join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. in the day's headlines social media sites moved to purge the u.s. president and some of his supporters from their pop one is now banned from twitter permanently about how his tweets might be received and interpreted. what they're doing if you're going to expressing a message that it's ok to go ahead and finish your speech if you do not agree with the problem is that trump addressed the speech will not did them too much on the cocktail. party hears from former adviser stalin tromp and one of the president's closest allies roger stone people if that's part of a wider trend. first time in the history of our country we have

censorship of all mass communications. plus $300.00 very in prime minister lashes out at what he calls the news slow efforts to roll up bounce vaccination saying the country's been in talks with suppliers not approved by the bloc. so watching our 2 international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program we start with some breaking news this hour an indonesian domestic flight that took off from jakarta has disappeared from radar and online flight tracker suggests that the aircraft rapidly lost around 3 kilometers an altitude while flying over the drollest sea and the transport ministry says it's investigating the matter and of course we'll be letting you know as we get more details on that. in other news

in america big tech has flexed its muscles with social media networks purging the us president and some of his supporters from their platforms twitter for example has partly suspended president donald trump's account signing quote the risk of further incitement of violence trump used twitter to directly address his 88000000 followers since he assumed office he's treated over 24000 times as record is 200 tweets and retreats and a single day for the platform of violating its rules again was the last straw r.t. senior correspondent modest if has more. censorship is now under the purview of tech jobs and their billionaire owners who now get to decide bad in the president of the united states and get to decide who talks about what and how they talk about it we are living in all wells 19 eighty-four free speech no

longer exists in america it died with big and what's left is only there for a chosen few this is absolute insanity to it it may ban me for this but i'm willing to accept the fate of your decision to permanently ban president trump is a serious mistake the ayatollah can tweet but trump can't says a lot about the people who run twitter silence him people not to mention the president of the us is what happens in china not our country this was seemingly a coordinated effort across platforms of all cards discord twitched with things book instagram snap chat they've they've all removed trump and 'd you know this is this is something that many had been calling for for years many on the left especially you know they wanted trump's voice silence they saw it as destructive they sort of even mullard but it had never come to that because this is after all

the president of the united states you'd think a certain amount of respect is jew but now that he's gone an awful lot of people are very happy now is the time of a silicon valley companies to stop enabling this monstrous behavior and go even further than they have already by permanently but in this matter from their platforms and put it in policies to prevent their technology from being used by the nation's leaders to fuel insurrection donald trump spent years demagoguing lying spreading hate and propagating conspiracies and sweeter and divorce inciting violence social media companies have allowed this vile content to fester for too long and need to do much more. but banning him is a good start there's no underestimating the impact the significance and symbolism of what happened on capitol hill these tech jobs and their billionaire owners decided to interpret trump's words and tweets as cooling for these these protesters

to storm capitol hill he didn't he didn't cool he called for a march and then he condemned what happened this isn't something that can be a race this isn't something that can be forgotten this is a president it has now happened this is the united states we're talking about a country which is made a business of expletive. regime change revolution democracy worldwide and now this has happened in their own country. these censorship is entirely selective it is it is targeting conservatives

and republicans and very few others so far but you know if they if they can get away with targeting them what's to stop them from doing for others that they don't like they obviously feel that donald trump towards the end of his presidency that you know there's nothing he can fight back with and they're just just letting it out it wasn't the f.b.i. the cia were tasked with securing america wasn't the pentagon which defends america that decided that donald trump must be removed it was billionaires was tech billionaires who now see it within their power to ban the president of the united states from from from their platform. artes in the past spoke to longtime republican strategist and ally roger stone who the present present clemency last year so much convicted of lying to congress and of witness tampering and 21000 he says the suppression of conservative voices has gone too far

for the 1st time in the history of our country we have the censorship of all mass communications whether it is whether is broadcast television network television whether it is cable whether it is print media or whether it is the internet there is one overwhelming fraudulent narrative being forced on the american people and that created the atmosphere in which a legitimate compelling i would say overwhelming evidence of voter fraud in cyber manipulation of the vote was dismissed as conspiracy theory people who want to be in silence others that simply means that they cannot win a fact based debate that they're not interested in honest electoral competition or a battle of ideas they have no ideas other than central control and socialism other than doing away with our constitutional rights and now what we see is an effort to

