the black hole. hospitals are likely to be rock spine unprecedented. 3 weeks french hospital chiefs then ringing the alarm bell on a quote precedented burden as the country set to receive new pandemic records for the year the government's response leaves many people we will do. well by example and 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. flourishing hate speech facebook is sued for repeatedly allowing online threats to journalists and spreading this information coming up to examine how the platform is now facing worldwide. and reparations and recriminations to chicago becomes america's 1st city to compensate black residents

for housing discrimination but experts are divided on its real value. is this quite the courage and development it's quite new and heard of no it's not really anything it's only like a housing program disguised reparations for slavery. today here now hello from moscow than this wednesday the 24th of march i'm kevin owen with the latest from our international for you for the next half hour this is bad news isn't it here france's health care system risks unprecedented shock within weeks if the government fails to deal with a new. that's the warning from the hospital federation chief. it was a short break the 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. 3rd wave of

infections kicked in last week there are more than 26000 patients in hospitals across the country the highest figure this month alone with 4000 in intensive care setting a grim record 2021 so far the association of a merge and see doctors telling us authorities response in their view has been woeful and this us your. own hospitals across france are struggling facing a shortage of beds in the i.c.u. there's 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. to people from stunned by the mixed messages coming from the government

made harsh lockdowns official warnings of dire consequences ministers nonetheless are living head dresses and chocolate shop stay open for french morale shiela do bensky reports on it. you'd think that by the time the 3rd law that i was announced parts of from the government would be. termed 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 got some points too much numbers but the rules not to well it's a little bit lax we can do what we like if 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 them. from the mistaken. after 6 pm. after suffering now really i didn't thank you. 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 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 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. 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 lock down 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 lex and soon it was true that lets 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 befuddlement 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 proficiency florists to make whole food turnover during spring we did it for the chocolate is because it's easter so is it really. 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's 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 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 it is all just. 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 ups unnecessary public anxiety shows even ski r.t. paris us a snapshot from france some show from here then vaccinated yet the kremlin is confirmed that president putin paralysed how the covert 90 but which one is a mystery official saying they won't specify the shot in order that all 3 russian vaccines are safe and effective you can choose between the 3 of them more than 6000000 of had their 1st job here in russia since the knock collation campaign started over 4000000 of already had both doses was graft coming up as you see on the infection rate is for ling the number of daily new cases to the lot though but $10000.00 at least. spoke to the deputy prime minister about the vaccine program

and how it differs from the rest of you 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 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. 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 posts 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 epitome 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 end. 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. but some other news now today global media watchdog reporters are borders as father mass lawsuit against facebook for letting hate speech flourish including falls videos on the pandemic that have been watched millions of times it's 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

hughes is 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 corp us 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 australia. 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 all 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 their facebook from very different angles now none of those entities are powerful facebook is right now that of course might be one reason that actually these governments are a little worried about facebook's power or at least trying to rein it in here already a very very scary territory all right and it's only going to keep going in the same direction that it has made it go and governments are 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 they're all smack of course of the planet as it are seen they control the conversation they control who gets the hurt 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. the problem between the u.s. and iran runs much deeper than just the nuclear deal bill that's coming up iran's full of president speaking to us there an exclusive interview he gave us telling us whether the ties with the u.s. can ever be fakes very soon. join me every foes on the all excitement and i'll be speaking to get

a feel of the world the olympics sport business i'm show business i'll see you then . america depends on the kindness of strangers to fund their speculation and to fund their extraordinarily cheap lifestyle made from the labor overseas and. so i find it interesting the saber rattling going on in washington d.c. right now because the kindness of strangers can evaporate in a heartbeat if they no longer want to play the us dollar reserve currency again and then inflation right now is signaling a 10 from 10 to 12 percent turn inflation rate adjusted for reality to 24 to 30 percent inflation.

again 16 past the hour the issue of reparations in the u.s. has split opinion after chicago became the 1st city to pay black residents who've suffered housing discrimination authorities have approved a $10000000.00 package setting aside 20 $5000.00 for each eligible family the money is to be spent on home repairs or is down payments on property the reparations will be funded by income instead the from annual cannabis taxes over the next decade but polls find just one in 5 people agree damages should be paid to descendants of slaves and many also question how eligibility for such programs is determined with race and sr and evidence of discrimination all considered in the mix there to get it we discussed it with our guests. there's quite been a current development it's quite new and heard of. it is

a 1st step towards. repairing all implementing some sort of prison 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 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's a fair 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 i mean if somebody's in 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 some kind of corporation day it was never 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. 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. life event now israelis have voted for the 4th time in 2 years with an unstable coalition regularly bringing the government of course down and forcing fresh elections exit polls so far suggest the race is too close to call that a 90 percent of votes we hear are being counted and there are fears that once again will fail to be a decisive parliamentary majority there caretaker pm very minute yahoo has been weakened by months of protests over coronavirus restrictions and probes into alleged corruption including claims that he took bribes from wealthy business leaders so that all of the pot is about grown to this election let's get some comment on it for mitchell reiss a political analyst joining us there hi there thanks you time today you know we're hearing 90 percent of the votes counted but our middle east correspondent saying earlier on today that we won't really know exactly what's happened till about friday either which way it looks like there's going to be no easy political

