a, with a 4 year old is caught in pepper spray as police break up and the anti back in march in germany. countries across europe are facing unrest that of new year over rigid restrictions. some parents in the u. k. accused hospitals of discriminating against children with down syndrome in a bit to free beds. during the pandemic, we hear from a mother who was asked to sign a do not recess, a tape order for her fund. when she today, i, well just in case my son's life that you're asking with each side, you know, i mean he has down syndrome that's got nothing to do with whether it should be specified or not. and the latest poll shows that most of you have a democrat now don't want joe biden to run in 2024. we look back at his 1st year in

office with i guess my direct from our studios in moscow. this is our international. i'm john thomas, certainly glad to have you with us. and now the u. k. daily cove infections are at around the $100000.00 mark with the countries health care system stretched their fears. corners are being cut, putting lives at risk. parents and campaigners are raising the alarm they worry vulnerable children are being discriminated against during cove it to free up bed space. it comes amid a spike and do not professor take orders for children with down syndrome then to autism. one mother who was asked to sign one for her son, shared her story. when she said it was well dock in tears. because you know, and that's my son's life that you're asking what you should say or now. i

and i haven't been asked. that's my other 2 children. i mean, she has down syndrome, but that's got nothing today when we're shipping the title. now, he was in the room and she was asking him a lot of questions and he a con and he's a he understands. and he think luckily for him, and i also me because he was on the 6th day anyway, i want to say are the parents. i know that all 7 children say in one respects, i was glad he was on the 6th day because the others where i was 16 and where else themselves do not refer food orders are offered to people who are gravely ill. one sign the doctors won't perform cpr to help restart the patient's health. in the u. k. d and ours are increasingly being offered to teenagers with autism, a condition that affects the 700000 people in the country,

as well as to teenagers with down syndrome. the national health service insists it's not discriminating. stressing that it regards blanket policies as inappropriate. but karen willard again begs to differ where every child in every has called the right, especially to life. and i just don't understand why there's a difference in society for anyone. discrimination of even the question b a n n. why are people with adults children and will delay while we why on i will try it differently with the lack of you must say given the health care system i deserve on the social system, i did that. i get the and i just, it was painted under strain. i'm cab again today with higher than the and i just isn't as the government needs to pull their finger out. and so, you know, just out and isn't it, isn't our kids to say, oh,

your children are not valuable with everyone else. see children. so they're not going to be put on that. less they've been list. i was off isn't it will leave you out of the stay because there's not a lot. we're not so fast and more was for you. k hospitals with admissions on the rise. again, a new study warns that next year, medical staff absences due to burnout could triple. the findings suggest hospitals could experienced severe staff shortages with 17 percent of workers expected to call in sick just last week. as missions rose as a, as admissions rose absence and followed suit reaching 12 percent. meanwhile, unions have called on the government to increase staff, pay or face industrial action. the any just says the pandemic has created an unprecedented pressure. and it's doing all it can to support doctors and nurses or to spoke to medical staff on the ground who say something has to give david is with

us almost 2 years. our doctor, the nurses commission on the ground. absolutely exhausted. they're not just exhausted that scared the tired. you must remember the doctor, the nurses, the patients do so we are sick. we get physically think we get mentally think. and quite frankly, we bad the moral burden of what's been happening over the past couple of years. so yeah, and at the moment it's exhausting and was worse still. of course, it's not over when the short term we somehow need to find some capacity outside of what we've already got. so rather than asking the same, the, to be mall, we need to somehow find capacity outside. and that might mean that asking people who aren't medically qualified to come in and step in and do sort of stuff in the longer term. because we really need to do is sold our recruitment issues. we do need more. no nurses, we do need more doctors. we've vast amounts in particular, the general practice, for example, just get a status quo. and there are some, a human may burden just in general bureaucracy that can get some workforce who have

retired or who have steps down that work to actually come back. now some of those barriers insurmountable a quite quick and easy, but it just requires government to make some decisions. well, it's really quite worry and i'm not sure how the nature is going to survive with these numbers. is really quite frightening stuff. and also patience because, you know, there's still no good, proper guidance come in from the talk really terrible environment and you know, trying to get through this and being taken for granted at the same time it is leading to now many nurses are talking about go along protest and strike caption on some of the unions or really support of that. but it just seems it's very difficult obviously because we need to think about patient safety, but soon we may not have any nurses and is left to care for these patients.

