many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. justice for new york state care homes covert victims' families who lost loved ones join to condemn the authorities cover up of the death toll. the more outrage. over the. cause of performers turns courses as they occupy 3 of france's foreign nationals theatres warning they can no longer survive the pandemic shut down of cultural sites. coalition parties demand to block entry to russia's covert vaccine the country's prime minister insists not supplying the sharks could make him a quote killer. and be careful what you read a famous british musician quits his band after he slammed her praising an anti anti

for a book by a conservative or for. a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. international with me nicky aaron it's great to have you with us not precious mounting on the governor of new york andrew cuomo to step down amid a growing scandal over a cover ups of care home deaths in the pandemic seems so when we. so many troubling things have come out just in a matter of weeks starting with the fact that thousands of people died in the nursing homes and we still don't have the truth about that and their families need and deserve the truth and we know one thing there was a purposeful cover up and that alone is unacceptable and disqualifying. the state's health department had initially reported around 8000 fêtes high season care homes

but those who were transferred to hospital and died there were excluded from the figures something deliberately to make the number of casualties seem low or if these victims are the real death toll was almost double those reports victims' relatives question the counseling and quote most apparent dismissal of its importance. who. 3320 year a. little died in a nursing home. they died my father was in a nursing home patients in the nursing home for 23. when he were there were very ended my family could no longer stand. the nursing home. system was not prepared for any kind of health care or emergency and i know my father is still in county but the governor's attitude of

who cares where they die it does matter because it points to one where where there you know errors in their policies and to why they are afraid of having those numbers reveal. most requirements for nursing homes to take over patients is being blamed for making the crisis worse the daughter of one woman who died of the virus in a new york care home. everyone to make a life. a sion of. i think that it was that done that we're not done that. way for a lot of people ringback responsible i specially the nursing home that she was that . our governor andrew cuomo because. you know in the end. you know that. you know the nursing home were like

a free for all in the fast. thing and people were great to work and they want to do their job and you know. find to do. their thing home living facility and almost a year that you were putting pressure on. you no matter how many people ringback die from. you know their you know accusation of. sexual misconduct not as not for the case but i think that should be more outraged and the number 5 hope that my mother. well the care home scandal comes to the worst possible time for the state governor and 6 report of sexual misconduct against cuomo has been published to push in more than 50 state legislators from his own party to to monte quids. well the 50 performers and employees have turned squatters occupying 3 of france's 4 national theaters in

a cry for help they warn the industry can no longer survive the pandemic shut down of cultural sites forcing the country's health minister to negotiate with them artes sure do belsky visited one of the occupied venues. oh no. the chorus of calls demanding the reopening of cultural venue's is growing allow day in france but with no clear end date insight to the closure of theaters concert hall cinema museums so more taking more drastic measures over the last week 3 of france's 4 national theatres including this one behind me have been occupied by protesters it is true that every day several times a day we take another place a new theatre

a new national stage is occupied in this way with multiple in the case of resistance to make our claims heard so we've all heard by the o.t. now for a week and for that it serves as a place of residence the odeon is the symbolic place it was occupied in the $968.00 process they were already struggles that have been expressed in this place in fact it was the base to signal the alarm of the cultural catastrophe which is taking place. the protesters who set up shop here at the low didn't get to say they won't leave until their demands are met them not knowing the details now we're determined to hold on until we're satisfied we do not claim the reopening at all costs it is not part of our main slogan contrary to what some media mean we want things to be reopened with social rights for all and massive plan for culture and above all the total reform of the unemployment insurance and the right to unemployment benefits guaranteed for all. the issue has even reached the the

government with the cultural minister paying a visit to the squatters i went to the occupied theater audio on i understand the concerns and particularly of all the aftermath of the whites here they know it why objective is to continue to protect artistic employment as much as necessary we will continue our discussions days later though and nothing has changed if the sector already hit badly by the 1st wave of the covert pandemic with performers taking to the streets to make their plight no thank you thank you. thank you whom the earth. 6 6 there is a hunger too that while small private galleries have been allowed to stay open larger places such as this of how to remain shut protesters say that it is possible

