it's a huge day for press freedom in particular. the exposure of. the americans. us mrs it's 2020 facts a nation by a long shot fewer than a quarter of the 20000000 americans of the promised would get the job before the year. gives us the problem all these months. back and that time we did in terms of developing a plan for how to actually get that. mass vaccination the sluggish soaring infections and greater restrictions.

on the british prime minister teaching unions to reopen schools a bit of post christmas. from a union rep. i've just begun my words. on a very good morning to you thanks for joining us on r.t. international. it's a key moment in the fight. for defenders of press freedoms later on monday a british judge will decide whether to extradite the wiki leaks founder to the u.s. stateside he faces espionage charges for secret military documents on saturdays.

orders rallied in new york outside the british consulate press freedom groups human rights organizations were among those taking up his cause for signs is known for to the world for exposing u.s. war crimes and could face up to 175 years bars if extradited yes is indicted on 17 counts of spying one of conspiracy to hack a government computer and he could start up looks at the events that led up to his songs his long fight for freedom. julian assange has come a long way from an obscure activist to freedom fighter all traitor depending on who you are one thing you can deny him though is that he led the charge we kill leaks to dig up the secrets that america's intelligence colossus spent billions of dollars burying and he succeeded.

but. does the announce a collect any data on millions of those who are. field reports from iraq military logs from afghanistan sensitive documents from. animo

bay none of which made the us look particularly good i would argue that is closer to being the high tech terrorist it is it i mean international community and not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death penalty i want to do it illegally shoot the son of a peace done a great discredit to this nation science will be assassinated he should be treated as an enemy combatant it didn't take long for a son to experience firsthand what it means to be uncle sam's public enemy the us went after the whistleblower launching a probe into his actions at the same time a seemingly unrelated sexual assault investigation was opened in sweden assigned himself though claimed it was all part of america's to extradite him by all means possible the pressure mounted so when 2012 sons requested asylum from ecuador and holed up in the country's embassy in london this kicked off what would become

a long 7 years of confinement with even the u.n. calling for an end to this suffering various forms of deprivation of liberty to which julian assad has been subjected constitute a form of arbitrary detention the working group maintains that the arbitrary detention of mr assigns should be brought to an end instead the old things short from bad to even worse for a son ecuador's new president who was looking for warmer relations with the u.s. seem to take personal offense when we can leaks wrote about corruption allegations against him sanj was shown the door artie's video agency ruptly turned out to be the only outlet to catch the moment a son was literally carried out of the building some 7 years after he stepped in it . was.

once u.k. law enforcement got their hands on a son they threw him in prison a proper one but the u.s. government is looking to try him under american law where the whistleblower faces more than a 100 years behind bars now every cording that emerged in line has sparked another wave of calls to pardon the whistleblower in the tape ironically julian assange which was trying to help u.s. authorities minimize the fallout of the 20 levon leaks. which we have and. the reason it's more and more. we have been calling the state department and the embassy. every day trying to explain. the holdback donald trump since you're given pardons to people please consider pardoning those who at great personal sacrifice expose the deception and criminality of those in the deep state mr president if you grant only one act of

clemency during your time in office please free julian assange goes you alone can save his life i'm hoping that he will pardon julian a search it's the right thing to do so far from has remained deaf to the pleas the julian assange just saga has been going for so long it feels like it could be over any minute but flashing back to how it's been going so far it seems like we've just turned the page on another chapter. america's vaccine rollout isn't going to plan the country missed its target of inoculating 20000000 people by the end of 2020 getting the job out to less than a quarter that many. pics at the store. it might be a new year but it's cool to buy the same old problems on the fast day of 2021 the us hit $20000000.00 kozak 19 cases but just out was before as the clock struck

midnight thousands flooded the streets hoping that the next $365.00 days would just be that little bit that. i've been scared i don't know what will happen 1st rule for doing it to anyone don't talk about anything and i believe he's doing oh she started here we did. that everything is going to get better and actually working at the c.v.s. and his own crazy with the coded vaccine and everything right now we're really hope that everything goes back to normal this christmas i'm new here many wished for a return to our old normal lives something top medical advisors have been promising was just around the corner by the time we get into all of 2021 we could be

approaching some level of normality tuns out though the very thing they said would quite literally set us free the vaccine is cool top end its own trauma president trump health experts in operation warp speed hope to have 20000000 americans vaccinated by now but things are going slower than 1st thought there is now growing frustration building over the slow roll out of the corona virus vaccines across the u.s. there's only a small percentage of the vaccine that's been distributed by the federal government that has actually been administered the massive vaccination campaign against the coronavirus in the u.s. has gotten off to a slower start. very slower start there's no way we can speed this up in the near term 14000000 doses of the fine and madonna fight scenes have been distributed across america but fewer than 3000000 have been administered it why well donald trump says he's done his job but states aren't doing that. the federal government

