intervene and stop the persecution of julian assange also as this tumultuous year comes to an end we assessed the cost. policy just for getting. the growing list of countries around the world are banning flights from the united kingdom following the emergence of a new strain of corona virus means that brits abroad may struggle to get home for christmas that's already in doubt. they sent me a text saying a change been cancelled you have to get out of the country now basically just to visit my family and. joe biden's team is weighing up options to punish russia for they claim is its role in hacking the u.s. government agencies but they are yet to provide evidence as to who's behind the attacks. on the u.k. home office is being accused of a shocking failure over migration after it says that it lost track of more than

37000 migrants over the past 3 decades. by their 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 strengths auntie's paulus lear has more 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 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 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. 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 londoners were scrambling to get out of the capital city ahead of the new lockdown measures aimed at dealing with this new strain of coverage 19 people were 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 or got there for the. well like. sending your. friends in your friends and home grinch who stole christmas.

drop. like you probably you know any story you might be like remember this the prime minister has got. think you. probably just playing this. well how worried should we be the mutator cohen a virus is spreading rapidly both across the u.k. and the world and the 1st detection of the u.k. variant has now appeared in italy 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. ward winning journalist john pilger talks about the care home crisis in the u.k. that's in his latest interview on marty's going underground show you can check out

the full interview by heading over to our website that's artie dot com one thing stuck in my mind was the amnesty report on early october 1st said that 18 and a half. elderly people were discharged from hospitals into care homes and they died. they died from code if that's not one of the great civil crimes of our time i don't know what to do if people remember nothing else they should not forget those people those 18 a half miles and people vulnerable people to not access to their relatives many of them who died alone. and the way we treated those people and i say we i say that advisedly i'm talking about actually the government or government

that has to straw it. public health in this country over a number of years in 2016 there was a major draw about a pound not only nothing was done it was covered up but it didn't publish the results of. u.s. regulators have approved a 2nd covert vaccine for emergency use raising hopes of an end to the pandemic of the deadly germs big rolled out alongside the one from pfizer beyond which is also being given the green light in the u.k. but despite apparent breakthroughs manufacturers are facing a wall of public reluctance for example in america the latest polls show only 64 percent of the population are willing to take vaccine it falls well short of the 70 percent scientists say is needed to gain herd immunity is also high levels of skepticism in europe a survey in the science journal nature found only 54 percent of people would take

the job in france in italy the figure is 65 percent while in the u.k. more than half respondents said they were concerned about possible side effects. overall my colleague colleen bray discussed with our guests what might be behind the 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 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 people to do the experiments on etc were all unable and that's why we've got the vaccine in record time and see 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 are all 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's how to have a lot going where it's hard are 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 of 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's 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 sifi you don't just immunize and forget you immunize put it in the g.p. records and national health service health records 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 immunised therefore protected and protected for a long time or not. recent to cyber attacks on multiple

us federal agencies have caused a stir in the news for the past week u.s. government are still not definitively determined who was behind the attacks members of the incoming by administration of found to go beyond mere sanctions when the culprit is identified i think in terms of the measures that are binding ministration 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 joe biden i know we'll have a robust response won't we find out the perpetrator and extent of it anymore politicians from both major parties alongside us media have already rushed to judgment on naming the perpetrator with more on this is our 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 through a case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was a russian is that engaged in this 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 for the present united states either tries to deflect or is not willing to call out. the adversary as we make this after a beautician he is not making our country safer for the president to once again so see full it's an eerie. of the presidents are going to see when he also suggested

when the russians back the elections in 2016 that 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 u.s. foreign policy has been for decades which is unsubstantiated or just false claims about a foreign country to then 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 if there was something there i would have found it the fact that

i'll bet an investigation of that 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. now coming up after the break for you some of the u.s. military equipment given to afghan forces has gone a while after an event 3 thalia opening on a story surely. the world is driven by. dares thinks. we dare to ask.

when else will seem wrong. why don't we all just don't hold. any. yet to see power is the answer. and it gains from it equals betrayal. when somebody find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back let's return to our top story this hour the list of countries closing

their borders with the u.k. is growing go over fears of a new coronavirus strain this is believed to be up to 70 percent more transmissible than current strengths suspect now to journalist and broadcaster your clock has me live on the line from the u.k. neil london 1st of all because it's considered hot spots in the u.k. the restrictions in london a pretty extensive some people obviously aren't happy it's christmas they want to. spend some pleasant times with the family is this tradition and people really need it after the year that we've had. but others you know some people are saying the council christmas others though understand why they have these tough restrictions as the government got the balance right or not do you think absolutely not and the key point here to remember all this talk about. the fact of the matter is that this so-called new stroke was known about in september we had scientists writing about

