was and like i was just scared i was a scared little girl i was 24 and like. i didn't have to be so complicated. in the headlines this hour restricted shopping and night curfews protesters clashed with police as german lawmakers mold a government over ruling regions to force the even harsher lock down. celebrities to seduce fronts into saving potentially dangerous astra zeneca influences could reportedly be used to shift the unpopular coded job but people

aren't buying it. so let's just have people like costs i don't think they have more knowledge than the specialists will not get vaccinated because some famous person tells me to it's like they're telling me jump for breach i'm not going to do that. black lives matter rallies found by us democrats go out of control on warnings that an office is conviction for george floyd's killing is not enough. very well continue watching r t international with me erin. now german politicians are considering a bill to let the government overrule regional powers and force hard covert restrictions including stopping personal contacts on. in shutting sports facilities

it sparked police clashes with angry demonstrators. her. on wednesday the bundestag the german parliament voted through amendments to the infection protection act which would essentially take powers to impose covert restrictions away from the 16 states of germany and give that power to the federal government here in berlin now this is being called an emergency brake what it will do is it will give uniformity to what is essentially being a year's worth of a patchwork of covert measures that have differed from state to state across germany this will allow the federal government and angle of merkel's government

here in berlin to impose things like a curfew from 10 pm until 5 am also restrictions on meeting with other households there will be the closure of sports facilities and leisure facilities also restrictions and perhaps closures or non essential retail when it comes to schools they'll be a separate market put aside if it reaches $165.00 new infections per 100000 of the population then schools will close their doors to students and revert back to distance learning now it's fair to say that these new measures of resulted in a mixed opinion amongst the german population of the up this filthy i don't know this new interest lation will do much i think we should have done something much earlier also today they see one thing tomorrow something else and then they do something and then do not stick to it it's going to be. the new legislation is very. very

important i'm a doctor myself and can therefore say you can really do it consistently now so it's really bring something everything else will not ultimately bring much success i believe that the new version of the national virus control all goes against our basic law or at least restricts our fundamental rights far too disproportionately germany is currently in the middle of a 3rd wave of covert 19 and it's expected that this emergency brake would be pulled and last until at least the end of april perhaps as long as the end of may in the last 24 hours journey so it just owned $30000.00 new covert infections and the rate of infection currently stands at $160.00 new cases per 100000 of population across the whole country now there are regional differences with some areas faring better than others but it does look like that break is set to be pulled once it passes. german politicians told us the changes threaten fundamental freedoms. i was one of

the protest protest over was one of the key speak on the street protests also warned one that these 250 year m.p.'s will go today against. a quite softly speaking to call it didn't fix the protection act yet it's cold that infection protection act but it functions small us like enabling act yes or no we are very sensitive in germany due to truman history about enabling acts. by which government is granted such a huge power. it will never give away any more in the future it will be seen when a building act empowers government troops you saw it for the whole ringback of germany were few and all the other pressing measurements looked on and so on without the returns. to see the i mean an incident in the one on one hand it is

that the parliament at least decides. the all now before it was just a group of presidents of the federal states and the chancellor now it's a parliament that is about the measures that it says they are contradictionary and in itself you have on the one hand reasonable things that for example you have to. measure since you have reasonable things like if there is a high incidence of security measures have to return again but on the other hand it's no scientific condiment for doing it because if you from 10 o'clock in the evening that is. abusing the basic right of freedom of movement and that of course causes social discontent and calls a smell that people are frustrated. as gemini tightens restrictions the brits

and loosens that. but that may soon change with a certain visitors to the u.k. with fake negative covert certificates more on that later in the program. france may reportedly use celebrities to entice the public into getting the astra zeneca shot but will people bite artie's ski hit the streets of the capital to find out celebrity power could be about to be whole honest for its most bizarre campaign to date helping to convince people to have the astra zeneca job questions over its possible links to rare blood clots and its effectiveness have essentially made it roll the undesirable for some leaving the french leadership scratching its head and wondering how to make it more appealing we have had difficulties convincing people on astra zeneca we must think of our communication and our

ability to convince if we want the vaccination campaign to improve though the president to may have been part of even his previous buz vaccine the real problem with astra zeneca is that it doesn't work the way we were expecting it to the problem is so bad that in the city of nice a covert vaccination center got to be closed over the weekend when only 58 people turned up despite some 4000 doses of astra zeneca being well grabs so how did it change people's mornings that's where those celebs come in it's reported the government is musing full blown communication campaign that would be headed by famous people because in a crisis that's who you trust right. celebrities that people like kos i

