let's focus on russia. konstantin severino is a professor at rutgers university in new brunswick and ad scold cole though. institute of science and technology in russia. many thanks for joining us. he's also a consultant for 7 biotech companies and several russian government agencies. he joins us live from moscow. how concern to you about the coven situation in russia? people here shall be concerns, and that's mostly because they, over a little explanation, is really low the country, but as soon as the patient of c. so for over 10 percent of the nation, which is why is that? because russia was one of the 1st countries i believe, to announce the development off a coven vaccine. but as you say, uptake has been incredibly low. why always appears that the demand from the population is low, this monthly because marketing for promotion are working properly. so i'm like most of the country ever since. i've seen some of. ready those in january, but here have been no limitation. you want to over into the public job you for once it's your own transportation. i'm sorry, since rob said the gover

i'm amy goodman in new york, joined by my co-host juan gonzÁlez in new brunswick, new jersey.i, juan. juan: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: over 100 ter prottors re arresd monday i rthern minneta in th largesact of cil disodience tdate to lt the enbridgeine 3 piline. if completed, the pipeline would carry more than 750,000 barrels of canadian tar sands oil a day through indigenous land and fragile ecosystems -- endangering lakes, rivers, and wild rice beds. the day of action began when over 1000 water protectors blockaded a pipeline pump station north of the town of park rapids minnesota. protesters are calling on president biden to shut down the pipeline. indigenous activist and lawyer tara houska helped organize the protest. >>e ha to stanogetr. there are sacfices no crificedeople. l of ourivesall ofur landall of o water. t re againe see so of thmost vulrable pele of is place who are on the ont lines. ke, brn, indenous, yng, queer --ll of the people who are tycallynreprented. yet re we are and her are al

i'm amy goodman in new york, joined by my co-host juan gonzÁlez in new brunswick, new jersey.juan. juan: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: in washington, d.c., hundreds of youth climate activists around the white house monday in a nonviolent blockade demanding president by and ke meaningful action on the climate crisis. secret service agents made dozens of arrests. members of the sunrise movement called on by nan congressional democrats to pass an infrastructure bill that includes major investments in green energy, including fully funded civilian climate corps. the protest came as the states of oregon and washington, as well as the canadian province of british lumbee, battled historic heat. portland hit 116 degrees fahrenheit on monday, making it one of the hottest places in the world. the sunrise movement kind its protest as negotiations heat up over infrastructure spending. lastly, president biden announced he had reached a bipartisan deal with senators on a slimmed-down infrastructure spending bill. democ

i'm y goodman in new york, joined by my co-host juan gonzalez in new brunswick, new jersey., juan. juan: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. a major league of irs tax filings has revealed new details about how u.s. billionaires pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth -- sometimes, even nothing. propublica obtained the private tax records of some of the nation's wealthiest billionaires and the findings are stunning. between 2014 and 2018, the wealthiest 25 americans saw their collective wealth jump by $400 billion, but they paid just over $13 billion in federal income taxes. that's just 3.4% of their wealth increase. warren buffett paid a true tax rate of just 0.1% on income taxes during that period, while seeing his wealth grow by $24 billion. jeff bezos, the world's richest man, paid no federal income taxes in 2007 or 2011. elon musk, the second-richest person in the world, paid no federal income taxes in 2018. george soros paid no federal income tax for three years in a row. michael bloomberg

i'm amy goodman in new york, joined by my co-host juan gonzÁlez in new brunswick, new jersey.hi, juan. juan: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. the former national security agency contractor reality leigh winner was released from prison on monday. she was arrested in 2017 and sentenced to five years in prison under the espionage act for leaking classified government information. she worked at fort gordon in georgia as a contractor with pluribus international when federal law enforcement agents raided her house after determining she had given reporters at the intercept a secret document about russian interference in the 2016 election prosecutors told "the new york times" she got the longest sentence ever given by a federal court for unauthorized disclosure of government information to the press. reality winner was released from the federal medical center carswell, a prison in fort worth, texas, and will serve the rest of her sentence over the next six months in halfway house. reality's family and legal team say she

i'm amy goodman in new york, joined by my co-host juan gonzÁlez in new brunswick, new jersey., juan. juan: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listener and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: we begin today with a deadly scourge striking down people at an alarming rate -- no, it is not covid. it is drug overdoses. over 92,000 people died in the united states from overdoses in the 12-month period ending in november -- the most since the centers for the disease control and prevention began keeping track over two decades ago. many experts cite two factors for the surge in deaths -- the pandemic and the increasing availability of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. this all comes as the nation marks 50 years since president richard nixon declared a war on drugs on june 17, 1971. we begin today's show with someone who lost her sister to an overdose just as the pandemic was starting. maya schenwar joins us from chicago, where she works as editor-in-chief of the news website truthout. her sister keeley died of a drug overdose in february 2020 at the age of 29. may