to open up cultural venues and ensure the people remain socially distanced is in order the louvre museum the also a museum the big museums in paris these a vast places where social distancing would be respected but they are closest. so these are the decisions which are purely political through this there is a very clear choice of society that emerges what is essential to the market and what is not essential concerns culture it concerns all the things that nourish hope nourish reflection this is what power has in its sights through its political choices fronts it is considered to have one of the most generous support systems of artists in the world but that system has been strained as a result of covert 19 and many claim that they have fall in through the cracks those here say that this protest is just the start as more and more regions in

france will see similar action jollity even ski r.t. paris. the slovak government is in turmoil over sputnik the vaccine with the health minister quitting after criticism from coalition partners for bringing in the job but the country's premier is standing firm insisting he won't send back russia's shots with more his artie's europe correspondent peter all of. it is no longer the health minister of slovakia he stood down from roll over his decision to import the sputnik the vaccine from russia into slovakia 2 out of the 4 partners that make up the coalition government in slovakia said he had to go so following that he said the only option available to him was to quit if he ceased to coalition parties made my resignation a condition for them to stay in the coalition is such a situation i think there was no point arguing i'm not glued to my position at the

ministry so i decided to resign. slovakia imported 200000 doses of russia's sputnik v. becoming the 2nd e.u. member state to do so the european medicines agency the e m a still hasn't given sputnik the the green light to be used across the e.u. but that hasn't stopped countries like slovakia and hungry from still importing it hungary is being given out the job for a little while now prime minister igor in slovakia though said that the reason he accepted the resignation of his health minister was to try and keep the government together if he hadn't accepted that resignation slovakia could have been facing new elections in the very very immediate future he also said though that despite accepting the resignation of mystical he wouldn't be returning the doses of russia's sputnik the vaccine. we are an integral part of the year to contribute the

chance to save our people because the vaccine is made in russia i'm not a killer or slovakia has one of the highest per capita death rates from covert 19 in the world right now it's particularly suffered from this most recent wave of the corona virus along with neighbors the czech republic in fact the president in the czech republic milosz them and has called on senior figures in the health authorities including the minister of health and czech republic to stand down over their willingness to import and to use bush's sputnik vaccine i would like to say that the 2 biggest obstacles to delivering sputnik be to the czech republic and the minister of health and also the director of the state institute for drug control there are millions of people abroad are already being vaccinated with these jabs where the russian or chinese than the 2 i spoke of are to blame for the fact that our people will continue to die unnecessarily the only solution i see is the

retirement of both of the spy independent test showing that russia. is very effective against covert 92 theme where it's made or where it was created is proving to be a problem for some in europe when it comes to allowing it to be given to their citizens. at a time of extreme while knesset and council culture reading appears to be a dangerous thing and could even end your career and member of a well known british band as being called fascist for mentioning he had read a book criticizing left wing activist group anti for artie's constantine rushkoff looks at the growing chorus of criticism for those who question progressive narratives. just think about it you read a book you like it you say publicly no harm done you would hope well that's what winston marshall did he was the banjo player in

a british band called mumford and sons and he dared to enjoy the wrong literature over the last few days i've come to better understand the pain caused by the book i endorsed as a result of my ex and some taken time away from the bonds to examine my blinds posts so like in the band's hit single they'll just have to wait for him but what was the evil book he read you might ask something so bad it wasn't enough to say sorry he had to quit the band he'd been playing and for many years was a mind com or an isis manual on how to make bombs no much worse winston marshall was called out by social justice worriers for publicly recommending in newly published book criticize an n.t. for well you remember n.t. for right.

that was in the since deleted twit the poor guy barely mentioned that he read the book about it but that one twit started this tsunami of rage and calls to boycott marshall's bam downfall and didn't do or spent a flush chez i really like that one song a while ago was the muscle and his prove to us just a beanie and suck dress and i hope the rest of the band kicks him to the curb otherwise i'm out. your banjo player is a fascist what do you think this is going to do to your public image you guys screwed up fire the fascist the book was written by the wrong guy and know a journalist who's been beating the drum about violent left wing groups in the us for years for as bad as it was often attacked beaten and evident milkshakes of even

