italy and germany consider breaking ranks with the european union in using russia. even if the european regulated doesn't give approval. to british controlled territories reject a government plan to send migrants that the processing yukio position is branded the idea. and ridiculous. joe biden the rise in hate crimes against asians in america was stirred up by his predecessor the mainstream media also piling blame on some of the country's world's. great tell me whether this is r.t.

international. italy's new prime minister says that rome will be forced to make his own decision on the use of russia. if it's not approved by the european medicines agency and this is after trust in the astra zeneca job in europe was shaken by recent safety fears all over explain. drawing he's not been long in the job as a tally in prime minister but he's already leading a country that's got an uneasy sense of deja vu at the moment when it comes to covert 19 it was just over a year ago that italy was at the very tip of the spear when it came to the coronavirus of driving 18 year up and now we're seeing intensive care beds in italy filling up at an alarming rate as fears of a 3rd wave have become reality mario draghi has said that he will operate an act outside of the use one for all and all for one particular program if it gets what italy needs let's order sputnik be and see what happens if you are

a peon coordination especially in health care does not work we have to be ready to act on our own and it's not only me saying this chancellor merkel told me that if the european medicines agency certifies sputnik be then ok but if it does not germany will do so itself this is normal pragmatism we have to work on the basis of european unity but if it's not achieved we have to try other ways german chancellor angela merkel has also been talking about vaccines she was speaking after a summit between the federal government here in berlin and the leaders of germany 16 states vaccination dominating those talks in fact local doctors here will start to be able to give out the jobs in germany at the end from the end of april now under merkel also spoke about russia's sputnik of a vaccine and she said that whether or not it gets approval from the european medicines agency she expects to see it being used here in germany in the fight

against corona virus seen also seen him stuff as fire the russian vaccine is concerned have held the view for some time that we should use each vaccine that is approved by the european medicines agence singh but if a new such european order were mate and have seen new indications. it will be germany would have to go it alone that is a possibility and this what i would do. as the head of the berlin branch of the german red cross i hear that many scientists from the berlin charity clinic say that the research documents the studies available about sputnik the give a positive impression vaccination is the only serious way to fight covert 19 and my demands on demand is the following we is the german red cross or impartial and do not interfere in political issues but we would like a non ideological decision on vaccines to be made and that everything that is scientifically based is allowed in germany and on the european market this applies

to us and to me and to the sputnik v. in this sense there should be no ideological or political reasons that would dictate selective behavior and my impression is that at least here in germany there is not enough information for scientists to study it properly in recent weeks and days this is change in the most fundamental way and i hear that opinions of many doctors and pharmacists who've been working on this topic including from the eminent charité that splitting v can be trusted and that if the a and relevant departments fail to approve it they will lose people's trust on friday morning there are reports coming out here in germany that a facility in barton verdant book was being prepared as a potential site to produce sputnik v. in europe if it gets approval from the european medicines agency now the german chancellor wasn't just talking about the sputnik vaccine while she was speaking to the press on friday evening she also talked about the astra zeneca vaccine said she

would take that astra zeneca job herself it's been a tough week for astra zeneca 20 nations and european nations suspended the use of the vaccine over potential links or concerns over potential links to blood clots in relation to those who've had the job. the european medicines agency gave an extensive press conference on thursday in which they said the benefits of taking the astra zeneca vaccine far outweighed any potential risks now that saw a number almost all of those countries that had carried out the suspension of astra zeneca resume using the astra zeneca vaccine however denmark finland norway of all said they're going to hold off reintroducing it norway saying they need more information due to several serious cases and norway would want to thoroughly review the situation before we make a conclusion there is a real mixed state of affairs at the moment with some countries around the world

taking strides in leap said when it comes to vaccinating their populations while others staring down the barrel of a 3rd wave of covert 19. british government plan to process asylum seekers in overseas toad trees has sparked anger and the other man are believed to be 2 options to which migrants could go before potentially being sent back to their original countries local authorities however say they want nothing to do with the scheme or is johnson has defended the idea. the objective here is to is to save life and avert human misery because people are crossing the channel who are being who are being conned by gangsters into paying huge sums of money risking their lives people have died beaking this trying to make this crossing and it is a deeply repugnant traffic that we need to stop well that idea was 1st suggested by

