headlines in r.t. after a year of isolation the year is seeking to open its doors to tourists but only for those who receive jobs approved by brussels also become the us government marks world press freedom day by attacking other countries wreck or some journalism rights and freedoms and fines or imprisonment do away to strain citizens returning home from covert hit india we hear from some who do feel though they've been abandoned by their government. works. with someone who's losing their family member of the losing jobs and i think this is an extra putting on.

the welcome you're watching our international this tuesday afternoon just gone 4 o'clock here in the russian capital now 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 for those who've been fully vaccinated against 19 with certain approved jabs but more details his piece or all of. of things 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 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'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 data 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 had 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. but the present time it is the world health organizations position but 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 vaccination of travelers could result in an adequate 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 a.m.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 are being 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 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 want 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. now this week freedom of the press day has been marked by u.s. authorities he focused on the rights though of journalists in other cunt. meanwhile over the past year the united states itself has seen more than 400 journalists assaulted there are also 139 arrests and over 100 cases of reporters equipment being damaged and the 2021 tracker also shows 2 or more incidents every day are you going to die of takes a look now at press freedom in the united states. 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 them and 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 noise the washington establishment that is santa remains in prison underlies the grievous threat to unfettered journalese that these 2 s. legislation poses and of course there's no bigger 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 killer as got away 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 crucial g 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 punished 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 the i believe in the order of the crown prince and i would make it very clear we were not going to interact to 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 their 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 prestes or rather hollow empty gestures that our attempt to. essential e massage public opinion or are in any real way attempting to hold people accountable us politicians love to flow to meet 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. authorities in mexico say more than 20 people are dead after a metro overpass collapsed in the capital overnight

a train split into sending carriages passengers plummeting on to the cars below or that train was left hanging and was a crane was brought into to stabilize it amid fears it could actually fall further on to the road several children are among the victims and more than 70 people were injured rescue workers and firefighters have been searching through the carriages for survivors and at least one car is believed to be buried underneath this rubble the city's mayor said a support has given way as the train passed over it. some 10000 people have been left in limbo after straitly are effectively banned its citizens returning home from india which is being battered by the pandemic anyone trying to get back to us face fines and even a prison sentence we spoke to some who say they feel they've been abandoned. i do feel abandoned by the 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 not going the. 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 is difficult to manage warranty and a country like australia which is a developed country with a sophisticated health care system so i think that they'll 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 that they have you find because they're already stressed that someone is losing their family members are losing jobs so i think this is an extra stress of putting 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 you can find out because they are people in very stressful situation there with health problems by nature. problems well the controversial measure there has been heavily criticized by the director of human rights watch and australia has mentioned under the temporary ban the strains he returned home to risk a hefty fine and even up to 5 years in jail area camber suspended flights to and from india and officials have defended the entry ban citing a hazard to public health. it's a high risk situation there has been no doubt in any of the commonwealth advice about this measure or other measures. american human rights attorney daniel coverage does point at the camera doesn't treat as citizens coming from other hotspots in the same way. i think what they're says 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 there are reasonable and rational enough and part of that is are they treating like situations like obviously india has a very big strain covidien problem but yeah. i think the us where i live we're still has the highest numbers in the world of people in that didn't died from it so why aren't they charging people $66000.00 to travel from the us. i mean molly in brazil local governments there are demanding that the country's health authority thinks again after it failed to approve russia's support an

increase jab they claim that the decision wasn't based on objective grounds. that you know still don't gel with us so we study 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 a lot of the back seem to be used in the contrary myself and other governors who requested permission to import the vaccine hoped for a positive decision by this organization brazil is now at a critical point of the pandemic we have reached 400000 deaths and we 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. for. 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 sort of approach the issue as if it were 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 over the last week riddle's regulator did say it wasn't confident in the jap safety and said among other things there were flaws in its production it also claimed tell you that one of the components of v might pose a risk to people with we can mean it well the vaccines developer has hit back at

all of this and said that the decision to delay approval was political and had nothing to do with signs that the camel a a census. says it's cleaning and for tracing system does make sure the job is highly purified and that existing quality control to guarantee no harmful components exist in sputnik and also claims its product is almost 98 percent effective brazilian governor wellington diaz again says it may be possible to use legal means to force through the approval of the jap how long this bureaucratic process is drug gone as 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 of a country such as argentina mexico and others that already have experience using this vaccine to provide the brazilian regulator of complete information so that they can finally get permission and the 2nd way is the supreme court where there is

also a possibility to legally applied and be there to accept the russian vaccine since we 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 these a half through the supreme court is the one we will follow. still to come here this hour joe biden's america back on track tourist getting less attention than knows by the former president after the break we'll have a look at how the media's long time favorite has slumped in the ratings. the. u.n. says millions of children around the world will suffer as a consequence of the u.k.'s decision to slash its aid budget london plans to cut funding to the united nations children's fund from this year by 60 percent.

any cuts to these funds will have serious consequences for children it is too soon to know the full impact that this and future u.k. funding cuts will have on unicef programs however we worry that children living in some of the world's worst crises and conflicts will suffer the consequences well the u.k. earlier announced it would cut annual foreign aid by around 4000000000 pounds and this will affect not just unicef charities and the un agencies will also be hit as will entire countries with states devastated by civil war such as syria somalia and libya reportedly set to lose more than half the humanitarian aid that the u.k. says the cuts are necessary though to compensate the cost of the pandemic. the seismic impact of the pandemic on the u.k. economy has forced us to take tough but necessary decisions including temporarily reducing the overall amount we spend on. ok let's get the views now

for a while for because he has a long standing interest in food poverty has even written the book food bank britain you're very welcome thanks for coming on what do you make then of this decision by the u.k. government to slash foreign aid by 60 percent. well i was showing to buy it by being a rich this is not about economic argument is purely about short term populism you've got to realize that u.k. government is saying to its population we need to look after our own kids but just certain extent is correct however the reality is around the world children do not have access to education for many children are exploited or indonesia situations many children do not have access to food or clean water and the aid budget is crucially important in the u.k. at the moment a whole service of public sector we're not some polloi without people from around the world coming in playing a hugely important role in the u.k.

