this mistake is my mistake and i regret that deeply and apologize to. german chancellor angela merkel backtracks on imposing an easter lockdown and concedes it was a mistake. the likely to be ruled president short of 3 weeks french hospital chief for 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 platform is now facing crackdowns worldwide.

a welcome to the program and 247 news headlines this is r.t. international from moscow bright 1st then the pandemic back peddling in germany where the chancellor has reversed her decision to impose a 5 day lockdown over the easter period that had been announced earlier this week the u.-turn comes after a massive wave of criticism and protests. i did not find the edens 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 and the same time of course i know that this whole matter trygaeus more uncertainty i regret that deeply and apologize to all citizens. in mali says day the fast of april as well as the said 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 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 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 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 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 we had disappointed people we 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 mongol americal with those in opposition calling for a vote of confidence on her government and angular merkel's position as chancellor i call in the chancellor to ask the question of confidence in accordance with paragraph $98.00 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 for all the german government and we discussed the possible reasons behind the chancellor's decision within any pay from the alternative for germany party. it was a result of the protests from outside politics and be removed in her own party. there were a lot of trouble more members of parliament she had no choice her

politics on corona and covert has completely failed. we have a permanent lockdown since november. 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 too tight. and there was such a wave of protest even late 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 it's a result of. political pressure from outside her party to inside work on. the french health care system risks unprecedented show with a weak say if the government fails to deal with the new codes that's the warning from the country's hospital federation chief. the crew 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 the 3rd wave of infections kicked in last week there are now more than 26000 patients in hospitals across from the highest figure this month and over 4000 in intensive care sets 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 have been left stunned by the mixed messages coming from the french government i mean the harsh lockdowns and official warnings of die of consequence his ministers are letting headdresses and chocolate shop stay open for what they describe as french morale as for charlotte do bensky reports next you'd think that by the time the 3rd looked i was announced 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 there were strict now in place soon places like paris. now it's. better but is typical shows it at 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 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 hear that at all thank you. 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 there are a lot of people even though it's tuesday normally during log down there should not be so many people yet it is 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 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 before came as it emerged that most of the businesses that thought

they would be closed as they were not essential like florist headdress and chocolate shops were told they could stay open we made some exceptions such as head dresses for french people we did it because there were professions like florists that make 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. king aside a year of bouncing in and out of lockdown says certainly brought everyone to the same feeling that of being generally fed up and you can't help but feel that french government is in its own confusion about what we should and shouldn't be doing causing perhaps unnecessary public anxiety shows even ski r.t. paris. 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 but 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's italy find 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 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 it's concerns about snooping censorship or monopoly practices the raw signs that the global mood could be turning on the online groups like media organizations and governments coming out their facebook from very different angles 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 these folks how are these trying to rein 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 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 also talk of course of the planet as an r.c. 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. the u.s.

secretary of state has warned by the lead of possible sanctions safely north stream 2 gas pipeline between russia and germany is completed the message was sent to his german counterpart at a face to face meeting during a nato summit in brussels i made clear that firm some gauged in pipeline construction risk u.s. sanctions the pipeline divides europe it exposes ukraine and central europe to russian money 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. despite u.s. warnings nato faces a split in views over the project during a 2 day summit in brussels the alliance's chief u.n. stoltenberg admitted the issue was top of the discussions but that a common standpoint was yet to be reached though he stressed it was an appropriate

platform to discuss this type of plan russia's foreign ministry in turn has questioned nato as motives. nato doesn't have a common view on north stream too but why does the military organization have to take a common standpoint towards a business project between 2 independent states maybe their alliance has plans to invest a costing just over $9000000000.00 euros the north stream to project is already more than 95 percent complete that allow russian gas to flow directly into germany under the baltic sea it could also be used to bypass existing pipelines which take gas through ukraine which could cost a valuable transit fees german journalist thomas fassbender says nato may be turning into a geopolitical tool for washington to dominate europe. well there is general in knowledge meant that pipelines gas oil pipelines are all of your political zeal economical relevance so that explains why the subject is being discussed in the

