so who's to blame patients doctors manufacturers other governments. in the stories that shapes this week's news a stark admission of failures in the handling of the crisis by the french president and the national law. of a nursing exodus in the u.k. as a poll reveals one in 4 n.h.s. workers are more likely to quit now than in 2020 with money citing exhaustion from the pandemic we speak to one british nurse. with head to ease it increases. the cost of living has gone down the wages have increased so much stress on the. government to help increase. the purge of donald trump off social media continues with facebook deleting an interview with the former president from his daughter in law's page. in the u.k.

was this community can be held responsible for the actions of some individuals unless muslims are treated with more respect so after a teacher showed his class cartoons of the prophet muhammad an issue we put up today about. cultural debate is the ok to be fun and be racist against muslims what's most alarming here is that. with police protection. good evening and welcome you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international. french president admits the mistakes have been made at every stage of the pandemic in a televised address to the nation and the new micron announced a nationwide lockdown as cases soar intensive care beds are filling up and the country's death toll approaches 100000 he said the situation has left him with no

other choice. this it did i know that at every stage of this epidemic we might say to ourselves that we could have done better that we made mistakes and this is true we all need to make an additional effort over the coming months this is what i ask of us collectively tonight 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 and additional policing has been introduced to ensure no more than 6 people gather at once. the measures introduced by the french leader come as a u. turn to his previous decision not to lock down in january chronos faced increasing criticism from m.p.'s scientists and hospital chiefs. i say to the government do it now but do it now do it for

a shorter time but do it you can see there we were 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 and through through the country's top institutions before making a mark in both the private or public sector he then repaying from youngest ever president i mean it's a pretty impressive resume and people traded in selfless and learned he knew when to take advice it is important at 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 growing as he wouldn't be 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 and good for all those that talk about epidemiology and among them we can find heads of states like a president 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. musicians. meanwhile their offices of a nursing exodus in britain after

a survey revealed n.h.s. staff for now more likely to quit their jobs than there were 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 than doing the previous 12 months almost 30 percent of them are nurses midwives to occupations facing major sort shortages and 70 percent said that the pay rise was a decisive factor of those working for free student nurses so the struggling just to make ends meet one of them gave us her reaction to the survey findings it doesn't surprise me it's what we've had to use it needs increased. the cost of living has gone up the wages have increased so much stress on the nurses midwives everyone involved in that question and i think to be honest with the private pandemic i think everyone has now had enough and they need help and i feel the government need to help and increase the weight to get a good environment for everyone and pretty self authorities have promised to

provide d.n.a. test with an extra 29000000000 pounds in the us we spoke to says that money isn't making any difference when it comes to student medics. we get the 5000 pound girl and some people get a 2000 pound grant depending if it were children or what feels like i mean tape but in reality it isn't so in the i should say that the increase in childcare costs you know the increase in council tax increase and in fuel into placement in my fish to arrive it's paid for it back twice. and actually the nest states that were actually retired this is at the bank they couldn't believe that they should i go into this position because i have a rabbit they are 2 children and that's why my wife required what was quite a full time childcare and the i want to just start it's go the funds come for you all to we've already so i doubt the force is there for you. if you leave the course and it does add to the mental sort of the sorry sorry. also this week the

long awaited w.h.o. report on the origins of covert 19 his face shot criticism across the world for leaving many questions still unanswered even the organizations the right to generals call for further research we asked a russian member of the we on mission why getting to the bottom of the outbreak is proving so difficult. which was on a mission started off under phase one why was it called that it was clear from the beginning nobody expected us to find an sister or the questions right away in fact she 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. well 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 there 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 is 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 and based on our common knowledge of various coronaviruses we suggest it's a but might have been a source. but the issue is very much politicized everyone is trying to find someone to blame i've never considered the oblique hypothesis a theory this so much talk about this in the media though which 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 suspect a laboratory is run properly by well trained staff there is total compliance with all the rules regarding the 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 therefore can't say that a lovely might of course. 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 as we hardly liaise with officials we were largely in touch with scientists. donald trump has long been banned by social media giants but that doesn't mean that there purge of the former president is over it was revealed on tuesday facebook had removed an interview with him posted by his daughter in law and his killer more below where the social media giants could be 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 thinking about because of 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 of 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 they know if you dear run for office again that he will win and we need to look back at the 1st amendment when it comes to the media because we have seen how the. coming from big

tech and the media these people have too much control they have became rich in a real 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 2 going so bury the flag for saying the whole thing is a political gain actress and activist rose mcgowan shared her own experience of being ousted by big tech. where you go 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 the no woman 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 it limited 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 rose right the little grows and you're supposed to be the freedom to speak the map. and that is a lot. coming up the polls suggest that most americans are anxious about losing

the jobs of a something they said on line because it becomes a culture deeper to the story of the spread. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person and those words. no dares thinks. we dare to ask.

