in our top stories of the last week little money for food and the growing mental health crisis stock and isolation students and friends turn up in vast numbers to aid groups offering free or subsidized meals. a drag queen web site and they've book called anti-racists the washington post is ridiculed for offering parents so-called quit ariel's for toddlers. you have to easily. be naive blogs it happens while those places could you should book the 3. children on the world. each just. plus do as i say not as i do washington tries to force europe to stopping major russian energy projects it makes moscow one of its biggest oil partners.

and thousands of migrants are filmed in overcrowded camps on the u.s. southern border adding to reports of an unprecedented refugee crisis. watching the weekly here on our team a recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days thanks for joining us this hour . first 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 charlotte dubin ski 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 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 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 preserved 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 increase in 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 like 11 hours of the day has also put in services 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 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 the restaurant to have been offering free meals while in supermarkets shoppers are being asked to donate an item towards a solidarity bag but there is still a feeling that they have been left aside by the losing authorities and after a year of living of the strain through cove it and with still no end in sight there are now fears that entire generation of students could be lost. arty paris the covered crisis that sparks the students' difficulties shows no signs of ending and the ears at loggerheads with britain after attempting to block vaccine exports the french presence now waded into the dispute. the export control mechanism sits up by the european commission i support the fact that we must block

produced exports on to look commitments to europeans. that blockades. by the back. of. britain's reportedly close to a deal with brussels and talks will resume on monday to remove the threat of the block cutting off shot supplies and return the u.k. would forgo some long term deliveries of the astra zeneca job from the e.u. it comes after earlier this week u.s. regulators force astra zeneca to admit its vaccine was less effective than it claimed microbiologists time and clarke told us that it will hit confidence in the pharmaceutical giant. a mental tenet in science that you don't pick and choose which states that you cruisin but it appears that for some reason that's what's happened and we don't know why they don't but it. always raises

suspicions when people try to ignore the data that's perhaps not so good in favor of the day to day so we should remember that it's only if we said difference with mild moderate disease and no difference at all for the most serious life threatening condition not everybody and i would say relatively few people pick up on the fact that the difference the small they pick up on the problem there is a difference and that astra zeneca have essentially been accused of cherry picking data so that's what people will hear and it affects 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 that actually. meanwhile several you states such as germany are waiting for the blocks medicines watchdog to approve the sputnik of the vaccine that some members including slovakia the czech republic and hungary have jumped the gun before the regulators greenlight the press already back in

a more than a 1000000 substance with the russian shot among them is the home carrying a foreign minister and an interview with r.t. this week he explained why his country was the 1st nation to approve the jap. vaccine is not a question of ideology for us is a member. of saving lives and if we had not contract the chinese and the vaccine we couldn't 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 she shows me the minister month to roll when we used to hold back at the end of october before i got

a deal actually and after a long series of negotiations of 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 do they just mourning even more than 1500000 on the ariens have already been vaccinated thank god. that skeptics have rallied across here at this weekend demanding an end to restructure with anti-lock town protesters clashed with officers and try to break through a police line the danish capital activists dressed in black lip 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 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 fast of april as well as the surge of

april should be defined as calm days with extensive contact restrictions and a ban on gatherings from the 1st 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 community analysts or verse after a crisis meeting a member of merkel's ruling party told us people are tired of the government's contradictions and the pandemic. people are fed up with see a lockdown as 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 and 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. administer of all this 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. the washington post has guided parents to books websites and companies offering wolk material for very young children the future titled social justice for toddlers promotes the importance of equality and racial and gender education for kids the report highlights materials like a drag queen website books like anti-racists baby and walk baby and affirms selling

toys and learning materials to dismantle bias however many have found the advice divisive and 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 the 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've got reaction to the washington post article from talk radio host john gaunt and the women bennett of unite against fascism. try to check the calendar is 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 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 buy books because what we're trying to do is to try and develop human beings to respect each other it's not automatic i will 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 parrot 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 be naive a lot 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. heartless b. total is actually trying to teach our children to believe in equality of only age it's never too early yet flocking to normalise this is our human beings behave and

actually we can probably have a better generation doesn't show the previous sins of the previous other generation since the 16th 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 on to the next generation i'm sorry i disagree completely. while washington tells the new allies they must dish russia's north stream to energy pipeline to europe figure show that when it comes to america itself importing from the designated enemy it's harmless discerning with the u.s. now importing record amounts of russian crude are just constant rushkoff reports. 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 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 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 but 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 it 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 x.

roof you will for its people even 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 in 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. in the us a struggling with a migrant crisis on its southern border a group of republican senators visited the frontier with mexico on friday warning media coverage of the sylvie's is restricted and the situation now resembles a humanitarian crisis this right now is what it is from inside a facility in the city of donna in texas sunder say up to 4000 people were held in a placement for 250 and many of them are children people are held in severely overcrowded pods most even without beds earlier in the week investigative journalism group project veritas released images of these sites and they told us coronavirus cases have also been registered there. there is a major influx of illegal immigrants and that is according to the source of my view

50 of them are coded positive that sexual assaults he does it will salt 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 a democratic party lawmaker has also released images from the same city hundreds of children have allegedly been stranded in patrol custody across the area for far longer than allowed by guidelines border crossings from mexico are at a 20 year high presenting a serious challenge to the bible administration that's how far the white house has played down the emergency. children presenting at our border who are fleeing violence or fleeing 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 just want to let you know what's going on we need to get a humble 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 us 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.

forces 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 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 that are are not permanent 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 that it is to resolve

the situation that many are referring to as a crisis. a senior u.s. federal judge has a case practically the country's entire media from t.v. to newspapers and radio have been 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 to make saturation it's not like they treated his inauguration as the 2nd coming of christ well they were just excited once i was actually in the white house they saw this throwing the tough questions at him. not to my current crisis the media's not about that but they did go wild of those with c.g.i.

hands or maybe they were just expecting the other president and our president harrison i took a virtual tour of the vaccination centers on and i will admit though that seldom that's what's great in terms 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 call based on information provided by a source did not tell the investigator to find the fraud or say she would be a national hero if she did so instead trump urged the investigate 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 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 at 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 news max 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 twitter 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 by social media either by direct bans or content based censorship well that's not true what about paula 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. lection and anyway there are other hard hitting stories to report on. some media pundits warn that that could trigger an assassination attempt so anyway

it's a total mystery to me why faith in the us media is at an all time low. also this week a make a container ship has been jammed across the suez canal since tuesday with hundreds of carbon cargo ship stuck on either side attempts to dislodge the vessel have so far failed salvage teams have been hoping to free it using tugs and without unloading any of its cargo about seems less feasible and egypt's president has stepped down and order preparations for lightning the vessel about 12 percent of all global trade passes through the suez canal which is the shortest sea link between asia and europe as growing concern over international supply chains and case the blockage isn't resolved soon economist richard wolfe told us the canal has long been a disaster waiting to happen. it's going to raise prices it's going to delay shipments it's going to have a whole host of negative consequences that's already sure this is not the 1st time

the canal has been blocked not at all it's very vulnerable this canal particularly in the area where this ship is jammed very narrow part of the canal i think you could do a good bit on the suez canal you'd have to spend the money to widen and deepen and to take steps to have fallback plans for moving cargo even relatively small distances if you could back ships down to the stranded ship there are all kinds of mechanisms that you could have that in place if you were taking seriously the vulnerability is a little bit like it agriculture you can make more acreage produce more goods at the only growing. plant but then if something happens to that one plant you don't have the diversity which we used to have which is a kind of protection against something happening to all mammal culture you have to think like that if you don't if you're only focused on your short term profits then

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