a police officer is killed and another injured in a car ramming outside the u.s. capitol the suspect is shot dead as the c. . germany says it's ready to go it alone and getting vaccines if the u. fails to fix its stagnant program those concerns were shared by the world health organization's executive director for europe in an exclusive interview with r.t. . with both a long i'm frustrated at the moment we're long because we're rapidly approaching 1000000 deaths in the european nation with but also. because we don't see the stark scenes reaching across to. and french doctors vent their fury at the president in fact for failing to deliver on his promise to speed up vaccinations while frontline

medics tackle get another surgeon coping page. with good loser history 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. broadcasting live from moscow to the world this is our to international quarter with you here in the studio welcome. now we start with the story from washington d.c. one police officer is dead and another in the hospital after a car ramming outside the u.s. capitol building the suspect was shot dead and killed after stepping out of his vehicle and brandishing a knife reporting from outside capitol hill here's our t. america's foreign fronsac. 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 were 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 at 102 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 arrested 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 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 their school. 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 now the officer who was killed in the attack has been identified as william evans who was a capitol policeman for 18 years president biden has sent heartfelt condolences to the officers family and former pentagon analyst michael maloof thinks 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 have intentions of getting the capital 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 capitol area especially on capitol hill and the vulnerability of congressmen and senators they're going to maintain security for an indefinite period of time. germany says it's ready to take matters into its own hands when it comes to ordering vaccines if the european union doesn't get its act together the country's health minister also stressed that berlin needs to stock up on shots for next year as well. 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 lunts hence we must secure these capacities as part of the

european union or failing that as a nation the e.u. vaccine rollout has been plagued by problems with several states now looking to break away from the joint purchase scheme they include slovakia and hungry while austria just entered talks to buy a 1000000 doses of the russian shot despite it not receiving approval from the blocks drug watchdog the world health organization has also expressed its concerns calling the e.u.'s efforts quote unacceptably slow according to the organization only 4 percent of europeans have been given 2 doses of the vaccine so far earlier my colleague neil harvey discussed that astra zeneca troubles and the prospects of the russian vaccine in the block with the executive director of the who'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 ferrante 20140 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 vaccination 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 they 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 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 is 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 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 politics is something that we should necessarily just just in terms of the vaccines and when different vaccines used

sputnik the vaccine from what we've seen from the russian federation's the dates of its own the pope has to be an effective and cite nazi 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 vaccine that has come to that aid and supports so sputnik very being used to many member states it does not counts 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. that message from the who is something president emanuel macron may want to bear in mind because french doctors have been venting their frustration at his failure to deliver on his promise to speed up vaccinations as france enters into 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 the nation's leader insists the rollout is moving at full speed. 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 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 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 deciding which patients get

treatment and which don't because about 60 percent of operations were cancelled on wednesday macron promised to increase the number of intensive care beds to more than 10000 but doctors say it will come at the expense of non covert patients another problem is lack of staff as intensive care requires additional special treatment and equipment for travel a grand again says those challenges could have been avoided if paris had acted earlier. 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're now used at 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 accident therapy sites 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. or news after this short break. historically speaking the cold war was a great ideological confrontation western liberalism versus soviet communism according to joe biden the great geo political struggle of our time is democracy versus the toxicity for biden we are in another great ideological struggle but there is

a difference the west particularly the united states is the only ideological actor .

welcome back to the program now the us is using all tools at 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 of our own simon right. the 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 convene 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 they're 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 they're really mean are the words is to keep china in its place brilliantly about every 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 close it and help the unless you china. to be china i think straight course power china committed 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 our savior the pain of watching it basically goes on like that some of called the quad 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 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 booking day tsunami when they tried to go steady off towards. make it all a bit more fish you 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 they're back and they realize they do want to know each other now because the us is being used as the global bully indios just have a border clash with china. 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 won't always align perfectly and to us ally south korea which is doing all it can to stay out of the cord after realizing that while it when i was on the us for a security it does most of its shopping in china australia doesn't seem to have

