have access to the story from investigators. because dealings of the secret services but i mean. the great ignore. justice. in the day's headlines germany imposes a travel freeze on countries where highly infectious new strains have been detected a move that business leaders say will put an extra strain on the economy. also this hour the governor of new york is under scrutiny over his handling of the kobe crisis in care homes and the attorney general says officials have severely under-counted the true death toll there. and the u.s. business owner is bombarded by death threats for posting that her husband support tromped. one gentleman actually said she was coming to

kill me one person through these and i can tell you that it was bad enough that law enforcement should be getting. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. germany has announced a travel freeze with all countries where new highly infectious strains of code 1000 have been detected and france is taking things one step further closing its borders to almost all the stars from outside the e.u. . in addition to the few measures which have produced insufficient results we've decided to stick the following additional measures without delay any rival in france or any departure from altered free tool from a country and so the european union will be banned except recent will travel to

france as reported more than 20000 new cases a day all week with one in 10 of those being new strains and the help for vaccines has not materialized due to the extreme delays in supplies across the block our europe correspondent peter armor breaks down the latest travel bans. this weekend tough new restrictions on travelers coming into germany from 7 different countries will come into place from saturday they're already here when it comes to travelers arriving for me you men the states ireland and portugal as well as those coming from the united kingdom brazil and south africa from sunday that list will grow to 7 to include the african nations of s. white danny and lee so too the reason these have been put in place is that these nations have seen rises and the infections of mutated variants of the corona virus the german interior minister horse and say hoff said before they were

officially put in place that germany would have to do they speak because there wasn't a unified a year solution on the horizon couldn't. information searing all the information we have we do not expect there to be european solution that meets her expectations in the near future that is why we are preparing as a nation there are some exceptions for those coming into germany german citizens and permanent residents will be allowed to arrive from those nations on that list transit passengers and those travelling to do with the movement of goods will also be permitted to travel but those are the exceptional circumstances that have been granted by the the german side. hasn't gone down well politically with the opposition here in germany the greens have called it an affront to germany's e.u. partners for berlin to act unilaterally in this way while the free democrats have said that it basically covers up the fact that the vaccination program here in

germany hasn't been going as well as people would have liked floods and travel bans don't go but it's time like these we must 1st of its nation vaccines are the most reliable in the only way out of this pandemic it may not be popular with everyone but the travel bans are in place all travelers arriving from 7 different nations to germany and they will be in place until the 17th of february at least economists richard warner told us the travel ban could end up further hurting the german economy so it is a copy of the u.k. policies played back and. people from tanzania and africa and brazil and they claim that you know it's because of this new strain which is not really clear is not really well established. and other countries like germany saw that they believe the u.k. statements government statements and they say well then we ban u.k.

travelers as well and the same with the u.k.'s banning but it doesn't make any sense german business is a very international even local small family owned businesses tend to be international exporters and to get international deals you do need some travel the further restrictions would of course further damage the economy. as it's being proposed should really include a very detailed analysis of all the costs and all the benefits well let's look at that 1st before we further considers that proposal. our men and the us state of virginia has received death threats online and by phone after revealing that her husband supports donald trump marriage in one post a photo on facebook of her husband and friends getting ready to go to trump's last rally as president but then hours she was bombarded with messages accusing her of being a domestic terrorist and threatening her with physical violence she told us her story. somebody got a hold

a picture of my personal page and i'd imagine somebody that. knows me inside. him and about 5 o'clock that night my gun shop started getting some ugly phone calls and it just it just kind of spiral from there some people took that stamp shot and started putting the owners of the shop or domestic terrorists and the so on just was ringing in ringing in ringing and i can tell you all day thursday and friday our phone never stopped ringing and the 1st we were inserting it. but when you're hearing things like i hope you're building burns i hope you die i hope you rot in hell. one gentleman actually said he was coming to kill me one person threatened my grandbabies and i can tell you that it was bad enough that law enforcement had to get in and give us some advice on how to keep everybody safe as how one mentioned she owns a donut shop which has been targeted as an online campaign that's been flooded with

