parents are going cold, turkey americans are worried that code restrictions will spoil their thanksgiving celebrations. rolls out and it virgin sea algorithm to deal with misinformation in the wake of the u.s. election. critics say the platform is giving preference to content that supports job only the u.k. government's accused of having an orwellian unit, screening and obstructing requests under the freedom of information.

good morning to you. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. the courage of our respond is casting, a grim shadow over the festive season, including in the u.s., where the daily death rate is now higher than it was back in may experts say that hospitals could be overwhelmed by christmas with american celebrating thanksgiving on thursday, president elect joe biden is asking people to limit their celebrations for our family, for 40 such years. 40 something we will tradition of traveling over thanksgiving. this year will be a no holds barred just for grow family traditions. but it's so very important for countries in the middle of a dramatic spike in cases. the latest polls show that most people still intend to gather with their loved ones, though the figure was declined since september states across america though are rolling out measures that will hamper celebration plans on quarter explains.

thanksgiving is coming up in the u.s. and that means it's turkey time, although maybe not because 2020 is trying to find yet another way to ruin everybody's lives. there's a run on small turkeys, turkeys that are 10 to 14 pounds are in high demand right now. even if you're one of the few privileged enough to have a smaller turkey on your table this year, don't get too excited. this thanksgiving is supposed to be especially dangerous. with more people staying home for thanksgiving, more americans will be cooking at home for the 1st time. and some of them are stressed and with more amateur cooks hitting the kitchen this year. one firefighter's says it could be a recipe for disaster and case. that's not enough for you to stress about new york's governor. andrew cuomo capped the amount of people you can have to dinner at 10. i don't think you can get away with an extra straggler too. big brother cuomo was watching

while cuomo didn't seem to have any problem sacrificing other people's thanksgiving day when he urged families not to gather for the celebration. he himself invited his mother and 2 daughters home for the holiday. that wasn't long before he withdrew the invitation. but many people still aren't happy about that. cuomo is the would go in america. he's arrogant and he pull chrissy knows no bounds. do as i say, not as i do. pennsylvania's gathering limit isn't as draco nian as new york's but the state's alcohol ban is a trip in itself. bars and restaurants have already been ordered to halt all booze sales and some people just don't understand the relation. pennsylvania bans whole oregon legalizes hahn drugs. 2020 is wild pennsylvania and just banned alcohol for one night. only before thanksgiving. what exactly are we come back to again, and virus alcoholism,

freedom before thanksgiving has historically been the biggest alcohol consuming night of the year. probably in preparation for the relatives. since you can't have them over this year, you would be getting drunk just for fun. oh and it probably goes without saying political discussions at the dinner table this year might not be the best idea. with all these new rules and restrictions, it's likely americans will have little more than their safety to be thankful for this year. professor of psychology glenn gaya and media specialist cameron thomas discussed whether people should be free to celebrate the holiday as they please. it comes to, you know, personal responsibility and you know, individuals who want to protect their families. i think it's

a sign that people should step aside for thanksgiving this year and stay safe. i think bret realize asian is very important. i think freedom is very important. and i thank our culture, you know, cultures very on a lot of dimensions. the united states is known as what's a very loose culture. some americans feel that their referendum is being taken away by, by these measures. but you know, your life is a fair, fair price to pay thanksgiving in your life. i don't know what i choose from what i choose. i think i choose life, but what we're seeing now is so many americans, not following the guidelines and not following the rules, is partly the fact that we do live in a loose culture where people are from a very small age, very young age service and courage to sort of make their own rules and force their own paths and life. hey, i'm very tired of it. i've been isolated. you know, i haven't seen my mom since april. yeah, i'm getting tired of that. but, you know,

