it is a call to dream. which thinks true. it's a problem in the from. moscow publishes a list of u.s. individuals including. ministration. response to american moves the previous day. after she pleads with the german parliament to grant other powers to impose law throughout the nation. misled users in australia about collecting their past the location of the week of the country's federal

courts. with a hefty fine. words. it's now an actual part of the british army. was told to use inclusive language to avoid causing offense. from moscow thanks so much for joining us today here in r.t. international. morning welcome to the program. and the russian foreign minister has published the sanctions list which includes top u.s. officials in direct response to new american restrictions imposed earlier on moscow over alleged harmful activities russia's measures also include the expulsion of 10 u.s. diplomats a possible reduction of washington's diplomatic mission in the capital. to assess russia's response let's take

a look at the statement 1st. the latest attack country by the by didn't 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 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 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 in. 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 to various. pensive 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. 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 a $32.00 russian entities and individuals 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 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 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. to refrain from escalation sound hypocritical in essence they're 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 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 as believe the biden administration is behaving without restraint and it's 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 can there is no charge that the by the ministration would want level against moscow biden has been absolutely unrestrained he is 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 one evading the latest raft of sanctions the u.s. also sort of claims made last year of russia offering bounties to the taliban to kill american troops in afghanistan white house amidst it has very little to back up those claims but is nevertheless the modern 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 last 3 and it was reported that russian intelligence offered taliban linked militants bounties to kill american troops in afghanistan and 2019 allegations were never proven and the plans are going to sell said it could not corroborate the reports that didn't stop the media though from embracing the story vladimir putin is offering boaties 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 rushes reject those allegations with the foreign ministry branding them the speculations and phobias of the u.s. intelligence community we're going to take a 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 the united states and russia are adults they they they they sit at the big table they wear big boy 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 changing reality and the fact that russia refuses to play the game of being subservient to you know 8 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. german cells and has been accused of undermining the country's democracy i thought trying to model pleaded

with lawmakers to grant the federal government powers to impose regional curfews and look sounds without the consent of local authorities. 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 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 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 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 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 '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 my early. to fast of april as well as the surge of april should be defined as can 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 fact 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 or 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 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 fall to. the author thomas fassbender believes i'm going to merkel's move make sense of this white

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 do not assume angle america has any idea of attacking the democratic order in germany but it is a test of the democratic all in german 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 see the majority in germany sees this as a an end to effect measure and not the nothing more. he says mick event coming out of cuba with day where the head of the communist party roll castro is officially.

to take this decision about i feel evidently believe in the strength and value of example and the understanding of my fellow countrymen and no one i doubt that as long as i live i'll be ready with my foot in the stirrup to defend the homeland the revolution and socialism. almost brings to an end more than 6 decades of the castro family's political dominance over the caribbean island nation announcement came at the opening of the party's congress 3 years ago when he stepped down from the position of president castro had so you'd quit ask communist party leader in 2021 his successor back then maybe only as colonel is also expected to succeed him in the government role raul castro had been in power since 2011 when he took office from his iconic of the brother fidel. both men were the leaders of the 1959 cuban revolution which resulted in the creation of a socialist government who will then lead the nation through the cold war the cuban

missile crisis and was still leader into the 21st century despite decades of pressure from the united states he said that man as president to 2008 as party leader 3 years later and in power to his brother he died 5 years after that we spoke to that in america specialist daniel schorr who believes well castro's resignation won't alter the country's direction in any great way. even though i wrote castro is no longer going to be the leader of. an entire generation if not 2 generations of leaders will now step up and as the cubans have said this is about continuity i think the cubans are confident they can still continue to build socialism an anti-imperialist despite all of the challenges that they've confronted since the $1059.00 revolution and specifically of course the aggression from their neighbor to the north u.s. imperialism the u.s.

government whether it's led by democrat or republican they stop at nothing trying to suffocate in star be human revolution cuba basically stood alone in 1991 with the collapse of the soviet union and the socialist bloc around the world . the cubans have been fearless even though they face the worst types of us terrorism and criminal blockade they cripples the lives of millions and millions of humans every day their leadership has been unflinching in defense of socialism an internationalist. misled he was in australia about collecting the past on location data that's the ruling of the country's federal court and it could land attack science with enormous fine australia's fair trade watchdog which had filed the lawsuit declared the ruling a world 1st and said it sends a very planet age to who they thought formed. 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 or collecting and keeping their personally identifiable location data when in fact that was not the case. well the judge in that case ruled that some new users were misled during the initial set up process of android devices users were not informed that even if they had the location is true but disable activating another tab called web activity would mean google could still collect their location data for the 1st time the australian competition regulator and the tech but how much of clashed last year google along with facebook were obliged to pay news organizations if their content was posted on their platforms. and google has said it rejects this latest ruling on location data stating the claims by the watchdog were too broad and the judge's findings only

concerned a narrow class of users the company said it's considering an appeal into law expired and social media solicitor cohen assessed the impacts of the country's ruling. google doesn't care the companies found to be compelled to monopolistic 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 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. denmark announced it would be suspending use of the astra zeneca vaccine the 1st country to issue an. acute form of other e.u. states wanting to snuff out its stockpile will contact denmark to find out how to apply for these vaccines. denmark has announced that it's 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 were to consider offering these supplies we would certainly be among those willing to take them. well this comes as e.g.

