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ah ah, life by now looking in less than diplomatic mood ahead crisis talked late on tuesday with living that putin triggered by tension. so you crank the chair republic confirms mandatory vaccination for some professions midbury disagreements in the you of a coercion of to states where as to come up with a common approach to making jobs. compulsory and r c looks at the abuse face by female prisoners who have to share cells with self identifying trans women as part of our special coverage. we talked to the legal director of a women's rights group that suing the state of california of the issue. she tells
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us that women feel trapped. they told her that if she wanted to be separated from him, that she needed to basically prove herself, there was no chance that he would be removed from her space. ah, a very good morning. thanks for joining me here on our tea international. first, his, our high stakes talks between the russian in us presidents are taking place later today amidst rampant speculation about a possible invasion of ukraine, an increase nato activity in the black sea ahead of their call. joe biden set the tone by saying that he will not accept any red lines from vladimir putin yet at the same time. the white house says it is not seeking any conflict. long story now from, from antonio hawkins. he joins me good morning to you don't. to me,
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the situation hasn't changed much over the years is always the same. america says we're not seeking any kind of conflict. and it says the while you putting that missile bases in the countries that surrounds isn't much going to change in the conversation today. well, that's a good question. everyone was waiting to find out the answer to the president civil . so of course, once in person that was back, i was somewhat the geneva summit through the naval side of phone conversation in july. this will be the 3rd direct interaction between the 260 the end of the trump era. and since, and really it's fair to say that relations have best made the constant study low, it was going down down to spiral. and this is the health of course polos, i'm from, from delegations of russian military build up. but the ukranian border plans for invasion over the country. and of course, the threats of new sanctions against the russian government under return potentially to the talk over the so called nuclear option cutting rush off from the international swift payment system that some of us were discussing earlier in
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summer. it didn't come until you think of something they're putting on the table once again. now, putting the spokesman between pest golf has dismissed much of the us rhetoric as aggressive on hostile ahead of this latest video. so it just feed into it, which is the rhetoric coming from the u. s. and e u. lead to sounds pretty aggressive. we see plenty of fake news about russia allegedly planning an aggressive invasion. at the same time, no one talks the key of, nor warns key of against even thinking of a military intervention in it and yet, and luc guns, conflict and given the complicates a background of us russian relations. it will be a difficult discussion for the leaders. the presidents obviously have the need to talk to each other. even in the most drained of moments when attitudes are not what i call rational or sober, but emotionally magnified. so is the escalation, get stronger every day than the precedence you obviously bad the responsibility, feel the need to discuss the issues? well, i'm talking of speaking with you cry and what house confirming
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a press briefing that secretary blinking will be speaking to president. still the ukraine ahead of this video call. and the press briefing, the white house also stated on a quote, like you said earlier, does not seek conflict with russia while also into continuing to threaten consequences for harmful actions. whatever that may mean. and president barton is very much set the tone for today's music and statement just a little bit earlier that day. will you repeat leaders of also cool and russian not to deepen the ukraine? border crisis as the media continues, of course to high pop, but speculation about war. and the country's defense minister over ukraine is also cool on countries. the u. k. canada, to provide military assistance, military support against possible aggression and speaking of aggression. russia,
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of course, few things very differently, abused the provocation, austerity coming from a very different source, museums on that issue. and you must, now we see that nato is taking an extremely aggressive position. we see mister stalsen bugs, rhetoric, we see the different u. s. leaders, rhetoric burst, they all say they don't accept any red lines. second, they say that nato will do whatever it's once. 3rd, it will do it on whatever territory it wants. 4th of all of this is aim to deter russia. we do not like that. we will do everything to ensure our own interests. now, it's always hard to say what the outcome of such share summit's video calls or meetings will be at this stage. we really don't know what's going to happen. i think this is going to be more of a determination of direction for the relationship between bruton and biden, and what was in moscow for coming weeks and months. and if no consensus or compromised is reached, we are likely to secure, to be looking at another a downward spiral of sanctions count sanctions,
