breaking news on our to international our sister channel our to arabic is blocked by you tube the platform cites copyright violations but the channel's editor grounds that claim questionable. it's just good but it is undoubtedly a setback one of the vaccines available to us for this pandemic appears to pose an increased risk for certain nature. germany suspends the astra zeneca vaccine for people under 60 over fears of a rare but the usually fatal blood clots living in limbo those who have already received the 1st dose of that jab. and an asian man is brutally assaulted in the new york subway and even elderly filipino woman

beaten in the city's streets believe this and a string of vicious attacks in the us against the community will look at what's being done to quell the rising tide of hate. watching large international coming to you live from the russian capital this and every hour welcome to the program and we start with some breaking news the video sharing platform you tube has blocked r.t. arabic account calling it a copyright issue but the channel's editor in chief says that claim doesn't add up we're joined in the studio by artie's magos if for more on this now this is not just a question of one clip of being banned but the whole channel a bit harsh no it's important for reference to bear in mind that this is a chattel with 5000000 subscribers with 3. see bb views of this is this is

an enormous jam and what happened was that you tube received 4 strikes in very quick succession from the same user a channel called business casual and what the shuttle did is fall for strikes against r.t. in the span of barely a few months and the child was struck down to show by and this is the 1st star child of this size news media travel of this size has been blocked unusual now if you if you try to access it there's a warning saying that this shuttle has been terminated because of policy violations terms of service violations vis business casual chattel the fall of the strikes has also sued the new york court they've refused any communication in the effort to try to come to some sort of agreement to find out what it is that that's wrong and they've also started posting propaganda videos anti kremlin

propaganda videos recently although the never before did they touch the topic the theme of. and the russian propaganda r.t. arabic editor in chief has also come out and said that you know this is a coordinated attack. which you tube channel is facing a coordinated attack from an organization funded by deep pocketed financial backers this voice is now being silenced by the unfortunate kneejerk response to questionable accusations of a copyright for a handful of historic images by business casual holdings it highlights just how you might become subject to manipulation and abuse of its own policies by militias actors. r.t. arabic has been active on you tube sense 2007 this is the 1st problem they've encountered with r.t. arabic as well as all of our online projects and channels have right it's no secret

that the big tech giants have coups you know very close relationships with western intelligence with western governments and they aren't huge trans i mean this is the need this to say the will cover things that they won't touch they don't want to touch they can touch and this is this is caused you know a lot of raised eyebrows and there have been efforts petitions that have been called the silence of the blockade on you tube and facebook and twitter and almost every platform with a with a big following just recently there was a. documentary posted in youtube about the protests in the united states the radicals the left the the right wing radicals and this video was slapped with all to one warning the 2 stage warning you what did you do the warnings it's a shocking call that you might potentially be offended 2 of them so you press one and then use the easy another warning and there was nothing specially shocking

about this documentary the view author went and looked up similar documentaries about the protests about the right wing movement in the united states they used much of the same pictures they they had much of the same ideas in them most of them had no warning at all some of them did have a warning but none none had 2 warnings there that this you know this is just one example facebook recently also banned in the now an artsy program very popular making waves in you tube that was struck down because you choose because facebook sorry was apparently increasing its transparency this happened after she had published an article saying that it in the now is funded and related to r.t. . which was never as big secret you know they they just state the obvious but it's got since 2012 this is happened periodically one channel or another. for the span of days or maybe a few hours due to complaints violations technical glitches issues that we hear

about all the talk but this is this is you know this is something we live with this is something that happens all the thought this is something that we will fight through this isn't a voice. had said this isn't a voice that is going to be sung. we'll be following along to see how it plays out artist more garcia breaking down that story for us thank you. and our team is also under pressure in europe has blocked the r.t.e. russian website following last year's decision to ban the 7 channels under the r.t. media group of one that played on the program. and other news germany's vaccination program has suffered another blow with berlin again suspending the use of the astra zeneca job this time for those under 60 that's left many in that age group who've already had their 1st dose in limbo. it's right for the 2nd dose of astra zeneca for those on the 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 angle of 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 pieces of cerebral vento strombo this 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. 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 or in africa and in asia as well it prompted an investigation by the

european medicines agency and ultimately a big press conference by their director m.r. cook in which he said that the astra zeneca vaccine was fine for. or use a lot of countries where that prompted a lot of countries to repeal that suspension including germany or england 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. 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 so i think it is

there is very good that the vaccines were developed so fast and then we talk about the side effects because silence of that information would be so much worse but i also think that due to everyone having an opinion on it now it's kind of make the whole vaccination process fall into pieces. in all astra zeneca intends to rebranded its vaccine which will now go under the name of x. is every year the company expects a switch to be complete in 6 months and that's amid the company's struggle to reassure the public about its safety but a number of experts we spoke to believe that the damage to the child's 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 patience 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 the venous system the brain and the dissemination coagulation route the body just terrifying and there's a 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. efficacy raid 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 ghosts or 92 geishas that are need a lot of poor countries are going to get you know the high tech expense of vaccine

