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germany warns the e.u. it will take care of its own vaccine procurement if the bloc can fix its failing program concerns over the sluggish pace of the job rollout are said by the world health organization is executive director for europe exclusive interview with r.t. . both a long story to get them on the. rapidly approaching 1000000 deaths in the european reach put also prostrate because we don't see. arms fast enough. french doctors vent their fear real presidents mark clowns for failing to deliver on his promise to speed up vaccinations as frontline medics battle overwhelming covert case loads. of the foolishness we believe the government is to blame for the
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fact that we have to work incredibly slowly but at the same time in a completely grueling regime. plus the social media thought police are out it's again facebook's grabs a video of an interview with donald trump hosted by his daughter in law after its and other platforms finds the former president earlier this year. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r t international with me nicky erin now our top story this hour germany says it may go it alone when it comes to ordering vaccines if the e.u. doesn't get its act together the country's health minister also stressed that it's imperative to stock up on enough jobs for 2022. what is
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important is the question of 2022 we have to secure our capacities for a possible 3rd or 4th round of vaccinations we currently don't know how long vaccination protection lasts hence we must secure these capacities as part of the european union or failing that as a nation this statement comes amid the block sluggish vaccination campaign with a number of states threatening to do their own thing independently of the e.u. when it comes to vaccine procurement they include slovakia and hungary while austria has just entered talks to buy a 1000000 doses of the russian job despite it not get having been approved by the blocs drug watchdog the w.h.o. was also expressed his concerns calling each use efforts and acceptably slow according to the organization only 4 percent of europeans have taken 2 doses of the vaccine so far earlier my colleague neil harvey discussed the matter along with the astra zeneca trouble and the prospects of the russian fact seen in the block with
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the executive director of the w h o's regional office for europe. we're both alarms and frustrates at that moment we're alarmed because we're rapidly approaching 1000000 deaths in the european region which are 44000000 cases of code it 19 on the other hand we're frustrated because we are well frustrated for the reasons that many of us have been living in lockdown france and fancy 140 days in some cases but also across states it's because we don't see these vaccines reaching arms fast enough but this really is a court of governments to improve their backs nation plans ramp up speed up that vaccination process we need people to accept and have confidence in the baskins they're receiving and when they're offered a vaccine to agree to take it the longer we wait the higher the likelihood that the that the virus mutates and that will see variants escape the vaccine
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you mentioned a really important point there i think particularly pertinent right now because the w.h.o. talking about the after seneca vaccine is said country should keep using and of course there's that there's a great the need for it and a great demand for it but there are several countries i think more than a dozen countries at they're full of using it what is the stands now on astra zeneca as vaccine just in confidence is such a fragile thing i mean it takes years in some cases years to build just a few minutes to erode and diminish so it will undoubtedly and has undoubtedly impact it's the confidence of the communities that are relying on that vaccine. the astra zeneca backs it this is very important that we get this vaccine back online where it's been temporarily suspended but at this point there's no cause of association until we have more data we won't know just getting back to the vaccinations there's a range of them out there now russia has a few of its own i think the 1st one out there are those put on the market was
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sputnik v. some countries and the west the big. slow to approve use of it is not legitimate is it just because the medical checks haven't been done yet or is it could there be a political element to it i don't think pothole it 60 something that we should necessarily just just in terms of the vaccines and where different vaccines are used the vaccine from what we've seen from the russian federation some the dates of that's available appears to be ineffective and say that there actually is use in many member states and in some member states to do not have access to the vaccines that are listed for it's really the russian boxing that has come to their aid and support so splintery been used to many member states it does not counts european medicines approval hence it doesn't have a you member states using it at this point but we are confident that in the very near future not boxing will be of use to everybody across the globe
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that message from the w.h.o. is something president emanuel micron may want to bear in mind french doctors have been venting their frustration at his failure to deliver on his promise to speed up banks and nations as france enters its 3rd lockdown they warn that the lack of available doses is now critical with ever more seriously ill covert patients being admitted to already overwhelmed hospitals but the president insists the rollout is happening at full throttle. when we talked to him when we were putting all means to vaccinate vaccinate vaccinate without a response without holidays saturdays and sundays just like week days. the general practitioners like myself are not currently receiving vaccines for 2 weeks now we've not had any vaccines available for injection we've been working for 9 months without stop and without vacation 7 days a week as mr macro says judy the inability to complete the work on time due to