middle to forment since nato has been looking for a new identity and now there is growing concern especially in europe that the nato 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 power ruling over a don't we need more 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 our worst case as cannon fodder and and a better place. apparently you're never too young to be woke

in a widely ridiculed article in the washington post experts guide of parents to books website and companies offering real for very young children the feature entitled social justice for toddlers talks about the importance of equality racial and gender education for kids among the recommendations of books like anti-racist baby and woke baby and also drag queens website for story reading for the very young and also a firm selling toys and learning materials to quote dismantle bias but many have found the advice divisive and even potentially harmful. can we just teach children to walk talk or play before we set hoisting our deal to near or sit on them. indoctrination is wrong washington post this conversation is one the divides us universal identity is what should be centered not race not gender this generation of kids is going to need decades of therapy after going

through this critical race theory one half of them will just crumble under the white guilt pushed into them and turn into fragile ghosts barely resembling human beings the other half will just get radicalized. by joining us now to discuss ideas talk radio host and columnist john gaunt and also when the bennett from unite against fascism gentlemen welcome to the program but it does sound a little bit like some very good intentions someone's let it run away with them a little bit here it does sound like an extremely complex things to try and teach to very young children which should just be down to teaching right from wrong at that age in. it should be about unfortunately we live in a racist and sexist society the homophobic society and actually trying to think positively to east probably need to our generation or people older but i think that what's described as work is usually. the attitude of people who are no able to step

to embrace the 21st century and so the way i see in terms of basic basic treating is that people used to be upset when they saw a man pushing a pram 20 or 30 years ago now it's now it's normal i think actually trying to teach our children to believe in equality and only age it's never too early as well i think we can normalize this since our human beings behave and actually you can probably have a better generation doesn't carry the previous sins of the previous other generation since the 16th centric release 300 years is a bit too late begin to question in while we have such a disproportionate a society otherwise you can explain george floyd why would you call me someone's neck for 9 minutes not something which is i don't believe normal i think that some think there is a product of our unfortunately of our society and anything we can do to prevent people thinking that other people are not equal and see something that maybe should

be built into us as our john how how young will be too young to start this because certainly bullying can start at the very very early ages when children start to pick on differences from other children so as women were saying earlier the better to get started on that. can i just check the calendar he said a prove the 1st this is a complete. joke listen when kids are through for they want to play with each other and they should be encouraged how we as modern parents or grandparents should not be reinforcing prejudice our prejudices if we have them on to the children of course it's important to show kids by example that you're not racist or homophobic or sexist i would agree with all of that but produce simple 3 year olds talking about arm awoke baby it's just absolute nonsense the

whole of america has laughed at the washington post this is one nonsense it's not about racism right we're really way minutes right we need to challenge our own with him i'm with him but this idea that what did he say did he mention me putting on the horse hair shirt you know i'm never sorry for being white i get accused of being racist all the time in media circles because i dare to say that things that i say that the majority of people think i'm not a racist on a sexist on numbers subject it's just an ordinary person and then this idea that somehow we're bringing up another generation these people i tell you i've had enough of it it's just rubbish legge kids be kids let them play together if we see some behavior that is wrong either in the children or the parents let's conference in the way to change attitudes is to confront it this whole idea that i should feel

guilty for the sins of previous generations well know that i'm not going to pass that guilt on to the next generation i always worry i'll disagree completely wayman is there a danger that it could actually instill divisiveness in children of page when it wouldn't even have an end to. that consciousness i think people are misinterpreting workers and so our idea that you're blaming everybody for white supremacy and i think the difference is the jump from you know i don't know jack into books or you know to dr seuss the question of you know when racism was chosen out in 6 states from people trying to challenge that people found it offensive i think trying to normalize basically how you feel and trying to instill it just present it as be normalized behavior instead of also i think guns being naive because there's you know unfortunately there's a whole group of families burnt out and there's the whole group of people who no

one's accusing people of being racist but we're saying that trying to instill and key races where equality treatment or nonsexist behavior or whatever is darker side to it is going to be very very difficult job because otherwise you don't have to start a society. we have actors here outside or you don't started 3 years old with a drag queen or whatever they used new term is reading them bedtime stories at 3 years old you don't do anyway men and the majority harlan hardly understood what the question of. i got about shawn barr are actually a cheat and i understand something about pedagogy she's not true that the it's automatic that all parents teach their children about equality the idea that it is that eminem in we can present women as been equal to men as some new fangled idea well i know that people far off i don't think unfairly chokehold and 3 years old where they haven't even gone to school yet if you were talking about teenagers or

