in some of the stories that shaped this week's news. in the handling of the cobra crisis spot the french president of the country imposes a national lockdown. here's a. poll reveals one in 4. last year money saudi exhaustion from the pandemic speaks one. of the ladies have. much. to help. from. continues with facebook deleting interview with former president george page

from. community can't be held responsible for the actions of someone who visuals with muslims on treated with more respect and softer teacher showed his class called the prophet muhammad. the big issues raised. from a shut down discussion i'm using threats of bombs people to. keep interest across europe and the rest of the world. from moscow welcomes the weekly. morning welcome to the program. and the french president admits that mistakes have been made at every stage of the pandemic in a televised address to the nation and a 3rd nationwide looked out of code cases saw intensive care beds filling up on the

country news 100000 he said the situation left him with no other choice. the city 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 we all need to make an additional effort over the coming months this is what i ask of us collectively tonight or since saturday locks are measures have been extended from 19 areas to all of mainland france that means a nationwide curfew burning at beginning at 7 pm and a ban on travel between regions schools have also been closed for at least 3 weeks and additional policing has been introduced to ensure no more than 6 people gather at once or the measures introduced by the french leader come as a youth earned his previous decision not to locked out in january but on his faith increasing criticism from scientists and hospital bosses. i say to the

government do it now do it now or do it for a shorter time but do it to concede their 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 predicted france's president is without doubt an educated man emmanuel macro through through the country's top institutions before making a mark in both the private or public sector even the playing from youngest of a president i mean it's a pretty impressive resume and people trade himself as a learn who knew when to take advice it is important 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 cause. for he declared that he has become an epidemiologist despite not having a scientific background these claims over. seas on health issues have also rubbed the wrong way. because you don't let mr 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 for all those that talk about epidemiology and among them we can find heads of states like president who talks about epidemiology just like we talk about politics when we talk about sculpture or box music but they're not necessarily

sculpture artists. well musicians. meanwhile there are fears of a nursing exodus in britain that's after a survey revealed the nation's staff on are more likely to quit their jobs than in previous years exhaustion from the pandemic was cited as the overriding reason according to the poll one in 4 and i just workers are more inclined to leave than here in the previous 12 months almost 30 percent of them were nurses and midwives to look at patients facing major shortages and 70 percent sort of pay rise is a decisive factor while those working for free student nurses say they're struggling to make ends meet $1.00 of them gave us her reaction to the surveys findings it doesn't surprise me it's what we've had to use it needs increased but. the cost of living has gone up but wages have that in christian and i think to be honest with 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 you know that to get

a good environment for one british health authorities a promise to provide the n.h.s. with an extra 29000000000 pounds the nurses we spoke to say that the money isn't making any difference when it comes to student medics. we get the 5000 pound girl and some people get a 2000 pounds were on depends on if it were children or what feels like i mean tape but in reality is a drop in the i should say that the increase in childcare costs you know the increase in council tax increase in fuel into placement in my 1st year i visit to defeat back twice. and actually the next states that were actually retired nurses at the bank they couldn't believe that if they should i go into this position because i have a rabbi they are 2 children and that's why my reply required what was quite a full time child care and the other one it just started sco the thought has come for you all to we've already so i doubt the course of that for you but the potential if you leave the coals and it does add to the mental so that the sorry

sorry dr. also this week the long awaited report on the origins of cope with 19 has faced sharp criticism wild wind for leaving many questions still unanswered even organizations that work to general hospital for further research we asked the russian member of the will on mission of why getting to the bottom of the outbreak is proving so difficult. which will close on a mission started off on the 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 prepared to rework aimed at 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 since we've 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 of. 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 competent international organizations building from that we def or can't say that a lab leak might have been the cause. 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. from has long been banned by social media giants but that doesn't mean their powers are the war president is over it was real on tuesday that facebook could remove an interview with him posted by his daughter in law auntie's caleb moore where the social media giants are now 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 be removed and result in additional limitations on the account donald trump is not the president anymore you 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 tech are his allies in his efforts to create a world where everyone has freedom of speech and the united states is spreading human rights across the planet but some are saying that a social media purge of a former president sets a dangerous precedent it is an issue that we have got to be thinking about because anybody who thinks. yesterday was donald trump 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 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 of the fault with doing great by the american people who plans to set president try to get him out that way so he won't be able to run for office the office again because you know if you did run for office again that he will win 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 mappin you know your opinion so if government want to rein in big take against they could 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 say the whole thing is a political gain. actress and activist rose mcgowan shared her own experience of being outside said by ousted one big check. what do you pray to. a little pretty much speech going against your from aids i don't understand why you support evil characters' and want to block. i was just spend it by twitter for posting an internet photo of bill clinton and

