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the ruling of the country's federal. brigade part of the british army. using use of language to. just after midday and say awful 4 pm and. this is the news are an artsy and welcome. 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 the possible reduction of the american diplomatic mission here in the capital earlier join me to assess russia's response which it said had been forced by washington. the latest attack country by divided ministration cannot. 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 when you risk further degrading russia u.s. relations 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 ounce 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 of the f.b.i. the director of national intelligence the secretary of homeland security to i people who are powerful decision makers in washington also a lot less 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 all 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 down in the quiet 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 in 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 u.s. business interests so very loud to various. announcement leaving the door open for an improvement of relations but at the same time being practical and preparing for the worst as you see it it comes not long after it was americans said they were going to do as regards sanctions what was said on thursday well you have to look at the fact up 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 of $32.00 russian entities an individual

sanction for allegedly interference in last year's presidential election stateside a range of financial and technology firms targeted for power and 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 the pressure dial down united states is not looking to. 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 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 the moment there's

a huge disconnect between what russia says or rather what washington says and what washington does cool shroom overseas 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 the. to decide on such provocations think clearly normalized relations between the u.s. and russia are going to require a serious shift but at the moment it does definitely sound while small sco course doesn't want it to terrorists and relations and it's tried everything it can to a point that at the moment it feels like that might be the only option left. well let's head to its side and welcome to the program done the legs are down he was a journalist and author speaking to us from new york city welcome your reaction then to the retaliate or essentials from russia moscow had been promising to respond hasn't come further than you're expecting. no not at all and i mean

russia america's behavior is out of control i mean the bought the by demonstration is well spent the last 4 years accusing trump of being soft on russia and now is what it's got into office it is trying to show that it is going to be as confrontational and hostile as a possibly can but there is no charge that the by the ministration would want level against moscow. you know at the same time announcing sanctions the bottom ministration also walk back last summer's explosive charge that russia had was paying the taliban that ante to kill u.s. soldiers in afghanistan and joe biden slams donald trump for not taking those reports seriously well now we know the intelligence agencies only assess those

charges with quote low to moderate confidence whatever the whatever that means but those charges are bogus and the administration has made admitted they're bogus but yet they caused a sensation and at the bottom mr isn't even apologizing for those phony charges so how should we watch we believe them when they accused russia of hacking. so of the solar winds and interfering in the election last year's election it just doesn't make any sense american behavior is at a control and and russia the real problem of how to get along with america without is the thing that sort of is going to ask you what kind of response what happens how it's escalating so hastily we know that america has said they are going to see a lot of hours here down the aisle they reserve the right to respond to russia's return the a should we could be stuck in a loop here i agree totally but the put the responsibility.

hopefully on the u.s. thought biden has been absolutely unrestrained he's determined to show that he's a tough guy tougher than donald trump and so therefore he's he's being very aggressive with regard to both russia and and china and and there are no restraints that's that that's the amazing thing and the u.s. is just it's just rampaging around with these charges another this exactly fits with the suppose a desire for dialogue between the sides does it. suggest the exact opposite it suggests the u.s. is in the mood for a for a show do you think that showdown will come i certainly hope not because the showdown comes very dangerous very fast and i would hope that we can avoid it don it was all the thank you very much for your takedown egoless or

a journalist north or life from new york city. well while on the latest raft of sanctions the u.s. also cited claims made last year of russia offering to the taliban to kill american troops in galveston as dunya was just going through the white house admits it has very little so buck up those claims but is nevertheless demanding more 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 when it was reported that russian intelligence offered taliban linked militants to

kill american troops in afghanistan in 2019 the allegations were never proven and the pentagon itself said it could not corroborate the reports but that did not 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 a russia has rejected the allegations with the foreign ministry branding them the speculations and phobias of the u.s. intelligence community we got to take a former u.s. marine corps intelligence officer on this topic 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 that 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 a changing world a 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 and russia is. the let's bring you to europe where the german chancellor has been accused of undermining the country's democracy and the merkel pleaded with lawmakers to grant the federal government powers to impose

regional curfews and lockdowns without the consent of local authorities merkel 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 when you know when sion but they are part of the infection protection or that is currently in place. i ask you de 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 to not just to say this is what we 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 as 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 the more we've been here before though with anglo merkel's saying she

wanted to implement national 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. says day to 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 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 institute 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 the way in 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 despite that pushback 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 on or 3rd thomas fassbender believes uncle america's move makes sense despite 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 order in germany no question under 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'd say the majority in germany sees this as an anti effect measure and not nothing more. a pretty seismic event coming out of cuba today where the head of the communist party were all castro is officially to step

down it brings to an end more than 6 decades of the castro family's political dominance over their car of being an island nation the nice men came off the communist party's conference 3 years ago when he stepped down from the position of president castro said he quit all political rules and 2021 his successor back then miguel diaz canel is also expected to succeed him party leader roh castro has been ruling the nation since 2011 when he took over from his iconic order brother fidel. this is r.t. international more news coming up for you in 1000. the speculators and those are now the ruling elites of the world are the

