a police officer is killed and another injured in a car. where the suspect is shot dead. ahead in the program. ready to go it alone with procurement. program those concerns were assured by the world health organization's executive director for europe. interviews with.

french doctors there a fury at president. vaccinations for. yet another surge in patients. we believe the government is to blame for the fact that we have to. look at the same time in a completely gruelling regime. around the clock across the world this is r.t. good to have your company my names you know their top story. we begin with the developing story from washington d.c. a police officer is dead another in hospital after a car ramming outside the u.s. capitol building the suspect was shot and killed after stepping out of his vehicle

and brandishing a knife or to america correspondent. reports from capitol hill. last week we had the fencing around the capitol taken down and then this incident happened we just had a press conference where all of this information was released but the incident happened around one or 2 pm suspect was then shot around $115.00 and then the national guardsmen were actually deployed to come back out into the streets of washington d.c. moments after that all happened so i want to take you a look at a look at the scene behind me here where you're seeing all of those police vehicles right into that area is a driveway where many senators you'll see the building on the left that's the senate building many of these senators walking back and forth to and from that building just across where you see those police officers on the right there is a driveway there where again many of these senators their cars or workers into the work at the capitol drive in what happened was that one

o 2 pm the suspect drove his car through that driveway hitting 2 police officers and then smashed into a barricade much like the barricades that you're seeing that we're seeing right here in front of these national troops however the suspect coming down the street those barricades were not up at the time now since this incident they have been put barricades have now been erected with the 2 officers that were hit they were immediately taken into separate ambulances to the hospital again as you mentioned one of them succumbing to his injuries and we just had a capitol police officer die back on january 6th during the insurrection here at the capitol so the d.c. is very much been on high alert since then which is why they brought out that fencing this officer is now the 5th capitol police officer in its 200 year history to die in the line of duty again we had that officer brian sic nick di back on january 6th during the insurrection as far as the mood of what's happening here you can see very much you know looks very very high stakes behind the barricades there

but actually if you take a look completely across the capitol you can see everyone very normal people on. scooter's people walking around taking pictures of the building with the suspect being dead and with an officer being dead there is still no motive given we don't know the motive yet however the capitol hill police have said in their press conference that this was not they do not consider this an act of terrorism. well the officer who died in the attack has now been named as william evidence who'd worked for capitol police for 18 years president biden sent heartfelt condolences to the officers family i spoke with former pentagon unless michael maloof a little earlier he believes the latest incident will result in an even larger security presence in washington d.c. well into the future the initial concern was this could have been a decoys and immediately the rest of the capitol went under further lockdown and

also has they've also done the same thing for government buildings just in case this might have been a decoys but so far nothing else has happened it could have been just a test if people who had been tensions of it in the capitol will look upon this as a lesson learned what to do or what not to do and how to go about this but i think that this latest episode just reinforces especially if it was done by a lone a lone wolf that the they're going to have to maintain their their security presence and actually beef up security because of the sensitivities of what's going on in the in the capital area especially on capitol hill and the vulnerability of congressmen and senators they're going to maintain security for an indefinite period of time. ok moving the program germany ses it's ready to take matters into its own hands when it comes to ordering vaccines if the e.u.

doesn't get its act together the country's health minister also stressed that burley needs to stock up on jobs for next year too. what is 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 well it is no secret the save the e.u. vaccine rollout has been beset by problems with several states now looking to break away from the joint purchase scheme those countries include slovakia hungary austria it's just entered talks to buy a 1000000 doses of the russian job as well despite it not yet having been approved by the blocs drug watchdog well the world health organization has also expressed its concerns calling the e.u.'s efforts on 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 that astra zeneca is troubles and the prospects of the russian vaccine in the block with the executive director of the w.h.o. is 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 covert 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 straits 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 it back seem to agree to take it the longer we wait the higher the likelihood. that the virus

mutates and that will see variants escape the vaccine 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 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 their full of using it what is the stands now on astra zeneca as vaccine for some confidence to such a fragile thing i mean it takes years in some cases years to build in just a few minutes to erode and diminish so it will undoubtedly and has undoubtedly impact its 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 course the 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 fear of its own thing the 1st one out there are those put on the market was sputnik v. some countries and the west the big. slow to approve use of it is that 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 used split the vaccine from what we've seen from the russian federation's the dates of its own of all peers to be ineffective and say that massey is used in many member states and in some of the states that 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 sputnik very being used to many member states it does not have european medicines association approval hence it doesn't have e.u.