negative reviews after telling her story to a local t.v. station she also started getting support from across the country her story reflects a c.b.s. poll showing most americans now see their fellow citizens as the country's biggest threat just 8 percent think foreign adversaries present a bigger challenge mary-jane one again told us the issue boils down to freedom of expression. you can walk through to through the doors of mine down and shut up in no matter what your policies are we treat everyone with the same kindness and love and respect everybody gets treated the same way because this america and we have the right to think differently and to express our views without being made to be a free without someone saying if you don't think the way we think we're going to shut your business down if you don't admit that you're wrong in now you think the way you think we're going to torment you that is it is not the country re grew up

in i understand there's people that may not want to come here because they choose not to support a business that believes one way or another and that's the greatest think a better country you can spend your money anywhere that you alluded. the mayor of new york city is demanding the truth about the pandemic death toll and nursing homes after the state's attorney general revealed the official statistics were misleading we have to make sense of this we have to get the full truth and we have to make sure it never ever happens again nothing like this happens again and we have to be honest about the numbers efficient if numbers state around 8000 deaths and state care homes but according to the attorney general support they could be significantly higher artist explains. the nursing home scandal hanging over new york state governor andrew cuomo is head just won't go away a new report from the state's attorney general indicates that deaths in the elderly

care homes could actually be 50 percent higher than was originally reported that's up to 13000 lives lost in new york it only tallied up the number who actually died within elderly care facilities not including those who went to the hospital after getting infected as the pandemic in their investigations continue it is imperative that understand why the residents of nursing homes in new york and the saudis suffered at such an alarming rate well we cannot bring back the individuals who lost to this crisis this report seeks to offer transparency that the public deserves and to spur increased action to protect our most vulnerable residents the report singled out while most decision to send covert patients to elderly care homes it was an attempt to free up hospital space that may have cost 4800 new york the lives cuomo is office dismissed the report as an accurate the word on the count implies to remove total fatalities than has been reported this is functionally rome

the department of health has consistently made clear that our numbers are reports based on the place of death those words are of little comfort to solve a local news media rolla just lost both of her in-laws last summer and she couldn't hold back her feelings a family was affected and i wasn't seeing the coverage i wasn't seeing the questions being asked of this governor he continued to pass the blame on everyone else democrats and republicans have now lined up to condemn cuomo reports from new york state's handing of crude 19 in nursing homes reveals a profound failure of executive leadership governor cuomo and the new york state department of health treating our elders as expandable as if their lives were nothing more than the cost of doing business this is shocking and unconscionable but not surprising governor actually wrote a book. bad leadership in the middle of the $1000.00 pandemic but as we learned today and as many suspected he never told the whole story at the start of the pandemic mainstream us media poured the love onto governor andrew cuomo for his

handling of the pandemic in new york state but now it seems pretty clear that he made a bad decision and the media darling is facing a full blown scandal. artsy new york. we heard from dave lindorff editor of news site this can't be happening and richard mollica executive director of the long term care community coalition they share their take on the new york care home disaster. my mother in law died of covidien a new jersey nursing home which was doing the same thing where you know the state was shifting people out of hospitals in new jersey into nursing homes and then presenting those nursing homes which are much lower staffed and much less good at infection control than hospitals are and not surprisingly the disease spread rights for them they didn't but the eliza nursing homes their risk however i don't think

that they required nursing homes to take in residence with kofi it probably led to more people being taken in and should have gone and it was very clear the longstanding federal requirements are that nursing homes can only accept only accept residents if they have a staff thing and the supplies necessary in the us because the government until very recently would not subsidize. any home care for the elderly the nursing home industry which is mostly for profit has lobbied very intensively with a lot of money to politicians in every state to not provide decent funding for in home care of your elderly parents a lack of accountability when residents are abused even when a state inspector goes in and finds violations the nursing home don't