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perhaps fit without explosives. or if the president can come to some sort of compromise on consensus than at least those threats of sanctions, can we put on hold and perhaps that hype and speculation about war or can finally settle down a little bit here cause that conversation coming up late sir. today we'll watch, crossett be great interest. thanks for the background to that. dan hawkins. with me, i came to the czech republic now which is confer mandatory vaccinations for people is over 60 as well as for certain professions that include health care workers and police officers. the move comes after european commission president eslie of underline, urged the states to consider mandatory jobs and come up with a common approach. but there's also some strong opposition to that. i'm generally very skeptical about coercion. i think we can reach an adequate vaccination rate by other means, nor would we reach 100 percent by force. now, sol as priscilla, physician as resistance on european strengths to brussels of the latest city,
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to say a massive protest against cobra, restrictions and things got quite techy with people hurling rocks and police using tear gas and water cannon. ah. and it's not just belgium, where anti champ sentiment is boiled over the weekend. people are also out in force across austria, germany and slovenia. and despite the world health organization's insistence that our inoculation is the only way to and the pandemic. early my colleague in, in r neal discussed the ease vaccination campaign with a panel of guess. we've gone through 2 years of at least in this country, people saying one thing doing, doing the other than the actually changing the rules. and when they opened up the
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parks in this country, for instance, that was the end of it. we're never going to be able to get back to the point where people need to make the tough decisions, allow employees to, to work from home without penalty or social ostracize ation. we know that vaccines do a fantastic job for a very safe medicine. and that protecting the health care systems and these different countries. a lot of what we're seeing presenter, particularly the central and eastern europe, is a lack of trust that the government, i think a lot of a lot of this is about bad or poor messaging throughout the pandemic. and the fundamental breakdown in the trust that the population, individuals with their governments, people should have the choice as to what medical treatment they had. first, all people were told was told to have our 1st job, which we did and then now a 2nd job. and now where we're being encouraged to have a booster, like, where is it going to end? do we have to have this coven vaccination every 3 months? so how, where is it, you know? and then it just seems quite confusing because government say one thing and do
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another thing. they tell us do this and then they change their mind for us to do that. lauren, so you fearful where this leads? if mondrey vaccinations do become widespread, i can see there being a massive backlash to this. i think it is counter intuitive you know. busy except that there's a degree of vaccine agency and i can understand it up to a point, and that's where i think with a message, it is important. i wonder if you know vaccine possible. there are other ways of doing this to try and persuade people about the the about getting dark. so they did . i just wonder whether mandating vaccination is just to start to fall. i think there's absolutely a financial motive behind a lot of this. i think some of the financial motive is that governments aren't willing to take some of the drastic and things such as locked down to restrictions . i think here in the u. k, you'll see something in january. if we look at universities, for instance, continuing to bring in students into areas and mandating, not that staff are vaccinated for instance, but that staff teach in areas that are crowded with students who were coughing, sometimes wearing mask. sometimes not
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a lot of this is because we're all living on economic bubbles that are just ready to burst. a lot of nurses and health care professionals. ready already leave it in the profession g to and you know, the problem is in a mental health issues. and now you want to make an injection mandatory. i don't think is saying, i don't think it's right. and i think is a lot to do is educating people and giving them the choice vaccine producers, including the turner, they are warning the drugs their drugs might be less effective against than you all may crohn very. and if that proves truth does up just simply precious back to square one, i don't think so. i think it's likely that the car vaccines will have some impact, even if that protection drops a few percentage. that's a big difference to the large population of infected individuals. and therefore, we need to think other about other mitigations alongside oxidation. we also need to take into account the controversial police crime sentences and course bill and
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given and we're living in a please stay already. this is quite wiring and now they're talking about force faxing. it's very wiring and i just asked myself, where is it gonna end to get over the last year and a half of governments that haven't been following their own rules and corporations that haven't been following the rules and making a profit off the backs of people who have to pay a lot of money sometimes to get access to vaccines. there's an inequality now, christie, atlantic, mandatory jobs are also funding divisions. new york is set to become the 1st us cities that require vaccines for all private sector workers. now, bill de blasio says that the rule will take effect later this month. just days before the term ends. on the scale, moulton reports, new york city mayor bill de blasio, who portrays himself as a national leader in the fight against colbert 19, has taken a pretty bold move and announced a vaccine mandate for the whole city of new york. for all private businesses, he cited the on the kron variant as well as cold weather and seasonal flues and