the bottom line is that there is this ranging pandemic out there. it's sad me actually i have tears in my eyes, seeing so many people being so irresponsible. you know, human beings will follow their emotions. and there's a lot of people who are like, i know this isn't the right thing to do on you know, and one sense, but darn it, i'm doing it because i feel like i have to blot of people are doing compromise. were supposed to sit next to each other, you know, arm next on shoulder necks, the shoulder cutting through dying stock and warrants in concerts, conditions, and is in a lot of ways, very unnatural. and i would argue, in a long term sense is very unhealthy. it's going to be the same next year. traditions are disappearing. they, you know, these traditions have been grained in the, in the american psyche been going on for, you know, hundreds of years. sacrificing one year is not going to make a difference. there's so many ways that you know, these current guidelines and conditions may be good from

a public health standpoint and they are great. do you think there are any and you are emotional and social intramural health? and i feel like thanksgiving is really just, i'm just like a really strict us example of that particular problem. the british travel agency is giving wings to a backlash against quantas airways. and so after the airline announced that it would require international travelers to of how they cope with $900.00 vaccines. the tour operator announced that it would no longer do business with qantas if it goes ahead with its no job, no fly demand. we feel that bodily autonomy with regard to medical intervention, is a personal choice and not something to be forced on people by businesses. we are not anti vaccination, but we are pro choice. there is a huge difference between coercion and making a free choice. no airline as previously required passengers to have had an injection prior to boarding some have praised the travel agency for its stance on

quantas. others though sided with the airline, saying it's safer to fly without antibiotics is on board. keith best the migration expert of francesco result, a professor of european law, discussed the feasibility of the no job, no fly rule. the airline has a responsibility of ensuring the safety of its passengers. and also, of course, complying with the rules and regulations of the not only the polish country rehearsing for the destination country ready countries to have pre travel health checks which they require people to focus on seeing them. a visa in the classic example is on to the kilo, says sort of things of, of that nature. i do not believe that an airline can impose on its free will, whom no job, no fly. i think that that would be rather foolish. this cannot simply be on the

initiative of the other, you know, a private outline. this is, this is about public order. people aren't forced travel, they choose to travel. and if they choose to travel, then they're going to in these difficult pandemic times comply with regulations which satisfy the airline that safety. there is a parallel in europe. ringback of course that i experienced this summer that knew you would not be allowed to fly on less you were wearing face covering. so in many ways, we know how to deal with it, except of course, asking people to engage go through. an invasive procedure is slightly different than the general tendency in europe for not to make maximisation these days anyway . compulsory, if we were dealing with an airline that's have a total monopoly on all air. well, that would be a different issue,

i think. but you know, people will vote with their feet if they don't like travelling all of their lima church. he makes this requirement, then it's the elements going to suffer the end of the day because it won't travel on it. i actually believe that the su will only be resolved if it is dealt with at an international global, certain european and beyond level with rules that apply to everybody who wants to travel, whether it's testing or whether it's vaccination and so on. i don't actually think that a sort of piecemeal, you know, one hour line does x. and another airline does why it is actually acceptable simply because you need to have an overall sense of control and management all of the virus and how you treat the virus. facebook has made or it's called a temporary emergency change to its algorithm in response to the u.s. election network says that is trying to eradicate misinformation. one knock on

effect appears to be giving a preference to content that's pro joe biden week after the election. some facebook work is referring to the algorithm as the nice a news feed, reportedly spoke about the possibility of it becoming a permanent feature biggest of examines whether nicer means the same as more honest election fraud 2 words you would never associate with the united states of america now a phrase that could send fists flying in the country, allegations of cheating have also outgrown the issue of a vote recount, as some republicans claim they've been called and elsewhere too on social media. you know, the people that, that i hear from, of course, believe that conservatives were wrongfully being silenced, while those on the left that were given basically a free rein of your platforms. and one of the points of contention that is often brought up is that you do recruit, have a leave from california,

which leads to your employee base skewing quite heavily to the left. at 1st glance, the allegations that facebook's nonpartisan algorithms that have been tweaked to give biden an upper hand don't seem to hold after all, biden and his team have been rather unflattering towards the platform to say the least. i've never been a big fan of facebook as you probably know. i've never been a big zuckerberg fan, but the latest report suggests that this could all be smoke and mirrors, and that facebook is already buttering up the new white house landlord from promoting content which rubber stamps joe biden's talking points to secretly screwing up the traffic for publications, by non-mainstream and pro republican outlets. it resulted in a spike in visibility for big mainstream, publishes like c.n.n. the new york times and national public radio,

