this is a likely to be wrong. to 3 weeks while french hospital chiefs then renewed the. quote unprecedented burden as the country sets a riff think new records for the year we go again yet the government's response leaves people bewildered. 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 a house where the news today flourishing hate speech facebook is sued for repeatedly allowing online threats to journalists and spreading this information coming out we examine how the platform is now facing crackdowns worldwide. and

reparations and recriminations chicago becomes america's 1st city to compensate black residents for housing discrimination but experts we talked to are divided on its real value. is quite. quite new and heard of no it's not really anything it's only like a housing program disguised reparations for slavery. or world relay good morning from moscow it's 11 am here now this wednesday the 24th of march kevin i were there for the next 30 minutes with our latest for you and not great news in from france and as you heard there from his health care system risking president of shock within weeks if the government fails to deal with a new covert surge there it's a warning from the hospital federation chief in the country. if you like the prefer my actions have been taken given this delay hospitals are likely to be rocked by an

interested in to violent shock in 2 to 3 weeks. 3rd wave of infections kicked in last week there are no more than 26000 patients in hospitals across the country the highest figure this month and over 4000 in intensive care setting a grim record for 2021 the association of emergency doctors told us authorities response in their view have been woeful and. 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 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. many a stunned by the mixed messages coming from the french government amid harsh lockdowns and official warnings of dire consequences none the less the same time ministers are letting for instance head dresses and chocolate shop stay open for french morale shallow dubinsky reports. you'd think that by the time the 3rd time 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 the restrictions now in place soon places like paris. now it's. better but it's typical shows you got some points there 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 these things

faster realizing that they're fuzzy it is not really a lockdown. we can research issues but we can buy them. from the mistaken. after 16. after suffering not really i didn't thank you. we don't understand the new loose at all for example we're supposed to be in last down yet we're walking in the chandeliers a there are a lot of people even though it's tuesday normally during lockdown there should not be so many people yet it is there are a lot of people in the press and 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 punishing 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. say zhang cost takes how come here allow me to

take a breath 10 kilometers away but force my dog to stay within one kilometer of his candle i come home from work certificate i pick up the kids from school certificate i buy a bread 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 unfortunately they dogs could only go one kilometer mulcted poked fun at and even the government had to admit that the form was called plex and soon it was through the less you need into trouble more than 10 kilometers i don't want to go out after the curfew as yes that's still in place the next level of before movement came as it emerged that most of the businesses that thought they 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 were professions like florists that make home during spring we did it for the chocolate is because it's easter so is it really. a lockdown light as it's been up here and do people in paris know what they can and can't do do you think you can eat lunch with your friends in the park yeah. i think it can be possible no they've said it's not 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 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 it is all just. aside

a year of bouncing 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 ups unnecessary public anxiety shows evil ski arty paris plus a picture of france here vladimir putin's been vaccinated the kremlin is confirmed that president putin a covert 19 but which one is still a mystery with officials saying they won't specify the job publicly in order that all 3 russian vaccines are seem to be safe and effective which they are we hear more than $6000000.00 the 1st here in russia since the knock lation campaign started over 4000000 have already had both doses news you can see on the graph there the infection rates fall in pretty steeply with the number of daily new cases

now under 10000. to the deputy prime minister about this but the vaccine program and how it differs from the rest of europe if you say that vaccination is safe and 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 don't leave your house. russia has extensive experience nationwide vaccination we have got used to it's 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. we are extremely careful when it comes to any data connected to side effects potentially

provoked 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 of 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 deep the male logical 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 it 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. for. some other news making headlines today global media watchdog reporters without borders is father must lawsuit against facebook for letting hate speech flourish including

false videos on the pandemic that have been watched millions of times is just one of the serious allegations now hitting the tech giant around the globe. reporters without borders lawsuit demonstrates that the california based company's undertakings to its consumers are largely mendacious and that it allows dissent from ation 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. to. do it 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 users italy following 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 corpus trulia 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 a strain. on the side of over and for cement in doing so some content was blocked inadvertently even in the united 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 for these books 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. and 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 out their facebook from very different angles now none of those entities are powerful facebook is right now that of course might be one reason for that especially these governments are a little worried about facebook's power release trying to reign it in you're

