the headlines this choose the evening after a year of isolation the u. seeking to open its doors to tourists but only for those who receive jobs approved by brussels also to come the u.s. government marks world press freedom day by attacking other countries freckle what's on journalism rights and freedoms and fines or imprisonment a way to straighten citizens returning home from covert india we hear from some who feel they have been abandoned by their government. works really disappointed with the rule that they're holding strips when someone is losing their family members the losing jobs but i think this is an extra. putting on people.

good evening just gone 6 o'clock in moscow you were darting international. looking to open its borders after more than a year of pandemic isolation 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 certain approved jobs with more his. 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 law take into account the ability to verify the authenticity validity and integrity of this it if it 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 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 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 but national forest so you 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 plan and 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 going to 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 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. now this week's freedom of the press day has been marked by u.s. authorities who mainly focused on the rights of journalists in other countries in while over the past year the united states itself has seen more than 400 journalists assaulted the rules there 139 arrests and over 100 cases of reporters equipment being damaged and the 2021 tracker does show to more and more incidents every day r.t. he was down after 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 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 noise the washington establishment that essential remains in prison underlies the grievous threats to unfettered journalese that these serious 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 killers 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 because 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 in fact to make them pay the price and make it and in fact the pariah that they are the ban is cosmetic. we know or the murderer 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. 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 the ridge left. like i was just looking at some live pictures now from mexico city where authorities in mexico do say that more than 20 people. i dead after a metro overpass collapsed in the capital overnight a train split into sending carriages and passengers plummeting on to the cars below and if you look at this scene you can see where that overpass collapsed and at the top left hand corner of the screen you can just see part of the metro train which

is still suspended there and as you can see engineers are at the scene this happened several hours ago but it's going to take i think by looking at that many days to try and recover what's there are people still searching through the rubble presumably to see what the eventual casualty list will be but the train was left hanging and a crane was brought in to to stabilize it in mid fifty's it could fall further on to the road several children are among the victims or more than 70 people in total were injured rescue workers and firefighters have been searching through the carriages as we said there to survivors at least one car was believed to be buried under the rubble to the city's mayor said a support beam had given way as the train passed over. some 10000 people have been left in limbo after a stray or effectively banned its citizens from 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 when we spoke to some who do feel that they have been left stranded. 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 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'll 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 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 that

they are 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 putting on people as a bigger than off the same country i do feel i have within their right to be there and i do expect from a government to help those in you can find them because they are people in very stressful situation dealt with health problems by nature. problems with a controversial measure has been heavily criticised by the director of human rights watch in astray as mentioned under the temporary ban a strange city returned home to risk a hefty fine and even up to 5 years in prison however the country's prime minister has said it's highly unlikely that people would in fact be jailed early account for suspended flights to and from india and officials defended to the end from ban citing a hazard to public health it's

a high risk situation india there has been no down to many of the commonwealth advice about this measure or other measures. one american a human rights attorney daniel koval it does point out that camera doesn't trying to say this is coming from a cave it hot spots in the same way i think what they're so doing is yet 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 in fact didn't die from it so why aren't they charging people $66000.00 to travel from the us. now in brazil local governors are demanding that the country's health authority thinks again after a failed to a pretty ferocious good increase jab i claim that the decision wasn't based on objective grounds. now that you lost the term joy when we study sputnik b. and realized that it is one of the most effective vaccine 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 visa so a lot of the back seem to be used in the current treaty myself and other governors

who requested permission to import the vaccine hoped for a positive decision by these 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. the last week brazil's regulator said it wasn't confident in the jab safety and said to you among other things there were 3 awards in each production it also claimed tell you that one of the components of sputnik they might actually pose a risk to people with weak immune systems however vaccines developer has hit back at all of this and said that decision to delay approval was political and actually had nothing to do with science. gamma layer center says it's cleaning and filtration system does make sure that the jab is highly purified and that its existing quality controls to guarantee that no harmful components exist in sputnik it also claims to which product is almost 98 percent effective recently governor wellington diaz again says it may be possible to use legal means to force 3 the approval of the jap 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 plants the 1st is to us the russian manufacturer the gum alone 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 the resilient regulator of complete information so that they can finally give 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 these are the miss power for the supreme court is the one we will follow. the un has warned that millions of children around the world will suffer as a consequence of the u.k.'s decision to slash is a 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 you hear you earlier announced it would cut on your foreign aid by around 4000000000 pounds and this will affect not just unicef charities and other un agencies will be hitting as well entire countries with states devastated by civil war such as syria somalia and libya reportedly to u.s. set to lose more than half their humanitarian aid the u.k. says though that the cuts are necessary 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 a we need to stop. short term. i'm looking at popular ism and look at the global the way the pandemic is open door royce to be injustice around the world it's also showed us the humanity that goes all around the world and i think this is choke you the wrong is by a clue it's populists i think makes no economic sense whatsoever children do not have access to education many sure it's loitered or in dangerous situations many children do not have access to. clean water and aid budget is crucially important and also for she told us not a coalition of we need to address it highlighting being part of what a difference this money makes and we're talking about very very small amounts of you case g.d.p.

