the moon we will not allow the opponents of the revolution mercenaries who have sold out the u. s. government to provoke destabilization. the cuba accuses washington of inciting mass demonstrations across the country. thousands of taken to the streets, protesting and economic crisis. and what they're calling or handling of the coven time? reviving the spirit of neo nazis segregation in europe. russia takes a shot at france over coven vaccine, that so as a senior official tells europe to reject jabs offered by moscow and beijing and starvation will eclipse the devastation of the pandemic. according to oxfam, which says, 11 people are dying from hunger around the world. every minute we get insight from

the charity. ah, coming to live from our world news headquarters in moscow, this is our international. i'm your host donald quarter. welcome to the program. keepers president has lashed out ad washington, accusing it of stirring up mass protests across the country. thousands have flooded the streets of the caribbean nation over an economic crisis exacerbated by the print pandemic. the anti government movements been called the largest in 30 years. the the

the the u. s, which has had a decades long embargo against the island, said it fully backs the people's right to rally. the protests come after a uniquely tough year for cuba. the economy plunged 11 percent hurt by the coven crisis and american section. the countries said the u. s. embargo cost at 9000000000 dollars last year alone, hurting and stability to fight the pandemic. america calls it sanctions quote, tools for democracy. while cuba president demand supporters go out and defend their country, correspondent for our sister channel archie, spanish and hold on. i can tell them instructions in support of the cuban government being held around the country when i'm you can see national flags, portraits of the historical leader of the cuban revolution. fidel castro, and slogans for him. and president miguel diaz canal. these demonstrations, some large, other smaller like this one taking place not only in havana,

but in other parts of cuba. the protest appeared to have been organized on social media present, diaz canal appeared to the country on television. let's listen to an exit from his money. said bottom, while we are addressing revolutionaries who may have become entangled. addressing cubans who may have some concerns, we will not allow the opponents of the revolution. mercenaries were sold out to the u. s. government sold out to the empire, receiving money from subversive agencies to provoke destabilization. and there will be a response from the revolutionaries. and therefore, we call upon all the revolutionaries of the country, all the communists to come out in the places where these provocations are being carried today. and from now on the demo and noteworthy that american flags could be seen at some demonstrations against the government. many said this was proof of the involvement in the us in organizing such action many find it old, the, even though the u. s. is blockading cuba. people is still waving american flags.

despite this, the marches in support of the government took place in different parts of the city . we spoke with several people who came out to defend the government and heard what they think about the protest. but for our lot of course improvements are needed. but we'll, we'll do it in a different way and we will not police the americans. imperial is once, nothing good for us and said it won't be better if they triumph here. that that is stabilize, they won't get it, they will never get it. this is the 3 to fidel wrote and d. s can now, since the started a panoramic cuba has something from a serious crisis, not only in health care, but also in economics, a lack of food and an energy crisis due to a breakdown of some power plant. all of this, according to analysts, has provided fertile ground for the groups, the people organizing protests against the government for more insight into what's going on in cuba. we cross live now to dr. francisco domingos head of latin american studies at middlesex university francisco. thank you very much for joining

us on the program. let's start with these us sanctions. what effects do you, would you say they're having on cuba? taking the total number of functions, according to some reports, he seems a regular $243.00 often said give you an idea of k. remittances from cubans in the united states to cuba has been stopped. and in the mean time, the mission is being taken by the term for ministration. in particular, to stop tourism from coming into the tuba decided not long ago, the tourism is going to be main driving the car on the poles after the hole in the look. and i seem that way and then the way he lives, a lot of treason right will be cuba. cars run reports declined by the lead 19202194 percent. and then on top of all of

the se, blockading target conjugate in the relation you've been given. the deadline gave them all energy from cuba. so dependent on that. so the great combination of these on double united states is what we came close to something in the, you know, $40000000.00 poll and you know, we'd be doing it for many more 8 then these groups are going to create the horror a nation in the country we've been begun, we'll very be full of a and more news and the teacher could, you know, be good for anybody or francisco. let's talk a little bit now about the seemingly spontaneous rallies in cuba. i mean, in the u. s. people have been pointing to just saying that they've been organized

by the people, the cuban government has pointed to possible support from the u. s. itself. who would you say are behind these rallies? well, it is not going to be. there is an element from beneath the, you know, i said these are the meshes that i mean a 2nd ago, people who suffered in suffering almost in the session. jimmy bad. nevertheless, if possible with a federal court, which is again, seen cuba to organize all the people who are these content and capital and you've been beaten on. something never happened. i don't think it's going to go to for the sake of the having difficult with because the unprecedented, what worries me that the moment they can print from both then have to be being sold for the i'm pretty good. earlier we heard from joe biden, who actually,