has distributed the vaccines to the states now it is up to the states to administer get moving a blame game that didn't go down well with those who say it's a lack of direction from the top that's left people i worked in the cold. that comprehensive vaccination plans have not been developed at the federal level and sent to the states as models it says and comprehensible as it is inexcusable it was unrealistic to assume that the health care workers already overburdened with covert care could take on a massive vaccination program many of those of the bugs and health care was because on now protesting they say they were promised a vaccine and instead face and miscues and crashing apps if lucky that's despite being in contact with infected people all hours of the day for 10 months straight the promise to vaccinate them as a priority fell apart as quickly as the promise to inoculate 20000000 by the end of 2020 so if they're not going to be at risk groups where all they going while no one

apparently there are delays at every corner of the number is lower than less we hope for we know that it should be better and working hard to make the best tons out the holiday period and snow storms on what a smooth rollout means but even once the holidays end in the snow melts if nothing changes unless say it would take almost 10 years to vaccinate enough americans to control the virus gives a whole new meaning to a peroration warp speed and the mess continues on a local level 2. is

it just normal teasing problems of one of the most ambitious vaccination campaigns in u.s. history or is it just incompetence at every level. either way it looks like to to all meant to bring in what is now only outing to the chaos from the very beginning of the pandemic in the united states what we've lacked is any storage of national strategy the trump administration as you know worked against developing a national strategy it didn't have any problem with taking billions of dollars of public money and giving it to private corporations to develop a vaccine but then when it came to the states saying that they needed money in order to administer the vaccine it was you know just millions that were given out for that states are getting around you know $7000000.00 and this is completely inadequate for the states are overwhelmed already with the coven 1000 crisis and

just didn't have the capacity to set up an infrastructure to vaccinate people and so right now they're scrambling to try to set up sites to give the vaccinations figure out who should be prioritized and how they're going to get it to them so it's you know all these months of trying to create a vaccine and that time was wasted in terms of developing a plan for how to actually get the vaccine to the people who need it. europe too is struggling to get its citizens vaccinated suits with experts branding the role and sluggish runs in particular has been in the farming line and so on to do ski with more. bronzes vaccine has been rolled out and criticized by many is being done at as snail's pace in the weeks since that program has been rolled out only a few 100 is said to have had the job compare that say to germany where over 40000 people have already received the 1st inoculation now there are some reasons for that here in france you have to get written consent to have the 19 jab and of

course there is this huge distrust of vaccines so 40 percent of people say that they will have the vaccine meaning around 60 percent of people who have responded to surveys here in france say they won't be having it now the government says that yes it's being cautious but this is a marathon and not a sprint others though are saying that in needs to be more urgency there is still time to make up for this feeling of a sluggish start to vaccination it is a matter of urgency now to give an optimistic outlook now the e.u. has also come under fire for not ordering enough vaccine 1st of all this criticism came from pfizer biotech this is the manufacturer of the only fact seen so far been approved for use in the e.u. but there's also been criticism from some quarters in germany obviously the european purchasing procedure was inadequate it is difficult to explain how

a very good vaccine was developed in germany but is available more quickly elsewhere now to put this into context the e.u. ordered some 300000000 doses of the pfizer bio on tekken vaccine now the e.u. is also set to approve another vaccine in the coming days this isn't the done a vaccine of which it did 160000000 doses of now this of course comes in the context as the number of couvade 19 infections is said to be rising again and there are fresh restrictions that have been put in place in some european countries greece for example is a. it's going into a week long lockdown and here in france where there is a curfew already in place across the country from 8 pm has decided to tighten that even further in some parts this is in eastern parts of the country where the curfew will now start at 6 pm in the evening leading to criticism there. from 5 to 7 pm is where people leave work so there's obviously

a lot of turnover because when people leave at 5 they want to have a wander around so the situation has now been complicated of all this 2 hour difference has a serious effect in revenue it's a time when people come in and try things so as a bakery clients no longer come in. which you would need 85 percent of our sales revenue between $5.00 and 7 pm so as a restaurant we try and get by we're now being hit even harder so we look for new solutions to survive but despite the restrictions continuing and the fresh measures there are many who are still willing to flout the law take over the new year's eve when mass parties were banned here in france.

it seems that 2020 may be over but europe is still not out of the code words in 2021. boris johnson lock horns with teaching unions over where the u.k. school should reopen amid a post christmas spike infections we'll bring you that story under this after this break.