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a lack of vaccines we believe the government is to blame for the fact that we have to work incredibly slowly but at the same time in a completely gruelling regime simply because of a lack of equipment the new wave of kovi it will lead to overcrowding in hospitals we already know this will happen we are already is signing which patients get treatment and which don't because about 60 percent of operations were canceled. on wednesday the french president promised to increase the number of intensive care beds to more than 10000 but doctors say it will come at the expense of long patients another problem is lack of staff as intensive care requires additional special training and equipment but the ground again say's these challenges could have been avoided if the car had acted earlier. imagine. emanuel macron has woken up a year after the start of the crisis the year ago in march the need for
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a large number of hospital beds and beds in intensive care took us by surprise but after a year the number of beds has not increased there is however a positive point unlike last year we do not need a large number of ventilators not because they were produced but because they're now used in a much later stage of the disease now it's enough to simply provide patients within homes to oxygen therapy the problem however is that the appropriate technology has not been installed in our hospitals as a result of therapy sides are still limited responsibility for this rests entirely with the manual macron who endlessly delay the adoption of measures even preventative measures such as supplying hospitals with oxygen cylinders and oxygen therapy devices necessary for treating patients. on trial may have been banned by social media giants but that doesn't mean the purge of the ex-president is over facebook has removed an interview with him posted by
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his daughter in law ati's caleb maupin looks at whether social media giants are the new thought police. big tech censorship just keeps coming the latest is an interview from former u.s. president donald trump getting scrubbed from facebook in line with the bill quip placed on donald trump's facebook an instagram account says a content posted in the voice of donald trump will david moved and result in additional limitations on the account donald trump is not the president anymore he was sunning himself in florida so why exactly is it so dangerous for people to hear his interpretation of world events and just like that we are one step closer to wilson 1984 wow joe biden keeps repeating that big tack are his allies in his efforts to create a world where everyone has freedom of speech in the united states is spreading human rights across the planet but some are saying that a social media purge of
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a former president sets a dangerous precedent it is an issue that we have got to be thinking about because of anybody who thinks. yesterday was donald trump who was banned and tomorrow could be somebody else who has a different very different point of view so i don't like giving that much power to a handful of high tech people but the devil is obviously in the details and it's something we're going to think long and hard on and that is how you preserve 1st amendment rights without moving this country into a big lie a mentality and conspiracy theory all kinds of pro trump voices have been purged from social media you've got the removal of retired general michael flynn sidney power and 2008 vice presidential candidate of the libertarian party and commentator wayne allen root we've also seen big tech declare certain news stories to be off limits they have shut down discussion of the biden family and their shady business dealings they have actually scrub search results to remove conservative media
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outlets but yet all kinds of inappropriate content remains on social media 40 percent of americans have faced online harassment or hate. california wants to hold big tech accountable for what they are not censoring while they're too busy playing politics instead californians are becoming increasingly alarmed about the role of social media in promoting hate disinflation conspiracy theories and extreme political polarization trost of social media has dropped to a low of 35 percent and it's not surprising either how social media originated with the idea being it would be a place for all kinds of people to be free to speak up and explore the marketplace of ideas instead it's turned into a place for playing politics and pushing some people's agenda while suppressing others they are afraid because it doesn't stop with doing great by the american people who plans to set president shop up to get him out the way so he won't be
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able to run for office the office again because they know if you dear run for office again that he will win and we need to look back at the 1st amendment when it comes to the media because we have seen how the. coming from big tech and the media these people have too much control they have became rich and they really don't care about map you know your opinions so if government want to rein in big take against bigger do it tomorrow if they wanted to do that the republican party democrat party is the same on big tex democrats and republicans on the same boat it takes $2000000.00 so bury the flag for saying the whole thing is a political gain. well former us president is not the only one who's been purged by social media giants actress and activist rose mcgowan shares her own experience of being ousted by big tag where you are prey to. a little pretty much speech going against your brownies i don't understand why you support evil characters and want to walk.