getting massaged by and no woman flagged it for indeed i was just trying to drive the point home about a disgusting human doing disgusting things i know twitter is trying to silence me and i know a lot of the powerful democrats are behind big deactivated my own is tired of the 4 days after i helped out harvey weinstein my attacker in the new york times expose a 4 years ago there was a worldwide women boycott where for 24 hour protests until they reinstated they did and they have but i have been shadow band ever since i am tired of having these men's feet on my neck i'm tired of having to hand over my mouth you guys are old pros to be tracked for a strike a little grows and you're supposed to be the freedom of speech that you are and that is a lot. still to come

a whole finds most americans are anxious about losing their jobs i was someone may have said the bottom line because of counsel to look into that just off of this break. listen you know became the bottleneck of politics. you see there is a girlfriend who someone thought through equal to the division of the selection. he's not going to lead things and socially. the least those are so-called peace with the palestinians all against between so you know it's those who say only you know. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the

day or thinks. we hear him to ask. him back to the weekly and a mom in the u.k. as well the prime minister the trouble is brewing if more respect isn't shown to muslims insinuating the country could go the way france that saw for a teacher in northern england left parts of the community outraged by showing cartoons of the prophet muhammad is class all we ask for is a bit of respect if one teach you can do it another teach can do it 5 years down

the line and we do not want this to be the case otherwise we are not responsible for the actions of some individuals the teacher and his family are now in hiding after receiving death threats he's apologized but has been suspended muslims are demanding the school fire him over a petition calling on the school to reinstate him has gone over 65000 signatures well you could have bought one for education has also defended the teacher. it is never acceptable to threaten the intimate data teaches we encourage dialogue between parents and schools when he she has emerged schools are free to include a full range of issues ideas and materials in their curriculum including where they are challenging a controversial subject or they obligations to ensure political balance or outrage over a similar case in france last october to the brutal murder of some well party history teacher near paris he was beheaded by terrorists after showing cartoons of the

prophet mohammed to his pupils seem deeply from christian concern imo and sorrow political and social commentator debated the issue. this could be very easily turning into some kind of a powder keg and you do not throw that matches into such things we've seen in france and in many european countries the rise of the far right we've seen some 2 tier civil rights system pushing against islam pushing against muslims marginalizing them and it's open season on muslims courage attack them on free speech basis and people make themselves up to be free speech martyrs or somehow muslims become inflamed or they won't fit in western values so what's most alarming here is that a teacher asked her to go into hiding with police protection because what he's done he's he's discussed opened a discussion about a cartoon and the why the subject of blasphemy he hasn't actually hurt anyone he hasn't actually even threatened any violence and yet there are obviously very real threats of violence against him so much so the police to protect him and take his

family his wife and his children into hiding i think that is very very concerning and i think we need to recover a sense of normality and a sense of people being able to openly discuss and educate people about these things and i've been around the block a few times and had this discussion a few times every time we've had this discussion on free speech and debate we have put down to worst of the idea is racism hatred we know it's not ok to be racist against muslims to make the argument is your right to be racist or is this racist we need to learn about religion that we need to learn about what people believe and we need to openly discuss them and so people and super about it let's be very clear about this that discussing a cartoon is got about how it has nothing to do with basis and it's not racism at all so what's happening here is people are trying to shut down a discussion and using threats of violence when people judge. people who work with the english defense league you keep anti muslim interest across europe and the rest

of the while to try and demonize muslims marginalize them would have enough you will not win the cultural debate. or is he ok to be poked fun at and be racist against muslims out of the lot of us read what else is and you don't get to be offensive towards us this is not the way a free society should work he should definitely be defended it's all he's done is raise a discussion people should be free to discuss things in class if we're not free to discuss things we have a de facto blasphemy law in the country which is being enforced by more cruel that threatens violence against people. the mother of council culture is having an impact on people psychological well being the majority of people polled in the us say they fear being fired all reprimanded for what they will say online is a chilling finding that most people in the country now are afraid they would be fired if they expressed their real views on social media of the nearly 2000 people surveyed over 60 percent of you growing council culture as

