fresh protests in europe over coded restrictions as mixed messages from governments leave people confused and angry. we go over everyone comes together we can see our loved ones anymore we think this is absolutely against our fundamental human rights. the u.s. state of vermont defends prioritising nonwhite residents for the covert shot a move that some have condemned as racist. amid a surge in asian hate crimes in the us in martial arts center in california the state by far worst affected. classes for the most vulnerable. and another scandal hits u.k.

sports as questions are raised over a probe into 2 british olympians and how they were tested for steroids. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our to international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. fury is growing in europe at apparently contradictory curfews in lockdown during a 3rd wave of the pandemic. reports now on rising resistance to measures that some think 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. in 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 but if i can launch of the host 10 times to

visit 10 friends i can do it through the 1st day because majority of disregarding the 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 tell you turning anytime soon in germany for instance authorities openly admitted to creating a void of faith between them and the people now to give his name there is no silver bullet to win 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 to 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 for us to put on 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 said 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 coronavirus prompting even more contradictions within reason we won't give this esther zeneca vaccines of people over 65. it has been greenlighted for people

over 55 with a medical condition. ok let's see 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 covert 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 pushed into the ruinous and very very deadly arena of covert denial. we don't want to obey the rules that have been imposed on us they impose on us how to think how to behave they impose measures to 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't 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 most 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. and amid european criticism over government mishandling of the pandemic some are taking matters into their own hands and italian businessmen returns to moscow just to get a 2nd dose of the sputnik the vaccine over an occupation plays back home we have been covering his vaccination journey in russia since day one and will bring you more on how it all went later on in the program. in the u.s. state of vermont all non white residents over the age of 16 have been offered covert shots something only available there to white people over the age of 50 some have branded the moved blatantly racist though the governor defended the decision.

this coordinated vaccination therefore it is an important step in to working with and compensate interested community partner networks to reach some of the most historically marginalized people in vermont this is not even close to legal the 14th amendment for sure is violated here not to mention just the downright immorality behind such a ridiculous mindset the only way to stem the tide of discriminatory racism is more discriminatory racism vermont's move came after a letter from racial justice activists demanding that officials prioritize nonwhites we put the issue up for debate. you know what we have here is a combination of definitely racial justice but also being strategic as we are trying to fight this pandemic and let's be honest we're developing nations the united states is simply not cutting it for how far along we should be when we compare the rates of infection going down in places like australia taiwan and even china the bottom line is that the best way to really get through this pandemic is

to treat the people who have been disproportionately impacted and affected by it and that happens to be black brown and indigenous people each group has equal access to the vaccine there's no real disparity as far as access if you want it you can get it if it's available it doesn't matter what color you are just go ahead and get it so this whole thing is not necessary at all this is not at the expense of white people in vermont it is simply saying that the people who have been impacted the most are the people that we should prioritize this is most certainly discrimination based on race and you cannot do that at all especially from the state level this is a violation of many different fronts it's completely illegal and i would be surprised if he was get away with this without at least a lawsuit and at worse possibly more severe penalties have the constitution that's involved the 14th amendment prevents this type of thing from happening so i don't

think this can actually happen in america or at least it shouldn't be able to according to what the law says this is not a violation of the equal protection clause or the civil rights act what it is the institution of good logical sense and good logical strategy to get over a pin damage that has been inflicted in this country for far too long and as well as the people who have been inflicted by myriad other forms of social injustice is about science and try to stick to a science as our glorious science is over here say i think the best thing to do would be to approach a problem from my scientific point. view from a health point of view rather than a racist point of view. human rights activists are crying foul over the case of a former u.s. intelligence analyst who had been set to go on trial this week daniel hale who blew the whistle on washington's targeted drone assassination program instead pled guilty to transmitting and retaining national defense information in violation of

the espionage act using the espionage act in this way to prosecute journalists sources and spies chills newsgathering and discourages sources from coming forward with information in the public interest particularly when it relates to national security where government secrecy is at its height these documents detail the secret unaccountable protests for targeting and killing people around the world including u.s. citizens through drone strikes there are a vital public importance and they related to their disclosure is protected by the 1st amendment hale was an intelligence analyst during the obama administration and identified targets for kill and capture the us government went after hale when he disclosed the documents to the intercept for its dirty wars project in 2014 and 2 years ago hill was charged and arrested with violating the espionage act and other related offenses last week he pleaded guilty to one count of leaking classified

