[000:00:00;00] the top headlines here when r t and disturbing revelations. life all gary has health minister, he admits and kofi vaccination failures have cost the country almost 10000 lives as rush enough to lead to the tokyo olympics. keep not ching, gold and left western media athletes increasingly seeing red. that's a question that seems right to actually be that also the un comes under attack and the latest round of violence and i've gone on as a headquarters. there are attacked by what are being named. does anti government elements with one security guard? confirm dead.

aah! you would use around the clock with 24 hours a day. this is our national life for moscow in a very won't welcome to you. while gary is health minister, has admitted that the multiple failures in tackling cove in the country has had disastrous consequences. in a startling revelation, he said, nearly 10000 lives could have been saved. if the north relation campaign had been organized properly, bulgaria is sacrificing the older generation. we immunized mainly young and active people for 5 months. and the most vulnerable groups were abandoned. for out of 5 covered deaths in bulgaria, have been among the elderly. the government claims 10000 lives could have been saved, had the previous administration acted a bit differently. but how exactly?

well, 1st off by not prioritizing the cheaper astrazeneca vaccine, the last government decided not to order any of the other 3 jobs approved by the you. and as a result, when oxford astrazeneca experienced serious delays in shipments while guerria became one of the least vaccinated e u countries at the time even lagging behind other stragglers like romania and lafayette all the while continuing to experience a surge in cases. and that's, but the other issue that caused unnecessary death was that the vaccines that the country did get for some reason didn't 1st go to the people who actually needed them the most. we did not give parity to people over 60 and people with serious illnesses that were placed in the false category after social workers, employees in mnc farms and others at this point. but gary remains one of the least

vaccinated countries in europe with less than 20 percent of the population having received at least one dose. the new government is desperately trying to remedy the situation. but it seems, there are still a lot of hurdles for them to overcome. vaccine skepticism is still high among bulgarians, especially after reports of astrazeneca being linked to rare health complications. the country's poor health infrastructure is also hampering efforts to get vaccines to the population effectively. and the threat of a new wave of infections, courtesy of the delta variance of the corona virus, now looms very large over the country, which in response has extended its coven emergency status until the end of august. earlier today we talk to the senior clinical lecturer at the u. k. university of exeter. he says more could have been done by the previous ball, gary and government. it's a big mistake. we all know with infectious disease control and management that

we've got to protect the people who are most honorable for us getting interested. and these are the wonderful people and the elderly, which are much, much higher risk of having a severe illness and dying if they are not fully protected. we are the immunizations. the government itself has been reluctant to immunize and protect its own population. therefore, i feel very skeptical about the government being keen to protect its own people by giving vaccines. it is important for the politicians to be led by the scientist, their own scientists and the world. scientists rather than be led by finances and politics with regard to the best thing they can do for their population. meanwhile, in germany, whether it's been a more successful vaccine rolled out, the question now among some with whether they should me more freedoms now, for those who have been immunized, and politicians are deeply divided over the matter as are the people or europe

correspondent has details. now the more than half of the german population have been fully vaccinated against coven. 19 the debate amongst politicians is moved on to whether the vaccination should entitle people to move freedoms. the president of the bond, the stag, things that should, i do not see any constitutional issues for differentiating between those who have been tested on the one hand and those who have recovered or been vaccinated on the other. since the risk of vaccination is extremely low, according to current data, not everyone is convinced of the constitutional fairness of such a device that move though the german justice minister doesn't think it's right to split society down the lines of the vaccine. and the wax cannot, should stick to the principle that those who have been vaccinated recovered or have a negative covered test should retain all their freedoms. the justice minister is against mandatory vaccination and politics. slow who think that the government and politicians should have no sake and who gets the vaccination at all?

