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7 pm here in the russian capital the international with me wherever you are today welcome to the program. and german chancellor angela merkel has reversed her decision to impose a 5 day lockdown over the easter period that had been announced earlier in the week . for a massive wave of criticism protests just a day ago the chancellor's agenda was completely different. 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 trygaeus more uncertainty i regret that deeply and apologize to all citizens. that's quite a difference from the early hours of tuesday morning to you shortly before lunch on wednesday a coal loss will you turn from angola merkel we have heard some people come out in support of what she's done mark is older the leader of the state of bavaria and one of those he's vying to replace angle of merkel as chancellor at least if you believe the rumors coming bundestag elections in september he said he respected what the chancellor has done in fronting up to what she admitted herself was a mistake then we've also heard from another one of those common tenders to be chancellor comb september arm in law should the head of the state of north

rhine-westphalia who pointed out that all of the other leaders of the 16 states of germany were all present in that same meeting and that they all agreed to the same thing that i'm glimmer is now taking the rap for well they were all voices of support there's been some stinging criticism as well for this whole mess happening in the 1st place the logic of the planned individual measures is not revealed and these can no longer be discussed full planes to majorca empty outdoor restaurants. germany how can that be just a fight m.p. keystones last 15 hours during which the essential decisions are made between $1.00 and 3 o'clock at night run the risk that in the end not all the details are clarified and thus communication becomes more difficult especially in such sensitive issues we're already seeing what some would like to see as the fallout from this huge u. turn from angle americal with those in opposition calling for

a vote of confidence on her government. position as chancellor i call on the chancellor to ask the question of confidence in accordance with paragraph 98 of the rules of procedure of the german bundestag because she is not only admitted her own inability the lack of competence of her ministers out my spam is obvious but because she has obviously lost the trust of part of her coalition factions ahead of what really crucial elections in september and a number of important local elections taking place beforehand we're seeing no wasting your time when it comes to jumping on this u. turn for political capital however no matter how you cut this it is not a good look for angle america or the german government. to mix of unicron m.e.p. from the alternative for germany party maximillian thanks for joining us on the program today firstly big turnaround from michael here probably surprised

a lot of people with this do you think it's the correct decision for the german chancellor. she had no choice her politics on corona on covert has completely failed we have a permanent lockdown since november and. maximization is on 3rd world level so she is on lockdown and has. nothing to promise there is no light at the end of the tunnel and that situation she wanted even to type on a day was such a way for protests even a bit in her party that she had no out of choice then to do to you what she did today and it's her 1st u. turn ever so it's a clear sign that her is coming to an end do you think this u. turn is a result of public price pressure only in the protest movements only is that a stunt to raise rates in the polls or do you think

a lot of it affected by other factors as well other influences behind her decision . a result of the protest from outside politics and they moved in her own party so there were a lot of trouble more members of parliament and. you should know did. you call a team they have submissive members of parliament ever and then even they he start to. become. oppositional and if they protest then you have no debt we are now in a situation where the majority is shifting away from her. death the point of protest was too big and she had nothing to offer. in that moment. it's indeed a result of. the pressure from outside her party to inside her

party to her so speech of divisions in in the c.d.u. party on this uta and it's not the only scandal that's hit the party the the mosque scanners affected the party as well how do you think these divisions these are contradictions might affect the future of the c.d.u. . merkel's result for governing was to to bring out everything that was somehow conservative audit has some hope principled based in her politics that she made a politics completely based on what do i have to do to win in the polls but if you have a party that has only one goal and that is to be a government then you are attractive for people who are corrupt who are in politics because they need money and now we see a lot of such scandals that members of parliament got to keep facts from helping

to sell mosques do so are cool but equipment and to gether obvious mass in german covert policy it gives the explosives combination merkel herself said i stepped down at the end of this period which answer september of this year her chosen successor are in lusher is is quite weak. so you will have a week c.d.u. without principles were the weekly leader and it was always my prediction there'd be a bill see a very in stable christian democratic union after merkel stepped down so all is not guaranteed that this party the government their. greed and let government in germany. if you bet on the future of the city

you are you know your brave. m.e.p. from the alternative for germany party thanks for your time today here on r.t. international thank you about. the french health care system risks unprecedented shock within weeks if the government fails to deal with the new code that's the warning coming from the hospital federation chief it will make 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. a 3rd wave of infections kicked in last week there are more than 26000 patients in hospitals across the country the highest figure this month over 4000 are in intensive care that's set a grim record for 2021 years so she should have emergency doctors told us that the authorities response had been woeful. and that's us your.