information and now faces up to 10 years in prison john kiriakou a former cia analyst and whistleblower who was forced to plead guilty in his own case spoke personally with daniel hale. this is really the worst part of the of the espionage act this is the reason why ed snowden can't come home this is the reason why i couldn't go to trial this is the reason why jeffrey sterling the other cia whistleblower was convicted because there is no affirmative defense we are prohibited by law from going into court and saying i did it but i did it for this reason and in the case of daniel hale this was a war crime he did it because he was exposing a war crime he's not allowed to say that and so he really doesn't have any chance of acquittal the best thing to do for daniel as it was for me as it was for so many others here charged under the espionage act is to take a deal and to hope for the lightest possible sentence the decision that was made

early on even before joe biden was inaugurated to pursue the appeal against julian a son it was that decision that made it clear that joe biden was going to pursue national security leaks just like barack obama did and just like donald trump did after him on his 1st day in office joe biden temporarily limited counterterrorism drone strikes outside the battle zones of afghanistan syria and iraq however reports say that the president wants to boost armed drone exports to several countries with controversial human rights records here are just a few examples of how drone warfare has impacted civilian populations.

john kerry alco again told us that despite the consequences daniel hale feels he did what he had to do. i have to tell you when he called me a few hours ago he was surprisingly upbeat and optimistic and he he remarked about how much press this issue has been getting since he decided to plead guilty so in the end i think that he thinks that this is been worth it that americans know more about the drone program now than 8 they did 6 months ago or a year ago and even though he's likely going to go to prison it was worth it the u.s. is flying these drones or at least it was until recently that were used ostensibly to kill terrorists or would be terrorists but in reality to kill anybody who might resemble a terrorist and that included women children the elderly and anybody else who happened to be on the ground i believe that we're we're

a nation of laws and we have to abide by those laws whether we like them or not if we don't like them we should change them go through the process and change them if congress has not declared war on a country we don't have a right to attack it we just can't decide that we don't like the politics of whoever happens to be in charge in a place like yemen or pakistan or afghanistan and then launch drone strikes against them it's a violation of international law. hostilities have flared in eastern ukraine with reports coming in almost daily of firefights and shelling on the frontline while rebels in the restive dunya region claim a ukrainian drone strike killed a 4 year old boy kiev though insists the rebels version of events does not add up and that the accusations are crude propaganda designed to stir hatred so far it has not been possible to corroborate the claims by the team from our roughly video agency attended the boy's funeral and spoke to his grandmother.

however i do understand this grief you have to go through it it's really hard just 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 of something or did he say a bad thing to someone he was just a child only for years old and then tional in god's eyes. as tensions ratchet up in eastern ukraine top officials and military staff in kiev have been laying the blame for the escalation at russia's door here's our correspondent what i've got to . this is far or what there was of it is crashing and burning under a sustained barras 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 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 older 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 have 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 if it's military was involved it would be over very very quickly that much is obvious if scouting imputing 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

cordons ukrainian president probably not helped by dismal ratings his seemingly bet on calm for a day ship 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 zoon 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 them and 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 facilitates to belittle a lot all hope is yet lost there is still a chance that cooler heads will speak out that they'll stop this escalation and 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 former u.n. weapons inspector and u.s. marines intelligence officer scott ritter thinks the flare up in fighting is being driven by economic concerns. the cretins also understand that they could very well be being put in a very difficult economic situation in the months and years ahead if north stream too is completed and russia decides to stop transmitting gas through ukraine depriving ukraine of billions of dollars in revenue there will be an economic crisis so i think ukraine is anticipating this and seeking to promote a deal or at least advertise the kinds of to a military solution in hopes that nato in europe will intervene politically and diplomatically on their side to get a resolution this year or to stop nerd stream too unless is in support of the ukrainian objectives of ukraine is being led to believe that there will be

a support and it will be but the support will be military the support will be diplomatic political united states is not going to deploy military forces to fight on the soil of ukraine against the russian army it just isn't going to happen. protesters have rallied in central new york over a spike in violence against the asian community as the city has seen an increase in anti asian attacks over the last few weeks and please be warned that we're about to show you video of some of those attacks which you might find upsetting.

