the democrats and the. people of this country. calling the president's new immigration policy. approach to. welcome to our to international your company my names you know me well and 30 minutes of news and views start. harassment sexual abuse. of women have been subjected to in the british army according to testimony given to a parliamentary committee. very hostile environment. you do find themselves in a vulnerable position and it starts going wrong that's where and when you're vulnerable this is when the problems really start women are paying an unnecessarily high price for serving join the army be the best it's the height of serving your country but it turns out some women are facing horrific battles of their own imagine 4000 people a brigade that can be deployed anywhere without very same number of women both surfing and veterans have now come forward with shocking experiences in the army from boating and harassment to serious sexual assault when it's to make a complaint often to appear to treat somebody here simply amos and makes out woman feel like she's just lame like she was asking sorry it's everywhere else in the welsh military sexual trauma is recognized and used in a child that parents should be able to identify that the subject traumatic puts a name to a shift and people can access help in this couldn't really it just wouldn't recognize sexual trauma the issue has long been swept under the carpet among the ranks according to the ministry of defense figures in the 5 years to 2019 almost 130 sexual violence cases were hired at military court martials just 10 percent resulted in conviction many of course fail to even reach this stage. the number is increasing year on year with the majority of them that sexual predators still among the ranks according to women's testimonies within the current military system it is extremely hard to report a sexual crime and receive support help and justice if the women wait with here to teach me a service company and. it's criminal act. they feel a need to out the investigation at the school was done except student so i think the investigation was you know i severely and i think that women which feel more support i mean our system or do not being the worst brought stories to change their evidence and to generally be. almost gaslighted to draw a story and not take it forward but while women on the frontline fight to protect their country it seems like their country is failing to protect than shot edward stashing r.t. in london just on this story an activist group has been set up called justice for troops with the aim of eradicating harassment and abuse within the armed forces we spoke to member justin montgomery who sees her commanding officers turned a blind eye to a medical complaint which led to dramatic health complications we also heard from its founder 1st grim host. i spent 3 years in the royal air force mostly from. i got involved whether i was in a c'mon at logan or a frontline unit with a rape allegation that was really not so much the incident itself that obviously would warrant any war it was the handling of that by the military which was largely to to conceal it when institutions that profess to be powerful and strong are actually weak they tend to buy organization focus on protecting the reputation of the people that built it. the fact that my knee injury wasn't investigated and became increasingly unwell and started experiencing quite extreme sent him and i was alerting my the medical team kit almost on a daily basis mustn't being listen to the whole condition of my needless to g.-d. and he taking i ended up having to be rushed to the hospital layman terms i was in internally bleeding which my life was risk from that that was medically discharged best new sort of follow up into the condition that i was being discharged then in comparison to you when i 1st joined and when i was extremely athletic clearly all of us could have been prevented if they had to pony up to the one at the giant. another story we're closely following today australia the european commission to review with the session to cancel a shipment of seneca vaccines to the country its leaders they knew export control mechanism to block the delivery after the company failed to meet its supply contract with the e.u. our europe correspondent peter oliver can tell us more. well right at the center of this are 250000 doses of the astra zeneca job they were going to be transported from italy to australia as part of a contract astra zeneca has with the australian government it's really put in place the export control mechanism that the e.u. brought in after astra zeneca failed to live up to its end of the contract it had with the european union now australia has asked the e.u. commission to review this decision but despite that the australian prime minister has said he'll understand where italy is coming from in italy people are dying at the right of 300 a diety and so i can certainly understand the high level of anxiety that would exist in italy and in many countries or across europe well one of the reasons that scott morrison could afford to be so understanding or not is that australia does have the cillit east to produce its own vaccine in fact the deputy health minister of the state of victoria said it was lucky that they have that in light of these doses from the e.u. not looking like they're arriving in australia any time soon but while the australian side of be understanding there's been some concern expressed particularly by one german m.e.p. he says this sets a well known easy precedent pandora's box opened mystique if transparency mechanism leads defacto to an export ban unfortunately foreseeable under avoidable tops blanche for imitators could have fatal consequences on supply chains global bussell overcovered 19 vaccines escalation preprogrammed the rules as they are