working out what's going on. they build a full scale 3 d. model of the black hole. this is. every stage of we might say to ourselves that we could have we made mistakes this is true. a stark admission of failure the handling of the crisis by the french president the country's death toll news 100000. forced to impose a 3rd national. nursing exodus in the u.k. as a poll reveals one in 4 n.h.s. workers is more likely to quit now than in 2020 with many citing exhaustion from the pandemic and speak to.

the cost of. the wages have. so much. to help. the origins of the coronavirus still remain a mystery a long awaited report by the w.h.o. mission leaves many questions unanswered we get a firsthand account from the russian expert on that mission. by that very good morning to you thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. president obama has admitted that mistakes have been made in the 100 of the coronavirus crisis he's announced a 3rd nation wide lockdown as covert cases saw intensive care beds are filling up and the country's death toll approaches 100000 the situation left him with no other

choice. it's a sick a 2nd the city did me i know that every stage of this epidemic we might say to ourselves that we could have done better that we made mistakes all this is true the new lockdown measures will be extended from 19 areas to all of mainland france from saturday this means a nationwide curfew beginning at 7 pm will be imposed and travel between regions will be banned the french president has also said schools were closed for at least 3 weeks and announced additional policing to ensure no more than 6 people gather at once. the measures introduced by mark wrong come as a complete u. turn to his previous decision not to lock down in january as a result he's receiving mounting criticism from scientists and hospital chiefs and he should do as he asks if the president sees himself as a bit of an epidemiologist. france's president is without a doubt an educated man emanuel macro grew through the country's top institutions

before making a mark in both the private public sector even replaying from things youngest of a president i mean it's a pretty impressive resume and people trajan selfless and learned he knew when to take advice need it and it is important at this time by following the advice of scientists as we've just done to ensure the continuity of on democratic life and our institutions but now it seems being top dog isn't quite enough not grown his throwing himself into an entirely new discipline the president has acquired real expertise in health issues it is not an inaccessible subject for an intelligent person like him considering the important time he has dedicated to it for several months not growing as aide since he wouldn't come home for dinner he declared that he has become an epidemiologist despite not having a scientific background it's this bravado this process really led to macro

consistently brushing off scientific advice over the covert pandemic as he apparently thinks he knows better the real problem on astra zeneca is that it doesn't work the way we were expecting it to everything points to thinking it is quite zion affective on people older than 65 some say those 60 years older iyam a scientific experts consider that the vaccine can be used in older adults. anybody aged 50 or over who is affected by co-morbidities can get the astra zeneca vaccine including those between 65 and 74. deal with animals i say to go in and do it do it for a short a time but. we were right not to implement a lockdown in france at the end of january because we didn't have the explosion of cases that every model. dictated these claims over macro's expertise on health

issues have also rubbed experts are the wrong way. mr micron is president of the republic and in the framework of the pandemic just like all heads of states he has become interested in epidemiological data yes to put his nose to the grindstone he's obliged to take notice of trends but that doesn't make him an epidemiologist of course it really for all those that talk about epidemiology and among them we can find heads of states like president micron who talks about epidemiology just like we talk about politics while we talk about sculpture or about music but they're not necessarily sculpture artists or musicians. and what about people in paris what the they think of that epidemiologist really inclined president depends on independence he wants to take back his independence from medical experts since the pandemic started medicine has been at the top of everything medics have been governing the country and now micron just wants to get his power back but i still think doctors are right when it comes to the virus because their opinion is based

on science. the curfew hasn't been effective for france it was not good for those who work it is not really curb the virus spreading it is not limited cases it has also been bad for the economy they should find other solutions. when you know when i post my current thinks about the economy down is the risk. it is not doctors who should govern france. in britain their offices of a nursing exodus a survey revealed n.h.s. staff and now more likely to quit the job sign to exhaustion from the pandemic according to the poll one in 4 and it just worked as a morning plan to leave than they were last year almost 30 percent of them on nurses and midwives to occupations that a facing major shortages and 70 percent said the pay rise is the decisive factor in all those working for free student nurses are struggling just to make ends meet one

