reduced to one meal a day the growing mental health crisis is stuck in isolation the students turn in vast numbers to aid groups offering free subsidized food. u.k. vaccination centers for numbers of queue jumpers as britain braces for a job. wasting slots that could be used by those that are in charge of maxine and just slows down the vaccine program. grim anniversary it's 6 years to the day since the 1st unleashed. wall in the country triggering what the u.n. describes as the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe. the do as i say not as i do that's washington's principle as it tries to be russian energy sales to europe

yet make the country its biggest oil partner. 3 pm here in the russian capital. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. now there's been a sharp rise in french students forced to turn to for your subsidized food from support groups restaurants supermarkets short of dubious q reports from a paris health center where they can buy cheap meal. every day this canteen is packed with students all coming in here to pick up a hot meal as the covert crisis continues to point out 2 groups have been hit hard by the pandemic many are now without work and the means to support themselves demand for financial help from a public service the student life which also runs services like this canteen has

increased sharply every week around 40000 meals are being distributed to students in paris by this organization meals they can take home and heat up later or meals that they can take out now and eat because they're horton ready all at the price of one euro now that's been in place since january as a system to help those students who are really in need demand is so high that cruise has partnered with other organizations in a bid to reach more students in trouble. we have 0 of many students turn into words different types of aid wonderfully social services deliveries for example for buying food essential things needed in the supermarket and that is attractively increasing at enormous rate the demand is there it's not just help with filling their bellies that's needed many students feel isolated with some 60 percent saying

that they're suffering with mental health issues well it's hard to be in your room . in front of your computer you don't see anything else than your own computer and your small room for 1st year students they were not necessarily able to meet people they found themselves alone they don't have the motivation to go to college they say to themselves well what am i going to go there for it is very hard to. to come here to live alone. and if you don't know anyone who lives in the same house as. alone for. now it's 11 hours of the day off in my room in the evening and i just start crying who has also put in service is to assist those students who feel alone people would do a lot to fight against isolation we have put in place students mentors in every residents who work with us and who know the residents they go door to door make

phone calls and take in the new students it's much more efficient if it is done by the peers and not by ours because they're dept more easily they're able to speak freely to find out if they are not doing well or even have difficulties but we also work with partners for psychological support for example the sessions that are prepared by cruz with a psychologist via teleconference. student pleas for aid have seen many rally around them restauranteurs have been offering free meals while in supermarkets shoppers are being asked to donate an item towards a solidarity bag but there is still a feeling that they have been left aside by those in authorities and after a year of living of the strain through cove it and with still no end in sight there are now fears that entire generation of students could be lost charlotte even ski r.t. paris france is buckling under

a 3rd wave of corona virus with the highest rate of hospitalizations this year the health minister has imposed limits on outdoor gatherings on closed even tougher measures if necessary the government suspension of the astra zeneca vaccine has also been criticized for slowing the inoculation campaign. now in britain a vaccine centers say they're catching dozens of queue jumpers frauds and me trying to get a job every day the scammers often pretend to be frontline health workers the official proof is needed when they arrive of course anyone can book a slot online in advance a pharmacist who runs one of the london centers described the problem to us. this is a very sparing small percentage of people doing this but it's if you take take your source science is going on at it amounts to more people i suppose at the moment running about 10 or 12 people a week because effectively they're taking up their booking in and claiming to be and then when they come they have no they all have no idea with them or no relevant

id. and they can sometimes make claims about what they do or who they are which are . incorrect and someone who came in last week and she. when i asked him for what he did he said he was a pharmacist. which i am so it was a bit of a strange thing to choose but when i asked him where he worked he wasn't overly clear and then when i asked him for his registration number he couldn't give me the registration number that he would that he would have as a as a rich pharmacist in here in the u.k. so he's really apparent that he was trying to jump the queue and effectively we told him straightaway there are afraid that you don't qualify and he left she left a pharmacy. of a number of people booking appointments has doubled after authorities predicted short shot shortages within a month that they blame production problems on a surge in coated cases in india which he is now keeping more supplies sunny again

says queue jumpers are hurting others as well as themselves. it just means that unfortunately we're wasting slots that could be used by those that are in charge of vaccine and just slows down the vaccine program because if people are using or booking slots they're not entitle to say it stops other people from booking us lots and that just slightly slows down the the whole vaccination program and actually delays the time by which they will be vaccinated because obviously the fact they've used outs not the factor has meaning is just on the appropriate means that those people that have to wait longer to have their vaccine the best thing that could happen is that ideally that the national cookie system as part of the checks when you book in is to ask for some form of proof which would very far in the identity of the person seeking to make the booking and verify their in title meant under health or social care because that would make my life a lot easier because i wouldn't have to spend my time rechecking that that

