just recently. most protect its own existence was. 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 nursing homes as the attorney general says officials have severely under-counted the true death toll. and a u.s. business owner is bombarded by death threats for posting that her husband reports donald trump. 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 has a good. welcome to the program and a happy saturday to you all this is our 2 international bring you your live news update this hour. germany has announced a travel freeze with all countries where new highly infectious strains of coping 1000 have been detected and france is taking things one step further closing its borders to almost all visitors from outside the e.u. . in addition to the curfew measures which have produced real brits insufficient results we've decided to take the following additional measures without delay and you wrote evelyn from any departure from altered street tool from a country of the european union will be banned except recent will travel to.

several other e.u. states are following suit amid soaring case numbers and a severe shortage of vaccines at republic as banning non-essential cross border travel and portugal has closed its border with spain our europe correspondent peter albright reports now on the latest steps from germany. 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. what danny and lee so to the reason these have been put in place is that these nations have seen rises in the infections of mutated variant 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 you couldn't piece your own information searing all the information we have we do not expect it to be european solution that meter expect a sions in the future and 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 it 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 bird zuko but it's time look these we must 1st of its nation book scenes of 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 here to germany and they will be in place until the 17th of february at least. economists richard berner told us the travel ban could end up hurting the german economy even more so it is a copy of the u.k. policies played by. people from tanzania in africa and brazil and they claim that you know it's because of this new strain which is not really clear it's 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.

. but it doesn't make any sense german business is a very international even locals all family owned businesses tend to be international exporters and to get international deals 'd 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 we're posing. a woman in the u.s. state of virginia has received death threats online and by phone after revealing that her husband supports donald trump marriage and one person 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 ahold of that picture off 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 spiraled from there some people took that snapshot and started putting the owners of the shop or domestic terrorists and the so on just was ringing in ringing and 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 your 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 howland mentioned she owns a donut shop which has been targeted by an online campaign that's been flooded with

negative reviews though 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 as 8 percent think foreign adversaries present a bigger challenge marriage and how one again told us the issue boils down to freedom of expression. you can want her to go 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 without someone saying if you don't think the way we think we're going to shut your business. if you don't live long in the now you think we think we're going to torment you that is it's not the country we 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 where the truth. the mayor of new york city is demanding the truth about the pandemic death toll and nursing homes after an official report revealed the statistics are 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 that comes after a report from the attorney general concluded that the care home death toll between march and november last year was under counted by as much as 50 percent artist and 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 sara lee 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 spare increased action to protect our most vulnerable residents the report singled out almost decision to send coded patients to elderly care homes it was an attempt to free up hospital spaces 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 sabah a local news media 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 for 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 cheating or 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. about 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 law on to 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 the new site this can't be happening and return executive director of the long term care community coalition they share their take on the new york nursing home disaster. a 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 did but the eliza nursing homes their risk however i don't think that

they required nursing homes to take in residence with coping 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 aunts can only accept only accept residents if they have been staffing and the supplies necessary in the u.s. 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 that's after the u.k. said the document can pave the way for millions in its former colony to move to britain glasses that move as meddling and its internal affairs. this will only end up hurting britain's own interests you know forces under whatever circumstances can erode the determination of the chinese government and the chinese people to uphold national sovereignty and security so you've got 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 or 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 others 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 one of the kids beijing of breaching its pledge in hong kong 1907 handed over 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 victor gao and hong kong residents are unlikely to take up the offer of moving to the u.k. . now in terms of a b. and all possible now they are talking about giving a lot of people they are talking about millions of 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 the hall call 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 call they need to live there for 5 years before they have the right to apply for u.k. citizenship i don't think people really want to do that so i think the british

government is already very much that will stand and what they are really talking about is very hollow. still had mass protests to ponder over its near total ban on abortions story and more after this.

join me every 1st day on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to get a feel of the world of politics sports business i'm showbiz most i'll see that. welcome back street protests have been raging across poland against a near total ban on abortions which took effect on wednesday the capital saw around

2000 protesters coming out on the 3rd night of rallyists 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. . 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 if you continue to do abortions and back us there will be sued by the state and we will help with this happening it's pretty much it's scary and the worst thing is that actually the european union the new european community doesn't do anything to help us with this 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 but you carry the new law even bans terminations due to and curable 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 a fact did to the scale of public opposition it's been condemned by brussels which says the ruling puts women's lives at risk the e.u. 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 response with a panel of experts. what poland is doing is turning the tide on the resume of the rest of the world the rest of europe and saying we're going to value life no matter how injured matter 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 and i think poland is going to lead the way almost for the tranquil term of the rest of europe as well as a result you know i clearly am in a very different position to these gentlemen because i understand the human cost of these laws and the idea that this law 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 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 that. you know. what's. so good. that. the british prime minister is being accused of hypocrisy over his recent visit to scotland officials are saying he should be abiding by the lockdown rules that everyone else has to follow are disease alley has a 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 chair and our sponsors beijing clits is so politicized true north of the border that the welsh 1st minister mark wright for a suggested 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 herself she's been criticized 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. i'm living on an i already hate islam and my mother and i do it right now i'm. going to have to. still do who didn't really there he did a right to stop anyone you want and get it he told the kurds were you need to be really in who are. all of that will only feed into the notion and the perception amongst people in the country that rule for those in government and one rule for everyone else. the messaging app telegram is making

the most of a mass influx of users abandoning whatsapp over privacy concerns it has now added the ability to import your chat history from the facebook own service and aside from those 2 there's a 3rd option if you want to keep your messages private signal archie's public playboy go takes a closer look. 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 there with me because i can explain signal is developed by the signal foundation and this is the stuff you probably already read the signal was set up by whatsapp found 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 $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 itself 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 a c i was examples so why is an ex government agency that flourished out of a cia psychological warfare program blowing millions of dollars on funding privacy tools that are meant to protect the public from surveillance by the

government even more surprisingly edward snowden even mosque and twitter found jack dorsey how mobile behind it well maybe not so surprising in the case of censorship loving jack dorsey i am please please please don't think that this is all a veiled advert for the telegram rica's telegram is also problematic firstly in order to preserve its wide array of features gadhafi emerge any longer it is an end to end encrypted the way in which signal and whatsapp are it's stored 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 a wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook for up to the minute reports.

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on if you. think the friday as of last summer buying from the future trucker watch kaiser. i'm afshin rattansi we're going on the ground for another lockdown edition as u.s. president joe biden signs new executive orders to combat climate change we'll speak to for most of the rupert read made famous by extinction rebellion his new book is a warning to parents. about how to look into their own children's eyes about what their elders have done to limit their chances of old age thanks to near liberal catalyzed climate catastrophe and in part 2 we'll investigate the star creek is

released by a new report from n.g.o.s oxfam on the growing inequality caused by the coronavirus they found the wilt of the world's top 10 richest men has increased by half a trillion dollars since the start of the pandemic enough to provide coded vaccinations for the entire world it says while an estimated 300000000 more people have been impoverished but 1st joining me now from london is author of parents for a future how loving our children can prevent climate collapse dr ruth could read thanks so much for coming back on i don't know whether you're happy about biden in or not reading this book you probably are not happy i mean what do you make of these executive orders surely parents can look into their children's eyes and feel no guilt well it's a lot they have don't buy that at present trial but let's remember that's not saying very much these is actually a board is put in are extremely encouraging there's never been anything like them

before but as you implied in your opening intro.