among the stories that shape the week the french president admits to a stark admission all feel. of the crisis as the country imposes a tough new national. fears of a nursing exodus in the u.k. as a poll reveals a quarter of any of us workers are more likely to quit. many citing exhaustion. as a major reason we speak. we've had. increased. wages how. much. help.

the purge of social media continues with facebook deleting an interview with the former u.s. president from his. understanding or menacing rhetoric in the u.k. community. for the actions of some individuals if muslims are treated with. it's a response to a teacher forced to go into hiding. the prophet muhammad we discussed. the lama here is the teacher. with police protection and. bringing you the recap of the past 7 days on right up to the minute developments.

as well this is the weekly r.t. a welcome. the french president has admitted that mistakes have been made at every stage of the pandemic in a televised address to the nation this week the money will also announce the 3rd nation wide locked on a cold cases soar intensive care beds fill up and the country's death toll nears that 100000 mark he said the situation left him with no other choice. the city did i know that every stage of this epidemic we might say to ourselves that we could have done better that we made mistakes who list is true we all need to make an additional efforts over the coming months this is what i ask of us collectively tonight. and suddenly locked on measures have been extended from 19 areas to all of main lot of fronts that means a nationwide curfew beginning at 7 pm an abandoned travel between regions schools have also been closed for at least 3 weeks while the policing has been introduced

to ensure no more than half a dozen people gather at once. all the measures brought in by the french leader come as a u. turn to his previous this is not the locked out in january mr mccraw in her space thing creasing criticism from m.p.'s scientists 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 and 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 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 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 aids if he wouldn't be declared that he has become an epidemiologist despite not having a scientific background in 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 micron 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. all musicians. you know all across the channel from there are fears of a nursing exodus in britain after a survey revealed that n.h.s. stuff are significantly more likely to quit their job done compared to last year exhaustion from the pandemic cited as a big reason why according to the poll 25 percent of n.h.s. workers are mourning klein to leave not even during the previous 12 months over a quarter of them are nurses and midwives to occupations facing major shortages of 7 in 10 people outside a pay rise is the decisive factor but for student nurses there aren't any paid placement positions and they 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 is it need is increased. not the cost of living has gone up but wages have increased that it's so much stress on the nurses that made wives everyone involved in that mission 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 may to help and increase the way to get a good environment for everyone just to point out british health authorities have promised to provide the n.h.s. with an extra $29000000000.00 pounds but the nurse we spoke to their ses it's likely that money will be divvied up before it gets to student medics who have proved vital during the pandemic. 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 is it's all 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 1st year i think it's a defeat by twice. and that should even as states that were actually retired nurses at the trade bank they couldn't believe that they should i go into this position because i have a rabbi they are 2 children and that's why my wife required what was quite a full time childcare and the other one it just started sco the funds come for you all to have already so i got the calls today for you the potential if you leave the coals and it does add to the mental so that the sorry sorry dr. well also this week the long awaited w.h.o. report on the origins of covert 19 was released but immediately faced sharp criticism worldwide for leaving many questions still unanswered even the organizations director general has called for further research we host a russian member of the mission was getting to the bottom of the outbreak is

proving so difficult. which was on a mission started off into 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 and allies in 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. 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 suspect a 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 as we hardly liaise with officials we were largely in touch with scientists. it's been months since donald trump was banned by social media giants but that doesn't mean there purge of the former president is over any time soon it was revealed on tuesday at facebook had removed an interview with him posted by his daughter in law artie's kill apply been looked at whether silicon valley chiefs 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 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 will's 19 eighty-four 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 of the fault with doing great by the american people who plans to set president trying 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 this 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 taking expect to 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. in a piece for our tea actress and activist ruse macallan shared her own experience of being usted by big tech. you're prey to a little pretty much speech going against your front teeth 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 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 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 limited boycott twitter for 24 hour protests until they reinstated me. and they have and i have been shadow brands ever since i am tired of having these men his feet on my neck i am tired of having to hand over my mouth you guys are old pros to be tracked for a right the little grows and you're supposed to be the freedom of speech he clapped for and that is a lot. still ahead an arch international a poll suggests that most americans are anxious about losing their jobs over something the settled law and because of the onset of come soul culture will delve deeper into ballots after the break.

listen you know became the bottleneck refusal of politics the sheer movement and you know for what you see there is a government who should lead to the full truth we call to do this vision we said action on this lead before he's not going to lead students and socialists then.