. anti asian attacks and america show no sign of letting up police in new york city are investigating to assaults on asian residents on monday one of the victims was an elderly filipino woman who was brutally beaten while her male assailant yelled racial slurs and warning you may find the fine video disturbing. 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 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 whistles so that if they are targeted by a racist attack or they can blow the whistle 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 as caleb mentioned in his report volunteers are giving out whistles to elderly asian people throughout the u.s. but in san francisco the project has been dealt a blow after some 700 whistles meant for distribution were stolen amid the increased violence targeting asians in america streets some are looking to less direct ways to counter racism for example a publisher has pulled a children's book over its depictions of a martial arts instructor called mr wong that some have deemed offensive and a form of passive racial stereotyping we spoke to historian gerald horne about president biden's role in the issue. he needs to realize that by launching this new cold war against china he simultaneously helping to create fertile conditions for

the rise of asian violent 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 say the political education in united states is not very sophisticated not very high and inevitably bleeds into asian american anti pacific islander america violence. slavery suburb just to the north of moscow turn into something more closely resembling a war zone on tuesday that started off as a visit by police officers and vests to getting arms trafficking spiraled into a pro long should out with russian special forces.

imagine a quiet sleepy town just to the north of moscow wealthy residents walking their pets it could be that this area hadn't seen any crimes in ages but one morning tuesday morning to be precise police arrived to inspect the house they showed up to check on a man who was a suspect in an arms trafficking case i'm sure they weren't expecting a warm welcome but what they got instead was absolutely incredible machine gun fire and grenades being thrown at them for about 7 or 8 hours the swat teams couldn't successfully storm that residential building and that is not a surprise because the shooter was using a grenade launcher against the security forces it's a miracle that only one of them was injured luckily none of the local residents were hurt the heavy shooting was only over when the house was completely in flames

eventually a burned body was found inside the shooter's name was donald he was a 61 year old pensioner who wasn't known to the public before tuesday judging by some of the pictures that emerged eventually he was a bit of a character to say the least to like to pose for the camera dressed up like a czar toting his gun and hugging a young woman who is apparently his daughter it's also been revealed that more than 20 years ago mr borg don of was already suspected of robbery and fraud it's been reported that some of the things that he was up to included threatening people to eventually steal their expensive watches and. jewelry so this makes you wonder how the man never ended up in jail or maybe that's because he was well protected by wild adam all that is a joke but i only have joking here because actually turned out that he had turned

his property into was with a couple of tigers and the bear the good news is that after the grenade explosions the wild animals are now safe. parties russian language website has been taken offline by a number of internet service providers and a lot via the falls lasser's decision by the country's broadcast regulator to ban 7 channels in the r t media group this is the message you get if you try to open the page in love via your incidents browser is trying to connect to websites which in the terms of the lot of the republic is unlawfully distributing television programs without so retransmission issued by the national electronic mass media council last june officials in riga claimed are too it was effectively controlled by demetrius leo is a moscow born t.v. anchor who is on the list of individuals officially sanctioned by the e.u. but in fact he has never worked at r.t.e.

he has a media group called receive a subordinate which is a separate organization we've so far heard no indication from the loving authorities as to how they've linked him to this channel back when the allegation was made artie's editor in chief gave her views on the issue dimitri kissin office not the head of r.t. he has nothing to do with r.t. to me is the head of the verse. they probably just googled. and got russia today the translation i cannot explain this phantasmagoric stupidity by anything else i have been the head of russia today for 15 years since it was founded the russian foreign ministry last summer condemned the apparent campaign against russian media and a lot of fear spokeswoman marie has a heart about describe it as worse a phobia. i cannot speak with maximillian cry from the alternative for germany party for more on this now what do you think is motivating this apparent campaign against russian language media in la via. so we have several reasons

and we have to find it out there for you know there is a russian minority in latvia. which still suffers from legal restrictions so day on gnome's citizens and we have it's against republic of luxury are but there is a long lasting anti russian sentiment in parts of her of the letter and population that's one thing and the other thing is that we are heading towards a new cold war and in generally the west is limiting freedom of expression. and those who claim always stay all so much in favor of human rights and liberty they do expect it of who said it's not just think about ukraine they shut down. 2 t.v. channels a month ago now let's copying that in the acceptable behavior so we just

