in the headlines this wednesday the 10th of march cover ups failures and delays lawyers and doctors longship people's covert inquiry after blasting the government for massive mistakes in the pandemic. many of the families do believe their loved ones did not everyone obviously but a large number. but it was thought isn't from sort of a huge reduction in non-code procedures as hospitals failed to cope with fresh coronavirus. and our sister channel r.t. deutsche sues a top german newspaper for claiming it was spying on russian opposition figure alexina valmy.

good day and i was so good today from moscow when i was kevin 0 in this is out international i'm here for the next 30 minutes with the latest for you in 1st legal and medical professionals than have accused the british government of refusing to probe chronic failures in its handling of the pandemic and arrange their own public covert inquiry it comes as the number of new u.k. covert cases passes 4200000 clued in more than 40000 deaths and hundreds of health care workers top lawyer michael mansfield q.c. chairing the inquiry says countless deaths could have been avoided it. people's inquiry is the 1st inquiry of any kind that is taking place in to covert pandemic and the handling of it by the government right now the public want art and particularly the bereaved of which there are thousands unfortunately but

others who are the relatives of plainly the relatives of those who fortunately haven't died also have questions because those have been a lot of hospitalizations as well and it's no use waiting 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 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 everybody knows that it's been alleging from crisis to crisis that's no way to do it and so we need to know now because it's not going to be over in june the lockdown may be eased by then but of course the virus it still self will still be present somewhere in our. him with the number of u.k.

cova deaths passing under 25001 woman's come forward asking for a father to be recognised as the country's 1st victim adding it rate as big questions about what the government could have done differently. we just saw remember him as far as a loving father a lot of our he was a lovely man he would have done anything for you if we can. 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 out with passed away 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 to the tipping point for me i think was the inability to get off the oxygen. march as time went by and we knew more more about 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's now calling for the world house 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 i just threw that he should go down in history as a 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 1st person and i think it's really you have

remembered for 20 or 20 years of covert 19 will go down in history as being totally unknown and precedented jane so it's not just about her father's. 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 are told 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 jane the questions still remain unanswered about what actually happened and if anything would have been different had the government acted sooner to the country. more follow from a covert thing no french medical workers have sounded the alarm was not on covert treatments been slashed the middle worrying rising coronavirus there comes

a good lack of hospital beds charlotta burns covering that today few hospitals in the paris region no once again preparing to be overwhelmed by couvade cases with nearly all i.c.u. beds filled the authorities in the force of all that 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 . years do you need more hospital beds hospitals are closing and there are thousands of bags that have been lost it's 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 so happens 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 go to miss them to state we see the reason awareness but it's only a facade. yes 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 young age groups the ones that haven't yet had access to a vaccine the government has relied on a road block 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 means after 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 reveille is 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 i think the french people have had enough and that it would not be so effective they have been obedient and they are fed our. 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. this 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. 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 john but even ski r.t. paris there's a real quandary one talked to spoke to said restrictions on treating patients is a disturbing development there then. 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 and 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 that right to make a bad loans again are german sister channel r.t. deutsche german has filed a lawsuit against the build tabloid newspaper there for claiming its reporting was actually spying for the kremlin strong work all this is across it with the latest this morning this broke last night in the. comments on it but when you look at this it's a really strong statement. which has been spying. for

a number wise 12 hours on well on the face of it this is a sensational story it's got all the things to joran to read you know what spy public enemy no one of course russia but unfortunately scribes just a little bit at the south this are not sensation starts to fall apart so basically daniel langar an ati torture employee claiming that essentially he was used as a spy and by the channel that all the info that he was gathering on kremlin critic while she was of course recuperating from an alleged poisoning in a clinic in berlin was being put straight into the hands of russian president. a lot of sensational right while unfortunately the evidence provided seems to be taken more from among some one to one and not spying so as proof. screenshots of a chart with his editors now from my experience on any assignment you always have these chats it's common practice it's an easy way for producers and editors and cameraman to coordinate and that also from my experience very boring it's pretty

much just the logistics in that but despite what daniel claims his charge too was also very boring so yes he was indeed asked to go into the shower clinic it's called doing investigative journalism it's called trying to get ahead of the other media outlets to get that unique scoop and in fact build was one of the most active moles inside this hospital. reminds us. to accuse us of spying and at the same time to post images of the every little step novelli makes including pictures of his garden host to word it freshen intelligence wanted to get any additional information they would by a subscription to build plants and of course we want to remind our colleagues of german that just lation that for now at least protects the media and lowering it to collect information and metis that are considered to be of public interest so when bill does that it's normal journalistic practice trying to get the latest on

a developing story when r.t. does that it's spying i think a tinge of hypocrisy that has claimed this watching child was filled with nefarious spying request is also undermined by the fact that when he queries words are getting a hidden camera recording of the inside of the war which was on military territory as appropriate his boss very clearly writes no i don't think so it's in writing so not exactly the most determined of spies i would also add evidence number 2 is the presence of a video agency ruptly parked outside the shower to clinic yes this is true for a period it was actually in fact live streamed on you tube in the same way our tireless cameramen were camped night and day outside the ecuadorian embassy in london and they were the ones to capture those pictures the only ones there was no throw 24 serving exactly that sensational moment judy understand was dragged out of the building. as you said the only ones to get the pictures media outlets all over

