common ground. in this country. president biden announces executive orders to quell crime but his moves are preempted by the state of arizona which has already taken steps to block the reform. european court of human rights rules that it's legal for countries to force vaccines on children in a case that's raised fears of compulsory. european medicines agency sticks to its line that the benefits of the astra zeneca outweigh the risks but the regulator says should be listed as a very rare side effect of the drug. use

this to say that we're going to start this with reports of yet another mass shooting in the united states not very many details at the moment but it is regarded as an active shooter situation in the small city of brian in the state of texas which is about 60 kilometers north of houston multiple people have apparently been wounded and a manhunt is currently underway but that all the details we have at the moment we will keep you up to date when we get more details on that developing story the incident though comes after joe biden unveiled 6 executive orders aimed at tightening firearm controls it's amid a surge in gun violence that the u.s. president called an international embarrassment. gun violence in this country is an epidemic whether congress acts or not and i'm going to use all the resources in my disposal treasure to keep the american people safe from gun violence but there's much more in the congress can do to help that effort. and they can do it right now

so we have joe biden president of the united states talking about how there is an epidemic of gun violence in the united states and putting forward executive actions intended to address that epidemic now the 1st proposal we heard from the white house was an effort to crack down on how guns are sold he referenced ghost guns which are guns that people manufacture by they they purchase kits to make them in their homes he talked about gun show loopholes and background checks furthermore joe biden discussed what he calls the red flag legislation that exists in a number of states where if a person is deemed to be a threat to themselves or to others they are temporarily deprived of their guns at this point biden has been facing a huge amount of pressure from gun control supporters due to the fact that there has been a surge in gun violence you saw last year there were 20000 gun related deaths that

took place and that is a 25 percent increase since 2019 that we've seen this surge of gun deaths other was recently an event where 5 people were killed in south carolina including 2 children and that was certainly not the 1st mass shooting that happened in 2021 let's review some of the events that have been happening in the united states of america. now it's important to note that there is certainly not unity around these moves that joe biden has proposed we have seen the governor of the state of arizona put

together a piece of legislation prohibiting sheriffs and police officers from carrying out any order that was deemed to be in violation of the 2nd amendment of the us constitution which guarantees the right to own a firearm the state of arizona and its political subdivision supreme headed from utilizing any financial resources were state personnel to administer cool parade with or enforce a new law act order rule treaty or regulation of the federal government that is inconsistent with any law of the state regarding the regulation of firearms much like the vaccine passports there's a big divide between red states and blue states and we've seen vaccine passports already outlawed in texas and florida preemptively as republicans just don't see eye to eye with democrats on this gun control is yet another example of how polarized the united states is becoming in 2021 talking to the last hour the

executive director of the rumpole peace institute says gun control is bound to remain unsolved as long as the us establishment remains split. this is typical double speak by joe biden this is a joe biden who's putting it if he's really interested in gun control he should be interested in government gun control i don't like the the idea 2 of red and blue states there are plenty of democrats who are very very strongly in favor of the ownership of firearms very very strongly in favor of the 2nd amendment and in fact that's why you can't get gun control passed through the senate because it's evenly divided and many democratic senators are in favor of this just like many republicans. centrist republicans may be in favor of gun control at the end of the day this is starting a slippery slope i think it's waking people up to the religion of the by the administration he's going to get a lot of pushback not only from red america but from red and blue america where there are strong support even in the senate among many democrats to preserve our

2nd amendment freedoms. european court of human rights has ruled that compulsory vaccinations for children are consistent with international norms and could be regarded as necessary during some related to the covered pandemic but there are fears that it could lead to tougher policies from some governments here's our europe correspondent peter olivia. this case in fact started long before anybody had ever heard of covert 19 1st time it appeared in the european court of human rights was in 2013 and already been going through the court systems in the czech republic for a long time before that the complaint was brought by families in the czech republic who'd either being fined or their children had been refused entry to early years education kindergartens and nursery schools because they hadn't been vaccinated by their parents and their parents refused to have them vaccinated what the court ruled on thursday was that the finding of those parents on the floor at the

compulsory vaccination program in the czech republic was not a breach of the european convention on human rights particularly when it came to article 8 which deals with respect for private life what the court ruled was that vaccinations are necessary in society the court clarified that ultimately the issue to be determined was not whether a different less prescriptive policy might have been adopted rather it was whether the check authors who use had exceeded their wide margin of appreciation in this area it concludes that the impugn measures could be regarded as being necessary in a democratic society of the rules in the czech republic that dissimilar from all the nations in the e.u. as well as many other nations around the world if you're sending children to kindergartens or nursery schools they have to be vaccinated against 9 different illnesses and diseases now these include incredibly serious things like measles