don't think they have more knowledge than the specialists. if it's a celebrity who says that i don't care we don't know what influenced them to do it with social media it's too easy for people to be persuaded of anything. i will not get vaccinated because some famous person tells me to is like they're telling me jump of breach i'm not going to do that. we know that these a product placements and it turns out that they themselves have not been vaccinated it might influence people but i personally rely more on medical expertise and scientific reports here's over the link to the rare blood clots from vaccines isn't confined to france so either in sweden several regions of reported cases of people out refusing to have the extra zeneca joab in my department we had planned for a 150 patients aged over $65.00 with diabetes who were to be vaccinated there were

20 who canceled ahead of time and 7 who left once they found out which vaccine they would get one said i don't want to die and left immediately worse still is that those refusals all resulting in vaccines being thrown away and all of this is taking place as the european medicines agency the world health organization and even sweden's public health authority are continuing to stress the benefits of the vaccine for outweigh any risks so why are people still shelling it probably because of the side effects people don't believe in science and the more i think it's. the social media these discussions going on the social media because of bad taste in other countries that have decided not to take the risk a tool since that link with rare blood clots was raised the rollout of astra zeneca

remains suspended in countries like. norway and denmark but as countries struggle to convince citizens that the short is safe to use the e.u. itself has admitted that they may not be renewing its contract which begs the question why bother convincing people to talk with geology even ski party paris. france also wants to be europe's 1st state to enforce covert passports a move heavily criticized by rights campaigners as discriminating against the unvaccinated yet ministers insist it's about quote freedom. to do this summer i hope we will reclaim our freedom thanks to the vaccination of restraint and this digital certification which these are difficult would show people's inoculation or immunity status and will be trialled on internal flights this week officials hope to expand it across europe within a fortnight shops and restaurants will be exempt after complaints from their

powerful lobbies let's go live now to make america votes political analyst thank you for joining us on the program was great to see you what are your thoughts on this one to make travel easier. well if it were to make travel easier i think everybody would just say congratulations finally the french government has a good idea on how to how to handle this pandemic the problem is that we don't see how we can make it travelling easier people have to get this app the documents they've got on that on that app and then show it at the airport so we know people will forget to put the information on it people will forget they have the documents and it's a lot of people are seeing this as some sort of global push on french citizens to get the facts scenes and to say if you want norma's and also so i do want to get everybody's got to get vaccinated so i'm not so sure that the people who've been managing the situation since the past year have got this good idea all of a sudden right now and it's going to work because for the rest of the management of

this pandemic they haven't shown a lot of success such as stand and lay out for us the key criticisms that they certificates. what we're seeing a lot of people in france nobody today they don't want the vaccine because they're not they're not there they don't feel the fact scenes are 100 percent safe and so part of the population says well i'm ready to get vaccinated but i want to wait because we've seen these destroying those cities or different very hazardous side effects or people even dying other people saying i don't get vaccine at all and also when the government is coming out with the passing that if you want to travel which is a fundamental liberty you have to have this pass and one more than encourage you at least to get back to need it or at least to have a document saying that you've got the negative p.c.r. test and people saying well this is an outrage attack against freedom of travel and against our liberties so i mean that is the main question today in france and many on that were promised that vaccination would not be able to get to an entrance and people see this as a 1st step towards some sort of obligation to getting a vaccine because if you need

a vaccine to travel today in in france or maybe tomorrow abroad maybe you need the same docu the same app if you want to go to a restaurant even if the restaurant lobby says no today we will be able to say no tomorrow maybe you had this app to go to the cinemas maybe one day to vote so people are quite afraid and as they don't trust the government on a lot of issues and notably on this management of the whole pandemic i mean we're more than a year after this pandemic in france and the situation is still in and it's still in a stalemate situation and people don't trust the government and the french government measuring this and the very suspicious about this at so having said that how realistic to think it is that officials are planning any wide expansion by jane this in response to have an e.u. management of this whole. crisis for the past year and we're still waiting for an e.u. solution and we see that different member states of the you don't have the same approach don't have the same strategy in tackling the coded so and this is been had going on for over a year so if it takes more than

