no money for food and a growing mental health crisis stuck in isolation students in france turn in vast numbers to aid groups offering free all subsidized meals. u.k. vaccination centers fight surging numbers of fraudsters a queue jumpers as britain braces for a job drought. we're wasting slops that could be used by those the return of the vaccine in just slows down the vaccine program. and do as i say not as i do that's washington's principal as it tries to stymie russian energy sales to europe yet makes the country its 3rd biggest oil partner.

lowlife and worldwide theses are from moscow welcome to world news this hour we're going to start in france where there's been a sharp rise in the number of students forced to turn to free or subsidized food from support groups restaurants and supermarkets. reports from a paris help center where 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 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 or. if you don't know anyone who lives in the same house as the. 11 hours of the day off to my room in the evening and i just start crying has also put in service is to assist those 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 dumped 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 crews with a psychologist via teleconference asian student pleas for aid have seen many rally around the restaurant 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 string through cove it and with still no end in sight there are now fears that entire generation of students could be lost. r.t. paris more widely france is buckling under a 3rd wave of corona virus with the highest rate of hospitalizations this year the health ministers imposed limits on outdoor gatherings and also pledged even tougher measures if necessary the government suspension of the astra zeneca vaccines also

been criticized for slowing the inoculation campaign. of the french president's accused russia and china of attempting to use vaccines to reinforce the geo political positions defining them as the enemies in a vaccine war in which the e.u. is fighting on the same side as washington. we're facing a new type of world war facing especially russian and chinese attacks and destabilization if it's through the vaccines if we want to hold on we must preserve our sovereignty and today we have the ability to produce enough to do so. remarks comes around rages within europe over delays and shortfalls in vaccine deliveries earlier in the way brussels tightened export controls on jobs to outside the block there's been reaction to the accusations by president bush from both russia and china moscow says it's facing a campaign aimed at discrediting its vaccine but that it's not a war with anyone while beijing sees the only way to defeat the pandemic is by

staying united and its readiness to work with others independent journalist luke rivers says them across should be focusing on public welfare not politics. it is incredible that this gentleman this very young man the plainest things on television on french television but i don't think the french will really believe what he says no this is lasted long enough and european softened up with their heads of states you know nothing works nothing more rock or formal colney of france is twice as facts in a good many more people you know there are some that it's something like 19 percent of the population vaccinated in morocco while france is at 9 percent drop all the result of france and still michael says that europe is the only one to have a strategy i mean we don't want your stretching as your michael sorry we are citizens and we want to be vaccinated and russian vaccine is excellent why not mrs merkel by the way disagrees with miss you michael she repeated that she would

gladly vaccinate german people with the russian vaccine so has the opposition to give the journey many other people it's where so clearly there is a rift within europe between leaders just for political ends you have people refusing to russian vaccine and prepared to kill hundreds of thousands of citizens of europe just to satisfy their political pride nor to rely on the russians or chinese this is ludicrous this is criminal. british occupation sent to say that catching dozens of queue jumpers every day who fraudulently try to get the job scanners often pretend to be front line health workers and all the official proof needed when they arrive anyone can book a slot on line in advance a pharmacist who runs one of the london centers described the problem service. this is a very spirited small percentage of people doing this but it's if you take taken us

all sites he's 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 i.d. . 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 works 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 rigid 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 all this added pressure in that the number of people booking appointments has doubled after authorities predicted vaccine shortages within a month they blamed production problems on the surging covert cases in india which is now keeping more supplies isone says the fraudsters are hurting others and themselves. well it just means that unfortunately we're wasting slots that could be used by those that are retired to vaccine and just slows down the vaccine program because if people are using or booking slots they're not entitle to they say it stops other people from looking for slots and that just like 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 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 again is to ask for some form of

proof which would verify the identity of the person seeking to make the booking and verify their entitle meant under health or social care because that would make my life a lot easier because i wouldn't have to spend my time watching rechecking that that eligibility because it would have been done on my behalf before they got to me. principles over trade while washington tells lies they must didn't rush is not strain to energy pipeline to europe figures show that when it comes to america itself importing oil from its designated enemy it's far less to sony with the u.s. now buying record amounts of russian crude as artie's constantine 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 those 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 ramping 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 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 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 staying in the u.s. president biden has finally faced the media but off the months of waiting for his 1st formal news conference many journalists were left disappointed with even copious reams of cheat sheets apparently failing to save his performance from the triple 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 trump's 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 his public appearances that's what white house staff go through every day because soon this is going 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 my physical as well as my mental so 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 me more the gaffe or the almost classic at this point i think through exposing i think it's time for the press to leave

a 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 the reason why a lot of immigrants are coming to live. with the country i see why did himself seems really come. 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 to most 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. it without a still to come twitter facebook and google fail to hate for the u.s. will make has to take responsibility for what's published on their platforms it's

all next news after this. 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 a vast artificial intelligence is not that it turns evil but just that at times very competent it has goals that are not aligned with our goals.

