we. ask. it is undoubtedly a sad fact that one of the vaccines available to us from this pandemic appears to pose an increased risk for. germany suspends the astra zeneca vaccine for people under 60 over fears of rabbit potentially fatal blood clots leaving in limbo those ready to receive the 1st dose. brutally assaulted in the new york subway and an elderly filipino woman in the city streets the latest in a string of vicious attacks in the us against the community we look at what's being done to quell the rising tide of hate. plan to un report. were killed in a french strike on a wedding in mali in january despite repeated claims by the french military that

the jihadists were targeted. thanks so much for joining us you're watching international. germany's beleaguered vaccination program has suffered a nother blow with berlin again suspending use of the astra zeneca job this time for the under sixty's but it's left many in that age group have already had their 1st. here's the hits right for the 2nd dose of astra zeneca for those under 60 who have already had the 1st dose the standing committee for vaccination will take a formal position by the end of a trail. acknowledging the news that had come through from the robert cock institute the public health body here in germany regarding potential links between the vaccine and blood clots and those that had taken it i'm going to merkel said

these concerns could not be ignored alongside angola merkel was health minister yen spawn at the press conference he described the news coming out about astra zeneca job as a major blow is this all of it is undoubtedly a sad back that one of the vaccines available to us for this pandemic appears to pose an increased risk for a certain age group 31 keyes's of cerebral vento stromboli had been reported after vaccination with the astra zeneca jab 9 of which were unfortunately fetal. there was an attempt to put a positive spin on the news by health minister yen spawn though he said that the fact that this vaccine wouldn't be used on the under sixty's meant there was more of it to vaccinate the over sixty's it's not just germany that had concerns over astra zeneca though also in canada they've suspended its use there it's for those under the age of $55.00 that will be no longer getting it that's after the national

advisory committee on vaccines decided it wasn't worth the risk there was substantial uncertainty about the benefit of providing astra zeneca coded $900.00 faxing to adults under 55 years of age given that the potential risks associated with v.o.i.p. i-t. coursing particularly at the low estimated rates it's only a couple of weeks since the last scandal involving astra zeneca and links to blood clots that saw suspensions of the vaccine across europe as well as in central america in africa and in. asia as well it prompted an investigation by the european medicines agency and ultimately a big press conference by the director m.r. cook in which he said that the astra zeneca of x.e. was fine for use a lot of countries where that prompted a lot of countries to repeal that suspension including germany a language that merkel has said that the country is going back on the reversal of the suspension and the astra zeneca vaccine will now no longer be used for anyone

under the age of 60 across germany. i completely understand being cautious but the problem of stopping the vaccination all the time is that we are already so far behind compared to the rest of the world and that is very disappointing because there are many restrictions and vaccines are the only thing we're trusting so we need to receive clear messages for citizens not to get confused it's hopeless cause i feel that they're now really rushing ahead too fast if you look at the side effects they're very rare if you read the information leaflets of aspirin or ibuprofen or any other those have much more serious side effects and we swallow those daily more or less. i think it is very very good that the vaccines were as a valid so fast and they would talk about the side effects because talented that information would be so much worse but i also think that due to everyone having an opinion on it now it kind of make the whole vaccination process fall into pieces. meanwhile astra zeneca has rebranded its vaccine which will now go under the name

vax several of the companies struggle to reassure the public of its safety but a number of experts believe the damage to the germs reputation has already been done. a rebranding right in the midst of such and such a can pain is something of a rarity and you have rebranding complains but usually not in the midst of a crisis possibly patients sitting at the at the vaccination point see on a day with a package and they read astra zeneca vaccine on the package and maybe in the last moment they panic and refuse to accept that vaccine but it may as well backfire infect it may seem like an evasion move like something in hiding so it may really carry a rather negative effect in this case and a 1000000 people you know you would expect very few cases of these terrible blood clots you know the ones in the in the sinuses in the brain in the venous system in