take what happened tragically at the capitol and use it as an excuse to curtail our civil liberties even further this is a dangerous dangerous slope for america you can watch the full interview with roger simon on our to america's in the process an on line up portable t.v. . now donald trump isn't the only victim of the big tech boycotts twitter has gone further and removed the accounts of former national security advisor michael flynn extra lawyer sidney paul and other high profile supporters of the president flynn and paul both met with trump at the white house in recent weeks as part of efforts to overturn the presidential election results you tube has joined the trend and then trump's former chief strategist steve bannon mexican president broad or has expressed concerns over the power of social networks to silence and censor who they want. what happened a few days ago in the united states is about china private companies decide to

silence and censor these does not bode well and restricts freedom which we also discussed the issue with julio rivera editorial director of reactionary times dot com and frederica bindiya a professor of political science. there is a feline i mean freedom of speech is guaranteed. to violence that is a completely different thing what they're doing is that they're going ahead and expressing a message to the american people and to a lot of these other silicon valley giant that it's ok to go ahead and censor a speech that you don't agree with and that is contrary to the spirit of the 1st amendment in america and contrary to the spirit of free speech the problem with such a media is that they have to comply with the french rules for instance in many european countries hate speech hyland speech you know nancy nancy seem

bolds those that are dying not from crimes that are advertised on it's own with i haven't felt you're going if you're taking it there and yet i think i'll hear. you out of the one who said that there were nazi symbols with time i didn't the problem is not the election the problem is that trump addressed these people and i did them too much on the capital and this is intimidation the guy along with peace and condition there's nothing wrong with the art you know that's what i was born on that was not that he's going to write about it and then 906 i was not a peaceful protest i don't call that preschool process one that you know smashes windows get inside you know what if if that happened on the new york shots that were fired. that there was the police didn't respond soon enough and strong enough i'm very afraid because i just got the platform go off with you to. the.

new year's eve they actually took the reactionary times facebook channel away and i'm afraid if you extrapolate that to a larger sense are they going to suddenly start or the platforming stations carry people like rush limbaugh. sean hannity all the major conservative talk boyce's in america are they going to be silenced suddenly you know all the rules are changing they're changing in real time you have a democratic party which is shown a lot of tendencies which lean towards fascism now have absolute power they have the house they have the senate and they have the white house where does it and the moment is really tensed and the problem is and they repeat the trend incited to hate and violence he says nothing to do with conservative as you're now you know only it was a big difference between the way the media treated president barack obama and the way they treated president trump and i think we're already seeing that going back

toward allow law breakers let's see what do the rate at the federal budget look if you say that president trample was treated differently then then obama you have to give me the facts the numbers i did not ask there were 9 lives in the last 5 years don't you want to t.v. in the last 4 years how could you say either we're not treated differently you need the numbers in all the american flag at half mast on the capitol building and washington on friday and honor of a policeman who died from injuries he received guarding the building from the protesters he is the 5th person to have died as a result of the riot a federal murder investigation is expected to be opened into the cakes. the bodies of 3 people including a child have been recovered from an avalanche that and golf to around 6 buildings at a local ski resort in the russian city of nor list which is located inside the arctic

circle are a teenage boy was pulled from the snow is in critical condition in the hospital at that moment your thought is how worn of the risk of more allen just in the area with local roads closed as a precaution the prosecutor's office has opened an investigation following and spent a day of mourning will be held on sunday for those who lost their lives. still have the hunger in prime minister loses patience with the slow pace of the news vaccine program starting talks with alternative providers details on that story and more after this. one almost sure seems wrong. why don't we just don't call. any.

