yes to shape out. active. and engaged equals betrayal. when some find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. a growing list of countries around the world are imposing travel restrictions on the united kingdom following an emergence of a new strain of coronavirus meaning brits abroad may struggle to be the 1st. they sent me a text saying a change been cancelled you have to get out of the country basically you're interested in my family. joe biden's team is weighing up options to punish russia for what they claim is its role in hacking u.s. government agencies but yet to provide evidence as to who is behind the attacks.

home office is being accused of a shocking failure over migration after it says it lost track of more than 37000 migrants over the past 3 decades. the morning you're watching our teams are national thanks for joining us. the list of countries closing the 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 strengths auntie's pulis lire ports from paris. well there is now a more tonsil miscible variant of covert 19 and this is resulted in countries backing down and trying to close the borders to prevented from reaching them here

in france or tonsil things for the u.k. has been suspended for 48 hours including freight vehicles which are not been given permission to travel across the you would tunnel so as you can well imagine this is causing a major panic amongst businesses germany has suspended all travel until the end of the year until december 31st and other countries are following in the same pattern all this includes countries both inside europe such as belgium and the netherlands and countries outside such as iran israel saudi arabia colombia and canada and this comes as people are stuck at the borders both londoners and provisions who are struggling to get back home before christmas i live in paris and i do it right for our 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 be my dream is meant to be evening. 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 the british health secretary has admitted that this new strain has still to come under control you said recently that the virus was under control is it no it's not the new variant is out of control and we need to bring it under control on saturday london as we're scrambling to get out of the capital city ahead of the new lockdown measures aimed at dealing with this new strain of covered 19 people spending huge amounts of cash on taxis to get to other parts of the country ahead of the christmas holidays now we managed to catch up with some people who were not escaping and they told us about the mistrust. in terms of how the government is dealing with the crisis. for the polish dropship well like i you know sending your. friends in your friends. home grinch who stole christmas.

crop. crop i think he would be like you probably you know any story you might be like remember the prime minister has. been you know basically probably just playing this. well how worried should be the mutator corona virus is spreading rapidly both across the u.k. and the world and the 1st detection of the u.k. variant has now appeared to be london is divided over what the new measures should be at the same time later today monday there will be a meeting of the european council to discuss this latest crisis one thing that they'll certainly agree on however is that the vaccination itself is the best christmas gift ever and doesn't come a moment too soon. so it's fox news if you give it to regular from the lab but into people's arms skepticism of the job appears to be growing we speak to our guests

about this later in the program. the next award winning journalist john pilger talks about covert 19 in the u.k. and what the u.s. might look like under joe biden in his latest interview on artie's going underground check out the full interview by heading over to r.t. dot com. 18 and a half 1000 elderly people were discharged from hospitals into care homes and they died from coated 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 true understand 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 this ludicrous term which american academy of call exceptionalism which means that american human beings are 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 covering the trumpet administration what we're going to have is another american administration basically no different trump was a character true of a system biden is probably the embodiment of use of the system of the was this difference. recent cyber attacks on multiple u.s. federal agencies have caused a stir in the news for the past week the u.s. government has still not definitively determined who was behind the attacks members of the incoming by the ministration of 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 we don't know fully what happened the extent of it and frankly we don't know fully for sure who did it but joe biden i know will have a robust response once 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 on that his aunties don't cotton. 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 breach 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 the case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was the russians that he 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 once again so see full it's an eerie. go over the presence of rivers see where he also suggested when the russians act erections and when he's 16 that 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 us foreign policy has been for decades which is unsubstantiated or just false claims about a foreign country to bend paved the way for some sort of international idiocy and all 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 we would have found it the fact that i'll bet an investigation a bad scope turned up basically nothing so just to me that we're looking at a scare tactic not not really a meaningful analysis of the situation. the u.k.

home offices admitted it lost track of 37000 migrants over the past 30 years think that asylum seekers people overstaying their visas and those who cross the border illegally the chairman of my group what she 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 emerge from the back of lorries only to turn them loose to disappear into the undergrowth of the shadow economy. well a home office spokesperson said it's likely many of the absconders have left the country but for those still in the case there's a national tracing team dedicated to finding migrants who dropped off the radar for briggs it party in ukip member for scotland david coburn believes that the u.k. should take a firmer approach to migration normal individuals are stopped at customs or stopped at immigration and their checks were pals and there were little terrorists

or whatever but these people are right they're not change and no one seems to want to chase them all but this is going on for years there's no desire in that 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 so many people are just allowed to stay and the government she said no 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 it was a lot of police manpower he 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 to say no 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 stay in the united kingdom. to the brain some of the u.s. military equipment given to afghan forces is gone

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depths. for a mate in the shallowness. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back u.s. regulators have approved a 2nd covert vaccine for emergency use raising hopes of an end to the pandemic the modena job is being rolled out alongside the one from pfizer beyond tech which is being given the green light in the united kingdom but despite apparent breakthroughs manufacturers are facing a wall of public reluctance for example in the us the latest polls show only 64 percent of the population are willing to take over vaccine falls well short of the

70 percent scientists say is needed to gain herd immunity there's also a high level of skepticism in europe a survey in the science journal nature found only 454 percent of people would take the job in france in italy the figure is 65 percent but in the u.k. more than half of respondents said they were concerned about possible side effects . earlier my colleague discussed with our guests what might be behind that mistrust . 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 type 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 unable 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 people who are available to that's available online it seems completely our odds with what the politicians 'd are saying 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 antivirus 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 counter balance against companies skimping on safety you don't just immunize and forget you immunize put it in the g.p. records and national how slow 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. the 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 parties to meter pound plus 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 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 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 and 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 awhile the lethal cargo ends up in the hands of the terrorists for.

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 100 $1000000000.00 annual budget to the frustration of many 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 that 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

and it passes from and and and eventually u.s. forces generally lose track of what human sensitive equipment such as your night vision. british spies really be given a license to kill. from diverse legislation being considered in the house of lords would protect agents from prosecution for serious crimes committed to broad terms as a new report reveals the extent to which they've already been acting with impunity scale 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 then i've got great news and my 6 is hiring oh and don't worry if one syrian 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 when 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.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 m i 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 more

a 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 license lawlessness 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 there are 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 is 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 own goody 2 shoes informants but not everyone's convinced we have us in these c.h. as bill in the u.k. that legalizes government to commit any crimes they like against ordinary people since it's overreach in democratic states is the. 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. redlines transparency or no what i said to be replaced by copy

all snow accountability and by any means necessary wild of secrecy to become even more secret and the state to on its spooks to become both judge and jury what could possibly go wrong i would hope that this bill would fail. for the for the for the main reason that. you know we when you're served you know in whether it's in the military whether it's in diplomacy or in the intelligence services you'd like to believe that you're serving a good cause a just cause and like i said sometimes you have to do things that are difficult to accomplish a difficult task. to solve a difficult problem. but you you know you're serving the greater good and the greater good is a standard a moral standard that says we don't tolerate murder we don't tolerate robbery we

don't tolerate these these high crimes ok that means you're right up so i don't forget you can check out plenty more news stories we're covering for you on a website go to r.t. dot com. the world instrument shaped. thinks. we fear to ask.

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