the world were buying them they had no problem then with exceptional journalism but now apparently there is one final damning allegation worth mentioning is how the r.t.e. employee managing. because assignment was photographed alongside russian foreign minister. of arctic public christmas party never mind that this was one of hundreds of photos taken never mind that there were hundreds including 4. and john let's start with this one photo is incontrovertibly proof that. the russian government are in cahoots so like i said seems since ational take a look at this very little meat and it suddenly. turning of this we've become for. america there's a. big there's a french. there's going to be a german new channel well yes you really have to decide whether you believe in coincidence here. not long ago announced they will be setting up

a channel in germany shortly after that a couple of problems started emerging it started off with headlines which song could consider consider a small smear campaign than last week r.t. torches and bank accounts in germany while without warning shot fast forward to this week an r.t. to each is now being called a kremlin spy so like i said depends whether you believe in coincidence for her part the one of our colleagues who was the one photographed damningly with sergei lavrov doesn't. what we seem to mean today is a clear attempt to quote see this is an attempt has been walking straight into me that i was going to love i was staying operational and in the media to return my brings me here to where paul's allegations aimed to suppress the now a journalistic freedoms and making powers more attacks this is what it means to be an alternative voice in germany. well as a final point it is worth mentioning that bill doesn't really have the past track

record between 2015 or 2020 it was hit with 72 reprimands from the job and regulates half but it's always a thought of the total of that period so something to bear in mind when we jump ahead and read this latest offering from the top lloyd tabloid that are offering the promise as a juicy spy story but actually really just on covers the day to day walking's of any journalist anywhere in the world so i ask taylor thanks for clarifying for us as complicated all story though so to get down to there's not much there are always there alright thank you no it's 17 minutes past midnight in moscow to thank you for watching at home let me tell you what's coming up. revealing washington wants the afghan government to share power with an enemy it's been fighting for decades i was not going to go reaction and so much more for you. to.

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depths. or a maid in the shallows. again 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 coming up on these kind of mopin reports. 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 from got pretty close even promising to set a withdrawal date. we should have the small remain in the 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 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 if 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. residents are given a mixed response after plainclothes officers began patrolling the streets of the belgian capital to stop a shocking rise in sexual harassment cases there the mention of follows women complaining of their no fearing leaving their homes this so fraid of the growth in sexual assaults russel's police say they hope to catch the assailants in the act as

attacks are rarely reported by victims and women's rights activist welcomed initiative. i'm to see even a bar of this idea because finally we are 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 we 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. however turns out trust in the 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 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 them. and i think it's a good idea because there is a lot of. history. for sure when this policeman is you know from. the words rights activists we heard from the root of the problem goes far deeper to. 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 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 human rights and in 2021 we should and one central violence against women. new york city's 1st ladies told people to physically intervene if they see a hate crime taking place the mayor's wife and singling 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 homicides shootings burglaries and car thefts shooting incidents almost doubled last year reports say there's been another

75 percent jump in the last month alone last summer authorities slashed a $1000000000.00 from the law enforcement budgets after pressure from protesters to defund the police the city said it would reinvest the money in youth and social services. 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 said the advice to intervene in possible crimes could cause more harm than good. well you talk about civilians and if it were people as being assaulted you almost put now or corfu vigilantes to go and do or you know almost like you know the superman for super woman we can't have that because it's very irresponsible people are going to hurt governor because somebody dies by trying to help somebody their lawyers going to sue the city and

say hey work that made his wife told us to do this if you get not core from the top leader in city government telling you to go out there in protection 8 was believed to be some liability and that regards would 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 calling them want those are the 3 things that people should be doing desk now on police officials. the suspect in the death of the british teenager harry dunn says that she can do community service and make a financial contribution but won't return to the u.k. where the incident took place the dunns mother says that's not how the justice system works. well you had a very high in the whole night in a very long day trying to get our heads around the fact that that suggestion is even inconsolable it. hasn't really fazed you that much we are

not in a position in this country to humans what is handed down to us in any form of punishment when we've been through our justice system you know we're not in a position to choose and they're not in a position to choose for as here that's made no one is above the law everyone should be held accountable for their actions and this is no different as far as i'm concerned. are done died in august 29th when the car of the american diplomats wife was allegedly travelling on the wrong side of the road and hit his motorbike she then fled the country claiming diplomatic immunity turns mother says it's still hard for the family to move forward. right from the beginning of this campaign all we want it is to get the starting blocks of our ek justice system that actually still needs to be done and that it's in the hands of. the judge and jury and this

is an awful lot of evidence to show that restoring justice does help you know victims of the crying to be able to move on repeal that law i so i'm going to grab everything i possibly have. give us a chance to rebuild our lives she needs to go through that u.k. justice system 1st and it needs to be with mediator says and therapists not only for us but for her as well absolutely and with me her. story in them too a lot so we're talking about the day for 100 so much more that we're talking about already developments on them throughout the day check it out to dot com or call it down or up as well and the breaking news will come straight to mobile device but for now this wednesday coming up to half past midnight times are past the hour of a great day.

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