President Biden has announced a new tripartite deal with Australia and the UK, with Australia receiving nuclear-powered submarines from the UK, with the US working to mediate. Beijing has condemned the action and denounced Australia as henceforth an “adversary.” Rick Sanchez examines the situation. Then RT’s Charlotte Dubenskij reports from France on the country’s ire over the deal, which supplanted an earlier deal between France and Australia, before Sourabh Gupta of the Institute for China-America Studies joins to share his insights. He argues that its benefit to Australia has more to do with surveillance than firepower and that the deal reiterates Australia’s commitment to the US camp and not the orbit of China. Rick Sanchez examines impressive video of military exercises in Russia and Belarus and the ominous signal they send to NATO, who are engaged in massive war games of its own.
A right-wing rally on Saturday in support of the rioters arrested in connection with the January 6 assault on the US Capitol has led to a nervous Washington re-fortifying the Congressional seat and equipping it with special surveillance equipment. RT America’s Faran Fronczak reports. A five-year-old Pennsylvania student collapsed in school on her second day of kindergarten and was rushed to the hospital. She’d consumed the standard personal hand sanitizer for students at her school, and it had left her with a blood-alcohol level of .23. Authorities in Pittsburg say cases of hand-sanitizer exposure have doubled since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. Infectious disease expert Dr. Bob Arnot shares his insights. Plus, RT America’s John Huddy reports on the historic launch of the world’s first all-civilian space mission, the Inspiration4 by SpaceX. RT America’s John Huddy reports for the News with Rick Sanchez.
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