come into an era where freedom of expression and and to choice of to news outlets you're watch is not guaranteed anymore and i think that all people in europe should stop to to buy. we p.n. programs and v.p.n. block us. to inform them so independently well exactly do you see this as a free speech issue as you were mentioning there lothian has a large russian speaking community it's about 40 percent of the population should they be able to decide where they're getting their news from. the baltic states over the 1990 s. had a long history of. color this year one yes thought that the baltics themselves would say they try to reestablish their national identity but obviously they discriminated. between a 3rd and 40 percent of the population so it is easy in such an

atmosphere to attack russia russian media but they didn't it before so obviously something new has come in addition to do's last thing on to russian sentiments and i would always think that. distills new cold war at was feel we have and the west against russia and against china as well is now allowing it to you hawks in riga and elsewhere. to really. limit freedom to limit the civil rights of its citizen to to watch what they want and to have to free internet. in the 99032000 at least people talked about liberty and freedom but this new cold war rhetorical over the to the liberties speakers.

who are from my 1st impression. in government now feels the time has come. to become openly repressive and also want to get your views on our breaking news the you to ban on r.t. arab exchange all there apparently been some copyright claims from a certain us channel but that happens all the time and these are all coming from just this one channel apparently do you think that would be enough to take off and an entire channel from youtube that has 5500000 subscribers i mean i can say welcome to the. because even the channel of our a little delegation of 11 german members of parliament vols particularly shut down by you tube. you have to globe or you have to literally to problem that a very tiny majority of billionaires based in the silicon welly is is running quasi

i'm a new pool ists in internet tech and this big tech community is extremely homogeneous they are not divers they are politically on the very left liberal vocal waif and whenever you have different opinions than ever you do not stand for that to some the neo or american neo colonial agenda which comes from the silicon valley they have to power to limit you and to tend to censor you and they will always argue that they are a private company and that it's nothing to do with the constitution so the shift of power from democratically elected nation states to and and numerous supranational organizations and from then to to billionaires to to to to to to big tech and big finance is one of the. most dangerous developments of our

time and you will see it furthermore i mean r t stands for open information and fraud the right to have different opinions then those who are and those that are liked in the silicon valley and that means that they've all show you depth power. they have and so it's a political issue did we find ways to diversify into on the internet technology and that would bring new players into the. internet business right now unfortunately completely dependent from facebook twitter google including you tube. we have to be aware that there are trends of free speech and fair information thanks a 1000000 and we pay from the different for germany party thank you for joining us

on the program today thank you. for the past year we've all been told to glove up and mask up to keep each other safe from coated but all that disposable gear mostly made from rubber and plastics has come in a devastating cost for the environment according to a new report a study published in the journal animal biology found that discarded people very quickly ends up in the wild the researchers gather data from that term marion's wildlife groups and trash collectors worldwide some of the examples they found were fish trapped at latex gloves birds and tangled in masks and animals ranging from monkeys in malaysia to penguins in south america with rubber gloves in their stomachs. so you can speak to one of the co-authors of that report right now. from the institute of biology at leighton university in the netherlands now why is all this waste and ing up in the environment you know sort of endemic has

really led to an increase of the streets personal protective equipment like these gloves and his face masks and unfortunately they're really cheap materials that we only use a single dime they're mostly single use items so we lose them easily and they end up on the streets into rivers canals nature and unfortunately leading like other majors as well to problems for animals your report gives plenty of examples of animals trapped in or ingesting people we were listing some there before we started talking to you which cases did you find the most alarming. especially. animals or ingesting them so there was a thing when found on the beach in brazil which ingested facemask indite also because of it but she had her many cases and also not only address through animals but also aquatic animals living in salt water freshwater but also domestic animals that are really diverse so many species that are being affected by these materials

the single use items being entangled using them as nesting material but also ingesting them can you tell us are there certain countries that are the biggest offenders here or is this just a global problem. it seems that it is go a problem everywhere where go for materials or used to be items are used it's ending up in industry to nature and buried still also both would be affecting our wildlife so we only search for examples that we could find online in induction in english so examples from maybe you're gay or netherlands and usa canada but there are probably other languages there are also shared online these interactions so we noted that there are many cases all over the world but there are still building up our database and there's over a few of these in fact and how long is this waste going to linger and the wild how long are these plastics take to break down actually does he is never going to break down he will break down into smaller pieces but it will stay in the environment for

hundreds of years so we expected this. effect affecting animals will also be around so many years do you think that governments are taking this problem seriously enough no you really think the government should step up. using were usable items because it's not taking into account when producing these single use products it's also affecting wildlife that is being illiterate in great amounts that ike we find him on the streets in so many of so many amounts in large amounts and also in the canals and laden with volunteers clean up working elson in just a few kilometers they found over hundreds of these face masks and it's that's yet it's such a big problem are there any practical steps that ordinary people can take to ensure that their p.p. doesn't create a hazard for wildlife yeah definitely use reusable. yet or there may need.