the ah, this is national in the headlines this evening for moscow. the caribbean nation of haiti has imposed martial law off of the shop, assassination of its precedent. his leading scientific journal in the u. k. colds, russia. sputnik job, quote, safe and effective, stressing the lack of severe side effects, such as alleged blood clots linked to other vaccine. also on the program, we hear from a german red cross member who is raising the alarm over a growing number of those, skipping their appointments for a 2nd corona virus job. that's as a covert hesitancy, trend continues to spread worldwide. ah,

well i just off the a pm on wednesday here in moscow, the news team here loading up your top storage with this our of them to them. so the president of haiti hoping l moiz has been assassinated at his residence by a group of armed attackers. the country's 1st lady was also shot and injured she's been hospitalized and is currently being lifted to miami for treatment. what we can show you here is unverified video that allegedly captures the very moment when the attackers storm the presidential residents at night. following the assassination, the haitian military established nationwide martial law of the streets are empty, with army patrols stopping any vehicles to check their documents. and what you're seeing right here are the latest pictures from ortiz, roughly video agency, which is currently the only international use agency covering the events 1st hand on the ground. let's get an update now with this report, his r t correspondent, caleb martin, will the prime minister of haiti is calling for

a call. and at this point we understand marshall law has been declared. the military is out on the streets. everyone is bracing for widespread on rest. we didn't identify the group. they spoke spanish or english. they attacked the residence of the president of the republic, the president to come to his room. we condemn the barbaric attack i called for calm of the population is that the situation of the country is already under control. now the white house has condemned the killing. there is now an official statement from joe biden, and earlier we heard from jen saki, the white house spokesperson. here's what she had to say on the situation. the message to the people of haiti is this is a tragic tragedy. it's a harris, a crime, and we're so sorry for the loss that they're all suffering and going through. as many of them are walking up this morning and hearing this news. and we stand ready

and stand by them to provide any assistance that's needed. it's important to note that the biden administration hasn't been exactly unified and clear on its position regarding the country. there's been ongoing unrest in haiti, many people taking to the streets, demanding that this priest. this president stepped down, in addition to that, many in the streets, blaming the united states for the economic situation, the country for the suffering blaming. you know, the history of u. s. military interventions, as well as the trade deals and economic policies. so there's been ongoing unrest in the country, and biden administration has been divided. some in the biden administration wanted biden to back the opposition to the president that was recently killed. however, the biden administration seemed to be fully backing the president at the time that he was killed. now, it's important to note that biden has a history of being rather insensitive when it comes to comments about haiti. this is something he said back in 1994. if haiti,

the good awful thing to save haiti just quietly sunk into the caribbean or rose up 300 feet, it would matter a whole lot in terms of our interest. many are bracing for the aftermath of these events, anticipating unrest in the country. migration is certainly an issue. it's very important to many people in the united states. there are many concerns and fears that unrest in haiti could lead to more migrants fleeing to the united states. what exactly happens next is not clear. the military is on the streets, and the country is bracing for what could be even more unrest. but we spoke to a brooklyn based editor, it hated liberty. he said his views on the role of how the us can help in the future of the region. this operation, there were 9 brand new nissan patrol. pickup trucks involved, they clearly were very sophisticated. they knew the layout of the president's home . they knew where to go. apparently they had inside information. so this was an

operation which had been clearly planned for some time and had a lot of money behind them. so we're likely to see an upsurge and uptick of haitian refugees leaving the country and the u. s is going to say that this is a threat to international stability, etc, etc. and they may, they may try yet another military or military occupation of haiti, which will be the 4th. this would be something that i think would be poor and gasoline on the fire. patients are very proud, would be very upset to have their sovereignty trampled once again. washington has been the king maker if you will, in haiti, and in the case of a job, now my ways and his predecessor michelle marcelli, they had a big hand in having them elected into office. many haitians call that an

