our broadcasting live direct from our studios and also this is archie international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us right now tensions within the e.u. over its stuttering vaccine rollout are ramping up the austrian chancellor is claiming some states have made backroom deals for job supplies breaking you rules reporting next year's. the use one for all and all for one vaccine procurement program has come under fire again this time it's austria's chancellor sebastiaan courts who's not happy he says that the way that excess doses have been sorted out amounts to little more than a trading bazar he's also we're really on a happy with the weight distribution is being carried out he says that under the program the way it is at the moment some e.u. member states will vaccinate all of their population by may others will have to wait until perhaps as long as the autumn yep the idea i'm front of all i have together with other heads of government shared all information and compared our own statistics on that distribution among e.u. member states and when you do that you notice that their mounts 2 of a do not correspond to the respective population numbers there is such a bizarre word contracts but when member states and pharmaceutical companies have existed according to kurtz's start small to has received 3 times as many doses relative to its population as bulgaria we've also heard from the e.u. commission spokespeople though they've said that there are no secret backroom deals going on when it comes to doses of the vaccine and when it comes to the distribution program austria was privy to how this would work right from the very beginning if they'd had any problems with it they should've voiced them then the starting point of the commission is to distribute doses based on population but member states can ask for less all more of a particular vaccine in this context i'm following talks between member states it's possible that a new distribution plan is agreed with the company. well the e.u.'s lacks a nation program has prompted some member states to look elsewhere for their jobs in the direction the a lot of them have been turning is towards russia's support the v. vaccine that has caused some problems though particularly in slovakia where the health minister now former health minister he is was forced to resign from the cabinet after he ordered 200000 doses of the russian vaccine to out of the 4 policies that make up the coalition government in that country said they weren't having nothing there's a similar boat different situation in the czech republic as well the president of the czech republic saying that the health minister and senior health official should either quit or be sacked if they don't buy in russia sputnik v vaccine well the sputnik v. job is currently undergoing e m a the european medicines agency review once it gets not green light which is expected to come soon the vaccine will be used in a number of european nations foreign affairs analyst. believes the pandemic has exposed the disunity within the e.u. . i do believe even though the. european union is broke and it's. aims to be perceived as a abortion as we know the pandemic to cow was demons from all of us all all the governments around the world we know about the vaccine nationalism and we know that in this race for our citizens' lives no one is really taking into account what the e.u. is saying i do agree with the. saying certain countries. just pushing. for securing more vaccines and this buy back since nationalism is well documented. artists and employees are staging a unique performance at 3 of france's national theatres by occupying the venues in a protest over covered lockdowns they claim the restrictions have 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 the details now we're determined to hold on until we're satisfied we do not claim the reopening at all costs it is not part of our main slogan contrary to what some media made we want things to be reopened with social rights for all and massive plan for culture and above all the total reform of the unemployment insurance and the right to unemployment benefits guaranteed for all the issue has even reached the the government with the cultural minister paying a visit to the squatters i went to the occupied theater audio on i understand the concerns and particularly of all the aftermath of the whites here they know it why objective is to continue to protect artistic employment as much as nuts. we will continue our discussions days later though and nothing has changed the sector already hit badly by the 1st wave of the covert pandemic with performers taking to the streets to make their plight. you. c 6 6 there is an anger too that while small private galleries have been allowed to stay open places such as this of hot to remain shut protesters say that it is possible to open up cultural venues and ensure the people remain socially distanced . the louvre museum the also a museum the big museums in paris these are vos places where social distancing would be respected but they are closed these are the decisions which are purely political through this there is a very clear choice of society that emerges what is essential to the market and what is not essential concerns culture it concerns all the things that nourish hope nourish reflection this is what power has in its sights through its political choices fronts it is considered to have one of the most generous support systems in the world but that system has been strained as a result of covert 19 and many claim that they have fall and through the cracks those his say that this protest