in some of the stories that shaped this week's news a stark admission of failure in the handling of the covert crosshairs spy the french president as the country imposes a 3rd national locked up. fears. in the u.k. as a poll reveals one in 4 workers are more likely to quit now than in 2020 but many starting exhaustion from the pandemic we speak to one british nurse. we've had to easy. increase. wages have criticized so much. and i feel the government need to help increase. the. social media continues with facebook to lead to an interview with the former president. page.

warns his community cannot be held responsible for the actions of some individuals if muslims are treated with more respect for teachers showed his class cartoons of the prophet muhammad. debate the issues raised. people trying to shut down discussion and using threats of violence we will. work with. the rest of the world we do not. live from moscow thanks for joining us the we on the weekly here. this morning you're very welcome with us on the program. now the french president admits that mistakes have been made at every stage of the pandemic in a televised address the nation model mark or else they 3rd nationwide locked out as

code cases saw intensive care beds are filling up around the country death toll in 100000 he said the situation left him with no other choice is. this it did 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 all since saturday lockdown measures have been extended from 19 areas to all of mainland france that means a nationwide curfew beginning at 7 pm and a ban on travel between regions schools have also been closed for at least 3 weeks an additional policing has been introduced to ensure no more than 6 people gather at once. and other measures introduced by the french leader come as a u.-turn to his previous decision not to lock down in january mark on his face increasing criticism from m.p.'s 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 predicts it france's president is without a doubt an educated man emmanuel macro and through through the country's top institutions before making a mark in both the private or public sector he then repaying france's youngest ever president i mean it's a pretty impressive resume and people traded in selfless and learned he knew when to take advice needed it is important at this time by following the advice of scientists as we've just done to ensure the continuity of democratic life and our institutions but now it seems being top dog isn't quite enough not corn his thrown 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 aids if he wouldn't do for there he declared that he has become an epidemiologist despite not having a scientific background in these claims over. seas on health issues have also rubbed experts so the wrong way. mr mccracken is president of the republic and in the framework of the pandemic just like all heads of states he has become interested in epidemiological data yes to put his nose to the grindstone he's obliged to take notice of trends but that doesn't make him an epidemiologist of course for all those that talk about epidemiology and among them we can find heads of states like president mccrone who talks about epidemiology just like we talk about politics when we talk about sculpture or about music but they're not necessarily sculpture artists or musicians. meanwhile there are fears of

a nursing exodus in britain softer a survey revealed that n.h.s. staff are now 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 n.h.s. workers are more inclined to leave now than during the previous 12 months almost 30 percent of them were nurses and midwives silkie patients facing major shortages and 70 percent said a pay rise is a decisive factor all those working for free student nurses say they are struggling to make ends meet and one of them gave us her reaction to the findings it doesn't surprise me it's what we've had to use it needs increased but. not the cost of living has gone up the wages have increased so much stress on the nurses that midwives everyone involved in the mission and i think to be honest it pandemic i think everyone has now had enough and they need help and i feel the government need

to help and increase the way. to get a good environment for everyone british health authorities have promised to provide the n.h.s. with an extra $29000000000.00 pounds the nurse we spoke to that money isn't making any difference when it comes to student medics. we get the 5000 pounds and some people get a 2000 pound grant depending if it were children or what feels like i mean terry but in reality is it's all 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 fish to arrive it's a defeat by twice. and actually even as states that were actually retired necessities at the bank they couldn't believe that if they should i go into this position because i have a family i've got 2 children and that's what i'm like with 5 require in what was quite a full time childcare and the other one i just started sco that's got his cover for you all to we've already so i got the calls today for you. if you leave the coals

and it does add to the mental sort of the sorry sorry dr. also this week the long awaited report on the origins of covert nineteen's faced shop criticism world wide for leaving many questions still unanswered even the organization's director general has called for research you know as the russian member of the will haunt mission of why getting to the bottom of the outbreak is proving so difficult. which will close on a mission started off under phase one why was it called that it was clear from the beginning nobody expected us to find on sr all the questions right away in fact he 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 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 for. the year 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 most people don't really have an idea there is no scientific evidence or facts proving a leak as of today based on what we saw i can say that the suspected laboratory is

run properly by well trained staff there is total compliance with all the rules regarding work with viruses of this has a class or even the class above the laboratory is regularly audited and is in the constant scrutiny of competence international organizations building from that we therefore can't say that a lab leak might have been 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. trump has long been banned by social media giants but that doesn't mean the purview of the former president is over it was a real ensues that facebook had removed interview with him posted by his daughter

in law he's kayla morgan looks at whether social media giants and 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 and 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 tack 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 sinking 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 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 would do a great for the american people who plans to set president trying to get him out of the 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 democrat party is the same on big tex democrats and republicans on the same boat it takes to win so bury the flag for saying the whole thing is a political gain actress an actress rose mcgowan shared her own experiences of being ousted by big tech. what do you pray to. a little pretty much speech going against your from needs i don't understand why you support evil jack dorsey 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 wonder they 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 it deactivated right sharon entirely 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 twitter for 24 hour protests until they reinstated they did and they have but i have been shadow brands ever since i'm tired of having these men his feet on my neck i'm tired of having to hand over my mouth you guys are old pros to be tracked for rose right the little grows and you're supposed to be the freedom of speech he clapped for and that is

a lot. coming up polls found that most americans are anxious about losing their jobs over something like settled law and because of council culture well the deeper into the out into the bright. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spear in dramatic development the only mostly exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical if. you sit down and talk.

