are not favorable for withdrawal this begs the question what can be done now has not been tried for new. hospitals across france are struggling facing a shortage of beds in the i.c.u. . french hospital chiefs ringing the alarm on a quote president of the country said to refeed new pandemic records for the year yet the government's response leaves people who will the. mistaken. after 6 pm. after suffering a really i didn't hear that at all thank you. we don't understand the new rules at all for example we're supposed to be in lockdown yet we're walking in the chandeliers they. are the headlines this morning flourishing hate speech and deceptive commercial practices facebook said with a lawsuit the international media watchdog alleging it allowed huge amounts of

misinformation on these pages including conspiracy theories about coronavirus latest coming up. reparations and recriminations chicago becomes america's 1st city to compensate black residents for housing discrimination but experts are divided on its real value. is this quite in the current development it's quite new and heard of no it's not really anything because i mean the elephant in the room here is that this is not slavery reparations it's only like a housing program. reparations for slavery. 8 to one here in the morning in moscow very good morning for me kevin 0 in this wednesday the 24th of march watching r.t. international hope because stick around as well for the next half hour as to take you through this morning this 1st france's healthcare system risks unprecedented

shock within weeks if the government fails to deal with a new. that is the warning from the hospital federation chief. but you prefer my actions have been taken given this delay hospitals are likely to be rocked by an unprecedented violent shock in 2 to 3 weeks. goes on and on doesn't a 3rd wave of infections kicked in last week there are now more than 26000 patients in hospitals across the country that's the highest figure this month and over 4000 in intensive care so it's a grim record for 2021 1st often the emergency doctors association warning authorities response in their view has been woeful and it's just your. own hospitals across france are struggling facing a shortage of beds in the i.c.u. there is an influx of patients their numbers are growing at an unprecedented pace

the problem results from the fact that the government hasn't provided any extra beds for a year already furthermore our country is falling behind in vaccinations pharmaceutical companies have delayed their supply shipments are inoculation rate is very low compared to other nations like morocco or serbia where health care efficiency is inferior. meantime the government's new measures to try to curb the spread of infection seem to only cause confusion covering the charlotta bensky next. you'd think that by the time the 3rd lockdown was announced the parts of france that the government would be permed at it this is what you can do this is what you can't do but it's been anything but the case do you think you understand there were strict now in place soon places like paris. now it's. better but is typical shows they get some points too much numbers but the rules are

not too well it's a little bit lax we can do a little like. they were clear enough they are good at differentiating things after realizing that they're fuzzy so it is not really a lockdown. we can refer issues but we can buy that. mistake and i shouldn't go after 6 pm. after suffering now really i didn't think you know we don't understand the new rules at all for example we're supposed to be in lockdown yet we're walking the chandeliers a there are a lot of people even though it's tuesday normally during log down there should not be so many people yet. there are a lot of people listen when the prime minister announced that 16 regions would be heading back into a lockdown last week he said citizens would have to once again fill out public mission reforms to show that they were leaving home for essential reasons when the

new forms were published they contained so many options as to why you could leave home they caused widespread confusion. seizure tax how come you allow me to take a breath 10 kilometers away but force my dog to stay within one kilometer of his can i come home from work certificate i pick up the kids from school certificate i buy a brat certificate it's a little after 7 pm certificate luckily i have no dog originally the 21 or so 1000000 people impacted by the new lockdown were told they could travel up to 10 kilometers from their homes and fortunately they don't could only go one kilometer. i'm sorry it's the rules you have to stay there it's a kilometer from the house i have to go you have to stay go back home what don't you understand me like it's horrible i know. sorry you

didn't poked fun at and even the government had to admit that the form was called lax and soon it was true the less you need into trouble more than 10 kilometers i don't want to go out of the curfew as yes that's still in place the next level of before the month came as it emerged that most of the businesses that would be closed as they were not essential like florist headdress and chocolate shops were told they could stay open. we made some exceptions such as head dresses for french people we did it because there are professions like florists that make. during spring we did it for the chocolate is because it's easter so what is it we owe. a look like as it's been up here and do people in paris know what they can and can't do you think you can eat lunch with your friends in the park yeah. i think