hooping cough hepatitis b. tetanus as well as now what the court ruled on thursday and this was the 1st time that the european court of human rights is ever got involved in compulsory vaccination programs and made a ruling on them but what they said that it was in the best interest of children that they receive these vaccinations before they go into these nursery school in kindergarten classes and start mixing with all the children. the judgment emphasizes that in all decisions concerning children the best interests must be of paramount importance of regards we mean a zation the objective has to be that every child is protected against serious diseases through vaccination or by virtue of herd immunity but check health policy could therefore be said to be consistent with the best interests of the children who were its focus or while the ruling on thursday makes no reference whatsoever to covert 19 or the current situation we all find ourselves in the covert 19 pandemic has been 34 anti vax conspiracy theorists with numerous

conspiracy theories abound both online and elsewhere many of them relating to potential forced vaccination now what this ruling on thursday does from the european court of human rights is it sets precedents that obligatory vaccinations don't contravene the european court on human rights what it does not do in any way is give any european nation the right to start forcing vaccinations on any of its citizens of course it coming out during this huge vaccination program we're all going through with vaccines throughout the news all over the world right now this is why this particular ruling from one of europe's top courts has made top billing in the news and we've been getting reaction to the ruling and hearing whether it could have any impact on covert shots. situation that moment is we were under enormous pressure i think of that from the government advertising campaigns from

the media etc to have a jab now there are people in the media in politics who have actually called for compulsory mandatory code back to the east on the grounds it's for the good society so it is worried this judgement is is worrying and i think what point is is that vaccines whether or not we take the vaccine should be up to the individual if we go down the line of saying look mind of true vaccinations not just for kids for measles or for tat the sort ever but it should be for adults to code it then i think that's a slippery slope it is something very unusual for the court because the court has to arm i decide whether it is good for the society because vaccine is important for not only the person who will take the vaccine but also for other persons who are caught dig the vaccine with him to attain the hoda unity but the case may be different for or another virus vaccine because it's not for children it's what i don't it's

a new vaccine contrary to the vaccine. devoted to the children in the czech republic but at the un convention of the child the paramount seed principle is something under which any drafting of legislation must abide by and any rules made that do affect children must consider their welfare 1st when you're looking at compulsory kovi that scene's you not looking at those sorts of protections a big problem with coronavirus vaccination is that conspiracy theorists they are getting it wrong there is a lot of misinformation around i don't think it's going to be a compulsory vaccine in force by the government but i do think that people like airlines in the tourist industry are going to force it into the back door. the european medicines agency is standing by britain's astra zeneca jab saying the benefits outweigh the risks while noting the blood clots should be listed as rare

side effects the agent says received more than 200 reports of unusual blood clots in those getting the shot that's among more than 30000000 who've been inoculated across europe over in the u.k. the authorities there say that people under the age of 30 will be offered alternatives to the astra zeneca jab due to the possible blood clot leg 80 people in the country have suffered clotting after a dose 1000 have died but britain's regulator is taking the same line as the european medicines agency reports. the takeaway the message that europe's health authorities want to leave you with is that it's still worth it the benefits outweigh the risks the benefits outweigh the risks i does become almost a slogan for the astra zeneca prove it vaccine earth portrait cases of unusual blood clotting following vaccination with the astra zeneca vaccine should be listed as possible side effects of the vaccine it's important starts both vaccinated

people and health care professionals are aware of the signs and symptoms of these unusual blood clotting disorder so that they could be spotted quickly to minimize any possible risks so why did it take so long i mean the rumors began months and months ago and it was all in the news on t.v. in the papers and the company kept telling everyone the same thing there's a new link between the jab and the well dive analysis of our safety data of more than 10000000 records has shown no evidence of an increased risk of palm leaves him or deep vein thrombosis and a defined age group gender batch or in any particular country unfortunately there was a link and now the astra zeneca job will have i've additional warning on it can cause blood clots and potentially death in people as young as 8 seed the age the youngest

deceased and still they say it's worth it unless of course you can go and get another job in which case probably best to go for that their words adults who are age 18 to 29 years old who do not have an underlying health condition that puts them at higher risk from serious coben 1000 disease should be offered an alternative cove at night in fact seen in preference to the astra zeneca vaccine where such an alternative facts seen the. is available over a dozen countries only counting the european union have suspended vaccination with the astra zeneca vaccine or that servia to please their marketing department though i doubt that a simple rebranding is going to cleanse their reputation i would definitely say is a stupid move because changing the name which means changing your shop window right in the midst of a crisis rather than increasing trust will increase especially because

