[000:00:00;00] the freedom is not a state act and we must act. we will act. president budnick is republicans of blocking a landmark bill. he says would broaden the black voters participation in elections . the claims of bacon test results. no check, no masks at the euro. 2020 final world health organization says london's football showdown was devastating for efforts to control the pandemic battle continues as covered highly contagious. delta variant takes root worldwide and now accounts for more than 90 percent of russia's new cases. we return to a chronic virus clinic to see how health care workers are coping and us leaders openly back what they call cubans,

protest against decades of economic suffering. havana points out the major role washington has played through decades of sanctions and now allegedly social media manipulation. ah, well, i guessing live direct from our studios in moscow. this is our to international. i'm sean thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. right now, the president biden has delivered a speech on voting rights, lashing out republicans for opposing a sweeping voting rights bill, backed by democrats or just kill him up and reports. well, we just heard a very passionate speech from us president joe biden. the speech was concerning the very controversial rules. many republicans around the country are setting in regarding voting. many republican legislatures in states across the country are looking to to, you know,

past measures that they say are aimed to curb voter fraud. joe biden sees it rather differently and he gave a speech that is certainly the most and sleepy speech we've heard from him so far as president. take a listen. freedom is not a state. it's an act. freedom is not a state, it's an act. and we must act and we will lack car causes, just or vision is hard to read people for democracy, for america itself, we must thank god bless you all and may god protect our true and all those you care to watch over the market for around the country we have republicans proposing laws, they say say are aimed at essentially preventing voter fraud. they're requiring new forms of voter identification. they're regulating the polling places. in some places there have been laws proposed to restrict the handing out of water to those waiting in line to vote, etc. now, joe biden,

and most democrats see this as basically an attempt by republicans to suppress the voter turnout. specifically in constituencies that don't vote for them such as low income folks, african americans and others. now, in response to these proposed rules that we're seeing democrats taking some rather dramatic measures. for example, in texas, the democrat state legislators have left the state in order that there not be a quorum so that the state legislator cannot legislature cannot take a vote on these measures. take alyssa de taxes, how democrats stand united in our decision to break quorum and refuse to let the republican lead legislature forth through dangerous legislation that would trample and texans freedom to vote when thou taken to fight all in nations capital. so these texas democrats by leaving the state and basically shutting down the state legislature are really essentially bringing state government to a halt. it's

a rather dramatic gesture. take a listen. texas democrats decision to break a cool room of the texas legislature and abandon the texas state capital inflict harm on the very texans who elected them to serve as they fly across the country on ca, she private planes. they leave undone issues that can help the district and of states . now essentially, we have republicans calling for punishment of these texas state legislators calling for them to be arrested, alleging that this is a vote subversion. they're trying to subvert the vote, and we heard joe biden allude to that. and his speech when he spoke against the republicans and their proposed measures to make this as simple as this is election . some version is the most dangerous threat devoting in the integrity of free and fair elections in our history. so the country is very, very divided when it comes to these issues. and it's unlikely that this rather high emotion speech from joe biden is really going to change that. there's

a pretty big gap between americans when it comes to these issues. so joe biden wants a federal law to protect voters. republicans in many local states, one laws restricting and making it a little more difficult to vote. so that's the situation. divided country in the united states, she was president, has pointed the finger squarely at washington over protests that have gripped his country. thousands flooded the streets of the caribbean nation on sunday, over an economic crisis exacerbated by the pandemic. the anti government movement is being called the biggest in 30 years. the, the protest kept a tough year for cuba. be economy has plunged 11 percent made worse by american sanctions. the streets are now calm, but with a heavy police presence. and to vent a wants to know just how much the u. s. and it's social media have manipulated the opposition of corresponding for our sister channel or