it's possible no they've said it's not there they do not recommend eating lunch with your friends right now i think we. have the right to eat in a park with friends to go out after 7 pm under certain conditions i think yes but visiting friends at home was no i don't think that's possible after 7 pm we don't have the right with the curfew we don't have the right all joking aside a year of parents in and out of lockdown says certainly brought everyone to the same feeling that of being generally fed up and you can't help but feel that french government is in its own confusion about what we should and shouldn't be doing causing that it's unnecessary public anxiety shows evil ski arty paris. meantime here vaccinated the kremlin's confirmed indeed good for isn't

the covert 19 but which one is still a mystery officials saying they won't specify the shot in order to stress that indeed all 3 russian vaccines are safe effective so as it stands more than 6000000 people have had their 1st here in russia since the inoculation campaign started over 4000000 have already had both doses there's a graph there the infection rates. with the number of daily new cases now under 10000 next artie's i'm chris solve ski speaking to the deputy prime minister about the vaccine program and how it differs from europe if you say that vaccination is c. in we're monitoring it safety would it be easier for the government to make it more or less mandatory or if not forcing people strongly compelling them as in israel if you don't want to be vaccinated which don't leave your house. russia has extensive experience nationwide vaccination we have got used to its voluntary nature i think

trying to pressure force people to get the chip or stay at home because they haven't been inoculated that's wrong because everyone is different we're now seeing a scandal unfolding around the astra zeneca vaccine while the w.h.o. says that it's too early to draw any conclusions and suspending it may be unnecessary what do you think what is your general attitude to this scandal. where we are extremely careful when it comes to any data connected to side effects potentially provided by this or that product why because we did not have the opportunity to fully check it using medical data in this case we can only speak about ourselves and here i can say that each country it's tricky monitoring all of the potential post vaccination side effects the vaccination process should not be politicized because the process itself is aimed at one particular goal saving lives and protecting the population. when shall we not politicizing this as

a country. we are saying that the country created 3 product of its own where telling the whole world about them in the same way that everyone else is why wouldn't we it's our achievement we're proud of it at the end of the day it's an appraisal of russian science which some have been trying to diminish and say we are not capable of anything we are in the long run we do acknowledge that there could be a 3rd wave there may be a slight increase but why is that massive everywhere but moderate in russia well we see how the epidemiological situation is developing in europe and in russia one of the reasons for this development is that they were constantly unlocked and people stayed at home they did not go outside their sterile in the sense of the virus so then they go out and catch that's why they never develop collective immunity right essentially yes when do you think this will all end we are. now working on the assumption that we will achieve 60 percent collective immunity by august it is

clear that most likely there will be some seasonality everyone has been talking about that. so it could come back in october. yes but i really hope people will get vaccinated because dealing with the consequences of the disease will be far more difficult than getting voluntarily inoculated. there was some still remain wary about getting the coronavirus shot our team reviewed a few of the myths than about russia's support like the vaccine. if existing approved vaccines contain a small fragment of forest one of its genes even half of it with and of course it's constant sexy with copious of its. side effects and complications are the same as after any fluid seen here on the group of the presence of cindy's a not really side effect as the expected reaction of the immune system above is maxing trains it's defend itself against an enemy of so and it gets activated

monarch to view. if you give yourself more specific to miss than 50 to keep around this is the actual facts against distinction and the most secure what's that gets you based on proven technology that has already been used for the vaccine caused by the company the ridge says the vaccine does it is strictly on the international protocols feel vaccines are tested this way and that's how all viruses get to the markets. i wonder where this is coming from is completely incomprehensible it's from the brain no vaccines cause and fits in a seat that is complete nonsense from the biological point if you will in which case what the child was almost vaccines of wildflowers concludes in food africa's action if it will be true it's called and the food is an individual so much more the fool the ordinary for the furious food should we all have to make

