look up to. this day in moscow and these are the headlines millions of users and even world leaders it seems flocking to see conscious messaging apps like the telegraph jumping online giants like twitter and facebook after those latest censorship scandals. in the human overcrowded facilities and a high risk of exposure to hundreds of asylum seekers in the u.k. go on hunger strike even attempt suicide warning conditions worse than in prison.

and greece calls on the e.u. to speed up covert passports to get more tourists flying on holiday but tourism chiefs insist. people should also be able to travel to. the only consideration we don't have to wait for the. 15th of january live from moscow international with me kevin i mean for the next 30 minutes you can stick around there's a take you through those headlines we talked about there's just no more detail 1st it's been called the largest digital migration in history millions of use is sick of top level censorship scandals with online giants like facebook and twitter migrating all mussed to user friendly rivals as dmitri poke reports. moving to greener pastures has been one of the key drivers of humanity's survival but if in

the past people fled from war dictators and natural disasters today we're witnessing a very 21st century style of mass migration the already massive influx of new users to telegram has only accelerated we may be witnessing the largest digital migration in human history millions have recently chosen to ditch the old new media as messengers and move to even newer ones like telegram or signal and there are 2 big bug bears behind the exodus privacy is the big one whatsapp snooty and see we'll see who is this little footprint shared more with parent firm facebook and who wants to open up even more of the world's most notorious data harvester 2nd as censorship triggers to recent purge of donald trump and his supporters has laid bare the capacity of the internet's gatekeepers to silence anyone they deem to be dangerous that's got other world leaders spooked a suspect the chancellor considers it problematic because the accounts of the us

presidency have now been permanently blocked i don't like anybody being sense that it's taking away the right to post a message on twitter facebook i don't agree with that i don't accept that 10 world leaders including the presidents of circ and brazil have already made the switch to telegram much to the appreciation of the firm's founder we are honored that political leaders as well as numerous public organizations rely on telegram to combat misinformation and spread awareness about important issues in their societies unlike other networks telegram doesn't use opaque algorithms to decide whether a subscriber will see content they subscribe to or not as a result telegram channels are the only direct way for opinion leaders to reliably connect with their audiences the internet has represented freedom since its inception it's supposed to be a place where you can read what you want say what you want but arbitrary says. the ship and the big platforms we know which you want better than you do approach is

the last straw for many not that tech titans are prepared to lose business to the competitors declaring the alternative is nothing short of a threat to society before stamping them out we have always supported diverse points of view being represented on the apps too but there is no place in our platform for threats of violence and illegal activity we cannot provide services to a customer that is unable to effectively identify and remove content that encourages our incites violence against others parlor one of the biggest alternative social networks was wiped off line in a matter of days following the capitol riots and now even telegram is facing accusations of being a haven for conspiracy theorists and far right extremists and that's despite the fact that the company recently removed dozens of groups containing calls to violence but while big texts and to take out competitors might occasionally yield success it doesn't change the fact that social media space is evolving and fast and

for many free speech will be the deciding factor in choosing a platform where case in point will be turkey's envoy to the czech republic is one of many politicians switching to the censored online telegram rival he's told his people are frightened of traditional online joins know this is who coming up. i think in the long run facebook whatsapp so it's are on trial by the same corporate decision makers have to revise their rules because they have in a way to scare people we know that there are already a lot of the nation cases against them for misusing information and there were a lot of court cases but now they're making it public so in a way the secret is now coming out that the information is in use and they are actually getting your consent for it and and they have double standards if you are a what's yours are in germany you have a different conditions but if you are in russia or if you're in turkey if you're an

azerbaijan if your income is that you are entitled to different rules this is not fair we now live in a global village and these kind of platforms connect all of us so technology should not be discriminative technology and communication should be embracing everyone and i think these policies are going to make people feel that they have been isolated and they have been discriminated against. hundreds of asylum seekers have gone on hunger strike with some even attempting suicide over desperate conditions in a makeshift temporary camp in southern england rights groups more than a former army barracks worse than a prison overcrowding there's also left refugees terrified of catching coven our correspondent showed it was dashed the reports.