it's not the role of the state to eliminate the risks to live. this encroachment would be on constitutional and would clearly contradict defined a mental idea of freedom and our basic law. those who support freedom passes. say, people that have have the job shouldn't be held back by those that haven't. but they still a healthy sized opposition against forcing anyone to take a vaccination walk in the state imposed on the individual. my red line is my body by decided on that last that the last word is up to me. the state must not exceed that with an election just 8 weeks away in some potentially very tricky coalition talks on the horizon, right, so the vaccinated could well end up being a stumbling block to the formation of the next government control over all t in cologne. germany, russian athletes are continuing their impressive metal whole at the tokyo games, reaching double figures in gold medals this friday. it means the russian olympic committee team now sits forth and the table. however, sadly,

you'd be hard pressed to find many saluting that success. just a bit earlier in the day, my colleague unit neal discussed the story with ortiz saskia taylor. well, the lympics should be a huge celebration and meet all discipline from all over the world coming together at one event showcasing the skills. unfortunately for russian athletes competing out this, he has turkey games. that just hasn't been the case. they might be scooping up towards the russian and the committee will already see. does carney rank thought in total metal, but the atmosphere has been so hostile? it's been filled with suspicion, criticism, very little good sportsmanship, both from the global media and of course from photo competitors. for example, us women, ryan murphy, who love to a russian, took a veiled flight by saying that he probably, that it probably wasn't a teen race. a comment that he later tracked on. but by dan a british swim, i had also come out and couldn't help me could dig about state sponsored. don't

hang out to the russian who beat them. he said, my bold metal is the combination of nothing but in life. from dedication. yes. to double the sport, i have always stood for nothing but clean competition. i haven't always been tested and i always go out to my documents. i've devoted my entire life to the sport and i would never be able to forgive myself if i use some doping. so i don't even know how to react to mobile, how well both those comments might not seem direct to the any one particular or country. others very openly was quite frankly, the epitome of soul lose one us row, for example, said that russians shouldn't even be seen the crew who shouldn't even be here. walk away with the silver is a nasty feeling really disappointing overall. and i feel for the other f as in the, a final now tell me might be furious that she's not taking her, not when that she was banking on her belief that russians don't have a right to be the cost is, doesn't reflect reality. how much she wants it to. the truth is,

russian athletes are allowed to compete, but under certain strict conditions as a result of an ongoing reduced number of historically clean russian athletes are allowed to compete as mutual meaning that they've been stripped of the anthem, the flag. and of course, the country's name hadn't r a c and not russia. but despite this, despite that commitment to the very rules that the international impact committee has set up. and despite the fact that they are the most tested, one of the most tested delegations that they are still daily faced with this wave of bitterness and malice. yeah, new and fair comments, direct or otherwise, as you're saying indirectly the last number of they're including the swimmers. what's the media? how to say? well, unfortunately, the hostility towards the r a c team is really tenfold in western media. some of the headlines are actually pretty shocking. many of them fairly can disguise that discuss the russians have been allowed to learn that, that you winning metals, beautiful music. and although window dressing such as calling itself the rush and

limpid committee to suggest an appearance of neutrality cannot mask the stench of corruption and appeasement. the i received the entire plan completely backfired. it certainly didn't keep the russians out, and it certainly didn't shame russia were putting, has used the band to pump up nationalistic pride. and that was us, gymnast simone biles had to pull out the media with disappointment about, well, that's paid the way for the russians, which is exactly of course what happened as they deserved the one. we're hoping that the media will kind of take a step back and just objectively report on the ongoing offence on the triumphs on the losses of those lempke as well and fortune. we've been disappointed, i suggest there's a little bit of fox story to this as well. right, what if? well, if i think most people are why, but this is all the fall out from the uncovering of thought and that you do p scheme amongst fresh enough these back in 2014 washer was found before we had so many major international sporting events about today to reduce to 2 years,