of them gave us her reaction to the survey findings it doesn't surprise me it's what we've had to use it needs increased workload. not the cost of living has gone up the wages have increased so much stress on the nurses that midwives everyone involved in that session and i think to be honest with the kind of a pandemic i think everyone has now had enough and they need help and i feel the government need to help and increase the wages to get a good environment for everyone and british health authorities in turn a promise to provide the n.h.s. with an extra 29000000000 pounds but the nurse we spoke to says that that money isn't making any real difference when it comes to student medics we get the 5000 pounds and some people get 2000 pounds wrong depending if it were children or what field they go in tape but in reality is it's all in the ocean with the increase in childcare costs you know the increase in council tax increase in fuel into placement in my 1st year i think it's

a defeat back twice. and actually the nest states that were actually retired nurses at the bank they couldn't believe that they should i go into this position because i have a family i've got 2 children and that's why my was by requiring what was quite a full time childcare and the other one it just started sco the funds come for you all to we've already signed up for the course there for you the potential if she leaves the course and it does add to the mental sort of the that it's so dry cleaning. and there in time the united kingdom is easing its coded restrictions or minister has been getting stick to his idea of the new normal. you see somebody pay. off mike and maybe call him out on it and.

where can i report you because if you think you're promoting normal behavior you need to check out from the neck up what script are you reading from no sane individual would put this out there as normal. behaving in a. strange choice of words to describe family members being one another. in other words if you see someone behaving like a human being then call them out. call out his many call eeks you have been found guilty of various actions ready ready. report on the origins of covert 19 his face sharp criticism worldwide some countries saying that the investigation wasn't extensive enough and blaming china

for withholding access to data the director general himself called for further studies after that report was published we got a firsthand account of the mission from a russian member of the team. which will cause our mission started off under phase one why was it called that it was clear from the beginning nobody expected us to find answers to all the questions right away in fact it was preparing to rework and analyzing the data we had accumulated and establishing hypotheses in general it's hard to predict how long this investigation will take and how it will end but it should be done that's for sure. we managed to find out that the virus supposedly emerged in the period between the middle of november and the beginning of december however we don't know the exact location of the outbreak in my view it was in china but it's not clear yet it's unlikely though that the outbreak occurred in

a wet market most probably it was some market visitor who had already been infected and spread the virus this suggestion derives from the fact that there were quite a large number of patients who had nothing to do with the markets we don't know who the 1st patient was neither do we know the natural origin of covert 19 based on our common knowledge of various coronaviruses we suggest it's a but might have been a source. but the issue is very much politicized everyone is trying to find someone to blame i've never considered the oblique hypothesis a theory there's so much talk about this in the media though but people don't really have an idea there is no scientific evidence or facts proving a leak as of today based on what we saw i can say that the suspected laboratory is run properly by well trained staff there is total compliance with all the rules regarding work with viruses of this has a class or even the class above the laboratory is regularly audited and is in the constant scrutiny of competence international organizations building from that we

therefore can't say that a lab leak might have been because. we. knew we didn't feel any pressure coming from our chinese colleagues actually it wouldn't even be the case i can't think of how they could have put pressure on us we are in no way affiliated with china people from various countries were part of our team who went to carry out this investigation on behalf of the w.h.o. and what would have been the point of pressurising us we hardly liaise with officials we were largely in touch with scientists. corona virus strains could render 1st generation vaccines ineffective in a year. warning them from some of the world's leading scientists will bring you more on that story after this short break.

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will be obliterated the illusion of making a profit obliterated because. of the singularity. welcome back now those who think politics and sports shouldn't mix have been taken aback by the u.s. olympic committee's latest decision it is a racial and social justice demonstrations at trials. it racial and social justice demonstration is specifically aimed at promoting the human dignity of individuals or groups that have historically been under represented minority ties still marginalized in their respective societal context under the new guidelines certain gestures and types of clothing are permitted to athletes can now wear hats with phrases like black lives matter and equality they will also avoid

sanctions if they speak up for the rights of minorities during the national anthem or hold up their fist on the podium he making a political statement in support has long been controversial for instance in 2016 english national football team was slapped with a 35000 pounds by fee for wearing remembrance day poppies during their world cup qualifier the rise of the black lives matter movement to see many athletes take up the course with footballers and tennis players among those showing solidarity at matches. ok let's bring in the host of capital sports on capital here in moscow alan moore joins me very good morning to you allan. so u.s. olympic paralympic paralympic committee saying that they will allow racial social justice demonstrations at qualifying trials that includes kneeling raised fish 1st of all what's your take on them allowing that work you know in terms of the low