a year to attack the pandemic i'm sure that for this digital application is going to take more than fortnight and and we see that. and how does it work anyways some friends for example accept some vaccines they want to accept for example sputnik be from russia but italy accept it hungary accepts it so rocky accepts it so how are we going to have a european union at which some countries accepting some vaccines other countries not accepting them how's that going to work are we supposed to get a vaccine for each specific country it seems a bit ridiculous and i think that member states will have a hard time agreeing at least in the next 15 days so how much public opposition do you think we can expect. a lot having a same for the vaccine campaign people don't people are jittery when the talking about putting their personal information on an app which is managed by the government again if people were confident that people were mad that the people at the head of france to date were concerned by the health of the citizens and that was paramount to them and that was their primary concern that i think they would be ok but people see that there are huge interest personal interest big pharmacy group

interest there's a lot of these interests with a lot of people think are more important than the interest of the citizens and the safety of the citizen so as long as people will be skeptical about the real attentions of the government and what this app is the 1st day or 2 then i think there's going to be i have a hard time going through after a moment if it's an obligation to have this have to travel is going to be complicated because some people will really feel forced to take the ad because they need to they need to see family relatives or even to work so it's going to create a lot of frustration and we risk having some sort of 2 way society with the fast track for those who got the vaccine or who go to p.c.r. test regularly and those who don't have it and who have less liberties than the 1st and so i think this is going to create a lot of confusion and. tension within the french society. very much fast time thank you. still to come israel say is a missile was fired at its territory and alarms went off as

a nuclear site will have the details on that story and much more coming up after this short break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going from duration let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by our own personal those.

who dares thinks. we fear to ask. welcome back the conviction of former officer derrick shine even for the death of george floyd has only boyd black lives massa demonstrates as they flooded back onto the streets noting big police shooting of a black teenage girl on the day of the verdict shows a total lack of progress. well

thor's he's claimed they were justified in shooting the 16 year olds but have launched a probe however protesters have already run out of patience calling on police to be defunded and ties cut with quote kill a cops ati's don't quarter reports as rallies filled by the democratic party itself could not be spiralling out of control. the verdict guilty but the mass is far from satisfied it wasn't long before celebration over show evidence faith once more turned into anger. god you. don't want your career. or. progressive's are paying a lot of lip service to it's not justice and i'll explain to you right it's not justice. it's not justice because justice is george floyd going home tonight to be with this family this is but

a miniscule step on the path to justice next tops independent agency to investigate police misuse of force criminalize violence against protesters dimeter eyes police departments disband and deconstruct field police departments some are taking a more sentimental approach making sure everyone knows the death of their new martyr makes them very sad thank you cure. for sacrificing your life for your name will always be synonymous with justice also spoke to george was george's daughter if you. changed the world. you told her this afternoon. that he did. since the campaign trail biden has spoken with the victim's family multiple times assuring them that his administration was on the side of justice even appeared. border on justifying the pressure that activists and vandals were

putting on the court process the jury who heard the evidence carried out their civic duty in the mists of extraordinary moment under extraordinary pressure. for so many it feels like it took all of that would you dish and system to deliver a just just basic countability naturally divide and ministrations pandering to anti police protesters has radicalized the republican party and the opposite direction so much so that it's now illegal for drivers to run over road blocking protesters in the red state of florida we saw really unprecedented disorder and rioting throughout the summer of 2020 and we said that's not going to happen here in the state of florida and we wanted to make sure that we were able to protect the people of our great state people's businesses and property and it is the strongest anti writing pro a law enforcement piece of legislation in the country one big verdict on

a whole lot of unsolved problems and the 2 ruling parties at each other's throats tragedies like the recent police shooting of a 16 year old 'd black teenager in columbus ohio just continue to pile up with neither side ready to come to a compromise the american political structure of the constitutional structure is so antiquated and so shot through 'd with undemocratic practices and. bias that it would take a top to bottom 0 political structural reform in order to put america on a new racial footing i don't see it happening any time soon but short of that there will be no progress whatsoever i am absolutely convinced. supporters of opposition activists alexina valmy have rallied across russia with police saying more than 10000 turned out in moscow and st petersburg alone or russian human rights monitors there's almost 1800 protesters have been detained