it discussing it in september. and yet the health secretary only in the house is this just a few days before christmas why didn't he make an announcement about this in september why didn't they get up in september don't speak it up now we have charles walker he head of the chairman of the 922 committee the group so to backbenchers actually saying that hancock knew about this before wednesday parliament of course as we know was sitting on top friday in the mts went home and it's then only then that we get this announcement this press conference on saturday that there's this terrible mutant strain of london's got to go into tier 4 locked down but we knew about this in september so it seems to me quite clearly that what we're dealing with here is a political decision and i think it is wrong and will be tremendous damage to not only to the more our people in the country having another lock down which is what it is but also of course the economic cost is going to be absolutely massive and

the changes when they are brought in that brought in swiftly and some will say well that's good it's a good quick reaction but it it can seize people on the hop doesn't and there are lots of people stranded in u.k. airports because of this any suggestion what will happen to them. yeah but a psychological war 1st as i said they knew about this new strain in september there is no evidence at all that it is any more infectious than any other any of the other strains and yet this becomes a big news story in a government announcement on the saturday before christmas and you have cops told they got a close that that same day people's christmas programs have been thrown have been wrecked that look at these shops as i said many shops in london would have a load of stock that hoping to sell today make millions of pounds so it's i think the psychological warfare of what you expect people to do in london when they snatch mccains who are saturday. with the stories about police will be setting up roadblocks stopping people getting out of course people who want to see their family over christmas are going to get try and get out of the of the city so is

eminently could get to or what was going to happen and it's also to link up with the other main story will evidently predictable when the british government is trying to terrify us into iraqi w m d star about this terrible strain but of course we are closest trading partners are going to say wow you're sorry we're going to block flights we're going to stop people coming in from britain what you say screw the british government said it why should we have british people coming over to our countries and of course we got the chaos of the whole issue about the about the french blockade et cetera coming in so it really is a total disaster really and the disaster is the responsibility of the british government will you mention the european response there is a european council meeting later today do you think they'll come up with a unified e.u. approach towards u.k. and do you think there's a sense of a little bit of firm payback care a little bit of shock in florida. exactly a book you know the police government dollars johnson has given the european union's

a great opportunity the country great opportunity here he is supposed to be in the gauche ations with the e.u. over the bracks it and then he comes out on saturday in tears oh my god we got this loot straight we got a lockdown longer than the southeast the that put the parts of the country closest of course to the channel. how could he not have know of the what the e.u. response would have been knowing the the the situation regarding the brits hugo chavez of course the e.u. is going to use this now to accept more leverage on the u.k. to get the u.k. to do what it wants the u.k. to do and they can do that by stopping flights will have an easy to wipe response i'd suspect that will happen today will probably have the whole of the e.u. probably banning flights from the u.k. so the pressure will be put on the u.k. to to to make concessions on on it so boyce johnson has been spectacularly either spectacularly incompetent well that's that actually is that it is the best we can say for it but it's incompetence what he's done because it was eminently predictable he's been part minister neil for

a year but no british prime minister i think has done as much damage to the morale of the country to the equality of the country to the society to british society as he's done in the last 12 months he just when you think he couldn't get worse it does. feel appreciated song wrap it up there neil clark is my guest journalist and broadcaster thanks. a rockets were fired at the u.s. embassy in baghdad on sunday the attack in capitols green zone triggered the embassy's defensive systems the compound received minor damage one iraqi security guard was reportedly injured this comes ahead of next month's anniversary of the u.s. killing of iranian general salim mani amid fears of reprisal by pro iran groups in iraq. has also been an attack in the afghan capital work car bombing killed 9 people on sunday 20 others were injured among the member of parliament the terror attack comes as a new report by u.s.

watchdog reveals that defensive put handed over to the afghan government has been lost track of parties to me to works 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 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. for.

the pentagon even gets coronavirus relief funds and even those get misplaced one would think the scale of carelessness will 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 where they need human sensitive equipment such as your night vision. u.k. home office is admitted it's lost track of 37000 migrants over the last 30 years

thank you to saddam city because people who overstayed their visas and those who crossed the border illegally the chairman of migration what she has called the situation and 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 spokesperson has said that it's likely many of the absconders and actually left the country for those still in the u.k. 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 u.k. should take a further approach to migration normal individuals are stopped at customs or stopped immigration and their checks work. and there was 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 in the part of the government to stop my creation and this is the reason why one of the major reasons that people voted to leave the european union to many people 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 its expenses you know as a lot of police manpower you 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 thanks for joining me this morning and don't forget there's plenty more stories covered for you on our website check them out at r.t. dot com.

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