pay a fine or have any penalty so that's part of the problem and i think not having a really strong minimum staffing level standards in this country and in new york state also exacerbated the problem and there is almost no financial accountability in this country for how you nursing homes use the monies that they receive and that's something that is becoming increasingly clear. china has announced it will no longer recognize british national overseas passports issued to hong kong residents as after the u.k. so the document can pave the way for millions and its former colony to move to britain beijing blasted that move as meddling and its internal affairs. this will only end up hurting britain's own interests no forces under whatever circumstances can erode the determination of the chinese government and the chinese people to uphold national sovereignty and security safeguard hong kong's prosperity and

stability and oppose external intervention under the new rules coming into force next sunday the passport holders can live study and work in the u.k. for 5 years after which they can apply for citizenship and the scheme was heavily backed by prime minister boris johnson. i'm immensely proud that we have brought in this new route for hong kong british national overseas passports to live work and make their home in the country in doing so we have our profound ties of history and friendship with the people of hong kong and we have stood up for freedom and autonomy valley's both the u.k. and hong kong hold dear. the plans were announced in july in response to chinese legislation giving beijing greater powers over hong kong subsequent riots over the law led to dozens of arrests on an accused beijing of breaching its pledge in hong kong 1970 handover to maintain key liberties and autonomy for 50 years britain

argues it has a moral duty to protect its former subjects but international relations analysts. thanks hong kong residents are unlikely to take up the offer of moving to the u.k. . now in terms of the old possible now they are talking about giving a lot of people they are talking about millions of hong kong people the right to move to london or britain and eventually become u.k. citizens 1st of all i don't think a lot of people in hong kong want to do that why because hong kong is one of the most efficient place to live and to do business and it will continue to do so they compare much better than britain as a country secondly what the british government is doing is to give 2nd class citizenship to the hong kong people because it was they move to hong kong they need to live there for 5 yes before they have the right to apply for you cases a ship i don't think people really want to do that so i think the british

government is ready to very much double standards and what they are really talking about is very hollow. still had on the program of mass protests had pollen once again or it's near total ban on abortions on that after the break. lead.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday should we let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development that only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. welcome back to the program street protests have been raging across poland against a near total ban on abortions which took effect on wednesday

a couple saw around 2000 protesters come out on the 3rd night of rallies as thousands of women's rights protesters marched to the headquarters of the ruling a law and justice party defying pandemic restrictions critics say the new law violates women's rights and was forced on the country without public support and some are demanding action from the e.u. . so we have all the burden falls on the doctors who have to make a very difficult choice they can be brave in saying that no statement changes the law and continue to do abortions and back east there will be sued by the state and we will help them with this crap and they pretty much it's kerry and the worst thing is that actually the european union the new european community doesn't do anything to help us with those don't want to leave pollens because it's my country and i don't want someone to push me out i'm going to fight for the country's future as long as i have strength and the hope that things will change for the new law even bans terminations do to encourage diseases or risks to the baby's health it

means 90 percent of previously legal abortions have been criminalized and are punishable by prison time the law now only allows terminations due to rape incest or a risk to the mother's life. well i was passed by poland's constitutional tribunals back in october but needed 3 months to take effect due to the scale of public opposition it's been condemned by brussels which says the ruling puts women's lives at risk you has accused the government of heaping pressure on judges to pass the decision and called it a sign of the collapse of the rule of law in the country but poland's top court insists it's just asserting the right to life the constitutional court once again affirmed that a person has the right to life from the moment of conception human life has the same value before birth as when a person is young and adult or elderly the polish legal system is built on that basis abortion means taking

