these critics one of the key. because. she might have to be smeared. all over you to. tell you. the truth. moscow publishes a list of u.s. individuals including top officials from the administration over. the response to american troops before. the mother was accused of an attack on democracy she pleads with the german parliament to grant other powers to impose throughout the nation. about collecting the location. of the country's federal courts. to join with.

the brigade is now an actual part of the british army one regiment told to use inclusive language just to avoid causing. live from moscow thanks for joining us saltines national this morning. welcome to the program. and the russian foreign minister has published the sanctions list which includes top u.s. officials in response to new american restrictions imposed. over alleged harmful activities russia's measures also include the expulsion of 10 u.s. diplomats on the possible reduction of washington's diplomatic mission in the capital. to assess russia's response let's have a look at the statement though 1st. the latest attack country by dubai 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 have broken scenarios of containing most to 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 once 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 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 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. 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 what's america said they were going to do as regards what was said on thursday well 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 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 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 the moment there's a huge disconnect between what russia says or rather what washington says and what washington does cool should move 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 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 an orthodox believes upon the ministration 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 that 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 china and and there are no restraints that's that that's the amazing thing and the u.s. is just just rampaging around with these charges one of the veiling the latest round of sanctions the u.s. who started claims made last year of russia offering bounties to the taliban to kill american troops in afghanistan the white house a myth has very little to back up those claims but is nevertheless the morning office from the coming. 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 june 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 pens are going to sell said it could not corroborate the reports in the stop the media from embracing this 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. reject the allegations with the foreign ministry of binding them to speculations and views of the u.s. intelligence community we've got to take a former u.s. marine corps intelligence officer on the story. 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 and 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 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 democracy

a softer i'm going to michael pleaded with lawmakers to grant the federal government powers to impose regional coffee's on lockdowns without the consent of local authorities michael was heckled searing 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 a new invention 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 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 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 '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. 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 on 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 angular merkel is seeking the power to be able to do is that when cases reach a number of 100 new infections per 100000 of a 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 fault. journalist and author thomas fassbender believes i'm going to move make same as this white

criticism from your position. she believes in the necessity of increased risk rick chance 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 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'd say the majority in germany sees this as a an end to a faction measure and not the nothing more. they are pretty says make event coming out of cuba today where the head of the communist party

a role castro is officially this that bell. that really nothing obliges me to take this decision but i certainly believe in the strength and value of example and the understanding of my fellow countrymen and let no one 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. brings to an end more than 6 decades of the castro family's political dominance over the caribbean island nation announcement came an opening of the party's congress 3 years ago when he stepped down from the position of president castro say he quit as communist party leader in 2021 the successor back then girl is also expected to succeed him in his government role raul castro had been in power since 2011 when he took over from his iconic older brother fidel and both men were the leaders of the $959.00 cuban revolution which resulted in the creation of a socialist government that 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 us he stepped down as president in 2008 as party leader in 2011 and in power to his brother died 5 years later we spoke to latin america specialist daniel schorr who believes several castro's resignation won't alter the country's direction great way. even though i wrote castro is no longer going to be the leader of cuba miguel the heirs can then 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 them despite all of the challenges that they've confronted since the 1959 our revolution 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 the human revolution cuba has 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 a criminal blockade they cripples the lives of millions and millions of humans every day their leadership has been unflinching in defense of socialism and international has. a lot misled users in australia about collecting their personal location data that's the ruling of the country's federal court and it could land the tech giant with a hefty fine australia's fair trade watchdog what should file 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 google

misled consumers into thinking that if they turned off like asian history then that would stop google storing and keeping collecting and keeping their personally identifiable location data when in fact that was not the case. well the judge in the case ruled that some new users were misled during the initial set up process of android devices users were not of the form that even if they had the location is true but and disabled activating another tab called web activity would mean google could still collect their location data is not the 1st time the australian competition regulator the tech for hamath of 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 and the claims by the watchdog were 2 broads and 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 impacts 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 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. after denmark announced it would be suspending use of the astra zeneca vaccine the 1st country to issue an outright ban it seems an egg hugh has formed of all the e.u. states wanting to snuff stockpile will contact denmark to find out how to apply for these vaccines denmark 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 had gestational yesterday and said that if denmark went to consider offering these supplies we would certainly be among those willing to take them. now this comes as 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 unfair distribution of jobs across the bloc chancelor claim some countries that signed secret contracts to get more vaccines running university microbiologists clark believes that could well be the case 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 their share of the common european purchase and then topping that up on their own so what we see is a situation where there is not equal distribution of vaccines across europe which is the whole point i think of of. common purchasing practice in the 1st place. a new study by oxford university has found the risk of developing blood

clots from having the proviso on medan a covert vaccines is about the same as the under-fire astra zeneca job the study involved more than a 1000000 people according to the findings for in those 1000000 tests that experienced clotting with pfizer or more than a job while it was 5 in 1000000 for the astra zeneca vaccine that compares to a 39 in a 1000000 reciprocating for those actually suffering from covert itself about reaction to the story from some of our guests. to get our sort of daily reports how many people are derived within a month. of happening with the carry back since the nasal spray needs to not be if it was only sent since fans are very vocal school because school people with them are proud are quite a role in this and who suit assess the effectiveness of the rollout we just read must remember all these vaccines or experiment officially experiment also about

2023 and the public needs to be in school so not believing schools are so short 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 of the 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 . now we've all heard of the work brigades what in the u.k. it's become a reality soldiers in the british army is royal engineers resident i've been told to mind their language in case it offend somebody artie's someone right throws a few grenades 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. 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 will come along 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 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's known. who are inclusive most important so some poles from the guidance from the u.k. military's jet i war is inclusive jesting sportsmanship be replaced with fairness

or good humor and the word mankind be replaced with humanity humankind human race people as had residual some of those of 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. addled senior officers have led the british army which means he doesn't like it. so we can conclude from this is a. 4 years on off to the voice was a reason to give in soldiers is still not quite ready to have their language policed probably because if you go 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 men to on their own trousers for centuries. they would turn over. to do the book about dropping bombs on middle eastern villages is the definition of inclusive it's everyone with prejudice. on for we see scenes like this on the front line.

oh my god did i say that. visionaries was so from cairo for us from the big picture about well the latest on us again that. western governments and western media portray 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 them in scope courts russia is not the problem but nato expansion is.

nala come to sell because visionaries may sophie shevardnadze social media once created to bring millions of people together to control what we think and how will

leave without us even knowing it i'm joined today by tim kandel former facebook director of monetization ex-president of contrasts and the c.e.o. of moment at. tim kandel former faisal director former president. at great to have you with us and i have so many questions for you where do we start. right so obviously during this pandemic radar screen time on social media is way up i mean do you know that this increase in usage will be permanent or are we going to sort of when else once we're allowed to freely roam again. it's hard to argue predict the future. i mean i think we've seen a surge coroutine doing this because people don't have alternatives right. they don't leave their houses off and they're clearly not nearly as social as they is

that used to be and not by social i mean physically socially like going over to each other's houses or meeting up places. so i guess i'm optimistic that i think that it will reduce to some degree once once once you get through this craziness of quarantining so this is social dilemma documentary which is dedicated to this threat that is social media says that internet companies are using to ology to complete to compete for our attention which they then sell to advertisers but here's a question. from someone that has worked on television for most of her life hasn't been doing the same thing for decades now i mean i mean we've heard the same arguments against to the brainwashing it's manipulating break drove it out isn't social media just. new sort of t.v. .