the brain in the dissemination coagulation route the body just terrifying and the scene that you know in younger women so with this. it's very hard to convince the public now because now you know they see faulty vaccine data you know used the wrong dose they corrected the dose and they had the wrong. figure sirree they had to change that so a lot of suspicion about this it's terrible because you know rick the thing is is that there are 2000000000 doses for 92 geishas that are needed a lot of poor countries are going to get you know the high tech expense of x.e. . attacks on asian american show no sign of easing off place in new york are investigating 2 assaults on asian residents on monday one of the victims an elderly filipino woman was brutally beaten while her male assailant yelled racial slurs of warning you may find this video upsetting.

and what seems to bother people the most is that there are several eyewitnesses in the video who didn't intervene did not step up to stop the attacker and that is very similar to something that took place on the new york city subway another anti asian hate crime which video has also been made available of take a look. now

the new york city police department says there is a sharp increase in anti asian hate crimes they say there have been $27.00 similar incidents that took place over the course of the last year 12 of which were violent assaults now there has been a conversation among the u.s. public about an asian racism we've heard statements from the biden and ministration as president biden said during his 1st primetime address and to violence and said a full day is wrong it's un-american and must stop today president biden is announcing new actions to respond to the increase in acts of and. environments and to develop safety inclusion and belonging for all asian american native hawaiian

and pacific islander communities in asian american communities throughout the united states there have been community patrols that have been formed and they've been giving elderly asian americans a whistles so that if they are targeted by a racist attacker they can blow the whistle and and maybe you know get the attention of people that are around them and that's one measure that has been taken there's been a number of statements by celebrities that have been made about the need to stand against anti asian racism we've heard from the white house but at this point people are wondering will this be able to have an impact will this wave of anti asian violence be able to be stopped because right now on the streets we continue to see footage of what is taking place it's very brutal very disturbing and it doesn't appear to be stopping well i just mentioned the volunteer is giving out whistles to elderly asian americans across the united states in some francisco though the

project was dealt a blow up to some $700.00 such whistles meant to be distributed was stolen. well amid the increased violence targeting asians in american streets some are looking to less direct ways of countering racism for example a publisher has pulled a children's book over its depictions of a martial arts instructor called master wong some deemed offensive and a form of passive racial stereotyping we spoke to story in gerald horne about joe biden's world in the issue you need to realize that by wanting this new cold war against china simultaneously helping to create conditions for the rise of violence it seems to me that for the foreseeable future we're going to have difficulties because china's ascendancy is not going away any time soon and i'm afraid to see the political education in united states is not very sophisticated not very high in a no probably believes in asian american anti pacific islander america violence.

$900.00 were killed in a french airstrike on a wedding in mali in january of this year those are the findings of a new u.n. report into the incident. menas maze able to confirm a bed in celebration at the site of the strike had brought together 100 surveillance at least 22 people including 3 of the suspected my members present at the gathering were killed by the french strike on the 3rd of january 2021 in bhante this un report centers on a french air strike that took place at the beginning of january it says 900 civilians were killed as well as 3 armed men when the french warplanes struck phillips called parenting water in sorrow region now that confirms the claims from villages at the time he said that these planes struck at a wedding party and those claims back then and also now are still being speeded by

the french army which is said it'd be a size right and it targeted just harvests now a spokesperson for the military is also described the u.n. report is being based on fragile testimony and it says it has reservations about mythology that was used by the un it maintains that it was targeting a terrorist group so the fact that france won't accept this report to be the truth has ended some in the country there are a lot of your demosthenes it is time for france to stop telling lies because they accuse the few lannie community of being spokespersons for jihadists or of being organizations that spread lies or rumors i would simply say it is high time the 1000000 armed forces especially the mali military authorities begin to tell the truth and to move towards reality well not only has been struggling to contain islam ist insurgency since 2012 the french army being on the ground for a number of years now and has more than 5000 soldiers that the former colonial

