tuesday the 4th of may in the headlines marty today after a year of isolation the e.u. is seeking to open its doors to to respond only for those who receive brussels preferred jabs. the u.s. government marked world press freedom day by attacking other countries' records in journalism freedoms and rights. and or imprisonment even away to stray and citizens returning home from cold ravaged india now we hear from some risk being criminalized under a new temporary law. works really disappointed. because they're already stressed when someone is losing their family members are losing jobs so i think this is an extra stress putting on people.

801 here now good morning from russia live from our world news h.q. in moscow kevin owen here with the latest from us for the next 30 minutes for you and it's just heard in the e.u. looking to open its borders after more than a year of pandemic isolation it comes as the european commission on monday proposed easing travel restrictions on foreign citizens but only for those who have been fully vaccinated against covert 19 with authorized jobs peter all of us got the latest on this this morning or your correspondent in the morning paper walk us through this latest less face it has been such a long time getting here welcome development but there's a catch. yes nothing's ever is easy as it may seem when it comes to getting a unified e.u. proposal passed all 27 member states on monday the european commission put forward

their proposals for what essentially amounts to a e.u. vaccine passport they'll be discussing that further on choose day but it's an attempt to open up the $27.00 member states to non-essential travel and to tourism tourism of course the absolute lifeblood of many of the southern european countries economies. but the e.u. commission are suggesting is that it's anybody who's been fully vaccinated with a job that approved by both the european medicines agency and the world health organization they should be allowed to come into the e.u. until the digital green certificate is open or a shell member states should be able to accept it if it is from noni you countries based on national or taken into account the ability to verify the authenticity validity and integrity of this it if it and whether it contains all right evan date

her. well since it was announced it's raised an awful lot of questions with some critics pointing out there well some of the points are pretty vague particularly when it comes to the fact that we don't know how long somebody who's been vaccinated is amusing to the covert virus for we just simply haven't helped up the data on that right now there's also the risks of creating a 2 tier society between those that have had the vaccine those that are waiting for the vaccine and those that for any number of medical reasons can't have those particular vaccines now there's also the world health organization chipping in on this saying they don't think these type of passports are a good idea because as far as the w.h.o. are concerned it gives a false sense of security. at the present time as the world health organizations position that national forests should not introduce requirements of proof of covert 19 vaccination for international travel as

a condition for departure or entry considering that there is limited availability of vaccines preferential vaccination of travelers could result in a not to quote supplies of vaccines for priority populations considered at high risk of severe covert 19 disease. well earlier this year the idea of vaccine passports didn't prove all that popular with people in france and denmark we saw protests against the plans then there's also questions over what this will mean for those who have been vaccinated with jobs that haven't already been approved by the european medicines agency the russian sputnik vaccine for example we are expecting sputnik to get e.m.e.a. approval sometime in may but what does that mean for those that have already received that also what does that mean for the millions and millions of doses of sputnik that have been purchased by e.u. member states ready for use now the european commission doesn't have the power to

be able to tell the member states who can come in and who can't come in to their country what they're looking to try and do at the moment is get a unified agreement throughout the 27 and they certainly isn't one of those just yet so until there is it does seem like each individual e.u. member state will continue to have their their own systems in place for example right now if you wanted to fly into greece it wouldn't have to be fully vaccinated but as long as you could provide say a. test result that showed that you hadn't tested positive for covert then you'd be allowed to arrive still a lot of legs to run on whether we'll get a unified covert passport across europe just yet though you know of course for some a cone of everyone to get moving again with this is going on and on and on unchartered waters and the pink folks bring us up to speed more from you later. now monday's freedom of the press day was marked by u.s. authorities who advocated for journalists rights and the limited access to

information for the public while focusing heavily on annie ones but not their own country's state of press meantime over the past year the united states has seen more than 400 journalists assaulted 139 arrests and detentions and over 100 cases of reporters equipment damaged the 2021 truck it sees more and more incidents every day he goes down off next this morning we're looks at press freedom in the us as it stands. if there's one thing entrenched in the d.n.a. of us democracy that would be putting america on the pedestal of righteousness at every given opportunity like here we're seeing every day. the work that journalists are doing around the world in increasingly difficult and challenging conditions nothing is more fundamental to the good functioning of our democracies they advocate they seek safety they celebrate the us knows how to throw one hell of