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 a report found 2 out of every 3 incidents took place in california in martial arts center in the state has now opened special self-defense classes for the most vulnerable in the community. and we thought it would be so good for our seniors and the women who are vulnerable to be equipped with something that they could use that goes into this variable right now you know they. want to learn to do it i don't know you can call it that our family you know maybe a bit tell me comfortable with a video of it and show it to my friends so they know how to use it when they are there for themselves. class organizers say while it is unlikely an elderly person

could take on a serious attacker there are a few secrets that could prevent more brutal incidents. we've taught them. you know find a weak point where you can't counter attack you only need one effective counter attack that what you call wait a minute this person 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 techniques that they can use and then inspiring them to also once they are home to practice. it has been revealed that the u.k. anti-doping agency let elite olympians investigate themselves after testing positive for steroids and subsequently cleared the athletes daniel hawkins got more details earlier from correspondent jacqueline boca. 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 1st of all they say that the pair themselves arrange the testing of the supplements and a lab 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 a few elements in the investigation it launched 2 weeks ago into historically geishas in the u.k. because it was built with other gratian sort of come out over the last couple of weeks regarding the doping allegations what investigation is water talking about when they make a mistake well it's. 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 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 most school based sports columnist alan moore says the whole process seems and will be and there are many other issues in u.k. sports that warrant examination. the findings in war were very very weak because everything here is in order or if you are around here you are going to face. you need to upgrade your own limits so it's relatively standard. you deserve

the you or us are going to pick something with you it is green and green it will again it's not going to or towards where you would go to cast for example the court of arbitration or it would just be an all or seizure so in one way it looks a bit dodgy we're going to wait is going to process not a great process or process as it is we don't ask or spend in the system what else is there to be found i think you know there are some shoes purse to be asked not just the point ringback where duties are the support they should be possible it is all just. you can support. the taliban man has made a 2nd trip to russia in 2 months to get his 2nd dose of the sputnik v. covered vaccine he told r.t. saskia taylor to mess for months now it's been a regular in the headlines and with more production and to liberate lays on the

cards it still looks like a fun plant weren't it's now while some most citizens are waiting and hoping that the brussels somehow gets its act together others have taken things into that own hands route alessandra rather nearly a born and bred talian has decided that nothing off and he wants his job now but why in the world can you get a cold fact seen at the drop of a hat while right in russia so back in march he got on a plane from rome to last go to get his fastow's and now he is back in the capital for a round if a would have to wait italian might. shift the should be of us need to be noted it is still a long time honestly europe is very developed at the county i mean community to be your horse is good. but. because some. of those

a door is not good and the screen is that we don't do our own production year of very soon. and we have so you'll be delayed so this thursday we could be absolutely. wrangling and frying a few hours all waiting until the autumn even longer until he's eligible for a vaccine in italy for sandro it was a tough choice especially what he thinks about his large family many of whom are in the at risk category getting the job was just as much about protecting them as himself talking to me feel so waved away any misgivings about sputnik the vaccine that has despite being registered in round 60 countries in the world and having positive reviews in top medical journals been met with suspicion and skepticism by many for alexandria though it's easily explained because even in

a pandemic there's space for a little bit of politics. the problem is that these media russian. i don't see any other problem i don't want to see any kind of course. i see the. model that is producing the united states is immediately find here in europe. no that is not a reason. to not approve it. community already speak very clearly that no. no one will see you that is not a war is not if you should i just hope that you know. priority. for a politician will be to see you for life for people and not to i don't know to support some of the coming out of the clinic after his appointment alessandro

looked like the poster boy for putting health over politics the world was. so funny vaccinated and with a certificate to prove it us andro can now fly home and safely hug his out to the parents of course getting a visa in cuba times isn't easy on a sondre can buy his russian wife from being allowed into the country but a small story like his could become something much bigger given the country's vaccine plus no production delays no wait lists and the fact that there are hundreds of vaccination points business owners have pitched the idea of easing travel restrictions and inviting foreigners for some kind of visa free vaccination vacation they say it's a win win we are just the possibility of allowing visit free travel to run.