a choice and weigh up the risks to be used to give the only way to prevent any viral infection within the growing of ours is vaccination or what some others even if they get vaccinated legacy really. now the news is sort of global media watchdog reporters without borders a slap to amass a lawsuit on facebook claiming it let hate speech flourish on his platform including false videos about the pandemic that were watched millions of times the company faces a fine of 10 percent of its annual turnover over it it goes down off reports. kicked off as a place for college students to i each other rap online and rank who they think is hot from somewhere to show off or just stay in touch it's hard to pinpoint the moment when it morphed from those beginnings into an information high drama that has trouble making its own users adhere to its own rules the latest strike comes

from france reporters without borders lawsuit demonstrates that the california based companies undertakings to its consumers are largely mendacious and that it allows dissent from asian and hate speech to flourish on its network contrary to the claims made in its terms of service and through its ads facebook a mere pittance has grown to be too large for the company itself even its exacts when unaware of being filmed of course admitting the giant has to be tamed. but until this happens it's up to individual countries to rein in the dominance of facebook and they do the u.k. has taken the social network to court for losing control of the data of british hughes's italy find the company over the lack of transparency in their privacy policies facebook was misleading users to register on its platform by not informing

them immediately inadequately of the collection activity with commercial intent of the data provided by them astray or forced facebook into a commercial deal making it pay news corp a stray for journalism from its local mastheads but only after an ill tempered fight in which facebook inadvertently shut down some of vital information services in australia. on the side of over and for cement in doing so some content was blocked inadvertently even the. i did states where facebook is widely viewed as a mass mind control tool in the hands of political establishment is taking steps to limit its reach facebook's user profiles would allegedly reveal an individual's likes dislikes interests and habits over a significant amount of time without affording users a meaningful opportunity to control or prevent the unauthorized exploration of their private lives some say the big tech has replaced big oil as the global

corporate power play up except it controls not only the money but also information streams and whether its concerns about snooping censorship or monopoly practices the raw signs that the global mood could be turning on the online giant but it won't go down without a fight fairly powerful groups like media organizations and governments coming up your facebook from very different angles none of those entities are powerful facebook is right now that of course might be one reason that governments are a little worried about how are these trying to rein it in your already very very scary territory all right it's only going to keep going in the same direction that it has been going on governments or. governments and sort of try to do anything about it and the sectarians are stronger than governments they are the most powerful forces on the planet the respect of course of the planet as undersea they

control the conversation they control who gets to see her who doesn't get to be here they control what you see they control what you buy they know everything about you they are showing us who's in charge. 17 paseo if you watch the clothes mourning the next the issue of reparations in the u.s. has splits opinion to chicago became the 1st city to pay black residents of suffolk housing discrimination authorities have approved a 10000000 dollars package setting aside $25000.00 for each eligible family the money is to. we spend on home repairs or is down payments on property reparations are said to be funded by income from annual cannabis taxes over the next decade but polls find just one in 5 people agree that damage you should be paid to the descendants of slaves and many also question how eligibility for such programs is determined with race and history and evidence of discrimination all being considered in the mix we discussed it with our guests. it is quite in the current

development it's quite new and heard of. it is a 1st step towards. repairing or implementing some sort of prison or to justice. for historical injustice that the black people have suffered from no it's not really anything because i mean the elephant in the room here is that this is not slavery reparations it's only kind of like a housing program disguised days reparations for slavery because there was never any slavery in evanston let alone chicago which is that dinner every where every say news let's face it whatever it's done whatever kind of financial reparations would never repair that historical injustice that those people have suffered from i mean this is just impossible money would not buy people's lives bad or repair that suffering it is mostly symbolic it was a point only did it was to be paid it should have been pay and slave holding places