t. spanish reports now from the capital meal and has returned to normal life. for example, here in front of the national capital, which is one of the main places for anti government protest together on sunday, we see absolute calm. now. the same is in other places across the city and across the country as well. but there's a huge police presence. monday was the president of the canal and the governing team appearing on tv. they spoke about the economic situation in the country and also about the 4th generation non conventional war against the island, which had the same characteristics as what happened in venezuela or serial. then the speech by the foreign minister has also caught attention. he responded in strong terms to us president joe biden, the norfolk youth, twitter of playing a fundamental role and manipulating protests in the country. let's listen to him on twitter. and i also call in the u. s. government to recognize or deny that political operate is actively used tag collect teams or groups of robots. trolls

who use a coordinated with automated main to flood the networks, etc, etc. and they saw peroration against cuba. they, all, they mean the economy was also a fundamental matter. let's remember, cuba has been in a grave economic crisis since the start of the pandemic. and even before that, due to the titans, us embargoed during the pandemic, the u. s. government to low and approve more than 50 measures related to that. meanwhile, the countries paralyzed with low financial inflows and the need to tackle the pandemic. this resulted in food shortages, as well as a lack of some medicine, as most resources within to treat pain with coded 19th. cuba is now at the peak of the pandemic, and or medical personnel, or high alerts. we just go from cubans, how they live in this situation, and their opinion almost happened. you can have on the street, the stories of people, not totally well today, but also yesterday, the day before people don't have enough resources to take care of themselves and their families. there's

a lack of napkin and food. we need to talk and make proposals to achieve the well being of our people. what happens to be the way only for community intervention? city is quite, the country is quiet. now, the debate starts over the social networks. meanwhile, the government warns about the campaign calling for humanitarian intervention, which could have more dangerous consequences than even a military walk away. and we are. meanwhile, members of the cuban diaspora across the straits of florida and miami have rallied in solidarity demanding that washington intervenes havana notes the decades long. u . s. a. blockade is the key factor in its economic hardship. but president biden insist he stands with the cuban people. the united states stands firmly with the people acute, as they assert their universal rights. and because the government can accumulate, refrain from violence or attempts to silence the voice of people who,

having spent significant time in cuba during the special period, the harshest period of sanctions. and deprivation, i can tell you there is real suffering and there is real malays and it is brought about as a direct result of the us embargo. so it was inevitable that there would be protests like this. we can see that people have genuine grievances. but that they are also being pulled into a regime change agenda by organizations like this and see drug movement which have clear ties to the united states government, the trump administration. and did the obama administration normalization with cuba, reimpose, brutal sanctions? not just on cuba, but on venezuela, blocking fuel shipment to cuba. the cuban government had to ration food starting in 2018. and now we have a pandemic where cuba has had to miraculous miraculously manufacture its own vaccine because of

a need or shortage brought on by the u. s. blockade for humanitarian reason. i think that we should help the cuban people right now because they need to help, they need the medicine, they need the food and supplies so that they can stay alive. they're having some serious issues down there. but long term there has to be a change in the power structure of human as far as lifting the things and could the united states to do something in regards to that. sure they could. but if the economic system that they have in place, that is really the input, if for the majority of the economic problems that they're suffering. now, in addition, you obviously have to couple the corona virus pandemic and the economic contraction that's going on globally. it's not only cuba that suffering economically, obviously that we're not on for putting to be able to then have to handle, you know, an economic downturn, the compounding of the bad economic situation because of the corona virus pandemic

. but to put this all on the united states of america, it's basically like a police force, some sort of a stimulus or a bail out. renowned american filmmaker says that the u. s. was set to reverse its anti cuban policies. decades ago before president kennedy was assassinated, oliver stone makes the claim in the latest episode of going underground, where he talks about his new j. f. k documentary. you can watch the interview and fall from wednesday at r t dot com. me see, we have a us president in the white house backing forces against the cuban government clues shows head onto the evidence which, which we wouldn't have without to have to pay the movie in your new documentary. what is the relevance in case people are going? oh, he's not talking about kennedy again, the relevance to joe biden, who was born in syria and iraq only the past few weeks was the relevant to the current whitehouse of this documentary. well, i, again, i think that the relevance is,

