a teachers' union representative. come not to. each other but i just because i'm. not. sick you couldn't believe it. either and a very good morning to you watching r t international. is a key moment in the fate of julian assange and for the defenders of press freedom later on monday a british judge will decide whether or not to extradite the wiki leaks co-founder to the united states stateside he faces espionage charges for publishing secret military documents on saturday or sunday supporters rallied in new york outside the british consulate they were demanding his release press freedom groups human rights organizations are among those taking up his cause and songs is known to the world for exposing u.s. war crimes faces up to 175 years in. prison if extradited is a good start looks at events that led up to his long fight for freedom for julian his son has come a long way from an obscure activist to freedom fighter all traitor depending on who you are one thing you can deny him though is that he led the charge that we kill leaks to dig up the secrets that america's intelligence colossus spent billions of dollars burying and he succeeded. because the analysts say collect any data from millions of those who are. field reports from iraq military logs from afghanistan sensitive documents from guantanamo bay none of which made the u.s. look particularly good i would argue that is closer to being the high tech terrorist it is it i mean international community i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death i don't want to do it illegally shoot the son of a. great discredit to this nation should be assassinated he should be treated as an enemy combatant. it didn't take long for a son to experience firsthand what it means to be uncle sam's public enemy the us went after the whistleblower launching a probe into his actions at the same time a seemingly unrelated sexual assault investigation was opened in sweden a son himself though claimed it was all part of america's poor to extradite him by all means possible the pressure mounted so when 2012 a son's requested asylum from ecuador and holed up in the country's embassy in london this kicked off what would become a long 7 years of confinement with even the u.n. calling for an end to this suffering various forms of deprivation of liberty to which julian assad has been subjected constitute a form of arbitrary detention the working group maintains that the arbitrary detention of mr signage should be brought to an end instead the old things short from bad to even worse for a son ecuador's new president who was looking for warmer relations with the u.s. seemed to take personal offense when we can leaks wrote about corruption allegations against him sanj was shown the door artie's video agency ruptly turned out to be the only outlet to catch the moment a son was literally carried out of the building some 7 years after he stepped in it was her. once u.k. law enforcement got their hands on a son they threw him in prison a proper one but the u.s. government is looking to try him under american law where the whistleblower faces more than 800 years behind bars now every cording that emerged in line has sparked another wave of calls. to pardon the whistleblower in the tape ironically julian assange which was trying to help u.s. authorities minimize the fallout of the 20 levon leaks. which we have in. our view is that it's more or. less but we have been calling. the embassy. every day trying to explain. the holdback donald trump since you're given pardons to people please consider pardoning those who at great personal sacrifice expose the deception and criminality of those in the deep state mr president if you grant only one act of clemency during your time in office please free julian assange those you alone can save his life i'm hoping that he will pardon julian assange it's the right thing to do so far trump has remained deaf to the pleas the julian assange just saga has been going for so long it feels like it could be over any minute but flashing back to how it's been going so far it seems like we've just turned the page on another chapter. as the coronavirus pandemic tightens its grip on europe with infection rates climbing ever higher health experts are slamming the block's mass vaccination rollout as being too sluggish france in particular has been in the firing line let's find out more by going straight to paris party correspondent. for is going to you charlotte what are the challenges then that europe is facing. well let's start here in france where the vaccine rollout has been criticized is taking place in essentially a snail's pace even president machen is said to be pretty furious at how few people have so far had the vaccine here that vaccination programs been going on for about a week and only a few 100 people are said to have had the 1st part of the inoculation compare that to germany for example where around 40 odd 1000 people have already had the 1st shot now there are some problems here in france one is because it's the only e.u. country that requires written consent for those who say that they want to have the 19 inoculation and also because there is this huge distrust of vaccines here in france some polls showing that 40 percent of people are the ones that will take this vaccine meaning over 60 percent over half the population say that they will not have a kuwait 1000 job now the government has been accused of being too cautious to perhaps pander to these anti vaccines but it says it is being cautious because this is a marathon and not a sprint others though are saying that in needs to be more urgency. there is still time to make up for this feeling of a sluggish start to vaccination it is a matter of urgency now to give an optimistic outlook. well the e.u. has also come under fire for what some of described as being undue dring of certain vaccines this criticism 1st came from