for. justice. parties headline news germany imposes a travel freeze on countries where highly infectious new strains have been detected a move the business leaders say will put an extra strain on the economy. the scrutiny over his handling of the crisis in care homes as the attorney general says fatalities that have been undercounted by as much as 50 percent. of us business owners bombarded by death threats for posting that her husband donald trump. said she was coming to kill me. one person threatened my.

life and worldwide this is our international from moscow. for you this saturday 1st germany's imposing a travel freeze with all countries where new highly infectious strains of covert 19 have been detected france is taking things a step further it's closing its borders to almost all visitors from outside the e.u. . in addition to the curfew measures which have produced real insufficient results we have decided to take the following additional measures without delay any arrival in france or any departure from our territory to or from a country outside the european union will be banned except for essential travel to . several other e.u. states are following suit amid soaring case numbers and a local severe shortage of vaccines the czech republic is banning non-essential

cross border travel and portugal has closed its border with spain our europe correspondent peter out of a report 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 and the infections of mutated variant of the corona virus the german interior minister the 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. own information searing all the

information we have we do not expect it to be european solution that meter expectational 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 trouble burned zuko but a 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. in place of travelers arriving from 7 different nations here to germany and they will be in place until the 17th of february at least honest richard when i told us that 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 and africa and brazil and they claim that. 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. . 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 should get international deals 'd you do need some travel 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. next tonight a woman in the u.s. state of virginia has received death threats online and to her phone after revealing that her husband supports donald trump marriage i have posted a photo on facebook of her husband and friends getting ready to go to trump's last rally as president within hours though she was bombarded with messages accusing her of being a domestic terrorist and threatening her with physical violence she's been sharing her story with us. 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 don't chop 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 phone 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 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 them advice on how to keep everybody safe . elaborate owns that donut shop you saw there which has been targeted by an online campaign it's been flooded with negative reviews but after appearing on the local t.v. news she also started getting support from across the country when her story reflects

a c.b.s. news poll showing that 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 hamlin says the issue boils down to freedom of expression. you can walk through to the through the doors of my 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 in to express our views without being believed to be a free without someone saying if you don't think the way we think we're going to shut your business. if you don't live in our you think we think we're going to torment you that is something that is 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. the mayor of new york is demanding the truth about covert deaths the nursing homes after an official report failed but the statistics didn't reveal the full picture 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 the report from the new york attorney general concluded that care home deaths between march and november last year were on the counted by as much as 50 percent that's kind of more than now explained. 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 while most decision to send covert 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 on numbers reports based on the place of death those words are of little comfort to sabah

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 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 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 our governor actually wrote. a book about leadership in the middle of the curve the 19 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 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's darling is facing a full blown scandal ala mop and artsy new york we go reaction from dave lindorff who's the editor of the new site this can't be happening and also richard miller who's the executive director of the long term care community coalition. 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've gone and but it was very clear the

longstanding federal requirements are that nursing homes can only accept only accept residents if they have the staffing 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's announced that it will no longer recognize british national overseas passports issued to hong kong residents the u.k. earlier said the i.d.'s would pave the way for millions of its former colony to move to britain a move the beijing blasted as meddling in its internal affairs you have on one 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 of the new 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 honored 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 were over the law led to dozens of arrests at the time london accused beijing of breaching its pledge and hong kong's $19700.00 the main tank in the parties for autonomy for 50 years britain though argues that it has a moral duty to protect its former subjects but international relations analysts for to gather thinks hong kong residents are unlikely to take up the offer of moving to the u.k. . now in terms of the a b.