protests. if not necessarily. for a larger. goal to make sure or you know just. so in one way it is sort of the side at times. which is a positive if it is you know not. that does this bring them into some kind of conflict though with actually the people who are in enjoyment of the olympics because of what one year ago we had the i.o.c. president saying that there should be no gestures of a political nature like a hand gesture or needling at the olympic games so they're saying thomas bark saying there shouldn't be any kind of religious political statements being made and then you've got the u.s. authorities saying the exact opposite. well you see this ultimately you know money is ruined right now we see for example the. question of all

it's a question of behavior are being you know that heavily by the same source very much and they are driving the narrative in the us right now so for example of nike there are no forests or projects they they are drawing and there are all archy should monitor all athletes are always wish you know in concept is very true well in reality you know how it would be even hundreds we were asked for example from russia to protests when you go see you know that if it goes to see a huge. movement so i think you know this is a message it's not necessarily kids or no 2 horse it isn't even handed we didn't see it for example the wrong james who was very mocking the bios or. in my

case wrote the soap use of all of those china where you're going to play here and he was quite happy to do that he was actually criticizing or the basketball. players for your question you chinese government sol you know a ghetto is a very very fine line to walk and you live movement there. if you were so see us. when this opened the doors for any kind of political statement to be made wouldn't it mean that you could have people bring in their might get hats people who may be of a different political opinion to the ones that the u.s. authorities are expecting to get. listlessly it demeaning statement a social statement. that. relates it good or community you know why women do it for example where swastika well that really c.d.'s the

german. nazis and it always is or to all of them and i was legal to do that this has been very rote sort through and i spoke with us as x. . into the look says yes i did to confuse the sports some of us who were here where does it start and what people who are very very fortunate even ask us of color so there are people who are early funders. your mo name names there so who are benefiting from this by rote athletes or even very clearly are you know just kind of skewed or prone to doing our own poll this lean back program to say ernie should be losing out for example dogs guns. being rehabilitated and given

a voice you know i was i had as well questions to the artist on this. boat who's joined in order to do let me say stuart's riff related. scenarios yeah i think this is going to be only the start of this conversation thanks so much for taking part in it with me though joining me this morning is the host of capital sports and capital f.m. that's alan moore thanks so much alan. now the pandemics laid bare the political divisions in the united states especially over how to respond to the crisis now democrats and republicans are slugging it out of a mask mandates and vaccine passports on the scale of more than looks at the latest clashes. joe biden says america is going to start getting back to normal in the coming summer months but what is that going to look like will normal only be for vaccinated folks while everyone else stays home such talk is being met with fury

from republicans who are set against it especially when it comes from democrats who oppose aidid checks considering that democrats want to require vaccine i.d.'s for people to conduct their basic daily activities they now have 0 grounds to objects to voter id laws he funded democrat logic you should need a $92.00 and even a grocery stool surely there wouldn't be an objection to showing an id to legally vote vaccine credentials would be a complete government over step individuals in america have a personal responsibility for their health the governor of florida is now promising a state wide ban it's completely unacceptable for either the government or the private sector to impose upon you the requirement that you show proof of vaccine to just simply be able to participate in normal society you want the fox to guard the hen house i mean give me a break i think this is something that has huge privacy implications it is not necessary to do democrats are standing their ground now the 1st leader to propose

the idea of vaccine passports was andrew cuomo the governor of new york state back at the beginning of the pandemic he was a glowing hero in mainstream media that sense that his image has significantly faded but his idea of vaccine passports with q.r. codes that will be scanned by businesses for admission is catching on madison square gardens is already saying it will be a requirement and republicans now face mainstream media ridicule for their opposition to the proposal and irresponsibly they're being stupid right which is very rich coming from the party that wants 9 forms of identification before you can vote the right would have you believe that a vaccine paul spoke is a fact. really big brother coming for you and your family now the white house has confirmed it is working with the private sector to develop vaccine passports however they insist they are not keeping a database of who is and who is not vaccinated at the federal level so let the

political games begin it's just like the mask mandate now at this point 16 states have either lifted their mass mandate or never had one to begin with and now joe biden is urging them to reinstate it as there's a surge of cases i'm ruder in my call for every governor mer and local leader to maintain and really state the masked men. police this is not politics republican governors do not seem to appreciate joe biden's plea in fact the governor of arkansas has moved up the lifting of the mast mandate by an entire day he says the case numbers are showing a downward trend and now we have the mainstream media pressing the white house about whether or not joe biden is just being ignored for the. norm you oh i don't think we see it that way jeff but i would say that one of the ways we can impact people across the country is bag knowledge ing this is hard the

