and increases the unemployment and the social misery that comes with a. lunchtime the 4th of may in the headlines from r.t.r. for a year of isolation now the e.u. finally is seeking to open its doors to tourists but crucially only for those who receive brussels preferred. the u.s. government world press freedom day by attacking other countries records in journalism freedoms and rights. and fines or imprisonment a way to australian citizens returning home from covert ravaged india coming up we hear from some who respond criminalized under new temporary little. works we're disappointed. they're already stressed with someone who's losing their family members they're losing jobs so i think this is an extra that's just putting

on people. for their good day from russia live from world news age 2 in moscow it's kevin owen here with the latest from us for you for the next 30 minutes of the can stick around to take you through this headlines in more detail than starting with this bit of news the e.u. is 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 those who've been fully vaccinated against covert 19 with authorized jabs is our europe correspondent. all 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 a you commission suggesting is that anybody who's been fully vaccinated with a job that's 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 noni you can cheat based on national or take into account the ability to verify the authenticity validity and integrity of this it if it and whether it contains all right evan date. well since it was announced it's raised an awful lot of questions with some critics pointing out the 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 about 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. but the present time it is the world health organizations position the national forest east 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 packs a nation 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 this 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 agreement throughout the $27.00 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. monday's freedom of the press day was marked by u.s. authorities who advocated for journalists rights and unlimited access to information from. public while focusing heavily on anyone's but their own country state of press meantime over the past year starts the united states has seen more than 400 journalists assaulted 139 arrests and detentions and over 100 cases of reporters equipment being damaged the 2021 trackers sees more and more incidents

every day with more on it. and of looking at press freedom in the usa. if there's one thing entrenched in the d.n.a. of u.s. democracy it 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. governments to pursue journalists and publishers around the world if their report and annoys the washington establishment that is sanch remains in prison underlies the grievous threats to unfettered journalese that these us 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 shoji bam to help deter threatening behavior against the media i beg your pardon all this because shoji 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

could show he was in fact murdered and dismembered and i believe in the order of the crown prince 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 elder cannibal he remains untouched because washington doesn't want to disrupt that relationship and because the saudi government by this billions of dollars worth of us are in the same way that we hear them talk about freedom of the prestes or rather hollow empty gestures that our attempt to. a sensually massage public opinion or are 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. it's criminal with at least 20 people dead after a metro overpass collapse in mexico splitting a train into sending carriages and pastures plummeting on to the cars below i'm just seeing a bit of official footage now you actually see that happen it was so quick a crane has been brought in to stabilize the housing train amid fears it could fall further on to the road several children are among the victims of the 70 people were injured rescue workers and firefighters have been searching through the carriages for survivors best they can it's a dangerous unstable scene there at least one cars believe buried under the rubble the mayor said a support beam is given way by the looks of it as that train passed over it will try to get some more pictures throughout the day. 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 if they do we heard from some of the 1st left stranded. i do feel abandoned i 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 there's 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 putting on people as that because they're not the same country i do feel i have the similar right to be there and they do expect from a government to help those in you can find out because they are people in base stressful situation there with health problems by nature. problems so this controversial measure has been harshly criticized already by human rights watch is director in australia under the temporary balustrade ins who returned home risk a hefty fine and as we said there may be up to 5 years in jail early a camera suspended flights to and from india officials defended the entry ban now citing a hazard to public health it's a high risk situation india that has been now down to many of the commonwealth advice of all this measure or other measures thoughts too from american human

rights attorney daniel culver make a point that the camera doesn't treat its citizens coming from other covert hotspots in quite 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

have been infected and died from it so why aren't they charging people $66000.00 to travel from the us. i mean time over in brazil their local governments are demanding that the country's health authorities think again after it failed to approve russia's sputnik the jab they claim the decision wasn't based on objective grounds. no value nasty term joe when we study sputnik be and realised that it is one of the most effective vaccine available with a deficiency of more than 90 percent and without any significant side effects this was one of the main reasons why our state and 17 other us 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 country myself and other governors who requested permission to import the vaccine hoped for a positive decision by these organizations brazil is now at

a critical point of the pandemic we have reached 400000 deaths and we expected to have reason 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 un visa will 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 about more of the back story than last week brazil's