napier barracks a former military site in folks in kent now uses temporary accommodation for around $400.00 male asylum seekers has reached boiling point the men inside have taken to the streets surrounding the barracks in protest over grim conditions they are living in and painful uncertainty about their futures hunger strikes demonstrations even sleeping outside of their last resort it is very cold some are protesting about the food some are protesting for transparency. they need news about how long we are going to stay in this part you know we have no idea of our future but we lost hope and we are desperate i have been here for 3 months and i feel really bad 14 people in one room people breathing on each other there is no privacy the room is separated by a partition we have to share toilets and it only has 2 cubicles between people

there are reports of a number of suicide attempts inside including one just days ago with victims being returned to the barracks shortly after. one i being so. rude. i was. asked to talk. back now. in his role. last month. was. and it seems like conditions have only become worse since my last visit just 2 months ago when it was clear something was very wrong there were already accounts of poor hygiene and out of all. the facilities as well as a the crowded rooms if they couldn't breach of the government's own covert regulations and now allegations of positive cases inside i would assume that the

government is breaking its own law on the on the basis of that we are no in a position or severe lockdown conditions new variant is highly infectious yet for some reasons do do you have salim seekers have some sort of forcefield that protects them from colbert you know why are they being treated in such a manner why they be you know what i can only regard as you know a petri dish for the spread of coronavirus if you have one person was to contact corporate it would spread like wildfire those in the barracks continue waiting for a sponsor the applications to stay in the u.k. some have been at the temporary site since it opened in september human rights lawyers say it's totally unsuitable we find time and same again the whole base of the u.k. government is repeatedly you know breaking the law it's repeatedly breaking health and safety regulations and they've created a climate of fear and a barbaric institution houses asylum seekers in such conditions and it's not acceptable in any civilised society but the home office denies these claims it says

it is providing cave it's a kill safe accommodation as well as offering support to those who need it the government takes the wellbeing of asylum seekers extremely seriously we've tried to sayas seekers a safe warm covert secure suitable commendation where they receive 3 meals a day whilst the claims are being processed despite the government's promise that help is available at any hour they have been claims that fun or pull aside and seekers have enjoyed long wait times to get in touch which could be fatal the home office may claim it's offering a decent standard of support but the warning signs have been there since napier opened its doors and without any political will to effect change it seems that for these men the situation will only get worse shouted at woodstock's day r t u k. despite the condemnation there are plans to extend the nother prison star camp in the south of the country ministers will add prefabricated housing to the yells wood facility to hold up to $200.00 migrants but experts warn the government's

whole attitude to refugees at that site is wrong our concern with yarl's wood specifically is also the fact that. it's on the sites of an immigration removal center now this is very important for individuals who have. left their home countries possibly suffered an awful detention in their home countries to maybe victims of trafficking on the way over to put them in a place where they feel as if they are being treated the same as people who are being detained in order to remove them from this country let's change the very damaging the home office has accommodation all over the country they haven't told us what the occupancy levels is of those of the existing combination of e.c. at the moment with the pandemic it's very likely that there will be huge levels of vacancies in 8 cells and. so it's unclear why they've taken this decision

on an emergency basis to house up to 200 asylum seekers on the sites of yarl's wood immigration moving center. amid uncertainty about just how long europe's covered pandemic will last to greece thinks it may have a solution to get tourists flocking to its resorts again the prime minister wants the e.u. to urgently agree a way for vaccinated travelers to freely cross borders it is urgent to adopt a common understanding about how vaccination certificate should be structured so they can be accepted in all member states. covert passports are being suggested by other states too in poland news of vaccinated people will be sent q.r. codes to exempt them from social distancing rules those who have heard the shot can also use public services without extra testing lines are also letting on to the idea a survey for australia's quanta shows that 9 of the 10 people would get inoculated if it meant they could travel but more than half

a year of talks around the world so far failed to agree across borders deal and also the head of the world travel and tourism council says the people who haven't heard the job should also be allowed to travel to of course. the dog we weren't sure is totally against health passports ok and we believe that as well because that can lead to discrimination unfortunately the vaccine is not available everywhere learn a lot of the violence in countries that they still don't have access to the vaccine i don't see that as the only solution mass vaccination should not be the only consideration currently we have a limited supply and we need to where it does the more liberal groups we don't have to wait for a vaccine to travel while at the same time people can still travel as long as you have for instance if you're coming in from a listing nation with high cases of quality to this nation with lower cases of

course it will be helpful 2 percent and this is where we have a nasty in. a test made up before called the survey you're allowed to board a plane with a test in massive testing implemented before boarding or before flying what we say is a digital certificate gate or a paper certificate should be fine you only reason why the digital certificate gate is a stronger is because you avoid corruption or you avoid. fake certificates but a paper certificate should also be fine we believe that a digital certificate of having a negative the. this should be fine enough and we truly believe that we have to protect the health information for the traveler and for people in general. but for now law is the last resort france than bringing in nationwide curfew this weekend as other methods have failed to curb the spread of coronavirus should have