you know, earlier on promise that he would reverse the harsh policies on havana from the trump administration. would you say that this is an instance of a broken promise? she promised to do these. and then jen fecky, who is this person for the why i have not long ago said that to me changing to a policy but not providing them the station the broken promising. i think he's of the truck. we keep the agenda binding. we're like to move in the more was it somebody's been comfortable because we've been trying to place them both in commerce and particularly the seller. and he doesn't seem to want to complicate. he's in that way, having something to oversee the problem seems to me that greg, at any rate, that i think the great in the united states. so it could use a person, the national now for the probably ca, i'm not

a vision included on the southern command. and certainly, you know, that all they know on the, in the school know on in cuba problem, it would be what seems to be complicated. the whole thing i'm buying and the old people in soaking. i think that the chinese please them the seems to be what you dr. dr. francisco domingos head of latin american studies at middlesex university. thank you very much for your input. my place reviving the spirit of neo nazi segregation in europe. that's how russia slammed calls by frances europe administer for a new states not to use vaccines developed in russia and china. we can then france, profess discriminatory statements by tyra and can representative which of the spirit of neo nazi segregation in europe. it is not for the french foreign ministry

to dictate the country and people what jeff they should be vaccinated with. obviously the french foreign ministry. curtain as the country has not been able to develop its own vaccine, we sympathize with frances failure. the vast majority of european countries recognize only these 4 vaccines as the france and only 3 countries are differently . i regret the greased as this ministers regret referred to athens, letting in tourists who have had russian or chinese shots. greece also requires a cobit test for entry, but it's far from the only european country to green light. moscow spoke mcgee, in addition to the likes of hungry and slovakia. san marino has been using it for months now and has almost 0 new cases. the land said medical journal recently published a study on elderly people there, which showed a few side effects and those who had gotten the shot that were also know, safety concerns or fatalities reported. group politicians said discriminate and discriminating against russia's jap makes no sense. i think that we should

avoid the daily cost any kind of vaccine the national vaccine, the must see the as a public who enter global and in my understanding, the biggest challenge is how to vaccine citizens. and they were not always, you know, just seem to be on campus where we can afford to have, i don't own vaccine and faithful that vaccination to the people in africa. the people in india. exactly because of the damages of law. but we will never be safe if only us this he does is of the, let's see, that better off county will be getting until the rest will be left to the finding. i must stress that, let's say that greece was to accept the french position. that would be, that would be a little bit ridiculous from the point of view of that hunger. marian's having

sputnik vaccinations, so we would allow on gary and was put nic vaccination coming into greece. free preview without any without any other test discriminating on russians. coming in from moscow we put with put nick vaccination, which does make sense. reporters have broken into the georgian parliament to protest the killing of us, of a camera man by anti gay activists. the journalists are reported to have seized the parliamentary speaker seat. they are demanding a meeting with lawmakers and the resignation of the government. a week ago, writers protested a pro l g b t. march scheduled by activists and the camera man was found dead after being beaten during the classes. the the,

the author in russia analyst martin mccauley told us politics is deeply involved in the issue in georgia. and that the country is now split in various ways. it is a country which is profoundly conservative and therefore as you be march, the pride march was a red rag to a boon. it's a very intense rumor indeed because the government was fraudulent georgia government jewelry for a job because the very clowns, the guys groups in georgia find it difficult to come together and stay together and agree compromises. and therefore georgia is split various ways. politics is about power and the groups which are out of power want to have and want to reduce those

who have to very, very weak government or very, very weak state. so they can take over the politics deeply and go of the lives of merely about the pride, march, and g. p deeper. when he's been seized by those who want to achieve power to weaken the government and become more powerful themselves, a hidden hunger pandemic could turn out to be worse than anything. colbert has dealt the world. that's the warning from oxfam. it says, 11 people are st. are dying of starvation globally every minute. while 155000000 people are apparently facing crisis levels of food insecurity. the chart, the charity has also published a series of harling 1st hand accounts of women struggling to feed their children. i can secure a good quality 14 for my children. therefore i feel guilty and i feel that no matter how much i'm trying, i still need to do more. i had to look for solutions. i can go hungry,

but the boy cannot. i even dared. i dared allure to go back for food because i couldn't into your hunger. it hurts me. i'm out of videos on what to do with children. i'm not eating properly. and i sometimes feel like i'm not raising them boil enough. most of the time, we have little to nothing treat. i struggle to get my children to sleep at night. they ask for food and i try to distract them, telling them stories until they're asleep. then i look at them and pray for a better life until i get stolen by sleep. oxfam listed climate change arms conflicts, and the economic impact of the corona virus pandemic is the driving forces behind the crisis with locked downs and the closure of borders. and businesses only making matters worse for those already disadvantaged. but the head of humanitarian policy of our oxfam, matthew trust, god told us there are other factors as well. we have to understand what from it