or come back in a mom in the u.k. has worn the prime minister trouble is brewing unless muslims a show more respect insinuating the country could go down the same path as france and so after a teacher in northern england outraged parts of the community by showing cartoons of the prophet mohammed 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 in his family are now in hiding after receiving death threats he has apologized but has been suspended some local muslims are demanding the school actually fire him but a petition calling on the school to reinstate him garnered or than 65000 signatures you cared upon for education has defended the teacher. it is never acceptable to threaten the winter mandates 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. allow rage over a similar case in france last october led to the brutal murder of samuel party a history teacher near paris he was beheaded by a terrorist after he showed cartoons of the prophet mohammed to his pupils to india

from christian concern and more ansari political and social commentator locked horns over the issues. 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 of their own 15 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 that 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 in 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 have 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 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 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 a mob rule that threatens violence against people. the matter of canceled culture is having an impact on people psychological well being a majority of people polled in the us say that 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 express their real views on social media of the nearly 2000 people surveyed more than 60 percent view growing council culture as

a threat to their freedom more than half say it is endangering their job security we can list opinion on the issue among new yorkers. people are creative and have a different mindset that artists decide to do different things people you next door neighbor the fact of the difference is that you might not agree on i don't for you to ruin their entire lives over what they think in their mind even though it is harsh and it could go like the market sometimes i think it does care people and it makes people think and maybe for. sure you know. inappropriate. the idea of cancelling cancelling 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 can 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 so sorry if you're so low it's always more complicated when it's presented. political commentator chadwick more shared his thoughts on council culture and where it came 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 i mean business is from private corporations and most importantly from each other so that makes it interesting and different i think from anything else that that we really experience in culture before it's you know and it's such a lot of it that's 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. discussed and advocate for things that they are the things that they truly believe in and the criticism that maybe what's going on in culture and in government and even if you have to hold yourself to see just criticizing it will coulter 'd can do you can feel. as if performing open heart surgery isn't difficult enough how about doing it in a burning hospital that's exactly what doctors in the far east of russia got to cut with on friday that at his video from inside the operating theater jewing the fire place broke out of the around the day most patients and staff were evacuated from the building but the team of surgeons were operating on a patient at the time they had no choice but to keep the said you went as planned and the patient was later moved to another hospital nobody was injured in the fire investigate just an electrical chill so i have been to blame for the lights. and finally the u.s. is using all the tools at its disposal to counter the have

a growing global influence of china and with that goal in mind washington is reaching out to allies across asia with mixed success is on the website continue to sign the 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 the cord for the 1st try we're convening this group leader yet that meeting was a few weeks ago a meeting of the quadrilateral security dialogue or 'd 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 there really mean other words is to

keep china in its place brilliantly without 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 fish to be china free and open and close it and help the unless you china. to be china straight course power china committed to addressing the world defining challenge a rise of china moment of crisis something. to be china. and china. that 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 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 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 fish or 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 in china now because the u.s. is scared of being used as the global bully india is just have a border clash with china literally with sticks in 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 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 will eyes on the u.s. for a 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 it's 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 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 into why am sure. the numbers are rather they don't forget we have plenty more news stories covered for you on our website i want to check them out r.t. dot com.

in the 1920 s. and thirty's several 100 african-americans moved to the soviet union and many of their descendants still live in russia. looking at the risk because they know no rush but i thought it was tough yes it got worse cyclone things on their way. back home but i can merican suffered from racism and a complete lack of prospects. not the smug the deal and i would be a losing show one by else a store on the by doing. so they decided to leave everything behind and start a new life in a country about which they knew almost nothing at all some of the groups who were

too thrilled you're in the united. around great crowd. moulay is going few you're going to call clues you. know almost a 100 years later the history is repeating itself my great grandfather george time went to russia. probable worst time to go anywhere why not me. when i come here. and i can remember when it would flow one time in the fall and then one time in the spring you know a break up and now i mean already 3 times this year they've had you know it people get nervous about the flooding of their houses and needing to stay in school or even getting out of new top because they're worried about that kind of stuff and

just these last 2 storms have taken so much away you know he went measured the last couple storms in their wake it knocked off 1020 feet in 111 day. yeah and so there's been more journals i have to do in general the students in iraq and the kids right now journals about their worries about the floods i don't think are as a catch on fire but a fire house let it as the very next thing they all wrote on their own was are all slotted we would grab and they got some of it like the box of pictures by the door and. so. they stay vavi a sleeve and stressing about it and i love it. seems hard to believe. whatever you. have heard earlier but it was. my 1st year here which was 15 years ago. i thought it.