pretty brutal the home secretary amid the escalating migrant crisis though at the time it was branded a sick joke however that idea has now resurfaced from the prime minister barak johnson well critics have long said that this kind of policy will only make the journey all the more risky and that the government should really be prioritizing legal alternatives and safe passages for migrants to enter the united kingdom but on this latest policy they've branded as exacerbating the hostile environment it is an inhumane paul was that undermines our nation's proud tradition of providing protection to people fleeing persecution and terror many of whom have gone on to work as doctors and nurses in the n.h.s. these absurd ideas show the government has lost control and all sense of compassion well even the united nations has waded into this latest plan of shipping asylum seekers and refugees to remote areas in exchange for cash by calling it

a risk to roading international protection for refugees but at this point we have heard 'd from some of those remote territories british remote territories are saying they're having none of it along with ideas to build a road tunnel under the irish sea or a bridge above it this latest idea simply as to the rich tapers tree of life we're dealing with at present april the 1st isn't until next month but nonetheless the idea is expected to be included in policy papers as of next week as part of a wider shake up of asylum falls in a post for xcept britain so the situation is looking critically. for asylum seekers here in the united kingdom in fact right now asylum seekers are being housed in temporary accommodation including former army military barracks that have long been described as prison like we've seen outbreaks and totally. hygiene facilities there as well which is also met huge criticism from charities organizations and the labor party as well it seems as though the case of asylum seekers has long been

a thorn in the government's side and so now this latest i lock them up and throw away the key to out of sight out of mind. but through migration policy the loon school of economics downing believes such an offshore processing plant is misguided . he's referencing people trafficking in criminal gangs which are important right in people reach mikail as they are in people reaching the whole of europe but whether sticking asylum seekers to be processed and all of manageable sort of save lives about that i'm highly dubious there's a logic in terms of trying to trying to stop losing people in the general population right this is basically what's happened in the past 1520 years here in the u.k. when people's asylum claims have been rejected the rates of deportation are extremely low it's extremely expensive it should be difficult extremely canvasser and the idea between behind this policy is essentially to isolate people in remote areas

easier to survey and then easier to remove now how you would get people from the mainland u.k. to due process are all to the isle of man without significant issues that's the bit for me that remains to be seen and i don't see there being a clear pathway for the british government to do that. president joe biden and v.p. come along harris have visited atlanta which recently saw mass shootings at a number of mass arge powers in which 8 people were killed 6 of the victims were asian women biden has denounced the atrocities while the vice president also gave a view on what's been causing rising levels of hate against america's asian population for the last year we've had people in positions of incredible power scape those scapegoating asian americans people with the biggest part bits spreading this kind of hate. of biden has only hinted at who they think is to blame

the mainstream media's been openly pointing the finger at the trump administration donald trump didn't pull the trigger in atlanta but donald trump certainly was responsible for the anger in the fear in the suspicion that exists in great degree in this country much more so than ever in the past. and it's not just the shootings in atlanta they're being laid at trump's door i guess the of reports it is being a tough few weeks for jew 50 days in office in the problems keep piling up fortunately and thank the polls for these even with trump gone you can still blame your problems on him the last administration left us a dismantled an unworkable system we are dedicated to achieving and quite frankly are working around the clock to replace the cruelty of the passage ministration to put it succinctly the prior administration dismantled our nation's immigration

system in its entirety. a solid year democrats and biden praised migrants you remember that don't you citizenship for millions they promised within 100 days i'm going to send to united states congress a pathway to citizenship for over 11000000 undocumented people and all of those so-called dreamers those docket kids they're going to be immediately certified again to be able to stay in this country oh gosh diving who could have predicted that promising millions of people potentially citizenship would flood your borders with another wave of migrants more and more migrants who believed biden's populist election rhetoric and people smugglers whom business is booming but biden apparently didn't mean everything that he said thousands of kids are still in detention centers but waiting deportation to mexico and you know what biden's white