electoral kuda. tar. so washington is very interested in haiti, of chairs the island with the dominican republic. it is a neighbor of cuba right across the windward passage. so geo, strategically, it's very important as eating a british of scientific journal has published an article that says there is, quote, mounting evidence that russia sputnik v vaccine is quote, safe and effective of the jobs currently in use and all of us 70 countries worldwide. earlier in the program, my colleague niel harvey, got more details from archie, is constant in raj. golf major is a weekly scientific journal based in the u. k. it is considered to be the world's most prestigious, well read and quoted. and it has published a story in depth story, and specifically with a title, quote, mounting evidence, adjust scrutiny covey, the vaccine is safe and effective. and so in the article, they basically sum up all the latest information that has brought them to these positive conclusion. student has been approved in nearly 70 nations,

including brazil, argentina, the philippines are hungry and for instance, in india they are going to produce at least 185-0000 doses of food for domestic use . and they wouldn't have gone for this if they hadn't been sure about it. safety, right? the receipt coming from the russian researchers. but then there is data coming from all those nations that are importing and distributing the vaccine. and it also shows that would make me safe and it's working. the united arab emirates have conducted their own study that showed 97.8 percent of fix c. argentina's, health care officials claim that even one day with the food think we get antibodies to a person in 78.6 percent of cases. and by the way we're, i have personal experience. i didn't have antibodies after the 1st shot fight after the 2nd one. that's when my body produced the proper mean response. and i still have a significant amount of antibodies even 8 months after the inoculation. but let's

get back to the article and see what they say about the possible side effects of the vaccine. spending side effects are becoming clearer, studies, so foss suggested they're similar to those of other ad bars vaccines, with the notable exception of red blood clotting conditions. unlike for both the oxford astrazeneca and johnson and johnson vaccines, they have been no reports of these disorders from russian health authorities, or from the other nations using sputnik be. millions of people already taken certainly vaccine. among them, there will be some people who would like to travel, say, to europe. now that would become a much easy thing to do. if sputnik had been approved by say, the w h o or by the european medicines agency. is there any suggestion in this article? why that has not happened yet? we know that the european medicine agency and the world health organization haven't given the green light to spirit nick the yet. and the officials claim, but they still have reservations, for instance,

over the quality of survey lynch are the possible rear of factors. so i think we, and we also know that the w h o, inspectors have visited 9 sites across russia where the fee is being manufactured and they flag concerns over $1.00 of those sites. and the russian side says that they have already fixed the problem. but there are also concerns that food may lose its potency over time, and that even a vaccinated person needs a booster shot. and there is no light, a one day version of the same vaccine that is being already rolled out in moscow. and other major city is exactly for this. but as the russian producers claim there are a lot of red tape in the m a. and that they have to jump through a lot of hoops in order to get their vaccine registered properly. and they've never done this before, they do make mistakes, they admit this and even typing errors. so that shows you that still has a long way to go even without approval from the m a and the w h o. there are countries

that importing and distributing the russian jobs, i'm talking about european countries like hungry and san marino. now, austria and cyprus, they do accept russian tourists who have food and we without asking them to provide a negative p. c r test. so all in all, we're seeing that as need be gradually expanding its reach, gaining recognition, but the same time there are obstacles that still need to be overcome. and what probably this article will speed this up. so in the meantime, the efficacy of the fights are covered job has now dropped by nearly a 3rd. that is, according to a new study by the israeli health ministry. the findings common with the rapid spread, both in the country and globally of the delta vary in to 1st. i typed it in india, and vaccine is still set to be efficient in preventing serious illness. as of now, the pfizer by a tech job has been approved for full or emergency use and more than 100 countries

worldwide, including that's in the u. u. s. in canada. it also received an emergency validation from the w h o with the end of last year. now, earlier we've discussed the vaccines, the efficacy issue with the head of the vaccination program at the telo vive medical center. we have data which shows even if the immunity of doses of defy the job, even if the immunity is waning, is winning very, very, very slowly. it is possible at some point, everybody will need another dose. obviously, we're worried about the drop. the delta vary and has already been studied in britain and elsewhere in the final vaccine has been found to be less effective against it, but not as less effective as seen in our preliminary data. so we will have to watch it closely as, as the data unfold before the vaccination with 5 or requires 2 shots like most of the current covered injections. but a growing vaccine hesitancy,

