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live from moscow. take you through some of the biggest stories covered here over the past 7 days. we reported the. french students forced to free all subsidized food from support groups restaurants and supermarkets. 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 to 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 week are 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 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 but it is very hard to. to come here to live alone. if you don't know anyone who lives in the same house as. alone for. now it's 11 hours of the day cruise has also put in services to assist those students who feel alone people would do a lot to fight against isolation we have put in place students mentors in every residents who work with us and who know the residents they go door to door make phone calls and take in the new students it's much more efficient if it is done by 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 difficulty this student

pleas for aid have seen many rally around them restauranteurs 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 crisis that sparked the student's difficulties shows no sign of ending the heads with britain after attempting to block vaccine exports front presidents now waded into the dispute. support the export control mechanism sits up by the european commission i support the fact that we must block produced exports on to look their commitments to europeans i don't think that blockades. either

vaccines or. medicines of the ingredients. britain's reportedly close to a deal with brussels and talks will resume on monday to remove the threat of the bloc cutting off supplies in return the u.k. would forgo some long term deliveries of the astra zeneca jab from the new it comes after earlier this week u.s. regulators forced astra zeneca to admit that its vaccine was less effective than it claimed microbiologist simon plug told us that it will have confidence in the pharmaceutical giant. fundamental tenet in science that you don't pick and choose which states are you presenting but it appears that for some reason that's what's happened we don't know why they don't buy but it is always raises suspicions when people try to ignore the very top that's perhaps not so good if a really good day today is that we should remember that it's only a 3 percent difference for mild moderate these and no difference at all for the

most serious life threatening conditions not everybody but i would say relatively few people pick up on the fact that the difference is small they pick up on the fact that there is a difference and that astra zeneca have essentially been no excuse to cherry picking data so that's what people here is a confidence it may put 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 blocks medicines watchdog to approve the sputnik v. vaccine but some members including some back in the czech republic and hungary have jumped the gun before the regulators greenlight but the patients already vaccinated more than a 1000000 citizens but the russian child among them is the hungary and foreign minister in an interview with r.t. in the week he explain why his country was the 1st to give nation to approve the job. maxine is not a question of ideology for us is

a matter of saving lives and if we had not contract the chinese and learned russians. vaccine we 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 3rd purchasing. i have started going to go with minister montoro and we used to hold back at the end of october before i got meal actually and after a long series of negotiations of we were able to sign our contract we share our house a lot in accelerating the vaccination in hungary you said it's rightly more than 1400000 now today this morning even more than 1500000 m

d areas have already been vaccinated. i. have it skeptics have rallied across europe this weekend demanding an end to restrictions u.k. on to knock down protesters clashed with offices and tried to break through the police line in the danish capital activists dressed in black players 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 the german chancellor took just a day to make a complete u. turn on deeply unpopular plans for a strict lockdown over easter. says day the festive 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 and i regret that deeply and apologize to all citizens the chancellor's original proposal had been panned by both the business and scientific communities and was reversed after a crisis meeting a member of merkel's ruling party told us that people are tired of the government contradictions and the pandemic. people are fed up with c a lockdowns i've just had 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 too 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 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. apparently you're never too young to be progressive the washington post has guided parents to books websites and companies offering work material for very young children the feature titled social justice for toddlers the importance of equality racial and gender education for kids the report highlights materials like a drag queen website books like and the racist baby and work baby and the firm selling toys and learning materials to dismantle bias however many of found the advice divisive and even harmful can we just teach children to walk talk or play before we start hoisting our deal to neurosis 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 we got reaction to the washington post article from talk radio host john gaunt 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 through for 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 pox

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 are 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 parents so parents can be parenting they don't care alone they label it start to try and bring up a better generation in 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 work 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. cutler's be told let's see trying to teach our children to be equally quality. it's never too early yet. this is our human beings and that's the we can progress. to generation doesn't carry the previous sins of the previous other generation since the 16th century this whole idea that i should feel guilty for the sins of previous generations well no i'm not going to pass that guilt on so the next generation i'm sorry i disagree completely. principles over

trade while washington tells a you know allies they must ditch russia's no stream to energy pipeline to europe figures show that when it comes to america itself importing from the designated enemy it's far less discerning with the united states now importing records amount of russian crude constantly moscow for ports. and well well well look who's shopping on the russian oil market the us 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 has 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 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 is a killer and i do so what price must he pay the price is going to pay well you'll see shortly well you would say trade. 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 nord stream to the pipeline is a bad idea. bad for bed for europe or bad for the united states ultimately it's in contradiction to the u.s 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 us 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 gets 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 extra fuel 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 and now the 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 other customers for doing exactly what they are doing so much for trademark american diplomacy that as joe biden says is now back. still ahead if you haven't received the apostle from abroad you had to rush to blame the delivery guy groups might be among those stuck in a job in one of the world's busiest shipping routes. and egypt will tell you all

about that among all stories after the break when the.

