i'm thinking. maybe. a growing list of countries around the world are imposing travel restrictions on the united kingdom following the emergence of a new strain of coronavirus meaning the brits abroad make struggle to be home for christmas. day 70 take thing a change been cancelled you have to get out of the country now basically if you're interested in my family. of what joe biden's tb is weighing up options to punish russia for what they claim is this role in hacking u.s. government agencies however they are yet to provide evidence as to who's behind the attack. on the u.k.

home office is being accused of a shocking failure of a migration after it says it lost track of more than 37000 migrants over the past 3 decades. hi there and a very good morning to you watching r.t. international. the list of countries closing their borders to the u.k. is growing over fears of a new coronavirus strain u.k. prime minister boris johnson will chair an emergency response meeting on monday the new coronavirus variant is believed to be up to 70 percent more transmissible than current straits let's get more on this story now from our correspondent paula she's in paris good morning to you paula it appears that e.u. countries are closing their doors to the u.k. tell us more. well certainly as you mentioned we're seeing now

a new more transmissible variant of covert 19 which seems countries batten down and trying to close the borders so that it doesn't which they shore was now here in france all transport links with the u.k. have been suspended for 48 hours and this includes slate vehicles being refused permission to travel across the euro tunnel and this has seen businesses in a state of panic at the same time germany has suspended all air travel for the rest of the month so that's until december 31st and witnessing other countries following suite both inside europe for example it to be belgium and the netherlands and outside europe such as saudi arabia iran israel canada and colombia now the british health secretary has admitted that this new strain has yet to come under control. i live in paris and. frankfurt economy i'm heading back to france to see my

family that i couldn't see for more than 4 months just to be with my family and not be alone for christmas you know just like everybody. my dream is meant to be put to my name. but they sent me a text like 2 o'clock this afternoon thing or trains been cancelled you have to get out of the country now basically if you want to get out. now on saturday as you heard londoners were scrambling to get out of the country ahead of the new lockdown measures people were spending huge amounts of cash to use taxis to take them to other parts of the country we managed to question up with those who are not escaping and they shared with us they mistrust of how the government is handling the whole kona virus crisis. you said recently that the virus was on the control is it no it's not the new variant is out of control and we need to bring it under control.

now this comes as people are stuck at the borders this comes as people are stuck at the borders both london and provisions they've been struggling to get home before christmas. all got very. very strong like. sending. sending a president who home grinch who stole christmas. you know like you probably think you might be like remember this prime minister. thing you know making it probably just plain this week. now how worried should we be well those new tape of corn a virus is spreading rapidly both across the u.k. and the world it comes as the 1st case of the u.k. variant is detected in italy now dinners are divided over the new measures to try

and deal with it and later today monday we are witnessing a meeting of the european council which will be addressing this crisis the one thing that we can certainly agree on is that the vaccination is the best christmas present ever. with the very latest on this development in this story r.t. correspondent paula slee live from paris thank you. coronavirus vaccines are beginning to make it from the lab and into people's arms skepticism of the jobs of peace to be grown we'll be speaking to our guests about this later in the hour. but 1st let's move on to other news now recent cyber attacks on multiple u.s. federal agencies have caused quite a stir in the news for the past week the u.s. government to still not definitively determine who's behind the attacks members of the incoming by administration have vowed to go beyond mere sanctions when the culprit is identified i think in terms of the measures that are by new

administration would take it's not just sanctions it's also steps and things we could do to degrade the capacity of foreign actors to repeat this sort of attack or worse still engage in even more dangerous attacks and we don't know fully what happened the extent of it and frankly we don't know fully 1st sure who did it joe biden i know we'll have a robust response won't we find out the perpetrator and the extent of it meanwhile politicians from both major parties alongside us media have already rushed to judgment on naming the perpetrator with more about his art he's done of course. more russian hacking hysteria leave it to the mainstream media to sneak it in under a month before trump's exit from the white house russia is behind a cyber attack massive cyber attack the brits believed to be the work of the russians russia's massive cyber attack yes the elusive russian hackers whose existence is still a mystery have once again made their entrance into america's political arena this

