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their personal location data is the ruling of the country's federal court. this is or to international my names you know no 30 minutes of news and views start . we begin with breaking news on the program the russian foreign minister has published a sanctions list which includes top u.s. officials in direct response to new u.s. restrictions imposed yesterday on moscow over alleged harmful activities russia's measures also include the expulsion of 10 u.s. diplomats and the possible reduction of the american diplomatic mission in. the latest attack on our country by the biden ministration cannot go unanswered. it

seems that washington does not want to accept the fact that in the new geo political realities there is no place for unilateral dictatorship and the broken scenarios of containing moscow which the us short sightedly continues to deploy on your risk for the degrading russia u.s. relations. joins me now in the studio to talk more on today's developments indeed 1st what has been announced today by. well we knew that this was coming in one form or another it was just a matter of time and on friday russia very demonstrative retaliated against those punitive measures that washington announced against moscow earlier this week perhaps the most interesting part is that 8 top level washington officials have been banned from entering russian territory and when i say top level i mean highlight reel you know we're talking the head and yet the director of national intelligence the secretary of homeland security to i people who are powerful

decision makers in washington also on the list to susan rice and john bolton historically to politicians who are you know. russian rhetoric alongside the names moscow explained that these individuals have been chosen precisely because they bear responsibility for promoting america's anti russian policy direction i have to say this is a really strong move because usually such bans are done on the low down in the quiet that not announced publicly so clearly the kremlin here is so frustrated by what's going on that it wants to make a really bold korea statement of not 10 american diplomats have been expelled a number of american organizations suspected of interfering and russia's internal affairs have been told that they need to stop their activity and it was also made clear that if the u.s. continues to behave this way the more can and will be done including reducing the diplomatic mission here to just $300.00 and taking action that would be harmful to

us business interests so very loud very extensive announcement leaving the door open for an improvement of relations but at the same time being practical and preparing for the worst and as you see it it comes not long after a war. eric if said they were going to do as regards what was said on thursday what you have to look at the backdrop to this hostile undiplomatic rhetoric coming from the white house of course now the infamous interview joe biden calling president putin the killer on international television and then this final blow out by joe biden signing what can only be called a sanction spree so that package includes a $32.00 russian and an individual sanction for allegedly interference in last year's presidential election stateside a range of financial and technology firms targeted for apparent cyber attacks on federal agencies 10 russian diplomats expelled borrowing money international made

more difficult for russia to and why anyone reasonable would look at this and say well this is pretty extensive apparently joe biden claims that this was his take it easy on russia set of sanctions and that ultimately all he really wants is to be friendly and turn the pressure dial down united states is not looking to kick off the. school is she in conflict with russia we want a stable predictable relationship now is the time to deescalate well saying that after announcing a slew of sanctions it is mixed messages it's illogical it's very confusing i mean generally punishment and deescalation don't go hand in hand so you can see why the russian side pointed out that that moment there's a huge disconnect between what russia says rather what washington says and what washington does cool shroom of receipts to refrain from escalation sound hypocritical in essence to trying to talk to us from

a position of strength we have repeatedly warned and proved in practice that sanctions and other pressures are not only futile but will also result in disastrous consequences for those who decide on such provocations. so clearly normalized relations between the u.s. and russia are going to require a serious shift in here but at the moment it does definitely sound that whilst moscow of course doesn't want it to terrorists and relations and it's tried everything it can to avoid that at the moment it feels that that might be the only option left of course joe biden is calling for a summit not very long ago as well with a lot of our person so we see where this ends up saskia taylor thank you very much or we discussed the issue with the former long time director general of the un office in geneva cern here or shown the kids he's got reservations over the galaxy of the new u.s. sanctions it's very unhealthy. or what the foreign policy is this is the. completely completely signals in your

work in the world of course most woman russia this is no europe for all of us on the part of the super pro sentence they are completely legal if they are not adopted by the security council otherwise it's use or. well the dico or with the force it is really difficult to. search search. i do think that you have to build bridges with the you know list these because we have a lot of common interest in. the digits the bill. while on veiling the latest raft of sanctions the u.s. also cited claims made last year of russia offering bunty the taliban to kill american troops in afghanistan the white house admits it very little to back up

