huge day for press freedoms and one man in particular julian assange says the u.k. decides whether to hand the exposer of war crimes over to the americans. while the u.s. misses its 2025 nation target by a long shot inoculating fewer than a 6th of the 20000000 americans that a promise would get the jump of 4 years and the doctor gives us her take on the problem all these months. create a vaccine and that time with. them developing a plan for how to actually get the vaccine to people. mass vaccination have also been slammed as being sluggish with soaring infections and greater restrictions. all the british prime minister goes to war with teaching

unions over whether to reopen schools in the post christmas pandemic spike we hear from a union rep. not to say. i'm just going. to steal not. hi there thanks for joining us this morning you're watching r.t. and. it's a key moment in the fates of julian assange for defenders of press freedoms later on monday a british judge will decide whether to extradite the wiki leaks co-founder to the u.s. stateside he faces espionage charges for publishing secret military documents today a sound supporters rallied in new york outside the. consulate press freedom groups

and human rights organizations are among those taking up his cause his songs is known to the world for exposing u.s. war crimes he could face up to 175 years in prison if extradited u.s. is indicted on 17 counts of spying a wall of conspiracy to hack a government computer and he standoff looks at the events that led up to a song his long fight for freedom. julian assange has come a long way from an obscure activist to freedom fighter or 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 that any gave a 1000000 of those who are. field reports from iraq military logs from afghanistan sensitive documents from guantanamo bay none of which may. the u.s.

look particularly good i would argue that is closer to being the high tech terrorist it is it would be international community and not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death penalty want to do it illegally shoot the son of a. great discredit to this nation science will be assassinated he should be treated as an enemy combatant it didn't take long for his sons 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 a son 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 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 asuncion was literally carried out of the building some 7 years after he stepped in it. once you. 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 2011 leaks. which we have in. our view is that it's more or. less but we have been calling. the embassy. every day trying to explain. the hold back don't 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 those 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 exactly going to plan the country badly missed its target of inoculating $20000000.00 people by the end of 2020 getting the job out to less than a 6th that money. 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. i've been 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 actually working at the c.v.s. and his own crazy with the coded vaccine and everything right now. 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 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 that 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 of the number is lower than the us 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 the states are overwhelmed already with the 1000 crisis and just didn't have the capacity to set up you know an infrastructure to vaccinate people and so

right now they're scrambling to try to set up sites to give the vaccinations to hear out who should be prioritized and how they're going to get it to them so that 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 is struggling to get its citizens vaccinated to thanks for spending the road sluggish runs of particular has been in the farming line is on the show the dubin scheme with more. prances vaccine has been rolled out and criticized by many is being done 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 give 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 ordering enough vaccine 1st of all this criticism came from pfizer biotech this is the manufacture of the only facts 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 $160000000.00 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 exam. 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. which you would need 85 percent of our sales revenue between $5.00 and 7 pm so there's 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 words in 2021. boris johnson blocks holds with teaching unions over where the u.k. school should reopen amid a post christmas spike in infections that story and others after the break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy one fine day shouldn't let it be an arms race in this spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. welcome back the british prime minister has put himself at olds with teaching unions by saying that parents should send their 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 kids to young people is really very very very small boris johnson says schools are safe but the government scientists say they should be shot to tackle the virus his government has 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 it 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 you want schools to remain closed in england for 2 more weeks to leave most primary schools are expected to open in england excluding ones in london the return of secondary schools is expected later this month on the whole a teacher a member of a teaching trade union shared with his his frustration. i find the reason the people the schools in the capital closed yes but also to what they should what they should look to do is because london schools are in for i'm in newcastle upon tyne which is in the northeast of england who were here for through lots of areas everything which you're into it for so if you 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 us to have 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 the 4th is not a reasonable date or schools to reopen. it will take at least a week to 2 weeks if you all use constancy ation with staff can take place and that schools are mates if. 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 more than $75000.00 deaths on hold again accuses the government of myth and laying the pandemic. the good moments have not consume lead. 'd into

cheese and union representatives that moments hold me and me sticks time and. not listen to. me i just i'm. so on and honestly i'm not it 10 it's been excellent i sit in the government meeting one it's been there already laws what is happening for a while in each of the next. profession certainly any extreme commutes each year in housing law can produce such all illegal immigrants in the way that the howling is . in how we how willing 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 met with strong resistance from those inside the building.

the. fines were issued into the 6 people involved were arrested in the altercation in quebec province the video of the arrest caused 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 feast several times with corona virus cases on the rise in quebec and hospitals being stretched to their limits the authorities have banned all gatherings in most of the province the only exception being for those living alone who are allowed to have one visitor people violating the ban can receive a hefty fine. across the border now to the u.s.

where a new york state lawmaker is 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 recall 1000000 coronavirus cases and other provisions in this draft bill could be used if the state declares a health emergency over an epidemic it does not though specifically mention coronavirus the bill would allow the governor to unilaterally order an infected person to be detained for up to 60 days court order authorizing the detention must be obtained within that time in a judicial review must follow after 90 days earlier my colleague colin bray discussed the draft law with the us 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 and we've had in our own 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 in a camp for an 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 anti of access and to lock down anti must have people who are 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 sold them 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 in 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 but how do you 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 1st 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. probably some of the global these few now starting in france where hundreds of prisoners have taken to the streets to commemorate one year since the death of cedric shu via he died after police had pinned him to the ground reportedly with a choke hold 3 of the 4 police officers involved with charged with manslaughter though they were suspended. migrants in bosnia-herzegovina have gone on hunger

strike have to fire gutted the camp they were being held in last week the military began setting up tents but many people are still stranded at the old site with little shelter from the winter cold. meanwhile on the lockdown protesters have been back out in force in europe the city and state of affairs they have tough restrictions in place including a 9 pm curfew and even before that time people were only allowed to leave their houses for valid reasons. and finally in another part of germany people 2 also ignored stay at home appeals hoping to visit a ski resort it doesn't offer only to police turn them away but they would have found the place close to the public anyway. that today thanks staying without internet this morning i'll be back with more on our top stories in 30 minutes.

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hello and welcome to cross talk or all things are considered i'm peter lavelle what is the fate of the progressive movement can it continue to coexist with the mainstream establishment left is its current trajectory in electoral did m. and kemp aggressives be part of a greater political realigning. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guests jamie right in los angeles she is the founder of the right ball firm and political and also in los angeles we have 3 around what is about she is an independent journalist and co-host of the congo couch and in new york we have john burnett he is co-chair of public affairs and

public policy for new york republican state committee right across up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciate it may i was going to you know and an los angeles as a put the progressive on the panel here what is the state of the progressive movement now you did get the vote out for joe biden at least rhetorically and publicly close ranks and as the presumptive president of the united states next will be inaugurated in january he's done everything his power to shown progressive so was it worth it well i would say that progressive is extremely fractured as well that there are a lot of people on the left who feel that now that we're taken for granted and alosi as all are so progress that a lot of people oppose all the progress that it has become a reprinting a new wing of the democratic party one that isn't really challenging.