at the moment in the e.u. allow member states to block the shipment of doses of vaccines from their territory if a manufacturer has not fulfilled the contracts that have been signed that was the case with astra zeneca and with italy france has said the. i completely side with italy in this and they french health minister said that if the shoe was on the other foot if it was france that was in this position they would have done exactly the same thing the french foreign ministry has gone even further they've said that a you member state should look inwards and focus on you member states getting vaccines and not what denmark and austria have been doing and looking abroad for cooperation all conviction remains very clear that the most effective solution to meet vaccination needs must continue to be based on the european framework well austria and denmark of both signed a deal to work with israel when it comes to the development of future vaccines the austrian chancellor said the reason that they've done this is in his eyes and from his experience of what's gone on with the use one for all and all for one vaccine for kim and program is that it can't be the only thing his citizens have to rely on discipline them it can only be overcome through global corporation and defeat we also all agree that rick soon really lars to return to normality in the summer. but we have to prepare are already known for the next stages of the pandemic after the some experts say that in austria alone we will need about $30000000.00 doses in the next few years while looking to the future is also important for a number of of the e.u. nations that are either already in the grip of 4 preparing for potential 3rd wave of covert 19 here in germany the main area of concern is what's going on with mutated variants of the virus and how they will be affected or affect how they will impact upon vaccines when it comes to vaccines and that vaccine arsenal though russia's sputnik v job is currently being reviewed by the european medicines agency and that could well be rolled out given the green light to be used across the a you very shortly get all of our taking us through that we've also been getting some reaction from our guests on the story. so it's a country putting its interests ahead of others in the context of the pandemic and vaccines are clearly the only guy in charge of their research the implications i think our lists of before a country walk and struggle then they would be for poor and around the world we know that as recently as a few weeks ago the vast majority of viable vaccine was in the athlon my shins of the world and or ny sions were missing out of the countries that i think i'm most at risk next and she would say this is not not nationalism i mean that we have such as a national contrie a contract with a set of them and they don't want or expect that this contract that we need we don't have in this moment so a lot of told people he needs money are still die have or they have a lot of people are still taking the coronavirus because we don't have the best seems so is normal that our government led by driving this side to stop the shipment of some buses that are produced immediately to our strong as it is a country not in the european union. a court in germany has temporarily blocked the intelligence services from monitoring the alternative for germany party pending a judge's final decision the a.f.d. is the largest opposition force in the german parliament and has hit back at the proposed surveillance describing it as a purely political effort to undermine the party ahead of september's federal elections. as for france the aim of the federal office for the protection of the constitution and counterterrorism is obviously in the short term to weaken us until the elections and in the long term to destroy the elderly a position party in parliament that opposes the dissolution of the nation state and unlimited immigration from foreign cultures and the federal intelligence service had intended to look into the f.t. these alleged ties to far right extremists as well as attempts to undermine 'd germany's constitution some of the party's regional branches have reportedly been monitored for some time already well so far the authorities have not commented on either the proposed surveillance of the party or that recent court ruling meanwhile hundreds a far left until for activists this week rallied against the f t jury a campaign event in the city of often back scuffles with police broke out when protesters attempted to reach the stage where party officials were speaking we heard from some members of the f.d.a. they believe the recent moves are orchestrated. they have the political mandate in order to get this rid of the competitor as a political competitor we have the strongest opposition party and what we have to do is a position is to criticize the government and that's what we do we do with respect to to the euro rescue parties huge favor that we do with the migration policy which is very dangerous for us in germany and the population doesn't want it we do it in the energy crisis we will face so we actually have an opposition which really harms the government and that's why they want to get rid of us using this central intelligence civilians the very same day when the. domestic secret service got a court order not to call the. an extremist group on xmas all the material was given to leftist papers which are very critical towards 50 years they got all the material while we are still in the dark and i mean if this is not a sign for clearly political move i don't know what such a move else could be. well for more of the story are. covered you'll find there in an exclusive interview a senior member talking about what he calls the draining conflict with the establishment and while you are there. strikes again in a development