power in the region hasn't always had an easy life we know that people being increasingly taking to the streets to say how unhappy they are about the french economy be. and that's because they failed so far to be able to control this insurgency with hundreds of thousands of people having had to flee their homes and thousands of soldiers and civilians already killed in this conflict to date now this damning report by the u.n. insurance is outright rejection of it or unlikely to improve its reputation. the us state of arkansas has passed a law giving doctors the right to refuse medical treatment on barrel or religious grounds but advocacy groups say that the new law would discriminate against their g.b.t. people and restrict their access to health care there's no sugar coated this this bill is another brazen attempt to make it easier to discriminate against people and

deny arkansans the health care services they need. so given a stress the right to refuse can does not apply to emergency treatment and the federal laws banning discrimination will still apply it's just one of several bills that making their way to the arkansas governor's desk in a state senate recently approved a ban on gender affirming treatment including coal mine therapy for children who identifies transgender assented to say the legislation will protect children from the group said that it could lead to an increase in depression and suicide among youngsters we put this issue of the debate religious liberty is a fundamental american value right and it's protected by the 1st amendment and numerous states and federal laws but religious liberty doesn't give anyone a special right to discriminate against others are just because of who they are you know i can't be compelled to care for somebody that i have a moral objection to or procedures that are disfiguring or something like that it's like if i was a catholic i wouldn't you know participate in abortions you know it's i find that

you know i don't find that morally acceptable if a credit growth is an oath of ethics that is taken by physicians and you'll find that most of these physicians trust evidence based best practice age appropriate medical care and they want to save lives right so i don't know very many doctors who would. have reasons or scenarios in which they would be refusing care to any patients have rights but so does the medical community have rights it doesn't say these people are going to get medical care they will get medical care but some individuals physicians pharmacists nurses might want to opt out for religious or moral reasons which is ethical denying best practice medical care and support to transgender youth has been shown to contribute to depression to social isolation to self-hatred in the united states children can't smoke under until they're 21 they can't drink till 21 they can't get a tattoo till they're 18 and yet we're going to have them do mutilating surgeries.

because of a whim i mean that is really dangerous you know if i started smoking at 61 i could stop smoking but this is markedly different there wise we changed dramatically for ever i think that this is a coordinated strategy by specific anti i'll give you take your guys ations that have local partners that are pushing. these bills well obviously we never want to discriminate against anybody like with their black or you know gay or does it make any difference this is a little bit different in terms of when we start as physicians or nurses or a medical separatists a painting in some type of care that we would find morally unacceptable. in this company is a sour poll has found that most americans are anxious about losing their jobs of a something they've said online because of council culture the thinking data after the break.

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the house pretty much everything apart from the brick walls has been burnt to ashes and police have right now confirmed that the shooter is now dead apparently the fire was the cause for his death this was a real scare for the locals 1st of all the sound the sound of gunfire the sound of grenade launchers the amount of security equipment here the number of officers fully armed something completely extraordinary for a towel like that and the siege that lasted for about 10 hours this makes me ask the question what kind of man was he that shooter what we know is that he's 61 year old but previous see he was unknown to the public and also this makes me wonder what kind of arsenal was there inside that house that he was able to withstand the siege for so long according to the officials police were in the middle of a probe into an arms trafficking case and they showed up for

a check up at the man's case and instead of letting the officers in the 61 year old shooter began to shoot at them from a machine gun and reportedly through 2 grenades at them that was the point when it became clear that a group of police officers simply wouldn't be able to deal with the situation so swat teams were called in but the men didn't give up he continued to respond with fire and he continued to throw grenades luckily none of the local residents were hurt in this but i can tell you that one security officer was seriously wounded in the leg he's been taken to hospital but i'll tell you what the siege only ended after this. what teams used grenade launchers as a result of that the house was completely on fire and it was incredibly dangerous for the fire brigades because again it was unclear what kind of arsenal of weaponry

