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the latest in a string of. the community. to quell the. pleasure to have your company. blocked on you tube today for around 6 hours over an alleged copyright infringement something the platform later explained. but questions linger over a barrage of copyright claims coming from the us which the channel's editor sees as a coordinated attack early and my colleague. delved into the details.

one of the biggest new shadows in the world more than 5000000 subscribers 3bb views and all of this happened because apparently a channel called business casual filed 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 news channel in the world to have been blocked banned because of. such infringement you know this is this is unprecedented territory for him from start to finish more all than that these channel business casual it focuses on business things but recently it has begun posting what can only be described as anti kremlin propaganda a slew of videos in recent days more than that they have also followed

a lawsuit against r.t. international and the now seeking damages and also refusing any communication with the channel 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 actors. made the details still lacking you tube has said google rather the owners of you tube have said that they are aware of what has happened of the situation in the working to resolve it perhaps some cause 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 tech giants losing touch with reality considering that r.t. has been constantly pressured in western countries with dirty methods are used to compete against a popular t.v. channel i soon that we're seeing here another act of censorship by the american platforms it's become boring to repeat politically correct clichés so i'll say 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 r.t. has been been targeted for what it says look it's knows who secret r.t. will cover things and touch topics that other outlets are the wound or cart and

this his own that many let's call them opponents look this happened for years years since 2012 these you tube accounts it's twitter feeds it's facebook pages of all things these blogs these bans these suspensions for fold matter of reasons for copyright infringement for alleged copyright infringements for violations of terms of service technical issues argy documentary published recently a documentary about the protests in the united states the violence there the far right groups and this video was struck with a lot one but 2 to warning pages so you know the ones that say this potentially shocking called. d. be warned there's 2 of them and 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 another case where facebook banned in the now hugely

popular show which making waves on facebook the 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 nuclear. from that but this is this is something that we're used to this is something that has happened for years it will keep happening and you know it's the editor in chief says it shut us up. also on the pressure in europe a lot fear has blocked a russian website following last year's decision to ban 7 channels on to the r.t. media group we will be discussing it later in the program. germany's vaccination program has suffered another blow with berlin again suspending the use of the astra zeneca job this time for the under sixty's many in

the age group who've already had their 1st shot in a state of limbo. it's a hit 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 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. 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 vaccine was fine for use a lot of countries where that prompted a lot of countries to repeal that suspension including germany longer 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 to fast

if you look at the side effects they are 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 is valid so fast and i 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. just an additional note about astra zeneca it is planning to or brand its vaccine in the european market it will be sold in the e.u. under the name vioxx is every or the company expects the switch to be completed in 6 months now there has been speculation it's a response to public concerns over the job safety but infectious disease expert bob arnot believes there's no easy fix to the reputational damage. 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 scientists is in the brain the venous system the brain and the disseminated quagga aleisha out the body just terrified and they're seeing it you know in 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 rade had to change that so a lot of suspicion about this experiment because you know rick the thing is is that there are 2000000000 doses or 92 cases that are need a lot of poor countries are going to get you know the high tech expensive vaccines that. it's another headline stories and attacks in america show no sign of letting up the latest 2 assaults being investigated happening this week in new york one of the victims was an elderly filipino woman who was brutally beaten while her black male assailant yelled racial slurs

a warning may find the following video upsetting. you are. 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 us 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 is wrong it's un-american and this must stop today president biden is announcing new actions to respond to the increase in acts of and

. violence and to develop safety inclusion and belonging for all asian american native hawaiian and pacific island to 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 street so we continue to see footage of what is taking place it's very brutal very disturbing and it doesn't appear to be stopping. just mentioned volunteers are giving whistles to elderly

asian people throughout the u.s. in san francisco though the project has been dealt a blow now for some 700 whistles men for distribution which the limited the increased violence targeting asians in america street some are looking beyond violence to come to racism a publisher has pulled a children's book over it's the picture of a martial arts instructor cole muster one that some have deemed offensive on a form of puffs of racial stereotyping others have called it a point this exercise in virtue signaling and bypassing the real problems facing people dealing we spoke to historian gerald horton about joe biden's role in the issue at large. he needs to realize that by launching this new cold war against china he simultaneously helping to create conditions for the rise of violence it seems to me that for the foreseeable future we're bored 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 enough probably bleeds into asian american anti pacific islander american violence. parties russian language website has been taken offline by a number of internet service providers in lafayette it follows last year as the session by the country's broadcast regulator to 7 channels in the r t media group this is the message you receive if you try to open the page in love to your internet browser is trying to connect to websites which in the territory of the latvian republic is unlawfully distributing television programs without so retransmission issued by the national electronic mass media council just some but last june officials in riga claimed he was quote effectively controlled by their interest of easy moscow born t.v. anchor who is on the list of individuals officially sanctioned by the e.u.