no russian officials did come out. they admitted mistakes had been made in the antidote program, but they also did claim that the band was politically motivated, but the truth is thought is the past that have been repercussions for that. what's happening now in tokyo was essentially the demonize ation of hundreds of proven clean athletes who are playing by the rules down to a team who are also getting tested repeatedly in the last number of winter and summer. exactly. they are, they are the 3rd, have to team off on us and china. so it's real beautification by those athletes by the media. not have to say really as a credit to those are the athletes that despite all of this, that they've managed to block out all that noise and still keep mounting when a podium we spoke with andre walker, a john list and commentator who says at the end of the day, the russian athletes deserve a break. individual athletes got nothing to do with it. nobody is ever suggested that these athletes have been trying to represent the contrary. russia is not the

most, a butcher is not the enemy. and certainly, even if we're supposed to animate the idea that we would publish, individual athletes is absolutely wrong. these athletes remember, have done what you've asked them today. they were taught all of their lives and they walked into that stadium as o. c, which is brochure. olympic committee rather than representing their own country that was embarrassing and humiliating to them, but they did it on the last, gave them a break while they are cotton maloney, just a fall and on the tokyo games and around a week's time before it opens again on the power lympics and theme are sees a final preparations are under way. a journalist on power athlete i dmitri ignite hopeful, went along to get a taste of one of the very toughest disciplines that of power taekwondo. hi everyone, me watching a diary about the preparations for the upcoming paralympics in tokyo, which will kick off students. and today we're at the pero minova sports center. he

used to train people without any disability, but now you have a whole army of power athletes. what's that like that very cool. ah ah ah, i read about you why was literally crying. it's something unimaginable. your mother left you when you were born and later your adopted right? yes. i was in the 5th grade when i was bullied to go with my backpack. i said to her, what are you doing? i'll tell my mother and she replied, you don't have a real mom. you are adopted. it was painful to hear that. but then i made up my mind and decided to be strong. there is only one, pardon and pick combat sports. many people have no concepts of how disabled people can fight, but they can do it here. they fight, which are protected as much as possible. yes,

there are people who got enormous fortitude, they are people who have nothing to lose. they still would find a job, they struggle their entire life. that's why they throw themselves in sports. people normally retire from taekwondo at the age of 30, but disabled people sometimes go on until they're 40. i don't think the top harlem pins are disabled because they could easily take on any one. the have a mouth guard and helmet with a face show. we also have handle growing protection, as well as an electronic chest protector, leg pads, and electronic footwear. for the tell us more about the electronics. what do they do? is it like in fencing where it lights up when someone hits you? yes, we have an electronic chest protector with sense of own it, as well as an extra exhaust with 12 senses. you get points if you hit the sensor.

so you can receive even more points if your lender spinning kick. i was the, when a determined by the number of points for so the number of points is equal to the number of blows, the more points you get, the higher your place. yes, each tried last 2 minutes. now 3 rounds with one minute breaks. check $12.00 is the rapid sport. it's not only about fighting, it's about thinking. everyone has reached such a high level to get to the lympics that you can just fight. you have to think about what your opponent is doing. so it's a bit like playing chess. yes, you should be quicker than your opponent dog. she's blows. i dropped a half way through the program here when i t and still the comma. a new study has filed that american universities appear to be much more interested in ensuring diversity than teaching history. that's in the mix of your stories coming your way in just about one minute's time. ah,

i hello, driven by a dreamer shaped by those in me dares think we dare to ask me ah, in the wake of the 2nd high level meeting, where does the fraught china us relationship stand the 1st meeting in anchorage, alaska? was it embarrassing failure for secretary of state blinking at the 2nd meeting, the chinese presented the americans with

a set of demand. they would seem to stay just set for real negotiations and not just the app for me, the, the, the, the micro, moscow. this is our t, the united nations headquarters in western afghan us dawn had been attacked with rocket propelled grenades and gunfire. we can confirm one god dead. several others injured. no. un personnel had been heard the area and the compound has been, well, it's seen fighting between government forces and the taliban. at the headquarters attackers, though so far, only be described as anti government elements. the un already said it will hold those responsible to accounting. this attack against the united nations is deplorable,

