patients. protests in europe. this mixed messages from governments leave people confused and angry. we. come together we can see our loved ones how we think sort of fundamental human rights. hate crime in the us california the state by far the worst affected open self-defense classes are the most vulnerable. another scandal. questions are raised over a probe into 2 british and tested for steroids. international

. fury is growing in europe but apparently contradictory lockdowns during the 3rd wave of the pandemic. rising resistance to measures that something violate basic rights. businesses shuttered parties banned national holidays canceled social life is in a log down chokehold all across europe as governments struggle to smother the pandemic and while some grit their teeth and abide others rebel.

it's prohibition all over again but with a twist saloons hidden behind false walls are now in vogue as well as guerrilla picnics as police combed through the undergrowth for party partisans europe is just one big speakeasy youths are fed up in my opinion a moon in favor of holding us accountable individual or rather than banning us from doing anything. the lockdown does not correspond to what it should be because people can leave italy freely while we cannot leave our region we can leave the house to visit friends during the day if i call out of the host 10 times to visit 10 friends i can do it through the 1st day the vast majority of disregarding their obligations for example they're not wearing masks they're not keeping the minimum distance the 1st wave of covert then a 2nd and now a 3rd wave a traditional way of life has been washed away by what very much looks like

a tsunami now the pandemic and there's no sign of the type turning anytime soon in germany for instance authorities openly admitted to creating a void of faith between them and the people now to really give this nathan there is no silver bullets when the pandemic but we need clarity. and resolve we need transparent and pragmatic rules so that people know where they stand mistakes have been made when it comes to testing vaccinations to digital solutions the pandemic is the hold up a mirror to our country reflecting our compulsion to lay down rules for everything our fear of taking risks the shunting back and forth of responsibility so during pretty much everything trust put in politicians to stop the spread of the virus is dissipating with every make signal they send like this one says day the 1st of april as well as the surge of april should be defined as calm days with extensive

contact restrictions and a ban on gatherings from the 1st to the 5th of april. the idea was a mistake this mistake is my mistake alone a mistake must be called a mistake and above all it must be corrected at the same time of course i know that this whole matter trygaeus more uncertainty i regret that deeply and apologize to all citizens. vaccines turned out to be no silver bullet against the corona virus prompting even more contradictions was recently warned give this mr zelikow vaccine to people over 65. it has been greenlighted for people over 55 with a medical condition. astra zeneca has a nature stiction from 18 to 64. the standing committee for vaccination recommends the use of the esters any $1000.00 vaccine and those over 60 and surely

over dissidents are only adding fuel to the fire of the pandemic but the more helter skelter the official response to the crisis is the more a narcotic the public mood will get as more people will be pushed and are pushed into the ruinous and very very deadly arena of covert denial. we don't want to believe the rules that have been imposed on us they impose on us how to think how to behave they impose measures that are devastating for our people we don't want to tell the readers any longer we can't go where we want we can't go on together we can see our loved ones anymore and we think this is absolutely against our fundamental human rights it's not just some measure of their private lives of our rights and we're reclaiming our rights. the biggest goal we have is to end this corona dictatorship because i suspect what is still to come. experts has to serve rallied in central new york over

a spike in violence against the asian community the city alone is reportedly seen at more than 30 and the asian attacks and one of the you might find the following video disturbing. from march 2020 to february of this year almost 4000 racially motivated attacks on asian americans have been reported nationwide those of chinese ethnicity were by far the worst affected report also found that 2 out of every 3 incidents took place in california a martial arts center in the state has now opened special self-defense classes for

the most vulnerable in the community. it would be so good for our seniors and the one who are vulnerable to be equipped with something else that they could lose the ability to influence it is variable right now. i'm going to be doing i don't know that our family not only do but tell me something about not really i mean you know never been in charge of my friends not that dissimilar to the particular episode. a class organizers say that while it's unlikely that an elderly person could take on a serious attack and there are a few secrets that could prevent more brutal assaults. we taught them techniques like you know find the weak points where you can't counter attack you only need one effective counter attack why would you go off wait a minute this person can write maybe i don't want to push you then you run them over the next 2 weekends we are going to be. giving them more technique so they