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hello again google misled users in a stream by collecting their personal location data is the ruling of the country's federal court mick hoodlum the tech giant with an enormous following australia's for a trade watchdog which had filed a 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 google misled consumers into thinking that if they turned off location history then that would stop google story and keeping collecting and keeping their personally identifiable location data when in fact that was not the case. the judge in the case ruled out some new users were misled during the initial process of devices now

let's just go through why users were not informed that even if they had location history disabled activating another top called web activity would mean google could still collect their location data it is not the 1st time the australian competition regulator on the tech giant last year google along with facebook were obliged to pay news organizations if their content was posted on their platforms but google has said it rejects this latest ruling on location data stating that claims by the watchdog were too broad while the judge's findings only concern to nuoro class all of users the company said it's considering him to be internet lawyer expert and social media solicitor your cowen assess the impact of the country's ruling. google doesn't care the company's filed to be compared to monopolistic google doesn't care about reputation because there is no real competition at all 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 this sort of thing is by either forcing the company to break up and start creating some real competition or and imposing huge penalties 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 whether google is likely to be detailed by these finding. after denmark announced it would be suspending use of britain's a string of vaccine the 1st country to issue a large right it seems an eager q. has formed of other e.u.

states wanting to step up its stock. will contact denmark to find out how to apply for these vaccines demarc has announced that it suspending vaccination with astra zeneca i instructed the ambassador of the czech republic in copenhagen to contact the danish authorities immediately and to announce the czech republic's interest in purchasing all astra zeneca vaccines from denmark we addressed the issue yesterday and said that if denmark went to consider offering these supplies we would certainly be among those willing to take them. it comes as the e.u. nations are still suffering from vaccine shortages last month the leaders of 5 member states including some of those now asking for denmark supplies raised concerns over what they see as the distribution of jobs across the bloc austria's chancellor claims some countries had signed secret contracts to get more of a microbiologist at reading university some in clark he believes that's the case

today. we have seen other countries go out branch out beyond the the current policy to use their economic position to be able to get hold of extra vaccine so there is you know they are taking all of the common european purchase and then topping up on their own so what we see is a situation where there is not equal distribution of vaccines across year which is the point are they all. purchasing practice in the 1st place. in well a new study by oxford university has found the risk of developing blood clots from having the findings are covert vaccines is about the same as the under-fire astra zeneca job the study involved more than 1000000 people according to the oxford findings for in those 1000000 tested experienced flossing with the pfizer or mature enough vaccines while it was 5 in 1000000 for the astra zeneca job to a 39 in

a 1000000 risk of clotting for those suffering from cold without having any shot i discussed the issue a political commentator in the u.k. unfunny weber. to get married are sort of daily reports of how many people arrived as within a month of happening with the caribbean black citizens or legal city meets another if they're constantly sent since friends are gay he felt cool school because all of people with them are proud our culture roll outs who shoot assess the effectiveness of the rollout because we must remember all these vaccines or aspirant especially experiment also about 2023 and the public needs to be in school so not billions will discuss issues that are aspirants will so what's happening is all it will these are reports are coming so long. now

you've heard of the work brigade well in the u.k. it's become reality soldiers in the british army's royal engineers regiment of being told to mind their language in case it offends someone r.t. simon right through is a few grenades on the frontline of the culture war. so the main dangers of being in the military is you can be shot at blown up. or fall victim to non gender neutral language while $22.00 engineer regiment of the british army is doing something about it the language not the horrible bad stuff don't call each other lads soldiers are told to be more inclusive and avoid using words such as mankind and sportsmanship over fears that they could cause offense to regiment sergeant major reportedly told his men. people that they need to try harder to up hold the regiments v. and s. v. and s. dance with values and standards do not mix it up with b. and s.

he also said that everyone has to remember d. and on that diversity and inclusion and gents men lads other phrases like there are not to be use and this is my favorite he said it should be made sure that people are getting paid the correct compliments we don't own way says no. you're. right you know what this story has caused some our rage among friends or gobs like these more with of course rashly there's nothing new about these directions they came out in 2017 released by the british army's joint equality diversity and inclusion unit or jeddah as it. were inclusive most important so some poles from the guidance from the u.k. military's jello war is inclusive jesting sportsmanship be replaced with fairness or good humor and the word mankind be replaced with humanity whew mankind human

race people as said researcher some of those are man in as well were british war heroes to tim collins back in 2017 describe to listeners the ludicrous and dangerous morass into which obsequious and p.c. senior officers have led the british army which means he doesn't like it. so we can conclude from this is. 4 years on after about the voice was originally given soldiers are still not quite ready to have their language policed probably because if you're in the army you've got a few other things to worry about let's not forget but the army has been at the forefront of the quality they've been teaching men to on their own trousers for centuries washed on one saw if it would turn over. to do the book about dropping bombs on middle eastern villages is the absolute definition of inclusive it's there killing everyone without prejudice. probably a long time for we see scenes like this on the frontline.

sort. oh my god did i say that it's. so i mean in the trenches for us another is a runner from the r. to newsroom but only for 30 in the meantime another great show is coming your way in moments if it's done you're straight from the brink. today the industry prefers to spend millions of euros in you know being to d. day regulations i will be sniffy is all about making money making profits in some of the corporations international markets import export do you imagine the number of chronic diseases that are out in every community today it is not due to new viruses all new microbes that's not true so it is due to environment.

not going to say yes' or the moment all discipline. for the last supper was obviously just accumulate could only come in to be seen to be. declared inside the sky if the so food industry is successful it will create more jobs it will create more value added it will create more growth so i don't see why we shouldn't also fight for the interest something into street products that we are british and we want regulation i was in just a nice freedom behave zinnias penalty just fine.