this is. a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right. just. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get informed. publishes a list of u.s. individuals including top officials. in response to american moves the day before. the markets accused of an attack on democracy after she pleads with the german parliament to grant the powers to impose law throughout the nation. misled users in australia about collecting their

location data of the country's federal courts. the tech giant with a hefty fine. work brigade is now an actual part of the british army. using inclusive language to avoid causing offense. from moscow thanks for joining us tonight here on. morning welcome to the program. the russian foreign minister has published a sanctions list which includes top u.s. officials and direct response to new american restrictions imposed moscow over alleged harmful activities russia's measures also include the expulsion of 10 u.s. diplomats on the possible reduction of a different mission in the capital. it was in the studio to assess russia's

response let's take a look at that statement 1st. 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 these punitive measures that washington now nst 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 and who are. 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 low down in the quiet that are 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 very. sense of 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 what's america 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 you got 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 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 what 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 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 that moment there's a huge disconnect between what russia says rather what washington says and what washington does. 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 of

disastrous consequences for the. to decide on such provocations so clearly normalized relations between the u.s. and russia are going to require a serious shift and care but at the moment it does definitely sound while small sco course doesn't want to tear a sion and relations and it's tried everything it can to a point that at the moment it feels that that might be the only option left journalist and also daniel is believes the blood administration is behaving without restraint in its moves against russia america's behavior is out of control i mean the but the bottom restoration 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 a confrontational and hostile as a possibly there is no charge that the by the ministration would want level against moscow i know it's been absolutely unrestrained he's determined to show that he's

a tough guy tougher than than donald trump and so therefore 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 while unavailing the latest raft of sanctions the u.s. who cited claims made last hero of russia offering bounties to the taliban to kill american troops in afghanistan white house admits it has very little to back up those claims but is nevertheless the morning 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 in afghanistan so while there's a lot of moderate assessment of these reports we felt it was important for our

intelligence community to look into it this information really puts the burden on russia and the russian government to explain their engagement here well last june it was reported that russian intelligence off of taliban linked militants bound to use the kill american troops in afghanistan allegations were never proven the pentagon itself said it could not correlate the reports didn't stop the media from embracing the story vladimir putin is offering boaties for the scalps of american soldiers in afghanistan 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 or russia has rejected the allegations with the foreign ministry branding them both speculations and phobias of the u.s. intelligence community who got the take of former u.s. marine corps intelligence officer 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 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. and the challenge

has been accused of undermining the country's democracy itself transit of michael pleaded with lawmakers to grant the federal government powers to impose regional curfews and lock downs without the consent of local authorities not always hackle with 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 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 is an alarming 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 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 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 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. of journalist

and author thomas fassbender believe zeigler merkel's move makes sense the spark 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 take this way of centralizing her powers against existing opposition do not assume angela merkel has any idea of attacking the democratic order in germany but it is a test of the democratic call in germany no question under crisis situation which we have for the 1st time in this country and some people very much fundamental lies in what is going on and driving it up to philosophical heights i'd say the majority in germany sees this as a an end to effect measure and not nothing more. says

mccain and coming out of cuba today where the head of the communist party roll castro is officially stepping down it brings to an end more than 6 decades of the castro family's political dominance over the caribbean island nation you know when it came at the opening of the party's congress 3 years ago when he stepped down from the position of president. said he'd quit the communist party leader in 2021 his successor back then began the kanellos also expected to succeed him in this government role 6 raul castro had been in power since 2011 when he took over from his iconic older brother. both men were the leaders of the $959.00 cuban revolution which resulted in the creation of the socialist government for dell then led the nation through the cold war the cuban missile crisis and was still leader into the 21st century despite decades of pressure from the us he stepped down as president in 2008 and as party leader in 2011 and in power to his brother he died 5

years later. well we go live now to sort of on a mission in your head host of the critical insight on your world news solomon thanks for joining us great to have you on the program today. 6 decades of castle rule certainly is the end of an era isn't it for cuba what's next. we'll see i think that the the revolution as. i think the revolution is bigger than any one individual and i think that the war that. fidel castro and raul castro and even the likes of che guevara and so many untold you know often unreported figures set in place i think that there's going to be a you know a continuation of a lot of the gains from the revolution despite the rule sanctions you know from the u.s. government i think that they will continue to do everything possible to continue to have one of the strongest health care systems in the world a health care system that quite frankly is is much more humane and better by many

of these different rankings o.c.d. you know ranks you know the cuban health care system higher than even the united states states has all the money to buy you know with the bells and whistles and all the technology but the you tube and medical system that health care system is far more humane than the profits driven hyper capitalist united states health care system cuba has provided. you know countless tens and tens of thousands of doctors throughout the world in various indigent regions and countries that quite frankly you know needed a vast amount of help and they went in there not to try to secure any type of gold or platinum or resources they did it because they felt it was their international was in humanitarian doing. he spent 10 years as the island's leader but that's just a fraction of the time all his brother has taught in charge of the government in

