some of the top stories we brought you the last 7 days reduced to one meal a day and a growing mental health crisis is stuck in isolation students in france turning in vast numbers the aid groups offering free or subsidized food. thousands of migrants were filled in overcrowded camps on the u.s. southern border adding to reports that washington is facing an unprecedented refugee crisis. and flourishing hate speech facebook sued for repeatedly allowing online threats to journalists and spreading this information we examine coming up how the platform is now facing crackdowns worldwide.

and there are a good morning of the weekend's going good it's sunday morning here in moscow welcome to the weekly look back at the top stories we brought you over the last 7 days with me kevin owen here this hour 1st in the week we reported that there's been a sharp rise in french students forced to turn to free or subsidized food from support groups restaurants and supermarkets do bensky was at one 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 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 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 but 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. alone for. now it's like 11 hours of the day 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 the peers and not by others because they're dropped more easily they're able to speak freely to find out if they are not doing well or if they have difficulties 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 strain through cove it and with still no end in sight there are now fears that entire generation of students could be lost charlotte even r.t. paris the code crosses that spot the students difficulty shows no sign of in the mean time the ease at loggerheads with britain after attempting to block exports made big news in the wake of the french president waded into the dispute as well. so i support the export control mechanism states up by the european commission i support the fact that we must block all produced exports onto liberace's meet their commitments to europeans i don't think that blockades. of either vaccines or of. medicines of ingredients are about as sensible britain's

reportedly close to a deal with brussels as early as today sunday to remove the threat of the block cutting off shot supply in return the u.k. would forgo some long term deliveries of the astra zeneca job from the e.u. all this coming after earlier this week u.s. regulators forced astra zeneca to admit its vaccine was less effective than originally claimed microbiologists clark told us it's going to hit confidence in the pharmaceutical giant. fundamental tenet in science that you don't pick and choose which states are you crazy but it appears that for some reason that's what's happening and we don't know why they've done that but it is always raises suspicions when people try to ignore the very top that's perhaps not so good in favor of the greater the we should remember it's only a 3 percent difference for mild moderate and no difference at all for the most

serious life threatening it's not everybody but i would say relatively few people pick up on the fact that with different small they pick up on the fact there is a difference and that astra zeneca have essentially been accused of cherry picking data so that's what people hear and it affects confidence it may affect confidence in the company and i think it's highly likely that it will. cause people to question the efficacy of the vaccine. meanwhile several e.u. states such as germany are waiting for the block's medicines watchdog to approve the sputnik the vaccine but some members including slovakia the czech republic and hungary. jump the gun before the regulators greenlight but a pest has already vaccinated more than a 1000000 citizens with the russian shot among them hungary's foreign minister and in an interview in the week gave to us explained why his country was the 1st to you nation to approve the up. scene is not a question of ideology for us is

a matter of saving lives and if we had not contract the chinese and russian the vaccine we would have saved the health care and the health and the lives of many hungry and the hungry our national regulator has approved the emergency use authorization for use so i have no concern i was the one. that asked by our government to negotiate with the russians on the ration of our 30 c. . i have started going to be the minister. back at the end of october before i got to actually and after a long series of negotiations and we were able to sign our contract we share a lot in accelerating the vaccination in hungary you said it's rightly more than 1400000 today this morning even more than 1500000 i'm here ians have already been

vaccinated why do i. why there were no. other developments covert skeptics hitting the streets across europe this weekend demanding an end to restrictions u.k. on to lockdown protests as clashing with officers and trying to break through a police line in the danish capital activists dressed in black lit flares and fireworks to protest the government's coronavirus reaction hundreds also came out against the government's response in the german city of nuremberg. and talk at a germany german chancellor angela merkel took just a day to make a complete u. turn on deeply unpopular plans for a strict lockdown over easter. says day the fast of april as well as the said of april should be defined as calm days with extensive contact restrictions and a ban on gatherings from the fest to the 5th of april. the idea was

a mistake this mistake is my mistake alone a mistake must be called a mistake and above all it must be corrected at the same time of course i know that this whole matter trygaeus more and says until i regret that deeply and apologize to all citizens while our original proposal has been panned by both the business and scientific community was reversed after a crisis meeting in embarrassingly for a member of merkel's ruling party told us people are fed up with the government's contradictions in the pandemic people are fed up or see a lockdown as i've just heard reports from from a different source from russia that pretty much life is back to normal it's it's tough it's one of the toughest countries in germany some of the european countries but germany politicians are basically toppling over each other to raise the bar to make it even more difficult for people plus the vaccination council germans if they used to one thing are used to an orderly state orderly administrative procedures

