then in the morning choose to the 4th of may here in moscow in the headlines after a year of isolation now finally the e.u. is seeking to open its doors to tourists but only for those who receive brussels preferred jobs. the us government world press freedom day by attacking other countries records in journalism freedoms and rights. fines or maybe even imprisonment await australian citizens returning home from covert ravaged india coming up for you we hear from some of those people who risk being criminalized under a new temporary law. works we were disappointed with the period they're already stressed with someone who's losing their family members of

the losing jobs so i think this is an extra stress putting on people. by their very good morning life more world news h.q. in moscow it's kevin owen here for the next 30 minutes with the latest from r.t. international for you and as you just heard there the 1st off the e.u. is looking finally 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've been fully vaccinated against covert 19 with crucially authorised jabs all the details than from our europe correspondent. of things ever is easy as it may see 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 member states to non-essential travel and to tourism tourism of course the absolute lifeblood of many of these southern european countries economies that the e.u. commission are suggesting is that anybody who's been fully vaccinated with a job that is 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 operational member states should be able to accept it if it is from nonnie you can cheat based on national or take into account the ability to verify the authenticity validity and integrity of this it's difficult and whether it contains all relevant data 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 come up to 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 it is the world health organizations position but national authorities 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 another quote

supplies of vaccines for priority populations considered a 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 a member state 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 to agreement throughout the $27.00 and they certainly isn't one of those

just get 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. monday's freedom of the press day was marked by u.s. authorities who advocated for journalists rights and unlimited access to information for the public while focusing heavily on anyone's but their own country state of press meantime over the past year the united states has seen more than $400.00 journalists assaulted $139.00. arrests and detentions and over 100 cases of reporter's equipment being damaged the 2021 trucker sees more and more instance

every day c.z. goes down off next this morning and looks at press freedom in the us. 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 u.s. 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 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 reports and noise the washington establishment that is sounds remains in prison are july's the grievous threats to unfettered journalese that these 2 u.s. legislation poses and of course there's no bigger custodian of journalist 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 killer as 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 ban to help deter threatening behavior against the media i beg your pardon all this band 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 war weapons to them we were going to in fact make them pay the price and make it and 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 elder charitable he 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 are attempt to. a centrally 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. you know if you watch the city of this war you see those pictures coming through from mexico city we're going to show you again the latest it is a developing story authorities confirming that a support beam failure caused a metro overpass to shower train carriages and people sadly on to cars late in the evening when i was 10 last night in mexico city and it's like a awful scene from a film isn't it horrific 23 people killed in that incident dozens have been injured 65 been sent to hospital is the latest emergency crews are continuing to search for survivors many people they're worried a still trapped in those trains the smalling at least one cause believes we've buried under the rubble there is some thoughts going around there that could have been damaged back in a 2017 quake we'll bring you more as we get to hear more about.

some 10000 people have been left in limbo after a stray affectively banned its citizens from returning home from pandemic batted india with return he's facing criminal punishment now we heard from some of the 1st left stranded. 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 indian 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 they the 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 stress reading on people as that because they're not the same country i do feel i have within their right to be there and they do expect from a gong and to help both in chicken train down because they are people in base stressful situation there with health problems by nature. problems yeah well this controversial measures already been harshly criticized by human rights watch as director in australia under the temporary ban astray and who return home risk a hefty fine or even as mentioned 5 years in jail early a camera suspended flights to and from india efficient defended the entry ban citing a hazard to public health it's

a high risk situation india there has been no downton any of the commonwealth advice on this measure or other measures american human rights attorney daniel coverlid chipping in to pointing out that camera doesn't treated citizens coming from other covert hotspots in the same way. i think what they're so doing is yeah raising the bar so high that people just won't even try to go to australia. but again why not do what a lot of countries are doing and quarantine people i mean there is a basis for i'm not saying it's without basis and i do understand australia's health concerns 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 like obviously india has a very big strain kovac problem but yeah. i think the us

where i live of course still has the highest numbers in the world of people who've been infected and died from it so why aren't they charging people $66000.00 to travel from the us to. the time of the brazil local governments that are demanding the country's health authorities think again alfred failed to approve russian sputnik. they claim the decision wasn't based on objective gratis. 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 other 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 so

a lot of the back seem to be used in the current treat myself and other governors who requested permission to import the vaccine hoped for a positive decision by the organization brazil is now at a critical point of the pandemic we have reached 400000 deaths and we're expected to resume 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 is to ensure the implementation of the law which was recently adopted by the brazilian parliament this law specifically recognizes 16 national regulators of other countries including russia as valid on the territory of brazil so the correct action of on visa would be to validate the decision that has already taken place in russia the approval of the sputnik vaccine but the regulator hasn't done this but approached the issue as if it were a completely fall in the forestry and it is necessary to reproduce the entire

