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4 pm here in the russian capital you're watching all of the international with me daniel hawkins welcome to the program. german chancellor angela merkel has reversed the decision to impose a decision or 2 boys a 5 day looked out over the easter period that had been announced earlier in the week the utan comes after a massive wave of criticism and protests let's cross live to our correspondent in peter all of a few more details peter just go through this again how did the shells from explain decision to make this a total u. turn. well she said it was completely her fault that it wasn't legally doable what they'd intended to do it was all came

about it all came about i beg your pardon following mammoth over 12 hour meeting between the federal government here in berlin the leaders of germany 16 states that run from well monday evening right through into the wee small hours of tuesday morning where they decided that this 5 day extended period of restrictive measures was going to be put in place across the whole of germany doctors and the medical profession said it was a great idea but media the. the clergy churches also as well as retail all said this couldn't happen and it shouldn't happen comes to wednesday lunchtime or just before wednesday lunchtime angle of merkel's hard to say actually no it can't happen there won't be this 5 day extended period of lockdown. quite the difference in statements from early morning tuesday too just before lunch on wednesday. and we are once again at the stage of exponential growth of

coronavirus cases says day to fast of april as well as the set of april should be defined as calm days with extensive contact restrictions and a ban on gatherings from the fast to the 5th of april. the idea was a mistake there were good reasons for it but it could not be implemented well enough in the short term this mistake is my mistake alone a mistake must be called a mistake and above all it must be corrected and if possible that has to happen in time at the same time of course i know that this whole matter treatise more uncertainty i regret that deeply and apologize to all citizens. well there have been some that have supported angle or merkel's decision to come out and from top to what she's admitted self was a mistake marcus oda who's the leader of the state of bavaria one of the contenders potentially to try and be merkel successor following the bundestag elections in

september he said that he had respect for the chancellor for fronting up to what she said admitted herself was a mistake that when it came down to it this wasn't legally doable while another one of those contenders for her job. as the leader of the state of north rhine-westphalia pointed out that all of the leaders of the various states in germany were present at that meeting they all agreed to. extend the lockdown for 5 days and that they all had to bear some responsibility as well not so though say the opposition parties not all of them but most of them here in germany the alternative germany party the free democrats and the left party are all calling for a vote of confidence in chancellor merkel from the the free democrats and the vice speaker of the bundestag. saying that there was a question over the viability of the government right now while the leader of the

party of the free democrats the pro-business party here in germany liberal party christian linda said the coalition could no longer in good faith support the chancellor following this turnaround while the leader of the left party ditmar said that there was a crisis of confidence in the government and it was time that that confidence in america it was put to a vote in the bundestag it does seem like the opposition here in germany can smell blood following what is a huge climb down from the german chancellor. peter all of that with the latest updates on that germany lock down thanks for that peter. now we are joined live now by mars and member of the parliament of how to from the left party to give us more on what's been going on there thanks for joining us great to have you on the program with us today do you think this is the right decision by the german

chancellor. yes i think it's good that all the measures have been drawn back because they were completely inconsistent if you look at the year of closing down everything just 5 days it will never break the chain of infections so it would just be in simple is symbolic so 'd 'd it was the right decision to draw back this measures because these measures as well they were not consistent for example if you need to do assemblies and you outside like every monday in easter we have big demonstrations for peace because the peace movement always. is marching for peace in the east or. if you do a demonstration with the measures of you know properly in the outside no not and nothing nothing will happen or even to close down the shops just for one day it will not it will 'd not have any he couldn't and so i think it was

good to drop it the measures do you think that mismatch going to take in this decision because of the protest movement because of popular criticism or do you think there's been all the pressure from from other angles to avoid this at this is the knock down. i think there is no more local subtlety i think there is different thanks i should roll back this i think one us thing for sure is that there was protests and now the state will have. the lobby all. of those who own shops in the lobby of the industry i think there was. many aspects of life should draw or draw back but the protest as well was one aspect of this she's obviously been criticized for that initial decision by leaders of other parties but many in her own party were against the lockdown as well do you think that modified an influence on her decision and how much do you think this could

lead to a split in her own party with people criticizing her for her decisions. i think of that as an intra interesting question because if you look in german society in the moment there is and in every party best discussions about what is the best measures against karuna and if you look maybe not all in that i don't think the city will select split up office even when she has and who. will split up in any way because of this but of course s. discussions and i think if you really really look in a scientific way it would be equipped to get the vaccination fast and to home take into account all the vaccines which have been used until know including the who when vaccine the including the sputnik we and so on and as rather would be good to know all that to overcome the pandemic takes time and if you want

to overcome the pandemic the most important thing is to build a good health system in the hands of the state and to 'd pay these who work in the health system courts 'd and not to make measures to reach our very very shortsighted measures through be thought like ok we can overcome that and any challenge we go step by step we can prop up we don't act. let's see daily. of law he is so ugly dating rules of politicians won't have a thing what's the tactic than the population as the be that in secure and i think the room was above this measures and then drawing back is not very good to bring forward. a long term strategy. what about popular opinion polls