those claims but it's never the less demanding answers from the kremlin. we felt the reports were enough of a cause of concern they assessed with low to moderate confidence as you alluded to that russian intelligence officers sought to encourage taliban attacks against u.s. and coalition personnel and afghanistan so while there's a lot of moderate assessment of these reports we felt it was important for our intelligence committee to look into it this information really puts the burden on russia and the russian government to explain their engagement here last year and it was reported that russian intelligence offered to sell up on linked militants by entities to kill american troops in afghanistan and $29.00 the allegations were never proven the pentagon itself said it could not corroborate the reports but that didn't stop the media from embracing the story vladimir putin is offering bounties for the scalps of american soldiers in afghanistan now the european intelligence official called this callous shocking and reprehensible

overnight president trump dismissed the intelligence denied being briefed on it as new reports emerged saying those payments did in fact lead to the death of americans russia's richest of the allegations with the foreign ministry branding them the speculations and forby is of the u.s. intelligence community we got they take a former u.s. marine corps intelligence officer on this scott ritter. the mere fact that you have politicians action on intelligence that has appeared on the front pages of the new york times bill is you right off the bat that it's not intelligence it's been it's clear sized information as opposed to hard intelligence look the united states and russia are adults they they they they sit at the big table they were big boys pants and their intelligence services do things against one another because that information normally we understand this is the reality of the world but the united states right now is very defensive it's dealing with the changing world changing

reality and the fact that russia refuses to play the game of being subservient to you know a dominant america and so this is a domestic political problem where intelligence is 0 and political objective as opposed to doing what it's supposed to do providing insight american decision makers about what ground truth in russia is. the german chancellor has been accused of undermining the country's tomorrow christine and glimmer of hope pleaded with lawmakers to grant the federal government powers to impose regional curfews on lockdowns with thought the consent of local authorities a big issue out in germany and america was heckled during a heated debate in parliament. we're slamming on the brakes nationwide i'm convinced a nationwide imagine see stop is overdue and urgently needed a lauren measures have a single goal to lead our country ad of this terrible phase of managing infections

care he said not in you know mentioned but they are part of the infection protection or that is currently in place. i ask you jay colleagues whatever a personal opinions may be don't you think that we should take them into account in the way we're debating this here ultimately what i'm going to merkel wants is changes to the infection protection act that would allow her not just to say this is what you should be doing but to be able to say this is what is going to happen the way it works here in germany with their federal system is all those things can be decided from the federal government in berlin how they're implemented on the ground particularly when it comes to covert 19 restrictions are left up to the interpretations of the governments of the 16 states that make up germany now what angle america wants to do is take some of those powers from the states and have them for herself well as you can imagine not everybody is happy with that outside of the bundestag there was a small but vocal demonstration against what the chancellor is trying to do in the

opposition from the alternative to germany partly though as making the argument that these powers already exist that they don't need to be given to the to the federal government and that the chancellor should let the states decide what's best for the states this effect to introduce the infection protection act is an alarm and document of authoritarian thinking never before has a federal government dared to include so many attacks on the basic freedoms of citizens and the rule of law and on democratic principles and so few sentences as in this draft more we've been here before though with anglo merkel's saying she wanted to implement national 'd measures national lockdowns and things like curfews when it comes to the fight against covert 19 just before. easter we heard the chancellor announce this was going to happen over the easter break only for her to have to make one of the biggest u. turns of her political career when just over 24 hours later she said actually

that's not going to happen because technically i don't have the powers to be able to tell you to do that in mali you know it's thursday the fast 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 fast to the 5th of april. it isn't going and 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 apologized to all citizens and this brings us today and the facts of the matter on the ground when it comes to covert 19 is that germany is being gripped particularly hard by this wave the robert cock into the tube which handles germany's public health affairs is warning that unless something is done that april could well be a record breaking month for germany when it comes to covert 19 infections what angle are merkel is seeking the power to be able to do is that when cases reach

a number of 100 new infections per 100000 over population that an emergency brake can be pulled nationally the thing is is there's a lot of pushback against this the spite that push back it does seem likely that these changes to the infection protection act will be made by some point next week we expect them to be signed into law by german president frank fault. or journalist and author thomas fassbender believes i'm glimmer move makes sense the spike criticism from the opposition. she believes in the necessity of increased risk and a strict a lockdown curfew measures etc and she decided to wholeheartedly i should say to take this way of centralizing her powers against existing opposition i do not assume angela merkel has any idea of attacking the democratic order in germany but

it is a test of the democratic all in german no question and a crisis situation which we have for the 1st time in this country and some people are very much a fundamental lies in what is going on and driving it up to philosophical heights i did say the majority in germany sees this as a an end to effect measure and nothing nothing more ok this is art international news continues in about 90 seconds time keep it here. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the

