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the moon the last go said a grim record of the daily number of colbert 19 cases, stores to an all time the cities mirror of the non raft of new measures. also had on the program today, the, the seneca, both claim victory, illegal buffalo, over vaccine supply delays. a court ordered the pharmaceutical jain to deliver 15000000 more doses by the end of september. and devastating floods leave. at least one person dead. an 8th injured in southern rushes, crimea province after torrential rains cause rivers to breach their bikes for districts of declared
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a state of emergency. ah, from moscow to the world, this is the use our own or to, you know, neil to or top story. moscow has registered a daily record, a new covered infections with more than 9000 cases in the past 24 hours. new restrictions are now being brought in, including limiting non emergency medical care for on vaccinated patients are teas. ilia, katrinka has the latest force less than 2 weeks ago. the numbers in moscow were plus $2900.00 cases. and there you have it this friday, a new sad record of more than plus $9000.00 in a whole country like mexico for example. this figure is 2 times smaller. so what is
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going on? it looks like the new delta varian which originated in india is taken install on the russian capital. according to the mayor of moscow. almost 90 percent of the new infections in the city are the new delta variance. and because also we're going to see them. the delta strain spreads foster, and the worst thing about it is that the person needs strong immunity twice as many anti bodies to resistance compared to the original we'll hand virus. so essentially we're going through the same thing again, but with more severe consequences, the government has come to the understanding that the pace of the vaccination has been very though and now they are rushing to change that. now here's one of the ground breaking decisions, introduced by the medical authorities and the washing capital. in moscow, free non essential care in the hospitals will only be provided for those who have been vaccinated. everyone will still get the emergency treatment if it's required.
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if you are a patient with the cancer or with blood diseases, you will still get all the necessary treatment. but in other cases for non essential care, like i said, a jab will be required. patients have a weekend immune system for them could be 900, is especially dangerous. it is impossible to avoid all contact with them or to isolate them. all those who can have the job for special reasons will still be admitted to hospital and emergency medical care will be provided with exception to everybody regardless of vaccination, stay this campaign in the city to promote booster jabs will also begin in the near future at a couple of days ago, the moscow's mayor office announced mandatory vaccination for 60 percent of the staff in the service sector, so it looks like the russian capital is bracing itself for nothing less but
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a real vaccination boom. when vladimir approved his press secretary dmitri pascal was asked about what the kremlin makes of the new spikes and the measures here is what the spokesperson replied. don't get even worse. and a situation is due to 3 things, the absolute nihilism. that is people failure to comply with restrictions, a little vaccination rate, and the slight nature of the virus. in the meantime, the existing anti colbert measures in the russian capital have been extended till the end of june, namely, the closure of bars, restaurants, and clubs. during the night and also a 3rd of staff members being required to work from home. in addition to that, the moscow mayor's office has also bad mass gatherings of over 1000 people. besides this dance floor than football fans. those will also have to be shut down for now. once again, i'd like to point out that so far, these are the measures that have been announced for the washing capital. this isn't
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on a federal level just yet, but we have received a warning from the authorities that all of this could be extended to other regions of russia if that is required. so this is a possibility in the near future as well. another story we're following closely today, a court in brussels has ordered astrazeneca the british firm to deliver 50000000 more doses of its cobra vaccine to the european union. by the end of september, the ruling follows a long running legal battle over supply delays on both sides or claiming victory or parse base corresponding charlotte to pinsky. dig deeper into the story. both sides claiming victory. in this court case, over whether or not astrazeneca broke its contract to deliver supplies of cobra, 1900, that's at least will you repeat the commission alleged to and it's lewis went to court a few weeks ago. it was demanding in cool that astrazeneca be forced to supply some
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extra deuces, meaning it would have to bring a $120000000.00 doses of $900.00 jobs to the european union by the end of june. so in the next 2 weeks, but the belgian court rejected that and set out a completely different time table for astrazeneca. the judge also ruled the european union. european commission didn't have the exclusive right. it didn't have the priority to any of the astrazeneca jobs that were manufactured to here, also in the u. k, which is also something that the commission's lawyers had claimed. and additionally, the court recognized that astrazeneca had had problems with its manufacturing processes. that's what i presented because lawyers had said, was the reason for this delay, therefore, astrazeneca see this being a win astrazeneca has fully comply with its agreement with the european commission