been skew the reports from paris. that koofi starts at 6 pm in the evening and it will last until 6 am in the morning and that will come into force that we have time for almost saturday so this is because 900 case is still set in roy's ink here for it's we so 18000 cases on average every day being registered in french government had hoped that they be able to get control on it it hasn't so far now it means that shops will have to close to the public 6 pm in the evening that people will be able to stay in a little longer than that now there are fines if you will called outside and he don't have the right form to say that you can be outside after 6 pm in the evening you will be followed $135.00 euros that's been the worst offense but if you do that and several times during a month period say 3 times that will rise to $3750.00 euros and a possible 6 month jail sentence but the prime minister did for the moment to rule

out a further lockdown shuffle is except your year apart from situations linked to public services or premises businesses all services are open to the general public will be closed at 6 pm if we see in the coming days a strong deterioration in the epidemic we will consider without delay implementing a new lockdown that is likely to cause massive concerns of those who run restaurants cafes policy these are places that have been shut down for people to go in and sit in eating meals since the middle of october but many of them are lying on the fact that they've been providing takeout services and they take out services are lunch and the evening under these new could be restrictions these businesses will have to shut by 6 pm meaning that there will be no take care of services in the evening which could severely restrict their businesses and many will probably be saying that this is going to be the last nail in the coffin. for the business

and we know that the brutus will be strengthened as a result of the continued code 19 pandemics that we've been told that anyone coming from the country outside the european union will have to present it in big never negative test before they fly and those who do present that test will have to then some postulate to 7 days here in france before taking and know that tested truth that they are not who made 19 areas that we have also heard that there will be more than $700.00 vaccination centers that will be opened next week and they really trying to run but this vaccination campaign ad campaign here in florence will lead to being severely criticized at the beginning for being so slow to talk it now is to vaccinate over a 1000000 people by the end generating bandit we've been told from january 18th to anyone who is likely to develop a serious illness as

a result contracting could be going teen will never be able to jump the queue and get a japanese girl at least at that age. come come soon enough a lot of people i know still to come this friday it's so only been 2 weeks since bricks of funny took place and already there are empty shelves at stores nor the law and but why after all the planning a run up to it we find out after the break. on

this edition of crossfire we have a look at translate to see as president of the united states as our politics are so divided we shouldn't be surprised if there are multiple legacies depending on how you view trump there also can be no doubt he changed america and the president. and this is a mainstream media have stepped up their attacks on all those who voted for donald

trump then there are calls to deprogram them even comparisons to some a bit. there are millions of americans almost all white almost all republicans. somehow need to be deprogrammed they are members of a cult with trumpets cult there are republican members of congress i know who clearly have lost their minds who just will not accept reality when it comes to the facts about donald trump i'm comparing the words of individual who would incite and radicalize somebody as osama bin laden did to what president trump did but flip side of this trump support has a questioning the mainstream media is sold son even ask who are the ones that are brainwashed if. they don't like their opinion and call them brainwashed i just don't agree with them people are brainwashed by the media it to divide people to give away. the same set again the. freedom of speech

is an american people who voted for trump wanted to change it it cannot wipe out a whole 75000000 people that don't agree with you you can vote. for whoever you want to thank you should be afraid of having people come back we all need to come together unite. our good that they have identified from supporters as so dangerous in groups that they have to be prevented from forming in groups for the safety of the american people there's no there's no comparable message coming from the right about the left nothing from the right that would destroy the unity that we all should have and probably wish we did have the unity in america is long gone because the people calling for the loudest are the same people who think we should go to jail we should have our guns taken from s.s. and we are the side that is not violent while they let their side do is violent

rampage around the country for almost a full year. they have absolutely spoken out of both sides of their mouths on this on the left and there's going to be a political price to pay for the. news than that shoppers in northern ireland are finding rows of empty shelves in grocery stores and bricks is being blamed for it new restrictions were slapped on goods shipped from mainland u.k. to northern ireland after britain totally cut the cord in the end with the e.u. 2 weeks ago heads of the big supermarket chains of no issued an urgent plea to the government to please sort out the red tape. we recognize the european commission needs to see increased compliance to support the concessions granted through the northern ireland protocol but the current proposals increased bureaucracy and certification in such a short timescale are unworkable the prime minister was questioned in parliament over the supply issues and play down the problems but the moment goods are flowing