cuba what to place you think you'll have in the history of a lot of lation. i think within the island nation within the island nation i think that. the people that know best are the cubans and they're very very. astute in regard to their own history and so when you look at you know in your introduction talks about the fact that he was a key figure who's a significant figure in that 159 revolution that ultimately up ended for gentiva steve who was a brutal dictator who was a brutal dictator that was supported by the united states that was supported by the united states united states supported him despite the fact that he was a group dictator he was a racist the you know cause mass casualties and people ever talk about. you know the dictatorship overseas but it was that revolution in 1059 the culmination of the revolution i should say that ended in 1959 that really freed the

vast majority of the masses of cuban people from the brutal dictatorship also against your will against the will to use and i will pass there was a part of that he was a he was no doubt a part of that and and i and he i think he will continue to be beloved by. the vast majority of cubans you know on that island because they know the history and they know you know what he has meant to that country you know writ large when he came to power a lot of people spoke about his coming to the position in times of a new beginning for cuba a new era off to be the right of fidel do you think happened and what challenges did think cuba faces now that he's. taken a step away from the but i think a lot of. yeah the challenges are immense i mean what with the greatest one of the greatest challenges that the cuban people face the cuban government the the the nation of cuba faces is the continued brutal sanctions levied by the united states

the embargo you know so-called of argo which is it is a blockade continues to go on and it is causing many evenly look at the united states chamber of commerce you know they have even stipulated that the blockade has has cost the cuban people the human government well over 700000000000 dollars 700000000000 dollars can you imagine a nation you know that was subject to the loss of $700000000000.00 over several decades i mean it was crippling and somehow it's amazing that she would have been able to have has been also sustain itself. and have has been able to provide the people universal as i said universal health care and various other things and has been able to to go throughout the world providing medical services to the brigade

one thing that's often not even talked about is that when they achieve their independence from that brutal dictatorship of the teaser that was supported by the united states government they went into into southern africa and they helped up in brutal european colonialism throughout the afghan confident not just about not just in southern africa but also you know look you know a guinea posada you know they had a footprint in algeria and guess what they didn't take any resources from and confident they did it because they knew that at colonialism was brutal that colonialism was was akin to slavery and so they felt it was their duty and so they sent tens of thousands of troops in there to help those people up and if it wasn't and. that is why nelson mandela one of the for his country is nelson mandela went to after he became president of south africa he went to cuba to thank the del castro and to the people of cuba and he said had it not been for you or your

courageousness for your internationalism the domino effect would not have reached south africa and helping to help in terms of helping us really ourselves from apartheid from this brutal apartheid state. so i want to michelle now it's of critical insight on go well news thanks for your time today here on r.t. great to get your take on the end of an era for cuba and thank you very much for having me it's been a pleasure. still to come on a nice study university finds that the. coronavirus jobs carried about the same drug court wisc as the astra zeneca vaccine that's later in the program.

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the program google misled users in australia about connecting the past location data to the ruling of the country's federal courts and it could land the tech giants with a hefty fine australia's fair 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 when in fact that was not the case. lou judge in that case ruled that some new users were misled during the initial set up process of android

devices users want to form that even if they had the location history button disabled activating another tab called web and act out there was he would mean google could still collect their location data on the 1st on the australian income better regulation or competition regulator and the tech for health have clashed last year google 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 that the judge's findings only concerned a narrow class of users the company said it's considering an appeal internet lore expert and social media solicitor cohen assessed the impact of the country's ruling . google doesn't care the company's filed to be compared to more 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 this sort of thing is by either forcing the company to break up and start creating some real competition or 0 and imposing huge penalties the realities date and 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. a new study by the university has found the risk of developing blood clots from having the pfizer and madonna code 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 clotting with the pfizer or modena vaccines while it was 5 in 1000000 for the astra zeneca that compares with 39 in a 1000000 risk of closing for those suffering from over itself we've got reaction to the story from our guests. on the record how many people are derived within a month. going with the clarity that seems. to me it wasn't really since friends are very cool because who are trying. to assess the effectiveness of the rollout. just remotes remember always part c. especially experiment about 2023 and the public needs to be in school so

not believing schools are so sure. what's happening is all these are reports are coming in so. it's quite troubling for people to know that this is a cat is a program to roll out a vaccination but at the same time there's also research that showing that the potential of the dangers is very difficult for people to know you know what to do it causes confusion and i'm hoping that lots of lessons will be learned and some actions will be put in place to ensure the safety of people and not dealing with sort of experiments on consent in people who've decided to be part of trials for example this is members of the public that coming to and have a vaccination with the understanding that they can be protected and not to the risk

. of all of the work program what in the u.k. it's become a reality soldiers in the british army as a role in various regiment i've been told i'm on their language and place it offends someone are they sovereign right throws a fit remains on the front line 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 well $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. b. 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 that 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 always says no. what this story has caused some our rage among friends to god's lying please more with of course but actually 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 as it's known. who are inclusive most important so some poles from the guidance from the u.k. military's jet i war is include suggesting sportsmanship be replaced with fairness or good humor and the word mankind be replaced with humanity humankind human race people as a.