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 an occupation rate is very low compared to other nations like morocco or serbia where health care efficiency is inferior. and money stunned by the mixed messages coming from the french government amid harsh knock sounds unofficial warnings of dire consequences when is the letting addresses and chocolate shop stay open for what they describe as french lorelle sort of the ski reports. 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 it's typical shows they've got 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 faster 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 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 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 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 caustics 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 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 performance 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 were professions like florist to make whole food turnover during spring we did it for the chocolate is because it's easter so is it really oh. look like 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. killing 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 the raps unnecessary public anxiety. r.t. paris. vaccinated the criminal has confirmed that president putin has

had over 1000 jobs but which one will stay a mystery with officials saying they won't specify the shot in order to highlight that all 3 russian vaccines are safe and effective more than 6000000 have had their 1st job here in russia since the inauguration campaign began over 4000000 have already had both doses and as you can see the infection rates fall and with the number of daily new cases now under $10000.00 r.t. is on time cross spoke to the deputy prime minister about the vaccine program and how it differs from the rest of europe is 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 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 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 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. u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken has warned burden of possible sanctions if lord stream to gas pipeline built from russia to germany is completed the message was sent to his german counterpart heikal mar sort of face to face meetings during a nato summit in brussels i made clear that firms and gauged in pipeline construction risk u.s. sanctions the parkland invites europe it exposes ukraine and central europe to russian money pollution and coercion it goes against europe's own stated energy security goals so what i said was that we will continue to monitor activity to complete and certify that pipeline and if that activity takes place we will make a determination on the applicability of sanctions or despite us warnings nato faces

a split in views over the project during a 2 day summit in brussels the alliance is chiefly on stoltenberg admitted the she was top of the discussions for the common standpoint was yet to be reached you stressed that was an appropriate platform to discuss this type of plan russia's foreign ministry in turn has questioned nato his motives. nato doesn't have a common view on north stream too but why does the military organization have to take a common stain point towards a business project between 2 independent states maybe their alliance has plans to invest. costing just over $9000000000.00 euros the allstream 2 project is already more than 95 percent complete it would allow russian gas the flow directly into germany under the baltic sea it could also be used to bypass existing pipelines which take gas through ukraine that would cost of valuable transit fees journalist and author thomas fassbender says nato may be turning into

a do political tool for washington to dominate europe where there is general in knowledge meant that pipelines gas oil pipelines are offered geopolitical she'll economical relevance so that explains why the subject is being discussed in the middle to form and since nato has been looking for a new identity and now there is growing concern especially in europe there's a need to identity may be turned of that nature may be turned into an instrument to ensure a. u.s. domination of the eurasian marts that the us must not allow any competing in the stick 'd power ruling over a don't we need him or with the eurasian continent europe is in danger in danger of becoming something between a rock and a hard on the one hand we appreciate to protection by the u.s. military and political ally on the other hand we do not want to get in between the

in between the us chinese or us russian rivalries and end up worst case as cannon fodder and and a better place. global media watchdog reporters without borders has filed a massive lawsuit against facebook for allegedly 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. '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 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 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 these governments are a little worried about our release trying to reign 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 been going governments or 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 all talk of course of the planet has ever seen they control the conversation they control who gets the herd 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 glaucus wild one of a report of a shop uptick in hate speech a new aussie documentary looks at some of voting on its effects on internet users

you can watch it in full later this. you know sometimes. your mom a very good idea that the irish. blogger so saw looks mean all of. the way shit back to the news being no regrets the paper. guess when we moved to the media preview of. insidious now we see it's what she was alleged to do deem. him to veto the book mr murtha said it's nuts but it's a good at the bookstore and you buy your ads. and then use the new you said.

the person in the. or in another just. moves and since i'm stupid you know that's what i'm some worst of the deal of the worst that was the. use of reparations in the us split opinion after the chicago suburb of evanston became the 1st city to pay black residents who've suffered segregation housing discrimination or stories of proof to $10000000.00 package setting aside 25000 for each family the money used to be spent on a home or as down payments or property the operations will be funded by income from cannabis taxes over the next decade. well on the wider issue operations a poll found just one in 5 agree damages should be paid to the descendants of slaves and many of also question how eligibility for such programs is determined

with race ancestry and evidence of discrimination all being considered and put the issue up for debate. there's quite in the current jing 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 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 general area where everything 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 i mean as somebody in mean does that mean that the state has to come in and pay some money there's a me out a mad tax money after pay or some kind of 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 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 screw but it should be used as a basis force for larger social movement that ask for much more at the national level. well next so it's a mess or a switch of threads and fierce facebook fuse most of us of witness the experienced online bullying to document for example is the challenges facing social media today a call of right will be in the studio and i was time to bring you the latest headlines to you to us again but. the world is driven by shaped by phone personally those.

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