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back hungry has lashed out at the e.u. over what it sees as its tardy efforts of procuring a vaccine the country has broken ranks with brussels by entering job negotiations with russia china and israel are to has put all their has a details. e.u. commission president of the fund the line is struggling to keep the states in line when it comes to vaccines she's warned the nations not to try and do their own deals the only framework we are negotiating in is as $27.00 we do this together and nonmember state on this legal binding basis is allowed to negotiate in parallel or to have a contract and parallel the loudest voice unhappy at brussels being in sole charge of banksy procurements is coming from hungary with prime minister viktor orban saying the current plan could lead to months more of

a lock down if we only rely on western vaccines the restrictions will have to be maintained for several more months if we can find a safe and proven vaccine elsewhere we can speed up the process mr obama said was budapest to be able to choose its own deals i don't think we have to wait for the vaccine as part of the union we agreed that we'd wait but the process is going so slowly that i think it's time to act and get the vaccine ourselves all the vaccines that have been tried in other countries have to be considered so in addition to the west we are also negotiating with the israelis the chinese and the russians the e.u. commission says that their plan will provide enough vaccine to cover everyone in the e.u. and then some of the whole portfolio covers 2300000000 doses of vaccine so this is more than enough to vaccinate the whole european population ever the

euro skeptic in the block the hungarian prime minister also pointed to a fresh she breaks that in britain the vaccine program there is something to emulate the british instead of letting brussels do its negotiated for themselves and are in a much better position now earlier in the week the e.u. approved the u.s. money for truth my dear. see the use it will be rolled out all day across the e.u. alongside the. take back the feature all about. in all the coronavirus situation and friends shows no signs of easing up as authorities extend restrictions already in place across the country the move comes to the dismay of many business owners who are concerned about their future as. reports. france remains under couvade restrictions the border with the u.k. also remain closed for the moment for all but essential travel reasons the prime

minister confirming what many feared that she just said the time because income to return to normal was to admit one person to intensive care every 7 minutes and one in 2 people in intensive care their focal the 90. that means the curfew currently set at 8 pm in most parts of france will continue at least for the next few weeks while a further 10 departments saying there could be tightened that will not start at 6 pm borders restaurants cultural places all hoped to be opening in the next 2 weeks probably that's now been pushed back with february looking more likely another blow to a sector which says it is all new verge of collapse. 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 wandered around so the situation has now been complicated. this 2 hour difference has

a serious effect on revenue it's the time when people come in and try things so as a bakery clients no longer come in but we 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 front which has been criticised for being slow to roll out the vaccine program again 19 is also seeing a rise in a new variant that was detected last month in the u.k. that variant is said to spread much faster now the government says it's stepping up its vaccination campaign and there will be $600.00 centers open by the end of january but is also struggling to convince the many citizens that they need to have the. jab.

and i wish we i'm a dentist so for us it is important to shore calling sendo patients that fix a nation makes sense if you want to stop have endemic we need to go through this it doesn't hurt and who have total trust in our scientists and those who created this vaccine so i call and never want to get inoculated when their turn comes to protect themselves and to protect the french population as a whole. we're committed to having the vaccine as soon as possible is a decisive step in the nationwide to tempt to control the pandemic. as new covert cases registered remain around the $15000.00 mark on

a daily basis in france the government appears to be struggling with how to make a dent in a virus that said to have already claimed tens of thousands of lives. this virus like all viruses in general is constantly mutating all of its varieties both the one that was identified in the u.k. and the one that was noted in south africa could also go through the path of mutation as a result the virus becomes more infectious meaning it spreads faster not more powerful but more contagious this may well happen in france in the case of those who have not traveled either to the u.k. or south africa and do not know anyone who would associate themselves with these so-called patients 0 so in the end the mutated virus is more or less infectious wish justifies the control measures the restrictions the masks and all the precautions in general there to reinforce. the pandemic has spell disaster for many businesses not only in france but around the world we talk to some business owners

about the challenges they're facing. if there is nothing past we will be shutting down probably by march that's a realistic look out we're gonna be off to ready about 50 employees you know it's hard to put on a good face for my saw to make them think everything's ok but sometimes it's really hard. lots lots of stuff at least that's just the just just the nature of based. on have made any redundancies personally everybody's gonna. happen travel you know at the end of the day so much so i want to look at the stats this is a business you know we'll try and get through it like everybody will and if it goes on another year how do you expect anybody to survive. it's. been done it made

