breaking news on our t.v. our sister channel r.t. arabic is blocked by you tube and platform sites copyright violations but the channel's other brands that claim questionable. is just going to get is undoubtedly a sad fact that one of the vaccines available to us was this pandemic to distributors to pose an increased risk by a certain age was the secret germany suspend the astra zeneca vaccine for people under 60 over fears of where a potentially fatal blood clots may be in limbo those who have already received the 1st dose of the challenge. and an asian man is brutally assaulted in the new york subway and an elderly filipino woman beaten 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. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here in moscow thanks for joining us this hour we start with breaking news the video sharing platform you tube has blocked r.t. arabic account calling it a copyright issue but the channel's other chief says that claim doesn't add up or joined in the studio by our team with all the details on this not this is not just a question of one clip one video being banned but an entire channel being removed a bit harsh no one the biggest new shuttles in the well more than 5000000 subscribers 3000000000 views and all of this happened because apparently a child when called the business council. for strikes copyright infringements against. r.t.

arabic in the span of barely a few months which by itself is almost unprecedented and now r.t. arabic has become the biggest huge channel in the world being blocked bad because of. such infringement you know this is this is unprecedented territory for start to finish more all that these charge of business casual it focuses on business things but recently it has begun posting what can only be described as propaganda a slew of videos in recent days more than that they have also followed suit against r.t. international at the now seeking damages and also refusing any communication with the travel this is you know especially worrying because as arabic says editor in chief said there is this feeling that 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 activists because the. details still lacking said google rather the owners of you tube have said that they're aware of what has happened of the situation in the working to resolve it perhaps some cause who food for optimism nevertheless the russian foreign ministry is already reacting this isn't the 1st time that russian outlets are being targeted and it is said that these giants losing touch with reality. considering that artsy has been

constantly pressured in western countries where dirty methods are used to compete against the popular t.v. channel i assume that we're seeing here and other acts of censorship by the american platforms has become boring to repeat politically correct clichés so i'll save clearly american tech giants have raped freedom of speech there is no way around that. r.t. of course all of our news channels all of our shows they have been active on you tube for years now and this isn't the 1st time we've had an issue as you know new for all those years has been been targeted for what it says look it's secret arts he will cover things and touch topics that other outlets are the won't or cart and this has and that many that school of opponents many critics many people who follow petitions who fall made calls for to be censored shut down to be silenced nevertheless we see them using occasional opportunities when they

pop to to sort of who can prod 3. since the chattels as well as all our colleagues on log on you tube and facebook and put the aace documentary published recently a documentary about the protests in the united states the violence there the far right groups at and this video was struck with not one but 22 warning pages so you know the ones that say this potentially shocking called the d b ward there's 2 of them as the author went and looked up similar videos covering the same topic with the same images and found to his amazement that most of them had no warning at all some of them did have a warning but one page not had 2 warnings either this is a president in swords it's sends a message never kicks where facebook in the now hugely popular show which making

waves on facebook they bad that immediately after c.n.n. released a report saying that what was already known saying that this in the now show is related to to r.t. and facebook banned it saying that this was in its effort to improve transparency hours unclear there was no concise new clear answer. from that look this happen for you since 2012 it's huge to pick out its twitter feeds its facebook pages of all things these blogs these suspensions for full of matter reasons of copyright infringement for alleged copyright infringements for violations of terms of service technical issues which universe trading you off and on the odds you coutts rob and anyone anyone doubts that this is this is something that we're used to this is something that has happened is it will keep a happening and you know the editor in chief says it shut us up and we'll keep

covering it artie's mongols if bringing us the latest on our breaking news story then kill. r.t. is also under pressure in europe mafia has blocked the r.t. russian website following last year's decision to ban 7 channels under the r.t. media group on that later in the program. there is a vaccination program has suffered another blow with berlin again suspending the use of the astra zeneca shot this time for those under 60 plus many and that age group has already had their 1st dose in limbo. in sick for the 2nd dose of astra zeneca for those under 16 who have already had their 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 one of fargo and looks like it is undoubtedly a sad back that one of the vaccines available to watch for this been damaged appears to pose an increased risk for a certain age group sickle 31 key says your cerebral inventive statement had been reported after vaccination with the astra zeneca jacket 9 of which were unfortunately for peter allied troops 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 or in africa and. 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 oxy was fine for use a lot of countries where that prompted a lot of countries to repeal that suspension including germany. 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 it is very disappointing because there are many restrictions and vaccines are the only thing we trust so we need to receive clear messages posted isn't snuck to get confused. there now really rushing to fast if you look at the side effects they're very rare if you read the information leaflets of aspirin or ibuprofen in a way any other those have much more serious side effects and we swallow those daily more or less for yourselves i think it is there is very good that the excellent results so fast and that we talk about the side effects because silence is that information would be so much worse but i also think that due to everyone having an opinion and now it's kind of make the whole vaccination process falling to pieces. astra zeneca now intends to rebranded its back scene which will now go

under the name of bags the company expects the switch to be complete in 6 months 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 jobs 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 terrified and they're seen it you know in younger women so with this. it's very hard to commit to 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're right the thing is is that there are 2000000000 doses or 92 geishas that are need a lot of poor countries are going to get you know the high tech expense of x.e. . a sleepy suburb just to the north of moscow turn into something more closely resembling a war zone on tuesday what started off as a visit by police officers investigating arms trafficking spiraled into a prolonged should out with russian special forces.