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other factors in making this decision. quite a big move from the new york city mayor, who is outgoing, he will soon be out of office. here's what he said, as of today, we're going now say, 1st in the nation, measure our health commissioner. well, now's a vaccine mandate for private sector employers across the board. now, vaccines are already required for all city employees that teachers, firefighters, police officers, emergency medical workers, etc. furthermore, they are required for the staff of all religious and private schools in new york city. but this new mandate will hit a 184000 private businesses across the city of new york. they will be required to have vaccinations for all of their employees. quite a dramatic move and there's been quite a negative reaction and response mayor diblasio would impose a 1st in the nation vaccine mandate for all private sector workers in new york city
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. build a blasio isn't a mer heater. tyrant just spoke to catherine wilde, the president of a prominent n y c. business group. we were blindsided. there is no full warning, no discussion, no idea about whether it's legal or who he expects to enforce it. new york city announces covey vaccine mandate for private businesses going when no city has gone before, because it's potentially unenforceable, and will probably get stuck in the courts until well after the mid to parts at the end of the year. now the new york city mayor expects that this will survive any legal challenges. we already saw a situation where for a moment jo biden's, federal mandate was put on hold by the courts, but then later upheld in the court of appeal. and bill diblasio expects the same exact expects that the courts will uphold this mandate and it will move ahead. now it's important to know the mandate will go into effect on december 27th,
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which is the day. it's actually 4 days before bill de blasio is set to leave office and be replaced by new york city. mayoral elect, eric adams, the new mayor, will be coming in and replacing bill de blasio 4 days after the mandate. now eric adams, the incoming mayor, who was elected in the vote a few months ago, says that he plans to meet with people who are critical of the mandate and listen to what they have to say. and if you taken notice of the tone in the city right now, and the anger that may prove to be a little bit more than he is bargaining for. meanwhile, the nations of the 3rd world to suffer from vaccine shortages, the international federation of the red cross says that this global inequality is just unacceptable. as president gave on t and exclusive interview, you can catch it in full after this bulletin. with other more cases of sexual violence in female prisons being perpetrated by so far identifying trends, women, many questioning laws that allow them to choose the type of prison they serve. time
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that the women's liberation front is now suing the state of california. for one such law and his lead to joined dantes husky taylor to share some of the harrowing stories of women. we've been left in fear of rape. meet princess. so we andromeda love, formerly known as hobby bang. i'm an ex inmate at the washington correction center for women, and one of 3 transgender prisoners who transferred that this here. but why are we talking about this into virtual and not the thousands of others who've passed through the same doors. after being sentenced to prison, after being found guilty of having had sexual relations with the 12 year old girl bingham decided to identify as a woman and be called andromeda love. in this way, he managed to be transferred to the correctional center for women in washington. once there, he was found by prison stuff along with his cell mate, an inmates with a developmental disability in a bed and without clothes for following this incident, prison all far tis determined that love had raped her vulnerable cell mate,
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who was already a victim of sexual assault even more troubling prison self allegedly didn't file a report. and now fears that similar incidents could still take place. a former guard that shares these fairs, believing that a work system is being taken advantage of by deceitful men. because whilst the states prison department says that his policy ensures call treatment and that there is a rigorous screening process, according to the person who's been on the inside the realities a little different. the only prerequisite is that the men must identifies female. they are required to hud reassignment surgery. don't need to be in the process of transitioning, nor do they have to be on a home or in regimen. the only requirement is that they must proclaim to identify as a woman fleming, even claims that love got a show had caught and refer to, to identifying as male upon being released,
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and that of the transgender inmates at the same perhaps, on surprising than that, the policy of prisons in washington state has come on to scrutiny just as a has a bit farther down the west coast in california. because that earlier this year, a law was passed, allowing and mates to choose housing based on that gender identity. now says that around $300.00 requests be maybe only 6 so far have been denied numbers that have scared some so much that a lawsuit has been filed, claiming that the bill unconstitutionally puts women at risk. so cynical exploitation of fundamental human rights with wild increasing you to the i did over the issue. i spoke to lauren adams, legal director of the women's liberation front, the organization behind that very little suit. the reason we have, you know, women only presents that we separate by sexes because men pose
