in our top stories of the last week francis hospital chief brings the alarm on an unprecedented burden as the country said snoop endemic records for the year that the government's response leaves people people will dirt and angry. we don't understand the new rules told for example we're supposed to be in lockdown yet we're walking in the seans elise day. thousands of migrants are filmed in overcrowded camps on the u.s. southern border adding to reports that washington is facing a burgeoning refugee crisis. and a flourishing hate speech facebook sued for repeatedly allowing all mine threats to journalists and spreading december mation we examine how the platforms now facing crackdowns worldwide.

this is the weekly here on our 2 international welcome to our roundup of the headlines that shape that we. had of the french hospital federation has warned of an unprecedented shock within weeks unless there is decisive action from the government the country's entered a 3rd wave of infections more than 27000 patients are in hospitals across the country the highest figure at this month the number in intensive care is approaching 5000 a record for the year the emergency doctors association told us that the authorities response has been more full. hospitals across france are struggling facing a shortage of beds in the i.c.u. there's an influx of patients their numbers are growing at an unprecedented pace the problem results from the fact that the government hasn't provided any extra

beds for a year already furthermore our country is falling behind in vaccinations pharmaceutical companies have delayed their supply shipments are an occupation rate is very low compared to other nations like morocco or serbia where health care efficiency is inferior. and there's public confusion at the mixed messages from the government amid strict lockdowns and official warnings of dire consequences ministers are letting chocolate shop stay open to maintain what they call french morale. reports . you'd think that by the time the 3rd lockdown was announced the parts of france that the government would be. perm did it this is what you can do this is what you can't do but it's been anything but the case do you think you understand the restrictions now in place soon places like paris. no it's.

better but it's typical shows you get some points but the rules are not too well it's a little bit lax we can do a little like. they were clear enough they are good at differentiating things after realizing that they're fuzzy so it is not really a lockdown. mistake and i shouldn't go after 6 pm. after 7 now really i didn't thank you and we don't understand the new rules at all for example we're supposed to be in lockdown yet we're walking the chandeliers a when the prime minister announced that 16 regions would be heading back into a lockdown last week he said citizens would have to once again fill out punishing reforms to show that they were leaving home for essential reasons when the new forms were published they contained so many options as to why you could leave home they caused widespread confusion. say zhang caustics how come here allow me to take

a breath 10 kilometers away but force my dog to stay within one kilometer of his candle i come home from work certificate i pick up the kids from school certificate i buy a brat certificate it's a little after 7 pm certificate luckily i have no dog the next level of befuddlement came as it emerged that most of the businesses that would be closed as they were not essential like florist headdress and chocolate shops were told they could stay open we made some exceptions such as head dresses for french people we did it because there were professions like florists that make half the turnover during spring we did it for the chocolate is because it's easter so is it really. light as it's been up here and do people in paris know what they can and can't do

do you think you can eat lunch with your friends in the park yeah. i think it's possible no they've said it's not they do not recommend eating lunch with your friends right now i think we have the right to eat in a park with friends to go out after 7 pm under certain conditions i think yes but visiting friends at home was no i don't think that's possible after 7 pm we don't have the right with the curfew we don't have the right all joking aside a year of bouncing in and out of lockdowns to certainly brought everyone to the same feeling but of being generally fed up and you can't help but feel french government is in its own confusion about what we should and shouldn't be doing causing perhaps unnecessary public anxiety shoulders even r.t. powers.