fires that biotech there the makers of the only vaccine that so far been approved for the use in use in the e.u. but there's also been criticism of the fact that the e.u. hasn't gotten the doses by some in germany. obviously the european purchasing procedure was inadequate it is difficult to explain how a very good vaccine was developed in germany but is available more quickly elsewhere well let's be clear the e.u. did order some 300000000 doses of that 5 is a biotech vaccine that would make up for about 150350 1000000 people here in europe but there are some big issues with that vaccine not only is it one of the most expensive that's on the market so far it's also a huge issues when it comes to storage and the logistics in transport and that's because it needs to be kept at around minus 70 degrees and already in parts of europe some people have refused to give out this vaccine saying that they think that the storage conditions were a little bit iffy and they weren't sure about the effectiveness therefore of the vaccine as a result of that now the e.u. is of course set to approve other vaccines in the coming days it's going to be talking about them a donor vaccine that's already been ordered $160000000.00 doses of that but this comes of course as the number of sections of code 19 continues to rise across europe and fresh restrictions are being brought in for example greece has decided it's going to have another lockdown this time only said to be for a week while here in france the restrictions which see the whole country and the curfew at the moment at 8 o'clock in the evening are being tightened in some parts of the country in eastern areas that could feel now starting at 6 pm in the evening leading to criticisms that. well as you can see many have been flouting the rules of particularly at that rave in britain the there are some 2 and a half 1000 revelers who were caught up over new year's eve leading to those clashes between the police and the protesters and it's not only france's issues with people flouting the rules also in spain just outside of barcelona there was also a massive party that was broken up over new year's eve after around 40 hours of wrestling it seems that 2020 may be over but in 2021 we are still not out of the code words. from 5 to 7 pm is where people leave work so there's obviously a lot of turnover because when people leave at 5 they want to have a wander around so the situation has now been complicated you don't deserve all this 2 hour difference has a serious effect in revenue it's a time when people come in and try things so as a bakery clients don't want to come in but nutritionally that we need 85 percent of our sales revenue between 5 and 7 pm so there's a restaurant we try and get by we're now being hit even harder so we look for new solutions to survive. so as you can see there are many criticisms about kovac 19 here in france. yeah the vaccinations the rolling out charlotte near live doesn't seem to be getting very much simpler or clearer as you mentioned there let's hope fingers crossed for the coming future many thanks to all the devinsky in paris. nice not just in europe where the mass vaccination rollouts been criticised in america the process has been branded as a chaotic and plans to reduce the dose size and end of year targets having being missed r.t. saskia taylor explains. it might be a new year but it's cool to buy the same old problems on the fast day of 2021 the u.s. hit $28000000.00 kopechne $1000.00 cases but just out was before as the clock struck midnight thousands flooded the streets hoping that the next $365.00 days would just be that little bit that. i've been scared i don't know what will happen 1st rule for 2021 don't talk about anything and i believe this is there we go she started here we did. that everything is going to get better and actually working at the c.v.s. and his own crazy with the coded vaccine and everything right now really hope that everything goes back to normal this christmas and new year many wished for a return to our old normal lives something top medical advisors have been promising was just around the corner by the time we get into all of 2021 we could be approaching some level of normality tuns out though the very thing they said would quite literally set us free the vaccine is cool top end its own trauma president trump health experts in operation warp speed hope to have 20000000 americans vaccinated by now but things are going slower than 1st thought there is now growing frustration building over the slow roll out of the corona virus vaccines across the u.s. there's only a small percentage of the vaccine that's been distributed by the federal government that has actually been administered the massive vaccination campaign against the crowd a virus in the u.s. has gotten off to a slower start. very slower start there's no way we can speed this up in the near term 14000000 doses of the fine and madonna fight scenes have been distributed across america but fewer than 3000000 have been administered it why well donald trump says he's done his job but states aren't doing that. the federal government has distributed the vaccines to the states now it is up to the states to administer get moving a blame game that didn't go down well with those who say it's a lack of direction from the top that's left people i worked in the cold. that comprehensive vaccination plans have not been developed at the federal level and sent to the states as models it says and comprehensible as it is inexcusable it was unrealistic to assume that the health care workers already overburdened with covert care could take on a massive vaccination program many of those over bugs and health care while because on now protesting they say they were promised a vaccine and instead face and miscues and crashing apps if lucky that's despite being in contact with infected people all hours of the day