[000:00:00;00] a ah ah, protest in europe as a new lockdown restrictions are imposed violence. ropes in the netherlands for a 2nd night, while in brussels are flashes between police and demonstrators. on the weekly this our we tried to work out where it's all headed with a panel guest. my response to the politicians is where well, you, why in your case numbers was slightly hi. hi, highest in as me get you stuck my new role with a new policy. something else comes out there was a lot of let the politicians do what they want. they didn't follow some of the mandates they weren't wearing mass.

i think in the us this week, riots erupted as cow rittenhouse is found not guilty of homicide in the killing of 2 people at a racial justice protest. last year, it has divided american society with politicians and the media rushing to take sides and migrants and start to leave bella bruce's border with poland. after more than a week of camping out in freezing conditions in a desperate bid to reach the ear and violent clashes with the polish forces, we witness saying so far the largest scale attempt at crossing the board and by going to see the on backing down and we can hear the approach of a military helical. oh,

we've just been purpose prayed. ah, oh, a broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow. this is our international. glad to have you with us as we recap weeks, the top stories and what we could spend right efforts to stem the latest surge of coven infections have seen frustrations boil over to you over the last several days . the latest protests in belgium capital on sunday afternoon. so right police, fire, tear gas and water cannons and clashes with those opposing restrictions. demonstrators had earlier thrown fireworks at officers and built barricades to stop police getting through the 35000 strong. reli had started peacefully, but city center traffic became paralyzed as streets and tunnels were blocked. the anger is directed at restrictions, which include requiring passes to enter public places. now some of the most ferocious protests have taken place in the netherlands with the country struggling

with lockdown measures imposed a week ago. dozens of writers, countrywide have been arrested. the austrian capital, sol classes as well as it heads to a full national lockdown which comes into force in the next few hours. mm hm. mm reporting from saturdays protests in vienna or europe correspondent, peter oliver. as you can see, the dentist ations here is they come in to the final stages lighting the flesh behind these demonstrations coming out to say,

go to the austrian government policies when it comes to coven 19 with glimpses coming through the geisha. as we had towards the historic historic policy here in the center, they all seem capital quite your money themes and they come through that with the as they come through the asked to try and get away from the crowd of it as they compete with that flu is going for the most part, this demonstration was incredibly peaceful. however, there was some flash points between demonstrators in place. things were thrown from the demonstrators towards law enforcement, who responded by dragging people out and taking them away into custody. there was also some incidences where i saw some teenagers starting bottles towards the place in order to try and get them to give them a chase. the reason that all of this has started is because of the actions that the austrian government is taken to try and calm down the coven,

19 problem that the country has. that was starting last monday. what was called a lockdown of the on vaccinated of 3000000 people fell into that particular group. those that haven't either got a vaccination and can prove it, or the can prove that they've recovered from coven 19. that then escalated further on friday of this week. when we are well, when alexander schellenberg, the austrian chancellor, announced that from the homing monday, a national lockdown will be going on. he also said that from the 1st of february, that will be well, a mandatory vaccination policy in place across austria. all sure, becoming the 1st country in europe to do so. that really upset a lot of people. lot of those that we spoke to a lot of people that come out here just behind me flaring those horns. very upset that all should become 1st european nation is put in place, this type of mandatory vaccine policy. i sing,

it's not the question from the government. i sing it to aggression for the people. if i want it, i can have it. but what's with the 1000000 people's? they don't like this. what's with this? we have a problem with the austrian government. ah, we, we have freight to lose our democrat, the. i am not happy with this sir solution because sir, it's against done the wish of offer people and the, and human rights are being found on, on, on the ground already or beneath, under the ground. they'll alexander schellenberg. they all say and chances says, the reason he did that was because his hand was forced because to many people in his country as he sees it a fall and fall of what he calls anti vax propaganda. and that's one of the reasons he said that a vaccine uptake in austria was so low. these people low say they just don't want

the government to have so much say in what happens to them, why they take vaccines. the real statistics, though are not austria is in the grip of a real biting situation. when it comes to this fault, wave of coven 90, particularly in the west of the country, hospitals are at creaking point. when it comes to taking severely ill people in intensive care units, they are just don't have the capacity to be able to cope. and all she is vaccine rate is below the average when it comes to the rest of the european union. however, these people here say that they just don't agree with the policies. and the way that alexander shalon bos gorman's is handled, they say, are in austria, all the while, the world health organization continues to stress that vaccines are the most effective way to prevent the spread of cov, it. but as countries continue to impose locked down so many people are asking, when might these restrictions end? earlier in the week, kevin owen spoke to medical and social science experts to try and gauge where it's

