and they had lunch this wednesday the time for march cover ups failures in de lay's lawyers and doctors launch a people's covert inquiry now after blasting the government for massive mistakes in the pandemic. many of the families do believe their loved ones did die needlessly not everyone but a large. medical authorities in france order a huge reduction in non covert procedures as hospitals failed to cope with a fresh corona virus. and our sister channel deutsche sues a top german newspaper for claiming it was spying on russian opposition figures election of ali get a live latest update on that for you. just

heard a lot of the morning here in moscow good morning from me kevin i when this is r.t. international 1st than today legal or medical professionals we here have accused the british government of refusing to investigate chronic failures in the handling of the pandemic and arrange their own public covert inquiry comes as the number of new u.k. covert cases passes 4200000 top lawyer michael mansfield q.c. chairing the inquiry and saying countless deaths could have been avoided. this inquiry the people's inquiry is the 1st inquiry of any kind that is taking place in to cove it 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 equally those who work on the front line who've been susceptible now the frontline isn't just in hospitals it's in care homes it's in shops it in workplaces where people have 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 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 in acquires a judicial framework and we can ask them quickly and hopefully we'll have a writ already this year. with a number of the u.k. kovar death passing under 25001 woman's come forward asking for

a father to be recognised as the country's 1st victim i think it raises questions about what the government could have done differently. we just saw remember him as a 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 to it 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 we were told you know without a shadow of doubt it was not in this country at the time so there was no why it was on our radar at the time the tipping point for me i think was the inability to get off the oxygen he struggled so much as time went by and we knew more more about covert 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 room 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 as the part of history now isn't it 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 well 20 or 20 years of covert 19 will go down in history as

being totally unknown and president jane so 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 to let the country. meantime friendship medical workers have sounded the alarm as norm koger treatments been slashed amid a worrying rise in coronavirus deaths there and the consequence of a lack of hospital beds r.t. shelley bensky is on the story. 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 coding procedures by 40 percent this is a very tense situation we needed to react very fast of course for all of 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 days. 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 state 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 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 it 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. pharmacists but does imagine that increasing the numbers of vaccination size will increase the doses meanwhile measures taken to try and curb cases. still appeared 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 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 aren't 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 not a foregone conclusion to these you daniel this 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 well dr spoke to us said restrictions on treating patients is a really disturbing development. also 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 said 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 the 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 that. the u.s. is urging the afghan government to share power with the taliban the revelation coming from a leaked u.s. letter to kabul in what's been described as a last ditch effort before a deadline for the pentagon to quit the country kellam opens go the story. it's america's longest war ever remember why the troops were 1st san 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 from 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 in 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 their troops not on the people of afghanistan but will never accept a coup and 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 90 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 now 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 mop and artsy new york this is autism nationalists kevin owen here with me this company coming up among stories we're covering brussels police beginning plainclothes patrols in a bid to try to cut the rise in sexual harassment on the streets there. after the

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join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. good morning german the sister channel. father lawsuit against the bill tabloid for claiming its reporting was actually spying for the kremlin it's making the headlines this morning so it could tell who's got the latest on it for me pick it up this morning. a strong statement to accuse our sister channel of spying what's the background to this what the evidence if you like while on the

face of it a sensational story it's going to was that you want to draw or read to read spying public enemy number one russia unfortunately scratch a little bit at the surface and that sensation falls apart so put simply an. employee says that he felt that he was being used as a spy and that all the info that he was gathering on cramming critic me as he recruit prated in a hospital in berlin off the edge of poisoning was being put straight into the hands of russian president vladimir putin like i said sensational but the evidence is taken more from a manual called journalism one o one not exactly spying so as proof he shows screenshots of the chart with out to says from my experience i can tell you these charts a normal practice that the best way is for cameramen sound engineers producers editors to coordinate also tell you they're pretty boring usually it's all logistical and despite what daniel claims his was pretty boring too so yes he was asked to go inside the shower to clinic where he was lying 'd it's cool to

investigative reporting it's called trying to get in ahead of all the media outlets to try and get that scoop in fact to build was one of the most active moles inside that hospital which is something that. mentioned. 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 host. if russian intelligence wanted to get any additional information they would buy a subscription to build plants and of course we want to remind acts of german that just lation that for now at least protect the media and lowering it to collect information and metis that are considered to be of public interest. so when bill does the same it's normal john trying to get the scoop when our team does it it's spying so i think most people would see the tinge of hypocrisy that lying to claim that his walking chart was also filled with these nefarious spine quest is also

undermined by the fact that when he queries whether going in and trying to get a hidden camera recording of the war was recuperating which by the way is on job and military territory his boss says no i don't think so so not the most to tell him and of spying attempts i think most would agree. evidence number 2 is the fine of all video agency ruptly which was parked outside the shower take clinic yes that is true it's no secret doing its job it was in fact for a large part live streamed on you tube it's in the same way that our toilets are the up to cameramen were camped night and day outside and the joy in embassy in london. was being. isolated himself yet the only ones with all the pictures of the exactly they were the only ones that got the picture outlets all over the world trying to buy them so back then they were very happy with excellent on this ng but now apparently that's considered spying now the final damning. allegations worth