a party for a truth teller look no further than julian asuncion he's published so many u.s. secrets america's justice department is captivated by the man they just won't take no for an answer if extradited a son it will be celebrating his accomplishments like the guantanamo bay files or the iraq war logs for up to 175 years likely in a maximum security prison the ruling in his case leaves open the possibility for the u.s. government to pursue journalists and publishers around the world if their report and annoys the washington establishment that essential remains in prison underlies the grievous threats to unfettered journalism that the serious legislation poses and of course there's no big a custodian of journalists safety than the modern day america it is incumbent on all of us to counter these threats to

a free and independent media including physical risk and arbitrary detention for one saudi journalist physical risk and arbitrary detention escalated into horrible suffering and death in a matter of minutes jamal khashoggi fell out of favor with the saudi royal family and in 2018 was killed inside their consulate in istanbul reports suggest he was tortured before meeting his death beheaded and dismembered. as his killers go to way on private jets the u.s. could not stand idle in the face of such an atrocity that's one reason we announced in response to the brutal murder of jamal khashoggi the shoji bam to help deter threatening behavior against the media i beg your pardon all this because shoji ban is it is a visa restriction policy that doesn't even target the saudi crown prince despite the cia itself saying he personally ordered the hit we held accountable all the

people in that organization but not the crown prince because we have never that i'm aware of when we have an alliance with a country gone to the acting head of state and punish that person and ostracized him and a cherry on top of this towering pile of hypocrisy is this promise of joe biden to show he was in fact murdered and dismembered and i believe in the order of the crown prince and i would make it very clear we were not going to in fact sell more weapons to them we were going to in fact make them pay the price and make them in fact the pariah that they are the ban is cosmetic. we know or the murder and and the person who did order that murders not going to be an elder cannibal it remains untouched because washington doesn't want to disrupt that relationship and because the saudi government buys billions of dollars worth of us are it's in the

same way that we hear them talk about freedom of the press these are rather hollow empty gestures that our attempt to. a sensually massage public opinion but aren't in any real way attempting to hold people accountable us politicians love to float amid the smoke of virtue and mirrors of morality but then things come into sharp focus and we see just how little. integrity there is left. some 10000 people have been left in limbo after a strain effectively banned its citizens from returning home from pandemic battered india with return he's facing criminal punishment if they do we have from some of those people affected that i do feel abandoned oh do for you were extremely disappointed with that rule that they have come up with because there have been similar type of spikes or more than that in some other countries but that kind of

restriction was not impose i think this is an overreaction but in this situation this hour of distress we were expecting that we will have more sympathy coming our way i don't think it's difficult to manage what and even in a country like australia which is a developed country with a sophisticated health care system so i think that there will be able to deal with it it's just fear factor that was very shocking for me to know that you will be jailed and there is a fine i think there is a fear in people people mind that they don't want to get jailed for 5 years or be a heavy fine because they're already stressed that someone is losing their family members are losing jobs so i think this is an extra chests of waiting on people as that because they're not the same country i do feel i have the similarity to be there and they do expect from a government to help both in trained and because they are people in base stressful

situation bear with health problems. problems the controversial measures been harshly criticized by human rights watch is director in a strain under the temporary ban a strain in sea return home risk a hefty fine or indeed up to 5 years in jail early a camera suspended flights to and from india officials defended the entry ban citing a hazard to public health. it's a high risk situation in india and there has been no doubt and then you know the commonwealth advice of all this measure or other measures. american human rights attorney daniel koval 8 points the camera didn't respond in the same way when the pandemic peaked in other countries though they have this huge find they are imposing i think it's like 66000 dollars or something for people coming into australia from india so what that means of course is only wealthy people can travel right so it's really

a ban on the or but you know when you look at any type of restrictions or any type of government regulations you look at whether they are reasonable and rational enough and part of that is are they treating like situations other countries have had he breaks the united states to u.k. brazil have they impose these types of sanctions against people travelling from those countries i don't think so so why why india why now i mean it does raise a huge question will mentioning brazil there in brazil local governments are demanding that the country's health authority think again after it failed to approve russian sputnik they claim the decision wasn't based on objective grounds. now that. we studied sputnik b. and realized that it is one of the most effective vaccine is available with an efficiency of more than 90 percent and without any significant side effects this

was one of the main reasons why our state and 17 others out of 27 brazilian states signed preliminary contracts for vaccine delivery and we all want to resolve the issue with the reluctance of and visa to a low the back seemed to be used in the count treat myself and other governors who requested permission to import the back seemed hope for a positive decision by these organizations brazil is now at a critical point of the pandemic we have reached 400000 deaths and we expect it to be easy to show objectivity. we have already bought 37000000 doses and we are waiting for the decision in order to distribute the vaccine is. our main task at the moment to ensure the implementation of the law which was recently adopted part of brazilian parliament this law specifically recognizes 16 regulators above a countries including russia as valid on the territory of brazil. so the correct

