russia's envoy is some wonder why the french foreign ministry over to france had sanctions against the e.u. citizens and restrictions diplomatic missions and an expanding diplomatic spat with the west. us government marks world press freedom day by focusing on the rights of journalists in other countries look at america's own records on media freedoms. and fines or imprisonment of white australian citizens returning home from covert india we hear from some who feel they've been abandoned by their government. really disappointed with. someone who's losing their family members they're losing jobs and i think this is an extra. putting on people's.

lives from moscow thanks for joining us tonight they are not international on daniel hawkins welcome to the program. russia's envoy has been summoned by the french foreign ministry over sanctions moscow placed only you individuals and restrictions on different technicians and russia the e.u. previously levied sanctions against the country and some member states expelled diplomats paris though insists it's moscow that's creating tensions with the west. is are to do with hate to break this down for us short of more. action here what's the latest on what's the response from moscow. well that's right this escalating tit for tat war between russia and the on tuesday alexey miche corpuz. the russian ambassador of france was brought into the french foreign

ministry for discussions about those recent measures taken by russia against e.u. officials now this comes as they've been rising tensions between the e.u. and russia over the last few weeks with diplomats being expelled on both sides the latest tensions though began back in march when brussels decided to impose sanctions on a number of russian officials this was over several issues including the jailing of alexy novelli now since then russia has decided to make this retaliatory move and it is now place a travel ban on 8 top ranking officials in a move that's been condemned by the commission president. saying it was a groundless decision but a spokesperson for the russian foreign ministry said the decision was taken in protest. we have repeatedly made it clear that it

wasn't asked for started this war sanctions must attend the moment we have our part of the path to these pointless confrontation in which there will not and cannot be any witness hostile policy towards russia has been pursued by only a small group of individual countries to their own detriment. well lexi mission isn't the only russian ambassador that is being brought into discussions this week on monday his counterpart. to the e.u. was also brought in for similar discussions and we know that the e.u. is going to discuss these measures by russia at a meeting that's going to be taking place next week and once again extra additional possible sanctions may be on the table. right charlotte thanks for that update shall we do with from paris with the latest or we can go live now to our political

commentator for more on this john thanks for joining us russia has repeatedly said those sanctions exchange wasn't that sort of mission to paris though claims its moves. intentions do you think there's a simple solution here. well i think he's dropped out i mean the russians are obviously not started the sanctions regime and the sanctions game so i would say. that the russians the french must know that and the europeans must know that too. my problem with a hobby and is that they have terribly you know not following the americans and if the americans as maybe the kiss. will not of their pollution be russia they start of a meeting between biden and putin and if ever they say well as a whole they want to attack the question because their main enemies china they want to divide russia and china that's a possible tactic for their mag and then the europeans will be there you can completely silly because they'll be led to the cold and the thing which is very

worrisome in europe is that the gains now in germany seemed i mean this is a serious possibility that they made when the next federal election that would put the end of the you know the bell the c.d.u. in the neck and we sleep anyway and they are extremely ideological any stealing and i wasn't even hides as you know it's in the us tied to the best interest of the german economy because they want to know the answer not being which is almost completed and it is not completed before the election in may still be able to cancel it and import gas from the united states would be more costly and how cute a german interest in german business but you know the getting by gander and the idea early in the global warming and tones of so that makes it that germans mean there are other less elect them. if go they would also get me if you didn't tell g

g we could fossil fuels i don't know how the germans are going to trade there and he did wrong isn't it and that's another question i think they'll be very soon they undoubtedly if they get elected when they get elected and i mean this really of michael the movement laid you clean you started a new type pacifist this is now has become the worst warmongering people in europe that is really quite something this is hands on nation and this was in the entrancing don't have any chance of getting to level with another less leader of the gang so the next presidential election is already saying you know the old problems come from washington and then maybe turkey and through its. timing is everything and it was at the end of april the e.u. parliament approved a resolution which urged the block to revise its relations with russia in favor of more sanctions why do you think this is happening now these sanctions expulsions why is such a snowball effect happening namely at this time. you see the european parliament's

up the hill parliament and the people for example they look at least the name of people who have been banned from bush i'll get a high level you have to be an official that i don't know who they are and you made a bold in your operating one percent of the people may know their name most ok they're not being elected they are not representative of anything but they're an enormous because they're easy to look in and the. same thing's a joke any people are not that interested in the election and therefore it's an equal chance the whole what the media are telling them about human hands radiation and so there's almost a good cheer the judge of human rights the you know the delay to get measures in this issue and be due to the difference of human eyes without caring about the political consequences of political leader who's elected and is going to act with this at least with part of his population mistaking to a counter here at least equally sincere the consequence of his actions will be the