a threat to their freedom or more than half see it as in danger in their job security we can was the putting on the issues among new yorkers. people are creative and have a different mindset some artists decide to do different things people your next door neighbor the fact of the difference is a human and agree on i don't feel i used to ruin their entire lives over what they think in their mind even though it is harsh and it could really go like that market sometimes i think it does scare people and it makes people think and maybe i'm sure you know. inappropriate actions. the idea of canceling canceling is bad and is not a good way of. creating difficult conversations because difficult conversations are very important to making difficult topics less difficult. to karelia change the way that a person interacts with the world of using. to also understand like being fed up

with having delivered respond to people so far it's just a lot it's always more complicated and it's been a. political commentator to try to more share his thoughts on council culture and where it's come from. in the past we've always sort of focused on the government and focused on protecting the constitution but of course in this in this day and age the threats are coming not really from the government they're coming from businesses from private corporations and most importantly from each other so that makes it interesting and different i think from from anything else. that we've really experience and culture before it's you know and it's such a lot of this has become a social media mob and threats to docs and get people fired and. it's right to upgrade them on many levels and most importantly it has a chilling effect on public discourse and of people being able to speak their minds

to openly discuss and advocate for things that they can for the things that they truly believe in and their criticisms and maybe what's going on in culture and in government and even mechanical culture itself as we've seen just criticizing cancel culture can get you can tell. us is using only fools at its disposal to counsel the ever growing global influence of china with not goal in mind washington's reaching out to allies across asia with mixed success and the take of our own sovereign right. the rise of china and subsequent tantrum in the west is heading the way these things always do the great powers 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 the cord for the 1st try and we're convene this group leader yet that meeting was a few weeks ago a meeting of the quadrilateral security dialogue or quote 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 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 now every using the word china i show you want me you will take a look at their p.r. video often in a few words as we go. in the dish to be china free and open and close it and help unless you china. to be china unconstrained by course power china committed to addressing the world's defining challenge the rise of china moment of crisis something. to be china could take in china. about the threat of climate change and combat the threat of china our savior

the pain of watching you basically goes on like that some of called the quad the asian nato we say officially denied because it is not a military alliance 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 bear 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 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 won't always align perfectly enter 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 us 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 its 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 down 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 aimed squarely at washington the big geopolitical beast then are picking their teams and taking sides i mean to worry about i'm sure. this is of any use now in brief several top ranking figures including members of the rule household arrested in jordan so an alleged plot against king abdullah the 2nd jordanian officials have denied that prince sums up in hussein was arrested over the former crown prince says he's been placed under house arrest and has accused the country's leaders of corruption incompetence and harassment. at least 10 police officers have been injured and $26.00 people arrested or killed the bill protest in london clashes broke out during a rally of thousands of protesters outside parliament the bill if passed into law would have police the right to limit demonstrations which the activists use encroachments on their civil rights a similar bunnies have been held in other major cities across the u.k.

. the historic procession of egypt's ancient rulers has passed through the center of cairo the mummies comprising of 18 kings and 4 queens were transported from the country's national museum to their new resting place at the museum of egyptian civilization a ceremony called the golden parade of the pharaohs began just after sunset some of the mummies being transported in climate controlled places or more than 3000 years old. quite incredible scenes there in cairo worlds apart up next with exxon a boyko a just a few moments time we're back in half an hour with the latest headlines do you join us again then. the world. who.

are. part of. the welcome to worlds apart there is a saying here and russia that whenever teachers come together there are at least 3 m.p.'s and testaments fully borne out by the latest israeli elections which are to muscle action hearing resulted in yet another stalemate with now 13 parties actually just forming new government what does this new round of political and 2nd do you need for the country and the region as a whole well to discuss that i'm now joined by your cynical purpose in your

consulting research fellow at chatham house mr necker beck it's great to talk to thank you very much for your time thank you for having not enough russian culture russian language is happily influenced by jewish humor but even if you're you know we're running out of jokes you talk about the situation in which 4 elections in 2 years fail to produce any electoral said how many more elections do you think it will take you take a break from campaigning at the trying to your normal boring government you know when you mentioned to jews. this isn't a. well that's for sure you know the other days you only really if you can move and i think this is a reflection of traditional standard action so lectionary.