they have. within for green walls. it's using. art believed through. the headlines an artery millions of users leaving the global leaders of forking to previously messaging apps like telegram dumping online such as twitter and facebook after scandals the censorship also to come. along the road. was. inhuman overcrowded facilities and a high risk of exposure to cope with hundreds of asylum seekers in the u.k. go on hunger strike over conditions they say worse than prison even attempting suicide. calls on the e.u. to speed up the passports to get water or risk lying on holiday tours and she still

insists that those who want vaccinated should also be able to travel. the nation should not be the only consideration we don't have to wait for a. good afternoon just gone 2 o'clock here in moscow you're watching r.t. international it is being called the largest digital migration in history millions of users sick of top level censorship scandals with online giants like facebook and twitter migrating on mass to user friendly rivals. takes a closer look. 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. the chancellor considers it problematic that the accounts of the us president have now been permanently blocked i don't like anybody being son so 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 turkey 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 alternatives nothing short of

a threat to society before stamping them out we have always supported diverse points of view being represented on the apps to 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 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 turkey's envoy to the czech republic is one of many politicians moment switching to the uncensored online messaging app telegram he told us people

have become wary of the traditional tech giants i think in the long run facebook what's out there. by the same corporate this isn't makers have to revise the rules because they have. you know wait scared people 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 you are incorrect is that you are entitled to different rules this is not fair we now live in a global village and these kind of forms 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 that a makeshift temporary camp in southern england right screams warn that the former army barracks are worse than a prison overcrowding there has also left refugees terrified of catching 19 shot at pistache to reports. new ways 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 are their last resort it is very cold so are protesting about the food some are protesting for transparency from the home office they need news about how long we're going to stay in this post you know we have no idea of our future 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 to cubicles potentiate 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. about now. in his role. i think. last month. was it. 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 if the crowded rooms and fake are in 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 ball 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've been 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 ball 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 civilized society but the home office denies these claims it says it is providing cover to 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 foreigner 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 r.t. u.k. . the condemnation there that. our plans to extend another person star camp in the south of the country ministers will add prefabricated halves into the wood facility to hold up to $200.00 migrants the experts do warn that the government's whole attitude to refugees at the 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 through 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 send a 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 caveat pandemic it's very likely that there will be huge levels of vacancies in 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 site of

yours with immigration moving sent. now made uncertainty on how long europe's pandemic will last greece has a solution to get tourists flocking to its resorts again the prime minister wants the youth to see her gently agree a way for vaccinated travellers to cross borders freely. it is urgent to adopt a common understanding about how vaccination certificates should be structured so they can be accepted in all member states. passports are being suggested by the states to in poland for example vaccinated people will be sent q.r. codes to exempt them from social distancing rules those who've had to shop can also use public services without extra testing lines are also latching on to this idea a survey for australia's quantas to show that 9 out of 10 people would get inoculated so they can travel again but more than half a year of talks around the world have so far failed to agree

a cross border deal and the head of the world travel and tourism council does say that people that haven't had the job should also be allowed to travel to. the dollar it sure is totally against health passports ok and we believe that as well because that can lead to discrimination all fortunately the vaccine is not available everywhere learn a lot of the villain in countries that they still don't have access to the vaccine don't see that as the only solution mare's vaccination should not be the only consideration currently we have a limited supply and we need to where are those the more liberal groups we don't have to wait for a vaccine to travel while at the same time people kind of still travel as long as you have for instance if you're coming from on this in nation with high cases of quality to in this nation with lower cases of course we will be helpful 2 percent and this is what 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're a war zone. fake certificates but a paper certificate should also be fine and we believe that a digital certificate of having a negative this should be fine enough and we totally believe there we have to protect the health information for the traveler and for people in general. you mean marla lockdowns do continue across europe and france is bringing in nationwide curfews this weekend as other methods have failed to curb the spread of the coronavirus reporting from paris his shot at the big city. 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 early a time from saturday so this is because 900 cases still set in roy's ink here in france we so 18000 cases on average every day being registered to various government had hoped that they be able to control it it hasn't so far it means that shops will have to close to the public 6 pm in the evening so people will be able to stay in work a little longer than that now there are fines if you are caught outside and don't have the right to say that you can be outside after 6 pm in the evening you will be fined $135.00 euros that's been closed offense but if you do that several times during a long 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 suffer his exceptional year apart from situations linked to public services or premises businesses or services open to the general public would 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 that those who run restaurants cafes bars eaten 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 the takeout services are lunch and the evening under these new. koofi restrictions these businesses will have to shut by 6 pm meaning that there will be no take out 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 their business and we know that the borders will be strengthened as