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i was just spend it by twitter for posting an internet photo of bill clinton and getting most of the stars and no woman flagged it for indeed i was just trying to drive the point home about a disgusting human really disgusting i know twitter is trying to silence me and i know a lot of the powerful democrats are behind it deactivated it's higher leave 4 days after i helped out harvey weinstein my attacker in the new york times expose a 4 years ago there is a world wide it will boycott where for 24 hour protests until they reinstated me and they have what i have been shouting and ever since i am tired of having these men is on my neck i am tired of having to hand over my mouth you guys are old pros
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to be tracked froze right to little grows and you're supposed to be the freedom of speech rap. and that is a lie. russian doctors have successfully performed a heart surgery in a burning hospital building a fire broke out in the hospital which specializes in heart surgery around mid day almost all patients as well as medical staff were evacuated from the burning building however one small team of doctors was performing sophisticated to open heart surgery at the. time had no choice but to carry on with the operation this was a success sounds luckily no one was hurt by the fire. still to come this hour the u.s. state department pledges to respect julian assange just human rights this extradited its forces reiterate warnings he's being persecuted for lifting the lid on american war crimes with a moron that's coming up after this very short break. as
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an individual committed a crime so nice to an international community a crime outrun. 2 years later one night individuals are used to punishing the person who committed the crime or is the person being punished for something they were a completely different person at the time one doesn't expire one is a person's actions no longer money to judge them for an everyday basis. welcome back thousands of anonymous reports of sexual harassment by peoples in u.k. schools has shown a spotlight on the abuse faced by students around 100 schools have been named in the testimonies including private institutions the 11000 accounts of sexual harassment in british schools were posted on the everyone's invited website which
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is aimed at exposing rape culture in the u.k. that figure has more than doubled in the past 2 days the majority of testimonies detailing the harassment of girls and included posts from children as young as 9 on me while a recent survey by a charity plan international u.k. reveals that 58 percent of girls aged $14.00 to $21.00 have been publicly harassed a school found that girls experience then wanted sexual comments as well as being grabbed and 3 quarters of girls said that schools should support those who have experienced public sexual harassment but the u.k. government has launched an emergency review and a hotline to support victims of sexual abuse in schools the british education secretary has said he's committed to ensuring victims feel supported by katie russell the national spokesperson for rape crisis in england and wales says this is no but by no means a new problem. these statistics aren't particularly surprising to us we know that
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sexual violence and abuse and sexist bullying and sexual harassment are far more widespread in the general population then many people appreciate but also ringback there was a women inequality select committee report into precisely this issue sex is bullying sexual harassment and sexual violence in schools just a few years ago and made a series of recommendations which the government has largely ignored failed to act upon so this is not a new phenomenon and really the question is why more hasn't been done by government to tackle this situation sooner any action of course is welcome but these feel very much like sort of kneejerk responses to a situation that has a say you know there's not been are known about. not despite the extradition of wiki leaks founder julian assange should the u.s. being blocked on human rights grounds back in january the u.s.
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state department continues to push for his extradition and insists the whistleblowers rights are being respected. human rights. and 29000 are sarge was arrested in london where he spent 7 years taking refuge in the ecuadorian embassy that's after he found himself wanted by the u.s. or thora tease following wiki leaks his publication of thousands of classified files exposing u.s. war crimes in iraq and afghanistan he would face espionage charges and up to 175 years behind bars if extradited international human rights groups and world leaders have held him as a champion of press freedom and pushed for the charges against him to be dropped. the latest remarks on the son's case from the state department come right after the
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release of its annual report on human rights the document singles out china iran venezuela turkey and russia accusing them of violating civil liberties but russia's foreign ministry has already said the document is quote in butte with double standards saying the state department should get its own house in order we asked almost cia officer ray mcgovern for his opinion on the estancia case we have here now is a situation where julian is surprised of any rights the main the main reason being that if they get him and put him in prison for the rest of us like no and no one will try to expose us what crimes are the empire's war crimes for julian it was slander over suresh it was torture and now god knows what you don't have to rely on me for that there is a un rapporteur for torture you'll smell so i looked into it so i hope he
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is able to escape the ultimate penalty but it judging from people who have seen him most recently he has already been. ruined by by the the treatment that he has been subjected to i do have hope that julian will will be able to persist and finally find a new life with his partner and his 2 little boys who pine away waiting for him to come home. beijing has lashed out at washington after a u.s. ambassador made his 1st official visit to taiwan and over 40 years china considers the island as part of its territory and has often been a point of contention in international relations however this isn't the 1st time washington has stepped on china's toes in the region the quadrilateral security dialogue has recently been reestablished which some of labeled the asia nato simon right has more. rise of china and subsequent tantrum in the west is heading the way
