we ask. it's a huge day for press freedoms in particular. as the u.k. decides whether to hand the exposer of numerous u.s. war crimes over to the americans. u.s. this is its 2020 vaccination target by a long shot. fewer than a 6th of the 20000000 americans that are promised would get the job before the end of the year dr gives us her take on the problem all these months. creative act and that we did in terms of developing a plan for how to actually get the vaccine to the people of. europe's efforts of mass vaccination have also been sluggish amid soaring infections and greater

restrictions. on the british prime minister goes to war with teaching unions over whether to reopen schools amid a post christmas pandemic we hear from a union rep. not. just the. school. good morning and thanks for joining us this is r.t. and. this is a key moment in the fate of julian assange and for defenders of press freedoms monday a british judge will decide whether or not to extradite the wiki leaks co-founder to the u.s. states already faces espionage charges for publishing secret military documents. supporters rallied in. new york outside the british consulate as freedom groups and

human rights organizations are among those taking up his course charges known to the world for exposing u.s. war crimes and could face up to 175 years of prison if extradited u.s. is indicted in all 17 counts of spying and one of conspiracy to hack a government computer. looks at the events that led up to his silence his long fight for freedom. jr and his son 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 that we kill leaks to dig up the secrets that america's intelligence colossus spent billions of dollars burying and he succeeded.

because the announce a call like any day a 1000000 of those who are. field reports from iraq military logs from afghanistan sensitive documents from guantanamo. none of which made the u.s.

look particularly good i would argue that is closer to being the high tech terrorist it is it the 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 beast on our great discredit to this nation science to 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 signage should be brought to an end instead the old things short from bad to even worse for a stange 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 in. our view is that it's more your problem but 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 so you want to 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 assange it's the right thing to do so far trump 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 the year 2020 getting the job out to less than a 6 that many artists ask you taylor picks up the story. it might be a new year but it's cool to buy the same old problems on the fust day of 2021 the us hit $20000000.00 kovac 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. bit scared i don't know what will happen 1st rule for 2021 don't talk about 2020 and i believe this is there we go 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 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 is as 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 over bugs and health care while 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 the risk groups where all they going while no one apparently there are delays at every corner we agreed that number is lower than last we hope for we know that it should be better and will work 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 you know they 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 in 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. to the struggling to get its citizens vaccinated to thanks but spreading the rollout sluggish france in particular has been in the far in line with more details on the show to do to ski. france's 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 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 altering 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 exams. said 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 to our difference has a serious effect in revenue it's a time when people come in and try things so as a bakery clients don't want to come in but we need 85 percent of our sales revenue between 5 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. comes along with teaching unions over the u.k. school should reopen amid a post christmas spike infections bring you that story and others after this break . is your media reflection. and of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation for community. are you going the right way or are you being so.

direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the death. or remain in the shallows. like a back to the kaiser report imax keyser time had a go at it john rubino of dollar collapse dot com john welcome back to stacy now john we've known you for many years going back treat bitcoin days and well 20 points seems to be the year that big going has driven the dollar to collapse in a way that gold was unable to. welcome back the british prime minister has put himself at olds with teaching

unions saying that parents should send their children back to school on monday in areas where there are open schools a safe a very very important to stress that the threats to the risk 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 scientists told him that he can get on top of it 19

without closing schools the question of whether children should go back to school after the christmas holidays has been heatedly debated the government's facing pressure from teachers sea world schools to remain closed in england for 2 more weeks currently most primary schools are expected to open in england excluding ones in london the return of secondary schools is expected later in the month to one whole teacher and member of a teaching trade union shared with us his frustration. i find the reason the people the schools in the capital closed yes but also to what they should do what they should look to do is because london schools an area 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 for so if you london schools are going to meet clause 'd from general forth and we expect all schools in tier 4 to remain closed at the moment it's not up to the government to us 2 of the schools will will reopen it's not to

each employer it's not the employer of teachers in england the any acts you can see so it is union has written to each employer asking them to carry out next new risk assessments to ensure that the schools are safe and nice why 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 action would start and take place and that schools are meets. on the outcry comes as the u.k. sees a major spike in daily coronavirus infections following christmas nearly 55000 new cases were reported on sunday the total number of cases has surpassed 2600000 the whole of the 75000 deaths on hold again accuses the government of mishandling the

pandemic. the government not conceivably. 'd the teachers and union representatives that movements hope mean time and. have not listened to. them. so on and are still not 10 it's been excellent as it was already the government meeting was just been there already laws what is happening for a while in each of the next. profession certainly any exchange. in housing law can produce such small ill agreements in the way that the howling is. in how we how willing the education of students in is to treat. canadian police raided a home after reportedly receiving a complaint about a gathering that violated covert restrictions but they were met with strong

resistance from those inside the building. the. fines were issued and 2 of the 6 people were arrested in the altercation in quebec province but footage of the arrests discourse the stir online with some questioning the officers use of force the police say the video doesn't show the entire 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 feast several times with corona virus cases on the rise in quebec and hospitals being stretched to their limits or thirty's have banned all gatherings in most of the province the only exception in for those living alone who are allowed to have one visitor people violating the ban could receive a hefty fine. moving now across the border to the us where

a new york state lawmaker has proposed a 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 the provisions 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 and a judicial review must follow after 90 days earlier my colleague colleen bray discussed the draft law with a u.s. based attorney and a pain management expert from 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 these are civil liberty issues look at any other virus or disease that 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 a infection we don't even do that with tb which tally communicable or other diseases that are i communicable surely something does have to be done when the public health officials are also up against anti of access anti lock down anti mosque you have people who very well could be carrying a 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 him without them knowing or having an opportunity to seclude them

going quarantine themselves and that's why it's so overreaching they don't talk about jest now they talk about more and 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 putin by how to cure things while you're in the hospital or before you get there and then we have actually have if you don't potential cures with vaccines 1st your immunity so this seems a little bit late and it seems very drastic as once we give up 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. the global news for you now and in france hundreds of prisons have taken to the streets. to commemorate one 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 which charged with manslaughter the

they weren't suspended. migrants in bosnia and herzegovina have gone on hunger strike after a fire gutted the camp where they were being held the military's building in new camp but people still stranded at the old site with little shelter in winter conditions. sealed down protesters back out in force in europe burg the city and its state of bavaria currently have tough restrictions in place including a 9 pm curfew people are only allowed to leave their houses valid reasons. that wraps it up for this news out of that you can check out plenty more news stories we're covering for you go to our website r.t. dot com. world is driven by shaped by one person or those with.

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look up to the world needs. to master it as you're welcome to going underground the team and i will be back with a brand new season starting on january the 13th but today we're rebroadcasting our coverage of julia songes extradition trial that's today marks the shuttle ruling in london that may decide the future of global free speech black lives matter. movement has come up. yes by the hard work for activists but the. core of what is driving it is footage that is undeniable that everyone

it's not a matter of the you know do you believe the police do you believe friends of the person who were shown the witnesses it is undeniable footage of exactly what has occurred is not only stimulating parts of the black community i think the black community is on the understood this all too long. but it stimulating enormous acceptance and sympathy outside the market because the argument is proving a son speaking to us in 2016 after being granted asylum in the ecuadorian embassy in london the un special rapporteur on torture claims the founder of wiki leaks has been tortured by u.k. authorities since his capture by scotland yard and this week the trumpet ministration seeks to extradite just lacked that could see him die in a u.s. prison his supporters include amnesty international reporters without borders as well as even mainstream news outlets cognizant.