because obviously german citizens have been protesting against the lockdown measures will they see this reversal from markel as a weak decision or as positive news do you think this will increase rating in the polls or not is a good home interesting question to me because i think as well in those directions some people will say it's a decision that we strong and if there's one decision she has to keep to cling to it but i don't think there's shortsighted as well i think if you see you know you make a mistake and you draw back to crime and make a correction of this mistake to my mind. means that there's a way off but in what i think in the majority of. the population they see that there is no real it's that it and then they will. want another and if you look at. that certain politicians. german parliament or we see you

as well. or offsetting mass. this is the very best and signal for the next election in this autumn for you yeah indeed a big test of confidence that for michael's party martin doul some member of parliament of hamburg for the left party thanks for joining us today great to have you on. thank you haven't noticed. the french healthcare system risks unprecedented shock within weeks if the government fails to deal with the new code surge that's the warning coming from the hospital federation chief. thank 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. or 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 are

in intensive care that sets a grim record for 2021 is ation of emergency doctors told us the authorities response had been woeful and 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 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 not kewl ation rate is very low compared to other nations like morocco or serbia where health care efficiency is inferior. and many are stunned by the mixed messages coming from the french governments amid harsh looked islands and official warnings of dire consequences when it is alerting headdresses and even chocolate shops they open for what they

call french morrell so doing ski investigates. you'd think that by the time the 3rd lockdown was announced the parts of france that 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 the restrictions now in place soon places like paris. no it's. better but it's typical shows you got some points there too much numbers but the rules not to well it's a little bit lax we can do what we 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 them. from the 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 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 forms 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 tax 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 homes unfortunately they dogs could only go one kilometer mukden poked fun at and even the government had to admit that the form was complex 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 performance 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 need some exceptions such as head dresses for french people we did it because there were professions like florist to

make half the turnover during spring we did it for the chocolate is because it's easter. so is it really a lot. a lot down 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 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 bouncing in and out of lockdowns is 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 perhaps unnecessary public anxiety shows even ski arty paris. here vaccinated the kremlin has confirmed that president putin has had the covert 900 job but which one will stay a mystery official saying they won't specify the shot in order to highlight the safety and efficacy of all 3 russian vaccines well more than 6000000 here in russia have had their 1st job since the inauguration campaign began over 4000000 of those have already had both doses as you can see the infection rates fall and with the number of daily new cases now under 10000 orgies uncross of skew spoke to the deputy prime minister about 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 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 strictly 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. but we're 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 it 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. that's why they never developed 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. global media watchdog reporters without borders has filed a mass lawsuit against facebook for allegedly letting hate speech flourish false what is in the pandemic that have been watched by millions of people 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. 'd do the work. of 2000000 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 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 australia. on the side of over and fulfillment 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 life 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 now none of those entities are powerful facebook is right now that of course might be one reason that these governments are a little worried about our release trying to reign it in you're already a very very scary territory all right it's only going to keep going in the same direction that it has been go and 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 they're also talk

of course of the planet as undersea they control the conversation they control who gets the 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. of us across the world have also reported a shop uptick in hate speech on you all the documentary looks at cyber bullying and its effects on internet users it check it out dr alt dot com. you know sometimes you. hear mom a very good idea that the irish. blogger so saw looks mean all of. you know which it actually means being no secret that. there's a law against mom with 3 movies to demeter a preview of. what

she was up to deem. him to veto the books the notes with did not spread cent of it at the time store and you buy your star gracie and then use the new you said. the course. as you see it or in another just. moves and since i'm stupid you know what i'm some worst of the deal of the worst that was probably. the issue of reparations in the us a split opinion of the chicago became the 1st city in the country it's of pay black residents who've suffered. housing discrimination authorities approved a $10000000.00 package setting aside $25000.00 for each eligible family monies to

be spent on a home or is down payments on property reparations will be funded by income from annual kind of his taxes over the next decade. well in the wider issue of operations a poll finds just one in 5 agree damages should be paid to the descendants of slaves and many also question how well as you believe for such programs is determined with race ancestry and evidence of discrimination all being considered we discussed it with our guests. there's 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 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 begin it's a 1st step it is a 1st step but only and only if people keep pushing and the systemic racism is really a challenge not only in cities or states but over the in the country such and 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 a mean does that mean that the state has to come in and pay some money there's m.-e. out a mad 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 will be misused some will 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 force for larger social movement that ask for much more at the national level. boom bust with the latest global political and economic news up next so that even i can offer now with the latest headlines join us again there.

was a pandemic no certainly no borders just lying to nationalities. consumers we call them with the we don't look like seeing the whole world to be. judged as coming very close to sleep listening to my time so we can do better we should. everyone is contributing each of our own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges create the response has been masked so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together.

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