copy at least those so-called peace with the palestinians solutions between so you want about me and you know it's those who say only. 17 minutes into the program welcome back and a mom in the u.k. has warned the prime minister the trouble is brewing unless muslims are shown more respect and also insinuated that the country risks quote becoming like fronts statement that many view than say threat so after a teacher in northern england parts of the muslim community 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 his family are now in hiding after receiving death threats the 29 year old has since apologized but been suspended from his job some local muslims are demanding about the school fire him out right however a petition calling for him to be reinstated has garnered over 70000 signatures the u.k. department for education has defended the teacher it is never acceptable to threaten the intimidates teaches we encourage dialogue between parents and schools when the issues emerge schools are free to include a full range of issues ideas and materials in their curriculum included where they are challenging a controversial subject they obligations to ensure political balance are drage over a similar case in france last october led to the brutal murder of some little party a history teacher he was beheaded by

a terrorist after showing cartoons of the prophet muhammad to his pupils during discussions on freedom of expression to india from christian concern political and social commentary 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 of their own fitting 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 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 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 is got about how it has nothing to do with basis and it's not racism at all 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 we'd 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 their loved ones 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. moving on the issue of council culture is arming an impact on people psychological well being a majority of people polled in the us now say they fear being sucked or reprimanded for views they share online. it 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 you know let's go through the numbers of the nearly 2000 people surveyed 2 thirds of you growing council culture is a threat to their freedom while more than half see it as an danger in their job security we can't just opinion on the subject 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 is 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 a pocket sometimes i think it does scare people and it makes people think and maybe . 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 can really change the way that a person interacts with the world or using. to also understand like being a fed up with having to respond to people so sorry if you're so low it's always more complicated than it's presented. medical commentator chadwick were shared his thoughts on the council culture and from where it emerged. in the past we've always sort of focused on the government a 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 business it is from private corporations and most importantly from each other so that makes it interesting a different update from 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 currently 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. now as if performing open heart surgery is not enough doing it in a burning building it's exactly what doctors in the far east of russia had to cope with on friday here is video from inside the operating theater during the fire the blaze broke out a run a day with most patients and staff quickly evacuating the hospital but a team of surgeons were operating on a patient at the time and had no choice but to keep going. thankfully the surgery

went as planned the patient was later moved to another clinic no one was injured in the fire investigators say electrical short circuit may be to pay for the police. after months of unrest with protesters demanding the prime minister's resignation people in bulgaria have finally headed to the polls for parliamentary elections support for the ruling party how to root it off track. failing to fight corruption poverty reform the judicial system. births according to exit polls prime minister a center right party looks to have secured the largest share of the vote there was a smaller turnout in previous elections as the country struggled with a 3rd wave of the pandemic though many took the chance to have their say despite fears. it's more dangerous in the tram or in the supermarket than here voting.

it's a bit different but it works if you wish you can. be the only difference is the very masks everything is very call me it isn't confusing there is tense and ties it to i think there is no place for panic and every person must go and. take into consideration the can you go to condemn situations in. consequence of dr inevitably will be able to do everything wrong to call those places and even. i would see a season of. great programs get their start in moments here on r.t. then find out what is showing after a quick look at what else is on offer over the coming week season. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to. let it

be an arms race in. dramatic development only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful.

there. are a. little while ago 2 worlds apart there is a saying here and russia that whenever teachers come together there are at least 3 m.p.'s and a testament clearly borne out by the latest israeli elections which are to muzzle flash and hearing resulted in yet another stalemate with now 13 parties actually just forming new government what does this new round of political and 2nd you need for the country and the region as a whole well to discuss that are 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 me now you know that russian culture russian languages have really influenced by jewish humor but even here you know we're running out of jokes you talk about the situation in which 4 lashins in 2 years fail to produce any electoral certainty how many more elections do you think it will take you take a break from campaigning at the charts your normal boring govern you know when you mentioned to jews. this isn't a good day. well that's for sure you know the other days you only really if you can move and i think this is a reflection off election after election so lectionary going to use and look beyond liam's. election you see at the end of the day it's easy to blame the politician

and it is simply not. told the way the hand of politics. and especially the way you did i mean you stole it and you know it is becoming to you guys you feel you know that small instead being made to be painting is positioning the intergroup of the concert that now having said that you know when people is full circle tuning to. go to change to the next you fight for one english and then another and they don't do that i assume that people should take some of the roles well the responsibility to themselves is their wont to have smoke. let them vote in a clear way when we don't meet welton uniquely or ways that you can do that. within the last number of people and that everybody is entitled to his or her own.