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headlining this hour the european commission admits covert vaccines are being evenly distributed among member states following claims by austria of backroom wheeling and dealing by. performers occupy 3 of the country's 4 national theater is saying they cannot survive the pandemic shutdown of cultural sites. justice for new york state care homes covert victims' families who lost loved ones accuse the authorities of covering up the death numbers. be careful what you read the british musician quotes a successful band after he slammed online for praising an anti book.
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although friday evening at 9 here in moscow welcome to world news from international 1st for you tensions within the e.u. over its stuttering vaccine rollout of ramping up the austrian chancellor is claiming some states have made backroom deals for job supplies breaking rules reporting next his peter all over. the use one for all and all for one vaccine procurement program has come under fire again this time it's austria's chancellor cortes who's not happy he says that the way that excess doses have been sorted out amounts to little more than a trading bizarre 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 up to here and front of all i have
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together with other heads of government shadow information and compare 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 have existed according to kurtz's start small to 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 look 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 generous is based on population but member states can ask for less all more of
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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
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the sputnik v. job is currently undergoing e m a the european medicines agency review once it gets not green light which is expected to come soon the vaccine will be used in a number of european nations of foreign affairs analyst to a drill kosong believes the pandemic has exposed the disunity within the e.u. . i do believe even though the. european union is broke and it's. aims to be perceived as a abortion as we know that the pandemic took out worse demons from all of us all all the governments around the world we know about the facts in 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. saying certain countries. just
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pushing. for securing more vaccines and this vaccine is nationalism is well documented. artists and employees to stage a unique performance at 3 of france's national theatres by occupying the venues in a protest over covert lockdowns they play in the restrictions have brought their industry to its knees and claim that the curtains may never rise again charlotte to bed explained. i don't know why. 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 theaters concert hall cinema museums so more taking more drastic measures over the last week
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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 hit by 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 they to say they won't leave until their demands are met them at no one and 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
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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 about the aftermath of the whites here they know it was 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
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6 6. there is an anger 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 as if you know 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 is considered to have one of the most generous support systems in the world but that system has been strained as a result of covert 19 and many claim that they have fall and through the cracks
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those his 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. is mounting on new york state governor andrew cuomo to step down over sexual misconduct allegations and an alleged cover up of covert care deaths. 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 and disqualifying the state's health department had initially reported around $8000.00 fatalities in 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 if these
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victims are added to the real number of deaths is almost double those reported victims' relatives question the counting and given a most apparent dismissal of its importance. who years 3328 died in battle died in a nursing home they don't write my father was in a nursing home station in the nursing home for 23. when he if there were at least in theory ended my family so that he 'd could no longer stand. the nursing home. system ways not prepared for any kind of health care emergency and i know my father is still in town to write their governors and it's you who cares where they die it does matter because it points to one where with their you know errors in their
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policies into why are they afraid of having those numbers revealed. most requirement for nursing homes to take in covert patients is being blamed for making the crisis worse vivian's as his mother died in a new york she's been demanding answers about carbo's policies and she 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 at least many of the deaths that happened in nursing homes were because of a mandate that almost but 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
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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 and that it was not correct there 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 say you know. what the scandal comes at the worst possible time for the state governor a 6 reports of sexual misconduct against has been published pushing more than 50 state led just legislators from his own party to now demand his resignation. next arouse erupted within one of america's leading global think tanks after a published an article saying that the united states should forget about promoting human rights and its dealings with russia by let's decode some of this for you the incredible things be looking through this article hi there carol i mean this is one
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of the go to groups of experts but there are some pretty big divisions opening up here on this. and date there seems to be a war over russia brewing at the atlantic council the atlantic council is a an important washington d.c. think tank dedicated to promoting human rights and democracy we now have 2 of its experts who come forward and said that quote democratizing russia may not actually be in the foreign policy interests of the united states this is some of what they said. policy makers should award to human rights 1st broached to russia democratization in russia would not necessarily be good for u.s. foreign policy interests land by other fellows of the atlantic council we had 22 atlanta council individuals us signing a document denouncing room and distancing themselves from this statement they said that day feel that this statement by their 2 colleagues misses the mark this is
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their response. there are school is premised on a false assumption that human rights national interests wholly separate and the u.s. policy toward russia was and remains driven by human rights concerns principally in fact previous administrations and the current one have sought to integrate our values and other national interests united states has long justified its military interventions and foreign policy in the name of spreading freedom and human rights around the world you see now the united states overthrew the government of iraq overthrew the government of libya overthrew the government of afghanistan in the name of bringing freedom to individuals in those countries we see how syria has been cast into quite a long civil war with many many deaths many many civilian deaths a resulting from u.s. efforts to overthrow what they consider to be an on democratic governments across the planet the united states as long claimed it is spreading democracy and
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spreading freedom however the results can be pretty bleak countries are set into chaos or refugees are created humanitarian crises a result it's not generally a good outcome when the united states destabilize or overthrows a country in the name was writing freedom now recently we heard anthony blank in the u.s. secretary of state say that the usa would no longer be using force in its efforts to promote democracy. we will incentivize democratic behavior. but we will not promote democracy through costly military interventions or by attempting to overthrow author terry regimes by force we've tried these tactics in the past however well intentioned they haven't worked well he's certainly correct in saying that they haven't worked they simply resulted in chaos and more suffering in country after country after country but now the question must be raised if u.s. military interventions and source is not going to be used to promote were spread
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human rights and democracy how exactly does the united states intend to do it. suppose now we have to wait to see which half of the atlantic council the biden administration is going to listen to so watch this space put out ok i'm open in new york thank you. next time of extreme vocalists and council culture it seems the chatting openly about what you're reading can be a career ending move a 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 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
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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 had been planned 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.
