sinks. we. ask. in the story of the week the french president acknowledges a stark admission of failures in the handling of the crisis in the country imposes a tough new national. news of a nursing exodus in the u.k. as a poll reveals a quarter of n.h.s. workers are more likely to quit now than last year with many citing exhaustion from the pandemic downs a major reason we speak to one. with. increased . the cost of. health. the purge of donald trump from social media continues with facebook

deleting an interview with the former us president from his daughter in law's page . the call for for understanding or menacing rhetoric and a mom in the u.k. warns his community cannot be held responsible for the actions of some individuals if muslims are not treated with more respect it is a response to teacher forced to go into hiding after showing his class cartoons of the prophet muhammad we discussed the issue. with the cultural debate hall is he ok to be playing. against muslims will smith along here is that a teacher. with police protection. or broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our 2 international i'm sean thomas certainly glad. to have you with us now 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 emanuel mccrone also announced a 3rd nation wide lockdown as code cases soar intensive care beds fill up and the country's death toll nears 100000 he said the situation left him with no other choice just sick a 2nd this if he didn't i know that every stage of this epidemic we might say to ourselves that we could have done better that we made mistakes who will this is true we all need to make an additional efforts over the coming months this is what i ask of us collectively tonight since saturday lockdown measures have been extended from 1000 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 while additional policing has been introduced to ensure no more than half a dozen people gather at once the measures brought in by the french leader come as

a u. turn to his previous decision not to lock down in january mr micron has faced 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 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 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 i mean it and 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 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 box music but they're not necessarily sculpture artists. oh musicians. all right meanwhile fears of a nursing exit in britain after a survey revealed that n.h.s. staff are significantly more likely to quit their job now then compared to last year exhaustion from the pandemic was cited as a big reason why according to the poll 25 percent of n.h.s. workers are more inclined to leave now than during the previous 12 months over a quarter of them are nurses and midwives to occupations facing major shortages while 7 in 10 people say a pay rise is the decisive factor but for student nurses there aren't any paid placement positions and they say that 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 need is increased. the cost of living has gone up the wages have increased ice so much stress on the nurses that made wives everyone involved in that question and i think to be honest with a kind of a 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 british health authorities have promised to provide the n.h.s. with an extra 29000000000 pounds but the nurse we spoke to says it is likely that money will be used up before it gets to student medics who have proved vital during the pandemic. we get the 5000 pound girl some people get 1000 pounds grant depends on 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 increasing council tax increase in fuel into placement in my 1st year i think it's

a defeat by twice. and that should aid in the states that were actually retired nurses at the bank they couldn't believe that they say should i go into this position because i have 2 children and that's why my wife required what was quite a full time childcare and the other one it just starts it's go the funds come for you all to we've already so i got the calls that they or you potentially if you leave the course and it does add to the mental so that the sorry sorry dr. germany's vaccination program has suffered another blow with berlin again suspending use of the astra zeneca job this time for the under sixty's that has left those who have already had their 1st shot in a state of limbo is this one of it is undoubtedly a sad back that one of the vaccines available to us for this pandemic appears to pose an increased risk for a certain age group 31 cases of cerebral vento strombo zus had been reported after

vaccination with the astra zeneca jab 9 of which were unfortunately fatal. those under 60 can still receive the shot but only on prescription and after an individual risk assessment it comes as a number of people suffered blood clots after vaccination some in berlin say that they are tired of the government's flip flops on the vaccine. i completely understand being cautious but the problem of stopping the vaccination all the time is that we are already so far behind compared to the rest of the world and that is very disappointing because there are many restrictions and vaccines are the only thing we trust so we need to receive clear messages for citizens not to get confused. now really rushing ahead to fast if you look at the side effects they are very rare if you read the information leaflets of aspirin or ibuprofen away any of those have much more serious side effects and we swallow those daily more or less.

i think it is very very good that the vaccines were is a valid so fast and that we talk about the side effects because silence of that information would be so much worse but i also think that due to everyone having an opinion on it now it kind of make the whole vaccination for us is falling to pieces . the netherlands also followed suit this week while canada suspended the use of the job for those under 55 after the country's national advisory committee decided it wasn't worth the risk vaccines image has been tarnished over fears of rare but potentially fatal blood clots that prompted an investigation by the medical regulator which found no direct link and said the benefits outweigh the risks but added it would continue with the probe meanwhile the same organization the european medicines agency recently approved a new name for the astra zeneca job vox. has been speculation the company has decided on the rebranding in response to public safety concerns infectious

disease expert bob barr not however says there is no easy fix to the reputational damage. in this case and a 1000000 people you know you would expect very few cases of these terrible blood clots you know the ones in the in the scientists is in the brain in the venous system the brain and the disseminated quickly shew out the body just terrified and they're seeing it you know in younger women so with this. it's very hard to convince the public now because now you know they see faulty vaccine data you know used the wrong dose corrected the dose the may have the wrong. efficacy rate had to change that so a lot of suspicion about this. the e.u. vaccine rollout as a whole has been beset by problems with several states now looking to break away from the joint purchase scheme the w.h.o. has also expressed concerns calling the e.u.'s efforts unacceptably slow according to the organization only 4 percent of those within the block have taken 2 doses of

the vaccine so far earlier my colleague neil harvey discussed that and astra zeneca is troubles with the w h o's european chief. we're both alarms and frustrates at that moment we're alarmed because we're rapidly approaching 1000000 deaths in the european region we've got 44000000 cases of covert 90 on the other hand we're frustrated because we are well frustrated for the reasons that many of us have been living in lockdown ferrante fancy 140 days in some cases but also across states it's because we don't see these vaccines reaching arms fast enough but this really is a court of governments to improve their vaccination plans ramp up speed up that vaccination process we need people to accept and have confidence in the vaccines they're receiving and when they're offered a vaccine to agree to take it the longer we wait the higher the likelihood.