action of arm visa would be to validate the decision that has already taken place in russia. the approval of a specific vaccine. for the regulator hasn't done this but approached the issue as if it were a completely foreign the forestry and it is necessary to produce the entire process here unfortunately that's what's happened and the process has been prolonged. the so last week brazil's regulators said it wasn't confident in the job safety citing among other things production flaws it also claimed that one of the components of sputnik the might pose a risk to people with weaker immune systems however the vaccine developers hit back angrily calling the decision to hold back on approval entirely political and further saying it's got nothing to do with science the census says it's cleaning and filtration says to be sure the job is highly purified with existing quality

controls guaranteeing that no harmful components exist in sputnik the it also claims its product is almost 98 percent effective brazilian governor wellington diaz told us it may be possible to use legal means to force the through the russian vaccines approval. how long this bureaucratic process is dragged on is a matter of big concern. actually at the level of the brazilian states there are at least 2 plants the 1st is to us the russian manufacturer institute the russian direct investment fund the russian ministry of health as well as other countries such as argentina mexico and others have already how the experience of using this vaccine to provide on these are the brazilian regulator of complete information so that they can finally get permission from the 2nd way is the supreme court where there is already a possibility to legally oblige and visa to accept the russian vaccine since we're

talking about the fact that this vaccine has been approved by regulators in many countries at least 3 other vaccines are officially improve the results so if it does not work out with families and this path through the supreme court is the warm we will follow. waking up into a choose day it's $817.00 moscow time whatever time is with you hi there covered up joe biden's america back on track to is getting less attention than those by the former president he will be pleased to hear well look at how the media is a long time favorite this slump in the ratings. the world is driven by a dream shaped by the person of. the

day or thinks. we dare to ask. the question if it's islam plus despotism is what we've got going on around the world in all these different it's so obvious down to everybody including the rank and file politician that the money printing causes the poverty became creases the wall think of gap and increases the unemployment and the social misery that comes with it. and.

a good morning to watch the clock 90 minutes he sent us the hour now joe biden is traveling the united states is part of the get a america back on track to the a was stirring up enthusiasm for american jobs and families plans but he's not getting the same media coverage as his previous as well i'm open for most work while. joe biden is on a road trip to promote his new infrastructure plan he's got a slogan america is back on track and he says the usa needs to surge forward to victory we're way behind the rest of the world right now we need to remember we're in competition with the rest of the world now it's a rather ambitious schedule for the traveling woke white house extravaganza. and it's coming to a city near you so many this looks like joe biden has started campaigning for 2024 now donald trump did that but not as early in his term however he caught

a lot of flack for it at the time breaking news out of phoenix arizona where president trump held a raucous unscripted rally he was on hinged. it's embarrassing and i don't mean for us the media because he went after us but for the country you could hear there is a chorus of boos and other chairs and this crowd here in tampa florida they're saying things like see the sox go home big news now to be fair there's a lot to criticize about donald trump's rallies you can talk about coded restrictions or the immigrants and anti islamic rhetoric or the presence of cuban on conspiracists but if it's not ok for donald trump to go on the campaign trail long before the campaigning actually starts shouldn't biden be held to the same standards however you'll notice that this critique is noticeably absent from the mainstream media at this point they're not even bothering to fact check biden's claims about what trump actually did and when protesters interrupted biden the media fell silent i want to thank your o. the people of georgia. sense tromp

left office c.n.n. viewership has tanked to roughly half of what it was when they were castigating the donald and is it any surprise fluffy coverage is not as much fun to watch furthermore biden is just not the entertainer that his predecessor was but regardless he is planning to pack a minute his rallies around the country as much as code restrictions will allow mop and artsy new york journalist and commentator believes mainstream media hate to admit that the film a president gave a much needed ratings explosion. do the same how the media is always treated the 2 different politicians of course anything trump does is evil wrong dangerous and when joe biden does it it's perfectly fine to donald trump when he was even having a host election rallies were still drawing tens of thousands of people joe biden can't get more than 4 journalists to show up sitting in their little circle taking

notes and bad optics and then he does have it in person events and he's traveling around the country whereas for president shrub it was great optics it looked like he had amazing amount of support in a grassroots support and the media really hated that they had to think of anything they could to try to demonize the president was doing president trump that is to try to make it look like it was irresponsible all or what have you one thing that they really hate to admit is that donald trump was incredible ratings he was amazing for not only c.n.n. the liberal media body of the mazy persuader all the liberal. tech companies and you know now that he's gone they've got a big problem. u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken as well in the washington should be prepared for any eventuality in afghanistan as u.s. troops were withdrawn from the country last month president biden announced the pullout would start in may and be finished by the symbolic date of september the 11th just because our troops are coming home doesn't mean we're leaving we're not