11 or 10 year olds i'd probably agree with you we do need to talk about these subjects of course we know our home is to be on house arrest as a quad john your mention of the drag queens that we are where this teaching comes from. right it comes from the sixty's in the civil rights movement the reason why brown versus education was changed in 155 was because they showed psychological blood dolls to both black white children and they said that black girls were wrong . and they were young children and they had to change the law to stop plato say in the way you should know what's true there were 4 there were 5 and i think a lot happens is that people it is true that the children a lot all races see what happens is most of those values alone you know so it has to be perfectly and in essence. i don't know why it's excellent care so far and you

can i just ask john you mentioned you highlighted the drag queens reading stories there how different is that from having pantomime dames every christmas with an audience full of children and in terms of stories teaching right and wrong and racism how is that different from the morality taught in age old fairy tales and fables that are taught is it just of the language is used because this is a an academic paper in a in a liberal newspaper that is just rather triggered certain sections of society. a train that question yeah yeah national train and then there's a vast difference if you haven't taken a 3 year old japantown you can't because when they go they don't sit there they don't watch it so your crass comparison of pantomime with drug creams going into the bedroom of the 3 year old doesn't stand up calling anyway moving up and from there i agree with you about everything angry so we could all get on a couple years additionally. when my children were already talking i was at the

grove all necessary to defend fairy tales so often fairy tales are full of things which are very very unpleasant so unknown here to defend that on here to talk about the washington post polling for this guy eat to parents about what to say to their children and what books they should read at the age of $38.00 is nonsense no one is urging for a guy to rob richer to clean that in the 1st centralizing probably just comfortable in the 19th 18th century which while enjoying the 21st century that's why disney's changed its products because they acknowledge that there's a problem and we try to deal with what you think policemen dragged young women off the street and treat them in that way or a lot of what we thought of last. as your job reference to it so i asked you why do you think men are toxic. do you know how many were arrested

well let's tape or take our sponsibility and join us the boss and someone to change this instead of being so defensive i'm not being defensive or chalk your a limb or no sense of joy clearly your sister your in the minority we have destroyed a lot of sectors of the law that was artsy but how are we going to challenge it. if you know there are guide parents if there is a parents who are perhaps not helping the youngsters learn right from wrong and equality and how to handle race issues not all parents have got the answers nobody really goes to college to learn how to be a parent so who should be helping them do that. that question to me is well i guess . parents parent children go to school they get educated that's what should happen my objection and it's not defensive absolute nonsense it's the majority view as proved by the way you introduced the whole item the washington

post have been ridiculed this is the wont sector the one sector trying to push their agenda on to 3 year olds well i'm sorry it's not needed it's not necessary if you conference racism if you if you come across and 6 and 7 if there's a problem in schools let's address that but please for goodness sake let toddlers be taught less 3 year olds fairy stories with drag queens you know she does this all started with drug queens going into 11 year olds and 12 year olds and con and the usual same line about the pantomime now then it's all rather hackneyed what we need to be doing is let kids be kids and where we see racism or we see the exhibits in things that they don't shouldn't be exhibited in there with his parents or teachers or other members of society should be saying to them that's wrong in which case it's just a just a couple of things that's just i think it's ridiculous it's too late 3 year olds

don't buy books join. us because what we're trying to do is to try and develop human beings to respect each other it's not automatic and what with the what the washington post are trying to do is have a discussion about how we develop people and that included clearance so parents can be parenting they don't allow their legal it's thought to try and bring up a better judge a race than the previous generation loans asking people to wear this book we don't want the klu klux klan we truly are going think of lights or out in france for now 3 times we're going to go slower to bad so we have to do something actively instead of being law even out of a hat we're going to leave it there while about it don't go on thanks for joining us on r.t. . chris.