was inside that house again god knows how this man was able to do what he was up to and noticed which led to this massive unexpected scare thank god without many consequences. the notion of cancel culture is having an impact on people psychological well being a majority of people polled in the us say they fear being fired or reprimanded for what they say online is a chilling finding that most people in the country now are afraid they would be fired if they express their real views on social media of the nearly 2000 people surveyed more than 60 percent view growing council culture as a threat to their freedom 54 percent say it is endangering their job security we canvassed opinion on the issue on the streets of new york. people are creative and have a different mindset that artists decide to do different things people you next door neighbors affected the different you that you might not agree on i don't feel they used to ruin their entire lives over what they think in their mind even though it

is harsh and if you really like the market sometimes i think it does care people and it makes people think and maybe for. sure you know. inappropriate. the idea of cancelling cancelling is bad and is not a good way of. creating difficult conversations because difficult conversations are very important to making difficult topics less difficult. that could really change the way that a person interacts with the world or using. to also understand like being fed up with having to respond to people so sorry if you're so low it's always more complicated when it's presented just listen more gave us his thoughts on council culture and how it affects people. in the past we've always sort of focused on the government and focused on protecting the constitution but of course in this in this

day and age the threats are coming not really from the government they're coming from businesses from private corporations and most importantly from each other so that makes it interesting and different i think from anything else that we've really experienced in culture before it's you know and it's actually a lot of it has become a social media mob being and threats to docs and get people fired and. not greet him on many levels and most importantly it has a chilling effect on public discourse and of people being able to speak their minds to openly discuss and advocate for things that they can for the things that they truly believe in and their criticisms and maybe what's going on in culture and in government and even cancel coulter itself as we've seen just criticize example coulter 'd can get you cancel. upon a scrap example some news embrace starting in

a park in nothing in the u.k. where laws kind of young people were seen drinking dance and scuffling throwing big cans and climbing trees they would seem all pasty as a country the slope down the streets and so innocent oppression takes the blame and flouting the rule that says you can only be about $65.00. like trying to live images of a volcanic eruption in iceland have been captured by a drone volcano has been dormant finale 6000 years since the 1st eruption on the southwest peninsula 900 years after the people flocked to the site to glimpse of the lava despond the problem is to warning them to stay away. and delightful spring st half in southwest china where as alias shrubs and now in blame the garden here one of the largest covering 120 square kilometers has alias and purple red and pink as they blame and they flower to like my. not big you brought up today thanks for

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home black american suffered from racism and a complete lack of prospects. is that not the smug the real lybia losing one by else the store but by doing. so they decided to leave everything behind and start a new life in a country about which they knew almost nothing at all some of the african americans who were through here in the united. around great crowd. to move a few you're going to go through you. know almost a 100 years later the history is repeating itself my great grandfather george time went through russia. probably the worst try to go anywhere why not me. why don't i come here.

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle the biden administration has made it clear its foreign policy will be informed by the protections and spread of western liberal values it would seem values are far more important than national and economic security not surprisingly not all countries in the world are in agreement with biden's vision for the global order. cross talking the liberal world order i'm joined by my guest brian becker in washington he's the executive director of the answer coalition in london we have matt or throw up he is a professor of political science and international relations at coventry university and in budapest we have george so i mean he is a podcast or at the gaggle which can be found on you tube and rumble are jumping

crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always preferred let me go to george 1st in budapest we had that confound with the chinese in anchorage which turned into a train wreck because the secretary of state was more concerned about china's internal affairs and not measuring up to western liberal values however you want to define them and then we had the secretary of state meeting with. nato allies a few days ago and he talked about values 17 times but george i didn't see international law mentioned once so what's going on here i mean what is the playing field international law or liberal values as how the west interprets it go ahead well that's exactly right. what we have is the west. that have. a base or something that they appreciate they set rules.