trend has seen people refusing to get a 2nd dose in the german capital. for example, one in 5 vaccination appointments has been cancelled or postponed in recent weeks. according to the german red cross, which has suggested our way, thought he euro fine for those failing to show up for that shot. at the head of the organizations berlin branch says vaccine absenteeism. is selfish. in our experience, every day, 5 to 10 percent of those who have appointments do not attend in the arena bell and area alone around 3000 people have vaccinated every day. while the rest of the centers around $15000.00 vaccinations take place every day of those 3 files and every day, $150.00 total people do not attend. that is quite a lot if you consider the amount of effort that goes into this 1st, this is not fair to those who would like to make an appointment for the vaccination . we cannot do this due to the lack of free time slows. and secondly, complete waste of all resources vaccine pharmacists and doctors are therefore,

i'm calling for those who do not attend that appointment to come from them to be given a fine absenteeism 6 months after the us last, it's a bit to have julian assange extradited, a u. k court has given washington the green light to appeal. we got reaction from the publisher's partner, stella morris. i was able to speak to julian now about the decision and you know, it's mixed because on the one hand it's been 6 months and we haven't had any news. so it's like an endless purgatory. but at the same time it doesn't here. and julian's very unwell, he's happy when, when he i went with our eldest this morning. and so it's not representative when i see him. because obviously it's a, it's a one rest fight. he get off. but even, you know, bellmarks prison is

a horrible place. he won his case in january. why is he even in prison? why is he even being prosecuted? there is no legal case against him. all. there is an indictment based on life. julie nathan's faith is 175 years in prison in america, which wants him extradited from britain on charge of packing and espionage. in 20. 19 songs was forcibly removed by police from the ecuador and embassy in london. after quito terminated his 7 year asylum in january, a british judge ruled against that move of a fears over his mental health. a wicked leaks editor in chief and friend of assange, christian samson says he's outraged by the shed length of the whole process. great disappointment for julian sounds and for all of 1st that this is continuing. one would hope that the united kingdom courts would to recognize how ridiculous this case is and not to grant the appeal. this means that this will drag on

for some time for a prisoner to have to wait in a prison cell 6 months for half a year, just to get a decision of whether the appeal is allowed to to his opponents or not, if rages this decision comes on the week of the it is revealed that the indictment against sudan does not have a leg to stand on the key with and says retracted to testimony and says basically that testament, which was cited by the business judge numerous times as truthful allegation doesn't hold true it is a fabrication and the americans now know if they're still continuing on this truck . this appeal is an attempt to pro long the inevitable. inevitable is the

freedom of julian. if he does not get his freedom, it is such a load to our society and what we believe in that it is almost amount to turning off the light. so this must come to an end. and i can fence in my bones that it will be coming soon. meanwhile, australian m. p. 's, urging president biden to drop the u. s. government extradition appeal launched against the weekly co founder the strain and citizens want julius honor to be free. his treatment violates the convention against torture and his persecution threatened journalists worldwide. when it comes to shooting a song, celebrated his birthday for the 3rd straight year inside a maximum security prison in the u. k. a lot of his support is poor to the streets

of new york and london over the weekend to markets 50th birthday and demand his release. australian n p. george christiansen was among those who filmed the video and support of s fellow countrymen. a lot of paperwork viewing behind the assange campaign, feeling this is just something that the trumpet ministration was, was doing well. it actually wasn't the trump administration that was dying. and of course, we know now that don't trump considered issuing a pardon to join the signs for someone that wouldn't, that was going after him. you wouldn't be thinking about issuing a pardon side. this is something that the u. s. department of justice is showing and there that's why nothing as simple as simply dropped with the change of regimes in the us or administrations in the us. you know, it's almost pain swept to the side by a lot of the mainstream media. and you even have some journalists to die that still protest at calling him