actually means to people on the ground. i mean, it's extraordinarily serious with knowing that hunger figures were increasing. we predicted last year that the tension going to get was a see how about it's got yes, this is genuinely shocking. we have to make sure that people are able to get axis. it's not just going to the rich countries because we have to also restart the economies and put a country for me. there are 3 key things we have to dream. firstly on these files and piece. the 2nd is we have to stop warring policies from blocking humanitarian 8 . we cannot have a situation where parties are using hunger as a weapon of war. and finally, of course, funding funding is crucial to be able to get people to help they need. and i think we also need to look at the kind of safety net that, that some of the richer countries talk with the poor countries turned off the world's population have no access to social security, no safety net. so when they see a shock like this, there's just no way to recover from overcoming the crisis through vaccination is also an issue. as the un secretary general warrens about the gap between developed and developing nations in terms of access to vaccines, ox, fams,

health policy adviser and ameria told our teeth going underground that vaccine nationalism has become a major problem. you know, we need another 1000000000 dice. and the g 7 off the less than a 1000000000 in donations with no edge. and in terms of when they say nations are going to be made. and the reality is that donations are sticking needed now, because we are seeing that breaks rising from the country. but they're not going to fix this crisis to be back. we actually need the g 7 countries to box the listing of the patients on these back in the science and know how can be shed throughout. well, we can get more qualified manufacturers making them run production. that's the only way that we're going to get back to back to make everybody. and this, we haven't seen a stream back being inequality that not only lives at risk in many of the poor

countries in the world, but he's actually continuing to be a threat for all of the and other news fighting is intensifying in afghanistan as the taliban makes major territorial gains, official say that over the weekend, local security forces repelled an assault by the group on a key northern province at its border with 2 tickets. then the pentagon says it's watching developments with concern as us troops continue their rapid withdrawal from the country. the escalating situation is dragging the nation further into a humanitarian crisis with the ball calling on europe to suspend deportations of afghan migrants for 3 months. meanwhile enough, ghana stan itself, thousands have been forced to flee the taliban offensive. i'll village was rounded by the telephone. there is nothing we can do to tell them captured our homes. we have been displaced. we are facing such just a moment. my children live by the road. what should we do?

as a mom, several years in a government should help us. our children are hungry and thirsty. our homes are under the control of the taliban and we cannot go there. i lost my cow and a calf my home and all my good. then what i'm suffering your lot, you can see live in this tent even though i have a home, i have been displaced. there is a war in our village. and the area where i lived is under the control of the taliban. and 300 families have been displaced by going to some of us now take a look at another war torn country that's been down a similar path. we're talking about somalia. here us troops arrived there in the late 2 thousands to fight terrorism and ended up staying there nearly 15 years. however, by the time they pulled out at the start of this year, would be difficult to say any stability had been achieved only this weekend and explosion in the capital. mogadishu reportedly killed 9 and injured 8 others and was the 2nd major blast in the city. this month,

the also bob extremist group claimed responsibility now with more on whether a somalian scenario could now be repeated in afghanistan. here's more, i guess the to malia wasn't a libya or a rock, it wasn't a prosperous nation that the us invaded and left a wreck. it was a poor country to begin with, made that much poor by far and help in the form of bombs and weapons. no somalia is much more like of gun. it's done with insurgence, the bob running much of the country. the good don't underestimate the they're smart, that often they're motivated. i shall bob,

according to the b. b. c. collect almost as much in taxes as the government, even government officials pay. i shall bob to be left alone. years and years of us as strikes and grades have failed to stop them. so why not try again? the united states has been involved in somalia for decades. and it is very involved in africa for longer than that. this is a product of the poor planning in the pentagon. this is the product of the factional, little within the pentagon. it's no secret that at the highest levels of us war planning, that there are different political tendencies. there are different political factions. and so, one day, one faction will have the upper hand. and the next day, another fraction will have the upper hand. and you see that being played out in east africa,

where we were told united states was pulling out of that part of the world. and now it appears there on the way back after 3 decades of unfit, fully and painfully beating its head against the very solid somalian war. the united states is apparently considering another round. last year you may remember from pulled most jewish troops out of somalia while that potentially going back in the u. s. sending troops back to somalia. are you putting more forces in the hell? how precisely is the us going to be changing its security posture on the continent? carla, i think you can understand why we wouldn't necessarily detail, but the true movements are forced presence in advance, particularly when we're talking about a counter terrorism threat. there's really no denying that our repositioning, fairly sudden repositioning out of somalia. earlier this year has introduce new layers of risk and complexity to our mission there. many people claim that the