. joe biden is traveling around the united states at the moment as part of his getting america back on track tour and i used to stir up and fuse the asm for plans to boost employment and also help families although he's not getting the same media coverage as his plea to says it did looking at why his health. 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 awoke 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 ruckus unscripted rally he's on hinged. it's embarrassing and i don't mean for us the media because he went after us but for the country you can hear there is a chorus of boos and other chairs of this talk 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 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 him in at his rallies around the country as much as code restrictions will allow sale of mopp and artsy new york jenison commentated chant more disbelief that mainstream media do you hate to admit the fact that the former president but you state that ratings. the same how the media has always treated the 2 different politicians of course anything trent does is evil wrong dangerous and when joe biden does it it's perfectly pointed shrum would use even have a year's election rallies you 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 and then it does have it in various names and he's traveling around the country whereas for president trip it was great. the optics it looked like you 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. and the liberal media but you the mazy twitter all the liberal 'd. tech companies and you know now that he's brought i mean i've got a big problem. here secretary of state anthony blinken has warned that washington should be prepared for any eventuality in afghanistan as u.s. troops withdrawn from the country last month president biden announced the pullout would start in may and be finished by the symbolic date of september 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 we model as the deadline for u.s. troop pullout in afghanistan past the may the 1st degree did warn it may take action against american forces the taliban says its leadership will make

a decision in light of the sovereignty valleys and higher interests of the country i'll swear in afghanistan the taliban did reportedly attack an army base in the country's west on sunday night with the militants digging tunnels to gain access to it local sources to implying that over 20 years were killed michael maloof a former senior security policy analyst at the pentagon says that there is more instability ahead. well i don't know where blinken is getting his position of strength from in dealing with tell of on the taliban warning 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 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. stanky 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 the past. with the events of last summer black lives matter the murder of george freud the coals 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 the next episode does feature a song highlighting that black people have been in britain from the start and cites recent findings that clain the 1st modern britons had dark skin or were histories

which enjoys a vast global following to also plans to feature an animation about the transatlantic slave trade however the new perspective has drawn a mixed response online. 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 when we talk further about this with a social commentator mickey ambrose and also the journalist and historian and delta wish theory all. it's to let children live go to trial court 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 to me the national curriculum which is being too in schools i don't think is good enough in terms of black history. academies don't have to teach it some schools juicer modules it is very important some to for young not just lectures but all children children are impressed and will 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 call white or asian or whatever should all be. educated and be told the truth you know you know english

within to colonise. that there are different searchers on the british empire so it's all you know so in the world 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 need those troops i don't mind adding. information and mayors and they as an information has its goals you climbs out documents and come along because i think a longer view i do not take an emotional leisured a reaction to some. call for killing americans. the black activist or like the person behind the police and so on you're right he said it is a kneejerk also moved on from 0 and there we go with this actually because because of the terrible tragedy and murder of too slow it you know should be the way it is the usual thing is that you know something happens and then we'll do our job we

should have well going to talk that what would happen if the other another accident happened and it can a media 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 let it shouldn't be should teach them screens them how to accept everybody as one culture and evaluate events of the see that young people should be taught the correct evidence and should be fair you know it's all that's matzoh we've got the social media blackout all these things are happening well i with the larger you got 5 larger ticket so i go 5 books now young people go google to find out so much about history and young people should you get out you still to be told the truth definitely nations are conquered and and destroyed not when we lose a war when we lose an identity and that's very important here that we have to

history we explain history the value of history but no not do not rewrite history it's come half parsecs me even here in moscow you could have a company that's how the nice looking site are saying our table back again there are the headlines and more stories about alan and. all.