that the virus mutates and that will see variants escape the vaccine you mentioned a really important point there i think particularly pertinent right now because the w.h.o. talking about the after seneca vaccine is said country should keep using and of course there's that there's a great need for it and a great demand for it but there are several countries i think more than a dozen countries at their full of using it what is the stands now on astra zeneca as vaccine just in confidence to such a fragile thing i mean it takes you in some cases years to build in just a few minutes to erode and diminish so it will undoubtedly and has undoubtedly impact it's the confidence of the communities that are relying on that vaccine. at the astra zeneca backs it this is very important that we get this vaccine back online where it's been temporarily suspended but at this point there's no course the association until we have more data we won't know just getting back to the

vaccinations there's a range of them out there now russia has a few of its own thing the 1st one out there are those put on the market with sputnik v some countries and the west the big. slow to approve use of it is that legitimate isn't just because the medical checks haven't been done yet or is it could there be a political element to it i don't think pothole it 60 something that we should necessarily just just in terms of the vaccines and where different vaccines used split the vaccine from what we've seen from the russian federation's and the dates of its own of all appears to be an effective and safe vaccine is used in many member states and in some member states the do not have access to the vaccines that are listed for it's really the russian vaccine that has come to that aid and supports so sputnik they being used in many member states it does not counts european medicines association approval hence it doesn't have e.u. member states using it at this point but we are confident that in the very near

future not vaccine will be of use to everybody across the globe the w.h.o. also released a long awaited report on the origins of a covered but quickly drew global criticism for its lack of answers we asked a russian member of the one mission why getting to the bottom of the outbreak is proving so difficult. which will cause 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. 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 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 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. it has 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 that facebook had removed to an interview with him posted by his daughter in law with more here's

. 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 he was 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 abandoned 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 is 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 sit president try to get him out the way so he won't be able to run for office the office again because i 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 the 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 rose mcgowan shared her own experience of being ousted by big tech. what do you pray to do or say a little pretty much speech going against your priorities i don't understand why you support evil characters and want to block. i was just spending by twitter for posting an internet photo of bill clinton and getting massages by and unknown woman they flagged it for indeed i was just trying

to drive the point home about a disgusting human doing disgusting and i know twitter is trying to silence me and i know a lot of the powerful democrats are behind it they deactivated right you know it's fiery 4 days after i helped out harvey weinstein my attacker in the new york times exposé 4 years ago there is a world wide it will boycott where for 24 hour protests until they reinstated me. and they have what i have been shadow bands ever since i am tired of having these men's feet on my neck i am tired of having their hand over my mouth you guys are old pros to be tracked for a right to little grows and you are supposed to be the freedom of speech that work and that is the life. in the mom in the u.k.

has warned of the prime minister that muslims must be shown more respect he also insinuated the country risks quote becoming friends a statement that many view as a threat is after a teacher in england outraged parts of the muslim community by showing cartoons of the prophet mohammed to his class well we are 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 has since apologized but has been suspended from his job some local muslims are demanding the school fire him outright however a petition calling for him to be reinstated has gained more than $70000.00 signatures the u.k. department for education has defended the teacher it is never acceptable to threaten the wing to mandate teaches we encourage dialogue between parents and schools when he has emerged schools are free to include

a full range of issues ideas and materials in their curriculum included with the challenge in a controversial subject they obligations to ensure political balance outrage over a similar case in france last october led to the brutal murder of samuel paddy a history teacher he was beheaded after showing cartoons of the prophet mohammed to his pupils during a discussion on freedom of expression to d.s.p. from christian concern in mo ansari a political and social commentator debated the issue. this could be very easily turning into some kind of a power 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 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 to worst of the ideas racism hatred we know it's not ok to be racist against muslims to make the argument is it alright 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 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 all 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 issue of council culture is

having a psychological impact a majority of people polled in the us say that they fear being retribution for views they share 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 2 thirds view growing council culture as a threat to their freedom one more than half see it as in danger in their job security without opinion from new yorkers. people are creative and have different mindset that artists decide to do different things people you next door neighbors affected the different you that you might not agree on i don't feel they used to ruin their entire lives over what they think in their mind even though it is harsh and it could go like the pocket 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. 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 business it 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 it's that the climate social media mob threats to docs to get people wired 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 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 called yourself. just criticizing cantle coulter 'd can do you can feel. as if performing open heart surgery isn't hard enough how about doing it in a burning building that's exactly what doctors in the far east of russia had to cope with on friday here's video from inside the operating theater during the fire the blaze broke out at around midday 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 the surgery went as planned and the patient was later moved to another clinic no one was injured in the

fire investigators say an electrical fault may be to blame. for months of unrest with the protesters demanding the prime minister's resignation people in bulgaria have finally gone to the polls for parliamentary elections support for the ruling party had eroded over corruption poverty and failure to reform the judicial system however despite that exit polls predict prime minister boyko bought a soft center right party has secured the largest share of the vote there was a smaller turnout than in previous years. as the country struggles with a 3rd wave of the pandemic though many took the chance to have their say despite covert fears. it's more dangerous in the tram or in the supermarket than here voting record it's a bit different but it works if you wish to you can. be the only difference is the trail there in masks everything is very cold which isn't confusing there is hansen

ties it too i think there is no place for panic and every post and must go and vote take into consideration the can you government dependency creations into. those who got there and give it to the poor but only people gave it for everything around the globe both elections and even. i would say a sense of we're all thinking more news with nicky erin in about 30 minutes time she'll bring a full and fresh look there that does it for me and for the weekly i'll see you tomorrow.