is the main point we were trying to make in the documentary was a, john kennedy was a warrior for peace in all forms. and among the many things he was doing when he was killed, was reaching out to cuba to and this embargo to make the taunt with gas. joy looked good. and he was also at the same time over making an overarching deal with khrushchev of the soviet union. they had, they signed the nuclear test ban treaty together, which is an amazing document. the 1st time soviets in the u. s. signed a treaty of this nature and the war, the cold war was, was the radically coming to an end in 1963. so you can imagine where the world would be now instead we have this retro grade policy where the u. s. is still got an embargo on cuba 60 years later. and renews today is just another one and along

concurrent crises, events that happen every few years. i know, you know, this has been going on for, for decades. ah. it might be the beautiful game, but it is not looking good for the fight against cove. it is now feared that sunday 02020 final could cause a big spike in cases. as the victorious italian team paraded their trophy through the center of rome, the enormous crowds gave little thought to coven regulations, and that came just a day after tens of thousands of unmasked fans crammed together at the match in london. world health organization has described the event as devastating. am i supposed to be enjoying watching transmission happening in front of my ice? the covered 19 pandemic is not taking a break to night, sorry, covey to delta v r, and will take advantage of an vaccinated people in crowded settings, unmasked, screaming, showed,

and singing devastating the 60000 sand. barely a mask to be seen, a lack of social distancing, no checks and claims of fake test results. that was the scene playing out at wembley stadium. what's journalist derek clark, who has asked the game? so coach controls were a joke. didn't even need to do or fee attached because you weren't even checked for you. what could see that were just checking your phone for you and you are good. once you've seen that you had a ticket on your phone, they will just allowing you and doesn't matter if you had a negative test. if you read the fake that the test either missing more really to the the think we should have taken more seriously. there's no checks for call within police and was just a lot of search of people with motor bus security measures. she should have been in

police as well, but this wasn't enough security or still to carry the checks. health care officials warn the final could push the u. k to a 1000000 new infections within a month. cases have already shot up to some 35000 a day, but the prime ministers still scrapping england restrictions next week. the government points to a successful inoculation program with almost a 35000000 getting a shot, and also a drop in death and the number of people leaving hospital treatment. we will stick to our plan to live legal restrictions and to lift social distancing the restrictions are easy. the 19th of july, of course, is when looking at the final restrictions easing as well. so things are getting back to normal, but very little people waiting masks. and last nights, especially heading towards the underground station after the game allowed amount of

people, but no dual monster waiting. so what could be a rising, teach because of that. then as i mentioned, the new checks for corporate hey begin to dig it out. and so that as a, what is it? i mean, i was in the ground just about 20 minutes. there was already 3 or 4 as young guys of it's already boston. crowd of iris continues to evolve with the delta variant now in more than $100.00 countries. the strain was 1st identified in india and is believed to be the most contagious yet with the world health organization predicting it will be the dominant variant globally within months. here in russia, the strain already accounts for more than 90 percent of new infections. and as the strain continues to spread, russia has said, another daily covered death toll record with $780.00 fatalities registered in the last 24 hours with more on how health care workers are dealing with this challenge is anton krislofski,

who returns to the red zone in the latest installment of his documentary series epidemic. with luck, an empty bed, an empty bed. it's an empty space out there, a small one. so tara 1347 beds. i hoped i would never come back here again. we're at a hospital again and here again, are these dams, crops side how did the hospital start to fill up? we were monitoring that there had been 50 patients daily, and suddenly the number went up to 100 and then 20012830 so on. but of course, the key point is that we've already well prepared. the worst thing is when you're not on album for him, what's the main pattern of this new stranger's? probably not going to come to you. firstly, it's more contagious. and 2nd,