already a very very scary territory all right and it's only going to keep going in the same direction that it has been governments or have been slow to rein this in governments and sort of try to do anything about it he said giants are stronger than governments they are the most powerful forces on the planet their own stock of course of the planet has ever seen they control the conversation they control who gets the herd who doesn't get bigger they control what you see they control what you buy they know everything about you they are showing us who's in charge. problem between the u.s. and iran runs much deeper than just the nuclear deal big names told to us rumsfeld the president there will more of the exclusive interview you gave us where he tells us what the ties with the u.s. can ever be fixed coming up very shortly.

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again the issue of reparations in the us is split opinion after cargo became the 1st city to pay black residents who've suffered housing discrimination authorities have approved a $10000000.00 package setting aside $25000.00 for each eligible family the money is to be spent on home repairs or as down payments on property the reparations will be funded by income instead leave from annual cannabis taxes over the next decade but polls find just one in 5 people agree the images should be paid to the descendants of slaves and many also question how eligibility for such programs is determined with race and sr and evidence of discrimination all in the mix to be considered for it 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 priest or to justice. for a 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 disguise the 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 dokken to bow out don't really understand what we're saying i mean if there's ever sort of racism or some way of say some mean of somebody in mean does that mean that the state has to come in and pay some money there's a mean out of mad 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 some will 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 we. have to be realistic it is not

enough strew but it should be used as a basis for or larger social movement that ask for much more at the national level . let's check in with some pictures news coming in from around the world this 1st more than a 1000 people rallying then in the german capital against the extended logic there are people really getting tired it seems a protest is waving flares and chanting slogans against the police officers making numerous arrests trouble 2 different catalysts for it in bristol and southwest england tess's hitting the streets there posing a parliamentary building expand police powers weeks of so-called kill the bill rallies have demanded the removal of plans to set time and noise limits on demonstrations the protests came exactly a year since the u.k. 1st introduced an anti covert lockdown you think you've got a troublesome neighbor well what about this for a troublesome neighbor residents in the sicilian town of capturing these

spectacular neighbor some may say frankly terrifying yes man they're off again erupting in the distance but volcano shooting red hot flames high into the italian night sky mazing to see the experts describing gas bubbles in larger fountains coming out of a 3000 meter peak cause for people that live there it's a feature it's a way of life but they've always got to keep in the back of their minds. israelis have been voting they voted for the 4th time in 2 years with an unstable coalition regularly bringing the government down and forcing fresh elections exit polls than smalling suggesting so far the race is too close to call with growing fears that they'll be once again the situation that's failing to make a decisive parliamentary majority caretaker pm benjamin netanyahu has been weakened by months of protests of a coronavirus restrictions and probes into alleged corruption including claims that

he accepted bribes from. wealthy business leaders i spoke to middle east analysts mordechai kedah he told me in his view personality has divided the country. we are actually divided if you have. half of the people think that netanyahu is the best thing which could get into the state of his way while the other half dually my everybody that the cemeteries are full of people who are indispensable so if the deadlock which we are in is is a result of pressure go to clinton you know. the people want him and have that we do not use you could see that it could party which leads got more than a quarter of the whole knesset means more than a quarter of the people think that these allegations are given to rio out of left wing fake. and this is unfortunately what we have you. iran's supreme leaders want he doesn't trust the u.s.

to keep its word on lifting sanctions and without that iran won't return to a nuclear deal but exclusive now than for you we speak to the country's former president whether it'll ever see eye to eye with washington. a c s at the how would you evaluate the foreign policy of rouhani is government in terms of the nuclear deal think sions and the new u.s. administration is it heading in the right direction that yes we are waiting for changes to u.s. foreign policy the problem between the us and iran runs much deeper than just the nuclear deal if someone thinks that the deal is the only leverage for settling issues between the 2 countries this is very far from the reality the problem is much wider and it needs to be addressed on different levels both parties have to solve problems based on fairness and mutual respect discrepancies between iran and the us are based on history and the nuclear deal alone can't fix this we've seen how the nuclear deal was fine and writing but it resulted in nothing positive in