regulators said it wasn't confident in the job safety citing one of the things production flaws and also claim that one of the components a split might pose a risk to people with weaker immune systems well didn't take long for the vaccines developed to hit back hard calling the decision to hold back an approval entirely political in their view and having nothing they went on to say. to do with science where the galileo center says it's cleaning and filtration system assures the job is highly purified with existing quality controls guaranteeing they say that no harmful components exist in support nick he goes on to say as well as you can see from the stats they're being published that they claim the products almost 98 percent effective so that's very good brazilian governor wellington there is again telling us it may be possible in his view to use legal means to try to force this through now the approval of russia's vaccine how long this bureaucratic process has dragged on as 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 to come away 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 them 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 all of these are passed through the supreme court is the one we will follow coverdell here at r.t. this thank you for jacket in with this this is a joe biden's america back on track to it and seems to be getting less attention and those by the former president you may or may not be surprised to hear coming up

most of the other stories we look at how the media's long time favorite appears to have slumped in the ratings. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. thinks . we are here to ask. this to nepotism plus despotism is all we've got going on around the world and all

these different it's so obvious now to everybody including the rank and file politicians 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. hello again this is joe biden the traveling the united states right now is part of the getting america back on track to be a mysterious enthusiasm for american jobs and families plums but he's not getting the same media coverage as his previous this is. why. 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 wolk 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 time around 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 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 trump 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 tale of mop and artsy new york jenison commentary to chadwick believes mainstream

media hate to admit that the full new president gave them the right to use explosion. is 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 titled stronger to 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 it's bad optics does have an interest in events and he's traveling around the country whereas for president trump 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 what the president was doing present that is to try to make it look like it was irresponsible 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 the amazing for twitter all the liberal 'd. tech companies and you know now that he's gone they've got a big problem. u.s. secretary of state on to the brink and is warning that washington should be prepared for any eventuality and afghanistan as u.s. troops withdrawn from that country last month president biden announced the pullout would start in may be finished by this symbolic taint of september 11th. just because our troops are coming home doesn't mean we're leaving we're not our embassy stay the support that we're giving to afghanistan that remains and not only from us meantime as the deadline for u.s. troop pullout in afghanistan now is passed on may the 1st the group is warning it may take action against american forces the taliban says its leadership will make a decision in light of the sovereignty the values and the higher interests of the countries they see it elsewhere in afghanistan other news to tell you about 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 is more instability ahead or 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 that 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 are being killed. a popular children's show in the u.k. take 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. the events of last summer black lives matter the murder of george freud the calls and 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 or the next episode of the show featured a song of highlighting the black people have been in britain from the start referencing recent findings that claim the 1st modern britons had dark skin horrible histories which enjoys a vast global following also plans to feature an animation soon about the transatlantic slave trade a new perspective as strong a mixed response though online. rewriting british history in accordance with

a walk agenda the white freights on show here your fake history is being blown apart i don't that my kids wish 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 grow up we talked about it some more social commentator and also journalist and historian addle darwish very. 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 who ignored history and let them explore and learn how to explore new but to have an orwellian the writing of history is actually scary and turning the national curriculum which is into in schools i thought that

since good enough in terms of black history. academies don't have to teach it some schools do certain modules is very important for young not just lectures but all children children that are impressionable now get things from social media and from to e t v be steamy careful that we actually not to reprogram their minds with the current boxes 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 whatever should all be. educated and be told the truth you know you know england within to colonise. you know different searchers on the british empire so that's all you know so i think that we're thieves and invaders as well and if that's all too much 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 me as an intermission has as crimes out as documents come along because i think a longer view i do not take an emotional leisure pre-action to some. poll for killing like the. the black activist or like the person the head of the police and so on you're right it is a kneejerk summit going 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 because it's the usual thing is that you know something happens and then we often are. we should have spoken to that what would happen if the other another accident happened and it can media that we no longer have control of reshift 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 young people should be so the correct evidence and should be fair you know it's all lies matzoh the social media blackout who these things are happening with i with so large very far larger tickets or 5 books now young people go google find that so much about history and young people should get out you 2 to be told the truth different nations are conquered and the band and destroy is not when the lose a war but when they 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. every week night we bring you more those extended to more of the relevant topical

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