was a very significant effort and i think it's through a case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was a russian if that indeed is the most activity the national cyber security agency has yet to lay the blame on anyone entity for breaching several private companies and key u.s. government departments including the treasury homeland security and even nuclear security coming from pompei although the anti russia hysteria is a bit of surprise because his boss seems to think it's just a diversion the cyber hack is far greater in the fake news media than in actuality i have been fully briefed and everything is well under control russia russia russia is the priority chance when anything happens because lynching media is for mostly financial reasons petrified of discussing the possibility that it may be china it may you think after the countless wasted hours since the election hacking accusations of 2016 trying to prove russian collusion with trump trying to find the russian hacker smoking gun the political establishment might want to try something

new but actually this time even the republicans are just as much out for blood as the democrats where the president has a blind spot when it comes to russia and so you can expect that that's the response that he would have the cia the national security administration and others who looked at this well there's no question has come from russia all indications point to russia for the present united states either tries to deflect or is not willing to call out. the adversary as we make this after beautician he is not making our country safer for the president to be once again so this see full it's an eerie. go over the presence of rivers see what he also suggested when the russians cracked erections in 26 might have been china so what exactly is it that keeps reviving this fear of russian hackers if there was something for people to be scared of surely there would be some evidence of it unless there's other motives at work here

this isn't new right this is exactly what u.s. foreign policy has been for decades which is unsubstantiated or just false claims about a foreign country to bed pave the way for some sort of international idiocy and what we're seeing over here is a dangerous echo of that exact same behavior which is assigning blame without any kind of evidence without any kind of backing with no public scrutiny with no transparency of any kind to me it's been used as a distraction and then after the extensive extensive research on russia the every kind of legal and and technological scrutiny of russia during after the 2016 election you know there was something there it would have found it the fact that i'll bet an investigation of that scope turned up basically nothing so just to me they were looking at a scare tactic not not really a meaningful analysis of the situation. award winning journalist john pilger

talks about a new cold war between china and the us and joe biden in his latest interview with going underground you can watch the full version of that interview by heading to our website altie dot com. 18 and a half 1000 elderly people were discharged from hospitals into care homes and they died from cofa and if that's not one of the great civil war crimes of our time i don't know want to hear the press lately we've been hearing about human rights abuses in china we've been hearing about chinese attempts to destroy the fabric destroy the fabric of our society everything is seen through this narrow western and i would say deeply prejudiced lens of the world we are not allowed to understand other societies isn't that extraordinary in a time of great information when we have these wondrous tools of understanding each

other we're not on the we're not able to understand the achievements of other societies the fact that the chinese of effectively ended real poverty in that country and they've done that in a generation probably the greatest turnaround in a society the a cultural bigotry xenophobia that's all this is it with the drug administration we've been living with is ludicrous term which american academy of call exceptionalism which means the american human beings apparently different the rest of us the law better and the system is a lot better when listening ought. you know the county been hold a proper election some people are saying we are getting a more sophisticated regime or stuff coming in to the white house the democrats have been the source of most of america's. activity in the world since 945 not the republicans. so we

should be really nervous now that we have a democratic. administration coming. we're nervous enough having a trumpet ministration what we're going to have is another american administration basically no different trumpets a character true of a system biden is probably the embodiment of use of the system of the was this vote difference. the u.k. home office has admitted that it lost track of 37000 migrants over the past 30 years among them were asylum seekers people who overstayed their visas and those who crossed into the u.k. legally they're supposed to regularly report to immigration centers or police stations but the u.k. government has lost track of money the chairman of migration watch u.k. has called the situation a failure of the system this is

a shocking failure it is ridiculous to intercept those crossing the channel illegally or after they emerged from the back of lorries only to turn them loose to disappear into the undergrowth of the shadow economy. all this data came to light after 8 asylum seekers went missing from napier barracks in kent where hundreds of migrants are being kept in conditions called questionable by charities i don't believe what they say but because the labor is very tired of this place to $28.00 be able to have only one choice. it's like prison. like britain with one block and 15 people or 20 people in their own room and flipping all the others for a night for much problem the money people know and i have a quote on all 4 welded no. see if you thought.