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these things always do the great powers and some not so great ones are getting together and holding hands and forming alliances so anything really bad happens we can all suffer together in the blue corner we have record for the 1st try we're convening this group. yet that meeting was a few weeks ago a meeting of the quadrilateral security guard court for short because no one can remember the real name who comes out with those names anyway it's made up of the united states india japan and australia some might suggest a more clues than quads the name of the gang is a free and open indo-pacific that was the promise after the 1st summit between the leaders of the us india japan and australia so there really are the words is to keep china in its place brilliantly without ever using the word china i show you one me you will take a look at their p.r. video often in a few words as we go. to be china free and open and
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close it and help unless you china. to be china i constrain that course power. to addressing the world defining challenge the rise of china moment of crisis something. to be china. and china. about the threat of climate change and combat the threat of china i'll save you the pain of watching you basically goes on like that some of the called the asian nato we say 50 denied because it is not a minute to your lines for the 1st time canada is participating in a joint exercise in the pacific ocean with the nations to rise the. sea definitely not a military alliance as ever though self-interest is likely to be the main enemy of this group they 1st got together back in 2004 to respond to the books and a tsunami when they tried to go steady off towards. make it all
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a bit more official they realized it wasn't going to work because none of them really wanted to annoy china. now almost 15 years after they gave up on the court in the 1st place their back and they realize they do want to annoy china now because the us is scared of being used as the global bully indios just have a border clash with china literally with sticks and australia is facing economic sanctions from beijing so yeah return of the cord we know that our allies have complex relationships with china that always align perfectly into a key u.s. ally south korea which is doing all it can to stay out of the cord after realizing that while it relies on the u.s. for its security it does most of its shopping in china australia doesn't seem to have noticed it in the same position hence those sanctions from beijing china has called the quad an excuse to form clique's and openly incite discord between regional countries with that in mind is building is own clique to incite discord
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your reaction to china making a big push into the mid east with a new 25 year deal with china and iran. is really struggling to señors cues and she so yes china and iran have signed a 25 year cooperation deal among other things beijing will be buying iranian oil in defiance of u.s. sanctions i mean just like the quote never says the c word china iran didn't exactly say at the signing but this is one big middle finger games where near washington the big geo political beasts then are picking their teams and taking sides. to worry about i'm sure. for the u.s. government there's no bigger responsibility then guarding the nuclear launch codes so to reassure americans they're in safe hands to teach a commander has been keeping them updated via twitter.
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if it takes us to command 30 minutes to recognize a missed tweet how long before they recognize we're under attack. i'm pretty sure u.s. strategic command just launched all the nukes. berlo al maybe it was a secret code or not so secret message to a foreign nation leader which is who every type that was struck. it looks like their cat walked on their keyboard. filed a freedom of information request with the us strategic command to see if i could learn anything about their jibberish tweet yesterday turns out their twitter manager left his computer on attended resulting in his very young child
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commandeering the keyboard. if this is the level of security what other forms of laxness might be exhibited somewhere along the line we're becoming so lax we're losing our minds there's also this idea that all children are at home now this is the time of covais don't you understand children are at home you know earlier misadventure it's bound to happen no we're not old when i read something i did something good it really happened do you mean to tell me that. the something like this was left open day. to day lives that i read that my journey home. well that's the news for today but before i go a quick and noun cements about something quite literally out of this world coming
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to our city this month marks 60 years since eureka gardens momentous 1st month journey into space and to mark this special occasion artie will be interviewing some of today's pioneers of space exploration so watch this space. i. think. an entire village in alaska has had to move if another country run the wife of an american. we do everything in our power to protect the. water then escaping
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climate change poses the same threat right now alaska seems some of the fastest coastal erosion in the world whilst about 30 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. is fast and means the river is 35 closer to the power than was 4 i don't think we're part of the 1st for. the wall street frauds going all the way back to the twenty's they're not different they're repackaged branded and sold again it's the same wine it in a bottle so the spac fraud is just a variation on the dot com fraud which is
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