and we don't see any of this and we see contradictory. administered orders we see contradictory and failing state policies so germans are fed up but they don't or all of the requisite and appropriate conclusions in the right numbers that this government has failed. president biden finally faced the media this week but after 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 out of the day to me troop watched in. finally after 2 long months biden has finally given us something that can actually be described as a press conference he heroically spends a whole hour talking to actual live reporters on a range of subjects like vaccinations the it's all trump's 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 their 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 for you soon this is going to be. pleased for. 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 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 the 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 the country i see while many are beginning to see this. the presidency as a form of elder abuse by himself seems really confidence he even said he's going to go for a 2nd term he also just made some news by saying that you are going to run for reelection and i said that is my expectation yeah share as is well known of our biden is a gaffe machine he does not have

a 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 missed by 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 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. just 2 months since taking

office joe biden's also faced with the devastating refugee crisis republican senators visited the border with mexico on friday warning media coverage of overwhelmed facilities has been restricted yet the situation is now a humanitarian crisis this is some for the. facility in the city of donna texas meantime the senate is say up to 4000 people have been held in a placement for only 250 and many of them a minus paper uncivilly of a credit most even without beds numerous covert cases have also been report. there . and with border crossings from mexico at a 20 year high the pentagon will now have is on the company's migrant children and military facilities it's despite democratic outrage at biden's predecessor donald trump of course for planning exactly the same move caleb maupin covered this story in the week. the biggest migrant surge at the us mexico border in 20

years thousands of unaccompanied children detained and a lack of facilities to accommodate them so now the biden ministration seems to have found a solution asking the pentagon to hold them at military bases sounds reasonable but let's remember the reaction when donald trump had the same idea the united states is running concentration camps on our southern border and that is exactly why they are there concentration camps don't let this go unnoticed the trumpet ministration reportedly plans to use a formative conies internment camp to house immigrant children this is downright immoral it was announced donald trump will be reopening one of these camps to detain migrant children these children belong in homes schools and parks not prison camps now you'll remember biden embrace these criticisms and promised

a full reversal with the overwhelming support of the democratic party joe biden promised more humane border policies they got separated from their parents and it makes us a laughingstock and a violates every notion of who we are as a nation and those kids are alone no where to go no where to go it's criminal and i trust the abide initiations policy to be based on humanitarian and love of children rather than political points or red meat should they bake for their republican base but now donald trump is gone and children are being held at the same cramped facilities however the white house is now assuring us this is not kids in cages this is children in the sooty this is not kids being kept in cages this is a safe for kids this is a facility that was opened the media is very strong like. to say. courting the by

the administration was extraordinarily hostile to trump biden thought he had more leverage he had more control he could think he could keep things under wraps and the american people would go along go along with it and work for a while but now it's no longer holding up biden seizing very naive he seems not to have really thought these questions out very very thoroughly he seems to have little idea of what's at stake he believes the same old power sees will work the same policies that the implemented when he was part of the obama administration but those policies failed then they failed under trump and they're failing now on her by. global media watchdog reporters without borders has filed a maslow suit against facebook for allegedly letting hate speech flourish including false videos on the pandemic watched millions of times just one of the damning allegations now hitting the tech giant around the globe. reporters without borders

lawsuit demonstrates that the california based company's undertakings to its consumers are largely mendacious and that it allows dissent from ation and hate speech to flourish on its network contrary to the claims made in its terms of service and through its ads facebook a mere pittance has grown to be too large for the company itself even its exacts when unaware of being filmed of course admitting the giant has to be tamed. to. do it but until this happens it's up to individual countries to rein in the dominance of facebook and they do the u.k. has taken the social network to court for losing control of the data of british hughes's italy following the company over the lack of transparency in their privacy

policies facebook was misleading users to register on its platform by not informing them immediately inadequately of the collection activity with commercial intent of the data provided by them astray or forced facebook into a commercial deal making it pay news corpus trulia for journalism from its local mastheads but only after an ill tempered fight in which facebook inadvertently shut down some of vital information services in australia. on the side of over and for cement in doing so some content was blocked inadvertently even in the united states where facebook is widely viewed as a mass mind control tool in the hands of political establishment is taking steps to limit its reach for these books user profiles would allegedly reveal an individual's likes dislikes interests and habits over a significant amount of time without affording users a meaningful opportunity to control or. and the unauthorized exploration of their