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. and we will continue to focus on the urgent task of supplying an effective vaccine which we are delivering at no profits to help protect people in europe and around the world from the deadliest pandemic in a generation. well, the european commission is also crowing that it had a victory in court by this ruling, by the belgian judge is well, why? well, that's because of the court outlining this new time table for extra deliveries of the job to come here to the european union. basically what the court said is that by the end of september, astrazeneca supply an additional $50000000.00 doses to the book. and if it doesn't, it receive a fine of around 10 euros per dose that is delayed, but not 10 years per day. a delay, which is what the european commissions lewis had actually asked for. but this ruling was welcomed by lavonne delaine the commission president. this decision
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confirms the position of the commission astrazeneca did not live up to the commitment made in the contract. it is good to see that an independent judge confirms this, this shows the european vaccination campaign not only delivers for our sits since day by day. it also demonstrates that it was founded on a sound legal basis. but this is a pretty hollow victory if it is a victory in any sense of european commission. and perhaps it's just trying to save face by saying that, why? well, the deadline that's been set by the court, which is the end of september, is a deadline. the astrazeneca said it was looking at working towards any way towards the end of this year, delivering all of the doses that it was supposed to. and, and rebuttal of the idea that the european commission is wanting court today, after seneca has said that it's going to smash that deadline set by the court anyway. and many will be perhaps wondering, given the circumstances surrounding astrazeneca how it's been seen hearing you
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report for the last few months why this case even went to court. and i say that because across the european union, many countries have put severe restrictions on who can have astrazeneca and lots of countries. it's only age groups over a certain age. and in some countries it has been rejected from use all together. and that's because of those links that we keep hearing about with very rare but fee to blood clots. and also in the last few days, we heard from the head to the cook with 900 task force. this is for european medicine agency, which is the use of truck regulator. when he was asked whether the idea of the astrazeneca should just be entirely ditch now is a job. he said, yes, it should, begging the question why this went to court in the 1st place. the european union is trying to free up travel with its new cobit 19 certificates,
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but things have gotten off to a shaky start with the controversial program. a consumer group in belgium sees the scheme as it stands, isn't going to work. the group called test usher pointed to key differences in how member states regulate cobra, travel for some countries, p. c. r test for entry should be no longer than 72 hours. but others, spain on, poland for example, of a 48 hour deadline. also some nations, including austria and denmark, are unwilling to accept a androgen test from those coming from red zones that includes britain. if you're traveling with children, the minimum age requirement for testing varies from country to country. we talk with simon, november a spokesperson for a test. we have to come to your organization, have been working to ensure that the european title certificate isn't effective, not discriminatory. i'm pretty certificate fargo's humorous so it took us, it took a lot of work, but now in fact, we feel we have to be able to,
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to unify, to be an effective general tool. so we got the call 3 different different roles that we mentioned that you are going all day buy a car, and you have to travel through a different countries in europe. and there are different rules, clickable concerning explanation. time or n, v g, or d r as hoster. you can struggle. so if the other guy ask situation we leave for uniformity. so it's a build towards the members. they do make it an effective, generally useful to that means that all the members they have to have to speak the same language and that's not the game. swiss voters have approved a new anti terror law in a referendum. it allows police to keep tabs on people and children as young as 12, without a court order. however, there's plenty of concern about the new law. un special repertoire and torture
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niels melcher, has called it unprofessional, inefficient and dangerous. last year, experts appointed by the you and human rights council. so the legislation sets a dangerous precedent. while i'm this, the international said is open than the year of general line suspicion. your senior correspondent, reporting from switzerland the 3 jews for balance of the tags and stabbings. in recent years have rattled society while the thing led to another and switzerland is now home to the most draconian counted perils in europe. it was the will of the people. that's the thing with suisse direct democracy, new middle met. i've people want to give police state, uncheck powers, they can and they did 57 percent voted in referendum for these. the question is that people fully understand what they were voting for. thank you.
