RT News - August 03 2021 (17:00 MSK)

Cash-strapped Americans risk being kicked out of their homes as an eviction ban imposed to help curb the spread of Covid comes to an end at the same time as Congress, which failed to extend it, goes off on its summer holidays. While in Berlin, authorities are looking into allegations of officers using excessive force at Sunday's protests after the UN special rapporteur on torture raises alarm over footage of police throwing a woman to the ground. 'Censorship and an attack on freedom of speech' is the reaction to YouTube banning Sky News Australia for a week for violating the platform's Covid policies. The channel claims 'it only questioned wearing masks and lockdown policies'. It's revealed Britain's National Health Service secretly mulled a draft plan to exclude the elderly from being looked after in case of a flu pandemic. And now, a year-and-a-half into Covid - it's older people who have borne the brunt of this outbreak, much to the distress of one care home worker we spoke to.