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back google users in a strictly a book collecting their personal location data is ruling up the country's federal court. the tech giant with norma's fine australia's 1st trade watchdog 'd which filed the lawsuit declared the ruling a world 1st and said it sends a very clear message to all digital platforms. what the court found was that boo misled consumers into thinking that if they turned off location history then that would stop google story and keep collecting and keep the the personally identifiable location data when in fact that was not the case the judge in the case ruled some new users were misled during the initial set up process of droid devices users were not informed that even if the location history disabled

activating another top called web up activity would mean google could still collect their location data now it is not the 1st time the is truly in competition regulator the tech giant clutched last year to go along with facebook were obliged to pay news organizations if their content was posted on their platforms. google has said it rejects this latest ruling on location data stating the claims by the watchdog were too broad while the judge's findings only concerned a narrow class of users the company said it is considering an appeal. well to get some thoughts on the court's decision let's cross live cohen internet law expert and social media solicitor always good to have you on the program year tell us how significant the ruling is is it really an important victory for consumers as claimed. it is a good start is the beginning google was doing effectively it was employing

copyright people in lawyers to make it look is yf it's use is did they have a real choice but actually they did it they would just you know they were just playing with words the realities that now they got caught again the australian court found them guilty of effectively cheating on their own customers. the question is what's going to happen next the question is google is likely to be detailed by disfavoring over there are just going to be another cold case that matters very little for google you think google is likely to find a way around that i think that google doesn't care the company's filed to beat fatuma in a police state google doesn't care about reputation because there is no real competition

out there google also doesn't care about a small a relatively small financial penalty because it's got plenty of money so the only way we can have google starting to care about those sort of things is by either forcing the company to break up and start creating some real competition or and imposing huge penalties it will really hurt start to kompany you why do we hear so much about location data it seems to be the buzz word the last few months why is it valuable to companies. because of advertising. people want to know isa for advertisers it is very important to know what people are up to where are they where oh where are they dining what are they doing with the spur time world the shop being you know where

are they going who they store civilizing with aimed at the location can give you a lot of this information and means that the outlet that i'm thinking be highly targeted so the advertising could be actually you know from being a national international that's really good it could mean into a very local level so it could give opportunities for local advertisers to. to to to they wrecked their odds of a. very very specific a group of customers hence why everybody wants it you know your thank you very much for breaking that down for us today yeah you're cool an internet law expert and social media solicitor. well a cancer specialist from moscow has become the 1st ever russian to be officially inducted into the prestigious american surgical association that cough is currently moscow's leading on college just he's a pioneer of keyhole surgery for

a cancer treatment in the country during his 30 year career he's been busy the doctor has published 7 major studies and almost 300 papers he told us what this latest recognition means. we've to be. undoubtedly it is a happy and significant moment in a professional life of any person when colleagues highly appreciate your professional skills and it is very pleasant and honorable for me on the other hand it is a great responsibility as you have to keep proving your worth but of course it is also an opportunity to establish closer and more interesting contacts with professionals from all over the world an opportunity to hear and be heard as well as to help young colleagues surgeons to develop the number of people diagnosed with cancer for the 1st time is increasing every year it happens all over the world and is a reflection of many factors but the main one is the increase in life expectancy at the same time treatment strategies have been developing very quickly to this

