i don't think. this mistake is my mistake i regret said the d.p. and apologized to all citizens. german chancellor angela merkel backtracks on imposing an easter lockdown and concedes it was a mistake. to be ruled by no chris it into a fund that shows you 3 weeks. french hospital changed to 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 the people will. and flourishing hate speech and facebook is sued for repeatedly allowing online threats to journalists and spreading this information we examine how the platform is now

facing crackdowns worldwide. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us 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. enough id 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 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 combs september armyn 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 on 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 span 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 we discussed of the possible reasons behind the chancellor's decisions with an m.e.p. 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 her politics on corona and co but it's completely failed we have a permanent lockdown since november. nation 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 just look at it was such a waste of protest even but in her party bit she had no other choice then 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 but so. the french health care system

risks unprecedented shock within weeks if the government fails to defeat with deal we excuse me with a new surge that is the warning from the country's hospital federation chief. if 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. if 3rd wave of infections kicked in last week there are now more than 26000 patients in hospitals across france the highest to figure this month and more than 4000 in intensive care set a grim record for 2021 the french emergency doctors association told us that the authorities response had been woeful. yes. 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 many are stunned by the mixed messages coming from the french government amid harsh lockdowns and official warnings of dire consequences ministers are letting hairdressers and chocolate shops stay open for what they describe as french morale artie's the reports. you'd think that by the time the 3rd look that i was announced parts of from the government would be. termed it this is what you can do this is what you can't do but it's been anything but the case do you think you understand the restrictions now in place soon places like paris. now it's

. better but is typical shows you've got some points there too much numbers but the rules not to 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 mistaken. after 6 pm. after suffering now really i didn't thank you. we don't understand the new rules at all for example we're supposed to be in lockdown yet we're walking the chandeliers a there are a lot of people even though it's tuesday normally during log down there should not be so many people yet. there are a lot of people 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 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 lockdown 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 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 befuddlement 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 to make whole 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 up here and do people in paris know what they can and can't do do you think you can eat lunch with your friends in the park yeah. i think it's possible no they've said it's not they do not recommend eating lunch with your

friends right now i think we have the right to eat in a park with friends to go out after 7 pm under certain conditions i think yes but visiting friends at home no i don't think that's possible after 7 pm we don't have the right with the curfew we don't have the right it is all just. aside a year of 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. r.t. powers. the kremlin has confirmed that president vladimir putin has received a covert 1000 job but which one will stay a mystery with officials saying they won't spin. the shot in order to highlight

that all 3 russian vaccines are safe and effective more than 6000000 have had their 1st shot here in russia since the campaign started over 4000000 have already had both doses and as you can see the infection rate has fallen with the number of daily new cases now under 10000 arteries and one cross of ski 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. is that 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 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 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 that massive everywhere but moderate in russia well we see how the party may 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 wary about getting the coronavirus shot our team reviewed to view a few of the myths surrounding russia would make the vaccine. 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. side effects and complications are the same as after any flu vaccine there's not really side effects of the expected reaction of the immune system as the vaccine trains it to defend itself against an enemy and it gets activated.

if you. keep parameters that are crucial for vaccine testing and then. it's based on proven technology that has already been used for other vaccines a company that registers a 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 a biological point of view. what the. 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 list feel we should we all have to make a choice and weigh up the risks you the only way to prevent any viral infection including the growing of ours is vaccination you get vaccinated or get sick.

this is our international on the way facebook has been slapped with a massive lawsuit as press freedom monitors say it has questions to answer over the proliferation of hate speech and covered this information that story and much more when we come back these are international. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. during the trump administration the u.s. agreed to leave afghanistan by may 1st the biden ministration is wavering over this

commitment they claim the conditions on the ground are not favorable for withdrawal this begs the question what can be done now that has not been tried for the past 20 years. but we watch movies that i think that typically make us worry about the wrong thing they make us worry about robots turning evil but the real threat of the past artificial intelligence is not that it turns evil but just that it turns very competent but has goals that are not aligned with our goals. and. this is our to international now reports from the far east suggesting the possible launch of 2 projectiles by north korea according to japan it may have been

a ballistic missile test the alleged missiles reportedly fell into the sea of japan outside of tokyo's exclusive economic zone last weekend north korea fired 2 short range cruise missiles u.s. and south korean officials said it confirmed a ballistic missile launch would be a violation of u.n. security council resolutions and pyongyang's 1st such tests during the biden administration which would further complicate faltering nuclear negotiations with the united states. global media watchdog reporters without borders has filed a massive lawsuit against facebook for allegedly letting hate speech for issues 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 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 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 facebook's power or at least 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 go and governments are slow to rein this in government's been slow to try to do anything about it he said giants are stronger than governments they are the most powerful forces on the planet their own stock of course of the planet as ever see 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. us secretary of state has warned berlin of possible sanctions if the north stream to 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 it clear that firms and gauged in pipeline construction risk u.s. sanctions the pipeline divides europe it exposes ukraine and central europe to russian money palatial 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 young stoltenberg admitted the

issue was top of the discussions but that a common standpoint has 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's motives. nato doesn't have a common view on the stream to but why does the military organization have to take a common standpoint toller it's a business project between 2 independent states maybe their alliance has plans to invest. costing just over $9000000000.00 euros the nord stream 2 project is already more than 95 percent completed will allow russian gas to flow directly into germany under the baltic sea it could also be used to bypass existing pipelines which take gas at 3 ukraine which would cost kiev valuable transfer fees german journalist thomas fassbender says nato may be turning into a geo political tool for washington to dominate europe. where there is general in knowledge meant that pipelines gas oil pipelines geopolitical she'll economical

relevance so that explains why the subject is being discussed in the middle to form 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 antagonistic 'd power ruling over a dominate him over the eurasian continent europe is in danger in danger of becoming something between a rock and a hard place on the one hand we appreciate to cozy protection by the us 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. worst case

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georgia were a gunman murdered 8 people a majority of them asian women at 3 separate spas in the atlanta area then just a few short days later a different gunman went on a murder spree in boulder colorado at a grocery store there were killed 10 naturally while the victims' families are still in shock and mourning and us law enforcement agencies pieced together in the why naturally our mainstream media and elected officials immediately jumped in on the tragedies for ratings and future campaign trail bragging rights at the center of all the mainstream pool. tical media attention was the united states 2nd amendment and the ubiquitous a r 15 assault rifle u.s. president joe biden took to the airwaves and demanded congressional action. i don't need to wait another minute let alone an hour to take commonsense stamps oh.