while posts from highly engaged hyper partisan pages such as breitbart and occupy democrats became less visible. facebook denies any bias explaining its strives to achieve balance to the best of its ability, but some actions speak louder, suggesting a mutual affection. the supposedly facebook loathing joe biden doesn't seem to have a problem hiring from their roster. 'd 'd

biden's deputy communications director also seems to have had a change of heart and deleted tweets, giving facebook a dressing down executive roles. he had permission as country to control who sees what they censor. conservative news, big tech. it's been working towards this for 4 years, and it will be bored to ensure that joe biden wins their party is the democrat party. and so of course, joe biden is going to be stacking his transition team with members of the silicon valley cobol. so of course, you're going to see former c.e.o.'s from facebook from, from other technology companies. they are, these are joe biden. people big tax is for the democrats and look what we've got coming up now. we've got 4 years of the media, which is going to be ok docs when i or people know thing to criticize here. we're already gearing up in this country for a return to the swamp as we call it a return to normalcy. return to war mongering, a return to big pharma,

a return to all these industries that love the democrats that love globalization, and they got their man and with, with joe biden. previously, facebook has repeatedly found itself in hot water with the u.s. authorities. it seems this time the giant has finally learned its lesson and is preemptively raising the hand of that could very soon be feeding it and staying with anti more news after the break. well it still seems wrong wolf just don't call me yet to say palin does think that's ok. and in detroit, because the trail when somebody find themselves worlds apart,

we choose to look for common ground. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race and spearing dramatic development that only exists . i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome back. the architect behind the freedom of information act, his calling for a probe into what

a new report has described as an orwellian unit within the government. this is accused of intentionally obstructing the release of potentially sensitive data. partridge's has the story. a storm is brewing in the u.k. about freedom of information within government. a new report by open democracy describes a so-called all. well, you know, it's called the clearing house, that obstructs media requests, and even blacklist journalists clearing house shares with a range of whitehall departments. a daily update containing the names of journalists and complainants, the requests they have submitted and advice on how referring to pardons should respond fast in the year 2000, the freedom of information act was meant to open up the workings of government. requests for information were supposed to remain anonymous or applicant blind, and in theory could help keep the author. it is a check. but according to this report, the cabinet now rejects more requests than ever. the government was trying to keep

it under wraps of this year's existed and investigation has led to the conclusion that it does exist. and obviously there are lots of questions to be asked about what is supposed to be doing under water the, you know, why it was such a lot of freedom of information, but actually past 20 years ago. and in theory, when people make applications interim ation from the government, it's supposed to be neutral, who's applying the not supposed to care who's asking for it. but what this unit is doing is it's collating all of the requests and the ones which are serious, the ones which are going to uncover. but potentially government malfeasance are being referred to this unit, which is being kept secret, but it's actually under the cap in the cabinet office being run. boy michael, go actually go to aspirations to being prime minister. as we all know, number 10 says the consideration of foia requests remains applicant and the motive behind and the clearing house unit remains fully compliant. but there is growing

criticism within westminster labor peer lord clarke of when dimia was instrumental in the act becoming a law and is now calling for a government investigation into the controversial yunis, along with politicians across the spectrum. this clearing house is certainly against the spirit of that act, and probably the letter to ministers should explain to the house of commons precisely why they continue with this set up in view of the fact that it is contradictory to the whole purpose of freedom of information this is extremely troubling if the cabinet office is interfering in f. or i requests and seeking to work around their requirements of the act by blacklisting. join this, it is a grave threat to our values and transparency in our democracy. yet this storm over the law has been brewing since it was past 20 years ago, under tony blair's government. after the then prime minister discovered that governments couldn't discuss any issues with a reasonable level of confidentiality. and freedom of information was mainly used