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a danger to women. and there is no evidence that men who identify as transgender, regardless of what they've done to change their bodies, that they've posed less risk to women. i would imagine that in the course of your why can i know property preparing thought little syria as well. you have spoken to a number of female and mates, and i just wanted to get your kind of general reaction as to what it is that you're hearing from them. we're hearing that they're, they're scared and they feel humiliated. this feels like just adding insult to injury, it's also important to know that many of the men who are transferring over have female co defendants are ex partners where in the women's presence. so just in california there's, i know, 2 women personally and there's a number of other women who i haven't spoken with who have their co defendants who have transferred over one of them. the man who transferred over killed her children
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and he has been put in her facility that she lives and have you had also a from anyone of cases where someone refer to twice dent flying as a male off. they were released from prison because that seems to be, i was when i was doing research, but that didn't seem to be a concern among some, i don't know about after they've been released, but i do know after they've been transferred. there is at least 2 who are in there now, who after they were transferred, stop taking hormones. they had been taking hormones and stopped in california alone . and many of them have they, you know, dress more feminine or wear their hair more feminine in the men's prison. and then when they arrive at the women's prison cut their hair, they start, you know, acting like man is, is how it's been put to me. and, and it's, it's, it's very terrifying for the women who have to share space with them and have to sleep in
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a locked room with them. have to shower in front of them and use the toilet in front of them to feel unsafe and to be unsafe. in that way, the medical have that being more reports of sexual assault has that been? pregnancy? for example, is contraception now handed out, we know that they have been handing out condoms. they have changed their policy from as of when this was implemented so that other contraceptives such as birth control, hormonal birth control, and other things are available to the women inmates. which of course, is there, acknowledgement that these are men who are being transferred in there or else why would they need birth control? how's that being a case? female inmates feeling unsafe, or maybe they themselves have been a victim of something turned to the prison authorities for advice for help and found that they didn't receive anything going back to california to because that's the one i'm the state i'm work the most and on this issue they,
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there was one woman who was sexually assaulted by one of the the, the transferred inmates. and she immediately disclosed to staff like within, within a few minutes of it happening. and they told her that if she wanted to be separated from him, that she needed to basically move herself to either go to administrative segregation, which is essentially solitary. and then go to another prison. there was no chance that he would be removed from her space. and it wasn't until we got involved and you know, she was able to get them to finally treat it as a prison, rape elimination act complaint where they take it a little bit more seriously. so until that happened a, just so we don't know how many women have been dismissed like that. it's happening more and more. and we get emails from people and calls from people all the time, letting us know that it's happening in this state or that state. and it's just
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happening quietly because people know that it's not a defensible thing to do. and so they don't talk about it. it's up to us to expose it. deepening corporation and they shed will few those with the key takeaways of the russian indian summit in new delhi. we're president putin, that discount to part as part of the 2nd foreign trip. since the saw the pandemic, the 2 agreed to broaden joint activities in many spheres. including health care in the military, autism. katrinka fall this report from indian capital to understand russia's international priorities. this han allowed to understand where moscow stand on the global chess board. it just worth realizing what the russian president vladimir putin was up to less than 24 hours before the crucial. i didn't say mega vital video conference with the u. s. president joe biden. he went to new delhi and left the indian capital late in the night,
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and you only arrived in saw cheap russia early in the morning. in the meantime, in the west, mainly by nato countries. moscow is being accused of plotting some sort of invasion of ukraine or a rust accused of being aggressive elsewhere in the world. and calls are a very loud to once again isolate russia. now, a while, all of this is happening. moscow wants to show that up. it's got friends in asia and it's ready to expand these kind of ties if the western countries aren't looking forward to building partnerships with russia. in fact, i have latimer potent and a renter muddy. are always calling each other friends and they've had this warm relationship for years now already. but of course, it's not only about to the personal friendship between the 2 leaders in a joint statement that was already published on the kremlin website. there are $99.00 paragraphs outlining the things that either have already been done together
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or that will be done together in the near future. this shows how much data india and russia c i to why at this point and how they want to increase cooperation in so many fields ranging from science, nuclear cooperation, space exploration. but most importantly, a military ties as well. this is what i asked. 3 the kremlin spokesperson dmitri pascall about when i was speaking him exclusively in the palace behind my shoulder injury military technical corporation is a very important component of our bilateral relations with india. and as the president said today at the beginning of his conversation with mister moody, these relations are quite unique in their essence because we jointly not only develop but also establish joint production of high tech military products. these