can and then inspiring them to also once they are home to practice. it's been revealed that the u.k. anti doping agency led elite olympians investigate themselves after testing positive for steroids and subsequently cleared the athletes then hawkins got more details earlier from correspondent jacqueline vega. well right now we have front and center to a british 2012 a limp ians that would be hurdler rhys williams and the runner gareth warburton now back in 2014 they both tested positive for steroids but they blamed supplements that they had taken saying that they had been contaminated so of course at the time tests were carried out and it was found that those supplements had been contaminated and the 2 were let off with a 4 and 6 month suspension respectively and you can decision at the time said that the athletes were victims but they had brought the matter on themselves thus the suspension so case closed right well it was until right now the mail on sunday has

come out with a report that has turned all of that upside down and 1st of all they say that the pair themselves arrange the testing of those supplements and allowed that had been recommended to them but had no you cats over vision of it whatsoever there was no oversight of those testing facilities at all and as i said that analysis at the time came back saying that the supplements had been contaminated but here's the kicker the manufacturer of the supplements at this point has come out saying at the time we did testing as well and found no contamination of ourselves at least while the supplements were still on our premises so then why is there that discrepancy now you can't spokesperson has told the mail on sunday that they weren't aware of that part of the story that the manufacturer had done their own testing but of course under water code you can and should be the one carrying out these investigations themselves not allowing possibly guilty parties to be doing that we contacted wada who said that they have been made aware of these latest developments

largest independent intelligence and investigations department has indicated to us that it will include these to you elements in the investigation it launched 2 weeks ago into historically geisha in the u.k. because it was built the 1st other gratian sort of come out over the last couple of weeks regarding the doping allegations what investigation is water talking about and making the statement well. it is having a really rough time of it as of late it would seem what they're referring to there is the fact that even before this latest appeal of all with this hurdler and the runner you cat was being looked at already over a very very similar case the only difference is the sport itself it turns out that british cycling was also apparently allowing to conduct their own investigations a few years back as well again after positive test had occurred so of course there are now investigations by water everyone's looking at this very closely to see what happens and now we know that the chain of custody is possibly been completely called into question in these cases and it's

a question of in how many other cases as well and we can just sit back and wait and see how big the fallout is. sports columnist album or says the whole process seems will be in the many other issues that you weren't examination. divine beings in war we are very very weak because everything here is in order all if you are around here you are going to face. you need to upgrade your old atlantis so it is relatively standard. however you know it in deserve the you are or a certain way to pick something with you it is very very inconvenient putting again it's not going to or towards where you would go to cast for example the court of arbitration or it will just be an all or seizures all in one way it looks a bit dodgy we're going to wait it is kind of process not great ross says or process as it is if we look past course been turned into system what else is there to be found i think you know there are some serious questions be asked not just to

the point that their duties are athletes or bought it they should be out of what is at least not certain cultures their teams or you can support. them as he's a flat in eastern ukraine with reports coming in almost daily of fire fights and shelling on the frontline rebels and the rest of donetsk region claiming ukrainian drone strike killed a 4 year old boy kept them incest for the rebels version of events doesn't add up the accusations are crude propaganda designed to stir hatred so far pitstop impossible to corroborate claims but attain from are roughly video agency attended the boy's funeral and spoke to his grandmother. never turn to stand this grief you have to go through it it's really hard and now i have to walk into the school to knowing that my grandson was line right here dad his parents are beside themselves with grief especially his mother i don't care that the house was damaged but why

did this child have to suffer does he shoot someone dad has some say or did he say a bad thing to someone he was just a child only 4 years old and mental in god's eyes. as tensions ratchet up in eastern ukraine top officials and military stuff in here for have been laying the blame for the escalation russia's door here's our senior correspondent mark of the. this is far or what there was of it is crashing and burning under a sustained carriage from both sides the only see has the numbers more than a 1000 violations most of them artillery exchanges were detected on april 3rd ukraine's propaganda machine is also churning it is now officially calling thousands of its own citizens russian militias who are to blame the party line says for everything kareena ukraine and its partners are taking note of russia's systemic escalation of the security situation and the nats going lugansk regions

and in the republic of crimea all of this is happening against the background of the russian federation and willingness to reaffirm its commitment to the ceasefire or the current escalation by the russian federation the systemic and the largest in recent years a common goal is victory in the war against the aggressors and to ensure a stable peace to restore the territorial integrity of ukraine we will need to consolidate efforts of all the ukrainian people all ukrainian people apart from the ones they now call russian militias in a bid to discredit them their beliefs and their grievances probably not the best idea if you want stable peace but there are 2 major takeaways from their recent statements 1st after years of stalling delaying and torpedoing negotiations here of seems to be entertaining the idea of a military solution to the civil war victory by brute force the other takeaway is