a journalist. we're going to say that julian assigns is formal journalism, is probably the most pure it comes with any spin. with that, any sort of opinion that's added to it. he's just giving the raw data to the people and i think he should be applauded for that. the power of social media giants has long been seen as on table, but increasingly efforts are on the way to rein them in. and now the government in new dandy has stated twitter, it will no longer be immune from wrong responsibility for content generated by users. in india, it comes less than 2 weeks after the highest court in texas said facebook can be held accountable over its platform being used for sex trafficking ortiz. and what i've been looking at. what all that mean for relations between nations and big tech, whatever our views and online freedoms on censorship, i did the fact that take johns of run wild, boston blue it drunk with power and high and mind boggling revenues. they began to

see themselves as king makers, virtual cyber gods, to rule the net, to decide who gets to talk. and what about and increasingly states around the world, the saying i now off and in flood escalation of the risk between the indian government and what the center has told. deli, high court and social media john to speak to comply with in this new id room. so said that if the company's fail to follow the rules there, intermediary status can be ended, and they may be subject to criminal action. the court of it is twitter, which got away with rocking the then president of the us has decided to engage in a battle of wills with india. for example, according to in v as new i t rules. so users must be warned if their encounter is about to be ban. what does twitter do? temporarily bands the countries technology minister without warning, or another rule. so india doesn't one content that causes religious enmity. so they

ask tweet to remove a picture of a hindu goddess in new positions, posted by use it called a fierce republic. twitter has taken no steps to remove such content, but in a blatant violation of indian laws has been acting as an accomplice to the crime. and showing such blasphemous and insulting content, the spiteful little acts they go on and all twit, for example, posting a map of the india with entire disputed province is removed from indian sovereignty . so he is the technical part, right, twitter and facebook and all that get away with this by arguing that they are not responsible for what uses post. because that 3 speech, they're just platforms for free speech. obviously that is highly debatable. tech johns have no problem. cedric, not only people, but in ta, political movements, but more than that, it isn't true because they make money off of it. but for example, running ads for child sex trafficking. plaintiffs was 14 years old in 2017.

had traffickers used instagram to advertise plaintiff as prostitute and to arrange dates. as a result, plaintiff was raved numerous times for when plaintiffs rescued from the traffic and scheme traffickers continue to use her profile to attempt to entrap other miners. in the same manner, plaintiff's mother reported this activity to facebook which have respond it. that is from an ongoing law suit in texas, which we reported on numerous victims, assuming facebook for not only ignoring, but facilitating child said trafficking by writing child grooming at making money off of it. they go away, is the book never responded. they see themselves these take chances above nations and borders laws and customs above elected officials and representative governments . i mean, what the heck is in the going to do bad twitter, unthinkable. until recently,

indian companies be pharma id or others that go to do business in the united states of america or in other foreign countries. voluntarily follow the local laws. then why are platforms like twitter showing reluctance and following indian laws designed to give voice to the victims of abuse and misuse? at the end of the day, what is happening in india is going to set a global precedent. every foreign mission is waiting to see how these end i, the india, will persevere, force big peg to acknowledge that, that they are great to the nations and peoples. that there are rules and that they have to follow them, nor indeed will fold the compromise. and as such, recognize the yes, big tech is a digital superpower answerable to a new one and above common law. and the custom, what is happening is that these big tech social media giants are disregarding all

local sensibilities and sensitivities. the have a liberal universal values agenda and they also taken very parties on positions on very sensitive matters in india, on major political development. so i think the public as well as the government are quite upset with the way these social media joins are, are manipulating, or trying to manipulate public opinion. there's no consistency in what they're doing. their content. moderation is very, very flawed and biased and they are resorting to a kind of like a money in the social media sphere because they are larger numbers of users. so i think it's very important that they should be disciplined, or else there is likely to be more deals and more violence and public disorder. and i think in a big complex society like india,