it always indicates that there is something you want to hide so i absolutely do not understand how 'd a company comes to such a decision at the end of the day i can't help but partially agree with them the alternative waiting for another vaccine could have cost thousands of lives but only partially they let these rumors steward fester for months before coming out and admitting that essentially people were rights to be afraid and that unfortunately has done irreparable damage to the vaccination drive worldwide of vaccination shortages across the e.u. have prompted several member states to question the block's joint procurement scheme austria is one of them and chancellor could sense that he be in favor of buying russian sputnik vico vigil it would help us a lot because the vaccination process would be significantly accelerated i advocate that we do this we are now coordinating this with the federal government i really

hope that we will be able to acquire this vaccine as well as use it this is not only my decision but i strongly support it. the european medicines agency is yet to approve the russian vaccine but former european commission president jean-claude juncker says that if the regulator gives it the green light the e.u. should be included in the procurement program meanwhile the russian direct investment fund which is behind the sputnik the rollout says it's now in talks with germany on supplying the job the linz made it clear that it will go ahead with using the show if it passes e.u. approval but that's been dragging on for months now cancer surgeon bob thinks that europe's allowed politics to get in the way of saving lives. we need the vaccines and the problem is it was a political initially we many people in europe didn't accept the russian vaccine and sputnik is a good vaccine and yet they were coming out and saying well this is not what we want let's look at the european and i'll turn of this and you see here the problem is the politicians have fields to cover the nations with adequate back seeing

dozes and this is a problem we have we don't have enough back seems and if you see what she right now is that we're going back and asking russia for sport next we should have done that much much earlier we need all the players all the players on the table and that includes the sputnik 16 which has excellent data out there as has pfizer and as has modern so we should have known that much earlier in order to be able to provide our nationals with adequate vaccine goes it is it and now we are paying for those political shortcomings with human lives. you know without a coming out no but islands worst violence in years ryan says have held petrol bombs and bricks at the police in a 6 consecutive night of violence it's our next story after the break.

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remain in the shallows. welcome back. gripped by 6 nights of rising loyalists and irish nationalists faced off the middle wave of anger over post breaks and trade barriers between the north and the republic and this was the scene in belfast on wednesday a bus was torched more than $41.00 officers were injured during the clashes rocks and petrol bombs were holdout police northern ireland's 1st minister fosters urged both sides to show restraint and the british prime minister's expressed his alarm and called for dialogue. i am deeply concerned by the scenes of violence in northern ireland especially attacks on the p s n i who are protecting the public and business attacks on a bus driver and the assault of

a journalist this way to resolve differences is through dialogue not violence or criminality meanwhile northern ireland's justice minister has blamed the u.k. government for the flare up now in the long accuse the conservatives of dishonesty over the way bricks it would affect the irish border saying they promised unfettered access while failing to work through the legal consequences she also slammed the british government's decision to suspend the northern ireland protocol which was part of the u.k.'s withdrawal agreement with the e.u. that was aimed at ensuring an open border we spoke with jonathan tong who's a professor of british and irish politics he thinks the government made a series of false promises to the people of northern ireland. well the british government bonds johnson in particular have to bear a considerable amount of responsibility it was boris johnson who went over to belfast and totally democratic unity party the largest party in northern ireland told the public party conference 3 years ago that it would be intolerable for any british government to preside over a border in the r.e.c. forest johnson was attacking his previous us to treason make the signing of such

a deal we did a year boris johnson done that and since then he spends a lot of time pretending that there is this border between great britain and northern ireland so you listen more the single i'm feeling terrible sense of betrayal over what the prime minister has done think that boris johnson needs to go to northern ireland explain what he's done in terms of of the protocol and try and also meet with the you leaders to instigate simile the worst effects the protocol and diminish the number of checks on goods go between great britain and northern ireland otherwise we're looking at a grim summer potentially of violence in northern ireland. the u.s. state of indiana is launching a probe against 5 tech giants had a move that could lead to legal action the state's attorney generals accuse them of censoring conservative voices big tech censorship should concern every liberty loving american as endianness attorney general i work to

protect hoosier from harm caused by deceptive unfair or abuse of business practices including censorship of digital content. republican told repeater went on to say that the 5 firms facebook twitter google amazon and apple may have violated indiana's consumables he's accusing them of limiting people's access to content by deleting or obscuring material reflecting a politically conservative point of view follows a coordinated response from the tech firms in the wake of the january riots on capitol hill blocking the accounts of republicans including then president donald trump accused of undermining the president and true election in 2020 the result of that or inciting rest. of florida governor republican wrong to sound this is among the latest to be hit with alleged censorship without any warning or explanation you tube deleted his recent video of a roundtable discussion with scientists looking at public health issues during the pandemic. well live now to a legal analyst and jennifer damascus to talk more about this book into the program

