the present. millions of users and even global leaders for up to privacy centric messaging apps like telegram amid concerns over data sharing that is facebook and twitter are hit by scandals over the centuries ship also to come this hour. long. road. to. inhuman overcrowded facilities and a high risk of exposure to hundreds of asylum seekers in the u.k. go on hunger strike over conditions they say are worse than prison with some even attempting suicide and empty shelves in northern ireland to supply struggle to get

past new breaks it red tape barely a fortnight after the u.k. officially left you. even just gone 6 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 users sharing more of their data with the parent company facebook even global leaders to it making the switch to more privacy centric rivals such as telegram looking at the trend has 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's gatekeepers to silence anyone they deem to be dangerous that's got other world leaders spooked. chancellor considers it problematic because the accounts of the us presidents 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 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 the clear and 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 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 well turkey's envoy to the czech republic is actually one of many politicians at the moment switching to the online messaging app a telegram he told us too that people have become wary of these 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 you and they are actually getting your consent for it and and they have double standards if you are a what's yours or in germany you have a different conditions but if you are in russia or if you're in turkey if you're in 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 discriminated 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. media have stepped up their attacks and although you see voted for donald trump costing deprogram his supporters and some have even made comparisons to terrorists. there are millions of americans almost all white almost all republicans. somehow that 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 the radicalized somebody as osama bin laden did to what president trump to. support

questioning the mainstream media itself and they say that their views and the paintings should be heard. we don't like their opinion on the brainwash i just don't agree with them people are brainwashed by the media it to divide people that every way. this is setting 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 only 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 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 who is violent rampage around the country for almost a full year they. i 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 it. now hundreds of asylum seekers have gone on hunger strike with some even attempting suicide over desperate conditions that a temporary camp in southern england rights groups warn that the former army barracks are worse than a prison overcrowding there is also left refugees terrified of catchin cove it shout it would stash 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 it. 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 being so. rude. i was. asked to talk. back now. in his role ready. i think. 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. facilities as well as a the crowded rooms

a flagrant 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 force field 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 a 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 there 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 well despite the condemnation there. plans to extend another prison style camp

in the south of the country ministers will add prefabricated housing to the yarl's wood facility to hold up to $200.00 migrants but experts to warn that the government's whole attitude to refugees at this site is wrong. our concern with yarl's wood specifically is also the fact that. it's on the sites of an immigration removal sentence and now this is very important for individuals who have. left their home countries possibly suffered 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 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 pandemic it's very likely that there will be huge levels of vacancies and 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 site of yarl's wood immigration moving center. now it's only been a couple of weeks since the u.k. finally left but breaks it is already being blamed for rows of empty shelves in supermarkets in northern ireland here a new restrictions were slapped on goods shipped from mainland in k. to northern ireland after britain totally cut the cord with me and heads of the big supermarket chains are now calling on the government to sort out the red tape. we recognize the european commission needs to see increased compliance to support

the concessions to grant a through the northern ireland protocol but the current proposals in greece bureaucracy and certification in such a short timescale are unworkable the prime minister was questioned in parliament over the supply issues but he paid down the problems. but the moment goods are flowing it's normal volumes between great britain and northern ireland so prime mover lorries have been turned back. meanwhile scottish fishing companies are also furious and warn that their products are going to waste due to delivery hold ups bosses or even threatening to dump their rotting seething outside parliament if they can't get their goods to market by next week former breaks it party m.e.p. be left a ridge 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 for 8 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 you 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 it to the last minute and boris johnson gave ground to the because it was terrified of god alone and feels like the goods we get out of it without enough delays the root the very reason we're in this position as i said earlier was that we'd be delayed for too long this in the winter this is people who are trying to deny the will of the people who 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 gregg's it the government is responsible for the ripple sorted it was. another nice tonight there's been a show of military might from north korea a massive parade is being held in the capital pyongyang to mark the end of the ruling party convention march in selves as were on display as well as including new

submarine launch ballistic missiles or free media call them the world's most powerful weapons although western experts still divided on how much of a threat they could actually use. russia has confirmed it is now pulling out of a multinational treaty which allows the surveillance flights over other countries united states walked away from the deal last november with the reasons and ramifications his in a prank. 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 tried 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 mint 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 were and that the story could repeat itself and that's what we're seeing right now with a pretty sickening our american colleagues left the i.n.f.

treaty again not as you know it's our partners that go with it but then they withdrew from the open skies treaty so what should we do you leave everything as it is in your small 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 they're from 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. he was trying to than i germany's ruling party said to vote for a new leader this weekend the winner in the christian democrats ballot is likely to become the next chance for the to close to expires in october peter all of a break stan 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 americal when she steps down she confirmed again during her new year's address that she would not be running for the chancellor shift 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 the leader of the state of north rhine-westphalia in live 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 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 disapprove big 3rd rule state balancing different interests and perhaps this doesn't hurt you you wouldn't have lowered 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 ran to push forward the leader of the state of bavaria and the leader of the christian democratic so unions sister party the christian social union marcus zone 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 angle of merkel. now a nationwide curfew will be imposed in france from saturday is the country struggles to control the spread of the coronavirus reporting from paris with more details is charlotte dubinsky. 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 time from saturday so this is because 900 case is still set in roy's inc here florence was 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 work

a little longer than that now there are fines if you're caught outside and he don't have the right to say that you can be outside up to 6 pm in the evening you will be fined $135.00 euros that's for those defenses but if you do that and 2nd 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 exceptionally you 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 bossie 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 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 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 buddhist will be strengthened as a result of the continued kook 19 pandemic so we've been told that anyone coming from the country outside the european union will have to present it to think never needed to test before they fly and those who do present that test will have to then some postulates to 7 days of human faults before taking and know that test to prove that they are not who made 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 ramp up this vaccination campaign ad campaign here in florence forward 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 of january and it we've been told that from january 18th to anyone who is like each develops serious illness as a result contracting could be going teen will never be able to jump the queue and get a jab a good go at least at that age. difference here of course may just come up to half past 6 here in moscow good to have a company tonight don't forget always plenty of stories at our website to you you can find that at r.t. don't.

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divided we shouldn't be surprise there are multiple legacies depending on how you view trump there also can be no doubt he changed america and the presidency. to discuss legacies i'm joined by my guest scott ritter and elmore he is a former intelligence officer in the united nations weapons inspector in new orleans we have brian trasher he is a troll for president 20 twentieth's arrogant and in san diego we have laura frank she is founder and c.e.o. of group bell communications and a democratic strategist all right crossed up rules of the bank that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok let's go to scott 1st your scott you wrote an article for our 2.