this mistake is my mistake i regret deeply and apologized to all citizens german chancellor angela merkel backtracks on imposing an easter lockdown and concedes it was a mistake. to be wrong president. to 3 weeks french hospital chiefs ring the alarm on a quote unprecedented burden as the country sets horrific new pandemic records for the year yet the government's response leaves people bewildered. and flourishing hate speech facebook is sued for repeatedly allowing online threats to journalists and spreading this information we examine how the platforms now facing crackdowns worldwide.

live worldwide this is r.t. international from moscow money welcome to world news this hour 1st the german chancellor has reversed her decision to impose a 5 day lockdown over the easter period that had been announced earlier in the week the u. turn comes after a massive wave of criticism and protests. then on friday eden's i'm going to the idea was a mistake this mistake is my mistake alone a mistake must be called a mistake and above all it must be corrected at the same time of course i know that this whole matter trygaeus more uncertainty i regret that deeply and apologize to all citizens. 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 that's quite

a difference from the early hours of tuesday morning to shortly before lunch on wednesday a colossal u. turn from angola merkel we have heard some people come out in support of what she's done market zada 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 had done in fronting up to what she admitted herself was a mistake then we've also heard from another one of those content is to be chancellor come september arm in lash at 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 not 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 in germany how can that be justified. we need to change our method of governance the last time became disappointed people who can't go on like this m.p. case that last 15 hours during which the essential decisions are made between one 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 on 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 in 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 and 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 of 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. all the german government and we discuss the possible reasons behind the chancellor's decision within any pay from the alternative for germany party. it is a result of the protests from outside politics and they have moved in her own party . there were a lot of trouble more members of parliament she had no choice in her

politics on corona covert has completely failed. we have a permanent lockdown since november. vaccination 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. there was such a waste of protest even but in her party bit she had no other choice than to do to you what she did today and it's her 1st u. turn ever it's indeed a result of. political pressure from outside her party to inside work on. the french health care system risks unprecedented shock within weeks if the government fails to deal with the new. that's the warning from the country's

hospital federation chief. for my actions have been taken given this delay hospitals are likely to be rocked by an unprecedented violent shock in 2 to 3 weeks . of a 3rd wave of infections kicked in last week there are now more than 26000 patients in hospitals across france the highest figure this month and over 4000 in intensive care such a grim record for 2021 the french emergency doctors association told us that the authorities response had been woeful. 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 on the streets many are left the more than the middle stunned by the mixed messages coming from the french government amid harsh lockdowns and official warnings of dark consequences ministers letting headdresses and chocolate shop stay open while they describe as french morocco. 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 the restrictions now in place soon places like paris. now it's. better but it's typical shows you've 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 refer to shoes but we can buy them. from the mistake and. 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 last down here we're walking in the chandeliers there are a lot of people even though it's tuesday normally during lockdown there should not be so many people yet. there are a lot of people in the prison 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 costs 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 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 of 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 their professions like florists that make home food turnover during spring we did it for the chocolate is because it's easter so is it really. a look like as it's been developed here eat lunch with your friends in the park yeah. i think it's possible no they've said it's not that 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 all joking aside a year of bouncing in and out of lockdowns to certainly brought it. everyone to this feel that french government is in its own confusion about what we should and shouldn't be doing causing the higher ups unnecessary public anxiety. r.t. paris. here vaccinated the kremlin's confirmed that president putin has received a covert 19 job but which one will stay a mystery with official saying they won't specify the show in order to highlight that all 3 russian vaccines are safe and effective and more than 6000000 have had their 1st jab here in russia since the inoculation campaign started over 4000000 have already had both doses and also as you can see the infection rates falling with the number of daily new cases now under 10000. spoke to the russian deputy prime minister for health and social policy 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 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 we're 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 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. but some people are still a little wary about getting the coronavirus shot so teams been reviewing a few of the myths surrounding russian sputnik feedbacks.

existing improved vaccines contain a small fragment of the virus one of its genes even half of it and of course it constant sex you with code it. if your side effects and complications are the same as after any flu vaccine i've seen these are not really side effects the expected reaction of the immune system as the vaccine trains it to defend itself against an enemy and it gets activated. if you give yourself a fictive and safety or to keep parameters the crucial for vaccine testing and then . it's based on proven technology that has already been used for the vaccines accompany the registers the vaccine does it's strictly on the international protocols all vaccines are tested this way and that's how all vaccines get to the market. moves i wonder where this is

coming from is completely in comprehensible no vaccines cause infertility that is complete nonsense from the biological point if you. walk through on what vaccines of wild virus can cause infertility because it can affect the reproductive organs of certain individuals on what. all of them the republic your misfit you should we all have to make a choice and weigh up the risks give you the only way to prevent any viral infection including the coronavirus is vaccination you get vaccinated or get sick. this is our take all the way facebook's been slapped with a massive lawsuit as press freedom monitors say it's got questions to answer for the proliferation of hate speech and co vidis information is just one of our stories after the break.

