the. european commission admits covert vaccines on being evenly distributed among member states following claims by backroom wheeling and dealing by. performers occupy 3 of the country's 4 national fitz's saying they cannot survive the pandemic shut down of cultural sites. justice for new york state. victims' families who lost loved ones accuse the authorities of covering up the death. be careful what you read the british musician quits a successful band after he slammed online for praising an anti anti foot book.

global stories international reaction this is r.t. for a moscow. welcome for me in the. program 1st for you tensions within the e.u. over its stuttering covert vaccine rollout of ramping up the austrian chancellor is claiming that some states have made backroom deals for job supplies breaking rules reporting next his peter all of a. the e.u. has one for all and all for one vaccine procurement program has come under fire again this time it's austria's chancellor is the busty in courts who's not happy he says that the way that excess doses have been sorted out amounts to little more than a trading bazaar he's also we're really on a happy with the weight distribution his being carried out he says that under the program the way it is at the moment some e.u. member states will vaccinate all of their population by may others will have to

wait until perhaps as long as the autumn yet the year i'm from the ball i have together with other heads of government showed all information and compared our own statistics on that distribution among e.u. member states and when you do that you notice that their mounts delivered do not correspond to the respective population numbers there is such a bizarre word distal contracts but when member states and pharmaceutical companies assert have existed according to kurtz's stats multi has received 3 times as many doses relative to its population as bulgaria we've also heard from the e.u. commission spokespeople though they've said that there are no secret backroom deals going on when it comes to doses of the vaccine and when it comes to the distribution program austria was privy to how this would work right from the very beginning if they'd had any problems with it they should've voiced them then the

starting point of the commission is to distribute doses based on population but member states can ask for less all more of a particular vaccine in this context and following talks between member states it's possible that a new distribution plan is agreed with the company. well the e.u.'s vaccination program has prompted some member states to look elsewhere for their jobs in the direction the a lot of them have been turning is towards russia's v. vaccine that has caused some problems though particularly in slovakia where the health minister now former health minister he is was forced to resign from the cabinet after he ordered 200000 doses of the russian vaccine 2 out of the 4 policies that make up the coalition government in that country said they weren't having nothing there's a similar but different situation in the czech republic as well the president of

the czech republic saying that the health minister and senior health official should either quit or be sacked if they don't buy in rush's sputnik v. vaccine well the sputnik v. job is currently undergoing a.m.a. the european medicines agency review gets not green light which is expected to come soon the vaccine will be used in a number of european nations foreign affairs analyst atrial kosong to believe the pandemic has exposed to the disunity within the you. i do believe even though the. european union is broke and is perceived or aims to be perceived as a abortion as we know that the pandemic took out the words demons from all of us all all the governments around the world we know about the vaccine nationalism and we know that in this race for our citizens' lives no one

is really taking into account what the e.u. is saying i do agree with the torah the saying certain countries. just pushing. for securing more vaccines and this buy back since nationalism is well documented. artists and employees are staging a unique performance of 3 of france's national theatres by occupying the venue in a protest over covert lockdowns they claim the restrictions have brought the industry to its knees and claim the curtains may never rise again charlotte event explained. i know my eyes was. the chorus of calls demanding the reopening of cultural venue's is growing allow day in france but with no clear end date in sight to the closure of theatres

concerts whole cinemas museums so mother 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 multiply in the case of resistance to make our claims hood so we've all the o.t. now for a week and for that it serves as a place of residence the odeon is a symbolic place it was occupied in the $968.00 process there are 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 protesters who set up shop here at the oh didn't say 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 made 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 in particular ball the aftermath of the white they know it why objective is to continue to protect artistic employment as much as nest. we will continue our discussions days later though and nothing has changed here the sector already hit badly by the 1st wave of the qubit pandemic with performers taking to the streets to make their plight no you. thank you.