eligibility because it would have been done on my behalf before they got to me. principles overtrained washington telzey your allies they must dates russia's north stream to any of you pipeline to europe because those show when it comes to america itself importing oil from the designated enemy is far less the surname with the us now importing record amounts of russian crude artie's constantino rushkoff reports . well well well look who's shopping on the russian oil market the u.s. purchased record breaking volumes of russian crude in 2020 make in moscow its 3rd largest oil supplier even saudi arabia a longstanding american ally and one of the world's largest oil exporters is left behind while this can't be true you would say the u.s. is increasingly buying a valuable commodity filling the coffers of a country it deems to be one of the most formidable foes i mean where is the logic

maybe it's a mistake you know a one time thing well not really according to the u.s. energy information administration america has been renting up its oil imports from russia for the last 5 years until they finally broke a decade old record and that's despite all the hostility tension harsh rhetoric and even this you know vladimir putin you think he's a killer. or do so what price must he pay the price he's going to pay will you'll see shortly well you would say trade is above politics but wasn't the us the country that bashed europeans for doing the same thing wanting to buy say gas from russia remember what they said and are still saying about north stream to the pipeline is a bad idea. bad for bad for europe or bad for the united states ultimately it's in contradiction to the use own energy security goals so let me get this

straight it's a bad idea when you're a buys russian energy by for the u.s. it's fine washington is just trying to be responsible and protect its weak european allies from russia's political leverage and its malicious energy ambitious by fearlessly grab at it themselves and it's not just fossil fuel america still buys rocket engines. and pays russia to send its astronauts to the international space station and also gas russian titanium for boeing plays there too but jokes aside at the end of the day oil is something that millions rely on in their day to day life electricity transportation you name it and if the u.s. so desperately needs x. roof you will for its people it and ready to buy it from its perceived enemy there is probably a good reason for it at least that's what i thought by it appears that the us had

to turn to the russian energy market largely because their own sanctions had suffocated oil production in venezuela its historic trading partner u.s. refineries in the gulf of mexico are some of the most sophisticated plants in the world having lost venezuelan crude and facing a less and more expensive feedstock from the traditional opec suppliers they have become a major customer for russian fuel oil as a substitute so to recap the u.s. shuts down one oil producer says he was a bad guy realizes it now doesn't have enough or oil turns to another producer says well you're a bad guy too but i'm going to buy stuff from you anyway at the same time it tries to intimidate all of the customers for doing exactly what they are doing so much for trademark american diplomacy that as joe biden says is now back.

in the u.s. president thought in his folly face the media went off to months of waiting for his 1st formal news conference many journalists were left disappointed with even cheat sheets apparently failing to improve his performance if you poke check to. finally after 2 long months biden has finally given us something that can actually be described as a press conference he heroically spends a whole hour talking to actual live reporters on a range of subjects like vaccinations the it's all chums fault migrant crisis getting out of afghanistan eventually the north korean threat and so on but unfortunately much of the events was either mind numbingly dull or well went as well as you would expect. who. were in my hear. you know those awkward family dinners where the creepy uncle goes off on an

incoherent rants well judging by biden's public appearances that's what white house staff go through every day as soon as it is created to be. pleased. you know we tried it is not in iraq is not workers are not going to try i mean in iran and choose me for drugs in ukraine my physical mental. physical as well as my mental fitness no wonder they try to keep him in the basement as much as possible every time he goes out in public it's either another mean worthy gaffe or the almost classic at this point i think it was president i think it's time for those of us to leave. but i guess they figured they can't hide him forever hence the press conference with quotation marks because if this was any more scripted it would be a hollywood movie. leyden was literally reading his as hers off

a gigantic stack of papers he kept flipping through them and still got lost all the time the reason why a lot of immigrants are coming to live. with the french i think while many are beginning to see this whole presidency as a form of elder abuse biden himself seems really confidence he even said he's going to go for a 2nd term he also just made some news by saying that you are going to run for reelection and i said that is my expectation yeah cher as is well known of our biden is a gaffe machine he does not have the gift of gab he oftentimes twists his sentences and of course he did the same thing at this particular press conference so i think that his handlers would like to keep him as far away from the press kind of structured environment as possible i would salute the most worrisome aspect is foreign policy in effect that came up during this press conference where once again

