i knew. one sure deal. that. millions of users and even global leaders flocked to previously centric messaging apps like telegram amid concerns over data sharing that is. erupting over facebook and twitter to come. along the road. was. inhuman overcrowded facilities and a high risk of exposure to hundreds of asylum seekers in go on hunger strike over conditions they say worse than prison and some even attempting suicide empty shells in northern ireland struggle to get past new breaks it red tape barely

a fortnight after u.k. officially you. know they're just 5 in the afternoon here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now it is being called the largest digital migration in history millions of users are abandoning whatsapp over new terms which would mean uses sharing more of their data with the parent company facebook global leaders are making the switch to a more privacy centric rivals such as telegram looking at the trend is to me. 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 is gatekeepers to silence anyone they deem to be dangerous that's got other world leaders spooked but the chancellor considers it problematic that the accounts of the us presidents have now been permanently blocked i don't like anybody being sun 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 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 set. the ship and the big platforms we know which you want better than you do approach is the last straw for many not that 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 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 or turkey's envoy to the czech republic is one of many politicians currently switching to the online messaging app a telegram he told us that people have become wary of the intuitional tech giants

i think in the long run facebook was so out so that's are controlled by the same corporate there's an makers have to revise the rules because they have. you know wait scared people know that there are already a lot of. cases against them for misusing information and there are a lot of court cases but now they're making it public so in no 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 in 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. by mainstream media have stepped up their attacks on move you see voted for donald trump there are calls to deprogram his supporters and some of even make comparisons to terrorists there are millions of americans i'm also worried almost all republicans . somehow need to be deprogrammed they are members of a cult we're trying to scold 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 them radicalize somebody as osama bin laden did to what president trump did trump

supporters are questioning the mainstream media itself and they say that their views and opinions should be heard. we don't like hear opinions on the brain or this don't agree with people. are brainwashed by the media it to divide people that ever way you can beat this and setting down 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 have 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. hard in that they have identified drum 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 to 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 who 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. hundreds of asylum seekers have gone on hunger strike with some even attempting suicide i have a desperate conditions that a temporary camp in southern england right screams will and that the former army barracks worse than a prison overcrowding that has also left refugees terrified of catching it shaddy at the stash to propose.

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 from the home office they need news about how long we're going to stay in this process 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 to 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 being so. rude. i was. asked to talk. about now. his role ready. 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 if the crowded rooms

afaik 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 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 your 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 was spread like wildfire those in the barracks continue waiting for response to 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 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 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. now despite the condemnation. in there are plans to extend another prison style

camp in the south of the country ministers will add prefabricated has into the yards would facility to hold up to $200.00 migrants but experts do warn the government's whole attitude to reckon genes at 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 only often detention in their home own 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 last century 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 accommodation obviously 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 center. has only been a couple of weeks since the finally left but breaks it is already being blamed for rows of empty shelves in supermarkets in northern ireland here and the red restrictions were slapped on good ship from mainland u.k. to northern ireland after britain totally cut the cord with you and head to the big supermarket chains are now calling on the government to sort out the red tape. 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 time scale are unworkable well the prime minister was questioned in parliament over the supply issues but he played down the problems. but the moment goods are flowing if it can be a normal volumes between great britain and northern ireland so prime lorries have been turned back well scottish fishing companies are also furious about this and more in their products are going to waste you to delivery hold ups bosses or even threatening 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 let's get to this point years ago we should have had a 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 i 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 to the last minute and boris johnson gave grants to the because he was terrified of god alone and she has left the country there a bit without enough to lease the rig the very reason we're in this position as i said earlier was that we've been delayed for 2 blocks this neatly into apartments this is people who are trying to deny the will of the people is delayed this to the point where this is now happens they are responsible and the government has a responsibility to sort it set about they created this mess not the people who voted briggs's the government is responsible to deliver the saw today which. now that has been 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 bros have marching soldiers were on display as well as arms

including new submarine launched ballistic missiles or free media that call them the world's most powerful weapons although less next person still divided and and much of a threat they actually. have come here to sow the race to replace the head of germany's ruling party and potentially become the next chancellor well look at the names the key names that are in this race just after the break. leg.