imad. 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 well maybe that's because he was well protected by wild adam all that as a joke but i only have joking here because actually it turned out that he had turned his property into his issue with a couple of tigers and the bear the good news is that after the grenade explosions the wild animals are now safe. artie's russian language web site has been taken offline by a number of and the net providers in a lot fia falls last year's decision by the country's broad broadcast regulator to ban 7 channels in the r t media group this is the message you get if you're trying to open the page in lafayette your incidents browser is trying to connect to websites which in the territory of the let's be republic is a more fully distributing television programs without so retransmission issued by the national electronic mass media council last june officials in rio claimed r.t.

was effectively controlled by dmitri kessler of is a moscow born t.v. anchor who is on the list of individuals officially sanctioned by the you but in fact he has never worked at r.t.e. he has a media group called r.c.s. of warner which is a separate organization we have so far heard no indication from the lobby an authority is 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 kiss it off is not the head of r.t. he has nothing to do with r.t. to me is the head of the. they probably just google. and got russia today the translation i cannot explain the 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 law fia and the spokeswoman maria zahar about describe it as risk of phobia

when i joined live by martin somers an independent journalist focusing on eastern europe now what do you think is motivating this campaign against russian language media in law fia. well it's obviously you've got quite a large russian speaking population in latvia so it's quite a provocative thing to do. and i'm afraid the the situation is getting tense or intense between the western powers and russia and this is part of the general campaign of you know closing down outlets of opinion that western leaders of feel is undermining their position in relation to the strangling the russian foreign policy objectives so it's just another brick in the wall really when it when it comes to this particular case does it do you think it has anything to do with new sanctions as lot of your earlier claim that even though

the person that's on the sanctions less has nothing to do with our channel well i mean e.u. sanctions are themselves a blunt instrument a sledgehammer to crack a not so in a sense something if they come up with some cock and bull story about why they've burned it they haven't really got a case for banning of see russia from their broadcasting in latvia so anything they say is essentially made up. i think we're getting to a situation now where people are just not willing to listen to other points of view because they're got a an agenda of confrontation which they intend to pursue. well there's also followers of another russian channel r.t.r. in the country which has also been banned do you see this as a free speech problem. i think it certainly is and as a sais quoi it provokes it because you've got quite a large russian speaking population in latvia who process and find these programs

and these t.v. stations you know to their liking they would want to see what's on them and of course it brings home the potential for civil conflict as we've seen in ukraine and elsewhere and of course that's not really a happy outcome are you worried at all that this is a trend that we're going to see continue. i'm afraid it is i mean in a way it's silly because if anybody wants to see r.t. they can find other ways to look at it and you know the opinion will out one way or the other despite this kind of petty falling bureaucratic attempt to silence people but what it shows is an unwillingness on the part of western or thora to use to have a dialogue they're determined not to have a dialogue they want to have a monologue and the you know it's partly to do with the bum to sing their own population into seeing russia as a permanent enemy well exactly in silencing a voice a position that you don't necessarily agree with is that the right way to go. no it

isn't but i accept that in all countries there's going to be some limits to freedom of speech and so on but to me you tube is supposedly an independent private organization but we know that it has very intimate links with the western intelligence services more more so i would suggest the nazi and russian intelligence services we need to develop a level playing field where different points of view or understood to be acceptable and that people need to have a dialogue rather than a monologue but of course that actually is the subversive or the that you know of the direction of travel of a western or thirty's which is basically to try and monopolize the world public opinion around their rather provocative positions in the balance or less martin summers thank you for finding the time to join us on the program today thank you.

and i asian attacks in america show no sign of letting up police in new york city are investigating 2 assaults on asian residents on monday alone 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 following 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 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 attacker 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 cayle 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's streets some are looking to less direct ways to counter terrorism 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 has 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 ended up probably bleeds into asian american anti pacific islander america violence. 19 civilians were killed in a french airstrike on a wedding and mali back in january of this year those are the findings of a new u.n. report into the incident. menas mays able to confirm in celebration at the site of the strike had brought together $100.00 surveillance at least $22.00 people including 3 of the suspected khateeb a sermon members present at the gathering were killed by the french strike on the 3rd of january 2021 in bounty 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 me a village called parenting water in sorrow region now that confirms the claims from villages at the time he said that these planes struck absolute wedding party and those claims back then and also now are still being disputed by the french army which is said it'd be for scientists it's tried 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 methodology 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 been get some in the country they're not going to do a demo songs and it's time for france to stop telling lies because they accuse the few lannie community of being spokespersons for jihadists or of being organizations

that's a red light or rumors and e-mail that would simply say them 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 is the most 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. in that 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 un introduces outright rejection of it or unlikely to improve its reputation. the notion of council culture is apparently 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 over 60 percent of you growing council culture as a threat to their freedom of up to 4 percent see it as in danger in their job security we can miss opinion on the issue on the streets of new york. people are creative and have 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 it could really go like a pocket sometimes i think it does care people it makes people think and meet her

and she sure you know. inappropriate. the idea of canceling counseling 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 can really change the way that a person interacts with the world or using it. to also understand like we're fed up with having to respond to people who are sorry if you're so low it's always more complicated when it's presented journalist and commentator chadrick more gave us his thoughts on council culture. 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 really experience and culture before it's you know and it's actually a lot of this has become a social media mob a ng and threats to docs and get people fired and. not. 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 of maybe what's going on in culture and in government and even the culture itself as we've seen just criticizing get a culture 'd can get you canceled that's been your global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always have taught website our to dot com for the details on all the stories and many more.