economy and i'm fortunate polje is not a coal issue and we need to address it more by highlighting be an impact of what a difference this money makes and we're talking about her very small amounts of the case g.d.p. only today we have a trade deal with india which india is going to be investing $533000000.00 pounds into the u.k. economy we need to stop looking short term it would really looking at a popular resort and look at. the way the pandemic is opened our eyes to the injustice around the world it's also showed us the humanity that goes all around the world and i think this is totally the wrong step is but it's populists and it makes no economic sense whatsoever i understand what you say there are

a but is there an argument just if you look at figures and how much debt the u.k. is in surely if they say look surely we have to tighten our belts and look after the people within our own country 1st is that really short termism i mean it's a lot of people that would that would make sense. well we'll get out quickly now actually outside the. book we are the use of what makes a very very big impact on the u.k. economy of course it does but you've got to realize that these children come from families who as they grew are going to be consumers of partition goods these are people who are going to be the tourists of the future these are going to be people who come to working out public sector people who come to work in fact health sector people who come to teach our children people who we all benefit from what we need to do is not looking short term but long term and we should be you know the optimal in my organization is more not about creating

a global world that is based on welfare dependency but trying to actually work out ways creatively how this money spent to eradicate poverty so we don't have the refugee crisis we do not have wars 'd which in the main a cause it in part by poverty and that we actually sort of address and rebalance the global economy so instead of how we cultivate tween one country or another we look at what is good and what's best we can no different structures look at all of us as human beings and say look this is a long term solution we need to eradicate poverty and for a few quick we you know the long term gain by getting people out of poverty by being able to sleep at night knowing that you've done your best to make sure children can have clean water because live in safety and people have free access to health care is something that we should only what this human beings regardless of your politics are left or right there is that one of the main frustrations you have

because i know during this whole pandemic you set up a 3rd bank correct me if i'm wrong but the cd that helped a lot of people within your own community and the pandemic has brought a lot of people together to say look how can we help each other but that seems to be lacking in governance at the moment is that a big frustration for you. well i mean the bizarre thing about this drug abuse but just about policy is that but what the pandemic has highlighted and i think it really started before the pandemic whether you look at me to move an extinction rebellion but lives matter you know and policy now make poverty history all these movements have been established not by governments not by local authorities not the e.u.'s not by big business groups like myself or run funny by local communities by local people it was always the whole world is becoming more 'd activist people talk about left and right socialism communist capitalism the reality is that the

pandemic has made people more humane it's made them more understanding and more open to the world to gender and to challenge what they're told by their government some way they've never done before and i think i saw a positive thing that's come out of it yes it's been a struggle yes i feel you know 5000 families a mom who can say i'm not sure you fully in the richest economy in the world but we have a poverty crisis in britain and we know where in the world has a minister responsible for the eradication of poverty which is quite bizarre because with the pandemic at the moment every local authority of the government around the world has started you responsible for the code and yet more people will die today tomorrow and in the years ahead it's a direct impact of poverty ever will of kovi so why do we not really use this opportunity to save right we need to eradicate the welfare bill completely forget

overseas be better than them and 6 always been investing our way investing in people to get better lives better economies and a better planet for everybody that's what we should be looking at not looking at the past but looking to the future and the long term thinkers well ray really nice a tilter we're going to have to leave it there that is right wolf an author and activist that based on thanks for coming on. pleasure. joe biden is traveling to the united states or traveling the united states is part of his getting america back on track tool and to enthusiasm for plans to boost employment and help families he's not getting the same media coverage as his predecessor looking at why his kind of. 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 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 flack for it at the time breaking news out of phoenix arizona where president trump held a raucous unscripted rally he's on him. 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 of 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 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 coverages. 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 man at his rallies around the country as much as code restrictions will allow sale of mopp on r.t. new york jenison commentator disappointing that mainstream media just hate to admit the fact that the full new president understands the writing's do the same how the media has always treated the 2 different politicians of course anything trumped 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 were still drawing tens of thousands of people joe biden can't get more than poor journalists to show up sitting in their little circle taking notes and bad optics when 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 that 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 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 twitter all the liberal. tech companies and you know now that he's gone they've got a big problem. in. the u.s. actually of staying tanzania lincoln has been the washington should be prepared for any eventuality in afghanistan as u.s. troops of a draw in from the country last month president biden announced that the pull act

would stop and be finished by the symbolic tight 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 meanwhile is the deadline for u.s. troop pullout in afghanistan past on may the 1st the group has warned it may take action against american forces the taliban says its leadership will make a decision in light of the sovereignty values and high interests of the country elsewhere in afghanistan the taliban over portably attacked an army base in the country's west on sunday night with the militants digging tunnels to gain access to it local sources to claim that over 20 soldiers were killed michael maloof a former senior security policy analyst at the pentagon to say that there's more instability ahead but i don't know where blinken is getting his position of strength from in dealing with teledyne the taliban wall 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 afghanistan and as i pointed out that is going to quote it in direct conflict with the other tribes such as critical in 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 there 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 you're watching r.t. that the shock today the only safe for us today good to have you company back again at the top.

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