our embassy staff the support that we're going to afghanistan that remains and not only from us meanwhile as the deadline for a u.s. troop pullout in afghanistan made the fust the group small and it might take action against american forces the taliban said its leadership will make a decision in the lights of the sovereignty values and higher interests of the country. meantime the taliban reportedly attacked an afghan army base in the country's west on sunday night with militants arriving in the base for tunnels local sources claim over 20 soldiers were killed michael maloof a former senior security policy analyst at the pentagon told us he thinks there is more instability ahead. but i don't know where blinken is getting here is a position of strength from in dealing with taliban the taliban warn even talk to the government and how the u.s. once it's out is going to make the taliban talk to the government is beyond me already the taliban has announced that it's going to create its own emirates in

afghanistan and as i pointed out that is going to put it in direct conflict with the other tribes such as particularly northern alliance so not what the u.s. possibly could do is is cozy up more with the northern alliance elements pretty much like what we did leading up to 2001 so it's maybe history repeating itself after spending 2 trillion dollars there's costing more than $2500.00 american lives not to mention that the afghans who have been killed. a popular children's show in the u.k. is taking inspiration from america's black lives matter movement one of the creators of the b.b.c.'s horrible histories explains why he wants to give kids a new perspective on history with the events of last summer black lives matter the murder of george floyd the colson statue it felt like the whole world had a moment to re-evaluate what we thought about the past we thought it was a good moment to think about how horrible histories might tackle the whole area of

black history so the next episode of the show features a song highlighting that black people have been in britain for from the start referencing recent findings that claim the 1st modern britain has had dark skin horrible histories which enjoys a vast global following also plans to feature an animation about the transatlantic slave trade decisions daughter mixed response online the. rewriting british history in accordance with the war good gender the white freights on show here your fake history is being blown apart i don't let my kids watch the b.b.c. anymore anyway because of this world nonsense this is actually true that i don't understand how people can be upset that all our ancestors were african grow up we talked about it some more with social commentator mickey and also journalists in the store and darwish very important. it's to let children live go to childhood notably in war so you start by teaching them critical

thinking which actually no longer being put at risk or adding layers of history footnotes to history and let them explore and learn how to explore new but to have an orwellian the writing of history is actually scary and to me the national curriculum which is been so in schools or that seems good enough in terms of black history. academies don't have to teach it some schools choose certain modules it is very important to them to for young lots of lectures but all children children are impressionable now getting some social media and from t.v. they'll be steamy careful that we actually not to reprogram their minds with the current oxers or orthodoxy of the day as dictated by a loud minority not by the silent majority we live in

a multicultural society. you know young people black or white or asian all. should all be. educated and be told the truth you know you know england within to colonise. you know different searchers are in the british empire so it's all you know so you're in the world thieves and invaders as well and if that's all to me in schools are going to be quite clear you can just sort it can choose you know young people needs those troops i don't mind adding. information and mayors and they as an information as has crimes out there as documents come along because i think a longer view i do not take an emotional leisure pre-action to some. call for killing. the. and black activists or like the person behind the police and saw on your right knee jerk summit gone from 0 and that we go

to something because because of the terrible tragedy and murder of to slow it you know it should be that way but it is the usual thing is that you know something happens and then we'll do our job we should've been taught that what would happen if the other another accident happened and it can immediate that we no longer have control of reshapes public opinion is absolutely chilling that's why we have to take a longer view of history and it shouldn't be should teach them screens them how to accept everybody as one culture and evaluate events of the see them young people should be taught the correct evidence and should be fair you know it's all lies matzoh the social media blackout who these things are happening but i with the larger far larger gets 5 books now young people go google to find that so much about history and young people should get up to to be told the truth of the family

nations or conquer the band and destroy it not when the lose the war but when the lose and identity and that's very important. that we add to history we explain history the value of history but no not do not rewrite history. just for the bad news coming from mexico this morning nasty crash there mexico storage is confirming 13 people have been killed in a metro overpass collapse 1st pictures are coming through because look at it all does it 70 people have been injured there the instance mexico city of course passenger filled courage crashed to the ground the development happened on line 12 apparently the subway system there a little station in the southeast of mexico city those videos where you can see for yourself showing emergency crews doing their 1st best those 1st responders to get to the survivors but what a mess their thoughts with all the people involved there this morning keep you

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