that ukraine has virtually because war and russia officially naming it the russian ukrainian conflict russia isn't even a party in this civil war and its military was involved it would be over very very quickly that much is obvious if scouting imputed to the russian army is moving within lot. territory in the directions it deems necessary in the shape and form it sees fit to ensure the security of our country this shouldn't concern anyone in the slightest russia poses no threat to any country in the world and that of course includes ukraine russia always pays very close attention to its own security clearance to ukrainian president probably not helped by dismal ratings his seemingly bet on confrontation is military has issued a statement warning moscow that the us promised it won't leave ukraine alone and it won't let russia's aggressive plans materialize the state department has confirmed

this ukraine zoom aggressive plans it seems get a pass the americans should not be concerned by what russia is doing but rather look at kiev's unacceptable behavior which not only fails to implement the many set of measures but even denies degree mous in a manner that has become an ever more provocative if i were us colleagues were to focus and it would really facilitate stability lot all hope is yet lost there is still a chance that cooler heads will speak out that they'll stop this escalation will cause countless lives and achieve nothing but that's going to take an international effort rather than egging ukraine on with promises of support and righteousness as has been washington's policy so far. this is our taste all to come britain's prime minister reveals plans to test a covert passport system aimed relaunching safe travel and mass gatherings we get more insights into this after the break.

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you crazy is back in the news and not in a good way escalating rhetoric could lead to more conflict within ukraine who is driving this impending conflict again why is this all about isolating russia. back french prime minister has unveiled a part a plan to look at domestic passports or is johnson highlighted that it was a complicated issue and needed to be explored further you've got to be very careful in how you handle this and don't start a system that's discriminatory but obviously we're looking at it we want to be going ahead in the next. few weeks with some test of in some pilot of events that

will unquestionably involve testing. to allow the the audience to really to participate in the numbers that the people want. a national health service app or paper certificate would grant people access to public places and also potentially open up international travel there are still no details on how exactly the system would work but a backlash against the moves already gathering covert status certification would be divisive and discriminatory with high levels of vaccination protecting the vulnerable and making transmission less likely we should aim to return to normal life not to put permanent restrictions in place as we start to get this virus properly under control we should start getting our freedoms back vaccine passports essentially covert id cards takers in the other direction it would be divisive effectively creating an underclass of people who are not vaccinated many of whom will be vaccinated for medical reasons it's a major infringement on civil liberties the e.u.

parliament approved a similar system last week with the so-called digital green certificate expected to simplify travel within the european union has despite a poll finding the 7 in 10 in france see the pass as a threat to privacy and there's also skepticism as to whether it'll even work by discussing it with us next is a political commentator and anywhere but also an equality and civil rights campaigner and professor emeritus of epidemiology marcelo for rather than older gentlemen welcome to r.t. it's good to have you with us. antony 1st to you half the country has had at least one dose of vaccine the country is opening up anyway later this month it is just going to be the extra clincher to get people in britain back to doing the things that they could do before the pandemic isn't. oh no i think the whole issue here is discriminatory or the u.k. parliament covered the question in our presence it's either which made it quite clear that the public were against these things so that the cations are all

possible it's and the reality is that's not where you can say these things when are they discriminatory in one way or not and this is against city council of your reservation of the 21st of january where they said they should not be any discrimination in respect of people who really don't understand the car did not know i'm cheating but so they should and you also have to have a sense of proportion because. the reality is as he said a lot of people are kind of the current don cheadle vaccine in the treasury but also the reality is the vast majority of people don't even need this scene because it's only a risk to. basically under one percent of the population it's the vulnerable people at risk who need to consider this isn't suddenly is it in specific we are us united airlines fly the paramedic who specialise so

we have a complete overreaction by the governments it's almost like a bit of a straw art suit the age of facing or the fact that right it really looks out and. i just wanna bring the professor in on this presumably any kind of scheme like this is only as robust as its weakest link so with that complete compliance and no cheating is this even workable. professor allan can you hear me yes i can hear yes. well. my position on this is that we have to be very close yours is better safe than sorry as of this big i think that people perhaps because of psychological reasons is for getting diversity to dog years which is the difference between becoming sick