mentioning is how. i was managing not because assignment was photographed with the russian foreign minister sergei. at a public christmas party never mind the. this was one of hundreds of photos taken that evening that there were hundreds including foreign journalists apparently this one photo is controvert proof that the russian government is somehow in cahoots so like i said seems sensational break it down there's very little meat and it's you know bombshell through some of the. companies go to a lot of channels we're launching. and the connection then a bit of bad feeling about you think. what. well it depends whether you believe in coincidence. not long ago announced yes that it's opening a channel in germany and shortly after some problems started emerging

a lot of headlines which some have considered a small smear campaign starts appearing and magazines that last week. bank accounts without warning shot fast forward a week and suddenly now are 2 joy which is a credit and spy so like i said depends whether you believe in coincidence but let's also hear what one of our. colleagues thinks about the timing of all of this . what we see in germany today is a clear attempt to quell our see this is an attempt has been walking straight into media has gone to poland was staring operational and in the media at every turn against me and pulls allegations aimed at suppressing our journalistic freedoms and making personal attacks this is what it means to be an alternative voice in germany . so just as a final point i think it's worth mentioning that build doesn't necessarily have the

best track record between 20152020 was actually with 72 reprimands from the german media regulator that accounted for almost one 3rd of all the total reprimands in that period so something to bear in mind when one jumps in reading this article or this latest offering from the tabloid and offering that promise is a juicy spy story but actually really uncovers the quite boring day to day in the workings of your existence to pick apart for us put in some more clarity or much we . appreciate it. next. president given a mixed response after plainclothes officers began patrolling the streets of the belgian capital to try to stop a shocking rise in sexual harassment cases that the measure follows women complain they fear leaving their homes over the growth of sexual assaults and the worry over it brussels police say they're hoping to catch a silence and they are. really reporters victims and women's rights activists welcome the initiative. i'm too so even favor of this idea because finally

we're seeing you know this police went to court and asked for it to end 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 loud and they're saying you know no i don't accept harassment i don't accept to bind you know this isn't justice we need to change and our politicians are finally listening 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 a troll in the streets in order to help women however trust in police is so low that many residents fear officers more than the threat of assault. i don't feel safe around police i see police as a grasses and violent people and repressive rather than people that protect me. i

prefer the police and gentle by 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 them. think it's a good idea because there is a lot of. industry. for sure when this policeman is you know from. the women's rights activists we heard from warms to the root of the problem goes far deeper. so we need to not only to her press and this is good to protect her press but we should also think about her ground that prevent these problems to happen and that's why we need education when indication of for our children for our boys and our girth and we do cation for immigrants who come to our countries especially if they come from kountry 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 in 2021 we should and once and for all by a lens against women. new york city's 1st lady has told people to physically intervene if they see a hate crime taking place the mayor's wife singled out the rise in assaults on specific ethnic minorities as a texan asian american communities continue where asking new yorkers to show up for their neighbors intervene when we disengage from violence harassment i know that can be frightening when you are unsure what to do or say but you can learn the city suffering a rise in crime across the board including homicide shootings burglaries and cath's shooting incidents almost doubled last year and reports say there's been another 75 percent in the last month alone. contrast that of the last summer authorities slashed

a $1000000000.00 from law enforcement budgets after pressure from protesters to defund the police the city said in fact it would reinvest that money 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 dept inspector told us the advice to intervene in possible crimes could get more people hurt. well you talk about adam and civilians and if it were people as being assaulted you almost put now a call for vigilantes to go and divvying or you know almost like you know a superman for superwoman we can't have that because it's very irresponsible people are going to be hurt god forbid somebody dies we're trying to help somebody daily lawyers going to sue the city and say hey we're made his wife told us to do this if you get in a call from the top leader in city government telling you to go out there in

protection 8 was that i believe there will be some liability and that regards when you call it for people to go out and do that the only thing that civilians should be doing is maybe videotaping from a very safe distance getting a detailed description of the person or persons who's committing the assault and then call and want those at 3 things that people should be doing that's now on police officials. i think so watching this one of the value to keep across all any developments that may happen on other stories we're talking about and so much more to it r.t. dot com for now this where the state. of a great day. joe

biden famously said nothing will fundamentally change just appears to be the case when it comes to u.s. policy regarding the middle east because we ask the question what is the strategic value we'll give you the least benefits from all these forever of course. one of the worst ever mass shootings in america was it last vegas in 2017 the tragedy exposed a little of the real last big where many say elected officials are controlled by casino owners. revealed where. really

and now it's part of the stand machine person the american public barely remembers that happened that just shows you the power of money and lost. the powerful showed their true colors when the pandemic hit the most contagious contagion that we've seen in decades and then you have a mayor who doesn't care so here's care i goodman offering the lives of the vegas residents to the control group to the shiny for. deep indifference to the people could have been saved if they were to take an action absolutely keep the roads shrinking due to stop machines the base is a money machine it's a huge cash register that is ran by people who don't care about people's lives being lost.

this is them but the one business show you can't afford to miss i'm rachel woman's in washington coming out to a game stop continues with another hearing on capitol hill we'll tell you what the senate had to say about the future of popular training out like robin hood. told greentown the after hitting a 9 month low as the u.s. dollar and treasury yields are treat so what does this mean for ongoing concerns over in play shit then the u.k. is being praised for its exact same role as the bank of england says it is cautiously optimistic that a road to recovery could be just around the corner we have a lot of to get soon so let's get started. the brokerage operad been hood is back in the spotlight as the senate banking committee held a hearing on tuesday that call this business model into question bob republicans have praised the out for its.