they should act more responsibly. rushers, national wealth fund has a rid itself of its us dollar investments explaining the decision as to well, that is the threat of sanctions. this is a meaningful decision. it's connected among other things with the threats of sanctions that we received and perceived from the american leadership. the funds structure is now 40 percent euro's 30 percent you on and 20 goal. the purpose of the fund is to supporter of russia's pension system. let's clarify this and make it slightly easier to digest that again some insights. now economists richard wolf joining us here on the program on aut into national. good to see you today. thanks for coming on. obviously the, the dollar is king. it is the top global reserve currency. it's going to be around for, for quite some time. but if you've been following russia's trend of ridding itself of dollars and diversifying into gold euros and you want, this news comes as no surprise, but boil it down for us. richard,

why it's moscow doing this? scholars doing it in part as a response to being of the target of the sanctions. the target of lots of us still de scapegoating, russia, china, poor immigrants into the united states has been a staple of american politics now for quite a while. and i think the russian stuff i pushing back against it, but there's a larger historical issue here to the united states has benefited enormously since the end of the 2nd world war by having the dollar b, the currency of international trade that monopoly for the united states is shrinking, its disappearing as is the dominant position of the united states, mostly because of the rise of china, but secondarily because of the growth of the world economy. and i think therefore,

the russian decision is going to have ramifications for many other countries that we're thinking of going in that direction, wanting to do so. and then i'll do it a bit more readily than before. and it will also stimulate the formation of alternatives to the swift system. that's the system of international payments. so it's an important event or richer before we get into the ramifications of the potential ramifications of this this month. being july, russia is buying well. the russian ministry of finance is buying $4000000000.00 in gold. in fact, if you, if you've been monitoring russia gold purchases in recent years, just about every other month that breaks a new record for buying golden russia. we know in china, although more secretive chinese been buying a lot of gold as well, are they getting ready for something, richard? i suspect, so i think that getting ready in a number of areas. but in the international payments system,

i think they're going to replace that already be done to take those steps. the switch system that the united states dominates. and it's a very important step because one of the ways the united states as control and manipulate other societies has been by allowing or just allowing them to use this with the system. and also using the information that you get from the payments that go through swift. if an old turn it in system or to develop and then russia and china word to monitor it, it would give every trading activity in the world an option. they don't have to escape us sanctions and it's the u. s. monitoring what they're doing. but richard, you know, if it comes to ramifications, for example, and if, as you said a few moments ago, if russia or in the china would influence other global players, how will america react to all these countries around the world potentially starting to move away from the dollar washington,

it's not going to be too pleased about this. no, they haven't been to please already for the last 5 or 10 years as all kinds of movement in this direction. john plays from roger from china, from iran, from other parts of the world that play an important role for ron and international oil dealings and so on. but there's very little the united states can no longer do it, isn't that hen jamalia once was, it isn't the only source of real well in the world. it isn't the source of foreign aid. the only one of the significance in the world, its position, whether you like it or not, is shrinking. it's footprint, is shrinking. gunam and problems these days are enormous and they limit what it can do. so i think what you're going to see is disaffection. angry words, major threats, maybe even some, you know, so a rattling a saber rattling,

but you're not going to be able to do much because the sanctions will be harder and harder to apply and they're less and less of a threat as the world diversified. it's economic opportunities economist richard wolf joining us here on our team to national many thanks. we appreciate it. thank you. and thank you for joining us for the program as well. at the firm has literally been flying in the russian military with and a lead selection of military dogs being put through the through their paces and a power of shoot drill of a special harness that they've been strapped to was developed by the russian from tech. no dynamic, they allow dogs of up to 45 kilos to be safely attached to the pirates super before jumping from the aircraft or the pack and then power shoot down directly into a battlefield. so far has been carried out in the height of 13000 feet, but we understand breathing apparatus has been developed for the dog, so they can jump from even higher either from your stories for this program here on

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