and becoming infected even people listening to it. may have the possibility to do to carry to be contentious and spread their virus to other people so. i would not think that these. new measures of or allowing people to travel. and in those considerations or then to do those public events it would be that. convenient in terms of. containing unfettered stop dividers ray over 70 m. payne wary about any kind of passport data privacy is the big issue for a lot of these people as well as potentially creating a unvaccinated underclass of people where's the line that because there's never going to be a one size fits all solution to this is that. the very simple i think we are really

missing the point here on 3 levels one of them is the most important aspect to retain the virus is testing and tracing so we don't actually need the possible while i find a lonely nights press conference number 10 was a fight about what happened or saying oh we're not going to have any of these households and the next hand if every single reporter that every single jewish were raising same question more detail about these passports we see the sheer age grab of our civil liberties re present happy still going through many it was seen this is an extension a test intrigue. as we get to our airports going into the country coming out of each country we all know from trouble that required often spend up to 2 hours waiting to get on have playing that small them of the 2 minutes it takes to do the test for people traveling to just the nation's i and i and our organization

extremely concerned who will have this data who also go for it and it just for us sees a bottle way of taking away and abusing our civil liberties and i think we should all be very alone and asking more questions about what's actually happening so why we're allowing code of it to or to take what's going on globally because we have to remember that before this cross crisis and after this grocery prices more people would die of poverty globally then whatever toy we can address adjust and cope and live with with the new pascual and with the vaccinations and so with government what they do in a moment is really a garage on our civil liberties it's unnecessary is unjust and under international law is unlawful and. yes are great it will also produce said i do you actually agree that it's

a 2nd tracing is unnecessary b. earl's we don't have a major and that might compare that with other puns aren't going to be what you're looking hacks is a pundit which. the majority of people so even if people get tested positive. as a minute proportion or risk getting seriously ill and so. the government recently announced against 100 new. mass testing which is going to cost which i believe $100000000000.00 pounds because i'd be wrong and the country will be on it's a had twice weekly sas not that is tied to the arts or proportion because we don't really have a problem in the country now that they need got to look at how better you can use this sort of money to help with our whole system and so on and. that the problem is all of this you about certification by cheating passports and

so on it's all scaremongering because the reality ace with the death rate we've got even though it's one of the hamas in the world is nor when one at 89 percent of the population as was said earlier did exasperate these very small compared 'd with other communicable diseases and not other reasons for the death in fact the kind of death rates in the world today. was one of those he fit all of the total just some of the cool cities so we're happy it's a complete i agree action here and what we need to mind is there's a there's a small number of countries who talking about passports and so on but the vast majority of well. i'm not talking about these so this is this is what we need to do we need to start

a sense of logic and proportion. because where we're going now to cook or steam sense. professor you're shaking add there is an extra layer unnecessary layer of bureaucracy something else to police given that half the country has a dose of vaccine well i. might have perspective or indeed civil liberties to be considered unprotected but they all sort of humanity has its rights and the whole human right these the right to interleave to to survive etc we cannot we cannot. forget for instance that every time that it looked down misters had been lowered in europe in italy and other countries and then if we have been observing the reemerging or these infections of these buyers so where in the 1st place or i think i recall i am not so king or. these

measures that would mean if somehow the dividers would continue to be spread among the population. then i insisted that if ever a decent measures are going to be taken into into place which is not to disregard measures for instance or where you must because one thing is that. people after us a nation can get. in mean to a certain extent well day a day when that doesn't mean that absolutely they will not get the infection again and as long as they get the infection even if they are without symptoms they are. absolutely. in their in this state as breeding spiders and that could. of course we continue with mass exodus so this is a complicated issue and i don't think that we should be delayed against the police

these claims from public informant or for political reasons etc i mean science must prevail because all or this it purity and their perspective or or of humanity that. i just want to ask ray we've been getting vaccinated for things like malaria and yellow fever needed certificates to travel for years now in normal circumstances most people would say they don't want the government to track and trace them and have more data on them these are normal times do not think that most people in britain would happily surrender some of that in order to get a certain sort of normality back into their lives i think the problem is we've been really really. media through this crisis i just sort of highlighted earlier the fact that nobody's really done more to highlight issues around civil liberties and why we need to have jobs a person made a really good point but really even if we have the.