a child's life the eugenic premises for the killing of the unborn violate that constitutional basis. earlier my colleague nikki erin discussed the near total ban on abortions and the irresponsible they panel of experts what poland is doing is turning the tide on the barbarism of the rest of the world the rest of europe and saying we're going to value life no matter how injured by how disabled it may be we're going to probably with some treasure it and look after it's the best of our intention and credit to poland i think poland is going to lead the wellness and hopefully the tide will turn in the rest of europe as well as a result clearly in a very different position to these gentlemen because i understand the human cost of these laws the idea that this is going to stop abortion is ludicrous it's going to start seeing abortions and it's going to start abortions for people who don't have financial means you know my feeling is that abortion should be a decision between the pregnant person and a medical professional and everybody else can have whatever views they would like

to have around map. sources you know at this school sort of. on the street. and we should look. at the walls on that one. for that well and. you. should not need to use. the british prime minister is being accused of hypocrisy over his recent visit to scotland officials there are saying he should be abiding by the lockdown rules that everyone else has to follow are disease alley as the story. this trip by the prime minister of state assembly to save the union going down very badly in a number of causes not least because many of deemed it has not been essential your course in the midst of a very deadly 2nd wave of the coded 19 pandemic chad and our son's maze euclid's is

so politicized troops north of the border in the wilds 1st minister mark drank for a suggests that boris johnson was wrong cite that journey i am only leaving my home or place of work in a genuine image and see and that's because the rules in wales are stay at home work from home we are at level 4 'd of a public health emergency and on the whole i think it is preferable for people who make rules that we expect other people to observe to observe them or selves another person within the government ranks to come in for criticism as the home secretary pretty to sell she's been criticised for holding a meeting great session with police offices in oxfordshire again questions being raised as to whether that's really essential this time and ordinary people are being harassed and harangued by police when they do nothing more for example we've

seen scenes of people travelling to work or going to the shops to do their essential shopping and yet being stopped and harassed by police. and about how i would say that i mean if you. think not i already hate islam and i won't really do it right now i'm. just going to do. what i'm still do who didn't really there you did a right to stop anyone you want and get it he told the kurds were you need to be really in who are going. all of that will only seen into the notion and the perception amongst people in the country that one rule for those in government one rule for everyone else. what's up users are continuing to abandon the message him by the millions objecting to their data being handed over

to facebook signal and telegram are the most popular alternatives but is signal any more private than what's up artist by book i investigate. none of the articles that you may have forwarded to your mom in an attempt to encourage her to download signals actually explain signals origins and signals origins could be really important because the signal is kind of lame to the cia they're with me because i can explain signal is developed by the signal foundation and this is the stuff you've probably already read the signal was set up by whatsapp co-founder brian acton who left whatsapp in 2018 because of concerns over changes the parent company facebook might make to the app in the future so brian acton plonked $50000000.00 into signal and he said that his goal was to build

the most trusted communications experience on the planet signal is developed by open whisper systems which was founded by this guy this secretive what we see marlinspike that is not his real name he is really into privacy obviously marlinspike is a little eccentric he used to be the head of security for twitter and he's now pretty much become a cryptography legend and the co-founder of all those signal foundations and open whisper systems received about $3000000.00 in funding from something called the open the technology fund from 22 oiled to 26 the open technology fund aims to support internet freedom worldwide and up until 2019 was literally a department of radio free asia it literally says so here on its websites the open

technology fund initially operated as a program of radio free asia in 2019 after 7 years of operating as a program. then radio free asia the open technology fund restructured and sell from a program within radio free asia to an independent non profit organization radio free asia is a u.s. government funded nonprofit that was originally set up by none other. than the the i say. so why is an ex government agency that flourished out of a cia psychological rule fab program blowing millions of dollars on funding privacy tools that it meant to protect the public from surveillance by the government even more surprisingly edward snowden even mosque and twitter found jack

dorsey have all go behind that well maybe not so surprising in the case of censorship loving jack dorsey please please please don't think that this is all an veiled advice for the telegram because telegram is also problematic for us lately in order to preserve its wider array of features as good as the emergency anyone's it is an end to end encrypted the way in which signal and whatsapp are on it still data in a cloud which has been argued to be less safe and most importantly it was created by a russian that is dodgy as. that's our global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always how to our website are to dot com for the details on all those stories and many more.

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