let's talk about what's happening in indiana that it's a bit of a david and goliath well this isn't it does he stand a chance by going after the big 5 with a consumer law. you know this is a very interesting case and i think this could be precedent setting hopefully it will be because it's obviously a david and goliath and not only is bigger than david but goliath also has federal section $230.00 perceptions that protect these big tech companies that theoretically are supposed to protect them from the lawsuits and so the indian attorney general is no dummy he knows about this but he also knows that in order to qualify for those federal protections from lawsuits like this and from any lawsuits these big tech companies were had had to get here to their responsibilities the protocols equal application of the laws publicly provided provisions for how their platforms would operate things that people would know and so he's very carefully

wording his investigation and right now again there's no lawsuit yet but i think the announcement of this investigation is a very big deal because as a precursor to maybe going after them he's led to try to find loopholes i think there are loopholes in section 230 and i think there are loopholes where these companies can be sued and so he's been very wise in this but it's something that i think is new ground for a lot of people who want to see that because let's be real big check did not start censoring people on january 6th it was a slow progression it's been going on for the past several years they just use that as an excuse to speed up the process and i've not read it but i would hazard a guess that maybe indiana's consumer law has fewer words and than the terms and conditions for the likes of facebook and you tube and they will say we're private companies you signed up for this so there's always going to be a get out and there isn't the going to stitched up. absolutely and a lot of these laws especially in the in the boom of anything on social media of the internet in general created this complete boom in

a vacuum in the legal system in terms of even jurisdiction how do we have jurisdiction when when there's a service or a product or something that's being used by our people that it necessarily inflate the big tech companies into indiana but i mean it's pervasive around there and as a public utility which really has become you know i think they act like private companies private companies and they always claim there's this excuse is private companies but here they are if i accounts they verify government state accounts you know the president accounts and so they do serve it in terms of that is a state platform is a government platform and when they are censoring political speech and it's only one political side they are making themselves less of a private company and more of a necessity of ever public good in that's where i think this investigation is going to look into i think is going to be very very careful in indiana but if this works at this investigation works in yields a way to allow states to do that you're going to see a lot more states suing these big tech companies for causing harm because

a greater fundamental right in america is also economic protections for their businesses and their consumers to have access to information become by all the poem that section 230 that you've mentioned there that protection that they've got where they can call themselves platforms not publishers and yet when the is hate speech when there is incitement when there are dangerous videos they are expected to act and they do so they can have it both ways and yet they do so why isn't section 230 working why isn't the federal government able to break them up. and that's a that's a great things have 1st of all sections you 30 is definitely not working we've seen that 1st you're looking at congress or section 230 to be completely overruled which i think it should or at the very least edited substantially and defining more what would sure what would what would define a publisher i have no issue with a legitimate public or an objective publisher having these kinds of protections but they have abused that privilege and she would be calm congressional approval on

that we all know that image democrats in congress are never going to allow that and now you have president biden which certainly would do that as well because of course it's friendly to the democratic party that's a 1st point here $630.00 was meant under this guy's that these are these internet companies that there were going to be different things published and that there had to be equal equal level playing fields for these private companies so if you were going to have bulls you had to one publicly provide those rules to the public let them know you know what your rules were make it very very clear and then and then make sure that you instituted those equally and fairly the problem that we've seen now more obviously than ever is that they can a label something is hate speech that's not hate speech and i think that's what the indiana attorney general is getting to for example people that people that believe that there was something different that went on in the november 21 election are people that believe that there was fraud against donald trump in the november 2020 election those those those pows would be would be categorized literally be labeled

as this is misleading and misinformation and dangerous and people have a right to have his opinion so when you do that and then they go after maybe even private other private companies who might have a conservative viewpoint or take down their accounts i mean age you're harming people's people's ways to earn a revenue you're harming people's marketing abilities and they only can use these platforms so it's a they they have really violated their opportunities down section to 30 protections because i see no way ever going to get them to listen if they've got deep pockets and they have them in the revenue ok jennifer the mouse that could have you back on i'll tell you thanks for joining us. thank you. that's the way look for moscow for this salad my name is called in by 5 we go next update off the cause of a. problem

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i'm x. times or this is the kaiser in 40 remember monopoly it's great to have photos on boardwalk and park place. well run france or big monopoly says hey max something that we predicted quite a few years ago is once again coming true and that is that you know as the city this trap happened and as china continues to rise in power that what happens with empires is they tend to influence the behavior of many other countries around the world and we're seeing similar story happening today i believe this is my theory about what's happening in the united states and that's essentially you know we don't have ghost cities like they do in china but we have ghost homes and that is because of a similar situation of too much credit not a great you know environment for investment opportunities for ordinary people and it's a great way to leverage your way out to vast you know tens of thousands of dollars every year on house price gains so.