covets skeptics have rallied across here up this weekend demanding an end to restrictions u.k. anti-lock town protesters clashed with officers and tried to break through a police line in the danish capital activists dressed in black let fires and fireworks to protest the government's coronavirus reaction hundreds also came out against the government's response and the german city of nuremberg. and in the u.k. and occupation center say they're catching dozens of line jumpers every day fraudulently trying to get the jab as cameras often and pretend to be frontline health workers although official proofs needed when they arrived anyone can book a slot online in france pharmacists who runs one of the london centers described the problem to us this is very very small percentage of people doing this but it's if you take taken us all science is going on at the demands of more people i suppose at the moment it's running about 10 or 12 people

a week because effectively they're taking up booking in and claiming to be and then when they come they have no they all 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 would say he wasn't overly clear and then when i asked him for his registration number he couldn't give me the registration number that he would that he would have risen as a rigid pharmacist in here in the u.k. so it was really apparent that he was trying to jump the queue didn't effectively we told him straightaway that i'm afraid that you don't qualify and he left she left a pharisee. the number of people booking apartments has doubled after authorities

predicted short shortages within a month they blamed production problems and a surge encourage cases in india which is now holding on to more of its supplies as sunny says line shoppers are hurting themselves and others well it just means that unfortunately we're wasting slots that could be used by those that are in terms of vaccine and just slows down the vaccine program because if people are using or booking slots they're not entitle to say it stops other people from booking the slots and that just slightly slows down the 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 fact that has me news just on the appropriate means that those people that have to wait longer to have their vaccine the best thing that could happen is that ideally that the national cookie system is part of the checks when you booking is to ask for some form of proof which would very far in the identity of the person seeking to make the booking and verify their entitle meant under

health or social care because that would make my life a lot easier because i wouldn't have to that much i ching rechecking that that eligibility because it would have been done on my behalf before they got to me. here in russia president putin got the cove in 1000 job this week which one will stay a mystery with official saying they won't specify the shot in order to highlight that all 3 russian vaccines are safe and effective but some still remain wary about getting another kill a bed our team reviewed some of the miss around russia sputnik the jab. existing approved vaccines contain a small fragment of the virus one of its genes even half of it and of course a constant fix you with code it. has side effects and complications are the same as after any flu vaccine for those who

have seen these are not really side effects the expected reaction of the immune system is the vaccine trains it to defend itself against an enemy and it gets activated. if you give yourself more specific to this and safety is to keep parameters the crucial for vaccine testing. the most secure lots of space some proven technology that has already been used for the vaccines a company that registers a vaccine does it's strictly international protocols all vaccines are tested this way and that's how all vaccines get to the market. i wonder where this is coming from is completely uncomprehensible no vaccines cause infertility that is complete nonsense from the biological point if you. walk through on what vaccines of wild virus can cause infertility because it can affect

the reproductive organs of certain individuals almost. all of them the republic your list should we all have to make a choice and weigh up the risks you do the only way to prevent any viral infection including the corona virus is vaccination you get vaccinated or get sick. just 2 months since taking office joe biden faced with a devastating refugee crisis about. the border with mexico on friday morning media coverage of sylvie's has been restricted yet the scituate. now a humanitarian crisis this you're seeing right now is what it is from a facility in the city of donna texas soner say up to 4000 people have been held in a place meant for 250 and many are children people are in severely overcrowded pods most without beds even in risk of the cases have also been reported there. and with

border crossings from mexico at a 20 year high the pentagon will now house uncover made migrant children at military facilities that's despite democratic outrage at biden's predecessor dull trump for planning exactly the same move him up and reports. 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 form

a japanese 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. hugo it's criminal and i trust the abide in mr policy to be based on humanitarian and love of children rather than political points or red meat should they pay 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

in cages this is children in sooty this is not kids being kept in cages this is basically kids this is a facility that was opened the media is very strongly committed to 2 supported by the administration it 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 to go along with it and it worked for a while but now it's no longer holding up biden seems to be 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 and he believes the same old policies 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

tour by. more of the week stories coming up including how yemen reached a tragic milestone and its conflict with many more civilians predicted to lose our lives. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy in foundation let it be an arms race is on all sides very dramatic development the only really. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and tom. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by the one percent of those.