it hits way faster than the previous and now takes $1.00 to $2.00 days instead of 7 to waiting with that. and i think it's also hitting younger people. what do they didn't believe it would happen. they thought the virus had gone, but he stayed. they think everything's okay. it's a simple flu and it will end soon, but it doesn't. it wasn't for the day off today. and how many of those in the hospital are vaccinated? it's not well around 122-1000 patients. i'm a lovely and believable young guys. i've never seen anything like this before. how did you end up here? well, did you have a high temperature? yes i had a temperature. i called an ambulance. they brought me here and done my condition. drastically nose dived. what do you mean? well, in 2 days, how old are you? i'm 47. so we're the same age and how badly were your lungs damaged? 75 percent. did you get the vaccine? you know, why? because i'm an idiot. why is this happening?

where people not vaccinating we do look since the 90 s, there was an anti vaccination campaign at that time, and those mad moms said we won't be vaccinated against measles, chicken pulse. we won't take any vaccine. someone put that idea in their head, that the vaccination is bad, but in fact, it saves lives and it helps vanquish the pandemic. so when do you think it will and never can damage tend to losses from 3 to 5 years. i'm actually afraid vaskins, who's vaccinating and non you raise your hands please. he's vaccinated. i know him . well, actually anyone who comes here is vaccinated. well, it's because you're a trig boss. i've been in an intensive care unit for a month on my condition. a severe, maybe the outcome would be less if i had taken a job. i wanted to get facts and i did, but i didn't find time. and now i'm in a dire condition.

ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, the meanwhile, there are reports of patients now being infected with 2 co strains. at the same time. on tuesday, an expert at a top russian institute. you said the 1st such national case had been reported in an elderly one as early as last year. another report came from belgium 3 days ago, where a 90 year old woman died all carrying both of the alpha and beta variance of the virus. several cases have also been detected in thailand earlier. my colleague don quarter asked

a medic at an austrian clinic whether existing jobs can deal with double infections . we were expecting things like that to happen and also understand that the reason why we know that these 90 year old lady has that double infection is because it did a very clear dna genomics. we have not done dna genomics and 99 percent of patients who have cobra. so probably we will have a lot higher rate if we would test everybody so precisely that older lady was unfortunately not baxon. today from the information we have from all the data that we have in the clinical courses, which are very important, is that if you are vaccinated, even if you are infected with to the variance of the, the cobit that the virus did the course of the disease will be still very, very mild and certainly the date, the death rates, which were amazing about a year ago will be much, much lower. so i think we can a little bit relax yet. be very careful. and we need, obviously more data and analyzes, more specifically, do you think that european union's state should be rejecting people with certain

jobs? i mean, one example could be, for example, the indian made astrazeneca vaccine. it's a political question, and it would be a political anson. what i refused to accept is that unfortunately, the european union refused this put, think from the beginning, the indian one, we don't have data to analyze that. but remember, the indians have the delta barrier. so probably they have more information and more data and more availability to produce vaccines that directed against the delta barrier. that may be the question that needs to be answered. french health workers have been warned that they may not get paid if they refuse the coven shop. president micron is making the vaccine mandatory for the sector to combat the highly contagious delta strain. it comes as record numbers of exhausted medical staff are quitting in the parish region. mid warnings of an imminent forced wave of the pandemic. we got reaction from

a nurse the situation is especially dramatic because people who left hospitals were forced to do it and they were disappointed, humiliated, destroyed by this government policy, which put them lower than they deserve. let me remind you that a year ago, the same caregivers and nurses were heroes. they were hailed as those who defeated the disease. and now we're faced with another problem, which is also linked to debate on this compulsory vaccination for staff. most of the countries nurses now say the profession no longer gives them career development prospects. the poll added almost 2 in 3 think that their job is thankless, and more than sick 90 percent believe that the covert crisis shows the need for a review of their roles. eric trigo again says, it's hard to stay motivated. it's still very complicated to manage and i want to understand that around 40 percent of stuff and they want to change profession for