with more than half and since petersburg found his team called for the un sanctions demonstrations are after we can report his health was deteriorating he's been on hunger strike in prison for 3 weeks demanding to see his own doctors they found he is currently serving 2 and a half years for violating parole on 2014 fraud charges which he calls politically motivated. and you can't board a star sat around a 100 people a day are trying to get into britain with fake coded certificates raising questions if existing restrictions keep the country safe from foreign viruses variance artie's a k partridge picks up the story. in the u.k. cases of coronavirus and cope with 19 deaths before that following the look of the vaccine rollout but there are concerns this progress could be scuppered by the variants of the disease being brought into the country by people using fake coded

negatives certificates foreign holiday travel or both leaving and entering the u.k. is found that business travels allowed the government website tells travelers to the u.k. before they set out they must provide a passenger locator for at proof of a negative coronavirus test taken within the 3 days before arrival this could be a printed documents an e-mail or text message failure to show it could mean no travel or 500 pounds fine on arrival the traveler must ensure the test meets the right standards and the results must be in english french or spanish with personal information matching the travel documents and the tests provide us contact details but border immigration and customs staff say these documents are very easy to forge and in many cases offices have no way of checking whether they're genuine it's predominantly taken on trust we do get a 100 or more and do fake coverage certificates that we catch while the e.u.

says police agency europol has already warned travelers to be aware of all denies to criminal gangs selling fake coded negatives certificates these have been found at british french and spanish airports online and in the netherlands via mobile messaging apps for as much as $300.00 euros each as long as travel restrictions remain in place due to the pandemic it is very likely that criminals will seize the opportunity of producing and selling fake covert 900 tests of recruits given the widespread technological means available in the form of high quality printers and different software fraudsters are able to produce high quality counterfeits forged or fake documents and talk to 20000 people entering the u.k. every. they most are for us who are in the large group of exam jobs and people including children under 11 who don't need to take a test which raises the question of whether the certificate system or any covert passport scheme could work in siri or in practice could either

a challenge is around international travel you know you have to look across the continent and see the rise in case rates in many of our nearest neighbors it has been in the past the case that those rising infection rates have seen their way through to the u.k. we're hopeful that that won't happen this time around because of our progress with the vaccine and so on but we do need to be cautious about that but the big worry about fake certificates is letting people into the u.k. who were carrying you could variance like those from india south africa and brazil which could be more resistant to antibodies this would diminish the impact of the u.k.'s vaccination program and thought the economic upturn then just one forged document costing a few 100 pounds could cost thousands of lives and millions in lost revenue kate partridge r.t. london. raid sirens have reportedly been heard near israel's secretive

dimona nuclear site 1000 israeli defense forces claim a surface to air missile was launched from syria artie's paullus near has the details. one of the early hours of the song warning sirens sounded throughout the south of israel not far from adam ana we have heard from eyewitnesses that explosion is a could shaking houses and some of them were heard as far afield as to saddam and now there is video so creating s.o.p.'s hits on consume reportedly showing the moment that the israeli defense force systems into stick to a missile coming from syria the israeli army has issued a statement in which it has said that these sirens were activated in a surface to air missile that was fired from sea until a treat to israeli air force chase it was a counterattack following an earlier attack. on the syrian territory and we have heard from the syrian state media confirming that there is a phone's systems were activated after israeli jets will portugese targeted an area

in the countryside of damascus also in the early hours of this morning they were soldiers who were injured there was some material damage but most of the israeli missiles were intercepted there is speculation as to whether or not the dimona facility was the target of a he's one of these missiles not israel's official nuclear policy is nuclear ambiguity in other words it is never confirmed that it has nuclear weapons and it has never denied it it's just left it as an open ended question what's interesting about what happened this morning is that we're hearing from the i.d.f. that they were carrying out strikes over syria and normally the israelis are very quiet when they do such operations however in recent months we have heard these really prime minister benjamin netanyahu boasting about hundreds of israeli strikes being carried out in syria against jihadists militant targets israel is of course concerned and trying to stop the growing iranian presence in its neighboring

country across its northern border in syria. as always we love to hear your thoughts on all stories so do get in touch by following us on social media as well . me for today but what we say will be hit with the latest in 30 minutes how a great day. was a pandemic no certainly no borders and a slide into nationalities. has emerged with the maturity we don't look back seem world peace to. judge a. commentary crisis with this system to. say we can do better we should be better. everyone is contributing it's your own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenge is great the response

has been much so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together. when i was so small seemed wrong but all rolled just don't call. me the world yet to shape out this day come to educate and in gains from it because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. it's been decades since the fall of spain's fascist regime but old wounds still haven't healed and you're going to see him going into the love and thought it was

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