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 showbusiness i'll see you then. welcome back the british prime minister has put himself at olds with teaching

unions by saying parents should send the children back to school on monday in areas where there are open schools a safe very very important to stress that the threats to the risk to to kids to young people is really very very very small force johnson says schools are safe but the government scientists say they should be shot to tackle the virus his government is already responsible for the unnecessary deaths of tens of thousands of people it can't be trusted teachers can i back the national education union. i stand in solidarity with teachers and head teachers who are taking the fight to this government forcing them to listen to sages advice to close schools schools are not safe they must close listen to sage more labor mr presentation by boris johnson he appears on mars this morning insisting that schools are safe but forgets to mention that his own scientist told him that he can get on top of it 19

without closing schools or the question of whether children should go back to school after the christmas holidays has been heatedly debated the government is facing pressure from teachers they all schools to remain closed in england for 2 more weeks currently most promise kills are expected to open in england excluding ones in london the return of secondary schools is expected later this month on hole a teacher a member of a teaching trade union shared with his his frustration. i find a reason to keep the schools in the capital close yes but also to what they should what they should look to do is because london schools are for i work in newcastle upon tyne which is in the northeast of england who were here for through lots of. which you're into it or so if london schools are going to meet clause 'd from general 4th and we expect all schools in tier 4 to remain closed at the moment it's not up to the government asked 2 of the schools will will reopen it's not to each

employer it is not the employer of teachers in england the any acts you see so it is union has written to each employer asking them to carry out attacks in new risk assessments to ensure that the schools are safe and nice why jam in the fall is not a reasonable date or stross to reopen. it will take at least a week to 2 weeks if you all use constancy ation with staff and take place and that schools are meets. the outcry comes as the case is a major spike in daily corona virus infections following christmas nearly 55000 new cases were reported on sunday the total number of cases has surpassed 2600000 with more than 75000 deaths on hold again accuses the government of mis undoing the

pandemic. the good moments have not consulted. the teaches and union representatives that months home made mistakes time and. have not listened to see each. item. so on and are still not to 10 it's been excellent as it was already in the government meeting wall that's just been there already laws what is happening for a while in each of the next. profession certainly any issue commute each year in housing law can produce such a hole in ligaments in the way that the howling is going weak and ill how we how clean the education of students in this country. canadian police raided a home after reportedly receiving a complaint about a gathering that violated covert restrictions but they were that with strong

resistance from those inside the building. the. fines were issued into the 6 people were arrested in the altercation in the quebec province but footage of the arrests cause the stir online with some questioning the officers use of force the police say that the video doesn't show the whole picture. the video only shows some of the intervention the individuals were disobedient and refused to cooperate the individual arrested in the video had assaulted a police officer hitting him in the face several times coronavirus cases on the rise in quebec and hospitals being stretched to their limits authorities up banned all gatherings in most of the province an exception being for those living alone who are allowed to have one visitor people violating the bank and receive a hefty fine. moving across the border to the

us where a new york state lawmaker respond posed the bill that would allow carriers of infectious diseases to be detained if they're deemed to be a danger to public health the draft legislation comes as the state becomes the 4th in the country to record a 1000000 coronavirus cases visions in the draft bill could be used if the state declares a health emergency over an epidemic it does not however specifically mention coronavirus the bill would allow the governor to unilaterally order an infected person to be detained for up to 60 days a court order authorizing detention must be obtained within that time a judicial review must follow after 90 days earlier my colleague discussed the draft law with a u.s. based attorney and a pain management expert in washington. we're very much so getting towards the place of a totalitarianism authoritarianism and these are these are just issues that i had i don't think we should treat so lightly when these are questions of freedom these

are questions that frankly bring in their constitutional right to not be detained and so there's a civil liberty issues look at any other virus or disease and we've had in our plan or in our history look at the aids virus we never quarantine anybody we actually try to normalize to say well this is our one problem and all that we did not put a marker put someone in a panic camp for infection we don't even do that with tb which tele communicable or other disease that are i communicable surely something does have to be done when the public health officials are also up against antibiotics as anti lock down anti must have people who very well could be carrying the virus and have no idea that they're carrying the virus thing so they've been court you know quarantined or they're tested and so then to say well we've tested you and now that we've tested you we're going to detain you while you're stripping their rights from them without them knowing or having an opportunity to seclude them in quarantine themselves and

that's why it's overreaching they don't talk about desk now they talk about more they talk about ace's the case numbers up as physicians we care about mortality and to your point look at all the great things that we have we have there peter it's by how cute sure things while you're in the hospital or before you get there and that we have actually have you know potential cures with vaccines birth your immunity so this seems a little bit late and it seems very drastic as once we get our freedom it's very hard to get them back that you simply cannot use stripping the rights of american citizens away as any potential form of leverage when you began to do that you cease to be the united states of america and it's just not who we say we are. quick enough some of the global news for you hundreds of parisians have taken to the streets to come. emirates worn year since the death of cedric hsu via he died after police had pinned him to the ground reportedly with a choke hold of the 4 police officers involved with charged with manslaughter

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