process here unfortunately that's what's happened and the process has been prolonged yeah let me tell you more detail last week brazil's regulator said it wasn't confident in the job safety citing among other things production flaws it also claimed that one of the components a split the might pose a risk to people with weaker immune systems well didn't say it long for the vaccines developer as you would expect to hit back angrily calling the decision to hold back in on approval entirely political and having nothing to. do with science the gamma layer center says it's cleaning and filtration system ensures the job is highly purified with existing quality controls guaranteeing that no harmful components exist in sputnik v. it also claims as well as you can see there that it's almost 98 percent effective very good brazilian governor wellington told us moore says it may be possible to use legal means now to try to force through the russian vaccines approval. q

how long this bureaucratic process has dragged on has a matter of big concern actually at the level of the brazilian states there are at least 2 plans the 1st is to ask 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 that already have experience using this vaccine to provide on visa the brazilian regulator of complete information so they can finally get permission and the 2nd way is the supreme court where there is also a possibility to legally applied and visa to accept the russian vaccine since you are talking about the fact that this vaccine has been approved by regulators in many countries at least 3 of the vaccines are officially approved in brazil so if it does not work out of the next path through the supreme court is the one we will follow we'll keep you posted on that in for the better news is it develops now this is coming up joe biden's america back on track to is getting less attention you may

not be surprised to hear those by the former president will look at how the media's long time favorite apparently is slumped in the ratings.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this hearing dramatic development only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. again so as mentioned before the break there joe biden's traveling the united states right now is part of the getting america back on track with the aim of stirring up enthusiasm for american jobs and families plans but he's not getting the same media coverage as it. caleb maupin tries to work out why it is that.

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 role 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 flak for it at the time breaking news out of phoenix arizona where president trump held a raucous unscripted rally he's unhinged. 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 anti immigrant an 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 the people of georgia. sense trump left office c.n.n. viewership has tang's 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. our see new york until the journalist and commentator chadwick more told us he believes mainstream media hate to admit at the moment that the former president gave them a ratings explosion. because the same how the media is always treated that suit different politicians of course anything trump does is evil wrong dangerous and when joe biden does it it's perfectly fine donald trump would use even have a post-election rallies are 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 chop it was great optics it looked like he had amazing amount of support for the 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 video the mazy or twitter all the liberal 'd. tech companies and you know now that he's gone they've got a big problem. you know a secular state on lincoln's war and washington should be prepared for any eventuality in afghanistan as u.s. troops withdrawal from the country last month president biden announced the pullout would started 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 staying the support that we're going to afghanistan that remains and not only from us meantime as the deadline for a u.s. troop pullet in afghanistan has passed may the 1st the group has warned it may take action against american forces the taliban says its leadership will make a decision in

a light of the sovereignty values and higher interests of the country. sort of gonna stand the taliban reportedly attacked an army base in the country's west on sunday night with the militants arriving in the base through tunnels they dug local sources claim over 20 soldiers were killed michael maloof a former senior security policy analyst at the pentagon thinks there's more instability ahead but i don't know where blinken is getting his position of strength from in dealing with taliban the taliban all even talk to the government and how the us 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 and 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 cost in more than $2500.00 american lives not to mention that the afghans who opened. 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 program 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 freud 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 from the start referencing recent findings that they claim the 1st modern britons had dark skin orrible histories which enjoys a vast global following also plans to feature an animation about the transatlantic

slave trade too and that's a decision that stroll a mixed response online rewriting british history in accordance with the mortgage and the white freight on show here your fake history is being blown apart i don't let my kids watch to give you see 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 well up we talked more about it with social media commentator. and journalist in a story an adult. you know report it is to let children live and go to trial but not to greenwald you start by cutie them critical thinking which actually no longer being put at risk school adding layers of history history and let them explore and learn how to explore new but. if you have an

orwellian the writing of history is actually scary and tuning the national curriculum which is being taught in schools like that that seems good enough in terms of black history. academies don't have to teach it some schools to serve modules is very important and to for young not just lectures but all children children that are impressionable now get things from social media and through to the t.v. they'll be steamy careful that we actually not to reprogram their minds with the current boxes or orthodoxy of the day as dictated by and loud minority not by the silent majority we live in a multicultural society. you know young people. asian or whatever should all be. educated and be told the truth you know you know english within to colonise. you know different search areas or it's

a sign of the british empire so it's all you know so i think the word thieves and invaders as well and it is that talk to me in schools are going to be quite clear you can't just sort of pick and choose you know young people needs those troops cries of mine and the. information and mayors and they as an intimation as as archaeology crimes out as documents come along because i think a longer view i do not take an emotional leisure to reaction to some. call for killing like that the black activist or like the person the head of the police and so on you're right it is a kneejerk also going from 0 and there we go with the 2nd because because of the terrible tragedy and murder of to slow it you know it should be that way because it's the usual thing is that you know something happens and then we'll do our. well we should have spoken to that what would happen if the other another accident

happened and it can a media that no longer have control of the ship's 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 screened them how to accept everybody as one culture and evaluate events of the see them young people should be so the correct evidence and should be fair you know it's all lies matzoh it goes so should be just like out who these things are happening well i'm with the lhari got far more particular 5 books now young people go google find that so much about history and young people should get. to be told the sort of the family nations are conquered and the band and destroy it's not when we lose a war we're going to lose an 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.

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