house is telling the crowds at the border who he gave so much hope to. goo way the message isn't done come now it is done come in this way ever do it to come to the united states is still illegal pathways then there's the pandemic which has ruined so much for all of us merica has been ravaged by couvade like nowhere else i've just been the disaster trumps disaster if you believe biden are trying to censor my brother it's a god of love of failed order and of axes failed of all the lies the effort to administer the shots failed a set of facts centers at a certain point the trump bashing becomes too much even for the liberal press trump all his scenes operation warp speed last year under which the development of a vaccine its production and distribution were carried out at unprecedented pace

that was trump that wasn't biden and even the pundits agreed. even the media acknowledges a top administration troll is spearheading the development and procurement but president biden refuses to say the truth is the biggest scam is biden taking credit for the vaccine remember when joe biden and common harris spent months lying about not trusting the vaccine simply because president trump spearheaded operation warp speed now they're trying to take credit for it sick people or take and the agent violence that has really had its ugly head over the last year on the one hand trump did say borderline or outright offensive things about china and others i think there's no question that some of the damaging rhetoric that we saw. during the prior administration blaming you know calling coded you know the virus or other things. lead to you know perceptions of the asian american community that are

inaccurate unfair have raised. you know threatening has elevated threats against asian americans on the other you just call and trust biden's all jobs but it comes to trump baps responsible for the anti asian violence that has also arisen in britain and europe elsewhere and how do you blame trump for a spree of attacks in atlanta as the white house hinted when police themselves say it was not racially motivated the suspect did take responsibility for the shootings he does claim that it was not racially motivated he apparently has an issue what he considers a fiction and sees these locations as something that allows him to to to go to these places and into the temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate we're going to be honest here barden inherited

a mess the pal long are they going to heap sweeping all their problems. under the trump rug as opposed to you know try seoul them especially considering that a significant amount of that mess and grow on the democrats created themselves. so less president biden admits the u.s. is unlikely to meet trump's promise deadline for pulling troops out of afghanistan bring you the story under this official break.

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back recently published t.v. ratings in the united states appeared to show that the post is a bit of a turnoff figures show c.n.n. has lost almost half its primetime audience following the former president's departure from office now almost 2 and a half 1000000 viewers were tuning in each day between election day on november 4th and joe biden's in orbit ration in january but after that the numbers really drop off down 47 percent in the key demographic of 25 to 54 year olds media and legal analysts lionel believes that trump was a golden goose when it came to media ratings. it's the only reason they existed every day people would tune in to hear the anti trump rhetoric but also to listen to what insane connections they can make between everything and trump and it was it was brutal it was exciting it was it was it was interesting that's done this is just reality who wants to hear i didn't tire day

a program you say wasn't that fantastic did you notice the show to chewed did you notice how great this president was when he's not and meanwhile fox and newsmax to an extent annoying and others are enjoying incredible ratings because they can turn that venom and excitement against the biden administration what i think people want to hear more than anything else is is confrontation but if somebody said we really are going to give you an honest to god fair and balanced attack an appraisal thing i would love it we live in a world now of social media of trolling of immediate reaction there's no such thing as milk toast they could have done wonders by attacking if you will anybody who deserved attacking for what they are is these are apparatchiks these are shot puppets for the democratic party and everybody knows that but now that there's no

trump to attack there's nothing there. president biden has admitted it'll be tough for the us to meet his deadline for pulling u.s. troops out of afghanistan with his administration considering a 6 month extension of their presence in the country donald trump a promise to withdraw the remaining 12000 troops by may 1st the toll of the war in afghanistan civilians has been immense. i mean in the with the other my husband was a vendor you're selling street food or that abdu'l hung around a bat when the explosion happened my neighbors didn't want to tell me that my husband had been killed because they saw i'm a woman with 3 paralyzed children and have heart disease to working with great difficulty it working to serve the people but eventually my neighbor came and told

me that my husband had been killed in a suicide bombing it is 15 years since they came to kabul and i'm living here because of my children i searched for my husband but there was no news about him there are thousands here widows who are living western me every morning when i am going at the others living in west situations than me i become very said. my husband was in the afghan national army before she was an employee it has been about 4 years since he was killed i have a daughters and one son my son is 13 years old my children couldn't get any educational schooling i want to say no to war there should be no killings anymore no country house children have faced mental problems and war affected my children.