doc sickly. these people want to leave their profession completely. really. there was a spirit of trust from the staff there. they had the motivation, but now i'm not sure with key mid term and congress elections looming. the white house has made a strange you turn on. it's defined as the police pledge, as crime rates of saw the ruling democrats now want to shift the blame for slashing law enforcement budgets. onto the republicans are done off. comments. defend the police versus back the blue. these slogans turned into war banners in america's political. in fighting between the progressives and the conservatives, there was no fence to sit on for politicians, it was pick aside and i'll go home. so as republicans went, defend, the democrats shows the fund many obsolete suburbs, suburbs have especially already begun pursuing

a de funding of the police in that they fun school based on housing and the health care more as their number one priority in many cities in america over one 3rd of their city budget goes to police. so we have to have this conversation. what are we doing? we made completely told them in the upload police department defendant. the police isn't radical, it's real. they pushed and pushed and pushed one by one police department. so the money flows run dry, it seemed like the dams were clear victors in this idea logical clash. but then the crime figures came in and the democrats weren't eager to take the credit for their defending efforts, ensuring their specific guidance to communities across the country to ensure that they have funding to get more community police around the country. some might say that the other party was for defending the police a let other say that, but that's

a piece jump saki, ladies and gentlemen, an honorary member of the international gas lighting association. the lie was so blatant, even the washington post fact check as couldn't help awarding the white house press secretary with 3 pinocchio as to the tune. of course of republicans gloating. it's remarkable that the white house is now apparently employing comedians. that's like democrats saying they're the ones that want to build the wall. it's absurd. it's ridiculous. and there's a good enough reason the democrats on that proud of their achievement in the funding, the police, the year to date murder rate, height, almost 17 percent across the u. s, on average in portland, which slash 27000000 from the police budget. it stands at a whopping 533 percent austin. that took away almost $150000000.00 from the police departments. has to deal with

a 79 percent surge and while the correlation of course in no way means causation, but will really few policemen on the streets actually improve the situation. so defining that police saddling, it's a mindset that the politicians are using to leverage the angry mob that's out there and it's not going to turn out the way that they think it is. i mean, the police is not what people think. it's think it means, and it's actually a political tactic right now. sadly, anybody who really supports the defining the police move and they believe that the police are going to be arbitrary. i just removed off the street and that's not the case. the funding, the police goes for programs, it goes for training, it goes for the stuff that is the on working within the department. and that's just going to hurt the officers that are on the street. now, when there's going to prevent them from doing their jobs properly for the citizens who still need them, regardless of whether not they want them on the street. it's all political theater . if you can keep people constantly in a perpetual state of wonder, you're, it's, it, they're always creating a problem that they can solve, you reap what you sow, but in a dirty game of politics,

nobody ever wants to own up to the lapses. and if the democrats want to keep their majority in congress, they'll need something more advanced than the republican bad formula. and just before we go, here's a quick peek at the days other stories from around the globe. this our 1st in the lebanon. please fire to tear gas during clashes with protesters in the countries capital. after the families of victims of last year's port blast took to the streets to protest against the lebanese interior minister demonstrators. many of them carrying coffins to symbolize the dead are demanding an end to what they see as efforts to obstruct uh, proven to the tragedy. blast kills more than 200 people in the injured 1000 more with many people. blaming officials for storing explosives, material support across the atlantic. wildfires are raging across more than 1000000 acres of the western

united states and canada. these images show devastating fires in the state of oregon and an even larger fire in bootleg has reached more than 150000 acres and is threatening power supplies to california. the u. s. national weather service has warned. a dangerous temperatures will continue in the region for the early part of the week with 47 degrees celsius recording. in some areas at your news, i'll be back in just under 31 minutes. you're watching international. glad to have with us the me make no, certainly no borders and the blind number please emerge

. we don't have authority. we go to the back seen the whole world leads to take action and be ready. people are judge, you know, crisis we can do better. we should be better. everyone is contributing each in their own way, but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenges for the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we need together in the daily way day might have used a few more rehearsals before taking that lives the capital steps. but that was did