in the week's top stories little money for food and a growing mental health crisis stuck in isolation students and friends turn up in vast numbers to aid groups offering free or subsidized meals. a drag queen web site and a book called anti-racists baby washington post ridiculed for offering parents so-called work which aerials for toddlers. left. instead of the naive lots of patents well put you should books the 3 you're all talking about on the world. it's just. a case of do as i say not as i do washington tries to force europe to stop immediate russian energy projects makes

moscow one of its biggest oil partners. and thousands of moderates are filmed in overcrowded camps on the u.s. southern border adding to reports of an unprecedented crisis. washing weekly here on our 2 international recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days thanks for joining us this hour. first and 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 are the charlotte did once he 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. 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 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 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 not by ours because they're dept more easily they're able to speak freely to find out if they are not doing well or even have difficulties 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 covert crisis that sparked the student's difficulties shows no signs of anything and the ease at loggerheads with britain after attempting to block vaccine exports the french presidents now waded into the dispute. for support the export

control mechanism sits up by the european commission i support the fact that we must block produced exports on too long commitments to europeans i don't think that blockades. of either vaccines all. the ingredients of. a sensible. 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 new this comes after earlier this week u.s. regulators force astra zeneca to admit its a vaccine was less effective than it claimed microbiologist simon clark told us that it will hit confidence in the pharmaceutical giant. fundamental tenet in science that you don't pick and choose which states are you cruisin but it appears that for some reason that's what's happened and we don't know why they don't buy

but it is 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 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 is small they pick up on the problem is it different so that astra zeneca have essentially been accused of cherry picking data so that's what people will hear is the next 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 block's medicines watchdog to approve the sputnik and the vaccine but some members including psylocke at the czech

republic and hungary have jumped the gun before the regulators greenlight but best has already vaccinated more than a 1000000 citizens with the russian shot among them is the hungary and foreign minister and an interview with r.t. this week he explain why his country was the 1st e.u. nation to prove the jab. maxine is not a question of ideology for us is a man the role. saving lives and if we had not contracted 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 when we

used to hold back at the end of october before i got to 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 today this morning even more than 1500000 on the ariens have already being vaccinated thank god. thank you. meanwhile covert skeptics have rallied across europe this weekend demanding an end to obstruction with u.k. anti-lock found protesters clashed with officers and tried to break through a police line and the danish capital activists dressed in black with flares and fireworks to protest the government's reaction under its also came out against the government's response and the german city at 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 a set 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 incessant i regret that deeply and apologize to all citizens. the chancellor's original proposal had been panned by both the business and scientific community and was reversed 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 those 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 got a parents 2 books website on companies offering walk 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-racist baby and walk baby and

a firm selling toys and learning materials to quote dismantle bias however many have found that the advice divisive and even harmful. can we just teach children to walk talk play before we set hoisting our guilt in your office on them indoctrination is wrong washington post these conversation these 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 away in benefit 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 join 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 parents so parents can be parenting they don't care 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 well whatever they used new term is reading 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. toddlers be toddlers actually trying to teach our children to believe in equality of only

age it's never too early at least one thing to normalize this is our human being's behavior and actually we can probably have a better generation that 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. oh rushing 10 tells the new allies they must detroit north stream to energy pipeline to europe figure show that when it comes to america itself importing from the designated enemy it's far less discerning where the us now importing record amounts of russian crude art is constant rushkoff has more. 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 longstanding the 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 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 he's a killer. or do so what price must he pay the price she's going to pay will you'll see shortly well you would say trade is above politics but wasn't the u.s. the country that bashed europeans for doing the same thing wanting to buy say gas

from russia remember what they said and are still saying about north stream to the pipeline is a bad idea. bad for bad for europe or bad for the united states ultimately it's in contradiction to the use own energy security goals so let me get this straight it's a bad idea when you're a buys russian energy by for the u.s. it's fine washington is just trying to be responsible and protect its weak european allies from russia's political leverage and its malicious energy ambitious by fearlessly grab it themselves and it's not just fossil fuel america still buys rocket engines. and pays russia to send its astronauts to the international space station and also 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 or some of the most sophisticated plants in the world having lost venezuelan crude in facing the 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 or oil turns to another producer says

well you're a bad guy too but i'm going to buy stuff from you anyway at the same time it tries to intimidate all of the customers for doing exactly what they are doing so much for trademark american diplomacy that as joe biden says is now back. the u.s. is struggling with an unprecedented migrant crisis on the southern border a group of republican senators this is at the frontier with mexico on friday morning media coverage of overwhelmed facilities is being restricted and the situation now resembles a humanitarian crisis this is footage now from inside a facility in the city of donna in texas center say up to 4000 people were held in the placement for 250 and many 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 the site and they told us coronavirus cases had

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 the democratic party lawmaker has also released images from the same city in texas hundreds of children have allegedly been stranded and patrol custody across the area for far longer than allowed by guidelines border crossings from meth soko are at a 20 year high presenting a serious challenge to the biden and ministration that's a 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're you 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 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. 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 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 that are and are not permanent place places for children that 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 is to result the situation that many are referring to as a crisis. a senior u.s. federal judge has a kids practically the country's entire media from t.v. to newspapers and radio i've 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. out of the mouth not to my corn

crisis the media's not about 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 vaccination centers on and i will admit though that seldom is what 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 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 transferred to the investigated to scrutinize ballots as in she would find dishonesty there. you will notice that establishment media errors missions mistakes and outright lies always slant 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 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 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 by social media he that 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 that was the 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 sladen. lection and anyway there are all the hard hitting stories to report on.

some media pundits warn that could trigger an assassination attempt so anyway it's a total mystery to me why faced in the us media isn't. a huge explosion has rocked one of indonesia's largest oil refineries on the island of java the blast early monday morning was caught on video and according to local officials at least 20 people are injured 5 with serious burns require an intensive care almost a 1000 residents of nearby districts were evacuated though no cause has yet been determined just hours before that another explosion a suspected suicide bomb attack happened outside a catholic church in the indonesian city of marcus are left at least 14 people wounded police say a muslim extremist group is responsible. this week a major 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 hoping 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 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 there's growing concern over international supply chains in case the blockage isn't results 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 a 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 then to deep in

then 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 it in place if you were taking seriously the vulnerability it's a little bit like it agriculture you can make more acreage produce more goods if 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 monologue 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 that are brought out of just some of the biggest headlines from the past week or on the stories our latest news head to our website or to dot com.

but a pandemic no certainly no borders and is blind to nationalities. has emerged we don't have a therapy we don't have a back seat the whole world needs to be. judged as comedy crisis with this system to time so we can do better we should. everyone is contributing each in our own way but we also know that this crisis not go on forever the challenge is critical to response has been so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together.