for 10 months straight the promise to vaccinate them as a priority fell apart as quickly as the promise to inoculate 20000000 by the end of 2020 so if they're not going to the risk groups where all they going while no one apparently there are delays at every corner we agreed the number is lower than us we hope for we know that it should be better and we work hard to make the best tons out the holiday period and snow storms on what a smooth rollout means but even once the holidays end in the snow melts if nothing changes unless say it would take almost 10 years to vaccinate enough americans to control the virus gives a whole new meaning to a peroration warp speed and the mess continues on a local level 2. is it just normal teasing problems of one of the most ambitious vaccination campaigns in u.s. history or is it just incompetence at every level. either way it looks like the cure meant to bring is now only outing to the chaos from the very beginning of the pandemic in the united states what we've lacked is any storage of national strategy the trump administration as you know worked against developing a national strategy to coordinate it didn't have any problem with taking billions of dollars of public money and giving it to private corporations to develop a vaccine but then when it came to the states saying that they needed money in order to administer the vaccine it was you know just millions that were given out for that state are getting around you know $7000000.00 and this is completely inadequate for them the states are overwhelmed already with the code in 1000 crisis and just didn't have the capacity to set up you know an infrastructure to vaccinate people and so right now they're scrambling to try to set up sites to give the vaccinations figure out who should be prioritized and how they're going to get it to them so you know all these months of trying to create a vaccine and that time was wasted in terms of developing a plan for how to actually get the vaccine to the people who need it. the british prime minister has put himself at old swith teaching unions by saying the parents to send the children to school on monday in areas where there are open schools a safe very very important to stress that the threats to the risk to to kids to young people is really very very very small boris johnson says schools are safe but the government scientists say they should be shot to tackle the virus his government is already responsible for the unnecessary deaths of tens of thousands of people it can't be trusted teachers can i back the national education union. i stand in solidarity with teachers and head teachers who are taking the fight to this government forcing them to listen to sages advice to close schools schools are not safe they must close listen to sage more labor mr presentation by boris johnson he appears on mars this morning insisting the schools are safe but forgets to mention that his own scientists told him that it can get on top of give it 1000 without closing schools. the question of whether children should go back to school after the christmas holidays has been heatedly debated the government's facing pressure from teachers who want schools to remain closed in england for 2 more weeks early most primary schools are expected to open in england excluding ones in london the return of secondary schools is expected later in the month john hole a teacher a member of a teaching trade union shared his frustration i find a reason to keep the schools in the capital close yes but also to what they should what they should look to do it is because london schools for i'm in newcastle upon tyne which is in the northeast of england who were here for through lots of. or so if london schools are going to meet clause 'd from general 4th and we expect all schools in tears for all to remain closed at the moment it's not a good winter asked to all the schools will will reopen it's not to each employer. it's not the employer of teachers in england the any acts you can see so it is unique he has written to each employer asking them to carry out next new risk assessments to ensure that the schools are safe and nice why the fall is not a reasonable date or stross to reopen. it will take at least a week to 2 weeks if all these constants usual stuff can take place and that schools are meets. the outcry comes as the case is a major spike in daily corona virus infections following christmas nearly 55000 new cases were reported on sunday the total number of cases is now surpassed 2600000 with more than 75000 deaths john hall again accusing the government of mishandling the pandemic. the good moments have not conceivably. the teachers and their union representatives that much hope mean time and. have not listened to. them. so on and are still not 10 it's been excellent i sit in the government meeting want to just be yours what is happening for a while in each of the next. profession certainly any extreme commutes each year in housing law can produce such all illegal immigrants in the way that the howling is absolutely in how we're handling the education of students in this country. canadian police raided the home after reportedly receiving a complaint about a gathering that violated code for destructions but they were met with strong resistance from those in the building. of the. fines were issued and 2 of the 6 people were arrested in the altercation in quebec province footage of the arrests the schools the stir in the some questioning the office's use of force the police say that the video doesn't show the whole picture . the video only shows some of the intervention the individuals were disobedient and refused to cooperate the individual arrested in the video had assaulted a police officer hitting him in the feast several times with corona virus cases on the rise in quebec and hospitals being stretched to the limits or thirty's of banned all gatherings