and we condemn it in the strongest terms. our 1st thoughts are with the family of the office of slain, and we wish a speedy recovery to those injured. it comes con, forces managed to rest, but control of a key northern district. from the taliban, the retreating militants are left behind a very deliberate trail of destruction. now despite the afghan forces victory, the taliban has been largely a cent and have a look at this map right here. tell about take more territory in the last 2 months that it has in the last 2 decades. it now has a dominant presence in the north, the northeast and many central provinces as well. and as we understand the taliban is closing in on key cities, couldn't do. it's an kandahar. well, a political and economic atlas, a chevy to a raspberry, told us despite the rapid gains by the taliban, there is a silver lining to the us troop withdrawal. the situation is i want to sound has been really chaotic for the last 20 to the american on the pretext of trying to get

rid of the government, the regime in cowboy, at that time it was dominated by the dollar bond. but what you've got to really understand is that american interference, and it's good that the americans that now leaving, i want to spend all to get that by the end of september. and really let be a funny besides them said was their faith an outcome should be, but certainly the americans are there and also my own government. the british have continuously supported at the us base should leave and that's what the salad bomb have been demanding for the last 20 years. and i hope that really come to an end, as i said, as with abiding, this problem is that all true when lead one is done by the end of september 20 parts here at moscow, discrimination and sucking these are at the center of

a slew of new lawsuits in america taking aim out so called critical race theory. the subject looks at society from the perspective of systemic racism. and his teaching in schools has been a matter of very heated debate. at the head of the legal form representing the plaintiff's praise what he calls that bravery. clients, bravery, confronting critical race theory, inspired bullying, indoctrination and retaliation which is not training or persuasion. in 2 of the cases, the complainants say they lost their jobs for opposing critical race theory. and a 3rd brought by parents. it's argue that alternative viewpoints are being deliberately excluded from schools. but while racial studies and schools are proving divisive in the higher education, inclusivity seems to be winning the day. in fact, the new study of 65 universities found that on average, they had more staff dedicated to ensuring equity and diversity than they did even

history. professors authors kellum open for this report. we have a new study conducted by the heritage foundation, a conservative think tank that talks about the prevalence of diversity, equality and inclusion staff or d, e staff on american universities and basically shows that there are more d i staff than there are history professors at this point most universities have roughly 45 d staffers. that's 4 times as many then disability staffers who deal and it would accommodate the needs of students who might have disabilities. and that's only 2 thirds as many history professors on, on the faculty and the university of louisville. kentucky got 50 d staffers and only 17 history folks. this is what the heritage foundation said about their finding. this research suggests that large diversity, equity inclusion bureaucracies appeared to make level positive contribution to campus climate. rather than being an effective tool for welcoming students from

different backgrounds, diversity, equity to inclusion personnel may be better understood at a signal of adherence to ideological political and activist goals. now this comes at the same time as there is a big controversy in the united states surrounding the teaching of critical race theory, which views us history through the lens of systemic racism. 8 states across the united states, a band, the teaching of critical race theory. however, a number of institutions use it not only in colleges, but also in high schools. and it seems like liberals are more open to this kind of teaching. whereas conservatives are vehemently opposed to it. this controversy has led to a lot of viral videos from parents complaining at school board meetings. some lawsuits, some claims that were fired for opposing the teaching of critical race theory. it's a very intense controversy with conservatives on one side liberals on the other,

and increasing cultural and political divide in the united states and europe ledgers that us back collective of musicians and artists is sewing seeds of descent in cuba, in an effort to destabilize its government the group in question is called the sun is see, the movement is made up of a cube, wrappers, musicians, artists, and journalists, washington has allegedly spend millions of dollars on them to gain sway among cuba, marginalized youth and movement. members of spoken out and supportive american sanctions, the former president trump, and even military intervention in cuba. earlier we spoke to the author of the investigation editor in chief of the grey zone, max blumenthal, what amazed me aside from the fact that the wall street journal in rolling stone have credited this group of artists and performers with providing in their words the catalyst for the day of protests we saw in cuba was that the national endowment for democracy in arm of the u. s. government,