geysers financial survival guide liquid. that you can. only. keep in mind that places. all over again the u.s. is struggling with an unprecedented migrant crisis on its southern border a group of republican senators visited the front say with mexico on friday morning media coverage of overwhelmed facilities is restricted and the situation now resembles a humanitarian crisis this is footage from inside a facility in the city of douma in texas senators say up to 4000 people were held

in a placement for 250 many of children even being held in severely overcrowded paltz most even without beds earlier in the week investigative journalism group project veritas released images of the site they told us that corona virus cases has also been registered. there is a major influx of illegal immigrants and that is according to the source mind you 50 of them are coded posit that sexual assaults he does go assaults take place daily our sources told us that there is many as 3000 migrants in this facility and donna texas at one time they're very cramped from the photographs you can see it's very spartan living there's not a lot of mats or beds or cots they are living in a difficult very tight spot it looks like a nightmare it looks like like something out of a fiction novel you can look back as far as comments from this administration encouraging people to rush to the border encouraging people to climb any barriers

just any way you can over it under it get in and we will take care of you a plain and simple people are coming over sick or not legal or not and they're being processed and it's being done in an awful matter now that we've uncovered the conditions here but it just seems like mass chaos and yes there is again other care and it seems gearing up the democratic party will make us also released images from the same setting in texas hundreds of children of allegedly been stranded in patrol custody across the area following given allowed by guidelines border crossings from mexico were also in a 20 a high presenting a serious challenge to the biden administration but so far the white house has played down the emergency. children presenting at our border who are fleeing violence or flaying prosecution who are fleeing terrible situations is not a crisis in washington d.c. officials going back and forth about whether or not what's happening at the border

is really a crisis meanwhile we've got the border officials and leaders of the democratic party in congress urging the administration to get back to reality you have a breach on national security levels that have never before been seen in modern history it just blows my mind how disconnected from reality they are or maybe they do know maybe they just don't want to call a spade a spade you know because it's uncomfortable it's a slap in the face i think they're you just want to let you know what's going on we need to get a handle on this before against out of hand even within a week i was already calling the white house to say hey guys you've got to take a look at it when you create a system that incentivizes people to come across and they're released that immediately sends a message to central america that if you come across you can stay it seems like the biden administration does not want there to be media access to what is happening on

the border and the u.s. facilities that have been set up i respectfully ask u.s. customs and border protection to stop blocking media access to their border operations i have photographed c.b.p. under bush a bomb and trump but now 0 access is granted to media these long lens images taken from the mexican side until now u.s. faces journalists haven't needed to stand in another country to photograph what's happening in the united states how many will recall that while donald trump was president photographs of children held in facilities are widely circulated and there was a mass discussion and outrage about you know what they referred to in the media as kids in cages but the biden administration seems to be rather adamant that it is simply not a pro. brit to give the media access and to publicize what is going on at the u.s. borders i don't necessarily think that it's appropriate for a journalist to be inside centers that are at that are and are not permanent place

places for children and children are not placed there permanently now white house spokesperson jen psaki says that the biden ministration is very committed to what she calls transparency but it seems like when it comes to the situation at the border it's much better to divert people's eyes and change the subject than it is to resolve the situation that many are referring to as a crisis. scene a u.s. federal judge has accused practically the country's entire media from t.v. to newspapers and radio of being puppets of the democratic party. the increased power of the press is so dangerous today because with very close to one party control of these institutions the new york times and washington post a virtually democratic party broadsheets nearly all television network and cable is a democratic party trumpet a democratic party trumpet i mean what an exaggeration it's not like they treated

his inauguration as the 2nd coming of christ while they were just excited once it was actually in the white house they saw this throwing the tough questions at him. not to michael in crisis the meters not all that but they did go wild of those weird c.g.i. hands or maybe they were just expecting the other president and our president harrison i took a virtual tour of vaccination centers on and i will admit though that seldom that's what great in times of timing because remember that bombshell recording with donald trump pressuring elections investigated georgia to find him ballots so he wouldn't have to move out of the white house while the recording revealed that the post misquoted trump's comments on the cool based on information provided by a source did not tell the investigator to find the frauds or say she would be a national hero if she did so instead trump urged the investigated to scrutinize ballots as in she would find dishonesty there. you will notice that establishment

media errors admissions mistakes and outright lies always slanted one way against me and against republicans meanwhile stories that heard democrats or undermined their narratives are buried ignored or delayed until they can do the least harm media outlets should be regarded as political entities not a journalistic enterprise yes but that's just an exception because when it came to trump the washington post was very sad and honest and objective and balanced and anyway trump had fox news on his side always share leading yes i have heard how some democrats want cable companies to drop fox news one american news network on newsmax but maybe they shouldn't spread conspiracy theories no i'm not interested in what silberman said he should be borne in mind that the 1st step taken by any potential tarion or dictatorial regime has to gain control of communications particularly the delivery of news it is fair to conclude therefore that one party

control of the press and media is a threat to a viable democracy well that's a huge saturation no one watches the news anymore anyway it's all about social media just that one twice not a democrat party trump it to be seen silicon valley also has an enormous influence over the distribution of news and it simply filters news delivery in ways favorable to the democratic party and although upstart conservative networks have emerged in recent years their visibility has been decidedly tailed boys social media either by direct bans or content based censorship well that's not true what about policy what do you mean apple amazon and google while i'm sure it was for a good reason and as the censoring content yes there was that one time that twitter brought that one link to the new york post article about hunter biden's business dealings but it's a little like it was a big story that could've i don't know swayed in. and anyway there are all the hard

hitting stories to report on. some media pundits one that could trigger an assassination attempt so anyway it's a total mystery to me why faced in the u.s. media is an all time low. also this week a mega containerships been jammed across the suez canal since tuesday with hundreds of cargo ships stuck on either side attempts to dislodge the vessel have so far failed salvage teams been hoping to free it using tugs without downloading any of its cargo but that seems less feasible and egypt's president has stepped in and ordered preparations for the vessel about 12 percent of all global trade passes through the suez canal which is the shortest between asia and europe there's growing concern over international supply chains in case the blockage isn't

resolved anytime soon. ok next the survivors guide to prison. well the pandemic no certainly no borders and is blind to nationalities. has emerged the we don't look like seeing the whole world needs to be. judged as commentary crisis with this system things. we can do better we should be. everyone is contributing each or own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges crayford to response has been much so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that

we're in it together. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on often spearing dramatic development only mostly and going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. the big problem with the united states. showing russia a big country is weak they don't plug.