who dares thinks. we dare to ask. welcome back to the weekly facebook came under attack this week from a global media watchdog reporters without borders filed a mass lawsuit accusing the platform of letting hate speech flourish including false videos on the pandemic watch millions of times and it's just one of the

damning allegations against the social network from 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. 'd do the work has. to be 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

users 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 lives 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 its concerns about snooping censorship or 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 a very very scary territory all right it's only going to keep going in the same direction that it has been governments or have been slow to rein this in

governments and sort of try to do anything about it he said joints are stronger than governments they are the most powerful forces on the planet the respect of course of the planet has ever seen they control the conversation they control who gets the herd who doesn't get to be here they control what you see they control what you buy they know everything about you they are showing us who's in charge. a huge explosion has rocked one of indonesia's largest oil refineries on the island of java a blast early on monday morning was caught on video 4 people were sea burns and were taken to intensive care residents from nearby districts were evacuated and emergency teams are working at the site now cause has been determined as it can get just hours before that another explosion a suspected suicide bomb attack happened outside a catholic church in indonesia and city of macassar i left at least 14 people wounded in a place lay blame on a muslim extremist group which was behind another deadly church bombing and 20 team

. also this week a make a container ship has 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 have been helping to free it using tugs and without unloading any of its cargo but that seems less feasible and egypt's president has stepped in and ordered preparations for liking 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 a growing concern over international supply chains in 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 to 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 the in place if you were taking seriously the vulnerability so a little bit like it agriculture if you can make more acreage produce more goods at the only grow one 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 a model culture you have to think like that if you don't if you're only focused on your short term profit then you run into these problems.

this week emon marks 6 years since airstrikes by the saudi led coalition unleashed a brutal ongoing war and the world's most disastrous humanitarian crisis our senior correspondent 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 were latin ding 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 before the death toll spiraled into the hundreds of thousands.

like cool war as the war in yemen has complicated the gist of it is off to 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 who are vaulted again so he ride to saudi arabia and ask them to invade his own country to get him back into power and desperation for the 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 future yemen is the battleground between saudi arabia. and iran both support different sides booth desperate to win in fact the coalition led by saudi arabia has an active blockade of yemen vessels with food and medicine has seized at the arrested starvation is rife nice year more than 2000000 children will go hungry 400000 under the age of 5 will die this year from unlike 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 is funded you need only a couple of things to stop this about $2000000000.00 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 a cease fire with with a lot of fire and print which the who the rebels rejected. that we announced the 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 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 belligerence of sunk to gain any advantage in this war i just difficult to imagine peace said anytime soon the humanitarian crisis prices in yemen has been photographed and for. a time now

a war has destroyed looking for a. disrupted life. and public service needs an immediate nuisance. mission white seats i meet the international community to come together and push the conflict it to a common ground because yemenis have. conditions over the past 6 years and this this needs to end yemen ease without a doubt the most 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 arm sales pretty words to 6 years of arming the devising it assisting saudi arabia in yemen the us has the sa the to pull out of offensive operations the us navy is 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 because you can't win you card lose and you current and. that's a recap of just some of the stories that help shape the world these last 7 days while the latest and up to the minute reports follow us on twitter or facebook.

they throw them with the united states. and russia big countries which they don't like it to you doesn't matter what kind of regime they don't have. problems with different regimes the countries generalists quite like saudi arabia for what it is they're. different regimes which misbehave and they're very strong the americans cannot do nothing about it so the result is that they don't know what to do with it so the show you know they swear they swear.

the government has to determine which sounds as a point to be sure and which knowledge is it not going to insure and it does that based on the racial makeup of neighborhoods. neighborhoods that had a certain number of black presidents what have literally red lines trying to round them on the map. and they wouldn't insure mortgages in those areas because they believed that the property is but not hold value the brain turned on a loan they said i'm a bad risk really. banks take up that same practice they decide they're not going to lead. and in those areas that meant that all these benefits they were potential homeowners were flowing to whites and not flowing. into our homeownership culture. their problem problem is paid most of them up.