desperate restaurant owners in rome square up to riot officers to smoke bombs fly demanding their business has been let out of lock down we spoke to some of. the states over me but no help is coming we are working criminals. by the reportedly giving cash the central american states that in a bid to slow the influx of migrants a move that's been slammed by critics at home is an insult to americans in the. state of emergency declared in minnesota where rioters flouted a curfew for a 2nd night running after a police officer shot dead a black man. very

good morning to you thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. italian restaurant owners are demanding an exit from the covert lockdown they say they could no longer afford to stay closed clashes broke out at north arise protesting right. to be.

rally was organized by the open movement which advocates for loosening lockdown restrictions on reopening businesses. far right group whose members threw smug. police protester was injured another restive italy is a zcode with distractions in most regions following a nice the lockdown but restaurants remain closed at least until the end of april takeout delivery services are permitted we spoke to some of the protest in business this. m.o. they fear the anger of the people but the people are angry for a reason there are serious reasons not enough attention has been paid to important issues affecting the sector they have been hit by wrong and unfair decisions resources have not been allocated in a supportive or equitable way for restaurant owners. the state owes me but no help is coming i don't know how to make ends meet each month the expenses are fixed each month there are more expenses than benefits we're desperate. to but we are in the

square because we have the right to demonstrate this is a dictatorship maybe it's fine for brussels but not for us we are workers not criminals. pandemic related anxieties of a different kind of the most on the italian island of sicily locals there are showing a high level of distrust in the astra zeneca vaccine court to the region's president of the 80 percent assyrians refused to be inoculated with the job over safety concerns public confidence in the anglo swedish jobs been badly shaken by reports linking it to a rare but potentially fatal blood clots and by conflicting recommendations on its use we asked islanders for their views. i turned down the astra zeneca vaccine because i don't think it's safe there have been several suspicious cases in sicily and for that reason i preferred not to risk my health. from what i've heard so far i do not trust it i heard about the thrombosis cases the percentage is minimal but given a choice i would feel more protected with

a vaccine with fewer side effects the result was the possibility of an error but if the virus is more dangerous than the vaccine i would prefer to get vaccinated. there have been many deaths we don't know this is related to the vaccine or not we're all free at the moment i don't want to take the astra zeneca shot out probably wait for sputnik the. vaccine tourism's on the rise amid faltering rollouts and mistrust of germs will follow one french one strip all the way to moscow to be inoculated with coming up in a few minutes. next to washington a secured agreements with mexico honduras and guatemala to boost its troop presence at the borders that in a bid to slow migration to the u.s. the move comes amid reports the by the ministration is also considering and in cash to central american states to stop the flow critics though say the president should redirect that money to help america's own in need but expects. with 170000

people picked up along the u.s. border just last month the migrant crisis is rapidly spinning out of control and the biden administration is scrambling to deal with it. 8 8 8 8 at the end of the. earth. and the current plan dollars and lots of them in the form of foreign aid president biden wants to try and buy a way out of his border crisis with taxpayer money the administration is spending $60000000.00 a week and now wants to launch a cash transfer program in central america this insults millions of americans who are out of what can a country the plan is for billions of dollars to go to guatemala honduras and el

salvador now it's not exactly clear how this is going to work but the white house insists it won't be just direct cash payments to potential migrants is one thing i can promise you is the u.s. government isn't going to be handing out money checks to people let's not forget that back in 2009 the usa worked to topple the government of honduras ushering in a decade of instability and chaos let's also remember that white amala has had various u.s. backed military regimes so what exactly led to this stampede toward the u.s. border the trail goes straight back to the white house the united states says moral leadership on refugee issues was a poor in a bipartisan consensus for so many decades when i 1st got here we shine a light into lamp a lot of liberty an oppressed people were offered safe havens for those slain violence or persecution and our example pushed other nations to open wide their

doors as well it's not exact. clear what the end goal is and there's not really a record of success here foreign aid to u.s. aligned regimes in central america that have free market economies is certainly not a new concept in fact the u.s. state department has been showering the region with money for decades $750000000.00 was provided to central american countries between 20142017 now the stated goals of all that foreign aid was roughly the same as what biden is proposing and people remained poor desperate and they continued fleeing 2019 donald trump took the dramatic move of halting us aid so can we continue to just throw money at a problem and expect it to eventually be solved by will soon be celebrating his 100th day in office and he's got a major crisis on his hands with no end in sight they look up and are to see new york. the 2nd day of violent race riots in the u.s. state of minnesota has seen the city of brooklyn sent

a flooded with national guard troops to the state of emergency declared the rest follows the fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer. and i thought well why did you get pulled over you pulled them over who had your personal opinion from the room or.