europe is facing a new wave of angry street. protests government are tightening the screws on the unvaccinated, at one protest in germany. a 4 year old child was caught in pepper spray as police moved in the according to the police, the child was completely symptom free again. after an i wash officers launched a formal complaint against the mother for endangering her child. meanwhile, over in france, anger against restrictions shows no sign of dissipated awe . since monday, a number of german states have imposed strict covert restrictions. and these include,

amongst others limiting pepe gatherings to 10 people. and that is people who have either been vaccinated or who have recovered. and at the same time, shutting down balls and nightclubs. it comes as a number of demonstrations take place across the country. hundreds of people were wasted in protest here in the capital city, berlin, and also inch 5 foot. now in the latter, a 4 year old child received paper spray accidentally from the police after her mother had bought her to the demonstration in a prime. the mother of the child had to appear before the judge and it comes as police complain that he entered faxes are becoming more and more violent in france very. the country has recorded a record high of a 100000 new code cases a day. at the same time, the country has registered more than a 122000 people who have died from the virus. not this is largely due to the new

omi con variant that was supposed to take it in south africa and which tends to be quite mild. but at the same time, the country is seeing a search in delta cases that has led to a number of people being hospitalized. the government is looking to transform its covert health path into a vaccine path. we've heard from the countries prime minister, saying that a negative taste is no longer going to be enough for people to enter bars, restaurants, and other cultural venues, latin dances, usage inference, as in europe, the situation is extremely turns. a new wave is sweeping over our continent. we've reached a symbolic 100000 daily new infections. we are drafting a law that were transformed the health passed into a vaccination pass today if parliament's votes in favor, it will be applied from the 15th of january. moving across now to the netherlands there, the government has suggested a rather innovative way for people who are afraid of taking the vaccine to deal

with so called vaccine anxiety. the health ministry has introduced virtual reality glasses that were how people relax during the injection. joe biden has suffered another brutal blow in the polls. more democrats would now rather see someone else run into 1024, the not the chimes with the battering of his ratings. they have taken in the 1st year in office, or his killer bob and looks at why 2021 was not so great for joe bud. was like a fairy tale joe biden was set to ride into the white house on a white horse to save the country from the nightmare. those lights that are shooting out from the lincoln memorial. i look, it's like almost extensions of jo biden's arms embracing america. president elect joe biden, and vice president harris, cold the grief and regret out of the privacy of our hearts, if just for a moment so that we all could share it. but in just a year,

the country seems to have shifted from tears of joy and sighs of relief to let's go brandon. mm hm. mm. mm. mm. mm. oh, all, charlotte, 70 percent of americans doubt that biden is a leader. you can trust. only donald trump had a worse approval rating at this point in his presidency, and it's not just the american voters, the mainstream media that wants praised him are now calling him worse than a lame duck and recommending he not run for reelection in 2024. quite a huge turn. how could this have happened to a democratic president,

so love by mainstream media and the party establishment cova das at this point of added up to about the population of st. louis and atlanta combined double what it was when trump left office. joe biden does not have much to say about this topic, a virus that you had with. why haven't you outside it or anything on the origin with joe biden is urging americans to get vaccinated. one can't help but wonder if americans have hesitation about heating their commander in chiefs, words wild assertions, the administration was making about how this was going to go away and inject bleach and all those kinds of things. it was diminishing confidence across the board. you know, you can't, but you can't say everyone. yes, this actually requirements work only makes sense to require a vaccine to stop the spread of covert 90 forcing people to get vaccinated with