member states using it at this point but we are confident that in the very near future not vaccine will be of use to everybody across the globe. what the message from the w.h.o. is something president among you will micron may want to bear in mind french doctors have been venting their frustration on his failure to deliver on his promise to speed up vaccinations front's enters its 3rd lockdown they warn that the lack of available doses is not critical with ever more seriously ill covert patients being admitted to a ready overwhelmed hospitals but the nation's leader insists the rollout is helping at full throttle. we are putting all means to vaccinate vaccinate vaccinate without response without holidays saturdays and sundays just like weekdays. 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 due to the inability to complete the work on time due to 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 grueling regime simply because of a lack of equipment the new wave of code will lead to overcrowding in hospitals we already know this will happen we are already deciding which patients get treatment and which don't because about 60 percent of operations were canceled. on the web mr mccracken promised to increase the number of intensive care beds to more than 10 hours of it but doctors say it will kill at the expense of covert patients another problem is lack of staff intensive care in choirs and additional special training and equipment bertrand ses those challenges could have been avoided if. they are.

imagine because emmanuel macron has woken up a year after the start of the crisis the year ago in march the need for 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 are 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 all hospitals as a result of therapy sites are still limited responsibility for this rests entirely with the manual macron who endlessly delayed the adoption of measures even preventative measures such as supplying hospitals with oxygen cylinders an oxygen therapy device is necessary for treating patients. live from moscow this is r

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eat. alone again the united states is using all tools of its disposal to counter the ever growing global influence of china and with that goal in mind washington's reaching out to allies across asia with mixed success here's the take over own i mean right. rise of china and subsequent tantrum in the west is heading the way

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. 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 that more clues than quads the aim 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 their real aim in other 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 and. close

it and help the unless you china. to be china straight course power china committing 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 cord the asian nato we say officially 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 the rise of 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 booking day tsunami when they tried to go steady off towards. make it all 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 cord in the 1st place they're 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 sticks in australia is facing economic sanctions from beijing so yeah return of the quad 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 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 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 and iran didn't exactly say at the signing but this is one big middle finger at washington the big geopolitical beast then are picking their teams and taking sides. to worry about i'm sure. russian opposition activists alexy in the 3rd himself on hunger strike after claiming he's being mistreated in prison he's promoting the right to choose his own doctor has made various allegations of mistreatment been rapidly picked up by western media outlets mission of ali was jailed around the month ago. breaking the terms of a suspended sentence for an earlier embezzlement conviction his case is now being

reviewed by russia's human rights committee which is conducting a tour of the country's prison system or to join them to see firsthand the facility where alexina valley is being held amid much international speculation. you can tell a lot about how civilized a society is by entering its present russian prisons shrouded in dark mystery a beloved topic for the merchants of doom but lately the gaze of the international media and rights activists has been glued to one penal colony holding alexina valley in one of the toughest penal colonies it's a place that's very isolated very strict information flows it's a demoralizing and very difficult place to spend a lot of time this particular theme in a flat in a region is one of russia's most the story of 2 of our colleagues set off to check up on these alarming reports of abuse not as journalists though but as members of

russia's human rights watchdog our crew strong along novelle me call this a concentration camp here is what we were shown the facility has a library a medical unit 3 floors of conjugal visit rooms the daily routine is hardly spa like of course the administration has the facility in an iron grip that this is not a resort it's a correctional facility and of course things you're allowed to do on the outside on to allowed in here it feels like groundhog day get up do your exercises make the bed tidy up breakfast morning inspection then lunch get some free time evening inspection and more tidying up dinner lectures lights out now we couldn't independently verify these exact claims but what we were shown corroborated the account so this is what a typical barack here looks like but apart from well expected bunk beds there's also a table for ping pong the administration has assured us it hasn't been brought here just for show well being able to play table tennis in

a penitentiaries is great and all of that but alexina valley hasn't been complaining about the lack of exercise he's accused the administration of denying him medical care privately though inmates from the same unit as novelli say that they heard a very different account from him. as i can tell he's regularly taken to the medical unit on top of that a doctor from a regional institution has seen him he said he was taken for an m.r.i. but said that he had not yet received any diagnosis in us which lama bottle at personally examined him and his condition was satisfactory he did all the tests gave blood and urine samples had a full examination on the 24th of march he was taken for examination at the regional hospital in the city of atlanta and you're all just prescribed treatment for him which he has refused and is still refusing to this day. maria buton now an expert for russia's commissioner for human rights has seen the inside of an american prison so she can put the conditions here in context she visited in