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are well known missiles that we're making together. and now the production of kalashnikov z as being established here and other equipment. this is extremely important and this is an advanced format of corporation, special privileged valued partnership. these are the words that are constantly being used by the members of the 2 delegations. i can remind you that india is buying rushes arms. india is buying the most advanced missile defense system. russian made the asset 400. russia is upgrading a nuclear power plant. here in this country, new delhi is ready to invest up to a $1000000000.00 in russia, and that in russia's far east, in particular, this is of course, something that is raising quite a few eyebrows in the west. and if we're talking this crucial military cooperation, frayed in arms and weapons, and there's a special program that outlines plans for
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a 10 year period. the previous one has just expired. and i can tell you that moscow in india have signed a new one, which is going to be valid until 2031. and yes, india has agreed to assemble the famous russian collage. think of guns, too. geo politics expert to swear in. charlie says that the talks between putin and modi already clear sign of the strength of the function. i think, for russia, it helps to show is that it is not only china. it also has india on its side. and that helps to combat of, you know, any restaurant items to isolate russia. india has never gone along with any american, any ship needs to isolate our little more sanctions audible. why court russia did that in 2014, also, or after the crimea, or was it integrated to russia that barack obama administration are reminded that the, we should know join sanctions and r y got russia?
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we know what did that, and i show school by years. so we would hope that better sense prevails. we are also talking to the west on the issue of our sanctions. threatened sanctions on india because we're buying the s 400 from russia. and we have a category both of them with russia. it's a special partnership. we can never abandon them the white house has announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 winter olympics in beijing. scientists concerns about alleged human rights violations in china, adds that by new ministration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the beijing 2022 winter olympics and paralympic games. given the peer scenes, ongoing genocide and crimes against a humanity and ginger and other human rights abuses, the athletes and team usa have our full support will be behind them 100 percent, as we cheered them on from hon, who will not be contributing to the fanfare of the games the stand off comes amid
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already tents relations with washington, frequently accusing beijing of mistreating minority groups. earlier chinese media reported it would technically be impossible for washington to stage a diplomatic boycott. given that no american diplomats have been invited to the games in the 1st place, us athletes will still compete however, and the ios is said that it respects bob's decision and reiterated the importance of leaving athletes out of politics. shine is called the move it outright political provocation with a chinese foreign ministry spokesperson saying us politicians keep hiding a diplomatic boycott without even being invited to the games. we got reaction from a shanghai based politics professor and from a professor of history at new mexico state university. they say the by demonstration is trying to politicize the winter olympics. it's an unnecessary slide against paging it. it looks like a reactionary attempt by a week president. well, you know, it does signal that the, by the ministration wants to politicize the olympic,
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somewhat similar to what we saw between the us and the ussr during the cold war. now this will indicate the many by does not subscribe the life experience of peaceful, athletic competition. we should keep in mind, however, that it's not a total boycott as your lead and noted. american athletes can still compete. furthermore, it's not as provocative as what we see from the u. s. with respect to ukraine against russia, or taiwan against the mainland china, or how the u. s. stand or the proliferation of nuclear weapon to australia. the bigger question now is whether other countries will follow washington fleet and in post, similar boycotts, and how china will respond. it's always unfortunate when you know the olympics is politicized. but i do think that the trend in american and china relations, despite the brief moment of, of call that seem to be expressed in the, in the video conference between general secretary, she and president biden,
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that that seems to have passed. and we're back to a more overtly hostile attitude. it's interesting, of course, that american athletes will still be competing. american corporations that sponsor the olympics and broadcast out on television, of course don't want to lose out on their revenues. so i think that there's a very interesting dichotomy here between this attitude on the part of the government and the broader position of the olympics. in the world, news pens of fury of police brutality is boiled over in cities across grease. on the 13th anniversary of the fatal shooting of a teenager vine office of fall bombs and stones will opt out right police, they get back with tear gas. so a serial cleansers really warplanes fought may solve the possible attack in number of shipping, tennis, or destroyed israeli military hasn't commented on the incidence. a more cosy restrictions in germany. hundreds of marston fryeburg by the regional vine
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