it will create more value it will create more growth so i don't see why we shouldn't also fight for the interest something in history outside that we are british and we want regulation i was in the police we've. been able to find. a growing list of countries around the world are imposing travel restrictions on the u.k. following the emergence of a new strain of corona virus meaning that brits abroad may struggle to get home for christmas. day 70 a texting changing canceled you have to get out of the country now basically just to visit my family and. joe biden's teams weighing up options to punish russia for what they claim is its role in hacking u.s. government agencies however they are yet to provide evidence 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. good morning you're watching international thanks for joining its. list of countries closing their borders to the united kingdom is growing this 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 strains. reports 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 fawns autonomy for the u.k. has been suspended for 48 hours including fleet vehicles which are not been given permission to travel across the you are 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 now 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. 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. evening. but they sent me a text like 2 o'clock this afternoon thing

a train's 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 on the 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 their mistrust. in terms of how the government is dealing with the crisis our got for the dollars drop like you know sending your. friends in your friends and all grinch who stole christmas.

crop i think you will be like you probably you know any story you might be like remember this prime minister has got. you beat me up it is just plain it's oh well how worried should we be the mutator kona 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 vaccination itself is the best christmas gift ever and doesn't come a moment too soon. earnhardt's vaccines are beginning to make it from the lab and into people's arms the skepticism of the jobs appears to be growing we'll talk to

our guest about but later in the. ward 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 with auntie's going underground you can check out the full version of the interview by heading to our website. 18 and a half 1000 elderly people were discharged from hospitals into care homes and they died from cove and if that's not one of the great civil war crimes of our time i don't know want to use 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 is with a drop of ministration we've been living with this ludicrous term which american academy of call exceptionalism which means the american human beings apparently different the rest of us the lot better and the system is a lot better when listening ought. you know the economy even 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 boardroom and of use of the system of the was this vote difference. recent cyber attacks on multiple u.s. federal agencies have caused a stir in the news for the last week and u.s. government is still not definitively determined who was behind the attacks members

of the incoming by administration have to go beyond me sanctions when the culprit though 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 1st 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 the u.s. media have already rushed to judge john naming the perpetrator is more on the his and he's done a quarter. 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 a big 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 it's come from russia all indications point to russia when the president 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 presents are you 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 bed paved 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 if 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 office says admitted it lost track of 37000 migrants over the past 30 years thank you to silencing because people overstaying their visas and those who cross the border illegally the chairman of my god what u.k. is 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. the home office spokes person said that it's likely many of the absconders have actually left the country for those still in the u.k. there's a national tracing team dedicated to finding migrants who have dropped off the radar for bridget party and you get member for scotland david coburn believes that you should take a firmer approach to migration. normal individuals are stopped to customs are stopped at immigration and their check for pals and i'm there with

a lot of terrorists or whatever but these people are right they're not checked and no one seems to want to chase them up but this is going on for years there's no desire to part of the government just don't like ration 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 h. 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 found if i just 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 break some of the u.s.

military equipment given to afghan forces has gone a war after an event 3 keeping failure hoping it was on that story short that. one else seemed wrong. why don't we just don't call. me. yet to see palo. alto. and in detroit. to trade. winds a little find themselves worlds apart we just of the common ground. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the

day or thing. we. ask. welcome back u.s. regulators have approved a 2nd covert vaccine for emergency use raising hopes of an end to the pandemic the modernity job is being rolled out alongside the one from pfizer beyond which is also been given the green light in the u.k. but despite apparent breakthroughs manufacturers are facing

a wall of public reluctance for example in the united states the latest polls show only 64 percent of the population willing to take a covert vaccine falls well short of the 70 percent scientists say is needed to gain herd immunity there's also high skepticism in europe a survey in the science journal nature found only 54 percent of people would take the job in france and italy that figure is 65 percent well in the u.k. more than hoff respondents said they were concerned about possible side effects. they're all my colleague discuss 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 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 a 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 record time and see 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 saying is as necessary i mean you can't tell from the data from one region to another where is how the heavy lot going where it's had our soft one

where is how to map 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 health service how to record and you follow 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. rockets were fired at the u.s. embassy in baghdad on sunday the attack in the iraqi capital green zone triggered the embassy's defensive systems compound received minor damage and one iraqi security guard was reportedly injured it comes ahead of next month's anniversary of the u.s. killing of a rein in general so the money is priceless by pro around groups around. 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 defense equipment handed over to the afghan government has been lost track of what is to be true with the possible implications. the pentagon has yet again lost track of its stories 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 a 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 pentagon 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 eartha. 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 o. . 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 the human sense of the brickwork such as your night vision. but the spies may really be given a license to kill under u.k.

law controversial legislation being considered in the house of lords would protect agents from prosecution for serious crimes they've committed abroad comes as a new report reveals the extent to which they've already been acting with impunity skitt taylor 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 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 and renewal 6 months up to the original submission s. i as set out a number of indicators that the agent may have been involved and i have contemplated the serious criminality referenced above we concluded that on the basis of this new

information as a 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 $994.00 intelligence services act now i might be nicknamed the james bond clause but it's far less say cannot start and much more i get out of jail free cards 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 walled of one to cover crimes 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. areas bill in the case that legalizes government to commit any crimes they like against ordinary people seems 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 appreciate you joining me this morning on our team to national return with updates and hoffa. her look. tom has some demonstrators right now the place of propaganda machine.

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arizona by one of the most cited intellectuals on earth the father of modern linguistics american president no i'm trump's k. ron thanks so much for coming back on the show so what is the global green new deal that's the new book climate crisis and the global green new deal and why is it to you the most important political plan in all of human history we're now facing a lumber of crises serious ones one crisis is the threat of climate environmental catastrophe we must move to mit 0 emissions within a few decades. would go all the green new deal is. the means to do that the other probe which is arising with great hurt me right now is the collapse of the economy as a result of the.