrorism.

the past 2 administrations have promised to find an exit strategy our troops will continue coming home at a steady pace by 2014 this process of transition will be complete and the afghan people will be responsible for their own security we will end this war bring our troops home and by the end of next year america's war in afghanistan will be over trump got pretty close even promising to set a withdrawal date. we should have the small remaining brave men and women serving in afghanistan home by christmas and have a moment at the end of the year joe biden seems to have come up with a new solution peaceful coexistence between the afghan government and the taliban

a proposal that was leaked to the media would give america's longtime battlefield enemies significant control over the country now the taliban would get 50 percent representation in key executive bodies that would enable them to propose new legislation and help write the new constitution however the afghan government would get one extra member so they could be the deciding vote and exchange the taliban would agree to a total ceasefire and join the new military panel essentially being absorbed into the security forces of the country the taliban will cut any ties with foreign powers and quote not expand their force configurations or recruit new fighters in the linkletter the new u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken urged the afghan government to just accept this agreement i urge you to develop constructive positions on these written proposals many are currently anticipating yet another spring offensive more deaths and more killing however at this point it appears the united states is willing to hand power

back to the very people they've been fighting for the past 20 years the proposed agreement has gotten a mixed reaction from afghan officials they can make a decision on the troops not on the people of afghanistan we will never accept a coup worse than imposed peace. the weakness in the message of the u.s. state department is that they have not recognized afghanistan structure and it has coercive language and a coerced and tailored piece will not lead anywhere i think that if there is any lesson to be learned here it is never do anything like this ever again 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 so the obvious number one lesson is never ever do this sort of thing it is immoral and it is criminal how in the past 20 years the war in afghanistan has looked pretty on winnable but it appears the new administration and the u.s. state department may have crafted the least painful way to bow out caleb mopp and r.t. new york. other news residents give a mixed response out to plainclothes officers begun patrolling the streets of the belgian capital stop a shocking rise in sexual harassment the measure follows women complaining that they now fear leaving their homes over the growth and sexual assaults brussels police hope to catch assailants in the act attacks are rarely reported by victims were locals reacted to the move and. i don't feel safe around

police i see police as a grass' and violent people and repressive random people that are protecting me. i prefer the police and gentrified themselves as officers that's clear for me i don't want police dressed like civilians. police play an important role but we should find a way to communicate with the police won't be there when you really need. to know if it's a good idea because there is a lot of. industry. for sure when they see a policeman with you from. a woman's rights activist welcome the initiative that warned that the roots of the problems even more important. i'm too surely in favor of this idea because we are seeing you know this police went to court and court and a budget into this you know horrible emergency that is violence and harassment against women finally we men have

a voice and they're speaking out and they're saying you know no i don't accept harassment i don't accept to buy a man's you know this isn't justice we need to change and our pretty shown something they're finally releasing to this voices and that's why they need it to get a budget a big one in order to tackle this problem and find all the best solutions like this one trolling the streets in order to help women i think if we start protecting patrolling certain areas you know people will think twice before aggressive or you know we were being aggressive towards women so we need to not only to repress and this is good to protect our oppressed but we should also think about programs that prevent these problems to happen that's why we need education when indication of for our children for our own boys and our gores and we need to do cation of for immigrants who come to our country is that especially if they come from countries where they don't respect women as we do in the western countries we need to be all

engaged more to tackle this problem because women's rights are humans rights and 2021 we should and once and for all by a lens i guess women. as new york city's 1st ladies told people to physically intervene if they see a hate crime taking place surely mccrae singled out the rise of the sold asian americans as a texan asian american communities continue where asking new yorkers to show up for their neighbors intervene when weakness in hateful violence harassment i know that can be frightening when you are unsure what to do or say but you can learn. the city's suffering a rise in crime across the board including homicides shootings burglaries and car thefts shooting incidents almost doubled last year and reports say there's been another 75 percent jump in the last month alone now i want to go back to last summer authorities slashed

a $1000000000.00 from law enforcement budgets the pressure from protesters to defund the police the city said it would really invest that money instead in youth and social services we are reducing the size of our police force by not having the next recruit class we are reducing our overtime levels were shifting functions away from police to civilian agencies. but a retired new york police deputy inspector says the advice of the city's 1st lady could leave more people hurt when you talk about civilians and if people just being assaulted you almost put now or corfu vigilantes to go and do or you know almost like you know the superman or superwoman we can't have that because it's very irresponsible people are going to hurt god forbid somebody we're trying to help somebody dear lord is going to sue the city and say hey work that made his wife told us to do this if you get not caught from the tap lead in city

government telling you to go out there in protection 8 was believed to be some liability in that regards would you call it for people to go out and do that the only thing that you should be doing is maybe videotaping from a very safe distance getting a detailed description of the person or persons whose commit india saw and in calling them want those are the 3 things that people should be doing desk now and police officials. it's short and i'm posting are those who are talking about so far this morning keep across of the developments on those stories and so much more doubts more of a social xfer though this wednesday kevin 0 in on the team signing off for this update rob you watch it have a great day. is

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