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notice i think a lot of people are not aware how dangerous this law is, as it is cutting into the freedom of all activists in this country. and now you can be imprison, put under house arrest or put under suspicion of terrorism without a court order. and i think the people were not sufficiently aware before the referendum. police can now monitor those as young as 12 years old. limit their movements for them to take part in interviews which means interrogate the for any reason that they deem good enough. i will be able to put suspect as young as 15, and the house arrest for months and months. and rights groups have been ringing. alarm bells about this one is to sit down. i'm the senior national. this law is extremely problematic because brands are and iraq generalized suspicion with any person can be targeted by this definition of terrorist activity at the finish. and
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that does not correspond to that providers and the criminal code and does not correspond to international standards, which always includes an element of violence. the crux of the matter is that these new laws, apart from the ethical complications of going off the 12 year olds, that preventative by design. and preventative is a very controversial thing. he ordinarily, if you commit the crime, for example, you get punished right. while preventative means you're stopped before you can commit the crop before it's it's a hob, before you do something you might regret. and the sweets is still very much divided over this. i voted against it. of course, what this may give authority is, is it gives them ground to take measures against citizens before a judge has ordered those measures a voltage in favor to protect our population. exactly. i think it's necessary
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unfortunately, because some people don't have exactly the same manner of thinking. respectfully, i'm so one. so terrorist can be everywhere it's it's really the terrorists come from government. never, never terrors. come from everybody. nobody. no, no, no. on the government id. vote for that. i know i was not very sure, but i did the vote for voted against because of civil liberties restrictions which go pretty far under that low. and that's the thing making all, all of us become prospect so wide and vague is the definition of terrorist activity . if you google something that someone might construe as dangerous view, cracked, or a bad joke. if your friends fall in a law enforcement reva, you can become suspect. i'm the freedom loving us with. for me, i mean, it's a,
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it's a shame. it's an absolute shame that we have that we have to vote for such a law. and it's even the big shame except the people accepted it. everyone that is, that don't agrees with the strategy from our account to for example. but what is coming that their basic can lock away everyone. so i mean, it's even harder than that. the patrick back, i think it will be used most likely against this climate activist. but i think the much bigger problem that i see because the place except that, that kind of accurate act is that a lot of other countries might take it over and say, you know, switzerland period as well. so we can do it also over here in saudi arabia, wherever and this is, this is a terrible sign for the rest of the world. and so i'm very, very much shame to be with, oh, some people are planning to fight that, but chances are great at the end of the day. so with authorities on monsters lay care for their people. the question is, the future, how future rule is we'll,
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we'll this law and that's what worries people the, your to district in the russian province of crimea secured a state of emergency amid severe flooding which is left at least one person dead and 8 others injured. 100 something if i could with it from the city center after torrential rains caused a river to burst its banks. the area surrounding the local power station has been inundated. there are fears of a likely lack of one local posted this video on social media. as you can see, and ambulances struggling to move through the flowing, muddy water, your administration has off the russian block, the fleet station nearby to provide emergency health, water supplies in the district coming switched off on the authorities, are telling people to stock up on bottle drinking water, we heard from a reporter in the city. about
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a minute. the situation has no stabilized. at least the rain has stopped before that it rained for 11 hour straight. so the city center is under water. public transport has been paralyzed overall, more than a 1000 people are involved in the rescue operation. emergency crews are working alongside residents to help people as much as they can to more reverse breach their banks today. and we haven't stopped the flow yet. the head of the administration has been over seeing the operation of the street to the city since early morning. we met her when we got here, she updated us in the situation. she has everything under her personal control funding for the city. we can now say for certain that the weather has come down, but just yesterday you could only cross the road here if your 2 meters high or in the special vehicle. there were turned into a real river with cars, fortune around the military, actually very professionally. they've provided all necessary aid. i saw the
