you're more likely to walk free if you're rich. you've got 2 eyes and ears in one now. so you should be seen here and a whole lot more than you're saying if you don't take that advice easy going to dig yourself. i'm going to make. no money for food and a growing mental health crisis is stuck in isolation students in france turn in vast numbers to aid groups offering free or subsidized meal. u.k. vaccination centers the fight surging numbers of fraudsters and queue jumpers as britain braces for a job drought. we're wasting slots that could be used by those who want to tell

it's a vaccine and just slows down the vaccine program. and do as i say not as i do that's washington's principle as it tries to stymie russian energy sales to europe yet makes the country it's a 3rd biggest oil importer. broadcasting live the referee studios in moscow this is r t international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now there has been a sharp rise in french students forced to turn to free or subsidised food from support groups restaurants and supermarkets are to show dubinsky 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 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 like 11 hours of the day off

in my room in the evening and i just start crying has also put in service is to assist those students 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 they peers and not by ours because they're dept more easily they're able to speak freely they 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 prepaid 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 authority s

n l 3 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 so that even. 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 and pledged even tougher measures if necessary the government's suspension of the astra zeneca vaccine has also been criticised for slowing the an occupation campaign. the french president has accused russia and china of attempting to use vaccines to reinforce their 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. announcement comes as a rages within europe over delays and shortfalls in vaccine deliveries earlier in the week brussels tightened the export controls on jobs to outside the bloc there has been reaction to the accusations by president from both russia and china moscow says it is facing a campaign aimed at discrediting its vaccines but is not at war with anyone while 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 and not on politics. it is incredible that this gentleman this very young man the players such things on television on french television 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 that nothing works nothing more rock or former colney of france is twice as facts an 80 many more people you know there are some at something like 19 percent of the population vaccinated in morocco while france is at 9 percent drop all or so to france and still more consistent europe is going to want to travel strategy i mean we don't want your stretching as you might call 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 have the germany 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 on the chinese this is ludicrous this is criminal. british an occupation centers say that they are catching dozens of queue jumpers every day who fraudulent lee try to get the job the scammers often pretended to be front line health workers although official proof is needed when they arrive anyone can book a slot online in advance if i'm a sister who runs one of the london centers described the problem to us. this is very scary small percentage of people doing this but it's if you think take your soul 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 are they 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 an as a rich 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 all right the number of people booking appointments has doubled after authorities had predicted vaccine shortages within a month they blame production problems and a surge in covert cases in india which is now keeping more supplies sawney says the fraudsters are hurting others and themselves as well. well it just means that

unfortunately we're wasting slots that could be used by those that are in terms 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 the 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 away the identity of the person seeking to make the booking and verify their in title and 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 overtrading while washington tells e.u. allies that 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 is far less discerning with the u.s. now buying record amounts of russian crude constantine rushkoff comments. 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 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 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 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 staying in the united states now president biden has finally faced the media but

after months of waiting for his 1st formal news conference many journalists were left disappointed with even copious reams of sheet cheat sheets apparently failing to save his performance art dimitri pollack has his very own unique take and comments. 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 soon this is great to be here and. you know we've seen these for. you know we tried it is not in iraq is not working so now we're going to try i mean in iran and choose me for drugs in ukraine my physical mental so 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 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 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 is the reason why a lot of immigrants are coming to live. with rented i.c.p. while many are beginning to see this. all 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 he said that is my expectation yeah share as 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 flee the most worrisome aspect is foreign policy in effect that came up during this press conference where once again

just a bite and 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. on the program the taliban says washington will bear the blame for violence in afghanistan if it fails to uphold a bargain to leave by may 1st that is our next story after a short break. seems

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when so many find themselves worlds apart. she still looks for common ground. welcome back this is our to international now the taliban has warned the us against missing of the 1st of may deadline for pulling its troops out of afghanistan the armed 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 task. be hard to meet may when there's much. use in terms of. tactical reasons hard to get those troops out we will leave the question is when we . there are currently 2500 u.s.

troops in afghanistan the lowest number since operations began there in 2001 the taliban claims that there is no reason to miss the deadline as all tactical issues were settled in a deal signed off by former president donald trump last year brian becker from the anti-war answer coalition says washington's reason for not pulling out has nothing to do with logistics. the television coverage controls more territory today than it did me 8th. october 8th 2001 so why is the us trading at speed the pentagon and buying they don't want to take responsibility for what might come next and what might come next is the tele 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 troops out of afghanistan by

may 1st is obviously to technically in logistically easy 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 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. the heads of facebook and twitter and google have faced a 5 hour grilling from u.s. lawmakers for sewing political discord and failing to tackle misinformation it was

the 1st such hearing under 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 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 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 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. congress members 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 the platforms online giants are the single biggest spenders on political lobbying in the united states earl rasmussen of the eurasia center which

promotes relations between america europe and asia says that it makes it harder for politicians to reform the sector it's the political theater basically pieces the pieces every want to make it look like they're doing something and then 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 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 the 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 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 the like we do with a lot of energy companies. in the center of bristol in western england clashes broke out between protesters and the police. hundreds of people face off with the authorities in front of a police station with demonstrators chanting kill the bill they are opposed to a new proposed law which gives more power to officers during protests including the right to impose time and noise limitations angry gatherings have taken place across the u.k. recently against the proposed. in other news around the world 2 trains have collided in egypt killing at least 32 people and leaving more than 100 others injured it happened near the city of so hogg about 500 kilometers south of cairo is saudis say unknown individuals triggered the emergency brakes on one of the trains egypt's

rail network has long been plagued by accidents resulting from poor maintenance and management. fire has killed at least 10 people at a shopping complex in mumbai india which housed a private covert hospital on the 3rd floor according to officials more than 70 others were also injured in the blaze cause of the fire is so far unknown and is under investigation. protesters have clashed with police at a rally against the forced closure of a left wing venue in berlin arresting several activists local authorities say the bars and see contract expired in 2900 last year similar actions sparked riots in the german capital. doesn't mean the sa back in about 32 and a half minutes with another full and fresh look at your news stay with us.

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