to the weekly in the u.k. has warned that the trouble is brewing if more respect isn't shown to muslims in the country could go the way of france that software teacher northern england left

of the community outraged by showing cartoons of the prophet muhammad to his class . all we ask for is a bit of respect if one teacher 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 some local muslims are demanding that the school fire him over a petition calling on the school to reinstate him as guard over $65000.00 signatures while you go to farm whatever education has also defended the teacher it is never acceptable to threaten or intimidate teachers 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 and outrage over a similar case in france last october led to the brutal murder of some well party

a history teacher near paris he was beheaded by a terrorist after showing cartoons of the prophet mohammed to his pupils to him deeper from christian concern and sorrow political and social commentator locked horns over the issues raised. 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 places 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 a point of 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 that the police are going 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 do worst of the ideas 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 it's got about about how it has nothing to do with basis and it's not

racism at all and what's happening here is people are trying to shut down 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 what i'll do you 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 matter of council culture is having an impact on people psychological well being a majority of people polled in the eyes they say they fear being fired or reprimanded for what they 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 or the nearly 2000 people surveyed over 60 percent of you growing council culture as a threat to their freedom while more than half see it as endangering their job security we can with opinion on the issue among new yorkers. people are creative and have a different mindset some artists decide to do different things people you next door neighbor the fact of the difference you that you might not agree on i don't feel that you should ruin their entire lives over what they think in their mind even though it is harsh and it could go like the park it sometimes i think it does scare people and it makes people think and maybe it's you sure you know. inappropriate. the idea of canceling counseling is bad and is not a good way of. creating difficult conversations because difficult conversations are

very important to making difficult topics less difficult. that could really change the way that a person interacts with the world or using. to also understand like being fed up with having to respond to people who are sorry if your thought was always more complicated than it's presented. political commentators try to more shared his thoughts on castle 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 is this is from private corporations and most importantly from each other so that makes it interesting and different i think anything else that that we really experience in culture before it's you know and it's actually on it's has become a social media mob threats to docs to get people fired and it's

not a threat on many levels and most importantly it has a chilling effect on public discourse and on people being able to speak their minds to openly. discuss an advocate for things that they believe that they truly believe in and their criticism that maybe what's going on in culture and in government and even if you have to hold yourself to see just criticize example coulter 'd can do you cancel. to some other news in brief a heated exchange at least in switzerland as a group of protesters clashed with police one point even throwing bottles of cocktail and so in the night on rest officers responded with rubber bullets and tear gas 2 young people were injured $21.00 more what rested for questioning but will have since been released this comes a week off a similar clashes when police broke up on an eagle party in the city the reason behind the latest litigation is unclear local media attributed it to frustration

with coronavirus restrictions. several top ranking figures including members of the royal family have been arrested in jordan over an alleged cooper ought to thank the king a bit of a 2nd so they in officials have denied that prince sums up what i was saying was among those attained over the full crown prince says he's been placed under house arrest and is accuse the country's leaders of corruption incompetence and harassment. at least 10 police officers have been injured and $26.00 people arrested at a kill the bill protest in london clashes broke out during a rally of thousands of protesters outside parliament the bill passed into law would hand police the right to limit demonstrations the activists see this as an approach meant on the civil rights similar rallies have been held in other major cities across the u.k. . and

a 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 meet the ceremony called the golden parade of the pharaohs began just after sunset some of the mummies being transported in climate control cases or more than 3000 years old. you know it is this is using all the tools at its disposal to counter the ever growing global influence of china with that goal in mind washington's reaching out to allies across asia with mixed success is 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 convening this group. yet that meeting was a few weeks ago

a meeting of the quadrilateral security dialogue 'd 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 there really mean other words is to keep china in its place brilliantly without ever 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. to be china free and open and close it and help the unless you china. to be china constrained by course power china committed to addressing the world's 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 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 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 know with 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 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 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. is really struggling to see the oars queues 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 geo political beasts then are picking their teams and taking sides. to worry about i'm sure. russian scientists are about on arrival the mystery of several dry holes in the pub or frost of the year mall peninsular find out what i'll find you know if you look at entry next. and half an hour with the latest see you again then. an entire village in alaska has had to move if another country trying to wipe out an american town. we do everything in our power to protect. wanted one escaping

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