length. so let's no true taste of sanctions you know trace sure that you're being silent steve just so you can use our popular with me as you call the fun and that's fight for a general audience don't complain when they're all stupid racists. but again i rush's confirmed today snipe putting out to the multinational trees he lies and surveillance flights of the countries united states walked away last november

with the reasons and the ramifications his any patrik what almost 2 months ago washington said they are getting out that they are no longer part of the open skies treaty because of how as they were putting it russia was not playing by the rules of the game by the way moscow said that all these allegations were nonsense the russian government had several ways to respond to it the 1st one the least likely option was to ignore washington's exit altogether the 2nd option was to do the same to say goodbye to the open skies treaty and the 3rd option was to try and save the greenman through negotiations to try and save it by proposing some new terms or maybe by trying to negotiate a new agreement all together well the russian diplomats were saying that initially they'd try to go for the 3rd option but didn't get anything in response from

washington and that was when they realized that there was nothing else for the russian government to do but to leave the green meant even though russia regrets it last month the russian president vladimir putin reminded of how other core. international security agreements were collapsing in a similar manner and weren't that the story could repeat itself and that's what we're seeing right now. our american colleagues left the i.n.f. treaty again not know it's our partners then they withdrew from the open skies treaty so what should we do leave everything as it is you're smart people so why do you think we are dumb. the 2 decades old open skies treaty allowed on armed surveillance flights in the airspace of its signatories which contributed to global transparency in trust besides russia and the us there were 33 members of the

greenland which brings us to the main concern that was expressed by the russian government among these 33 signatories there are quite a few american allies from the nato and therefore russian planes could no longer fly across the atlantic to do their job when it comes to surveillance what if u.s. european allies can still do the same in russia and then share their intelligence with washington the question that was being asked in the kremlin whether that is fair and whether that is the way to go so the russian government decided that the answer to this question is no and that's why they're leaving after several attempts to try and rescue the deal like i told you earlier. germany's ruling party set to vote for a new leader this weekend the winner in the christian democrats by that is likely to become the next chancellor to you when angela merkel's term expires in october

peter all of the 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 is my last as german chancellor and 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 the leader of the state of north rhine-westphalia 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. then there's nobody to get 55 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 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 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 ran to push forward the leader of the state of bavaria on the leader of the christian democratic union sister party the christian social union marcus zone then there's 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. it all over there now a nationwide curfew will be imposed in france from saturday as method as methods to curb the struggle to contain infections reporting from paris he shouted to pinsky.

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 cases still set in roy's inc here in florence we so 18000 cases on average every day being registered to french government had hoped that they be able to get it control ringback 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 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 one of those defenses but if you do that 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 suffer these exit apart from situations linked to public services or premises businesses all services 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 that those who run restaurants cafes bars eaten these are places that have been shut down for people to go in and sit and eat a meal 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 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

borders will be strengthened as a result of the continued covert 19 pandemic so we've been told that anyone coming from a country outside the european union will have to present a toothpick never needed to test before they fly after those who do present that test well after then some postulate says 7 days here in france before taking another test to prove that they are not couvade 19 areas that we have also heard that there will be more than 700 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 the talk now is to vaccinate over a 1000000 people by the end of january and that 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 at good god let's hope that age child can see that with the latest situation in france so that brings you up to date this hour is just coming up to half past 5 in the evening in moscow i will be back again at the top of the. on this edition of crossfire we have a look at trump's legacy 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 press. is your media

a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. the isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led so. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maybe in the shallows. nuclear become a battleground in the us in vermont people are demanding the shut down of a local plant for my yankee is right now my focus because it's

a very dangerous oh no care power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limits 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 as are powerline with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in very real ways our struggle on r.t. . welcome to so if you go vision the rays may sophie shevardnadze my guest today describes himself as a good man with a vicious sense of humor his young brilliant provocative life of a series.