many people turn to online shopping spelling the disaster for long term like maybe look at the clothing sector has been hit particularly badly because we haven't had many states of. hosting the market. again and with economically speaking only were able to brazenly jay leno at last as we had hoped to follow losses during christmas just as the government can tell process is even sadder the blow. clients hotels restaurants shops and event businesses which have been heavily impacted by the restrictions some of our clients are holding out but we don't know how much longer think in large scale the most difficult thing is not being able to plan ahead right now the big problem is the cash flow like a lot of our play is they're a bit like yes so they don't have any cash so. they can have paid and suppose we've

taken a very we don't have any cash we did a brilliant. now we turn to some world news and brief. a major brazilian football club has put forward its stadium to be used as a mass covert vaccination center and had previously been converted into a makeshift hospital for corona virus patients mass immunization is set to kick off in sao paulo at the end of the month and the venue which is home to the corinthians hosted a number of world cup matches back in 2014. the hundreds of protesters have rallied for the release of political prisoners and those detained and previous demonstrations around $500.00 people clashed with riot police deployed tear gas and water cannon to disperse them.

and lastly we bring you an update on our breaking news this hour an indonesian domestic flight from jakarta has disappeared off radar just 4 minutes after taking off an online flight tracker suggests that the aircraft rapidly lost around 3 kilometers an altitude while flying over the sea unconfirmed reports suggest that the boeing 737 was carrying around 60 people on board and indonesia's transports ministry says it's investigating the matter of course will be keeping you posted as more information does come in. and that's our roundup of the day's top news for now as always thanks for tuning in i'll be back in about 30 minutes time with more on that breaking news and your headline stories. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be

an arms race. theory dramatic development only really. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to sit down and talk. the way of life. is leading to a traditionally nomadic lifestyle in the tundra is similar to a parent sees her. drive the women carry the weight of the household look on their shoulders to show them which craft on the list unless she. is thinking however in the vast expanse of russia. where housewife could secure a regular employment status it's in the final tonight.

she's. time after it and see and welcome to going underground the team and i will be back with a brand new season starting on my birthday january 30th but it will then we will be showing some of your favorite shows from this season going up in this show what will the expansion into space mean for war and capitalism going underground speaks to the western world's most famous astrophysicist neil de grasse tyson about the past and future of humanity when it comes to conflict coronavirus and conspiracies

all the more coming up in today's going underground in the week of u.k. chancellor eastern expending review which seeks to balance the books as u.k. prime minister boris johnson touts the largest military investment since the cold war allegedly an attempt to woo incoming u.s. president elect joe biden the 16000000000 pounds of funding will go towards among other things and you are if space command so why are the countries hit hardest by coronavirus instead focusing on preparing for conflict among the stars joining me now to talk over 1000 of the new cold war space race is the western world's most famous astrophysicist neil de grasse tyson neil thanks so much for coming on what a privilege it is before i get to any of that i have to say given that millions of people have watched your t.v. programs if there are people out there who come from disproportionately socio economically vulnerable groups how on earth can their interest in the stars translate to becoming like you not only a communicator but a research or an innovator when it comes to science that's an important question

and a lot depends on what kind of what is this system that surrounds you so for example there are many countries where if you spot someone who is either. puir but it's like reading math books and physics books and they're like in the street doing that there are many countries where some will say hey we need to provide an opportunity for that person because 2 things are going on 1st it would be good for the person but deep down you know it's better for the system if everybody rises to that their potential not only the potential that they can achieve but the potential of their ambitions and without a system to connect those with ambitions to where they land you've got nothing and brilliant people end up staying suppressed in your society and basically at the end of the day your society goes nowhere ok meant why is your country doing so badly when it comes to coronavirus and i can give the obvious answers but i think what

we're really after are deeper insights into people's conduct and in the united states we like thinking of ourselves as free or rights free to the point where i should have the right to put my own life at risk all right so their whole states here where there is no law requiring that if you ride a motorcycle that you must wear a helmet that people can ride without helmets that is their sense of freedom so here's the difference the difference is if you ride a motorcycle without a helmet and are in an accident your chances of dying go up but you don't really put someone else's chance of dying on the table and so freedom stops where you infringe on other people's free other people's freedoms and so so we have a mixture of people who do take warnings for medical professional seriously and.