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emergency services rescued to families who are trapped inside their homes by the floods and other locals help them to also provide moral support. the braver once jumped in the water to get people out. and there is a similar picture unfolding and several other parts of crimea told the 4 districts have no declared, a state of emergency. the latest being feud dosier on her off where there's been extensive flood damage. the city of kurtz is one of the worst effected. let's take a look here. disaster struck on wednesday night when hundreds of residential buildings were flitted. st really turned to rivers and cars were mostly submerged. more than a 1000, residents have led the area and are seeing a pre shelters. the top officially in crimea visited the city earlier to oversee the rescue operation. and take a look at this video from curtis con, viral on line 3 people swimming behind the boat, carrying the head of the time in administration. the official fees were rescuers
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helping vessels move through the flooded streets. i'm not, they'll be given state awards. where, where are i still coming? r t a prison in texas is being emptied out to make way for migrants after a cross border influx we that, that story and more besides p, after the shortest ah ah, ah ah, ah, me ah, i will.
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i will look when i will show the wrong when i just don't the rules. yes. to see out the thing, because the after an engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves, well, the part we choose to look for common ground in this the law. again, the inmates of a texas prison are being relocated to make room for migrants after a spike in crimes committed by people illegally crossing into the u. s. from mexico
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. the texas governor has justified the decision by seeing the state house to uphold the rule of law. by its own means and reiterated his claim of the biden administration, is ignoring the ongoing humanitarian crisis at the border reporting ortiz kill up and branches destroyed. threats to resonant plots of chaos. texas border sheriffs say, in the 30 years they've been guarding the border. they have not seen anything like it. crimes related to illegal border crossings by undocumented workers are now on the rise. i've never seen it quite like this. we have always had a fence. got here. fence got there because they're hauling dope or small kids or something. but we've never seen the intentional big 4 by 4 holes in the fans or now a 10 foot section just can't completely out. that's really starting to bother me. it's a mess. that's what it is. nobody seems to care about is down here. we're 6065 miles
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away from the border and they say that everything's okay. no, it's not. ok. conservatives are voicing outrage that amid the situation. restrictions are being loosened and not tightened. trump era. 2 restrictions on asylum seekers intended to curb gangs and domestic violence have just been lifted. the numbers are big in may. 180000 people were apprehended at the border. the biggest monthly total since april of 2000 border states are now pleading for help. florida is sending officers to arizona and texas to help out texas is now putting $250000000.00 of their own state budget into building a border wall. busy of their own and the texas governor blames joe biden for dropping the ball. texas is going to do with the by the ministration is refusing to do. we will be using every tool available to us under the law. and we will ensure that we build the wall, arrest people, and make texas safe. many border state residents feel like the white house just
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doesn't care. it's been over 85 days, but vice president common harris has still not visited the border. i write to invite you to the us to the board to observe the ongoing humanitarian crisis and show the perspective of americans who lived. i encourage you to join me and other members of congress, while we visits with the people on the ground who deal with these issues every day . house democrats were able to block a bill, but forward by republicans that would have actually prevented comma le harris from taking any international trips until she visited the border. pri, of border state residency is one of the outrage at government mismanagement. what i believe is that the democrats are playing a long game of obscure and confuse while they try to get as many illegal immigrants . i'm still going to call them back into the country as possible. well, the democrats haven't taken any action that will actually solve probably on the border. those are actions that trump took during his administration that solved problems at the border. wonderfully well,
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the combination of the fence and the working with the mexican president to get the immigrants to stop before they get to the border. all that was taken care of and working very well during a trump era. harris was put in charge of the border by joe biden, but she hasn't gone to visit because she doesn't want to tow a group of reporters around taking pictures and asking questions about the chaos she doesn't want to draw attention to it. she'd rather embarrass herself by talking in circles and flying off to europe and doing other things and saying that she must do those instead of going to the board. she doesn't want to go to the order because it will draw attention to how much of a failure it is in normal viewing terms. now the biden white house has certainly offered up a change in rhetoric and policy is when it comes to the us mexico border. but so far things have not really gotten better. in fact, they've gotten quite a bit worse. many are wondering when the white house will step up and offer some real solutions. caleb mob been r t new york. the pentagon is wanting a terrorist groups,