by journalists. he cursed himself, you idiot, you naive, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop. there is really no description of stupidity no matter how vivid that is adequate. i quake in the imbecility of it. for political leaders, it's like saying to someone who's hitting you over the head with a stick. try this instead, and handing him a mallet. now it seems, boris johnson's government is also trying to put the lid back on a pandora's box that the british public are legally entitled to open. a partridge party loved football fans around the world are mourning the death of football legend, diego maradona. the argentinian died of a heart attack. at the age of 60, he was famous for his outstanding playing ability and colorful character on and off the field. italian city of naples, whose team are down to help to win the league for the 1st time in their history. people gathered in the streets to mark his passing plans were announced to rename

the local stadium in his honor. in argentina, people have been gathering to pay respects to the country's president has declared 3 days of national mourning is what people in buenos aires have i never thought this day would come my 1st or at least gone. he's the greatest of all the masters of football. the one who gave you say everything. do you go? amanda maradona means everything. the whole world has to do. know today the whole world price for it. yes or no. for someone to come and tell me that's all i that's all i ask, diego married daughter was hero, to many a villain to some devil that played football like an angel. he will be sadly missed as a character. but he certainly lived a life 60 years old, fit more into those 60 years than most people would do in a 100 lifetimes. he started his football in korea at home in argentina,

but it was in europe that he really stormed to the scene in 1982. he signed for barcelona for a day and world wreck or fee of just over $7.00 and a half $1000000.00. he spent a short time with the council on giants his time there was marred by fights on the pitch off the pitch with the club's management, with the club's owners hierarchy directors, anybody who he could fight with. he pretty much did. he did win 2 trophies while he was there as well, but he later moved on to the now fully italy where put away get a world record for this time. for just over $10000000.00. that 1986 to $87.00 season, he pretty much won the italian league for not policed by himself. internationally though, he is argentina's favorite son, and i'm including messi, of course, the current incumbent of that number 10 shirt. i think it's fair to say, particularly on this day. everybody's thoughts are going towards diego maradona when it comes to you with that greatest number 10,

his international career came to an end in 1900 for the world cup in the united states, where under a cloud of some sort, sea tested positive for a performance enhancing drug and was sent home into scrapes even tamed. up until the day he died, that it was, it was taken by accident that it was something that was in a supplement that was different in the united states than it was in argentina. berths, he did have his problems with substance abuse from the 1980s. he struggled with cocaine addiction, also troubles with alcohol. you have to remember, he straddled a big change in football. at the time he started, the way to deal with him was to basically kick him and stop him from, from playing. he was able to get around that and still when he then moved into lots of time in the ninety's, where real professionalism came into world football in the game. start the change. what, how would he stand up against a messy or an alto in today's game? i still think diego maradona would have had the ways to beat the the tributes of

comporting in from the world of football. we heard from former around madrid, president among counter wrong. he says that those who played with it on the believe that he could win matches all by himself. we have seen the images today of people crying and yes, praying. he was like, like a saint for many of them. i think he brought them a lot of joy and happiness and i think it's important to know what he means for argentina is to the last days of his life. we saw him in a situation that were very sad. we didn't like to see him like that, but i've read today something about i really don't mind what he did. football. it matters to me is the joy,

the happiness he brought to my life, the life of my kids. what in the world, what he did on the pitch, and i think that summarizes his life for argentina in what he means for the people of argentina. for me. as i said, when i had the opportunity to see him on the pitch, i was amazed about his skill, the control over his own body. he was assured but incredible. and the players that played with team i talked to said that he could be able to win a match by himself. and when they were in trouble, they were always trying to find him and pass him the ball because they knew that with the ball in, in his boots,

he can do something that nobody could do. and now that's something that makes the difference in the playing of the time for sure. no doubt the best player in that time. but it's clear that you can't judge the years in different era in different time. but he been one of the great this report. sure. in the history with a problem, if you need with a big play into they went with a no, but for sure. we were one of the top players. he's now a legend, it's an eggcorn. it's been considered one or the best ever. been very lucky to see him play him on the beach and for me, werth and i made him play incredible play in many senses, a big about it today. thanks for staying with us here on r.t. international law. there are members, plenty more new stories that we're covering over on our website. a t r t dot com,

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