private life some say the big tech has replaced big oil as the global corporate power play up except it controls not only the money but also information streams and whether it's concerns about snooping censorship all monopoly practices the raw signs that the global mood could be turning on the online giant but it won't go down without a fight fairly powerful groups like media organizations and governments coming up your facebook from very different angles none of those entities are powerful facebook is right now that of course might be one reason that these governments are a little worried about our release trying to reign it in your already very very scary territory all right it's only going to keep going in the same direction that it has been going on governments or. governments and sort of try to do anything about it and the sectarians are stronger than governments they are the most

powerful forces on the planet they're also talk of course of the planet as it are seen they control the conversation they control who gets to be heard who doesn't get to be here and they control what you see they control what you buy they know everything about you they are showing us who's in charge. apparently and never too young to be progressive so the washington post has guided parents to books websites and companies offering wolk material to very young children the titled social justice for toddlers what's the importance of a quality. education for kids the report highlights materials like a drag queen website books like anti-racist baby and woke baby and selling toys and living materials to dismantle bias. and he found the advice divisive even harmful. can we just teach children to walk talk play before we set hoisting our deal to near office on them indoctrination is wrong washington post this conversation is

one that divides us universal identity is what should be centered not race not gender this generation of kids is going to need decades of therapy after going through this critical race theory one half of them will just crumble under the white guilt pushed into them and turn into fragile ghosts barely resembling human beings the other half will just get radicalized. well we go reaction to the washington post article from john galt radio host and wayman bennett of unite against fascism. can i just check the calendar he said a prove the 1st this is a complete and utter joke listen when kids are 3 or 4 they want to play with each other and they should be encouraged and we as modern parents or grandparents should not be reinforcing prejudice our prejudices if we have them on to the children of course it's important to show kids by example that you're not

racist or homophobic or sexist i would agree with all of that but produce him pocs for 3 year olds talking about arm awoke baby age just absolute nonsense the whole of america has laughed at the washington post 3 year olds don't buy books john parents buy books because what we're trying to do is to try and develop human beings to respect each other it's not automatic what with the what the washington post are trying to do is have a discussion about how we develop people and that included clearance so parents can be parenting they don't parrot alone they label it start to try and bring up a better generation the previous generation that we have to do something. instead of being like evil out that happens as moses tried to instill and key races where equality treatment or nonsexist behavior whatever it's not society is going to be very very difficult job we have to start somewhere you don't started 3 years old

with a drag queen or whatever they used new termes read in them bedtime stories at 3 years old the washington post have been ridiculed this is the wont sector the one sector trying to push their agenda on to 3 year olds well i'm sorry it's not needed it's not necessary if you come from racism if if you come across and sexism and if there's a problem in schools let's address that but please for goodness sake let. godless be told let's actually trying to teach our children to illegally quality of only age it's never too early at normalized our human beings behave and actually we can probably have a better generation doesn't carry the previous sins of the previous other generation since it's been so true this whole idea that i should feel guilty for the sins of previous generations well no i'm not going to pass that guilt so the

next generation i'm sorry i disagree completely and the conversation went on for some worldviews in brief at least one person's been killed off or knife wielding attacker went on a stabbing a soul inside and around a public library in canada 6 others were injured with witnesses saying the man tried to stab everyone in his path the suspects thought to be in his twenty's was known to police and is now in custody. you know protesters have marched against anti asian hate carrying banners like stop china bashing it's in response to a surge of violence against asian americans earlier this month ledged racially motivated shooting attack in atlanta killed 6 asian women. police a fire to set a housing action day march in the french city of non protesters want the government to stop forced evictions and other treatment a similar protest was also held in the german capital. if you want to find out what

else is happening at the moment check out our website r.t. dot com right over social media or download iraq if you want any breaking news throughout the rest of the weekend for now though thanks for watching exactly 26 past the hour. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. the world is driven by shaped by one person.

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1st u.s. administration is off to a rocky start president biden casually calling his russian counterpart a killer followed by. preaching democracy to a chinese delegation in alaska. has this we demonstrated the vulnerabilities of such an approach can diplomacy achieve anything without being well diplomatic to discuss that i'm now joined by alexander look out of the department of international relations at the higher school of economics in moscow priscilla can it's good to talk to you thank you very much for finding the time thank you for and by now you know what i'm most puzzled by i just checked the numbers for the prince of dale carnegie's famous book how to win friends and influence people and it turns out to be not only one of the bass tellers in america but one of the best selling books.