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enough jealous, done, could expand their reach after the u. s. polite and pose an international threat. the issue was raised in a senate hearing would you rate the, the likelihood of international terrorist organizations like al qaeda and isis regenerating inside of afghanistan and presenting a threat to our homeland, our allies. i would associate as medium. i would also say center that, that it would take possibly 2 years for them to develop that capability. fair enough, gentlemen, i, i concur with that and i think that if certain other things happen, if there was a collapse of the government or dissociate, disillusion of the ap can security for that risk would obviously increase. but right now it's a medium of about 2 years or so. and the head of the polo, there are already signs, but the u. s. bank of the gun government is losing control of the country,
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not to tell a bond has reportedly captured at least $27.00 districts since the beginning of last month. the militant group has voted to take the entire country and establish on this logic emmert of a chemist. them back in the april president joe biden pledged to remove all us troops by september 11th. that was pushed back from may 1st. the earlier deadline negotiated by donald trump on the telephone, but u. s. military leaders repeatedly cautioned against any kind of deadline thing the draw done should be based on the security situation on the ground rather than a specific date, anti war activist brian becker, thanks. some senior figures in the u. s. are looking for a pretext to stay enough canister. we see here is a tug of war between those who are insisting that the u. s. they for ever an afghan is then and those who feel that the war is not winnable. it's a drain. it's not going to be, it's not going to alter the outcome. and they also make a differentiation between the taliban and should the television become the new
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government? yes, it would be the same kind of government, maybe with some slight variation from the way it was before september 11. but i think it's important to complete that with isis or isis is in afghanistan because of the us invasion of afghanistan. there was no i just prior to 2001, and all kite is a really weak and course so obviously the military again. yes. there might be a need to continue us military presence. yes there's and we em stay a medium warning that al qaeda or i can come back. but again, i think there is a tug of war here between those who want to have wherever war in afghanistan and those who say, look, it's time to end the war. the impartiality of the british police is in danger due to walk trends that's according to the chief of the force in manchester, who sees the public fed up with officers virtue signaling instead of fighting serious crimes. i do not think that things like taking the ne,
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demonstrating that you have a commonality of you with the protests is the policing is compatible with the standards of service that people require of their police. i think we're past the high watermark the public a getting a little bit fed up virtue signaling police offices when that really rather we just locked up, burglars last summer. so a waiver b l m protests are cross the u. k. the following in the movement tries in america during the rallies, pictures emerged of officers ticking the ne, in solidarity with the demonstrators. back in spring, this year, the country's independent police authority urged the force to think very carefully before making such gestures. while thus, as the u. k has been hit by a spike in burglaries in recent years. many cases going on solve manchester's police chief has voted to change the situation and investigate even minor crimes. wherever a former police officer we speak to has little confidence that will happen. but you can police service does not have sufficient resources to do everything properly. it
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doesn't even have sufficient resources to do most things. reasonably, something is criticized. the police service react so that by moving resources from elsewhere into it, it gets better. but something else then starts to 5 and criticized. we will just go round and round and round in circles because nobody's actually diagnosing the fundamental problem and doing anything to treat that is essential that the police are seem to be biased. that is a concern about taking the ne, happened a couple of times with a few officers the particular place. i think the place service has been affected. like virtually everything, every other institution in this country. by changing attitudes, particularly deciding and then towards these signaling sort of things and wildness and whatever. it's something that is happening and why does society in fact across the world, we seem to be getting more and more of this. i don't know why.

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