no money for food and a growing mental health crisis stuck in isolation students in france churn in vast numbers of aid groups offering free subsidized meals. u.k. vaccination centers fight surgery numbers of foster's and queue jumpers as britain braces for a job drop. wasting slots that could be used by those who've already talked about 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 it makes the country its 3rd biggest oil importer.

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our to international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now there has been a sharp rise in french students forced to to turn to free or subsidized 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. 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 who has also put in service is to assist those who feel alone we do a lot to fight against isolation we have put in place students 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 their depth 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 a cruise with a psychologist via telecon 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 so that even aussie 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 suspension of the astra zeneca vaccine has also been criticised for slowing the inoculation campaign. the french president has accused russia and china of attempting to use vaccines to reinforce their job political positions defining them as the enemies and the vaccine war in which the e.u. is fighting on the same side as washington. we're facing a new trial to have world war facing especially russian and chinese attacks and destabilization if it's through the vaccines if you want to hold on we must reserve our sovereignty and today we have the ability to produce enough to do so. microns announcement comes as a rages within europe over delays and shortfalls in vaccine deliveries earlier in the week brussels tightened export controls on jab to outside the block and there has been reaction to the accusations by president micron 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 stating united highlighting is readiness to work with others independent journalist says that micron should be focusing on public welfare and not 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 nothing works nothing more rock or formal 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 job all the result of france and still michael says that europe is the only one trying to strategy i mean we don't

want your structures you michael sorry we are citizens and we want to be vaccinated and russian vaccine is x. and y. 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 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 chinese this is ludicrous this is criminal. british an occupation center say they are catching dozens of queue jumpers every day who fraudulent lee try to get the job the scammers often pretend to be front line health workers although official proof is needed when they arrive anyone can book

a slot online in advance if pharmacist 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 take take russell science he was 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 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 do that he would have risen 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 the number of people booking appointments has doubled after authorities predicted vaccine shortages within a month they blame production problems and a surge in covert cases in india which is now keeping more of its supplies sawney went on to tell us the front stairs 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 into the vaccine and just slows down the vaccine program because if people are using or booking slots they're not in total to say it stops other people from looking at 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 meaning is just on the

appropriate means that those people that have to wait longer to have their vaccine the best thing that could happen is that ideally that the national booking system as part of the checks when you booking 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 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 over trade while washington tells e.u. 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 while it is far less discerning with the u.s. now buying a record amounts of russian crude constantine at risk of 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 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 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 renting up its oil imports from russia for the last 5 years until they finally broke a decade old record and that's despite all the hostility tension harsh rhetoric and even this you know vladimir putin you think he's

a killer. or do so what price must he pay the price he's going to pay will you'll see shortly well you would say trade is above politics but wasn't the us the country that bashed europeans for doing the same thing wanting to buy say gas from russia remember what they said and are still saying about north stream to the pipeline is a bad idea bad for bad for europe or bad for the united states ultimately it's in contradiction to the use own energy security goals so let me get this straight it's a bad idea when you're a buys russian energy by for the u.s. it's fine washington is just trying to be responsible and protect its weak european allies from russia's political leverage and its malicious energy ambitious by fearlessly grab 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 or 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 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. still to come 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 international. 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 mold.

millionaire lobbying class who work for banks who print money for themselves. to the can tell nothing unless you're 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 having fun i knew you would buy big one for 10 years like we've been saying and you 2 would have $101520000000.00 even if you started with 5 or 6000. 1 else seemed wrong. but old rules just don't hold. any old belief yet to shape out just to become educated and engaged with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we

choose to look for common ground. welcome back this is r.t. international now the taliban has warned the us against missing 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 win deadlines. 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 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 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 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 $2500.00 troops out of afghanistan by may 1st is obviously. technically and logistically easy biden says otherwise

the problem really is that the us 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 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 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. the heads of facebook twitter and google have faced a 5 hour grilling from u.s. lawmakers for so on political discord and failing to tackle misinformation it was the 1st such hearing since joe biden took office. 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 and have our team look at the exact examples we need rules regulations technical experts in government congress members and 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 makes it harder for politicians to reform the sector. it's a political theater it's basically

a piece of the 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 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 hearing 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 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 companies. in the center of bristol in western england clashes

broke out between protesters and the police i wonder just people faced 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 and 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 hog about 500 kilometers south of cairo it's already 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. least 10 people at

a shopping complex in mumbai in 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 severe activists local authorities say the bar's tenancy contract expired in 2019 last year similar actions sparked riots in the german capital as well. yemen is marking 6 years since saudi led coalition airstrikes sparked war and the world's most disastrous humanitarian crisis spondon 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 will land in we were greeted looking out the window with rules and rules

kilometers of destroyed the aircraft 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 but for the death toll spiraled into the hundreds of thousands. like cool wars the war in yemen is complicated the gist of it is after 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 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 the arrested starvation is rife these year more than 2000000 children will go hungry about a quarter of them are projected to starve to death 400000 under the age of 5 will die this year famine like conditions are emerging across yemen and the answer is simple we have a vaccine for this it's called food so we need to save lives says funding you need only a couple of things to stop this about 2000000000 dollars in funding just peanuts when you consider how many lives could be saved and at least a temporary peace to get the food to the people so the saudis of proposed with with a lot of fire and print which the who the rebels rejected. that we announced a strategic initiative to address all current problems and move towards

a comprehensive political solution to the yemeni crisis and hostilities result humanitarian issues and instill hope for all yemeni people across the country. saudi arabia is our number one enemy and their offer it 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 believe joints of sunk to gain any advantage in this war i just 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 we have billets hated the us parts of the country that would have to be rebuilt the humanitarian crisis prices in yemen has been photographed and for quite a time now it has destroyed public infrastructure disrupted life. and

public service men need an immediate new mission white seats i meet the international community to come together and push the conflict it to a common ground because yemenis have a door at the unbearable conditions over the past 6 years and this this needs to to end yemen ease without a doubt the most un talked 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 catamaran 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 advising it assisting

saudi arabia in yemen the us has decided to pull out of offensive operations the us navy ease 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 clues and you current and . does it for me in about 31 minutes i'll be back with another full and fresh look at you news this r.t. international. always. confrontational. don't get into any conversation or start answering questions.

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