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 is the unfair distribution of jobs across the bloc austria's chancellor claims some countries had signed secret contracts to get more vaccines microbiologist that reading university and clark also believes that could be the case we have seen other countries go out branch out beyond. the current policy to use their economic position to be able to get hold of extra vaccine so there is you know they're up there taking their share of the common european purchase and then topping that up on their own so what we see is situation where there is not equal distribution of vaccines across europe which is the whole point i think of of the common purchasing practice in the 1st place.

staying on the topic of vaccines a new study by oxford university has found the risk of developing blood clots from having the provisos and modena cope with jabs is around the same as the under-fire astra zeneca back same study involved more than a 1000000 people according to the findings 4 in those 1000000 tested experience clotting with a prize or more than a vaccines while it was 5 in 1000000 for the astra zeneca i compared to 39 in a 1000000 risk of clotting for those suffering from covert itself the reaction of a story from some of our guests. to get married are sort of daily reports of how many people are derived within a month. of happening with the caribbean vaccines the nasal spray needs to not have gotten to the cent since fans are. though cool school because school people with them are tired are quite a role in this room who shoot assess the effectiveness of the rollout because we

must remember all these vaccines or experiments especially experiment also about 2023 and the public needs to be in school so not believing schools are so sure that our sperm and what's happening is all these are reports are coming to look. it's quite troubling for people to know that there's a cat is a program to roll out a vaccination but at the same time there's also research that sharing that the potential dangers is very difficult for people to you know what to do it causes confusion 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 have a vaccination with the understanding that they can be protected and not to be risk . all you've heard of the work brigades one of the u.k. it's just become a reality soldiers in the british army is royal engineers roger and i've been told to mind their language in case it offend somebody artie's someone write prose if you're going a 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 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 and people that they need to try harder to op hold regiments v. and s.

b. and s. 1000 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 used 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. deal what this story has caused some our rage among us went to gobs like these more with of course 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 jeddah as it. were 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 whew mankind human race people has had residual 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 knew your army you've got a few other things to worry about let's not forget that the army has been at the forefront of the quality they've been teaching mentor on their own trousers for centuries why should. it turn over. to the book. dropping bombs on middle eastern villages is the absolute definition of inclusive ety and they're killing everyone without prejudice. probably

a long time for we see scenes like this on the front line. so our. oh my god did i say that. next our documentary explores the partnership between hollywood and the us government he was in the united states it's news views use we're back in half an hour with the latest so you back that. western governments and western media betrayed the tensions within ukraine as a conflict involving russia and ukraine this is false there is a road map to resolve ukraine's internal strife and it's called the minsk accords russia is not the problem but nato expansion is.

psychiatric drugs are essential for millions of patients or rather they want that pill that they hope will take care of their problem their only and rapidly in the short term they really work the problem is in the long term they're mostly disastrous suddenly stopping a drug can cause withdrawal symptoms more serious than the condition it was meant to treat instead of the beneficial effects of these different medicines elling up to something wonderful and very often there are 4 of us get up to something terrible can bill solve all ills we're trying to mitigate life itself i just think i was in like i was just scared i was a scared little girl i was 24 and like. i didn't have to be so complicated.

little thing that hollywood is a very. little is actually. a little there. isn't a. lot on the border. you know very. hollywood. plays and then i. got the movie studios. we got the music industry sometimes as we were. those are the places where there's a lot of propaganda. to whatever color the the u.s. government is committed to do you can do all that hollywood will be following you. well. what i did find in hollywood is they call it

a dream. which is things true. but i think equally it's propaganda. long after i 1st heard about it in the news i still couldn't believe this was this really how the united states sees the history of world war 2 but there it was the official white house page on a social network and it's clearly stated that it was america and great britain that defeated the nazis during the 2nd world war without even a word about the soviet union and the version on the official tally the website looks even more discouraging there it turns out that world war 2 was started by germany and the soviet union it wasn't russia but france that took the brunt of it and in fact the u.s.s.r. didn't liberate the.