stability coming along here does it i don't think we're going to know what's going on until. noon it's just not clear there's no conclusive results and the no good well i mean almost double of any has a little rival with 31 seats that was as wide as about 17 but he doesn't have a governing coalition and the power is not clear as you know of the expected or not considering the you know all the allegations swirling around at the moment the fact he's been there for so long you can definitely call him a survivor can't you but every survivor every dog has his day as they say and i suppose at some point he is and is going to come as well what was expected to happen here this time. well he was he did very well i mean 31 seat less than he had but now he's the leading party and most israelis want to see him rather than someone else's prime minister but he is molding on in the now more of a lecture and he does not have a despite the big 3 to you know become prime minister a stable government so you know i hope it doesn't go to sniff the election but as

the $120.00 members of knesset are going to have to break through think out of the knesset box if you will and figure out who can lead the country if not with the now or get together and rally around you now the interesting thing is the arab parties the point that they will lead because it's pretty much it's a i right now will have to wait and see but it's a thought and there's no clear path and we're not really out of the woods at all because you've got your ear to the ground what's the general feeling among some public is divided between young and old different political spectrum is that because everyone has no matter where you stand on it what old you are evans going to do with covered this year it's been terrific isn't it everyone's warmed with it now one positive side where you are you've done really well with vaccinations except true leaving has not counted full or against or people just too tired to one of the netanyahu anyway. both i mean they're too tired and they're worn out from elections and from that and yeah but

a lot of people give him credit i was in tel aviv last night and the bars are open and people are out meeting in a lot of ways israel has gone back to life because 5000000 people have been vaccinated here so people can go back to work can have a vents can go to concerts it does have an impact but they've already taken it for granted meaning it's great to vent and you know did it but he didn't mismanage a lot of the closure we lead the world in closure and days that kids missed school so it's again it's great you know he brought to peace treaties he should be stronger because of that but people are getting that and you hope for t. the question is how long can he keep on is there going to be a mutiny within his party because for 4 times or is he going to head hunt and poach other members of knesset from other parties in order to have a stable government it's a wide open race right now help us keep an eye on if you will the political analyst thanks for in live on the program one of the international have a good day thank you you 2. big names everyone to talk to us

iran's supreme leader is one he doesn't trust the u.s. to keep its word on lifting sanctions or that to run will return to a nuclear deal so an exclusive next we speak to the country's former president whether or not it will 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 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 that 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 you know if it wants to mediate it needs to have a wide range of tools for that or whatever that means for them where we were counting on that but i don't think the 2 countries are really in need of

a mediator 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 what do you make of his killing him do you think the country's response for the straw. the beast was enough we have to delve into the roots of this murder and did it solve any problem and assassination is the most disgusting action taken by anyone even when 2 science or warring against each other the well on 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 given that what never solves anything is the american government has to realize the necessity of changing its policy which through their attitude during the last 70 to 80 years not only hasn't settled anything but has a aggravated everything much more. folly for nice thing in the region with all the pandemic in the coastal macon so many headlines easy for many of us to overlook that this year marks a poignant anniversary for one big part of the world it's a decade now since the arab spring spread through the middle east leaving behind it huge devastation for some countries much worse another case in point one particular

place with close ties to washington. 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 the life unveiled a massive social welfare package but many critics see this as a way perhaps by people signing. the planned day of rage in sunny 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 in the oil price gets too high in the united states as the saudis problem or oil bring the price of oil down and they've always done it there are reports that king abdullah told the bahraini authorities next door that if they don't crush their own share revolt his forces will. crack down came just a day after the body is king declared martial law and told in troops from neighboring saudi arabia to help shut down the protests we are seeing the people of this world is to help us to do something for these people we are being put to the fullest we're asking for our legitimate rights and nothing else and that's a people are being killed chopping with 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 we've been shot at the only government 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. put on public display as a warning it's a big folly to rely on so-called international organizations and governments because the government the way it is it is because as american and british support . the french president the cia has concluded that the leader of saudi arabia directed the murder of a u.s. based journalist jamal khashoggi president travels not punished senior saudi these 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 the report yet you know yesterday. the u.s. president left it after you know the newly declassified report from the director of national intelligence says so he really is chrome 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 or to recalibrate. the country use the perfect girl like perfect partner without any reservations whatsoever so you know welcome to the real world. sorry flashbacks the 10 years old so much has changed and yet so little has changed as well a lot of people's attitudes and perceptions i want to see more of that you can on our you tube channel or on instagram plenty of stuff as well about r.t. dot com of course keep you posted on the rest of our news but also i think looking so far for this edition of world news age q moscow signing off kevin i have a great day.