but in fact mr kessler of has never worked at r.t. he heads a media group called receive a civil union which is a separate organization we've so far heard no indication from the lothian 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 the miter kissing office not the head of r.t. he has nothing to do with r.t. to me is the head of the of r.c. a subordinate i should say they probably just google to see a subordinate 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 apartment campaign against russian media in lafayette spokeswoman maria is the heart of it described as us risa phobia we spoke with much the 1000000 an m.e.p. from the alternative for germany party he thinks any media restrictions create

problems for free speach. it is easy and such an atmosphere to attack russia russian media but this is new cold war atmosphere we have and the west against russia and and generally the west is limiting freedom of expression. and those who claim always they also much in favor of human rights and liberty they do expect the idea of has said it's not just we just come into an era where freedom of expression and and the choice of to news outlets you're watch is not guaranteed any more. till i had a poll last fall in that most americans are. losing their jobs over something they've said online because of the onset of council culture that story for you often.

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look for common ground. 19 civilians were killed in a french air strike on a wedding in mali in january this year those are the findings of a new u.n. report into the deadly incident. menas mays able to confirm a bed in celebration at the site of the strike had brought together $100.00 surveillance at least $22.00 people including 3 of the suspected sermon 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 near a village 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 disputed by the french army which is said it'd be nice if it's 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 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 there. demosthenes it is time for france to stop telling lies because they accuse the few lanny community of being spokespersons for

jihadist or of being organizations that spread lies or rumors i would simply say it is high time the malian armed forces especially the mali military authorities begin to tell the truth 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 ringback colonial power in the region hasn't always had an easy life we know that people been 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 u.n. insurance is out right which actually a bit or unlikely to improve its reputation. the matter of

council culture is having an impact on people's psychological wellbeing a majority of people polled in the us say they fear of 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 expressed their real views on social media of the nearly 2000 people surveyed over 60 percent few growing council culture as a threat to their freedom while more than half see it as endangering their job security we canvassed the pinion on the issue among new yorkers. people are creative and have different mindset some 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 used to ruin their entire lives over what they think in their mind even though it is harsh and it could really go like that pocket sometimes i think it does scare people and it makes people think and maybe. you 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. to also understand like being fed up with having to respond to people who are sorry if you're so low it's always more complicated and it's presented the feeling some in new york city will journalist and commentator chadwick were shared his thoughts on council culture and from where it's emerged. 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 such a lot of this has become a social media mob and threats to docs and get people fired and. i think that's what greed i'm 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 mechanical care itself as we've seen just criticizing example culture can get you canceled. a russian military representative husband arrested in rome alongside i tell you a naval officer as part of an espionage probe our teams in the f

a tranquil takes up the story for us. rome has already taken action to wash and diplomats will be expelled from italy which in almost all cases means the same kind of punishment in the opposite direction this spy scandal really put special moscow or old 'd ties to the test in recent years they've appeared to be much better compared to how russia is getting along with some of the other major european union states rome doesn't exactly see eye to eye with brussels on issues like anti russian sanctions and also the russian covert vaccine and besides this we can remember how last year russian planes were flown to northern italy to help the country deal with the pandemic there's now a big question mark next to that warmth according to italian police one of its special operations units swooped on a russian military representative and and italian navy officer during what they're

calling a cloned destine main thing the italian national is accused of handing secret documents to the man he met in a car park and exchange for money reportedly the sum was 5000 year olds and also reports say that the documents contained secret information related to nato perhaps that explains why the top diplomat called this a very serious affair in the meantime russian officials have said that they're hoping that this incident won't enormously harm the ties between the 2 countries and also they promise to look into the circumstances of this incident very carefully so these were documents supposedly and this is the worth $5000.00 euros and now there are consequences that could cost much more at the end of the day. well we're all set to cross to some more of great programs in moments so the sequel

is being served up river you are across the world today i'm you know me by from. the biden ministration has made it clear its foreign policy will be informed by the protection 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.

i'm afshin rattansi we're going underground for another lockdown edition 24 hours after the report of the highly anticipated world health organization lead international investigation into the origins of corona virus was released in part 2 as the george floyd trial continues in the usa the daughter of norm chomsky professor of eva chomsky on her investigation into what links structural racism to joe biden's detention a fan of thousands of children on the us mexico border 1st joining me now from beijing his counselor for the china state council and founder of the center for china and globalization professor wang we why welcome back they were going underground let's just start with the w.h.o. you know all about the fact that china has been blamed for corona virus what do you think a report that doesn't seem to go one way or the other unlikely it said that it was a lab in china but no definitive proof either way it's we're unlikely last time one probably true. story in china as well imagine an extremely unlikely to wire

schools the only form of law i mean that sounds very you know science fiction writers and a many forms and many variations in the you can remember actually as you know it was used by the trumpet ministration to justify all manner of rhetoric from washington what do you think saying what happened in the suez canal in the past few days tells us about the danger of trade wars and the interconnectedness of different countries is it shows how one or more are our own transportation or are and also the literally on top the international routes on those. channels and. you know the transportation source and so that as a cause for war what and so so i think that the west was doing just imagine. a conflict.