applies to both surgical treatment and drug therapy it became possible to stabilize processes even in the most severe stages and surgeons today to perform complex operations that were previously considered impossible even non-specialists today have already heard about targeting therapy immunotherapy there have been real breakthroughs in the field of drug treatment opportunities of opened up for stabilizing tumors and reducing their size this makes it possible to ensure a good quality of life for patients and sometimes to cure even the most advanced stages of course we cannot say that we can heal everyone and it is unlikely that this will ever happen but the phrase cancer is not a death sentence is the real truth. or author and historian martin mccauley believes mr hart coughs inclusion in america's medical hall of fame is particularly significant given the current political climate. the top russian specialist among

the best in the world and if i could resist same in the soviet union talk soviet doctors and specialists were among the best in the world russian specialists have always had this high reputation and know this is normally important news crews did use because he's the 1st russian made it to this very important surgical association but also i don't time now enormous tension between russia and the united states so it proves that if you could call it leaks. when you go to medicine or science or literature or anything else there is really quite a lot of common ground between russia and the united states they can come together and you don't have the conflict you have good politics and indefensible. ok some pretty interesting findings today a new study by oxford university has fun the risk of developing blood clots from having the face or the dern or covert vaccines is about the same as the under-fire

a stress. study n fold more than 1000000 people according to the oxford findings for in those 1000000 tested experienced plotting with the pfizer or modernity vaccines it was 5 in 1000000 for the astra zeneca job that compares to a 39 in a 1000000 risk of flooding for those suffering from covered what i'd having any chop let's go live now to political commentary 3 webber for his take on the could not be on the show so we have these american jobs to pfizer shots offering pretty much the same level of risk as the astra zeneca shot so why all the fuss about the british boxing. well arcade trustable wish who would see a period where we do these studies because our very generic routine or manasseh ratio is not right. and we've got to look at the whole situation where in the us we're talking about just 1000000 cases in the u.k.

we've had. a half 1000000 doses and you know there's a need for the n.h.s. to investigate every single source so there's a property back on what's going on because when the drug companies to trial will say hi to him he spent the product but with the cooperation of. the other congress waterings get there only guessing these i recall sparks were about 6 in a 1000 cases of doses so it's totally inadequate so a lot of these reports which are coming truly are pretty useless but they are there with a guest speaker is that not looking or the the total picture but what i would say he's only 6 or 2 coming out now about home so these are satans realty trac and such are the change from where people leave. it really is the rights funds which of

course are unjust to a certain well because a lot of the home to look for us will come in just one will trade months later maybe even a year which really is so and this is what happens because we need to be a lot of resistance about the anthony what wouldn't are just to pick up on what you're saying in light of the study countries that have suspended use of the astra zeneca job and it's quite if quite a few countries in a sizable age group could either i suppose reinstate it or also suspend the face or modernity jobs if they're using them as well which way do you think it's going to go in the near term. well it didn't cause any sense since fans are compensated though cool saloon because all it will with them are kind are quite a roll out so it's important to assess the effectiveness of the rollout because we must remember all these vaccines or experiments where they have officially

experiment until about 2023 and the public needs to be in fooldom the not 1000000000 forms as they should be spam until the so what's happening is only it will these are votes are coming to a lot of youths because its parents will now if the credit taxes hadn't been rushed out where to put more time for experimentation and we wouldn't we wouldn't sit had some of these problems like switzer coming out and make going green stress as well because we've had 842nd best cited for and that's just with the palm tree which is fading as those so i don't argument is much more because if you actually look at tyrell of the trade government reports all are categorized suggests it's anyone who has been tested positive for trying to be done seeding within the month that test yet that doesn't happen with the tests in the back seat

as we get motor sort of daily reports of how many people have died within a month of happening with the kind of attacks against him and these are all so you need to know who it is basically most people who would need a spot seen are tied to. the vast majority of the population in general t.v. not she need you know many outlets nationals that say to place. a small niece of the border on a line of let's pull this this right yet if you want to closer look at the statistics thanks very much and think forgiveness you're thick political come here from the u.k. any weather. all right just approaching. it's night here in moscow time for some worker programs this friday to get their start momentarily stay close to find out what is showing where you are.

seems wrong. just don't. let me. get to shape out just days after. and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. to. distract and distract distract you know that is the 1st thing which came to my mind as i read the barrage of a government issued press releases regarding everything from sanctions to troop withdrawal and the supreme court it hit my inbox this morning now this is with less than 100 days in office the.