in most of the province young exception being for those living alone who are allowed to have one visitor people violating the ban can receive a hefty fine. moving now across the border to the united states where new york state lawmakers proposed a bill that would allow carriers of infectious diseases to be detained if they're deemed to be a danger to public health the draft legislation comes as the state becomes the 4th in the country to record 1000000 coronavirus cases the provisions in the draft bill could be used if the state declares a health emergency over upon over an epidemic does not however specifically mention corona virus the bill would allow the governor to unilaterally order an infected person to be detained for up to 60 days court order authorizing detention must be obtained within that time and a judicial review was follow after 90 days earlier my colleague colin bray debated the draft law with the us based attorney and a pain management expert from washington but we're very much so getting towards the place of a totalitarianism authoritarianism and these are these are just issues that i had i don't think we should treat so lightly when these are questions of freedom these are questions that frankly bring in their constitutional right to not be detained and so these are civil liberty issues look at any other virus or disease and we in our own or in our history look at the aids virus we never quarantine anybody we actually try to normalize to say well this is their one problem and all that we did not put a marker put somebody in a camp for infection we don't even do that with tb which only communicable or other disease there i mean a couple surely something does have to be done when the public health officials are also up against anti of access anti lock down anti mask you have people who very well could be curing a virus and have no idea that they're curing the virus thing still a day in court you know quarantined or they're tested and so then to say well we've tested you and now that we've tested you we're going to detain you while you're stripping their rights from him without them no way or having an opportunity to seclude them in quarantine themselves and that's why. it's overreaching they don't talk about deaths now they talk about more they talk about ace's the case numbers up as physicians we care about mortality and to your point look at all the great things that we have we have there peter but how to cure things while you're in the hospital or before you get there and then we actually have you know potential cures with vaccines 1st your immunity so this seems a little bit late and it seems very drastic as once we give up our freedom it's very hard to get them back the problem is that you simply cannot use stripping the rights of american citizens awake as any potential form of leverage when you began to do that you cease to be the united states of america and it's just not who we say we are deteriorating mental health has become one of the symptoms of the pandemic since the outbreak rates of depression and anxiety have soared in countries across the world to try and drew mcgee psychologist and psychotherapist based in ireland says they will wind decline in emotional wellbeing isn't surprising. i think we're going to see an awful lot of people who are experienced mental health problems as a result of the coke and emic and people will you know become unemployed people will be. very scared about getting the virus people have been isolating people being on lockdown you know this is something that's all over the world but also people have been able to relax it here in ireland certainly christmas was was very very small this year we were at there see only there was also concerns of a parish infecting family members or other people getting the virus people have been able to go away on any holidays it's been a very difficult time for people and all of that will impact on people's mental health because the way people look after themselves often is to treat themselves to going out for a nice dinner or being able to go away for a holiday and when you take those things away it takes away some people's ability to cope and to manage their stress but also when you add into that and people's fear of everything that's going on there's quite a lot that could cause mental health difficulties. arise in prescription of antidepressant drugs has become one of the trends newquay for example numbers soared in the 4 months up to this up to september health professionals are concerned a warning the in many cases therapies also needed they also warn that online forms of therapy have a limited impact on guest dr andrew mcgee disagrees. internationally there's a lack of access to talking therapy which according to the w.h.o. and all of the international best practice guidelines should be the 1st line of treatment for some of the mental health problems it's still very very effective in helping people who house psychological distress at a time like this where it's really not often feasible for people to ha of therapy you know in a therapy room or with a cancer in person because of the risk of covert you know the move on going is still a very healthy option for people ok that brings you up to date this monday morning thanks staying with anti international i'll return with all the latest headlines and often. the way of life the reindeer herders leading a traditionally nomadic lifestyle the tundra is similar to a parallel reality i'm. glad to drive the women carry the weight of the household look on their shoulders and show them the truth that one also lets. the man we want secure plummer's nice think it's not however in the vast expanse of russia there. were housewife could secure all regular employment status within the final 2 months to make i'm sure i'm too much. in usually she's in the.

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