all heading. fraction i get is these are serious panic measures by the politicians where were you when your case numbers was slightly hi. hi, highest ill and going all the time to are always is early and extensively. they need to stop being. i react cheap and acting on impulse because that's the worst time to make decisions. and i think that's the problem that we've got since a pandemic and began there was a lot of let the politicians do what they want. they didn't follow some of the mandates. they weren't wearing masks when they were supposed to be masks. and then they bowed to the pressures of business and capitalism and lifted restrictions very early on coalition, already real pressure because life has to go on, people have to earn a living the economy also keep taken on at some point a suppose the politicians because they've got their reputations on the line as well, are gonna say, well we, when we're trying to ease up, we're trying to move forward the car. when can i? this is a failure of governance. this is

a failure. all the right processes. so the scientists were saying, i early act extensively, and if you will controlling, then the economy is trashed and they say you how people are trashing the economy. what they do not want to accept is the economy is trashed because you messed up. i don't think it's quite that i'm specifically, i'm to choose a section of the medical profession to say, you know that we should be mandatory law. how are you? how is it mandatory when there's so much confusion going on? because a lot of people you're augusta should know because it works for the medical profession . i suppose we all the us know medics look to you to do the best practice to do the best possible thing. we do do the best thing for our patients, but the problem is, the guidance that we get given change is week by week is to confusion just as soon as we get you start one set of new wrong with a new policy. something else comes out which contradicts that so many things to

worry about. gas prices are enough cove, it seems to be coming back for a fist on it. still getting mixed messages from the politicians. what's gonna happen is we had into a new year, maybe go into a 6th or 7th wave of this. well, i think there are 2 things that i really want us to think about here as we try to push back to normal. first off normal, wasn't that great for everybody. and so i know that all of these things we're talking about are important and we want to get on with our lives. but normal wasn't great for people experiencing homelessness, homeless, it wasn't great for people experiencing racism. is there things that are continuing to exist? so if we go back to normal we, we need to be careful not to go back to, to what was some sort of nostalgia. and i also think we need employers at universities. big, big places that bring in lots of people into city centers to remember that there's going to be a social return here that people are going to have some anxieties. so we need to remember 2 things. remember, nostalgia is not always a good thing. normal wasn't last night, go back to normal number one. and number 2,

we need some time. americans, enraged by the acquittal of co written house on homicide charges have turned out in several cities in protest. teenager brought a rifle to a racial justice rally last year in wisconsin. he then shot and killed 2 people and wounded a 3rd actions. his lawyers said were in self defense, but the rulings sparked unrest across the country. we the jury find the defendant kyle, he'd written kyle: each red house not guilty with now that the jury and handed down the verdict. it's dawn the the trials over.

rittenhouse not guilty on all accounts. we weren't sure where this was going. we being of course, the media and everybody else. it was day for deliberations. the journey from what we heard was, had ordered food. there was talk about maybe if there was a verdict handed down that possibly the deliberations were going to extend into the weekend next week. is thanksgiving, it's a holiday here in the united states. so even even that the chief defender, that the main mark richard, who was written house is lawyer. he sat there, they were betting that tuesday $430.00 they they're, they're more than likely would be a decision whether it was on jury, whether a verdict was handed down that the jury would wrap up by then. rest assured, this is not the end of the debate. having to do with this case, it will continue to be debated both in the media, the politics surrounding it, and those who, who support current house and those who are, who are opposed to the ruling today. but my stunning turn of events, absolutely dramatic,

and an overall trial that's been dramatic and follow nationally and internationally . mainstream media was quick to take sides and even got some facts badly wrong. british online newspaper, the independent claimed that written house shot 3 blackman, when in fact all 3 were white and his husky tailor comments now the trial and how it has split the us not guilty towards that of sparked a firestorm in the us white nationalist and domestic terrorist across this country, our high fiving hat, this person been african american, all of a lead latino. he will be behind bars tonight. we've got a pattern now we're white. men feel that they have the right to enforce the law themselves. the child of kyle rittenhouse had america on the edge of it, feet, it set up an epic clash for some, he's a moore in order. a hero, a real american,

taking on out of control riotous for others peace. everything that's wrong with the country, a racist white vigilante, you can cute to kill no questions asked. and while the judge might think his courtroom showed the very best of american justice, that attentiveness and the cooperation that you gave to us. this justifies the confidence that the founders of our country placed the many divide. it proves the opposite. that justice system is rotten too. it's a very cool. we just witnessed a system built on white supremacy, validate the terroristic acts of a white supremacist. this only further validates the need to abolish our current system. white supremacy cannot be reformed. a system that legitimizes vigilante murder is deeply broken. today's verdict speaks for itself. i've spent the majority