the for the it says that although i was sitting there with my brothers was a bomb dropped on my house the bombardment began from years drums my brother was killed as we know no one will be left alive in this war moved there were a lot of people killed my 3 children were also killed i do monkeys for my country. early this week moscow hosted a meeting including representatives of the afghan government and the taliban aimed at reaching a negotiated settlement and comprehensive cease fire russia the us china and pakistan with the media has talked resulted in a statement urging the taliban to refrain from a spring offensive parts also call for a continuation of the peace negotiations in doha we spoke to one of the participants at the moscow talks he says real progress was made our expectation was

that when the talks started to doha violence will be deduced big deal that has not happened as of yet. unfortunately the war continues in all the major players are asking for association of violation and hopefully this meeting in clear messages given through this meeting to both sides will help us in moving in that i did action it is certainly complementing that doha or any future talks which takes place it is reenergizing it and it was that i deferred at the right time but every 2 leads affordable to act this law makes the public of afghanistan and the taliban. as long as the stomach the public up on a stand is concerned they're going to show you that it was very helpful in that. it

will it will help us. within their country in all saw throughout the negotiations. is loss of parliamentary immunity jail and alleged ties with artie's editor in chief just a few of the things former catalan leader a member of european parliament kind of pushed him on speaks about in the latest episode of going underground whose mom was a key figure in catalan is independence befriended a referendum this is actually 2070 and that was ruled illegal by spain which the mole's forced to flee the country he then became an m.e.p. 2019 but earlier this month the european parliament stripped him of that parliamentary immunity and you can watch the full version of the interview on our channel throughout the day is a preview. tell me what their removal of your a immunity from prosecution means might clear a threat against one of the bases of her european democracy. trending

from the want all right human values that are are for a while you were in jail insurers are girls and what did it personally feel like no charge spain resample are not acceptable you know western democracy work what kind of crime used to mission or 1000000000 my effective boss margarita simonyan name by the judge a i understand that you are working with her and thousands of troops were being prepared from russia to help you. to be well that these are narrow people knew that sean only goal parties were to go or worse try to of out on the agenda in order to be security to attack our. reputation we will continue. with political tools using our rights in european parliament we will fight very hard and our ones we hurt the mission we want to

share with the rest group eons we look at once we are not europe and our. crises european crises. a long dormant volcano sprang to life in iceland on friday spewing fountains of larva near the capital reykjavik larva covered an area of around one square kilometer but it pose no immediate danger to the local people eruption didn't come as a surprise either country it had recorded more than 40000 quakes in just the past 3 weeks ok in a previously sat dormant for 6000 years the last time an eruption occurred on the peninsula it was 800 years ago. and i wraps it up the watching r.t. international updates coming your way in just over 30 minutes.

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my name's dr rachel mackinnon and my sport is track cycling. the debate about trans focus is almost entirely on trans women debate is is it fair for trans women athletes to compete in women's categories and sports have become the poster girl for. everything wrong with trans women in the world. every single story that has a thing to do with trans women the transom of the athletes i get mentioned every time. you won a world championship in masters cycling has been hit with the wave of backlash including death threats. you broke the world's record. what's happening here is your guy. who was born male finished in the race and. becoming the

1st of a transgender woman to win gold in the competition. i'm a world champion in the masters track cycling sprint event as far as we know i'm the only trans woman world champion in olympic event. even though it's a masters event and that one podium photo is what everyone focuses on unfortunately people looked at me being bigger than the girls that i was racing in said fair look how much bigger she is. people who i meet david they do not no one trans despite what people love to think online so people see a picture of me when i had much much shorter hair because i cut all my hair off the hair and say oh well she obviously she's trained she looks like a man.