is just the start as more and more regions in france will see similar action jollity even ski r.t. paris. pressure is mounting on the new york state governor andrew cuomo to step down over sexual misconduct allegations and alleged cover up of covert care home does. i think we've seen so many. so many troubling things that have come out just in a matter of weeks starting with the fact that thousands of people died in the nursing homes and we still don't have the truth about that and their families need and deserve the truth and we know one thing there was a purposeful cover up and that alone is unacceptable and disqualifying the state's health department had initially reported around $8000.00 fatalities in care homes but those who were transferred to hospital and died there were excluded from the figures something deliberately to make the number of casualties seem lower if these victims are added the real number of deaths is almost double those reported victims that relatives question the counting and governor cuomo as a parent dismissal of its importance who. 3328 died in non-steroidal died in a nursing home the done right. requirement for a nursing homes had to take in coded patients is being blamed for making the crisis worse we spoke to 2 women who each lost parents to coronavirus in care facilities they are now behind the advocacy group voices for seniors and say that there must be accountability for the fate of their loved ones. my father is still among the uncounted because he was released from a nursing home rehabilitation center after next surgery knowingly with the virus he was labeled a covert suspect in his nursing home paperwork i made in test him they didn't treat him they didn't tell us and unfortunately we were the ones when we got him home that had to put him in a hospital when he came home he was in terrible condition and he collapsed on the driveway exposing my whole family to cope and we all got sick shortly there after. my father unfortunately lost his life on april 14th after being on a ventilator for almost 2 weeks and it was purely preventable he was only 76 years old he was a healthy man and it was a pure cova death the moderate democrats are really focused on the sexy story the sexual harassment allegations that are against the governor and they seem to have forgotten forgotten the 15000 elderly people who died profess that preventable deaths so we really haven't gotten much success with them we keep meeting with them and we keep trying to get an investigation but we have not been successful but we're not going to stop because we're not going away the facility failed her. and the state failed her. i think that right now at least many of the deaths that happen in nursing homes were because of a mandate that almost but in that forced these facilities to take in patients when they were not equipped to take care of them so it's a combination of both my mother's for so that he was reporting 40 deaths back in april when my mother died and she was not part of that number because she died at the hospital so when months and months continue to pass and they stayed at 40 we knew that that number could not be correct i mean you're not going to tell me that 40 people die on a one shot and then no one dies for months so when the number actually came out we were we were based. we you know we were found to be true or that it was not there still families. because they are being isolated and i know families that i talk to on a daily basis where they see their loved declining every day and they're not. among the stories that we have lined up for you after the head of an. immunity. if introduced would have severe implications for data privacy that and more when we come back to. join me every. time i'm sure. i'll see you. welcome back this is international now a dispute has erupted within one of america's leading global think tanks after it published an article saying the u.s. should forget about promoting human rights and democracy in its dealings with russia with the details here. there seems to be a war over russia brewing at the atlantic council the atlantic council is a an important washington d.c. think tank dedicated to promoting human rights and democracy we now have 2 of its experts who have come forward and said that quote democratizing russia may not actually be in the foreign policy interests of the united states this is some of what they said policymakers should award to human rights 1st broached to russia democratization in russia would not necessarily be good for u.s. foreign policy interests lammed by other telos of the atlantic council we had 22 atlanta council individuals us signing a document denouncing them and distancing themselves from this statement they said that they feel that this statement by their 2 colleagues misses the mark this is their response there are school is premised on a false assumption that human rights and national interests wholly separate and the u.s. policy toward russia was and remains driven by human rights concerns principally in fact previous administrations and the current one have sold to integrate our values and other national interests the united states often claims it's promoting human rights around the world when it overthrows governments in libya in iraq in afghanistan the united states claimed it was bringing freedom to the countries when it invaded and destabilize the countries with pretty catastrophic results in syria the united states backed the opposition with similar runner rick now anthony blinken the new u.s. secretary of state says that now washington will not be using force in its efforts to promote