of my career working to make our criminal justice system more equitable. it's clear there's still a lot more work to do if you needed any more proof of how polarizing the rittenhouse case was no, no farther than twitter. minutes off to the verdict was delivered to hashtags that started trending. so you either with him or against him, that was no in between, especially true if he were mainstream media, they might have been short on the facts, but they shall fanned the flames of division. many outlets continued to cool. rittenhouse, a white supremacist, to fight counting up no evidence. and despite the fact that the 2 people he killed, what both white and well, everyone expected reporting around the trial to be frenetic, desperation for the ultimate scoop per some to cross the line. i have instructed that no one from emission b c. news will be permitted in this building, someone who is following the jury bus. that is a very,

extremely serious matter. i saw the president on who is what the thought happened. well biden's a bit confused about how he feels, having initially backed the jury. i say why with curious if the work you have to abide by on his way home, he clearly had a change of heart and decided he wasn't pleased at all. so he put out a statement expressing his anger, but at the same time he didn't want things spiraling out of control. after all, he's already got enough rating bashing bottles on his hands. i urge everyone to express their views peacefully consistent with the rule of law, violence and destruction of property have no place in our democracy. not a surprise, right? we know biden's all about healing a process. he started back during his election campaign when he posted a video about white supremacists include thing a fo, 2 have written house, but the case was too divisive, and the anger too much to stem people,

took to the streets. ah, it. and with $500.00 national guards on stand by, that's clearly no expectation that comes on the horizon. we all knew the rittenhouse trial would expose deep seated divisions. but the intensity of the emotions it's triggered shows how volatile the situation really is, and how all it takes in today's america is one small strike of a match for everything to explode. us libertarian activists, spike cohen talked to us about the reaction america can expect. this is actually going to stoke racial divides and the reason it's going to stoke racial divides is because politicians and media figures are using it to stoke racial, divides kyle is white, and he shot 3 white people and killed 2 white killing 2 of them. so this on its

face should not be racial, but it became racial because media heads and politicians who wanted to make it racial, have turned it into a racial incident. and it shouldn't be. but unfortunately, that's the reality we live in, is that everything, you know, any incident that happens like this, you're going to have politicians sometimes on both sides of the argument on an end . and we incorporated figures who are going to do everything they can to stoke, treat intention to keep people divided, to keep them watching and clicking and the key people distracted from the real swindle that's happening at the top. still to come in the program, suspicions that ukraine is planning provocations against crimea will tell you about the warnings voice this sunday by the russian security council among our stores after a short break. stay with us with

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dares sinks. we dare to ask oh, well, them back. this is the weekly art international. now after a week long stand off with polish authorities. many migrants started to leave the belarus you border this week with some already getting flights back home to iraq. but despite the polish government's tough stance, hundreds of protesters marched through warsaw in support of the migrants on their doorstep. many were holding banners calling for the authorities to welcome them into poland. i've even gone off reported from the border in the week where attentions were running high. we are witnessing so far, the largest scale attempt at crossing the board. what the migrants are doing. they are throwing whatever rubbish they can,

and as well as rocks at the police and that they are responding in turn. by the use of by the use of pepper spray, we are trying to stay at safe distance. i look over there, they are throwing rocks and they're trying to dismantle that part of the barbed wire. it's not clear what they're going to do if they breach the barbed wire fence because there's another one a much more solid. well, a people have been growing increasingly desperate here and are, we could see that the disenchantment that the, that they are very, very angry and irritated at theme. you know, i would basically at their predicament, at the conditions that they have been left in. there was a dangerous, dangerous throw over there, there the group of military of polish military police who are defending the border . they just moved closer. so it looks like they're maneuvering. now they have brought a water cannon. i think they, they're bringing to water can. okay. we have to move out. now this was, this was the tear gas. it looks like they're adamant to use water cannon and in a weather like this, this could be very,

very serious for the health of anybody who gets sprayed ah, as for the indiscriminate use of pepper spray, i mean, they are going all out. this is true because right now i can hook skews because right now i can up usually we need to move out a bit. yeah. i do apologize. it is. it is some, it is nasty. ah, this is the sound and you can see more tear gas more tear gas canisters being used against the migrants here. oh, it is making them more angry. it is making them more desperate. oh, looks like this, of that there is a off the aunt backing down my grants here, the on backing down. and now we can hear the approach of a military helicopter. it is a polish military helicopter has been used a as surveillance on behalf of the polish side. so, you know, getting