if the normal volumes between great britain and northern ireland so prime lorries have been turned back. might not appease the scottish fishing companies though they're furious warning their products are going to waste through e.u. delivery hold ups bosses even threaten to dump their rotting seafood outside parliament if they can't get their goods to market by the next week former breaks apart c.m.e. pay bill etheridge told us in his view britain's government should be ashamed of itself. this should never have got to this point it's absolutely irresponsible and ridiculous that the british government let get to this point years ago we should have had the discussion with the you do you want to do trade with us and keep out of our business if the answer was no we should've left off world trade organization terms with a transition period which was built into what had been agreed that could've made all of this absolutely not no chance of happening instead of that they drove its last minutes and boris johnson gave grants to the because it was terrified of god

alone and he has let the country down of it without enough delays the rich the very reason we're in this position as i said earlier was that we've been delayed for too long this neatly into apartments this is people who are trying to deny the will of the people delayed this to the point where this is now happening they are responsible and the government has a responsibility to sort itself out they created this mess not the people who voted bread's it the government is responsible for the ripple sore today. germany's ruling party set to vote for a new leader this coming weekend the winner in the christian democrats ballot is likely to become the next chancellor to is going to merkel's term expires this coming october peter all of our europe correspondent breaks down the candidates. the c.d.u. party the christian democratic union will elect a new leader this weekend it will see who should be the next contender to be the chancellor of germany who will replace angela merkel when she steps down she

confirmed again during her new year's address that she would not be running for the chancellorship in september's vote we had heard from her 1st way back in 2018 saying she wasn't going to stand again this 4th term as my last as german chancellor at the 2021 problem and a real action i will not put forward my candidacy for the chancellor she began so who's in the running to replace a well be leader of the state of north rhine-westphalia english shot at 59 years old he's a real big ally of angular merkel very much seen as the continuity counted it then there's friedrich minutes at 65 the oldest in the running he is a multi-millionaire corporate lawyer a long term rival of angola merkel then there's no but again $55.00 the youngest in the race and he is currently the chairman of the foreign affairs committee and

certainly knows his way around the bundestag he's been a member of the parliament since 1994 let's have a listen to what all of the candidates had to say ahead of this weekend's conference i stand for everyone and i think that those who did not vote for me if i am elected will also be able to live with me and accept me do we want to continue to play in a regional leak every country for itself or do we want to play champions league to play a role in the world. you meet what i bring is government experience the ship of big federal state balancing different interests and perhaps this doesn't hurt you wouldn't have already won the election however whoever wins the c.d.u. leadership may not end up standing for chancellor what we're. seeing is what's being called a shadow campaign round to push forward the leader of the state of the very i am the leader of the christian democratic union system party the christian social union marcus then this health minister again spawn he's being touted as

a potential outside bet to run as chancellor what we will know is who will lead the c.d.u. party over this weekend we may well have to wait until around the beginning of march to find out exactly who will be the content from that party from the c.d.u. c.s.u. group to stand as the replacement for angela merkel keep a close eye on it the artsy world you sense we're getting pictures of north korea we want to show you now just to wrap up the program a show of military might from their massive parades been held in the capital pyongyang to mark the end of the ruling party conventions let's take a look at rows of marching soldiers on display as well as arms including a new submarine launched ballistic missiles that's made a few ripples around the world to north korean media calling them the world's most powerful weapons although western experts are not so sure this still divided on how much of a threat they actually pose but as usually seen from north korea those parades and

those marches when they happen are very big events very well orchestrated thought we'd leave a bit of a flavor of that to end this program that's coming up to 28 minutes past midday from moscow kevin oh and selling off whatever you do in this friday wherever you are around the world have a great day. i can't show you my face but i'm going to teach you must door in 9093 this man was sentenced to death they could charged with capital murder even though he didn't have the gun didn't pull the trigger didn't intend to kill anybody imagine living in your bathroom for the week which is the end of the 23 years. i doubt that i'll be 30 but get out be very. confined within 4 grey

walls the fights using hot turn on to help him to leave this room. seemed wrong all right all rolled just all. me all get to shape out just they become educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. the war in syria has lasted longer than world war 2. has been suffering the most in this almost undoubtedly long conflict regular syrian

people. need is more than when you might feel it goes away. i could see everything with my own eyes and hear the stories of its residents one group in particular russian wives of syrian man. they were pleased to look up to. the low in welcome across all things considered i'm peter lavelle on this edition of crossfire we have a look at trump.