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in the new york subway. in the us they. are international news center here in moscow this is our pleasure to have your company. the french president has just announced the month long starting. $1000.00 cases the restrictions were already in place in several regions be extended across the country. reports from. president machen addressing the french nation or no wednesday night following

a meeting of the council of defense where of course they discussed all the options available to them to keep calm backing the 19 pandemic a pandemic that is seen now rates of around 40000 new cases being counted every day here in france that's double the number it was just a month ago so serious that we've had doctors talking about the fact that they may have to 2 patients from hospitals now present my corner now that we mainland france would be now under a new lockdown as you mentioned from saturday there it's a similar lockdown lockdown light as many people describe it as to the 900 departments that have already been under these restrictions for the last few weeks including here in paris those restrictions mean that there's a curfew in place at 7 o'clock in the evening that's in place throughout the evening normal essential shops will be closed although this time we've seen here in

paris that places such as florist chocolate shops and hairdressers have been allowed to remain open and many of the shops are still doing click and collect services so it's not really sure quite how effective that has been we're also going to see no into regional travel so it means you can't go from paris to perhaps. unless you have a particular reason to do that conforms to the french permission forms those permission forms are in place if you want to take a journey more than 10 kilometers away from your home and we know that the additional checks are going to be put in place for patrols particularly for those people who are in groups and the thought to be drinking alcohol is quite a lot of controversy surrounding this over the last few weeks people enjoying the spring weather and going out meeting their friends and having a drink saying next to the river this is something press. maclin says there will be much more control over he also said that schools will be closed for the next

3 weeks he talked about accelerating the vaccine campaigns know there are already 1700 vaccination centers open across france and she said that by the end of the summer all adults over the age of 18 would have at least been offered the vaccine and there was some relief for people today who just feel as if you know after a year after this all started where is the end in sight and insight he said was in may when he felt that it would be time to start slowly opening up the country again all of this is because of how much pressure there is the moment on medical staff medical staff the president markham praised for their work over the last year and he said that. places would be opening up there would be more assistance for medical staff but just to give you some of those figures at the moment more than 5000

people are in intensive care across france that is now higher than the peak during the 2nd wave 9 out of 10 beds are occupied in those intensive care units and we also know he said this tonight that the 4 percent of those who are in intensive care are the age of 65 now i'm sure there will be lots of critics about what president michael said particular because doctors have been calling for weeks and weeks and weeks for there to be another lockdown for there to be harsher measures taken to try and save the services save the push that there is save the hospitals from being overwhelmed. neighboring germany whose vaccination program really has suffered another blow berlin is again suspending use of the astra zeneca job this time for the younger sixty's not many in the age group who are really have their 1st shot really in

a state of limbo. in 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 pieces 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. 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 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 along 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 of us tricks and vaccines are the only thing we trust so we need to receive clear messages posted isn't snuck to get confused. too fast if you look at the side effects the very bread if you read the information leaflets of aspirin or ibuprofen were any other

those have much more serious side effects and we swallow those daily more or less. i think it is there is very good at the back slice where is al itself 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 kind of make the whole vaccination process falling to pieces. mean well astra zeneca is planning to rebrand its vaccine on the european market it will be sold in the e.u. under the name is every and the company expects this wish to be completed in 6 months there has been speculation that 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 terrifying and

they're seeing that 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 raid had to change that so a lot of suspicion about this it's terrible because you know what the thing is is that there are 2000000000 doses from 92 geishas that are need a lot of poor countries aren't going to get you know the high tech expensive vaccines that. until the asian attacks in america show no sign of letting up the latest 2 assaults being investigated happened this week in new york all of the victims was an elderly filipino woman who was brutally beaten while her block camillus saillant yelled racial slurs a warning if on 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. in

. 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 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 to aid. violence and to divide safety inclusion and belonging for all asian american native hawaiian and pacific island to come in h.s.

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. was killed just mentioned volunteers are giving whistles to elderly asian people for the u.s. in some francisco though the project has been dealt a blow after some 700 whistles meant for distribution were stolen well amid the

increased violence targeting asians in america's streets some are looking at other ways to country misses and a publisher has polled the children's book over its depiction of a martial arts instructor called muster one that some have deemed offensive and a form of puss of racial stereotyping others though have called it a pointless exercise in 1st to signal and bypassing the real problems facing people daily we spoke to historian gerald horne about joe biden's role in the issue at lord's. he needs to realize that by wanting 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 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 the states is not very sophisticated not very high in an arguably bleeds into an american anti pacific islander american violence.

our sister channel r.t.r. a pic was blocked on you tube today for around 6 hours over an alleged copyright infringement something the platform later explained on intentional news it's not back on line but questions linger over a barrage of copyright claims coming from the us which the challenge editor sees as a coordinated attack earlier my colleague jackie maracas to 1st delve into the details one of the biggest new shadows in the world more than 5000000 subscribers 3bb views and all of this happened because a pageant i channel called business casual filed for strikes copyright infringement against the 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 chattel in the world to have been blocked and

because of. such infringement you know this is this is unprecedented territory for start to finish moral than that these channels business casual it focuses on business things but recently it has begun posting what could only be described as 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 our backs 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. made the details still lacking you tube has 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 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.d. has been constantly pressured in western countries with dirty methods are used to compete against the 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 cliches so i'll say it