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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 it didn't do is meant to flush shay 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 it bad it was often attacked beaten and even milkshakes of even harassed a random asian man in portland because he looked like him
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a group for those who. because they read my were. 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 slashes out at and t. for and that grasps the attention of poor winston marshall who's already on the war greater in 2018 he posed with jordan peterson and 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
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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 a lawyer who gets else who also writes for the online political magazine spiked says it's not right to attack a person just for reading and commenting on 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 can enjoy up an extremely hopeful. tweeted an endorsement of
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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 and enjoy whatever you think of it he said and he not a right wing fascist so the comparison is completely ill founded. had an american data privacy for question whether the personal health information and covert possibles could be stored securely but rob shovel so that he 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.
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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 claim that just like it's a problem when companies claim that your data is anonymous and will never be lost stolen or act where 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 that anyone can buy any business can buy them any individual can buy them if they're available very cheap so for example an insurance company might or might not want to insure us or give us an offer if if certain amounts of that if we fall into certain categories based on that data a company whose see have just heard how the poll which found that less than half of americans want digital health possibles rope shovel says that if they do have to be
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brought in only essential information should be used what i believe is a good so who should add to the problem of an opportunity a vaccine death ports is janaki is a shared database is the last technology used digger's is used things that don't replicate our data across every country we travel to or every sports venue if we want to watch a football game having all of this data in and out 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 health. a going green is meant to be a central theme of this summer's meeting of the world's richest nations in the u.k. however it's been revealed that the eco hotel which the g 7 leaders will be staying
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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 for being i do not want to believe that they have a little dig literally. by a hotel in posh accent at the bottom left hand corner of britain posting the g. 7 summit in june has played up the fun part by whipping up the shore 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 lowest jobs embarrassing to 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 they have to do the reverse of what they've done at work. here the
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hotel which prides itself on being eco friendly i won the coveted i in turn hotel of the year award 2019 slash 24 to the 2020 slash 21 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 hunt chalte chalte tell a future proof loophole statement you said 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 save climate change would be to hold the meteorologist like the last one to get him started saving some of those naughty little carbon emissions and again it's not fun drinking champagne on your own is
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a plus in scotland in the event but it's another one of the united nations. it's called a change conference also known as c.e.o. peaches horace is going to go on this one as well he moved to minnesota just to concentrate on this one call it called for and i wonder what they'll dig up for. the purpose we're going to look at life in the world's richest country next but from the viewpoint of being in one of its poorest neighborhoods. one else truths seem wrong. but all roads just don't call. me you get to shape out these days become educated and in detroit equals betrayal.
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when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. that's right the stand have. no problem with a small. amount of goods that are not in our right trophy and there are rather across i thought before for them to kidnap. i'm going to let them but i don't touch them then you cut them and kick and. i didn't lose each other for 12 all that it. was then i was on the show little side of. the family only a lot of them. do it.
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because its whole food place choice i knew you didn't pay i think time in syria said. he she ought to have a. model for the name after the whole fucking mr hate that for jim and then i hope that our freddie macor. in southern california the sun rises over san diego bay. next to a parkway in this parking lot 54 year old maria begins her day. straight away bed and. this car is her.
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this is every day. this routine about stretching my bad. maria no longer has a place to live she's been sleeping in her van for a year now. looks pretty nice you don't you don't feel it doesn't seem to you live here but you do i have seen people with their cars so messy n things all over the place how can i go to work with my life like that i mean has to have a little order you know because this is what we need to continue it is not that perfect but it's. the way i won and it makes me feel better. just like maria around 30 other people sleep overnight in their car in this free
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parking lot nevertheless most of them work their security guards drivers secretaries or even computer technicians. the area is a cleaner and a care exhausting work that she does 7 days a week. well it. depends where my car 8 is if it's like this i want has to be flat because my backers if it's like better. to provide some comfort for all these people an organization has supplied them with a water point portable toilets and a small outdoor kitchen where maria prepares her morning coffee before going to work.
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