mandates is not exactly a big hit either federal and private companies are fighting them in court. furthermore, you got the senate repudiating the vaccine mandates and judges ruling against them . inflation is that a 39 year high, half of the americans say that biden is making things worse. and 2 thirds of americans say that inflation is causing them financial hardships like ever since he became president. things have been slowly going downhill, especially in this said everything is about 40 percent higher than or was a couple of years ago. so no, i would not say that there during, for a job to be honest is actually one more of like everything when it's bad is really bad. the afghan pull out got pretty massy. 13 soldiers died. people were hanging from planes and u. s. personnel was left behind on republicans wanted joe biden to be impeached.

now that didn't exactly play out, but people aren't exactly ready to move on from this afghanistan disaster with it's not only do you as public, it's unhappy with the afghan pull out within army ranks. there is rising discontent . active duty marine corps, lieutenant colonel stuart sheller. a combat veteran with multiple deployments in iraq and afghanistan even went public. he demanded accountability from senior military and civilian leaders for their failures. people are upset because they're senior leaders, let them down, and none of them are raising their hands and accepting accountability are saying we messed this up. i'm not saying we've got to be in the in afghanistan forever, but i am saying, did any of you throw your rank on the table to say, hey, it's a bad idea to evacuate bob graham airfield, strategic or various before we evaluate everyone. this got him charged in the military court, find and punished, but many consider him

a hero. what about the commander in chief himself? now biden is telling people he opposed the war in afghanistan from the beginning. however, the record begs to differ. he was beating the drums of war for afghanistan and iraq, 20 years ago, back when it was popular. but i guess this is not the only thing he has forgotten. and i want to thank it. that's all down. thank you very much bout but i'll kinda side of course, present harris is a proud howard. oh, no wonder so many of his press conferences and grabs the white house, sometimes even cuts his live feed wholesale that americans are questioning his mental capacity. democrats is starting to get worried with mid term elections less than a year away, and biden unpopular even in states where he won the election by a large margin. there's so many reasons people should be disappointed and upset with biting. it's hard to settle on one. certainly, afghanistan was a huge blow to america's sense of itself, and the outrage in middle of america is not to be underestimated even today. at the

way joe biden got us out of afghanistan. joe biden, drug of america down an ugly past. of course the economy is a unkept promises, his insistence that he would shut down the virus and not be economy. and since then of course you had more debts on his watch. then trump had on a longer time scale. i believe our allies no longer trust us. i believe our enemies are lining up to take advantage of us. you see how it all goes together and it all is generally against american interest. it's extremely unfortunate, and he's not showing any sign of changing his weights still to come in the program, the founder of a controversial project, propelling critical race theory in the us faces backlash online. that's after claiming that parents shouldn't have a say in their children's education, not much more after break say, what is this is our to internet with

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at the end of every year across stock, answer some of your many questions. not surprisingly, many of your questions, concerns politics, the current international situation, and whether we should trust legacy media will do our best to answer as many questions as we welcome back to the program, the fees are t international. now, parents should take a step back when it comes to their children's education. that is, according to nicole, hannah jones, the founder of a controversial project that aims to reframe us history in terms of race. her comment has caused quite a stir. i don't really understand this idea that parents should decide what's being taught. i'm not a professional educator. i don't have a degree in social studies or science. we send our children to school because we want them to be taught by people who have an expertise in the subject area. and that is not my job. as a parents, i have every right to ensure my child isn't being taught lies. despite what nicole