the war and peace report i'm amy goodman in new york, joined by my co-host juan gonzÁlez in new brunswicknew jersey. hi, juan. juan: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: before we talk about the major block overwrites legislation in washington, can you talk about what is happened so far, though we certainly don't know final results, in the first -- in the primary in new york for mayor? juan: yes, amy. well, it does look like eric adams has a pretty substantial lead in the count. he is got almost a 10% lead over maya wiley. clearly since nework is embarking on right choice voting for the first time in mayoral election, there still a long way to go was not now there will be a process of tallying the second, third, fourth, fifth choices of voter so it will take a while. i think the most interesting thing that is happened is the onus complete come flats -- complete collapse of andrew yang who was covered by the press as a front runner for most of the time of this mayoral campaign. eric adams, former police captain was a reform

i'm amy goodman in new york, joined by my co-host juan gonzalez from new brunswick, new jersey.hi, juan. juan: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: president biden traveled to tulsa, oklahoma, tuesday to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1921 tulsa race massacre -- one of the single greatest acts of racist terror in u.s. history. over a span of 18 hours, a white mob burned down what was known as black wall street -- the thriving african american neighborhood of greenwood in also. an estimated 300 african americans were killed. on tuesday, biden became the first u.s. president to visit tulsa on the anniversary to honor the victims and the few remaining survivors. biden recounted the horror that took place 100 years ago. pres. biden: in the morning, came up terrorized greenwood with torches and guns, shooting at will. a mob tied a black man by the waste to the back of their truck with his head banging along the pavement as they drove off. a murdered a black family draped over the fence of their home outside. a coup

i'm amy goodman in new york, joined by my co-host juan gonzÁlez in new brunswick, new jersey. juan. juan: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: we begin today's show in texas, where democratic lawmakers staged a dramatic walkout on sunday night to prevent the republican-controlled legislature from passing a sweeping bill to rewrite election laws in texas. critics say the bill will lead to mass voter suppression especially a black and latinx voters, by eliminating drive-through and 24-hour voting as well as ballot drop boxes. the republican bill would also make it easier for elections to be overturned even if there is no evidence of fraud. just before the state's legislative session ended, texas house speaker dade phelan announced the bill had failed because there were not enough lawmakers present to reach a quorum. >> there 86 ayes and zero nays. >> we take an oath at the beginning of session and we could look pretty improved day to be here -- to do our job on behalf of arms 30 million texans. and my sing we do

i'm amy goodman in new york, joined by my co-host juan gonzÁlez in new brunswick, new jersey. juan. juan: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: we begin today's show looking at the fight over voting rights. senate republicans are expected to use the filibuster today to block the for the people act, a sweeping bill that would restore protections of the 1965 voting rights act, which was gutted by the supreme court in 2013. senate majority leader chuck schumer has scheduled the first procedural vote on the legislation today even though democrats do not have the votes to move it forward. that's because two democratic senators, joe manchin of west virginia and kyrsten sinema of arizona, oppose eliminating the filibuster. last week, manchin, who has not endorsed the for the people act, offered a watered-down voting bill but that also faced opposition from republicans. the senate vote comes as republican state lawmakers are passing sweeping measures to suppress the vote around the country. according to the voting right

my office heard from a constituent in b belmont's mothr passed away in january in new brunswick.wanted to goto to the funeral because they couldn't delay it anymoret than may. the government told them in order to do that, he would have to quarantine for five days. he couldn't take the time off from work and get a waiver. i appreciate that this has been a joint agreement between canada and the united states, but at this point, given the vaccination rate on both sides of the border, i hope that you will commit to doing everything you can to get the border open so that the hardship that my constituents and other constituents are experiencing will end and theyy can resume normal relationships with their families and businesses in the way that will benefit them. >> i very much appreciated those hardships for all of the border states. with canada this is something that i have engaged my counterpart on multiple times. we are trying to work through these challenges and i've gotten some relatively more positive feedback from him recently that i am happy to shareha with you. if there are s

the 20-year-old son of a federal judge esther salas was shot and killed at her home in north brunswick, newt case, the -- was -- andrew had been this hate-filled person who appeared in her court and zeroed in on her, killing her son, seriously injuring her husband. the threat is very real, poppy, and this report is sounding very loud alarm bells. >> right. that case was such a tragedy and really connecting the dots here is important. whitney, thank you very much. >>> the brazen theft -- this brazen theft is just one of many that are happening across san francisco. retail chains have been forced to close dozens of stores in the bay area as a result. more on that ahead. emergency planning for kids. we can't predict when an emergency will happen. so that's why it's important to make a plan with your parents. here are a few tips to stay safe. know how to get in touch with your family. write down phone numbers for your parents, siblings and neighbors. pick a place to meet your family if you are not together and can't go home. remind your parents to pack an emergency supply kit. making a plan mig

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