a birds eye view on the, you know, and the location of all the migrants and also it, it is used as a scare tactics indeed with college of offense. so part of offense is almost down so. so the polish, the polish border patrol, the polish military police, they have been they have been manning that section of the fence more extensively than others. and there's also another water cannon. now helping out from over there, people are now pelting rocks. i can see that they are no pelting rocks at the, at the security forces, guarding the check point. so now the entirety of this section of the border is a war zone. it's migrants v the military police. we are right now as close as we can get to the board, a check point where the majority of the action is going on. right now. you can see a group of folks active people pelting the military police, the polish military police, with rocks. this is what they're doing,

and we've just been pepper sprayed. i'm afraid. oh, good attentions and tempers. here. they fly. very high. the migrants here they have . they have a dismantled a part of the fence there. and road they are going in. it looks like they're cheering one of their rhone, that is mabel about of the fence. so they are covering it with some plastic. 2 probably to put to use it as a shield to protect themselves from tear gas. just look at that. oh my oh, that was brutal. they did not work at all. they're being sprayed relentlessly. right now. it seems that the polish that the polish side has. well enough has enough people as enough personnel, military personnel here to, for now keep the migrants at bay. as you saw from eager as report conditions, there have been freezing. none the less thousands of migrants have been camping out in that bitter cold at the border, hoping to get into the

e u. although this weekend, only a few dozen remained after most, were relocated to a nearby warehouse. a covered vaccination point has also been set up and a w h o representative checked on people there on sunday for despite the slightly improved conditions, some migrants have been left feeling so desperate that they say they just want to go back home, get liberty. we do to meet you and i don't have any more hope for the european union. we were sleeping in the forest for 10 days and they were children with us. it's very dangerous. and none of the you countries are ready to speak about this big problem and nobody accepts us in holland is using tear gas against women and children. and the you keep silence about this. poland is telling the media that we are dangerous. they seize as animals are, but we are not on emotion. oliver. i have failed to reach germany, and i want to go home. we've tried to get europe 3 times and we didn't succeed. i'm upset, but i saw happened to the board a can't stay very hard. it on my leg,

one of the best that i am very tired. i don't want to try again. my family in iraq, her saying please come back. when i saw poland, you steer gas against women and children. i thought other european countries would be no different men. oh, good. and the blame game goes on all round the u. n. says pollings response to the crisis, does break humanitarian law and rights to asylum. while some you states accused bellows of engineering events in a hybrid war against the block allegations denied by the bel russian president, who in turn accuses the you of violating borderless. we discussed the crisis throughout the week with a number of guests who told us brussels needs to do more to resolve the situation. bureau is very ill at ease with y'all. they can only impose sanctions, but there isn't much sanction that they can impose on barbarous goes the, the comic lanes are cut or, or there are not many, anyway, sanctions,

it's just the word. it is totally inefficient that really annoyed by this problem. because as you here in germany now the player that these people should not come in, it's the exact opposite of what mrs. oracle setting 2015 are the shot from best. they can come. they are fleeing the chaos caused by the united states and europe in our eyes. they are trying to escape that chaos by coming to the one corner of the boat in the world, the european union, which is greeted with a notarized fence and police and units. it really says something about the state of the will. we are to day that we go round the world, creating kill us in havoc, and yet we won't allow in 34000 people. men am highway educating thought those architects and so on. we could the european union and the u. k. can absorb those numbers, not difficult. it. moscow's warning of a significant increase in the likelihood of ukraine carrying out provocations against crimea. the deputy head of the russian security council said on sunday that there has been

a spike in activity by ukrainian special services and radical groups towards the peninsula, including the illegal movement of arms, ammunition and explosive. it comes after the kremlin spokesperson said there has also been a suspicious uptake in what he called illogical military accusations from the us. we cannot exclude the possibility of a provocation. this hysteria is artificially inflated. we are accused of some kind of unusual military activity on our territory by those who brought their own forces from overseas. in other words, united states of america. this is not very logical or decent. western media have recently launched a number of unsubstantiated claims of an imminent russian invasion of ukraine. us officials have also alleged that russia is placed $100000.00 troops on its border and is readying an attempt to expand its territory. meanwhile, nato has increased its exercises and reconnaissance flights in the black sea roofing significant concerns in the kremlin political alas gilbert,

the doctor says it all amounts to double speak from the west. so much of what we read in the, in the, the major mainstream newspapers have no connection with the way the real world real world works for how major politicians think they're coming from the think tank within the pentagon and from associate propaganda organizations. and they're not for identification charges, again, instruction, the military provocations from nato from united states are there already. united states and nato countries are very quick to tribute to russia, their own, their own activities in their own designs. and they take this as a starting point for, i suppose, at western response. point of fact, there is no response from the west. it is initiative of the west to which russia typically react and the military threat posed by these the

visits by, by us naval forces was, has strictly a political dimension. and mainly i believe was projected to ukraine as to atlanta grab by being a motive for russian activity. but that's not nonsense to international ah