in one of yesterday stories. and removing some doctors children's books over claims of racial discrimination out and more all of our website i'm back in 90 seconds. is in the metabolife small molecule in our bodies make or. make less of it as we get older this is one of the things i work on is going 80 and because we have less of it we become more prone to infection and the crazy thing is that covered 19 sars could be to one of the. ways of attacking the body to deplete the body even more of that chemical which we need to fight infections. and. russia e.u. relations are at an impasse the kremlin has made it clear it will no longer tolerate the e.u. lecturing about values and so-called international norms and the russians have had enough of the e.u. interference in russia's internal politics he refuses to treat russia as an equal partner until this changes despite a lot of relationship appears to be on hold. a look at. less than 2 months in the white house and president biden is already facing a growing migrant crisis on the southern border in an attempt to reverse donald trump's remain in mexico policy the biden team promised to millions of illegal migrants already living in the u.s. which according to one study could lead to a dramatic increase in the country's foreign born population that's led even greater numbers to take a chance of getting across the frontier. and picks up the story. thousands are at the u.s. border wearing joe biden t. shirts begging the u.s. president to let them in they are among millions currently headed for the same border. but. joe biden doesn't see a crisis brewing as a whole plan to deal with the border issue boils down to hope and a prayer. yes i do legalize a lot there. is a ministration doesn't see a problem either just a challenge and they're ready to welcome more migrants to leave right prices at the border. the answer is no i think there is a challenge at the border that we are managing and we have our resources dedicated to diminishing we are not saying don't come we are saying don't come now because we will be able to deliver safe and orderly process to them as quickly as possible biden moved to undo the trumpet ministrations migration policies one of the 1st moves was to set up a juvenile detention facility but he insists this is not kids in cages it's prompted the migrant crisis spawns a lot of crime and just 3 days $1600.00 migrants were arrested with criminals reportedly among them and criminal organizations have certainly flourished among communities they're afraid to call the police out of fear of deportation there are people coming across a large number that are criminals a lot of people just looking for a better way of life and. hopefully it's could create a situation where they made the vulnerable to criminal organizations trying to abuse us critics say the white house is just not being realistic about the potential dangers of its policy the green light is on now we're open for business again and that is the 1st message should be sending to the traffickers who are smuggling these kids across the border show that trumps border wall remains very popular despite that congress is moving forward on what the democrats call sweeping immigration legislation presenting an 8 year path to citizenship for $11000000.00 people in the country without papers such an amnesty would be adding a new layer of u.s. citizenship roughly the size of california the hole in the process will allow people to come in. and out of. jobs is going to be a major task to handle and i don't think that government the u.s. government. and all of the illegal immigration. a lot of them. do today and then take a lot of the closed 1000000 people out of war and illegal the crowds at the border are getting larger and the country is becoming more polarized while trump may be gone the immigration debate is getting more intense it's becoming the most polarizing issue in a country that is already quite divided kaleb up and artsy new york let's stay with this story the governor of texas is among those who fired back at the immigration plans that biden ministration was releasing illegal immigrant it illegal immigrants into our communities who had coded that is neanderthal type approach to dealing with the coca situation. people in the state also took aim at biden after he slumbers state governors this isn't to relax covert restrictions in texas. the last the last thing. you. take. for granted it's still absolutely should not be saying those kind of things that's very insulting. criticize everybody else and. the democrats and i drove my hair in their boots on the on the mix of the people in this country telling them what to do oh i don't think there's any. i don't think you should be calling us neanderthals wants to talk about you need to eat with the list is 1st thing ok thank you cannot call people names you just have to respect criticism over the use of the word neanderthal has even come from germany the museum there felt the need to stick up for the ancient humans tweeting and joe biden the save the species was smarter than you might think. we were all texas is still registering over 7500 new coronavirus cases a day though there's been a decline in infections and deaths in recent weeks at almost 45000 fatalities it does have the 3rd highest corporate debt rate per state in the u.s. nevertheless texans are overwhelmingly support the decision to relax restrictions. tired of not being able to go and do things we wanted to we're glad to get our masks rockin go and live life again that's how i feel about it i think it's time for now to open up the restaurants and everybody go different places and forget today i'm going to my chiropractor appointment for the 1st time any new year opening up the business is great if you have to go out your wrist anyway so why not just but get it over with and get