u. s. last and have gotten a thought. i would disagree. they went into kiera al qaeda and they leave with a written promise from the taliban. never to let all kinds of sets up shopping of dentist on again. so they failed, but the whole nation building thing, but i'll car is gone. somalia is very different in somalia, the warlords, that rule, much of the country, the ash above their sworn, the wild card to us has tried everything. they've tried training, somalian stuff, fight. i shall, bob, they've tried bombing the militants, they've paid the others to bone, the insurgents sponsored invasions by countries, the neighbor, samaria. nothing's work. how many decades will the us leave at these star before? come? what may it just gives up? meanwhile, india has evacuated its diplomats and other workers from the kandahar consulate. as

taliban forces enter the outskirts of afghanistan's 2nd largest city and aircraft was deployed to pull out some 50 staff members. while local employees will continue to operate this facility. as taliban troops entered the city, 16 people were killed and 57 injured with the authorities warning that the number of casualties could rise. now to get more insight into what's going on, there we go, live to lick and p political commentator and executive editor at indian open news magazine. hulick, thanks a lot for joining us on the program. the 1st question i have for you is basically how worried do you think indian leaders will be by the taliban advance? you know, india has a lot of stake enough kind of on because in the are very much involved in the reconstruction of afghanistan and right from 2001 run. the american forces invaded the country. and india until now are invested more than $3000000000.00

in projects are ranging from infrastructure communication to it, you cation. now suddenly, with a change of power, a lot of things seem to get a different done. there's a lot of brains i do for a reason that indian precedence and i've got his son hinged on the conducive, or most fear that was provided by american presence in the region. and now that you might remember between 99620011001 was involved in the i had actually 0 influence in the region. and so now india might have to reorient its policies that might have to engage, you know, like a lot of other countries in the region including china, russia and iran are doing with volleyball. and because it looked like the all the taliban is i'll fit that. harper awesome. up in latin. got his son. even the

american have engaged and got into thoughts with volleyball, shopping from willie last year when things became ready. appreciate you know, you remember that in the last year, on february 29 they signed the american signed the fact to bring in the trial. got his son, a peace agreement between the government and also taliban, which is otherwise known as nomic. emery gun is done with the us. it doesn't recognize as a state, and despite that they entered into box with them. so despite bangs, i be at the moment, and i think india is going for a year in did policies that might engage in the waterfall with family bond.

considering that that's the need of dog mouth. well, new deli called its decision to withdraw its diplomat. a temporary, temporary solution until the situation stabilizes. they seem pretty confident that they have everything under control. so, but what's the likelihood? do you think that this will drag on and that the taliban may even when in the end i doubted because behind all the you for yeah, that i'm really can have but you don't like the economists stated. i doubt come off as sorry when you're in. i've got his son and it's very tough for a gun. people are much tougher than it is for the other countries in the region. and i don't think it probably bon holding 200 out of 300 districts on the control. it's easy for any country outside to

have consulates, run in different parts of the country for even a couple that in india you might remember i had withdrawn, it's lesson i pulled out, it was from had and then on about the last year itself, you know, one could attribute it to corporate, but there were also reasons to do with security issues. and i think that for that this trial is not to be seen as are already temporary because it might even be a permanent one because even the americans are very much concerned about why nation of the bad that was signed between the americans and the taliban in the high end around the pulse around the world in most school. and it shouldn't be . and even the thoughts that continue to happen,

even the secret of the public talk that going to happen despite that taliban shows no signs of agreeing to. and when dream government enough, got it, and debbie not tacking, got guns on army boards and also awakens, dukes like alibaba wants to rebuild the brutal theocracy that did that brand new, pre from 996 to 2001. and i think the rules of engagement, the change for the wiring this for oil war of that, the americans, that we don't kind of fun and it's going to change regional balances because that's what the concern the most important thing is, of course in get, spend a lot of money and i'm going to said, but it also emboldened the changes enough kind of sun also emboldened a lot. randy and get there

a group you did reach shifted. it's based on trying purity in kind of to the part of the bottle between i've got a son and bucket, especially next to the table and gives you more money. and also you have the network which is inimical to india as interest. and all of these groups, you might remember when the soviets withdrew in the end of the eighty's. india was what india had to suffer collateral damage because the taliban, because of who died, the died that for fighting. so we do know that that time didn't know what to fight and they were the route by pakistan and also some element of the sea year to crush me, which became a major problem. it continues to be a major issue, a security issue on india. sorry we've run out of time, we could definitely talk about it a lot longer.