mr bitin saw fit to insult the chinese president saying that he does not have a democratic bone in his body and has also managed to threaten sanctions against not only germany because of its importing natural gas from russia but threatening sanctions against india because it supposedly plans to buy defense materiel from russia even though mr biden and the u.s. will be relying upon india as part of this and circle meant plan against china so i think that the most worrisome aspect of this and coming by the ministration is foreign policy and let's hope that he can improve. still to come the u.k. team she is suspended for showing people is a cartoon of the prophet muhammad that's prompted protests and even threats from beijing from parents that stay with us we're coming back after this break.

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welcome back to the program yemen's marking 6 years since saudi led coalition airstrikes sparked war in the world's most disastrous humanitarian crisis senior correspondent reports. one of the most surreal experiences i've ever had in it was owed was when we flew to yemen's capital sanaa as we were latin ding we were greeted looking out the window with rules and rules kilometers of destroyed and croft passenger jets locker room a bleeding rated where they stood by the saudi led coalition not

a sight you want to see when you're coming into lad and that was in the early days of the war but for the death toll spiraled into the hundreds of thousands. like cool wars the war in yemen is complicated the gist of it is off to the arab spring told build a dictator who had ruled for 3 decades his replacement was his vice president who

happened to be very pro saudi people who are vaulted again so he ride to saudi arabia and ask them to invade his own country to get him back into power hundreds of thousands of dead later it's a blood soaked stalemate and desperation for the victory the sides have resorted to desperate measures fighting forces on both sides have suffered heavy losses in this unnecessary battle i see shocking reports as i am sure we all do of children increasingly getting drawn into the war effort and deprived of their few. yemen is the battleground between saudi arabia and iran both support different sides booth desperate to win in fact the coalition led by saudi arabia has an active blockade of yemen vessels with food and medicine has seized and the arrested starvation is rife these year more than 2000000 children will go hungry about

a quarter of them are projected to starve to death 400000 under the age of 5 will die this year famine like conditions are emerging across yemen and the answer is simple we have a vaccine for this it's called food so we need to save lives is funded you need only a couple of things to stop this about 2000000000 dollars in funding just peanuts when you consider how many lives could be saved and at least a temporary peace to get the food to the people so the saudis of proposed a cease fire with with a lot of fire and print which the who the rebels rejected. that we announced to succeed you can issue to address all current problems and move towards a comprehensive political solution to the yemeni crisis in hostilities result humanitarian issues and instill hope for all yemeni people across the country.

saudi arabia is our number one enemy here and their offer won't serve the interests of the yemeni people they are only trying to use media propaganda to get what they were not able to acquire with armors and no down we are not accepting this offer given the depths that the believe drones have sunk to gain any advantage in this war and stiff it will to imagine peace said need time soon armies of saudi mercenaries would have to be removed bombs and mines that will take decades to clear the legions of child soldiers that would have to. be disarmed and we have billeted vast parts of the country that would have to be rebuilt the humanitarian crisis prices in yemen has been photographed and for quite a time now a war has destroyed looking for a structure disrupted life. and public service. needs

and immediate needs mission right since i agree to meet the international community to come together and push the conflict it to a common ground because yemenis have endured at the unbearable conditions over the past 6 years and this this needs to end yemen is without a doubt the most untalked about humanitarian catastrophe unfolding today oh sure once in a while some leader pays lip service to what's happening pretty words that sound good to home camera this war has to end. and to underscore our commitment we are all american support for offensive operations in the war in yemen including relevant arms sales pretty words after 6 years of arming advising it assisting saudi arabia in yemen the us has decided to pull out of offensive operations

the us navy is and will continue to be part of the naval blockade that's condemning hundreds of thousands of kids to death by manmade starvation this is the worst kind of war the kind you can't when you card lose and you current and. police have temporarily closed the road outside a u.k. school where parents protested against the religious teacher showing images banned under islam auntie's isa is across the story. a religious studies teacher at a school in west yorkshire in the north of england has been suspended after showing his pupils a picture of the prophet mohammed during a class now of course when it comes to the islamic religion any depictions of the prophet mohammed is considered to be. due to a backlash by a number of muslim parents of some children in that class the school took action and the head teacher gary kimball releasing