real value of the empowerment as a lady again they don't really give her the consequence of how to deal with the world you relate to have you they don't think about what's going to happen so they make these decisions i don't know why they did it just that they don't know of it because it's leading to the heightened tension that you passionately hate but as i see that depends on the united states and in a state is really changed for some reason or. another if you do happen we'll see but then of course you have to look silly doesn't they just follow the us we're all off to wait and see what comes of the talk between the meeting between. potentially in a few weeks time job recall political commentator thanks so much for your time here on out international. and your image will only. well 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 meanwhile over the past year the u.s.

itself has seen more than 400 journalists assaulted also 139 arrests and over 100 cases of reporters equipment being damaged and the 2021 trucker shows more and more incidents every day artie's eagles none of takes a look at how 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 the man they just won't take

no for an answer if extradited asunder 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 annoys the washington establishment that essential remains in prison underlines the grievous threat to unfettered journalese that the 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 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 ban is it is a visa restriction policy that doesn't even target the saudi crown prince despite the cia itself saying he personally ordered the hit we held accountable all the people in that organization but not the crown prince because we have never that i'm aware of when we have an alliance with

a country gone to the acting head of state and punish that person and ostracized him and a cherry on top of this towering pile of hypocrisy is this promise of joe biden to show he was in fact murdered and dismembered allowed to leave in the order of the crown prince but i would make it very clear we were not going to in fact sell more weapons to them we were going to in fact make them pay the price and make them in fact the pariah that they are the ban is cosmetic. we know or the murder and and the person who did order that murders not going to be 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 our attempt to. essential

e 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. authorities in mexico so more than 20 people were killed after a moto train overpass collapsed in the capital overnight several children are among the victims and more than 70 people were injured the train split into sending carriages and passengers plummeting on to cars below and why search and rescue operation is still underway a local journalist gave us this report. i'm speaking to you from the scene of the incident monday night will go down as one of the saddest in the history of mexico city behind me you can see the metro bridge that collapsed this photo accident mobilized the police forces and the authorities what happened this crane

is now holding the concrete girder the bridge it is thought that the beam collapsed because the supports couldn't stand the weight and as a result the train passing over the metro great fell with all the passengers who were traveling in the carriages the statement by mexican foreign minister must sell or brad to was one of the most anticipated on tuesday morning you might know that it was he who inaugurated metro line 12 back in 2012 he just posted a message on twitter in which he expressed his deep regrets over what happened and said that he was mourning the victims and also expressed his solidarity in the face of the tragedy here also sure that she was ready to appear before the authorities to give an account of what happened i should also note that the general prosecutor's office of the republic is now launching an investigation to find out what actually caused this terrible accident i would like to add that the residents of this area are not only surprised but also outraged by the incident they claim that this situation could have been prevented as in recent months and even in recent years they have repeatedly warned about several problems with the structure

on which these beams were held but no one listened to them the absolutely sure that this accident could have been avoided which is one of the saddest most frightening nights due to the unprecedented accidental metro line 12 and i should say that this is the newest metro line in mexico city that became the scene of destruction and death on monday night. some turn a 1000 people have been left in limbo all for australia effectively banned its citizens from returning home from india which is being battered by the pandemic trying to get back faces fines and even a prison sentence was spoke to some who feel they've been 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 is difficult to manage quarantine in a country like australia which is a developed country with a sophisticated health care system so i think that there will be able to deal with it it's just fear factor that was very shocking for me to know that you will be jailed and there is a fine i think there is a fear in people people mind that they don't want to get jailed for 5 years are they heavy fine because they're they're already stressed that someone is losing their family members are losing jobs so i think this is an extra stress waiting on people as a bigger than off the same country i do feel i have within their right to be there and they do expect from a gong and to help others in constrained and because they are people in base stressful situation there with health problems on a shill of problems or a controversial measure has been heavily criticised by the director of human rights