back to normal i think it's a good thing to get the economy back make sure we don't have any problems with. i work with the public so i don't have any problem with viruses because politically. speaking here are worth. the texas governor justified the decision citing economic concerns on the rollout of a program in the state he also said the crawler virus hospitalizations were at their lowest since october but some believe the lone star state should be penalized for the move on not received vaccine texas we hear you you didn't want to be part of an electrical grid and now you've removed your mask mandate and there are large crowds together we hear you code it is a hoax so you don't need our precious vaccine we'll send it to people who are saving lives by wearing masks why are we wasting vaccinations on texas if texas has decided to join the side of the virus earlier we spoke to radio host and political commentator wayne ellen routes a texas plans to open up the spike the pandemic and the reaction to the move. texas has this image of and rebels and conservatives that have voted it big for donald trump and it's the symbol that democrats and liberals and communists and socialists in america ate and so they're using texas as the whipping boy texas is a symbol of freedom and if it ever comes to it if there's ever a division of our country there's a session or what i like to call a divorce you go our way we go our way everyone separates text this would be the leading state that would say look we're not going to follow by its rules anymore because this is start to be ridiculous and so i think they've always aimed their guns at census because it represents freedom and it steers the big government big brother bureaucrats it's ridiculous overreaction makes no sense of course there are cases of course people get the infection it's highly contagious nobody could say oh i have the key to it i'll never get sick you have to weigh risk vs reward let everyone live their lives who's under the age of 75 and be very careful and spend a lot of money protecting the people who are over 75. must kidnappings in nigeria become an all too common occurrence in the african nation almost $300.00 schoolgirls were freed this week days after being abducted but the reunion ceremony ended in chaos when frustrated parents began throwing stones at officials drawing fire from security forces are technically aren't examines whether the international community should be doing more to improve stability in the region. from gangs kidnapping for ransom the 2 armed groups overrunning and tired towns the nigerian government faces a minefield of security challenges. for you. and there really seems to be no end to nigeria's problems the most recent case saudi hardest slinks to the islamic state attacked a u.n. base trapping 25 aid workers the attack started last night and as information is still coming through i'm outraged to hear the promises of several aid agencies and a hospital were reportedly set ablaze or sustained damage this violent attack will affect the support provided to nearly 100000 people who are desperately in need of humanitarian assistance and protection the long running instability has sparked concern among the international community which has been vocal about the need to tackle the issues in this our whole region as you did a security guarantee in the protection of our fellow citizens makes the fight against islamic terrorism the 1st priority of our foreign policy. of course we need international corporation above all in the fight against international islamist terrorism cooperation with the usa and cohesion within the e.u. and this international corporation must be improved. the sale is a microcosm of skating global risks converging in one region. it is a warning sign for requiring urgent attention and resolution so what's being done well france has had troops on the ground since 2014 and there's currently no plan for their patry ation but the numbers are mere a little over $5000.00 with just over a 1000 more to arise and it's not nigeria as a whole that's the focus significant changes will undoubtedly be made to a military system in the sa into course but they were not take place immediately and while yes it's in the region have failed to raise any hope they have raised eyebrows here's what about the start think tank had to say the reason germany and france is unsuccessful we've been counterproductive strategies in both crisis states is that stabilization is a goal usually plays a subordinate role nigeria is africa's most populous region its biggest economy and largest oil producer but many of its people live in poverty and it's now over run with the worrying a ray of intelligent security threats alarm bells should be ringing now doing so what will it take before relief is brought to nigeria or country terror experts. say it's a combined effort is needed to help bring about an end to such situations in nigeria. one of the biggest challenge then i do not say seems so easy. to do is extremism so in the gymnasium if you must be new to what would translate into well we all got caught out it was tough we got to make sure we was to make sure that he shore up on this it's through music is dealt with clearly not individually help nigeria have don't be able to tell you just because help them look plus the 5. plus minutes on the ground because if no kid goes into peals your group would do away with. a reminder do give us a follow on social media wherever you see our team logo twitter facebook instagram we'll keep you in the loop i mean only by far not. by the 21st century americans exhausted it's just tired and it doesn't have anything approaching march but china after being on the margins for so long does have something to prove and they do have the capacity and they are putting shoulder to the wheel and they are working.