to former slaves from the former slave owner or from the state that's what it should have been about what i think when i say it's a big it is a 1st step it is a 1st step but only and only if people keep pushing and the systemic racism is really challenge not only in cities or states but over the in the country such as actually i would go if we even beyond that it's actually a global issue what it is issues talking about i don't really understand what we're saying i mean if there was ever sort of racism or some way to say something mean of somebody it mean does that mean that the state has to come in and pay some money there's any out amount tax money after pay or so when a corporation that wasn't even really involved with it i mean this is not really going to happen there will be issues of course this would be misused some would be somewhat to use this as a token and say ok you've been paid and that's basically you have to shut up and then you should not ask for more but i think. have to be realistic it is not enough

strew but it should be used as a basis force or larger social movement that ask for much more at the national level. exit polls from israel's elections indicate caretaker pm benjamin netanyahu ruling party holds the lead just about it may not be enough for the prime minister and analysts to secure a decisive victory than see this before paula slee is in jerusalem good morning. or is it now behind us 20 past 7 in the morning bright new start to a bright new day where you are but politically i guess nothing much brand new about the way the country's 4th election in 2 years is likely to pan out here. well it's a little bit too early to say the last few hours have seen the exit polls changing and we are back now in a position with the country's prime minister benjamin netanyahu does seem on track to form the next government a few hours ago it wasn't sure whether or not he would reach that 61 majority that

he needs now the israeli parliament comprises 120 seats so who ever gets the largest number of votes is tossed with seeing whether or not he can form the next government and at this stage netanyahu sleeve could party has come in with a clear 1st position so he will be tossed by the country's president and rivlin presumably next week to form the government we will know the final tally on friday afternoon but at now the question is not so much who's got the most support but who is going to be able to form the majority coalition government we are hearing from the latest polls that netanyahu is likely to be able to put together $62.00 parliament knesset seats and his main rival to the yell a period that is the opposition bloc and the opposition leader is able to put together $58.00 so it's very very close and it could still change in the coming hours and certainly in the coming days this was an election largely about netanyahu

people who are voting whether they want him to stay in office or whether they don't and he's certainly used to his credit the way he's handled the whole coronavirus pandemic is actually a personal sponsibility for ensuring that israel had the quickest rollout in the international community which of course has raised a few our brows the main criticism against him is that he is facing charges of corruption if he is able to retain his seat as prime minister he will be able to defend himself in the courts while remaining the premier of this country and that does put him in a much stronger position i spent the early hours of this morning at the likud headquarters. and the mood there was certainly very festive a lot of support being shown for netanyahu but at the same time there's a lot of anger against him and a lot of criticism and for the better part of a year we have seen crowds gather outside his official residence. into resulin where almost every saturday night they've been calling on him to step down so this

really is a divisive issue for the country it was the 1st election that happened during the one a virus there were 5000 extra polling stations that were set up and a lot of care was taken to make sure that people wear masks that they say distancing there was also a special voting booths set up in hospitals for patients who are covert positive the turnout was noticeably lower than it has been and as you correctly mentioned this is the 4th election in 2 years so there is a feeling that israelis are starting to feel quite at the face it about the elections or a question of too much democracy it's still too soon to say whether netanyahu will stay in power if indeed neither he nor the opposition is able to put together that majority coalition or them israelis could be headed for a 4th election and certainly talking to people here that something nobody wants goes along with it will no more 2448 hours in as you say there paula keep us posted

thanks from jerusalem with. a case study of how the world turn years ago the arab spring shook the middle eastern it was hailed at the time by the west as an opportunity to bring democracy there but some countries particularly those with close ties to washington appear to dodge the meaningful change looking good time behind so we look at how the likes of saudi arabia for instance of managed to avoid the transformations sweeping the region. the arab spring is a massive opportunity to spread peace prosperity democracy and fight to the security but only if we really seized the opportunity. this is saudi arabia's worst nightmare isn't it i mean the arrival of the new arab awakening as they're calling it and so on for sort of the about the last month the showing the smoke and so on and son on the balcony you're comfortable.