rocks and other objects thrown at the police department there were reports of shots fired in the area of the police department. the little one all of the all of the above normal you know most of the world on the omo . if you also took to the streets of new york on monday to demand justice for them to a right they marched chanting his name some hometown is that bad driving while black should not be a death sentence former officer dominick is there told us the incident shows there are serious problems within the place for us. this is either bad training or this is a scared police officer and a story the problem i'm going to have for me personally as you're going to see a lot of blue live supporters who are going to be jumping to the aid of this police officer saying that it's a high stress circumstance we don't know what she was thinking we owe you can you

cue can mistake this was this was this was a or if this was absurd to go to a pistol have it in your hands. obviously have tunnel vision on the suspects how you can mistaken mistakenly grab your pistol instead of your taser after you have had training that makes no sense to me whatsoever you use your hands usually at that taser has been proven over and over and over again to be not a complete tool and that's going to wind up helping the scene out and it is just done this is put more cops under the false a false security that a tool is going to replace words and physicality and this is a problem. a group of activists in the u.s. are entering the 3rd week of hunger strike over the saudi blockade of yemen the american based yemeni liberation movement is edging the bod to mistrust to make good on its promise to and support for the saudi campaign hammond's now in the grip of a full blown famine after

a 6 year military onslaught by. arabia those operations are aimed at propping up yemen's pro saudi government against shia who think fighters which we are and claims to be terrorists the walls directly or indirectly claimed almost a quarter of a 1000000 lives according to the u.n. and the crisis appears to be getting even worse with the saudi blockade preventing vital supplies from entering yemeni ports.

according to the u.n. 2000000 children under the age of 5 will suffer a cute malnutrition in yemen this year if the blockade continues it could result in 400000 deaths we heard from one of the leading activists involved in the hunger strike she thinks a global response is needed to end the war. we're not talking about just the united states who is involved although they are a vital supporter and a key supporter in this and this role i mean you know you have to involve the united nations france spain and in so many other countries who are also involved in in supplying arms to the saudi coalition but absolutely that you know there should be a huge uproar i mean we are literally day by day watching the worst humanitarian crisis in the world you know these are people that struggle to find water and and struggle to of be able to afford food in just imagine that this is a constant daily life and why are we not hearing from these world leaders why are

we not hearing from from the from other nations we should be extremely outraged that this could be this could happen to any other country and we should all equally be as enraged and absolutely that the world needs to talk more about what's going on in yemen. several months of subzero temperatures in fronts of decimated the country's great crop spelling disaster for many of the countries want to make because farmers saw having to get creative in a desperate bid to salvage what they count of the harvest.

france has lost a significant amount of its harvest it's estimated that we have possibly lost around 30 percent nationwide we're talking about $12.00 to $15000000.00 hits a liters at least that's roughly equivalent to what france exports almost every year but there are also people who have lost 90 or even 100 percent of certain types of vines some of my friends are living in a real nightmare for those like me a mud lucky and went affected so badly when you look at the situation on the whole it's a really big problem at the same time there's also been other problems especially covert and the shutdown of our main markets especially for winemakers small why make it work a lot through the restaurants the sector is closed restaurants are closed and it's not clear when they'll reopen. anybody can now get answers from the white house

that least that's the impression after an online impasse the minister didn't journalist into putting her questions to joe biden's spokesperson on his major pakistans what happened what it shows. have you ever wondered who gets to ask the questions at the white house well for channels like r t or independent journalists it's practically impossible instantly you get accusations of being propaganda fake news and so on bake news that's being spread by russia or to you which is a hulu supported. funded by the russian or the russian government fake means has dominated the true had lines fake news spread by russia fake news fake news kremlin spread misleading or otherwise fake news of course they explain it as holding up journalistic standards or something like that well ok so just how high are these standards well judge for yourself in an online game or manage to get in for questions to jen psaki biden's press secretary by just pretending to be

a white house reporter a few fake twitter handles that's all it took the gamer who was real identity is still unknown created a profile as casey leggo montagu who pretended to be a reporter for a non-existing news agency called white house news several white house officials even followed her on twitter montagu then asked credentialed reporters in the white house press room so a pass on her questions because she couldn't make it there to code the regulations and stuff like that and they did no credentials no background check nothing and this laziness or incompetence or whatever you want to call it on the part of the white house press team is exactly what led montague to do all this in the 1st place i love journalism and i think the press corps is doing a pretty bad job at the moment so i decided i wouldn't show us some transparency and ask some questions me and some friends wanted the answer to and she's not the

only one fed up with the real journalists ever since biden circa office the pres briefings in the white house have turned into a game of softball a police compared to the way the media behaved during the true. but ministration back then everyone suddenly had a sense of journalistic duty to ask the hard questions and grill the administration over everything and anything this present like good you think candidates are going to question bill comes in like can you give us a closer view or nothing else can you give us a question don't be rude you know he doesn't want you i do not get to give you can use to you can you speak out or you are fake dues but you know if i may ask one of the course of this president for me i should have been are you worried i should know that sort of president i think that's an ask one of the other folks that said are you that's enough put down the mike was president are you worried about indictments coming down in the supposed to be. but with biden's team it's a snooze fest screened questions scripted answers no accountability and a lot of circling back we will circle back with you if there's more to update you