harassed a random asian and tortured him because he looked like him a grief for those who suffered because the read my words. the danger of unsafe in the us is not only the willingness to support me being good in terrorism but those of the other girls curious minds from and the new thoughts anyway and now writes a book that big surprise lashes out at and t. for and bad grasps the attention of poor winston marshall who's already on the world greater in 2018 he posed with jordan peterson as a college just who doesn't share transgender youth oreo or feminism that was strike number one and now endorsing the wrong book that strike number 2 game over your ban . but it's not just who you endorse it's also who you failed to endorse like these 2 public school administrators in the state of pennsylvania they lost their jobs

because they dared to criticize black lives matter in facebook posts or this guy senator josh holy facebook contract was polled after he question joe biden's election victory. a conservative publisher picked it up though saying they refused to how were before the woak mob but across most of the media and cultural landscape towering is the new name of the game. guitar says it's not a right to attack a person just for reading and commenting on such a book. there are issues with the with to integrity in the quality of the book but nonetheless merely reading it and praising a book should never be the subject of apology the idea that you should apologize for reading and praising any book. as extreme connotations for freedom of speech you know we are seeing it more and more. praising that to kill all those who particularize you can enjoy up an extremely hope oughta. when it's emotional and

tweeted an endorsement of the ideas in mind cam and yes i think that would be entirely different than dean goes but he's not lying cam i think what's really interesting is that we get drawn into these comparisons very very easily you know it's very easy to throw around the term fascist nowadays but right wing fascist and is a very remote ideology in today's context and the enjoy whatever you think of it he said only not a 'd white wing fascist so the comparison is completely healed found it. calls grow to the queen as head of state of commonwealth countries off the damaging interview and accusations against harry as my grandmother called him on that. bright.

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welcome back now the head of an american data privacy has questioned whether the personal health information in covert passports can be held securely the e.u. is among those mulling introducing the documents but rob south warns that they will read lead to discrimination. and i have seen the efforts from the european union and the green you know the green initiative and while this idea that they can guarantee. that the data is is safe and anonymized is just wrong it's incorrect and i think it's

a real problem when governments are claiming that just like it's a problem when companies claim that your data is anonymous and will never be lost stolen or act but what we're concerned about is if vaccine data and then execute data combined with travel data starts to leak out and get going combined with these data broker profiles that anyone can buy any business can buy them any individual can buy them there are available very cheap so for example an insurance company might or might not want to insure a server or give us an offer if it's a certain amount of that if we fall into a certain category based on that data. the company of the person we just heard from held a poll finding less than half of americans who want to digital health policy well southall a says if they i if they are brought in only essential information should be used.

i believe it is a good so. too the problem of an opportunity or vaccine of course is to not use or share it it is western knowledge use diggers you used things that replicate our data across every country we travel to or every order venue if we want to watch a football game having all of the data in it now sounds great and it sounds convenient but ultimately there is a lot of risks to our privacy in the future if we keep creating more data especially our. content creators already angry at the platform pocketing almost half that advertising revenue have criticized that it could now start taking almost another 3rd in tax payer creator outside of the us you may begin to have taxes the ducted from your u.s.

earnings later this year. their line giant takes $0.45 of every dollar paid by advertisers to feature on creators videos under a new policy to tax creators the site is now warning it will deduct up to another $0.30 from content watched by u.s. viewers the amount could be lower if the creators country has a tax treaty with washington but social media users says the video sharing site was already taking a big enough cut you take 45 percent of earnings already and now you expect us to pay tax just tax the 45 percent you take taxes from your own car do you agree to . imagine making me pay for drone strikes when i'm not even a u.s. citizen like a lesson if it to master sais you chips questionable move could end up hurting not boosting its own bottom line. you 2 can always choose to to pay it's to pay from its earnings now this is

a choice that is made to go outside of that and to charge more from its client base more from the public the key here in american businesses especially ones like you tube or social media platforms you have investors you are a publicly traded entity so you have investors people that rely on your standards on what you state that you stand for as a company and when you when you go against those when you violate your own standards you risk losing investment you really should consider is now the emergence of new streaming platforms you have gaps t.v. platform and there are other there are other streaming providers rubbles some other ones that are starting to get a much bigger name for themselves starting to get a bigger audience for their free for their free platforms without without many restrictions on the content they provide for a foreign citizens you to pay us taxes you'd have to be considered an employee or a contractor of an organization or you tube is saying that if you tube is part of