in saudi arabia is drafting sauza security personnel in an attempt to crush a growing revolt in the kingdom in an attempt to avoid and resting up the law unveiled a massive social welfare package but many critics see this as a way perhaps by people signing. it's not now the follow through the protests of momentum egypt in this where in central riyadh it's not that surprising that no one turned up at the last few days the papers have been filled with remind of the penalty for demonstrating in this country lashing and imprisonment they were not expecting a 40 year old teacher corresponded to burst on to the scene why why do theatre need to demonstrate this because i need freedom i need to make cuts. you think will happen to you now you spoke and i was in the deal with that big smile because you know the ship when you don't have the right to speak to the planned day of rage in

saudi arabia perhaps it would be protesters hopes were dashed by strict security measures stern warning by saudi officials against any protests so where does the u.s. fit but in perspective for us ok the phrase per reason saudi arabia is really the most important of all these countries is because saudi arabia has always served as the safety net whether it comes to oil you know on the oil price gets too high in the united states ask the saudis problem or oil bring the price of oil down and they have. we stand for serious scholarship has conceded the u.s. and its allies support democracy if and only if the 1st problems distribute you can economic objectives they need that would affect all. they need us to buy the. when the revolutions of the arab spring swept across 4 or 5 countries there was a cry of panic and a gulf system made up of sidey arabia and the united arab emirates that this wave could reach us so orders were issued to strike these resolutions and i think this

also happened in court nation with these release because they also opposed having a great country like egypt go out of control cut the snake that. i always value as measure says wisdom and insights. and we have had a very productive session and there are reports that king abdullah told the bahraini authorities next door that if they don't crush their own sheer revolt his forces will. pull people of bahrain have basically been overlooked and their concerns and their rights have been pushed to one side in the interests all security and prosperity i think did it just the royal family to go freezing putting the poorest nation in the gulf region . even the british embassy in bahrain as for money i can get into the keep quiet deal with what if to my for my nice to her in the authorities have over

the security services. police will use a handgun to a piece of beef i live rounds indiscriminately in which the test is a protest or a shell to point blank range by what appears to be a policeman firing tear gas canisters he stands up again she seems to take a machete and she asked me to crack down came just a day off to the audience king declared martial law and told him troops from neighboring saudi arabia to help shut down the protests. yes i think that people. to help us to do something for the people who we are be it's one of the photos we have often for the image that i've done nothing else on the ship through pushes coming in from to go to forge to be accepting of i am from foreign i've got brought from the people of i think feelings to people for i mean innocent people are being killed and you told me you were a doctor here today don't listen to any. time i've

also seen a video trying to show the nurse being beaten by police as the village continued. and another of the sunni gangs attacking nurses was going. on thursday dozens of medical staff were tried in a military court and convicted of any state crime so the verdict is the product of a systematic campaign to find and punish medical professionals who help injured protesters massed police raided hospitals and clinics and dragged people away by convicting them the government is sending a clear message don't mess with the monarchy these people are incarcerated have been given life sentences for calling peacefully to political change it's not a crime to call for peaceful before. there's no downfall of the political support provided by the saudis that enable the bahraini security forces to act in the way in which they did which was highly refreshing and led to people losing their lives it's shocking that the u.k. for example is not to be more outspoken more assertive about the fact the people

have been tortured people have lost their lives because i've been shocked to know that government over whom we have no influence. i was in a prison i think i could be of the supreme of those which means torture and i don't know when it's going to be my to. him rose to prominence after demanding more rights for the shiite minority in the sunni ruled saudi kingdom if you will. shot and arrested in 2012 during anti-government protests that erupted as part of the arab spring. but the charismatic religious leader was known by his followers as a peaceful reformist who opposed violence. sunny arabia executed 47 people today it's the largest mass executions since 1900.