that isn't a bit because you you know when happen but here i don't what happened. the home office spokes person has said however that it is likely many of those that can't be traced probably left the country for those remaining in the u.k. there are services dedicated to tracing those that have fallen off the map from a briggs it party member for scotland david coburn believes the whole migration system needs more control. normal individuals are stopped at customs or stopped at immigration and their checks for health and there were little terrorists or whatever but these people arrived there not checked and no one seems to want to chase them up but this is going on for years there's no desire in the part of the government to stop migration and this is the reason one of the major reasons that people voted to leave the european union too many people are just allowed to stay and the government she said it's just too much trouble it gives them bad publicity

and they want to get the reelected so therefore they're not chasing it up it's expensive and also a lot of police manpower they must control migration for the sake of the health service and for the sake of our social security system the whole thing will collapse if we don't control migration they have to be firm about a signal you will not be allowed to stay in the country you will not be allowed to work and you should not people should not be employing people who do not have the right to study in the united kingdom. u.s. regulators have approved a 2nd covert vaccine for emergency use raising hopes of an end to the pandemic the medina job is being rolled out alongside the pfizer bio and tech drug which is also being administered in the u.k. but despite the apparent breakthrough these manufacturers are facing a wall of public reluctance in the united states for example the latest polls show that only 64 percent of the population are willing to take a covert vaccine not falls well short of the 70 percent scientists say is needed to

gain immunity there's also a high level of skepticism in europe a survey in the science journal nature found only 54 percent of people would take the job in france and italy the figure is 65 percent well in the u.k. more than half of respondents said they were concerned about possible side effects . earlier on my colleague discussed what might be behind the mistrust with our guests. for this particular vaccine there's a few reasons why people are skeptical one is that the safety procedures have been very much truncated for the strug and compromised they've skep the animal tests and the observation period for humans subjects is very very low and it's also a very new tape of technology this am or any which has never really been used before the vaccine has not been rushed through and let me explain why in this case

this was a global effort and global pandemic and if we came in a bottomless pit of money therefore it was able to do it in a short time not because we were cutting corners but because all the normal barriers the bureaucratic nonsense of funding not being able to find that the the people to do the experiments on except were all and abled and that's why we've got the vaccine in record time and say all the politicians making it worse i guess the politicians are partly to blame because if you look at the data that people are available to that's available online it seems completely our odds with what the politicians are seeing is as necessary i mean you can't tell from the data from one region to another where is how the heavy law going where it's had our soft one where is how to manage our mask and mandy where is not the data doesn't seem to back up what we're being told is good for us what we as experts scientists need to

do is take the front stage and talk about our how the vaccine works how it produces immunity what it does what it doesn't do and carry the people with us also these companies are not liable for damages so those who are of an anti vaccine persuasion can say or there is something spooky going on here you know usually if you buy a product and it damages. you then you're able to sue the company for damages and no drug is completely safe but at least this form some sort of counterbalance against companies skimping on safety you don't just immunize and forget you immunize put it in the g.p. records and national house though is how to record and you fall of this group up and you follow it up assiduously over a long period of time to look out for unknown unexpected unusual signs and symptoms

in time we will not how well the vaccines are performing and then we will be able to tell immunized therefore protected and protected for a long time or not. a car bombing in the afghan capital killed 9 people on sunday 20 others were injured among them a member of parliament the deadly attack comes as a new report by u.s. watchdog reveals that defense equipment handed over to the afghan government has been lost track of artist meter power clips of the possible implications. the pentagon has yet again lost track of its toys according to a new report by the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction the department of defense lost track of 60 percent of quote some of the most sensitive articles provided to the afghan military the last gear includes night vision devices surveillance systems and even controls for laser guided explosives the sensitive equipment was supposed to be inventoried by the u.s. every year to ensure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands but apparently that's

exactly what happened after the pentagon failed to keep count of this precious gear according to c.s. t c a officials the command has never met its 100 percent inventory requirement and is unlikely to ever do so because the security situation in afghanistan prevents some inventories from taking place. the report found that in 2019 afghan forces filed over 3000 change of use requests for the transferred articles almost half of which were captured by enemy forces and the others destroyed damaged or simply lost however the pentagon doesn't seem to be too broken up about the whole ordeal nothing has actually changed in the way the u.s. keeps track of its foreign military aid despite constant promises to do better over the years the president has lost track of thousands of weapons and billions of dollars of foreign military aid and once in a while the legal cargo ends up in the hands of the terrorists.