100 jones says, how can this be promoted? who is she or anyone else to say, parents don't get a say in our children's education. her position is faulty and should be listened to and must have a platform removed. sorry, but paris must be involved. c'mon, you pesky parents. just let her indoctrinate your kids in peace. i nicole hannah jones launch the 1619 project with the new york times 2 years ago. it aimed to reframe us history by placing the legacy of slavery at its core content from the project was included in school curriculum in at least 5 u. s. states. but critics of the 6900 projects, a excuse historic fact, in favor of ideology. like to discuss this contentious topic, we are joined by 2 professionals who can help us sort through this a political activist anthony rogers, right and legal analyst,

jennifer britain to master. thanks guys for being with us. it certainly is an interesting one because a conversation i was having earlier, we were math, we wouldn't be having this conversation, but jennifer will start with you. disputes over school curriculum or nothing new, but maybe it is an idea to leave children's education to the professionals. no, i think you know, i think that always that always has a hobby out to it. you know, there's always an exception. they even say that in a law there's an exception. it depends really because one, you have educators who absolutely should, to should know how to educate children with, with math, english, social studies, these kinds of educational facets. but then there's also a political faction. and unfortunately in america right now, the political faction is kind of taking over everything else, including education. and i think that some of the concern here because like it or not parents have always been involved in specifically public school education

through voting through voting and school board. members through through local elections, local, regional, statewide school county board elections. and so parents, yes, in a way have been involved. and so if we can allow and accept the fact that we've allowed parents to be involved as voters in the school board elections, or in, in, in a lot of these facets, then we can accept the fact the parents have always been involved and still should be involved and shouldn't stay out of the process because really what you're trying to do is rephrase retrain children's minds. and that's, that could lead in. and then we're seeing this now the rise and anxiety and political issues in children getting younger and younger every year. and i think parents have a right to be concerned about that, but ok ethnic nicole jones is actually clearly highly educated. you can see from her demeter into what she talks about. but do you think it's right to include content from comfortable, so projects and make it actually part of the curriculum? i see no problem with that. the. the major issue here is that professor hannah

jones is actually talking about the truth. and that's what's lacking so much in this nation right now. we're weeks away from the anniversary of the insurrection that was based off of lies. the fact that this nation was forge and a college of white supremacy, slavery indigenous genocide and lance matching is not a lie. the fact also is that the, the sins and the crimes of nazi germany are taught to young people immediately in kindergarten of course, which is a german word. and we have not seen these deleterious impacts on these children. that so many on the right are claiming will happen. there's at the end of the day, this is a fear of the right from hearing and having to embrace the truth. that it's not just a meritocracy. that in fact, your whiteness has a lot to do with your success in the united states of america. and that was forged,

planned and maintained, even in our educational system. and that is why we're being held back from being the so called more perfect union. jennifer, what's are you? i mean, he has a good point. why shouldn't there be critical thinking and political discourse in education? i mean, shouldn't the 1690 material only help them? well, my colleague care doesn't want actual critical thinking. he wants people to follow the, the, the narrative. the alleged truth, you know, truth is the funny word because these days, it's really not true. it's just being touted around is it's relative term with whatever somebody wants to say. i mean, if i hear one more person state insurrection, i don't, i'm just going to continue to laugh because we talk about direction. i mean, here's a person now the talking about truth, we have me talking about truth or truth is so important. there was an insurrection in january 2021 will really because there been a lot of court cases for people that arrested and in connection with those who entered the capital building in d. c. and, and not one of them has been charged with insurrection, or attempt to over there,

the government, not one in a court of law with evidence. and so there is so much truth that they really cared about the truth. they will look at these legal cases that the court cases of what's going on with the actual facts are with, they're not interested in truth, are interested in a narrative. and it's funny that the people on this slide, the i are also talking about are also talking about not the germany, because not the journey with a, with all. so the government and be ordered. but the leadership there that started to import this propaganda into the population to say that although there is the truth that you know, these people are bad and these people are good at, wasn't root at the time. that was propaganda. that was political propaganda meant to divide a society. they didn't want there to be critical thinking. they didn't want german students that they will really should we be demonized in the jewish people. i mean, that doesn't make sense. they didn't want that it was you agree or you don't. that is what my colleague is saying here. that's what some of these new educational politicians are trying to are trying to impose on children on young children. and all that's going to do with continue dividing the population because one thing has