a valley and here's how it went christmas just a good year before if that was really the roots of the pressure to the. us live we knew but i took the position i knew that out of those of us this is your life to the media's national anthem the ghost of pleasure to move in your pity of it watching what is good with your day to music when you're out of yourself are conscious because they were both mother to most of what is right not although you are shocked by the thought the grappling is a part of your story delisted well there is a hospital tonight it's a new place with your own you know your vision your eyes is that years of us to get out of our shit with choices it's just what's in the struggle it's a part of this is the ignorance the love that society which the birds and the world as it would be traced everything changed and before that up whatever we produce woman at the british with research as well do we have whichever way you want to do that is this going to go on a petition still a don't shoot him this doing it's a question child measures are cried out especially with other leaders like when the new guy strikes and you do go to move not a coalition of the only plan was to. opt out of the us and this was negotiable

because when it in your heart was soon about the need to do it it would normally fire us and he did it which united nations is that when you seriously price it out of the van with. the with the united way that part of the cost of your smile is to look at what is better than most of what we really should call those of us. it was a residence out to. live with he to explore the new things and you're going in those particular something like yes this is good i am sincerely here of my own free will as i've received requests from russia civic chamber and i said to him aleksey you yourself complain that something is wrong with you here well here i am if you compare this place to an american prison for example in terms of the number of people staying in one of those dorms then whereas here you see about 50 people together over there it's $3.00 to $4.00 times more overcrowded and here you can see that everyone has space there's a shared kitchen there are special rooms for a long family visits which do not exist at all in america which there are no such

visits he looks down on everyone you know as someone who's been to prison i would advise him not to behave in this way the administration will protect him as best they can but he's living with other prisoners if one of them ends up being punished for his behavior say his own cleanliness he will be the one to blame the vollies behavior has been mirrored and amplified by his followers as other members of russia's rights watchdog showed us threats they got since the kremlin critic was incarcerated yet medical care is just the tip of the vollies iceberg of complaints sleep deprivation another charge against the colonies administration guards waking him up 8 times a night beaming a flashlight in his face talking loudly and his e a jury nighttime roll call but according to an inmate sharing the block with a volley he must be a featherweight of a sleeper no one else is bothered by the rounds most potent and missed my bed is practically next to his during the night i don't wake up from their rounds it's never happened to me if i'm not mistaken he was in

a plugs when he sleeps it doesn't bother me even without it plugs. to hear it from someone in the valleys shoes we talked to an inmate from a different calling subjected to the very same rules when jews the same procedure as every night starting from 10 pm they do their rounds every 2 hours on the 1st day i kept waking up but now it's all good so no one sticks a torch in your face or anything like that no not really it is unlikely one public visit will put to rest claims about and volleys treatment from his backers home and abroad but russian authorities hope that a more transparent strategy opening prison doors as opposed to building them shot will allow a different picture to emerge of his confinement. done of see. the migraine crisis on the southern u.s. border as being dominating the news of late and now it's making even more headlines over the terminology being used democratic representative alexandria cortez has

condemned the labeling of the situation at the border as a migrant surge that congresswoman claims that's akin to pushing so-called white supremacy this is not a surge and we are not be invaded which by the way is a white supremacist idea. cortez made those remarks during a live stream on instagram and was quickly ridiculed online with some highlighting the risks of misusing such extreme terms. question is venue ice cream also a sign of white supremacy you'll say anything to rile your base you fall in line as want to speak. also you are a big reason the face white supremacy is new using its meaning referring to border facilities as modern day concentration camps is just fine in a book but referring to the ongoing crisis on the border as

a surge is militaristic and white supremacy you know article a few years back talk about the left's propensity to try to control the language and they redefine things and so any type of word like serves if it doesn't fit for them they're going to read they're going to find some way to turn it into something that has to do with the idea of the politics and use it's going to use the age old terms to say racism anything and everything is racist is either racism massaging this to get it's bigoted it's whatever like that anything that will paint them into a corner when you're trying to nail them down on facts and terms they'll simply slide out of it by yelling that it's racist or bigot or almost ordered her transphobia or any other type of all the that they can try to put on anything so you have the terms are ridiculous that she's trying to use. a more great programs get their start in moments find out what's being served up wherever you are today after the shortest outbreaks i mean in a real life or not. as

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if you're born into a poor family ocular born into a minority family if you're born into a family that only has a single parent that really constrains your life chances people die on average 15 years old a good morning to generational poverty. it's a tough fight every day to meet your needs and the needs of your family. and you know the bottleneck. vision research. and socially.

what started my interest i should say in black americans in the soviet union in the thirty's was finding this portrait even though i had gone to grad school of the master's degree in russian literature i speak russian and i had lived over there in the late eighties finding this portrait was was a stunning development for me how did i not know about this. i didn't know that this was a phenomenon that there were many. african-americans who went to russia in the in the thirty's. in the 1920 s. and thirty's several 100 african-americans moved to the soviet union and many of the descendants still live in russia.