reality the reason as i've already mentioned is that the problem is way more complicated moreover the deal wasn't concluded according to international standards besides if both parties intend to compromise on something they will find a solution for any problems that emerge in the future 6 countries have been negotiating over not letting iran turn into a nuclear state those countries sat at the negotiating table with iran the deal said it clearly if there is a new dispute each country has one voice during the vote over that issue thus those countries which disagreed with iran on something they had 6 votes and iran had only one and we hope that europe will use its abilities as a mediator between the u.s. and iran if it wants to mediate it needs to have a wide range of tools for that or whatever that means for them we were counting on that but i don't think the 2 countries are really in need of a mediator the show if only we could settle all the current issues of course we

should welcome all initiatives aimed at genuine mediation. that the room was hit by the killing of general constance the limb on the last year will do you make of his killing him do you think the country's response for the. the beast was enough we have to delve into the roots of this murder did it solve any problem and assassination is the most disgusting action taken by anyone even when 2 science or warring against each other well and war is a clear cut thing but when it happens between 2 parties that simply have disagreements and assassination doesn't solve any problem the assassination was carried out by those who have been calling for fighting against terrorism i hope that terrorism will be defeated one day and no one will use terrorist methods and commit murder to reach their goals and that no one will use a weapon if they can use reason and words to address the world considering the double standards it leads to disagreements it's not good when someone imposes their

own idea on others via murder that's true regardless of the person who's killed i reiterate in principle assess the nation is a bad thing the martyr qassim soleimani was a prominent figure and his biography is well known so at the end of the day does anyone think that a mere response is important that would never solve anything is the american government has to realize the necessity of changing its policy their attitude during the last 70 to 80 years not only hasn't settled anything but has aggravated everything much more than just final one for now staying in the region with all the pandemic news still making so many headlines easy them for many of us to overlook the fact that this year marks a real point in turn of the it's been a decade ago since the arab spring started off a series of anti government uprisings through the middle east that brought significant changes of course but also victims many of them during the protests and

the events were held by the west as an opportunity were they to bring democracy but some countries especially those with close ties to washington appeared to have dogged any meaningful change over it so just for a minute or 2 next we look at how the likes of saudi arabia for instance of managed to avoid the transformations sweeping the area. 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. saudi arabia is drafting sauza security personnel in an attempt to crush a growing revolt in the kingdom in i'm attempt to avoid and resting up to life unveiled a massive social welfare package but many critics see this as a way perhaps by people signing. the planned day of rage inside the 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 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 as the saudis problem or i'll bring the price of oil down and they've always done it 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. be crackdown came just a t. after the body is king declared martial law and told in troops from neighboring saudi arabia to help shut down the protests we are showing the people of this world just to help us to do something for these people we are being put before us we are asking for our legitimated rights and nothing else in this and people are being killed shopping with the u.k. for example has not been more outspoken more assertive about the fact the people

have been tortured people have lost their lives because i've been shot at over whom we have no influence. saudi arabia executed 47 people today it's largest mass executions since 19861 of the bodies and the severed head. were put on public display as a warning it's a big folly to rely on so-called international organizations and governments because the saudi government the way it is it is because as american and further support. mr vice president the cia has concluded that the leader of saudi arabia directed the murder of a us based journalist jamal khashoggi president travels not punished senior saudi these interests would you yes and i would make it very clear we were going in fact to make them pay the price and make them in fact a pariah that they are ready to do all show

a report get credit oh you know yes. the u.s. president left it up that no the newly declassified report from the director of national intelligence says so to rebias crome prince mohammed bin selman approved the operation president's intention as is the intention of this government is to. to recalibrate. with saudi arabia so what we've done by the actions that we've taken is really not to rupture the relationship but to recalibrate. the country use the perfect girl like perfect partner without any reservations whatsoever so you know welcome to the to the real world. and in 10 years on interest in watching to see more of it you tube and on instagram china but for now that's the way things are looking thanks for watching have a good thing. during

the trump administration the u.s. agreed to leave afghanistan by may 1st the biden ministration is wavering over this commitment they claim the conditions on the ground are not favorable for withdrawal this begs the question what can be done now that has not been tried.