bads of facebook twitter i'm google who faced a 5 hour grilling from u.s. lawmakers for the sowing political discord and failing to tackle of misinformation it was the 1st such airing under the biden up in a straight. 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 built effective systems tend. not to 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 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 if you choose not to let 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 you see all us here because aside stump 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. a congress member say they may finally change a key u.s. internet law called section 230 which shields big tech from responsibility for what people post on their power platforms but that might be easier said than done online giants the single biggest spenders on political lobbying in the united states are rasmussen from the eurasia cent which promotes relations between america europe and asia says that makes it hard for politicians to reform the sector it's the political theater it's basically other people to appease and everyone 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 the 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 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 means big tech needs to be reined in to thumb degree. what what could be done 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 company. and the taliban has warned the u.s. against missing the 1st of may deadline for pulling its troops out of afghanistan the ominous group says washington will be fully responsible if the violence

continues on thursday president biden reiterated that getting that withdrawal done on time would be a tough task this could be hard to meet me when there's much. use in terms of. tactical reasons hard to get those troops out we will leave the question is when we . the recurrently 2 and a half hours and u.s. troops in afghanistan the lowest number since operations began there in 2001 the taliban claims there's no reason to miss the deadline as all tactical issues were settled in a deal signed off by former president donald trump last year. live now to brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition welcome to the program brian is this the end of america's military adventure in afghanistan. while the us has been defeated in afghanistan it's been 20 years it'll be 20 years as of october 7th

and the goal of the american government now is to leave and. government it will be a television government with some other elements as well perhaps but you can't define this as anything other than a debacle and the fact that biden won't take responsibility for what is obvious that the us has been militarily defeated the american people do not support and will not support an escalation in minus an escalation and i don't even think with an escalation the u.s. can turn the tide militarily the television cover controls more territory today than it did me 8th. october 8th 2001 so why is the us trading it's the pentagon and buying they don't want to take responsibility for what might come next and what might come next is the television routing the existing afghan government in posing a full out complete television government so the u.s. doesn't want to take the next step but it can't really avoid taking the next step

so more american soldiers and certainly more afghan civilians are about to die unless biden recognizes the reality that the u.s. cannot win this war so with those sort of get out clauses then made the 1st isn't far away is joe biden going to be able to stick to that deal by the trap of ministration or if they're going to be another reason. they could be out next week i mean this idea that it takes a long time to leave no it doesn't i mean taking 2500 troops out of afghanistan by may 1st is obviously. technically and logistically easy biden says otherwise the problem really is that the u.s. can't come completely sell the puppet government in afghanistan to go along with the deal because once the americans are out the existing the existing government has been put into place by the americans is very likely to be crushed so the u.s. is in iraq is it is between a rock and a hard place but so is the afghan government but the reality on the ground is if the taliban wanted now to launch

a massive offensive to drive out those last $2500.00 troops they could do it they're not doing it right now because they're hoping that the u.s. comes to its senses and leaves this is not a good situation for the people of afghanistan but certainly bombing a country and destroying its villages in carrying out drone attacks for 20 years even though nobody in afghanistan had any culpability for this of temper 11th 2001 attacks that wasn't a good idea either i thought on a u.s. troops there of course or about the remaining foreign soldiers but they still become a proxy force with america pulling the strategic strings i don't think they'll stay i mean what government will allow its soldiers to remain and more likely be harmed even possibly killed when the war has no goal no objective and if the americans who are really the anchor to the nato forces to the foreign forces who largely were you know basically minor detachments and used as window dressing so that the americans

could make it appear to be a multilateral force as opposed to a u.s. military operation i don't think those governments will be able to sustain public pressure by remaining keeping their troops in afghanistan. could the troop withdrawal the talks with the taliban actually help solve the root causes of this conflict and provide security in the country or is that maybe a bit of a hope from hope i wish i wish i mean it's such a tragedy you know the u.s. has been at war against afghanistan since 1979 s. when the afghans dared to have a socialist government and it dared to align with the soviet union and dared to you know create democratic reforms or try to like a minimum wage the right to form unions women and girls having a chance to go to school us in the cia were to war against their government so now here we are 42 years later the u.s. has been there just as it's in iraq analysts lee it doesn't benefit the people in afghanistan will what comes next be better well it'll be better no bombs being dropped on your wedding parties bombs dropped on your villages but it doesn't mean

that afghanistan is going to be you know in a good political space the recent talks of the taliban were held in moscow of course well what could russia's role be in afghanistan's future do you think. well well russia and and also china and and also india even though india has been considered to be a guarantor for the existing afghan government while pakistan was essentially the guarantor for the tell in all of these international players have certain united interests of congress of interest one they don't want the spread of more extremist violence afterwards they don't want isis to have a big strong stronghold inside of afghanistan perhaps that's an even bigger worry and of course there are both resource issues oriel natural gas things like that that are of mutual concern for all the countries of the region certainly i think russia because it hasn't been a military player in afghanistan and it has been involved you know very

aggressively in some of the behind the scenes diplomacy could become a factor to bring science together in a way that the united states is incapable of because precisely because it's been militarily occupying the country for 2 decades and that's definitely in a chapter that awaits afghanistan how that plays out like i said if it is guess at this stage to talk to again prime backer from the antiwar answer coalition thanks for joining us on r.t. . on the way next did sophia and co all that be back here with your next off the international news update see them. for people america have no representation of that's that's the problem there's

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