human rights and democracy around the world we will incentivize democratic behavior. but we will not promote democracy through costly military interventions or by attempting to overthrow author terry regimes by force we've tried these tactics in the past. however well intentioned they haven't worked well he's certainly correct in saying that they haven't were they simply resulted in chaos and more suffering in country after country after country but now the question must be raised if u.s. military interventions and source is not going to be used to promote or spread human rights and democracy how exactly does the united states intends to do it former u.s. marine corps and teligent officer scott ritter says containing russia is still a key goal of u.s. foreign policy. i mean the atlantic council has always been a promoter of the transatlantic relationship between the united states and europe. and that relationship pinches on you know the cold war type thinking you know band seen the rules based international order and painting those nations that aren't willing to subordinate themselves to this rule rules peace international order 1st and foremost among those was the former soviet union and now today russia so the atlantic council is always been about the containment of russia in one of the ways that the united states and europe have. contained russia is by calling russia out you know what they what they see as human rights violations and they use this human rights issue as a means of sanctioning russia in further curtailing russia so then spend the atlantic council's you know bread and butter policy positions of hypocrisy has never stopped people who promote so-called american values as a means of selling point policy so you know just because america has a difficult his own doesn't mean that the atlantic council knows or their ilk are going to continue to try to sell the united states the 70 shining city on the hill that should serve as a model for all over countries to. the truth is it is difficult to so you know american democracy is the cure all. at a time of extreme woke ness and to cancel culture it seems chatting openly about what you are reading can be a career ending move musician from one well known british band has been branded a fascist for mentioning he had read a book criticizing a left wing activist movement and. constantine looks at the growing chorus of criticism for those who question progressive narratives. just think about it you read a book you like it you say publicly no harm done you would hope well that's what winston marshall did he was the banjo player in a british band called mumford and sons and he dared to enjoy the wrong literature over the last few days i've come to better understand the pain caused by the book i endorsed as a result of my ex and some taken time away from the bonds to examine my blinds posts so like in the band's hit single they'll just have to wait for him but what was the evil book he read you might ask something so bad it wasn't enough to say sorry he had to quit the band had been planned and for many years was a mind com or an isis manual on how to make bombs and know much worse winston marshall was cold out by social justice worriers for publicly recommending in newly published book criticize an n.t. for well you remember and see for right. here in the since deleted twit the poor guy barely mentioned that he read the book about it but that one twit started this tsunami of rage and calls to boycott marshall's bam downfall and didn't do its meant to flush shay i really like that one song a while ago winston mossel and his prove to us just that the union sucks rest and i hope the rest of the band kicks him to the curb otherwise i'm out. your banjo player is a fascist what do you think this is going to do to your public image you guys screwed up fire the fascist the book was written by the wrong guy and the no a journalist who's been beating the drum about violent left wing groups in the us for years for is bad it was often attacked beaten and even milkshakes of even harassed a random asian man in tortola because he looked like him a group for those who suffered because they read my words. the danger of unsafe in the us is not only the willingness to support me being good in terrorism but those of other girls curious minds from and new thoughts anyway and now writes a book that big surprise lashes out at and t. for and bad grasps the attention of poor winston marshall who's already on the world greater in 2018 he posed with jordan peterson as a college just who doesn't share transgender youth oreo or feminism that was strike number one and now endorsing the wrong book that strike number 2 game over your ban . but it's not just who you endorse it's also who you failed to endorse like these 2 public school administrators in the state of pennsylvania they lost their jobs because they dared to criticize black lives matter in facebook posts or this guy senator josh holy facebook contract was polled after he question joe biden's election victory. a conservative publisher picked it up though saying they refused to how were before the woak mob but across most of the media and cultural landscape towering is the new name of the game. lawyer. who also writes for the online magazine spike says it is not right to attack a person just for reading and commenting on a book. there are issues with the with integrity and the quality of the book but nonetheless merely reading it and praising a book should no be the subject of apology the idea that you should apologize for reading and praising any book. as extreme connotations for freedom of speech