no money for food and a growing mental health crisis stuck in isolation students in from numbers to aid groups offering free or subsidized meals. can vaccination centers fight surging numbers of fraudsters and queue jumpers as britain braces for a job drought. those are the results of vaccine 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 makes the country its 3rd biggest.

it's good to have you with us for your news this hour moscow his call with looking out for you this hour there's been a sharp rise in french students forced to turn to free or subsidized food from support groups restaurants and supermarkets. reports next from a paris health 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 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 . now it's 11 hours of the day off in my room in the evening and i just start crying has also put in services to assist those who feel alone we do a lot to fight against isolation we have put in place student mentors in every residence 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're 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 to 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. arty paris. widely france's buckling under a 3rd wave of coronavirus with the highest rate of hospitalizations this year the health ministers imposed limits on outdoor gatherings and pledged even tougher measures if necessary the government suspension of the astra zeneca vaccines also

be criticized slowing the inoculation campaign. from the french president accused russia and china of attempting to use vaccines to reinforce their geo political positions the finding them as 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. across remarks comes around rages within europe over delays and shortfalls in vaccine deliveries earlier in the wake brussels tightened export controls on jobs to outside the bloc there's also been reaction to the accusations by president bush from both russia and china moscow says it's facing a campaign aimed at discrediting its vaccines but that it's not at war with anyone beijing sees the only way to defeat the pandemic is by staying united highlighting

its readiness to work with others independent journalist says that should be focusing on public welfare not politics. it is incredible that this gentleman this very young man the players such things on television on french to position but i don't think the french will really believe what he says now this is lasted long enough and european saw fed up with their heads of states you know nothing works nothing more rock or formal colney of france is twice as facts an 80 many more people you know there are some that think it's something like 90 percent of their population vaccinated in morocco while france is at 9 percent job all or so to france and still more consistent europe is the only one to have a strategy i mean we don't want your structures 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 store has the opposition to give the germany many other people elsewhere 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 inoculations said to say they're catching dozens of queue jumpers every day who fraudulently try to get the job the scan is often pretend to be front line health workers although 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 very scary small percentage of people doing this but. 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 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 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 didn't effectively we told him straight away that i'm afraid that you don't qualify and he left she left

a pharmacy. adding to the pressure the number of people booking appointments has doubled after authorities predicted vaccine shortages within a month they blamed production problems and also a surge in covert cases in india which is now keeping more supplies as sunny says the fraudsters or hurting others and 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 looking for slots 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 cookie system as part of the checks when you book in is to ask for some form of proof which would very far 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 over trade while washington tells me you allies they must ditch russia's nord stream 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 serving with the united states now buying record amounts of russian crude that's constantine washed overboard. 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 it's the 3rd largest oil supplier in saudi arabia

a longstanding american ally and one of the world's largest oil exporters is left behind while this can 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 that 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 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 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 already 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 and 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 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. there without say on the way the taliban says washington will bear the blame for violence in afghanistan if it fails to uphold a bug and to leave by may the 1st we've got the story our reaction in less than 90 seconds. for people america have no representation again that's that's the problem there's nobody in government that represents people who are not part of the. a mere lobbying class to work for banks who print money for themselves. to the can tell them in this year printing money for yourself gaining from they can tell the fact you have nobody in government representing in america not

a single congressperson not a single senator nobody in the white house represents you you are on your own. i knew you would buy big one for 10 years like we've been saying and you 2 would have 101520 1000000 pounds even if you started with 5 or 6000. 1 almost seemed wrong. but i. just don't. get to shape out just to become active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

0 again the taliban told the united states against missing the 1st of may deadline for pulling its troops out of afghanistan the all militant group says washington will be fully responsible if the violence continues on thursday joe biden reiterated that getting the withdrawal done on time would be a tough tough. this could be hard to meet me when there's much. use in terms of. tactical reasons hard to get those troops we will leave the question is when we. are the recovery 2500 u.s. troops in afghanistan that's the lowest number since operations began there in 2001 of the taliban claims there's no reason to miss the deadline as old tactical issues were settled in a deal signed off by former president donald trump last year brian becker from the antiwar coalition says washington's reason for not pulling out has nothing to do with logistics. the television cover over it controls more territory today than it did me 8th. october 8th 2001 so why is the us trading its be

the pentagon and buying they don't want to take responsibility for what might come next and what might come next is the teller been routing the existing afghan government in posing a full out complete taliban government so the us 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 us cannot win this war taking $2500.00 troops out of afghanistan by may 1st is obviously. technically an logistically easy feat biden says otherwise the problem really is that the us kicked him 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 us is in iraq it 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 they want to mess of 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 us comes to its senses and leaves. following a reported rice in sexual assault cases among teenagers had australia thought as there are looking to expand mutual consent education in schools. in the current australian curriculum there are references to being respectful that's open to interpretation there is no reference to gender based violence and in another attempt to address the issue police in one australian state have proposed using an app which would document mutual consent or they believe it could be a part of the solution critics say it's naïve there's a similar app and denmark which gives permission for intercourse wants and it's valid for 24 hours that's also drawn some skepticism and condemnation right