c thank. you 6 6. there is an anger too that while small private galleries have been allowed to stay open larger places such as they serve hot to remain shut protesters say that it is possible to open up cultural venues and ensure the people remain socially distanced. 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 closed 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 co the 19 and many claim that they have fall in through the cracks those his say that this protest is just the start as more and more regions in france will see similar action charlotte even ski azzi paris. rush is mounting on new york state governor andrew cuomo to step down have a sexual misconduct allegations and an alleged cover up of covert death. i think we've seen so many. so many troubling things that 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 in disqualifying the state's health department had initially reported around $8000.00 fatalities in 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. these victims added the real number of deaths is almost double those reported victims' relatives question the counting gov co most apparent dismissal of its importance. who years 3328 died in hospital died in a nursing home. my father was in a nursing home station he was in the nursing home for 23. when he if there were at least in theory ended my family he 'd could no longer stand. the nursing home. system ways not prepared for any kind of health care or emergency and i know my father still encountered it 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 into why are they afraid of having those numbers revealed. comatose requirement for nursing homes to take in coated patients is being blamed for making the crisis would. as his mother died in one. she's been demanding answers about quote most policies and founded voices for seniors which aims to improve the quality of life for some of the most vulnerable in society. the facility failed her and in and the state failed her. i think that right now i least many of the deaths that happen in nursing homes were because of a mandate that almost put in that force these facilities to take in patients when they were not equipped to take care of them so it's a combination of both my mother's facility was reporting 40 deaths back in april

when my mother died and she was not part of that number because she died at the hospital so when months and months and passed and it's already we knew that that number could not be correct i mean you're not going to tell me that 40 people die although one shot and then no one dies for months so when the number actually came out we were we were basically you know we were found to be true or that it was not correct they're still families and seniors dying today because they're being isolated sadat's and you know i know families that i talk to on a daily basis where they see their loved one declining every day and they're not allowed to see them. in the cab scandal comes at the worst possible time for the state governor a 6th report of sexual misconduct against cuomo has been published pushing more than 50 state legislators from his own party to the mounties resignation. next at a time of extreme woken up and council culture it seems that chatting openly about

what you're reading can be a career ending move the musician from one well known british band has been branded a fascist for mentioning that he wrote a book criticizing the left wing activist movement until for ati's constantine 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 actions 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 downflow didn't do is meant to flush shay i really like that one

song a while ago winston mossel and his prove to us just be me and 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 fascists 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 is bad it was often attacked beaten and even milkshakes of even harassed a random asian man in portland because he looked like him a group for those who suffered because they read my were to meet 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 in no 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 i say colleges 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 holly he spoke 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 woke ma but across most of the media and cultural landscape towering is the new name of the game. what we call the folds of the lawyer who gets

also also writes for the online politics magazine spiked he says it's not right to attack a person just for reading and commenting on a book. there are issues with the with integrity and 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 can enjoy up an extremely hope. if we. 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 mine camp and 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 fascism is a very remote ideology in today's context i mean joe whatever you think of him he

said we know a lot 'd of fascist so the comparison is it's completely ill founded. the head of an american data privacy firm has questioned whether the personal health information and possible it could be stored securely among those considering the introduction of such documents in the european union the one that this could 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 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 mexican data combined with travel data starts to leak out and get going combined with these data broker profiles then 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 give us an offer if it's a certain amount of that if we fall into a certain category based on that data. a company whose c.e.o. who just held a poll that found that less than half of americans want digital health possibles to get says the see if they are only essential information should be used. but i believe it is a good so usually to the problem of an opportunity or vaccine of course is to not use a shared database is alaska knowledge use digger's you use beings that replicate

our data across every country we travel to or every sports 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 how. you tube or content creators have reacted with fury over plans by the online giant to take an even greater slice of the potential earnings of an already move to pocket half of all ad revenue the video platform now plan to tax grab. their creator outside of the u.s. you may begin to have taxes the ducted from your u.s. earnings later this year. you tube already takes a $0.45 of every dollar paid by advertisers now it's putting a 30 percent tax on all content watched in the united states although that amount