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 he has been been targeted for what it says look it's it's knows who the secret are he 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 bands 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 22 warning pages so you know the ones that say this potentially shocking called. d. be warned 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 now the case with facebook banned in the now hugely popular show which is making waves on facebook they bad that immediately off to c.n.n. released a report saying that what was already known saying that this in the now show is related to see and facebook banned it saying that this was in its effort to improve transparency our was unclear there was no concise new clear. from that but this is this is something that we're used to this is something that has happened feel is it will keep happening and you know the editor in chief says it won't shut us up.

just a few 20 minutes into the program still ahead a pool house fund that most americans are anxious about losing their jobs over something they've said on the side because of the onset of council culture story for you on your work after the break. all of the information in the world when you put it together and process it simultaneously it adds up to 0 it adds up to nothing all deal luzhin of differentiation will be obliterated the illusion of making a profit will be obliterated because we're entering into a period of the singularity.

when else seemed wrong. why don't we just don't call. me. yet to seep out just to become educated and indeed trade equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. hello again no the matter of council culture is humming and impact on people's psychological wellbeing a majority of people polled in the us say the 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 view growing council culture as a threat to their freedom or more than half see it as endangering their job security we can't opinion on the issue among new yorkers. 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 it could really go like that pocket sometimes i think it does care people and it makes people think and maybe for. 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 i don't 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 as some interesting views in new york there are political 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 is this is from private corporations and most importantly from each other so that makes it interesting and different i think from anything else that that we really experience in culture before it's you know and it's actually on it's has become a social media mob threats to docs to get people wired and it's

not a threat on many levels and most importantly it has a chilling effect on public discourse and on people being able to speak their minds to openly. discuss an advocate for things that they believe that they truly believe in and their criticism that maybe what's going on in culture and in government and even if you have to called yourself. just criticizing you know coulter 'd can't you can't pull. russian opposition figure alexina vallone has announced he's going on a hunger strike he claims to have been denied urgent medical treatment in prison mr novelli has been behind bars since february after being convicted in embezzlement case will live now to our team from on cost what more is known about this from on that. well indeed. they are rolls of that are to the prison authorities dated to

the 31st march of this year and now the word now and in that letter he said that he's on a hunger strike because he's been refused medical help but he said that's a he will not say can alter bite he will not eat until he is visited by a physician or adults are off his own choice now in a letter that somehow ended up on instagram the same day that an extended biden they wrote it from his cell to the prison authorities that appear in instagram right away he adds. that his health his health is also the syria rating because prison guards prison authorities are using torture methods against him by waking him up at least 8 times a night now the prison authorities have issued a statement to that regard and they said that alex in the valley is being treated exactly the same as all of the other inmates and they refuted all claims of sleep deprivation. selection of only is receiving all necessary medical treatment due to

his health condition the monitoring of any inmate including mr novelli is carried out in accordance with the law and applies to all of them without exception prison officers strictly observed the right of all inmates to an uninterrupted 8 hour sleep. now that statement by the prison authorities have also said that he had already been served several reprimands for refusing to follow the prison's daily routine and the rules as well now the valley's followers the pealed to call on german doctors to treat the blogger here in russia in the prison and that same issue was raised during a daily briefing with a lot of my putin spokesperson me treat this cough now he said that it's not a matter of the kremlin by that of the prison authorities. to me it's for many many channels of complaints from inmates you know groups who are us i would like to

reiterate once again that this is not the crims business it's a matter for the federal penitentiary service and we're not going to in this matter because i'm not aware of cases where foreign medics have been allowed to visit in me and the remaining question. now a little bit of the background as to why in the valley is in prison at the moment while he was fined he was found guilty a little bit earlier this year of breaking conditions of a suspended sentence when he was found guilty of embezzling at least $400000.00 u.s. dollars from 2 companies and one of those companies included a french cosmetics maker eve or a share so that's why he's in prison right now. parties are on castro bring us up to date on that story. let's bring you right now to america were 2 people have been killed at least 3 injured in a musher doing in washington d.c. it happened our side the congress heights metro station this is

a residential area near there live imagery in the southwest of the u.s. capitol it occurred we believe in the early afternoon police say one or more suspects fled the scene a mom. hunt is going they're also saying it appears to have started as a dispute between 2 groups so far no arrests have been made homicides in the district have been rising for a 4th consecutive year though along with a spike in the carjacking sue just to recap and use 2 people killed at least 3 injured in a mosque shooting in america's capital city. all right for up to the minute developments. as we indeed enter a new month to try and give our follow wherever you go across social media we will keep you in the know season.

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