discussing it over the next legal experts haven't done any turk and also attorney and reece addison is also a women's rights advocate both welcome to the program so apps the 21st century answer to everything isn't it but race can i ask you 1st is this at the very least an empowering top for vulnerable young women empowering not so much i think the intention behind creating an app is is positive in the sense that we're wanting to use technology to allow women to make their voice heard and that sounds like it's a great idea on its face right but unfortunately because it is considered intensive and can be withdrawn at any given time what we run into is the fact well what happens if a person does consent on the apple then decides she no longer consent or maybe she's incapacitated in unable to continue to give consent so it's the issue that we want to use technology to keep up with the times but unfortunately it doesn't do

enough to actually protect a woman's right to choose and have autonomy over her body and evan does a form part of the solution the technology or is it a distraction. i think it's an absolute distraction there are certain things in life that technology is not. supposed to be used for i think relationships especially intimate relationships i think technology should be completely and totally removed because it's unintended consequences and opens the gates for predatory litigation it causes so many problems that you would not even want to even start to think about have an end up like this reece why isn't the education working with supposedly in the 21st century civilized society here's the the it unfortunate truth is that we have not really gotten to what the core of the necessary lessons are we're trying to use technology to protect women instead of

teaching men that they need to respect the right of a woman's body to make a decision to sue should learn the signs of a person who is unable to give consent to realize that a person who's finally made may be interested in and continuing with the act and so we're not teaching minot to be predators we're just teaching men try to not try to cover yourself in and protect yourself as best as possible so that this can come back to bite you in the future and while the app to be helpful if you were just for research purposes in the sense of you know before the sexual encounters did you can stick after the sexual can encounter do you continue to give consent that's one thing but at the same time wanting to take this app into a court a court of law and say oh well i didn't write her because she gave consent that doesn't work because the considered to literally be changed within 2 minutes after giving it on the app or you could call larson once a gift and stay on the app so it's not you know

a clear cut solution at all evan where where is the education failing here. i think there's a lot of confusion in the role of relationships right now because of technology there are a lot of instant gratification apps and the loss of a relationship is key to a lot of these problems that we're having so to educate people is one thing but to have a culture that promotes you know relationships and you know healthy ones is another we have a culture right now where we have carty be singing a song that brings a huge confusion to the message what are we teaching our children and it's especially because of social media children are especially vulnerable to raising the bar of thinking what is appropriate you know order to be accepted in society so i think technology is a big component that society accepting technology and accepting as me to movement

that's open society where everybody is ok with him it's really causing a lot of confusion especially for the younger generation i suppose recent it's difficult isn't it for middle aged politicians and policy foremost to play catch up with the technology that anybody under the age of 15 is leagues ahead. a little bit so you because it's not going to probably. so you really don't know we have middle aged politicians who were alive and well during the ages of woodstock back in the seventy's when free love was the theme and people work heavily self medicating with opioids and all of those sorts of things and actively participating in and sex sexual intercourse with multiple partners that they oftentimes didn't even know so i think that is age group of legislators actually especially in the u.s. is more inclined to be familiar based on their experience of the counterculture but

the issue really is and i hear everyone you say all well culture is shifting in where you know why and thinking about all sorts of sexually generating and just you know basically making women sexual objects is so prevalent but at the same time everyone is not going to come from the same place of morality religious viewpoint and so we just simply have to teach consent across the board in what is consent we teach it and a sexual of sexual education classes what it's like pouring tea on a person can a person consent to having tea court on them if they're passed out they can't consent if they're sleep they can't consent if they're drunk in the in they can't respond they can't consent and so these are the simple issues the simple ways in which we need to address the sick because we're not going to always have a consent a consensus as to what people agree to form a morally standpoint i mean does it strike you that some of these ideas are

formulated by a man without actually making the point that the problem is men that access to pornography the boys have when they're in school but many of the problem. i think it's you know an arguer fee and access to just about anything you want to see on the internet is a huge problem at the sensitize it's people and they think that they are the norm it's something that i hope that it's not and the reality is that education is just a component but peer pressure and technology and being a father myself it's really hard to curtail what my children have access to i could download every i could monitor what they are looking at and see what just you know looking into online but that doesn't mean that they're not looking at their friends' phone. it's just a very difficult. era that we're in and consent is

a big one but it has to be reinforced not only by parents but by education and by society and i think society is really sending our wrong message right now in what is accepted as mainstream and that's you know one of the things that i think has shifted in my generation you know what's happening now for teenagers and 20 year olds and so he seems to change by by the year doesn't it ok thanks very much for joining us harry and i'll take in thank you. thanks the heads of facebook twitter and google have faced a 5 hour grilling from u.s. lawmakers for 7 political discord and failing to tackle misinformation it was the 1st such airing on the biden 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 and. 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 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 the i don't have the smallest aside stumped to 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 local section 230 which shields big tech from responsibility for what people post on the platforms but that might be easier said than done because online giants are the single biggest spenders on political lobbying in the united states rasmussen of the eurasia center 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 the 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 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 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 is is targeted for or for political me big tech needs to be reined in the some 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 companies that's your news for now you're next in 30 minutes.

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