that bank roles regime change operations abroad actually laid out an explicit strategy in 2009 to recognize marginalized and de socialize to use. and that very same year, usa id, another arm of the u. s. government, which is an intelligence front in many cases, began approaching to anti government hip hop wrappers in cuba. promoting them and even creating social media platforms to promote their anti government lyrics. and that has a program that has continued today and culminated with the rise of the senate seizure movement. and this anthem pop 3 e veto, which has become the slogan of these anti government anti communist cuban protests . on friday, the u. s. government agency closed as $2000000.00 funding program to any new applicants. the goal of the project was to bring about social change in cuba and support young people, women, l, g, b, t groups, artists,

and individuals of afro cuban descent. but while the us finance is cultural programs in cuba, the island itself remains under extremely severe economic sanctions. if cuba has been under u. s. embargoes now for more than half a century, we're saying since $962.00 and some estimates put cooper's economic losses from that at around $150000000000.00. it was also the biggest obstacle to buying medicine and equipment. during the pandemic this year, the un general assembly voted overwhelmingly against the embargo saying it violates basic human rights. on friday, the us imposed additional sanctions against cooper's national police, including personal sanctions targeting its chief. while this month, cuba source largest protest and decades, people were demanding more freedom and a better response to the pandemic cubans, president accused washington of inciting for demonstrations. but the us once a stable cuba, a max blumenthal again, claims the americans are in fact meddling more than ever in cuba in effect. well,

there's nothing there. there's nothing surprising about this except the, at the intense interest in the you among the us intelligence fronts like usa id now run by samantha power in weaponized in a group that will soon become the demographic majority in cuba, which has suffered enormously under the blockade. and that's afro cubans, and they spell this out explicitly in their documents. and that's why hip hop is becoming a vehicle that the u. s. likes to use it budgeted $110000.00 for a hip hop, n g o in columbia to go and train hip hop artists in cuba to become quote unquote democratic leaders. and so what we see is the u. s. actually exploiting and trying to create racial divisions in cuban society. in fact, doing what many liberals and democrats in the united states accused russia of doing

with no evidence with black lives matter. that's actually the operational program in cuba right now. in order to paint this state that has been racially progressive, which has given asylum to black american dissidence, which fought apartheid south africa to paint it as racially regressive. and even structurally racist are those who are new stories for this. our here were to archie international. it's been a pleasure having you with us for the program tonight live from moscow. it's about nearly half past 1 in the morning here on the russian capital. that will consider the desk and half an hour with more of your worldwide headlines. me. ah ah ah,

the pop quiz procession is 0 time in length. what do you call that? what is that word? it's called communism right? only in communism with our state run countries, they have no recession, but they also have no way for anybody to have a life rather than being a slave. so okay, that's where america, that is oh right now,

there are 2000000000 people who are overweight or obese. it's profitable to sell food that is fatty and sugary and faulty and addicted. not at the individual level. it's not individual willpower. and if we go on believing that will never change as obesity epidemic, that industry has been influencing very deeply. the medical and scientific establishment, ah, what's driving the mac? it's corporate. me. joining me today is franklin graham, america's most prominent evangelical leader, also president of the martin's pass of the billy graham evangelistic association. thank you for joining me. what does it mean to be a spiritual lead to, to a president? what does that involve? well,

you have to be very careful as to what you say and insert. i want to keep those conversations private. that's very important. i know your president and student present food and in this country, you know, says very difficult to forgive people that betray. and i think is right for clergyman where we can betray the confidence of president or someone that we're dealing with spiritually. and so my father was very careful and i tried to be careful to do you feel the burden of that responsibility or indeed sort of the power. you know when you're speaking your festival, he's got such an incredible reach. you know, there are 90 to 100000000 evangelicals for i think in the u. s. at the moment your