regions and will not be extended across the country let's cross to our correspondent laura charlotte devinskyto fill in some of the blanks for us charlotte hello take us through what prism across and how to say why he's resorted to this step at once again to perhaps a bit of reaction to it as well i know it's early. well of course president mccone addressing the french nation or no wednesday night following a meeting of the council of defense where of course they discussed all the options available to them to keep calm backing the 19 pandemic a pandemic that is seen now rates of around 40000 new cases being counted every day here in france that's double the number it was just a month ago so you see that we've had doctors talking about the fact that they may have been away patients from hospitals now present my corner now that we may know and france would be now and a new lockdown as you mentioned from saturday there it's a similar lockdown lockdown light as many people describe it as to the 900 departments that have already been under these restrictions for the last few weeks including here i

styled culture is undermining french values are to charlotte devinsky picks up the story. the empty wine debate has been stirred up once again here in france this time after a black politician waded into a row that's been raging over the student union which admitted it held meetings about discrimination that excluded white people he says it exists it exists is this real unions exist now reprove a reason member of the paris local authority and this standing in the coming elections has added her $0.02 she suggested white people could be allowed into those meetings but only if they keep quiet. i'm not saying anyone should be banned from entering but they should stay silent and let others speak in issues that concern them her comments severed opinion sprung scrambles to deal with a rise in identity politics for those on the right this is seen as an unwelcome american import that's undermining universalist french valleys a form of personal culture in my region no resident should be discriminated against for the call of the skin there is no such thing as acceptable racism i will

increasingly tense atmosphere in the country over continued lockdowns with more details here charlotte devinsky. well this explosion took place in the early morning just outside that could send in an area called bluefin costco which is about 5055 kilometers north of amsterdam windows were shattered and the investigation so far has been able to uncover metal pieces of around 10 centimeters by 10 centimeters the suggestion is this could have seen a metal pipe bomb that exploded outside the front of the center a security guard was inside that it was just before the center was due to open but they are said to have been injured in this incident a perimeter has been set up in those investigations are now are continuing but the police have said that they clearly believe that this was an intentional attack we don't know yet what exactly exploded the explosives experts must 1st investigate what we can see is this something like that doesn't happen by accident it's has to be planted well this is not the 1st time we've seen an attack on a qubit center in the netherlands back in january just when we're see

are to charlotte devinsky reporting live from paris thank you. russia has now registered its 3rd homegrown coronavirus vaccine coming back which is expected to be launched later this month we spoke with the director of the center behind the shot when you were pulled out of a can you explain what makes the kovi vaca vaccine different uses a deactivated virus but what does that actually me in the who was wounded in the queue works with we used a process called in activation which basically means killing the virus vaccines usually use a live virus or an already dead one we're dealing with an inactivated whole cell vaccine approach that we've been developing for many years all of the vaccines that the 2 mark of center are based on this method a significant number of our vaccines form part of the russian national vaccination calendar school causing a lot of the book at the what how long did it take to develop the vaccine how did you test it. you know where i'm of the it took almost a year and that's a very short time no western company has ever manage

charlotte devinsky thank you for bringing us that report. and what appears to be another case of censorship you tube has blocked donald trump's 1st major speech since leaving the white house on channels including reuters a.b.c. and of course r.t.e. over a lack of content warnings. at address was widely criticized in liberal media with the washington post labeling it a quote stream of delusion depravity malevolence and make a mania but given that you to block the speech on many channels you may find it difficult to make up your own mind about it for pennsylvania senator bruce marks who represented donald trump in the supreme court believes the former president still has a right to express his opinion whatever it may be. he hasn't brought it upon himself because he's doing what he's allowed to do under the us constitution we have the 1st amendment it protects freedom of speech doesn't protect speech simply because it's right it doesn't protect speech just because it's popular it protects all speech so i don't think he's brought it upon himself

rival now the controversial move comes following pressure from tourism related states are to charlotte devinsky picks up the story. the european commission outlining on monday that its member states need to look at a common approach to easing restrictions put in place by the kovac 19 pandemic this is going to come in the sense of a framework which will look at things such as vaccination tests and also look at those who've been able to recover from the virus this is going to come in the form of a digital green certificate and the idea is to reestablish the freedom of movement across the bloc that is seems a fundamental right here in europe this is what the european commission president. had to say with this digital certificate to help the member states reinstate the freedom of movement in a safe responsible and trusted manner we're told that the data will be protected so there will be security around that but countries will be able to collect information all of those who are coming into the territory this proof will then be . restriction rules restrictions such as quarantine. testing that are cu

brought the industry to its knees and fear the curtains may never rise again and start his charlotte devinsky explains. i know my god. the chorus of calls demanding the reopening of cultural venue's is growing allow day in france but with no clear end date in sight to the closure of theaters concert hall cinema museums so mother taking more drastic measures over the last week 3 of france's 4 national theatres including this one behind me have been occupied by protesters it is true that every day several times a day we take another place a new theatre a new national stage is occupied in this way with multiply in the case of resistance to make our claims hood so we've all people of the o.t. now for a week and for that he says is a place of residence the odeon is a symbolic place it was occupied in the $968.00 process there are already struggles that have been expressed in this place in fact it was the base to signal the alarm of the cultural catastrophe which is taking place protesters who set up shop here at the boat in fear to say they won't leave until their demands are met them not knowing

forced to turn to free or subsidized food from support groups restaurants and supermarkets charlotte devinsky reports from a paris center where they can buy cheap meals. every day this canteen is packed with students all coming in here to pick up a hot meal as the covert crisis continues to point to have been hit hard by the pandemic many are now without work and the means to support themselves demand for financial help from a public service the student life which also runs services like this canteen has increased sharply every week around 40000 meals are being distributed to students in paris by this organization meals they can take home and heat up later or meals that they can take out now and eat because they're horton ready all at the price of one euro now that's been in place since january as a system to help those students who are really in need demand is so high that cruise has partnered with other organizations in a bid to reach more students in trouble. we have 0 of many students turn into words different types of aid wonderfully social services deliveries for example for buying food

straighted with the handling of the pandemic next them for you from paris our correspondent charlotte devinsky gauging the mood of other europeans as they to warn they'll no longer take economically damaging restrictions with the following images from the weekend maybe reflecting that anger. on the streets of europe these are all the scenes that have been playing out those countries what's again are announcing a fresh wave of restrictions as the 3rd wave hit rallies protesting against what they branded health dictatorships were held from austria to sweden serbia to switzerland from poland to france demonstrators say they simply have enough we don't know we are fed up we no longer know which flew to stand on a little lost the soul of blur we have the impression of being muzzled we're not free. we no longer have a social life this restrictions are totally useless i don't feel like i'm a log we can go out like we want as long as we have our sophistication so should we change the restrictions maybe. in germany more than 20000 troops to the streets in the city of care so one must protest is to cry

charlotte devinsky spoke to one of the passengers. sequoias yes the cruise was a chance to go with my son who was 5 years old to see a magical world and discover the magic of the caribbean instead it was a nightmare i wondered how i would get out of this hell because if i didn't i was going to die stephanie dubois was one of thousands of holiday makers aboard the costa munchak a last year when the covert pandemic hit for her and her then 5 year old son it was supposed to be a dream voyage instead passengers found themselves trapped on board with little information or what was happening as the virus spread through the ship. they refused to inform us that there were cases of covert aboard the ship that they had tested positive there was no suspicion but indeed there were ill people they refused to give us information and we got it from the media when we were near the coast and could get a signal they concealed it from us and they didn't let us protect ourselves they didn't protect us either health wise they didn't treat us very well and