on that we'll have to take that question to you and circle back with you circle back on that one that's an excellent question i don't have any information in front of me full there excellent questions on the 1st one i should have information on but i'll have to follow up with you on both of them i don't believe that we have outlined that yet let me we can follow up with you if there's a specific timeline that we're putting out publicly at this point. so it's no surprise that even regular people are getting tired of this all and even going as far as getting their own questions into the white house because hey if you have the proper twitter handle that's apparently all it takes to become a white house approved journalist these days. so this company this is our judgment based vaccine manufacturers this u.s. export restrictions are putting vaccine production at the risk of us story on the way after this short break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in these. very dramatic development only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and. the world is driven by shaped by. the day or thinks. we dare to ask.

welcome back germany based pharmaceutical company q a vax as it's having trouble producing its new vaccine because of u.s. export restrictions but the u.k. andy you have preordered almost half a 1000000000 but the firm now warns those orders are at risk global supply chains are disrupted be it chemicals to quit meant filters or hoses u.s. manufacturers are obliged 1st to meet american demand and that means we are slipping down the list well the concern comes out of the by the ministration invoke the so-called defense production act this was introduced during the cold war and grants washington emergency powers to secure vital resources by prioritising its

orders the moves led to us supplies struggling to fulfill contracts outside the country to serve medicine doctor read off to explain the possible implications of the me. one thinker that we know who sure used to many old l.t. diesel who will transcend materials that we need to research him for producing great scenes. of course supplied by a big surprise here since many of them of course located in c. and i did states. they were going to. treat her with many important items in tif indeed they are there will be a list which will sum this up lol for the material sort of the truth of course chemicals and many other. that are necessary to good use that work seems these would be a good talk however i have to cease the intercooler crisis for many people here for learning to meantime also

a lot just remember that if we would be talking when you call we would be short on here think masks super people masks it is time you are lucky leave while the last 2 people at least came from china and i think we just have to think it told to the alternative suppliers bt located of course in other parts of the world chose to consider trying not but also a shop so i think they will be able to not use 20 trees to secure who asserts uploaded these necessary stalling vaccination programs and dance about some of the jobs on offer has led to a rise in vaccine tourism among europeans some are traveling as far afield as russia to be inoculated here. micha do flow is a lawyer from leon and he has his own opinion about the vaccine situation of holes

who will mean there are currently enough vaccines in france and not everyone can get vaccinated where they want to without waiting 1st of all i don't trust the vaccines offered to us whether it's the american vaccine or britain's astra zeneca they don't fill me with confidence so why i chose the russian sport nick the jab which i think is much safer and more effective. the russian vaccine has not yet been approved by the european medicines agency so it's not in france and that's something to flow is not too happy about stores or good could be i regret that my country france is denying its citizens access to the sputnik vaccine for reasons unrelated to health or medicine so if support nick doesn't fly to me i'll fly to get it out of access while on a business trip to moscow to flow decided to get inoculated against corona virus he didn't seem nervous before getting his long awaited job. no i'm not concerned

i might have been more worried if it was a different vaccine i won't name it but in france it's being heavily criticized now in this case i might have been more afraid. however maître do flow things it's still a long way to travel for an injection but all men can force despite the fact that there is a vaccine shortage in france they have to decide who should get vaccinated 1st switch also shows that we don't have enough doses even though there is a vaccine available it's their choice and i think that this is a criminal choice. despite its technology and experience france has not developed its own vaccine never i really regret that we're in this situation i think it's because france no longer has the scientific potential to develop such things we are the country of the scientists plus 3rd column a and you're on a really changed the health situation in the world for the better and today we're lagging behind france is the only permanent member of the un security council that has not developed its own vaccine. do flu will get

a 2nd sputnik 3 job in 3 weeks during his next trip then he can go home with one less thing to worry about. even briefly in our student at a high school in knoxville tennessee has been killed by police after he opened fire the suspect in barricaded himself in a bathroom one officer was injured in an exchange of fire. but was in a village in georgia trying to breach a police cordon surrounding construction of a new hydro power plant they're furious they were excluded from talks on the project which they fear will create environmental problems the plant is billed as the largest energy project in georgia for 13 years. and that's a sign of covert restrictions being eased in london for the 1st time in months nonessential u.k. businesses have reopened among them pubs although they're only allowed to serve people outdoors. average about it today thanks for your company our return with

more on our top stories in half an hour. well the demick no certainly no borders i'm just delighted to nationalities. as americans we don't come with turkey we don't look like seeing the whole world beats to be. a judge of. commentary crisis like this listening to. we can do better we should be better. everyone is contributing each or own way but we also know that this crisis not go on forever the challenge is great the response has been masked so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together.

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