a result of the continued couvade 19 pandemics that we've been told that anyone coming from a country outside the european union will have to present a 2 big never negative test before they fly and that those who do present that test will have to then some postulate this 7 days here in france before taking and know that test to prove that they are not couvade 19 areas that we have also heard that there will be more than $700.00 vaccination centers that will ringback 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 the talk now is to vaccinate over a 1000000 people by the end of january and it we've been told that through january 18th anyone who is likely to develop serious illness as a result contracting could be going teen will now be able to jump the queue and get

a jab a good go at least at that age. and reported that for you this hour it's been just 3 weeks since breaks it finally took ice however there are empty shelves now i will ready appearing at stores in northern ireland we'll look at what's causing the problem just after the break. one else seemed wrong why don't we all just don't call. me ali yet to seep out these days. that's ok and it gains from it equals betrayal. when something is find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground .

so become a battleground in the us in vermont people have demanding the shutdown of a local plant. is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous prayer power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limit this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on where's the power in this country where's it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional participatory democracy is a power lie with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real. struggle. welcome back here without saying a mainstream media have stepped up their attacks on all those who voted for donald trump there are calls to to deprogram his supporters and some have even make

comparisons with asama been. there are millions of americans i mean somebody. somehow you need to be deprogrammed they are members of the. 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 the radicalized somebody as osama bin laden did to what president trump did. but from supporters a questioning the mainstream media are so thin that they say that they are not the ones who have been brainwashed. they don't like their opinion of the brainwashed i just don't agree with them people are brainwashed by the media it to divide people because every way you think this is setting down the. freedom of speech

is an american people who voted for trump wanted to change it just cannot wipe out a whole 75000000 people that don't agree with you you can vote. for whoever you want to. be afraid of having people come back we all need to come together unite. our good that they've 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 a sex 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 that. somehow the news that had a shelf was new of an island finding writers event the shelves in creation he still was bright see it is being blamed strict sions was slapped on good shit from mine and u.k. 18 with an island off of britain type thing cut the code with the e.u. 2 weeks ago it's at the big supermarket chains and i was shooting an urgent plea that i for the government to source hanks and red tank. we recognise 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 but he played down the problems. but the moment goods are.

normal volume is between great britain and northern ireland so a prime mover lorries have been tone. for scottish fishing companies are also furious warning their products are going to waste 3 e.u. delivery hold ups bosses even threatened to dump their rotting seafood outside parliament if they can't get their goods to market by next week or more breaks at party m.e.p. bill etheridge told us 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 led to this point years ago we should have had the discussion with the do you want to do trade with us and keep out of our business if the answer was no we should've left or will try to 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 it for the last minute and boris johnson gave ground to the because he was terrified of go

it alone and he has let the country down a bit without enough delays the really 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 it said no they created this mess not the people who voted bret's it the government is responsible the government assaulted a. magic party set to vote for a new leader this weekend the winner any christian democrats ballot is likely to become the next chancellor to cause term expires in october these are all over 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 angle america 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 to 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 multimillionaire corporate lawyer a long term rival of. there's no but it were taken $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 the 1994 let's have a listen to what all of the candidates have 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. it would bring its government experience who would disapprove big 3rd rule state balancing different interests and perhaps this doesn't hurt to you would lower it 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 run to push forward the leader of the state of bavaria the leader of the christian democratic so unions sister party the christian social union

marcus zone then this health minister yen spawn who'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. peter oliver then i will end this hour with a show of military might from north korea a massive parade has been held in the capital pyongyang to mark the end of the ruling party convention rows of marching soldiers were on display as well as arms including nice submarine launched the missiles north korea media call them the world's most powerful weapons although western experts are still divided on how much of a threat they are. just coming up to half past 2 here in moscow about

is how the news is looking say far today here in r.t. we'll have more for you in about half. i got this 8 millimeter film purely by accident. time period 963 to 65 place damascus. i don't don't. why young. i've watched it many times a man posing the monuments an old poster of the hollywood premiere of town without pity and a fight in a minute so without bers of this. i had my doubts if i should waste my time on this

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