at the pentagon even gets coronavirus relief funds and even those get misplaced one would think the scale of carelessness would inquire some serious reform but so far everything seems to stay the same and the pentagon maintains its several $100000000000.00 annual budget to the frustration of many with some even accusing the us of being responsible for the rise of eisel some of it has actually gotten into the hands of. isis by. inadvertent. equipment drops already and particularly up in syria it was it was that way they

were given whole. crates full of u.s. arms and grenades. and some sensitive because tens of billions of dollars ok equipment has just disappeared no accountability but when you get into sensitive military equipment. this. it seems to be happening particularly as this equipment goes into goes into the hands of the afghan security forces and then gets lost completely with little to no accountability it's hard to avoid the conclusion that the u.s. doesn't really care where its weapons and funds end up just as long as there's constant demand for them i think the problem has historically been once you get into. the far reaches of the country a lot a lot of the inventory just goes missing it's that it's not properly inventoried it

passes from and and and eventually u.s. forces journal you lose track of what the human sensitive equipment such as your night vision. but the spice may really be given a license to kill and the u.k. law controversial legislation being considered in the house of lords would protect agents from prosecution to serious crimes committed abroad it comes as a new report reveals the extent to which they've been already acting with impunity skittle it takes a closer look do you dream of a life of crime are you just not fussed about human rights does the idea of going rogue excites you yes well that i've got great news and my 6 is hiring oh and don't worry if once you're in you commit a few deeds they don't mind in fact even renew your contract. secret intelligence services identify the risk that agents may be involved in

serious criminality overseas or renewal 6 months up to the original submission. a number of indicators that the agent may have been involved in or have contemplated the serious criminality referenced above we concluded that on the basis of this new information as our red line said most likely been breached every year the i.p.c. releases a report on how well behaved the u.k. intelligence agencies and police forces have been in this area turns out not very not only does the report tell that story of a rogue agent apparently probably pretty likely breaking the law without punishment it turns out it wasn't a one off in fact it seems that my 6 continues to rely on section 7 of the 1904 intelligence services act now i might be nicknamed the james bond clause but it's far less shaken not stirred and much will i get out of jail free card

if apart from this section a person would be liable in the united kingdom for any act done outside the british islands he shall not be so liable if the act is one which is authorized to be done by virtue of an authorization given by the secretary of state under this section. so a license to rape torture and kill a license over your listener us signed off by someone at the top most people would find this fairly worrying but apparently boris johnson's no one of them this report demonstrates the high quality of the oversight of our security and intelligence agencies use of the most intrusive powers i'm satisfied their arrangements are amongst the strongest and most effective in the world but then again birger how certainly he's not just ok with this shady wild of undercover crime as he actually wants it to become neagle and for perpetrators to be immune from prosecution the pm is carney pushing the cause that human intelligence sources bill through parliament

i did dizzying pace a bill that would literally make being above the law the law for a select few of course now london says that agents have to have this freedom to convince the people best spying on that they aren't goody 2 shoes informants but not everyone's convinced we have us in the c.h.l. is bill in the case that legalizes government to commit any crimes they like against ordinary people since it's overreach in democratic states is. what could possibly go wrong with giving more leeway to secretary of state institutions who consider themselves accountable to nobody c.h.i.'s bill places no limits on the crimes that can be authorized as former director of public prosecutions can make donald q.c. observed it will be easier for police to commit a serious crime than to search a shed. red line is transparency or an order said to be replaced by copy

all snow accountability and by any means necessary wild of secrecy to become even more secret than the state and it spooks to become both judge and jury what could possibly go wrong. ok that wraps it up for this news hour thanks for your company with me coming your way in half an hour.

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