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the trump administration the us agreed to leave afghanistan by may 1st the biden ministre sion is wavering over this commitment they claim the conditions on the ground are not favorable for which all this begs the question what can be done now that has not been tried for the past 20 years. back to washington as finally allowed a t.v. camera to follow a delegation of senior white house officials as they told a refugee resettlement center at the u.s. southern border the biden administration is committed to transparency and will continue to work with agencies on creating avenues for media access and visibility at both homeland security and health and human services facilities i just this will continue working to fulfill requests from members of congress for access to these facilities as well. of the footage of the modern facilities has also been released

by the government for the 1st time the biden administration has been under strong pressure to allow media access to the shelters that increased further this week as we reported here on monday when a democratic lawmaker released images of cramped conditions while visiting one site in the city of donna in texas the united states society of professional journalists urged biden to lift restrictions on covering border facilities amid a migrants a record 5000 unaccompanied children are now being held in border patrol custody. and we go live now to matthew keyhole who's the president of the society of professional journalists in the u.s. welcome to the program. so your organization directly asked president biden to lift those media limits let one camera in do you regard that as a win i think this is a small step in a long journey i think that the by mr asian took too long to respond to concerns

not only from our organization but from others and you know. the 1st amendment the ability of the media acting in the name of the public to report accurately on the news of the day isn't suspended in becomes more important so while it's reassuring that the binding ministration let a camera in today that needs to become. something is done as a matter of course not an exception. why do you think there was such limited access or have you been given an actual reason. well i think the administration will tell you that there are 2 primary reasons one is we are doing all this in the middle of a pandemic and there are public safety measures that need to be taken and the others are that these are on a company minors by definition their children there are privacy issues that come into play but the last 3 administrations have all opened up their facilities to the media in moments like this and i think this in ministration can learn from those

administrations and can. mirror those administrations that the safety issues can be taken care of they can offer journalists can offer proof of tests negative covert terrorists or of vaccinations if you want to go that route. and the privacy issues can get taken care of as well i mean this is thousands of unaccompanied minors crossing the border coming into the united states and the administration should be transparent about that and should be letting journalists in to assess the situation to see how this. is unfolding that's one of the health reasons and i just go recently of outlined there also seems to be a little bit of political reticence which does seem slightly all because this is a new government after all and a senate might say that it would be easy to open up to the cameras to say well yes we're sorting out the problem from the last lot. yeah very well said i mean i think

there are political reasons to open this up obviously. by administration has an entirely different approach to immigration than the prior administration the trauma misprision did and if in fact he wants to you know say that he's being more humane then he should let journalists in to ensure that that humane promise is unfolding also know that people need to realize that joe biden was the vice president of obama who in my opinion was the most intact in his dick towards the media since richard nixon who we all know. globally and the situation that befell him i mean look joe biden was elected on promises of transparency and he needs to. live up to them and so far based on what's being same with the one camera that spain allowed and what's the assessment of those facilities there on the results still hideously

overwhelmed many it's too early to say i think and that's for experts rather than me to say i will say that in my day job on the editorial director at the san diego union tribune which is obviously on the border with mexico and our convention center is going to soon be home to many of the unaccompanied minors who are going to be transported here and given to a shelter as they try to reunite them with family and then states or find sponsors for them so i think there's a process in place to make sure that these young children many who are marching agers or younger are being handled in an appropriate and humane way as the administration promised and so i think in the days to come we'll see if that bears out. of course over the trump is the way his administration handled the migrant influx going to a lot of column inches it took a lot of t.v. minutes to expect the biden administration to be held to the same account by the

media in the us i hope so and i think what you're seeing from society professional journalists is that it doesn't matter what letter you have after your name political party. that the 1st amendment exists for a reason and there should be a free and fair press in this country and government agencies need to understand that you know our goals should be both to. the share what's happening with the public and in moments when the government doesn't live up to that the press will hold that government accountable that's a republican administration a democratic administration or at some point in the future maybe a 3rd boy i don't know it's difficult i know but the pressure's obviously paying off thanks very much for joining us live in san diego matthew to the whole president of the society of professional journalists good to talk to thank you. thanks 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 are being watched millions of times but 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 the work. up to 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'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 for some point 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 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 at least trying to rein 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 the respect 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 and that show us he'd use for now check us out online and on new choose from all of ostorius and programs from a column by the team in moscow thanks for watching i'll be back with more in just a half an hour.

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afshin are times when you're watching another look down additional going on the ground of the u.k. so-called mainstream media journalists claim that britain on sunday saw some of the worst scenes of violence against the police for years the protest in question took place just near where a statue celebrating a slave trade was torn down last year and concerned new laws being introduced in the freedom to demonstrate in point 2 will investigate freedom from a quantum perspective but 1st let's go straight to the director of in g.o.p. land between crossland who is in london tim thanks so much for coming on what do you make of the scenes we were seeing for bristol is a unity of course.