noticed it in the same position as 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 its own clique to incite this called 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 see the oars cues and she so yes china and iran have signed a 25 year cooperation deal among other things beijing will be buying your a new noyo 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 aimed squarely at washington the big geo political beasts then are picking their teams and taking sides. to worry about i'm sure. another news russian opposition activist aleksei of all me has gone on

a hunger strike after claiming he's being mistreated in prison he's demanding the right to choose his own doctor and has made various allegations of mistreatment that have been rapidly picked up by the western media of all he was jailed around a month ago for breaking parole terms for an earlier embezzled and conviction this case is now being reviewed by russia's human rights committee which is conducting a tour of the country's prison system r.t. joined them to see firsthand the facility where aleksey involved me is being held. 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 are 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 not only called this a concentration camp here's 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 barrack 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 the 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 you know 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 virginia and you're all just prescribed treatment for him which he has refused and is still refusing to this day. maria buton 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 shows through the goods here if that was really the roots of the pressure to the. us live we knew that i hated the pollution and i knew that out of those of us this is your life to me as a national anthem the coast guard for sure to new kitty you've written a little girl of your day to music when job was a question because they were both mothers almost a police record although they were supposed to the governing is a part of your story deal it's a well there is a hospital tonight it's a new place with your own you know with your vision you get a says that years of us to get out of our ship with choices it's just what's in the struggle it's the province's the ignorance the love the society who pitched in a person that would end up with everything changed in business thought up what they would give this woman the petition which reaches well do we or whichever way you want it you live all that is it's going to go on petitions to lay down shimkus

doing it's a question child measure how private especially with other leaders like with the new hampshirites and you would you gotta move not a coalition of the only plan was to. opt out of the missile was negotiable because when it in your heart was soon about the need to do to build new nuclear us individually that is what united nations is and when you are surely by supports of other than with. the with the united way that part of the course of your smile is to look record in the demos of what they really should call the business. it was a presence out. with each of those were the new things the new going in those particular something life 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 an of ollie's 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 izzie a jury nighttime roll call but according to an inmate sharing the block with the

volume he must be a featherweight of a sleeper no one else is bothered by the rounds most potent and 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 who in 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 in a valise treatment from his backers home and abroad but russian authorities hope that a more transparent strategy opening prison doors as opposed to building them shucked will allow a different credible picture to emerge of his confinement. done of see. how

the migrant crisis on the southern u.s. border has been dominating the news as of late that now it's making even more headlines over the terminology being used democratic representative alexandria kazuo cortez has condemned the labeling of the situation at the border as a quote migrant surge the 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 because you know cortez made those remarks during a live stream on instagram and was quickly ridiculed online with some highlighting the risk 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 one of speaker pelosi oh so 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 any book but referring to the ongoing crisis on the border as a surge is militaristically 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 state races anything and everything is racist you see the 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 bigoted or homophobic or 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. for faster than light updates on all

those stories make sure to check us out on twitter or on our website or to dot com i'll be back with more news in just about 30 minutes and i hope to see you then. this thing you know became the bottleneck. for movement and you know for what you see there's a girlfriend who should lead the true equal to the division in the selection of this lead before you go out to dave and socially then. cop at least goes with the other students all against you between so you don't you know those

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world whilst about 30 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. is fast and peace the river is 35 closer to the town than was for i don't think were part of her. hello and welcome the process we're all playing for considered i'm peter lavelle historically speaking the cold war was a great ideological confrontation western liberalism versus soviet communism

according to joe biden the great geopolitical struggle of our time is democracy versus a caucus even for biden we are in another great ideological struggle but there is a difference the west particularly the united states is the only ideological actor . cross talking geopolitics i'm joined by my guest rick ross off in chicago he is an anti nato analyst and a contributor to antiwar dot com in bath we have bruce gagne and he is the coordinator of the global network against weapons and nuclear power in space and in charlottesville we cross to david swanson he is the executive director of world beyond war hi gentlemen crosstalk roles in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate david let me go to you 1st and charlottesville . going after my introduction.