what they're doing is trying to make their content creators pay us taxes for some of their earnings from the platform that would not be legal and it wouldn't even be required under u.s. laws convoluted as it is because those people would need to be considered huge have employees i don't think you 2 would say that any of their content creators are due to the employees they're basically utilizing a platform they're not employees and contractors. thousands of signed a petition to abolish britain's monuc a how after it was accused of racism and mistreatment by prince harry and his wife make in moscow a scandal strengthened the case of australians including prime minister malcolm turnbull who insists u.k. royals have no place as the head of state quinnell lizabeth remains the head of state of many. former british colonies but republican sentiments rising to make out barbados will this year become the latest to remove the monarch from her role in

that country is professor jenny hawking has written the biography of former australian prime minister got whitlam he was controversially fired by the queen's representative in 1975 she told us that the royal family is in a difficult position we australians have no say over who hit of state will be its own heroes and charcoal and i think what the mayor and harry interviews show most clearly is just how out of touch the monarchy ears with everyday life particularly so many thousands of miles away in australia 'd questions being raised about what is the role of an inherited market with vast extraordinary. well saying significant pound despite the fact that they were paid at leat claim they have no political power that the queen private secretary was in intensive discussions with the governor general so joe could have tried to him dismissing the government the elected government of australia and of course the government knew nothing about

those conversations and nor did the australian people so this been real questions raised about the contemporary role of the monarchy in australia and i think it's much more the case that people support the notion that we should govern ourselves we should have our own head of state rather than an anti more nikki position has say i think that's an older position that we've moved beyond and we now simply want to control our own political distantly as australians and have a say in who i head of state is. the british eco hotel which will host this summer's g. 7 summit is being attacked for not being as green as it claims to be artie's but she davie picks up the story. just 2 months before world leaders rent their private jets come skidding into the u.k. from every corner of the planet to attend the g. 7 summit a few autographs. i do not want to believe that they have a little dig literally tracks by

a hotel in posh at the bottom left hand corner of britain hosting the g. 7 summit in june has played a big part bar where people are trained in shrubs. to create 3 family meeting rooms for the likes of climate chris 8 is a job i didn't just in a tour of the country had host but the interesting thing is the hotel hasn't actually got planning permission to build the new version and that the cation was submitted on monday but hasn't been accepted and if it gets rejected and have to do the reverse of what they've done that was. the hotel which prides itself on being eco friendly i won the coveted i eco hotel of the year award 2019 slash $24.00 to 2020 slash $21.00 award as you know he'd love to tell so there's one of them saying i think it's a disgrace that the summit which is meant to be looking at the effects of climate

change and the environment is being organized and hosted by people who obviously don't give a damn about it but the house has featured proof lupo statement to say it was be a status committee to sustainability and dedicated to protecting the environment now and for generations to come we can confirm this was not ancient woodland and there are no bad just sets on this piece of land you would have to think the best thing to say for climate change would be to hold the meeting well and just like the last one to get head start on saving some of those carbon emissions again it's not fun drinking champagne on your own is a plus in scotland in the event but it's another one of the united nations. chorley change conference also known as c.e.o. p.t. morris has gone on this one as well you need to minister just to concentrate on this one climate conference or wonder what they'll dig up for their.

i very regularly visit the area and i found. easily 20 breeding species of birds just within the area they've removed in the last week. but also it's an important migration or a door to grab a serene it's just been said that if the planning permission is rejected all the work that has already occurred needs to be removed and it's all good well removing buildings and structures but 1st of all we can restore 180 years worth of you know natural ecosystem framework these trees you don't just plumb them and walk away you know they need careful care and they take decades and centuries to grow to the same level as the trees you are basically taking down like for example that the hay chesty development you can't you can't take away for 500 year old trees didn't expect to come in a couple of things and offset the carbon emission the carbon emission is going to take decades centuries and even millennia new millennia to get replaced and i think

that there's a bit of a green allusion going on on with that sort of bait and you reflect on the green policies that you know it's going to be one of the leading debates is climate change and bring policy in this way the host venue is intimately. causing relatively large her appetite destruction on a local scale in order to host this this conference didn't get it it doesn't bode well with you know representing what this conference ultimately stands for. thanks for joining us this friday will be back in 30 minutes.