can be lower if the countries if the creators a country has a tax treaty with washington however you tube has claimed they're already paying too much you take 45 percent of earnings already and now you expect us to pay tax just tax the 45 percent you take the tax from your own car do you agree to. imagine making me pay for drone strikes when i'm not even a us citizen legal analyst jennifer the master believes you tube's move could end up backfiring. egypt could 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 and 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 are reliant on your

standards on what you state that you stand for as a company and when you when you go against as when you violate your own standards you risk losing investment use you really should consider is now the emergence of a new streaming platforms you have gaps t.v. platform and there are other of their 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 out without without many restrictions on the content they provide for a foreign citizen to 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

given ploys i don't think you tube would say that any of their content creators are you tube employees they're basically utilizing a platform they're not employees and contractors. going green is meant to be a central theme of this summer's g 7 meeting in the u.k. however it's been revealed that the eco hotel which the world leaders will be staying at may not be as environmentally friendly as it's claimed. just 2 months before world leaders bring their private jets come skidding into the u.k. from every corner of the planet to attend the g. 7 summit a few autographs of being i do not want to believe that they have a little dig literally tracks this by a hotel in posh accent at the bottom left hand corner of britain hosting the g. 7 summit in june has played up the fun part with love but sure trees and shrubs.

to create 3 family meeting rooms for the likes of climate chris 8 is a joke boyd and justin and country head hosts laura's jobs embarrassing 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 i have to do the reverse of what they've done at work. here at the hotel which prides itself on being eco friendly around the coveted i eco hotel of the year award 2019 slash 20 people into the 2020 slash $21.00 award as it know it love to counselors 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 in hosted by people who obviously don't give a damn about the hotel chats have featured prove lupo statement you said status committed 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 to climate change would be to hold the meteorologist like the last one to get him started 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. call it change call friends also know the best c.e.o. he. has gone think on this one as well he moved to minnesota just to concentrate on this one climate conference i wonder what they'll do. is friday's boom bust is just moments away i'll be back a bit here next r.t. international news update i have to say that.

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this is boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss i'm wrinkled love in the washington coming out president biden signed the long awaited american rescue plan into law one year after kobe 1000 was declared a global pandemic as countries around the world put in then to lock down measure plus. the u.s. war on while waiting to news out of the chinese telecom giant fighting to expand

its influence and where is it 5 you know we're going next we'll discuss. that argues it did nothing wrong moving to dismiss a lawsuit from the u.s. government that accuses the tech giant of going too far to silence the competition we have a lot to get to so let's get started. it has been one year since coben 1000 was declared a global pandemic and that time deaths related to the virus have surpassed 500000 unprecedented walk down measures have impacted every aspect of our daily lives sparking historic job loss and forcing both the working class and some of the most profitable industries to rely on government aid to survive but even as vaccines are administered by the millions many countries are still turning to lockdowns to try to contain the virus that includes europe and the u.k. where the czech republic is imposing its most severe lockdown yet has cases hit an all time high strict lockdowns continue in spain belgium portugal and ireland while

france greece and italy are imposing lockdowns in their hardest hit zones germany austria denmark the netherlands england and scotland are gradually lifting restrictions meanwhile both china and russia are largely. when for business while it started with one of the world's most severe lock downs beijing was also the 1st to contain the virus on the other hand moscow has been praised for its self-discipline as the country avoided strict lock downs and became the 1st to register a covert $1000.00 vaccine south africa has restrictions have also been lifted after a lockdown so strict if they end the purchase of alcohol and cigarettes but did not stop the spread of the virus as the country now faces new mutations south america has been hit especially hard by the coronavirus as the region's economy struggles to recover brazil isn't forcing a new lockdown in its capital city while peru cowen via venezuela and chile extend

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