a statement apologizing to the local community for any offense caused the school unequivocally apologizes for using a totally inappropriate resource in a recent lesson the member of staff has also given their most sincere apologies we have immediately withdrawn teaching on this part of the course and we are reviewing how we go forward with the support of all the communities represented in our school . letter didn't deter at least 100 protesters from turning up at the school when it was due to open in the morning now those protesters stood outside the school they called for an investigation in to the teachers some of them calling for him to be sacked but they were also addressed by a local a mom who said that he was in contact with the school in dialogue with them and calling for an investigation to be carried out what happened here we are disgusted what has happened is totally unacceptable and we have made sure they are aware the

teacher has been suspended they can't just sack him they need to do their due process we've asked for an investigation and investigation to be independent we are going to work with the school to make sure things like these don't happen in the past we have seen the issue of the cartoons of the prophet mohammed sparking wide debate particularly in the wake of the charlie hebdo attack and so incidents like these will only serve to continue to spark that debates whether one does have free speech to draw pictures of anyone offensive as they may be or whether there is a line that can't be crossed. on everyone back to the school suspension of the teacher though we put the issue up for debate with our guests. i think what we're saying is an extremely wiring capitulation on behalf of establishments in the west both schools governments and the international courts as well capitulate.

to the need not to offend islam and it's extremely worrying you know islam should be no different from the other religions we are a democratic society that embraces freedom of expression embraces free speech and these schools really need to start standing up for those values they need to start saying that freedom of expression only really matters when it is pushing up against what is offensive to some people we should not be hurting abusing people and hiding behind freedom of speech and we have seen the teacher has been to question has been suspended and there's been. an apology from the headmaster however we've not had an apology from the teacher quite simply not just here to be a mistake i think to teach encroaches would have apologized put his hand up and apologized the fact that he still silent to not apologize clearly shows it wasn't a mistake can he stands by what he's done look at so speaking with the with the with the parents the context was that was

a cartoon show or. of the prophet peace be upon him with his apology on his turban and i think the teacher was trying to reconnect sample of teaching blasphemy and ridiculous we are teaching a subject by resorting to win in 2000000000 muslims around the world. that has a facebook twitter and google are faced a 5 hour grilling from lawmakers for something political discord and failing to tackle misinformation it was the 1st such airing out of the bottom ministration. if your platform bears some responsibility for disseminating disinter mation yes or no do you bear some responsibility for what happened congressman our responsibility is to make sure that we build effective systems to me. not the answer the question today our laws give these companies and their leaders a blank check to do nothing rather than limit the spread of this information facebook google and twitter have created a business models that exploit the human brain preference instead we woke up

tomorrow and decided to ask the government to tell us what content to take down or leave up we may end up with a service that can be used to question the government it facebook we do a lot to fight misinformation we remove content that could lead to imminent real world harm you have the meets but time after time you are picking engagement and profit over the health and safety of your users our nation and our democracy the system isn't perfect but it's the best approach that we've found to address misinformation in line with our country's values you can fix this but you choose not to let people often say things that are verifiably true but that speech of their lived experiences i think we have to be careful restricting that if you think the back seams were one of your companies allowed accounts that repeatedly offend your back seemed to us information commissioner yes we do have a policy against allowing a lot of the smallest sites dump the date you still have 12 people on your site

doing this when you take them down congressman i want you to look at the and have our team look at the exact examples we need rules regulations technical experts in government. well congress members say they may finally change a key u.s. international call section 230 which shields big tech from responsibility for what people post on the platforms online giant saw the single biggest spenders in political lobbying in the oddest states and of the eurasia center x. but group says that makes it hard for one of the shins to reform the sector. it's a political theater it's basically pieces the pieces every want to make it look like they're doing something and being maybe they maybe they will do something but i doubt it i don't see them doing away with section $230.00 which gives basically immunity and gives big check the right to do almost anything they want without any liability right now that big checks are not really in support of freedom of speech and and the truth that it's it's their agenda that's that's basically driving the

train right now both on the political side and and the information side to the public hearings going to continue because hearings are attention grabbers a lot of this stuff is is targeted for for political me big tech needs to be reined in the some degree. what what could be done is one i think looking at section $230.00 and the relevance of that perhaps looking at regulatory action like we did with the like we do with a lot of energy companies that has been a plus one next to that set for myself on the team for now to join us again and so when it's full tonight and we'll see you back when. it folks next up on dennis miller plus one.