you know we are seeing it more and more. praising that to kill all those who are particular writers can enjoy open extremely hope. we've seen multiple tweeted an endorsement of the ideas in mind cam and yes i think that would be entirely different than dean goes but he's not mine kam i think what's really interesting is that we get drawn into these comparisons very very easily you know it's very easy to throw around the term fascist nowadays but right wing fascism is a very remote ideology and in today's context i mean joe whatever you think of him he said and we know a lot of fascist so the comparison is completely healed found it. the head of an american data privacy firm has questioned whether the personal health information encoded passports can be stored securely rob shovel also warned of this could lead to discrimination. and i have seen the efforts from the european union and the green you know the green initiative and while this idea that they can guarantee. that the data is is safe and anonymized is just wrong it's incorrect and and i think it's a real problem when governments claim that just like it's a problem when companies claim that your data is anonymous and will never be lost stolen or act where concerned about is if vaccine data and then mexican data combined with travel data starts to leak out and get going combined with these data broker profiles that anyone can buy any business can buy them any individual can buy them they're available very cheap so for example an insurance company might or might not want to insure us or give us an offer if a certain amount of that if we fall into a certain category based on that data the company whose c.e.o. you just heard from held a poll which found that less than half of americans want digital health passports robert shovel says that if they are brought in only essential information should be used what i believe is a good so lucian to the problem and opportunity of vaccine death ports is janaki is a shared database is the last technology used stickers is used things that don't replicate our data across every country we travel to or every sports venue if we want to watch a football game having all of this data in and out sounds great and it sounds convenient but ultimately there is a lot of risks to our privacy in the future if we keep creating more data especially health. going green is meant to be a central theme of this summer's meeting of the world's richest nations in the u.k. however it has been revealed that the eco hotel which the g 7 leaders will be staying at may not be as environmentally friendly as claimed. just 2 months before world leaders rent their private jets and come skidding into the u.k. from every corner of the planet to attend the g. 7 summit a few autographs being i do not want to believe that they have a little dig literally tracks by a hotel in posh accent at the bottom left hand corner of britain posting the g. 7 summit in june has played a big part with a lot but sure trees and shrubs. to create 3 family meeting rooms for the likes of climate chris 8 is a joke boyd and justin and country head hosts lowest jobs embarrassing to the hotel hasn't actually got planning permission to build the new version and that the cation was submitted on monday but hasn't been accepted and the ticket for checked it out have to do the reverse of what they've done at work. here at the hotel which prides itself on being eco friendly and won the coveted by intel hotel of the year award 2019 slash 24 to the 2020 slash 21 award as you know he'd love to councillors with one of them saying i think it's a disgrace that the summit which is meant to be looking at the effects of climate change and the environment is being organized and hosted by people who obviously don't give a damn about it but the house has featured prove lupo statement to say that status committed to sustainability and dedicated to protecting the environment now and for generations to come we can confirm this was not ancient woodland and there are no badge of sets on this piece of land you would have to think the best thing to say to climate change would be to hold the meteorologist like the last one to get head start on saving some of those naughty little carbon emissions and again it's not fun drinking champagne on your own is a plus in scotland in the event but it's another one of the united nations. call that change conference also known as c.e.o. p.g. florists is going to go on this one as well you need to minister just to concentrate on this one call that call for and i wonder what they'll dig up for the . victims are either does or may not be back in let's say 30 minutes with another full and fresh look to new services or to trash. the troubles with donald trump is that he explore its entirely the counter unlike my legacy he was much more successful than hillary clinton at appealing to people on the level of culture and heart and national identity and all that sort of thing but as with demagogues throughout human history here exploited emotion especially dark emotions like fear and hatred and resentment to serve only his own interests not the interests of the nation at large. the 2021 variant of a housing crisis is to pump money into the economy so that all the assets held on the balance sheet of warren buffett and other banks go up in value and people that lost a lot of wealth in 2008 really people of color are now getting raked over the coals again through this inflationary past their assets. like say everything in here is given to me basically these 4 tables that were given to me are really ugly so i'm in the process of. the only my can.