in our top stories of the past week 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 the book called anti-racists baby and washington post is ridiculed for offering parents so-called walk materials for toddlers we have to do something. instead of be naïve it happens while producing books with 3. baby each just. plus a case of do as i say not as i do washington tries to force europe to stopping

major russian energy projects that 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 r t a recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days thanks for joining us. 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 even ski was out 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 overseas 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 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 it is very hard to. to come here to live alone or. if you don't know anyone who lives in the same house as the. alone for. now it's like 11 hours of the day has also put in service is to assist those students who feel alone. we do a lot to fight against isolation we have put in place student mentors in every 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 they're dept more easily they're able to speak freely they find out if they're not doing well or if they 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 string through cove it and with still no end in sight there are now fears that entire generation of students could be lost. arty paris. because of a crisis that sparked the student's difficulties shows no signs of ending and the e.u. is at loggerheads with britain after attempting to block vaccine exports the french

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 too long commitments to europeans i don't think that blockades. 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 aerator in 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 forced astra zeneca to admit its vaccine was less effective than it originally claimed microbiologist simon 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 are you crazy but it appears that for some reason that's what's

happened and we don't know why they don't buy but it's. 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 a meat said difference with moderate disease and no difference at all pull them a 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 is that there's room so 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 actually. meanwhile federal states such as germany are waiting for the block's medicines watchdog to approve the sputnik reback scene but some members including solve the czech republic and hungary have

jumped the gun before the regulators greenlight it a rest already vaccinated more than a 1000000 citizens with the russian shot among them is the hungarian foreign minister and an interview with r.t. in the week he explained why his country was the 1st even nation to approve the job . like sr is not a question of ideology for us is a matter of see. lighters and if he had not contract the chinese and the vaccine we have saved the health care and the house and the lives of many hungry and the hungry on 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 i was 30. 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 our house 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. skeptics have been running across europe this weekend demanding an end to. u.k. anti lockdown protesters clashed with officers and tried to break through a police line in the danish capital activists trusts and black players and fireworks to protest the government's crown of reaction and hundreds also came out against the government's response and 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 structural lock down 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 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 as 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 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 and some other 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. the washington post has got a parents 2 books website that i'm company is offering material for very young children a future titled social justice for toddlers promotes the importance of a quality and racial and gender education for kids the report highlights materials like a drag queens website books like anti-racists baby and walk baby and

a firm 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 neurosis on them indoctrination is wrong washington post this conversation on 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 turned into fragile ghosts barely resembling human beings the other half will just get radicalized. we've got reaction to the article from talk radio host john conta and that way women bennett of unite against fascism. can i just check the calendar is 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 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 is 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 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 term is reading 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 conference racism if if you come across and sexism and if there's a problem in schools let's address that but please for goodness sake let. godless 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 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. by washington tells you allies they must ditch russia's nord 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 what the us now hoarding record amounts of russian crude r.t. is constant in russia 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 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 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 he 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. the u.s. is struggling with a migrant crisis on its southern border a group of republican senators visited the frontier 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 donna in texas there's say up to 4000 people were held in a placement for 250 and many of those were children people are held in severely overcrowded pods most even without beds earlier in the week investigative journalism group project farah haas released images of the site and they told us corona virus cases have also been registered there. there is

a major influx of illegal immigrants and that is according to the source my view 50 of them are coded positive that sexual assaults you does it will stall take place daily our sources told us that there is many as 3000 migrants in this facility and donna texas at one time there are grants 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 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 in texas 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 biden administration and so 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 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. 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. 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 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 is to

result the situation that many are referring to as a crisis. a senior u.s. federal judge has the kids 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 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 corn crisis the media is not about that but they did go wild of those

weird c.g.i. hands or maybe they were just expecting the other president now a president harrison i took a virtual tour of 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 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 investigators to scrutinize ballots as in she would find dishonesty there. you will notice that establishment media errors admissions mistakes and outright lie so we 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 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 at 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 for 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. 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 kind of i don't know swayed in. lection and anyway there are other 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 is an all time low. a huge explosion has rocked one of indonesia's largest oil refineries on the island of java. a blast early monday morning was caught on video as you can see here according to local officials at least 20 people are injured 5 with serious burns requiring intensive care almost a 1000 residents of nearby districts were evacuated no cause has been determined as of yet though just hours before that another explosion a suspected suicide bomb attack happened outside a catholic church in the indignation city of macassar left at least 14 people wounded they 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 had been hoping to free it using tugs and without unloading any of its cargo about themes last feasible and egypt's president has stepped in and ordered preparations for liking the vessel about top percent of all global trade passes through the canal which is the shortest see link between asia and europe and there's growing concern over international supply chains and case the blockage isn't resolved soon economist richard wolfe told us the canal has been long 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 that to now i think you

could do a good bit on that issue as a canal you'd have to spend the money to widen and deepen and to take steps to have fall back plans for moves in 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 it's a little bit like it agriculture 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 add 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 that's what our breakdown of just some of the biggest headlines from the past week from on the stories and all the latest news head to our website or to dot com.

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 offense clearly dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.