shenanigans are starting to sound a little bit less like they're motivated by concerns about public health and more like some classic american political squabbling the kind that's been around long before kobe had 19 and i'm going to reflect on them and arranged feeling i have you know we have so much to look forward to so much promise of virtue and job where we are and so much reason for how all right now i'm scared the war continues vaccine passports mask mandates every new proposed measure seems to present a new opportunity for us decided to further polarize ideally i mean would be great if politicians focused on something other than creating political division and advancing special interests and the like but they don't and. corona virus all receiving is that politicians are using the panic to funnel money to their corporate allies you see this through the plan to create required vaccinations which of course by necessity bring a huge amount of money to the pharmaceutical companies that are producing those

vaccinations and so we're seeing a lot of things that look a lot more like corruption and a lot less like trying to actually provide guides for the american people as far as i know there is no meaningful plan employees to go back to complete normalcy to creak or own a virus type behavior i don't see there is dead a vaccine passport to go to normal places could possibly be seen as something constitutional the united states presidency has lost the trust of the people and they did they didn't do this all at once this didn't happen because a crowbar is they've just been lying to the american people about a lot while masks and single use gloves have been saving lives during the pandemic environmentalist are worried they may be doing every irrevocable harm to animals around the world after being discarded a study in the journal animal biology science examples of fish trapped in latex gloves birds entangled in masks and a whole host of animals from monkeys in malaysia to penguins in south america with

rubber gloves in their stomachs the researchers have been gathering data from veterinarians wildlife groups and trash collectors around the globe we spoke with the authors of the report about the findings. all started with the find of a fish of birds and trapped in a lab to explore here in the lone canals and every sunday we go out with a team of volunteers to collect a litter to do a cleanup and certainly a volunteer it turns to us and said well i found a glove but there is a fish inside and it was searched at a strange moment to see this serve little fish and trapped in the glove and then you realize like this is very set. very septra deep but how often does this actually happen and we have no clue so then we started to search for other examples of the impact of our you litter on animal life and actually the rest quite a lot find according to that study humanities is $129000000000.00 facemasks and

$65000000000.00 gloves per month for example in the u.k. medical p p items accounted for more than 2 thirds of all litter collected during inland cleanups just 3 months after face coverings became obligatory that there's a lot of ram been a one of the researches behind the report says it's time government stepped in. well you really think the government should step up and really encourage. using re-usable items because it's not taking into account when producing these single use products it's also affecting wildlife that is being literate in great amounts that like we find in the streets in so many so many amounts in large amounts and also in the canals are laden with volunteers cleanup work in aus and in just a few kilometers they found over hundreds of these face masks and that's yet it's such a big problem. new covert mutations could render 1st generation vaccines ineffective in just

a year or less that is the start warning that's coming from scientists in the people's vaccine alliance some of the world's leading scientists from $28.00 countries they took part in this survey and 2 thirds of them warn that new covert strains could render current vaccine simply ineffective and that new ones will need to be developed the vast majority said that low vaccine rates make the emergence of new more resilient mutations much more likely we discussed the results of that survey with oxfam's head of inequality policy that smacks of awesome it doesn't have to be a choice between burks an 18 someone in birmingham and someone indicating a 1st so you know we could have enough vaccines for the whole world we could make the whole world say the c.e.o. far easier for the c.e.o. of maternal who gets to decide who lives and who dies universe does not except we have the ability to last produce parks in many countries all over the world and

their ability is not being used because the monopolies of pharmaceuticals are being defended so that was absolutely criminal and people adore it and so that's what we need to see happen any less that happens to shortages will continue. the world health organization says the current vaccines could offer at least some protection against new variants the w.h.o. normally picks the optimal strains to develop new vaccines director of russia's vector scientific center also says it's not all doom and gloom in the current vaccines could be quickly modified and that brings you right up to date watching r.t. international bringing you up to date with all the leading news stories this morning thanks for staying with us well in half an hour. or so we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation

let it be an arms race in this spirit dramatic development only. exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down in. problem drugs don't always come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every state in the united states we've seen the very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids invited america under the banner of medicine persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she just goes after dose after dose after dose and really became his drug dealer who's to blame patients doctors manufacturers other governments.