reduced to one meal a day and the growing mental health crisis in isolation the students in france vast numbers to aid groups offering. food. u.k. vaccination centers numbers of queue jumpers as bush braces for a vaccine. that could be used by those that are in charge of actually even just slows down the vaccine program. a grim anniversary it's 6 years to the day since the saudi attack on unleashed war on the country. described as the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe. and i say not as i do that's what principle is a triumph of the russian energy sales for europe to get make the country its

biggest oil partner. from moscow thanks for joining us today here in r.t. international. evening welcome to the program. there's been a sharp rise in french students forced to turn for free or subsidized food from support groups restaurants supermarkets. reports from paris help they can buy cheap meals. every day this canteen is packed with students all coming in here to pick up a hot meal as the couvade crisis continues to point to 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 effectively 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 or. if you don't know anyone who lives in the same house as this. 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 services to assist those students who feel alone people who do a lot to fight against isolation we have put in place student 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 cruise 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 coronavirus with the highest rate of hospitalizations this year health ministers impose limits on outdoor gatherings and pledged even tougher measures if necessary the government suspension of the astra zeneca vaccine has also been criticised for slowing the inoculation campaign. british vaccine centers say they're catching dozens of queue jumpers every day who were trying to fall trying to get the job the scanners scammers often pretend to be frontline health workers the official proof is needed when they arrive 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 scary small percentage of people doing this but it's if you take taken us all 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 were 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 ring 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 that i'm 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 the vaccine shortages within a month they were in production problems on

a certain code cases in india which she is now keeping more surprise sonnie again said the fraudsters are hurting others as well as themselves. well 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 that's not the factor has me news 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 booking 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 change rechecking that that eligibility because it would have been done on my behalf before they got to me. principles overtrained washington tell the allies they must ditch russia's north stream to energy pipeline to europe figures though show when it comes to america itself and gotten more oil from its designated enemy it's far less the cerne ing with the us now buying record amounts of russian crude artie's constant iraq off 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 longstanding the 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 is going to pay well 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 grabbing at 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 it 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 united states president biden has finally faced the media but off the months of waiting for his 1st formal news conference many journalists would have disappointed with even reams of cheat sheets apparently to help his performance into power checked in. 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 falls 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 great to be here and. he pleased. you know we tried it is not in iraq is not working for now we're going to try and i mean in iran and choose me. to ukraine my physical mental my 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 through exposing i think it's time for the cross to leave me say. 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 biden was literally reading his answers off a gigantic stack of papers he kept flipping through them and still got lost all the time is the reason why a lot of immigrants are coming to live. with rented i.c.p. while many are beginning to see this. the presidency as a form of elder abuse by 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 share 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 and this kind of structured environment as possible i would flee 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 of natural gas from russia but threatening sanctions against india because it supposedly plans to buy defense materiel from russia even though mr bite 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 which at facebook and google face pressure from us will make us to take responsibility for what's published on that platform.

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we'll come back to the program given smoking 6 years since saudi led coalition airstrikes sparked war on the world's most disastrous communitarian 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 lending we were greeted looking out the window with rules and rules kilometers of destroyed and croft passenger jets locker room a bleed to rated where they stood by the saudi led coalition not a sight you wouldn't see when you were coming into lad and that was in the early

days of the war before the death toll spiraled into the hundreds of thousands. like cool war as the war in yemen has 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 revolted again so he rattled to saudi arabia

and asked 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 buth 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 arrested starvation is rife nice 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 from unlike 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 says funding you need only a couple of things to stop this about $2000000000.00 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 with with a lot of fire and print which the who the rebels rejected. that we announce to succeed you can issue to address all current problems and move towards a comprehensive political solution to the yemeni crisis in hostilities resolved humanitarian issues and instill hope for all yemeni people across the country. saudi arabia is our number one enemy 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 arms and no doubt we are not accepting this offer you know given the depths that the belligerence of sunk to gain any advantage in this war had to difficult 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 rehabilitated vast parts of the country that would have to be rebuilt the humanitarian crisis prices in yemen has been photographed and for. a time now a war has destroyed public infrastructure disrupted life. and public service men need an immediate new mission white c.s.i.

meets 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 in need all american support for offensive operations in the war in yemen including relevant arms sales pretty words after 6 years of arming the devising 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 win you card lose and you current and. heads of facebook twitter and google face the 5 hour wording from lawmakers for something political discord and failing to tackle misinformation was the 1st such sharing out of the barn administration. 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 this is not the answer that 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 if facebook we do a lot to fight misinformation or 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 that people often say things that are verifiably true but that speak to their lived experiences i think we have to be careful restricting that if you think the back scenes work one of your companies a lot of accounts that repeatedly offend your back seem to assume promotion policies commissioner yes we do have a policy against allowing why don't have a seamless event was a site stomp 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 good and have our team look at

the exact examples we need rules regulations technical experts in government. congress members say they may finally change a key u.s. infinite law called section 230 which shields big tech from responsibility for what people post on the platforms online giants of the single biggest spenders on political lobbying in the united states percent of the eurasia center expert groups say that makes it hard for politicians to reform the sector. it's a political theater it's basically a people to a piece and every want to make it look like they're doing something i mean maybe they maybe they will do something but i doubt it i don't see them doing away with section 230 which gives basically immunity and give big check the right to do almost anything they want without any liability right now the big checks are not really in support of freedom of speech. and the truth that 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 the hearings going to continue because hearings are attention grabbers a lot of this stuff that is targeted for for political me big tech needs to be reined in to 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 like we do with a lot of energy company. at least 32 people have been killed off the 2 trains collided in egypt old and 60 passengers are also reportedly injured with many still trapped inside the flip carriages incident happened near the city of so hog about 500 kilometers south of cairo authorities say the collision happened unknown individuals triggered emergency brakes on one of the trains health ministry says 36 minutes were dispatched to the scene to transfer the injured to hospital. now how can mathematics help unveil the secrets of all universe find out next in

visionaries in just a few hours time backing off an hour with the latest do join us again that. the most pathetic and dangerous consequence of the russia gate hoax is how it is played into policy at the center of this hoax was to discredit and then finally destroy donald trump now it in for. u.s. russia relations the result is dire this file out a relationship may never recover. seems wrong. but. just don't. mean you get to shape out these days to come to educate and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

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18. $1000000.00. he joins me now. from our professor of physics at mit and president of the future of lab in the city thanks for being with us today to. talk about but let's start with fundamentals. our mathematical universe you've put forth an argument that mathematics. whole universe that it is basically made a mass when you say that our reality is mathematics and mathematics isn't just an explanation of our reality what exactly do you mean and how do we get out of

numbers it sounds completely crazy you know when you 1st hear this. claim that everything is all mathematical because i looked around myself in the room you know and. what is there that's mathematical about this you know i don't see it's for something to be completely mathematical it means that it has only mathematical properties so i have this little toy teaching a course about astronomy but if i ask what's the properties of this it's fluffy it's kind of basan still. seems to be the non-mathematical right but when i look at this with my eyes as a physicists i see a big blob of electrons and quarks and what are are these for.