happened from this, the claim to be the moral high ground. it claims to be the beacon of truth, but all it's doing is dividing people confusing children and wanting children to turn against each other. you can absolutely talk and teach about history and about what's happened in this country. them the heretic, things of laboring without having to completely de, is completely unravel the fabric and the foundation of the country 3. but, but you know, when it comes to truth, my going, if we are so far from when that you mean it's not a relative term, aren't anthony, go i to see your face, you need to say you need to say something. i don't even know what just happened. that was a very interesting soliloquy. again, we're not trying to tear people apart from each other. a truth is truth. ok, there was plessy b ferguson that led to jim crow the there it is a fat that this nation was stolen from indigenous people who were subjected to genocide and brutal land theft. this, this cannot be denied if truth is going to hurt people that's on, on,

on the people. and what you just heard in is very myopic and silly. a soliloquy is that it's some sort of political motivation. let's be clear, critic re, theory has not taught in elementary school in junior high school or in high school . it is taught at graduate school levels and incorporate levels and professional levels. so this is just all again, more of the big lie and it's really, really sad that even the most far right wing people in germany can accept the fact that there were nazis that a carried out atrocities. but what you just heard in this trump ism, the fact that a, in an election in virginia was one over a book by a dead black, a nobel laureate, is, is, is further proof of what voltaire ones said. that those who, who can make people believe an obscenity a o m a messing up the quote can also make them commit atrocities, right?

and that's where we are right now. the truth just is, is, is truth. you cannot deny what has happened in this country. what is happening in this country, and you cannot deny that this country was founded in an image and a lens of benefiting white people at the expense of other people. and that's just a fat, alright, to both of you down like some schools have banded. some schools have actually admitted it to the curriculum. what do you think it is going to have generations on? i'm just gonna let you both agree that we don't have much time, but i want to hear what you will have say. well, why? yes, sure. yeah, yeah, i don't think this is going to have generational impacts unless we don't tell the truth about this country and we don't therefore do the things to change it. it was march wayne, who said that history may not repeat itself necessarily, but it often rhymes. and if we don't get to the bottom of racism, sexism, a mass violence, it's going to just continue to replicate itself. it's not teaching the truth that

separates people. it's denying it i jennifer, we have a lot of my colleague and i actually perfect my call and i actually agree on this. i mean i, i do and that seems we may have to agree with one thing. i say no, go ahead, go ahead. we had a little bit of a technical glitch, but i continue please. if you agree with one thing, i say, then you must be on this side and we don't agree to the truth is, i mean, it is important to learn about slavery in the atrocities that were committed against people of color against minorities in this country. and that is important to learn, nobody's arguing that that shouldn't be taught. we all have to look into what is this? because i think what is upsetting parents is not the fact that children should learn about the real history of the country. indigenous peoples that people have, color, minorities, african american coming over and slavery. we all of course think that's important. i was taught that as a, as a child, i was taught that in high school, middle school elementary school college. and so, rather than making these broad over brushing statements,

parents are now finding out that there's actually a lot more to this, and that's concerning to the parents. and i think so, rather than making these broad over over broad statements, you know, well, we just need to learn about these good things. we agree with that. we don't agree with this, some of the detail, things that are going under, that might lead to division. and that's where i think, you know, a 5 minute debate or an 8 minute debate here is not going to get to the bottom of that, but it is still ok that parents question or at least know what's, what's, what's happening or what? it is interesting. 5 minute debate an 8 minute debate, it could be a 24 hour debate. it really doesn't matter there. these divisions exist, but it's important that we have these conversations. i think that we would all agree on that. i appreciate having both of you with us here in our international political activist, anthony rogers, right, and jennifer braden de master, who has a legal analyst. thanks for being with us here in our center. national. appreciate it. as always. hey, karen ish. all right, that is it for me. i will be back unless it's 30 minutes with another for look at your new say with us, our international ah

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