watch in australia as mention of the temporary ban australians who were townhome brisk a hefty fine and even up to 5 years in prison over the country's prime minister has said it's highly unlikely the people would have been jailed. suspended flights to and from india officials defended the entry ban citing a hazard to public health. it's a high risk situation in india there has been no doubt and then you know the commonwealth advice about this measure or other measures but american human rights attorney daniel carbonic points out that come out a dozen treated citizens coming from all the code all 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 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 strange covidien problem but yeah. i think the u.s. where i live we're still has the highest numbers in the world of people who've been affected and died from it so why aren't they charging people $66000.00 to travel from the u.s. . and brazil local government as a demanding of the country's health authority thinks again not true failed to improve russian sputnik the job explain the decision it wasn't based on objective grounds. now that you know. we study sputnik be and realised that it is one of the most effective vaccines 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 current tree 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 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 sort of approach the issue as if it were completely followed in the bars 3 and it is necessary to reproduce the entire process here unfortunately that's what's happened and the process has been prolonged for last week's brazil's regulators said it wasn't confident in job safety and said among other things there were false and it's production but also claim that one of the components of the sputnik v. might pose a risk to people with weak immune systems with vaccines that developer though has hit back and said the decision to delay approval was political that had nothing to do with science. now the governor center says it's cleaning and train system make sure the job is highly purified and that exists quality control guarantee no

harmful components exist in sputnik. it also claims its product is almost 98 percent effective brazilian governor. says it may be possible to use legal means to force through the approval of the job how long this bureaucratic process has dragged on is a matter of big concern actually at the level of the brazilian states there are at least 2 plants the 1st is to us the russian manufacturer the gamma layer 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 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 of and these are the next path through the supreme court is the one we will follow. 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 plans to cut funding to the un 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. and the u.k. earlier announced it would cut on all foreign aid by around $4000000000.00 pounds this will affect not only unicef charities and other un agencies would also be hits as will entire countries with states devastated by civil war such as syria somalia and libya reportedly set to lose more than half their humanitarian aid u.k.

says 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 hate we need to stop. short term really looking at the popular resort and look at the global way the pandemic is opened our eyes to the injustices 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 it is but it's populists i think makes no economic sense whatsoever children do not have access to education many children are exploited or in dangerous situations many children do not have access to food or clean water and

that aid budget is crucially important enough for she told us not to call issue we need to address it more highlighting the fact of what a difference this money makes and we're talking about very very small amounts of you case g.d.p. . so bottom is traveling the united states as part of is getting america back on track toward and i'm sister of enthusiasm for plans to boost employment and help families but he's not getting the same media coverage as his predecessor looking at why is caleb moore put. 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 on hinged. it's embarrassing and i don't mean for us the media because he went after us but for the country you could hear there is a chorus of boos and other chairs 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 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 veil of mop and artsy new york. journalist time commentator believes mainstream media hate to admit that in fact the former president boosted the ratings. because of the same how the media is always treated the 2 different politicians of course anything does is evil wrong dangerous and when joe biden does it it's perfectly fine strong even having 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 we

use traveling around the country whereas for president trump it was great optics it looked like he had an 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 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 the major twitter all the liberal. tech companies and you know now that he's gone they've got a big problem. american intelligence will never be the same again and the cia has almost immune promo video demonstrating how of asians who strives to drive us to fund its ranks of us men that has received mixed response on social media. i'm a woman of color i am a mom i am a cyst gender millennial has been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder i am

intersectional my existence is not a box checking exercise i am a walking decoration i am i know apologetically i want you to be unapologetically you whoever you are. i have been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder isn't that what you want from the cia drone assassination torture kidnapping overturning governments rig an election splitting down labor movements cyber terrorism illegal domestic surveillance blackmail arms delivery but of course we need the most progressive hiring practices for those activities the cia used to be about mission to country i speak from experience now it's about demanding and gets an accommodation to fix an emotional wound or advance a personal agenda america is less safe with this new cia and dangerously more political the video release comes as various branches of the us military target big promotion of diversity the us navy for instance set up

a task force to combat this communication and address the issues of racism sexism and other destructive. is a navy uniform and civilian active in reserve we cannot tolerate discrimination of any kind of women open and honest conversations with each other in take action we discussed the issue with podcast host justin robert young who believes the agency's movie is just an attempt to stay relevant. the fact that the cia is advertising themselves is its own buzz saw our weird situation i think the idea that the cia has a twitter account is insane the fact that they're their recruitment videos are lead or public in any way is crazy they are supposed to be a secretive agency by design i think there's 2 questions there number one is it the image that the cia wants to project and from my perspective i don't know if i

really care exactly what the cia was to project is it going to attract the right people to the cia that is a question that i can't answer i don't quite know if the gender millennial woman with generalized anxiety disorder is the same kind of person that could orchestrate a coup in south america but maybe what they want to do is project the idea that this ain't your father's central intelligence agency where hip and cool boom bust heading away in just a few moments time that's when i will be backing off with the latest headlines join us again that.