and all possible now they are talking about giving a lot of people they are talking about millions of hong kong people the right will 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 call they need to live there for 5 yes before they have the right of life or u.k. citizenship i don't think people really want to do that so i think the british government is really very much double standards and what they are really talking about is very hollow. still to come mass protests have poland over its near

total ban on abortions were enough for you among our stories after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only loosely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to sit down and talk. seemed wrong. rules just don't hold. any belief yet to shape out just to become agitated and engagement because betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. hello again poland has been gripped by 4 nights of street protests against a near total ban on abortions which took effect on wednesday and warsaw thousands marched to the headquarters of the ruling law and justice party defying pandemic restrictions critics say the new law violates women's rights was forced on the country without public support and some are demanding action from the e.u. . so it's just another burden falls on the doctors who have to make

a very difficult choice they can be brave in saying that no statement changes or you can continue to do abortions and back us there will be sued by the state and we will help them what this happened pretty matters it's scary and there was think is that back to the european union the new european community doesn't do anything to help us with i 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 a hold the things will change. the new law bans even terminations due to incurable diseases or risks to the baby's health it means 90 percent of previously legal abortions have been criminalized punishable by prison time the law now only allows terminations due to rape incest or risk to the mother's life. were passed by poland's constitutional tribunal 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 the accuses 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 nichiren discussed the total ban on abortions and the e.u. for sponsors campaigners and academics 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 intimate 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 hopefully the tide will turn in 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 math. you know. who should look. so good. on.

the british prime minister's 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 he's really has 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 the that has not been essential your of course in the midst of a very deadly 2nd wave of the crowded 19th pandemic chad and our sponsors beijing clits is so politicized troops north of the border that the welsh 1st minister mark drake for 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. i'm leaning on him i need woman i want really i do it right now i'm. just going to do.

what i'm still just didn't believe there he did a right to stop anyone you want and get it he told the kurds were you need to be really informed. all of that will only seen into the notion and the perception amongst people in the country that it's one rule for those in government and one rule for everyone else. russian billionaires come forward to contest a claim by opposition activists alexina valmy that president putin owns an opulent palace by the black sea ok.d. rotenberg says the massive compound is his as saskia taylor explained. around a week ago a story about a so-called palace apparently belonging to russian president vladimir putin a mugged a number of outrageous details that then came out over 1300000000 dollars in a place near the south of the country on the black sea over 17000 square meters

a casino and underground one of the more exciting details golden toilet brush is worth $850.00 now these claims were in a video by a russian opposition figure on it saying a phony who just remind is currently in custody awaiting a court hearing on charges of consistently violating his parole now this 2 hour exposé as he's calling it has been viewed over 100000000 times on you tube so it would as worth mentioning that the average watching time is just 8 minutes nevertheless this video was seen at widely as a catalyst for the protests that took place in a number of russian cities this past weekend and that have been again for the sunday while one also directly about this tonight any connection saying that no such property has ever belonged or does currently belong to him or any of his family members but apparently that's not the end of the story because new

information has now come to light the author of which is the popular news outlet on telegram called match now it didn't interview with the russian business mogul. in the interview takes full responsibility for this munch and he says yes it belongs to me i've long had an interest in the hotel business and that's exactly my plan here i want to turn this palace on the coast into a beautiful resort now the interview with comes just a day or 2 off to conduct its own filmed investigation john less actually visiting this controversial site and that what they showed us was very different to what we've previously seen in. vaal knees in holland 3 d. drone footage there were no armed guards no golden toilet brushes no one to ground hockey rinks it really was a total building site there are also some parts of these claims that have not yet been responded to for example why is there

a no fly zone but there's also been some discussion as to whether russia is federal protective service is responsible for security that it denies that some say all the whys so it's very much a case of one side claims this and other side claims out and both sides claim to have the evidence that supports that argument but i do way it's clear that no fall news video initially but now sesame mushes seeming d. bunking of that. spot a lot of conversation here in russia ok that's the way it looks for the whole thanks for checking it out see this so that one caller brian most of your next update from us is in just over half of that i have to say that. was a pandemic no sir you know borders just like to nationalities. is

a little bit we don't actually. be. judged as primary sources. we can do better we should. everyone is contributing each of our own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenge is great if the response has been much so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together. the world is driven by a dream shaped by our own personal. dares

thinks. we dare to ask. right now there are 1000000 people who are overweight or obese it's also a couple to self. and sugary and salty and addictive it's not at the individual level it's not individual wealth power and africa on believing that never change this obesity epidemic that industry has been influencing very deeply the medical and scientific establishment. so what's driving the obesity epidemic it's corporate profit.

secret prisons are not usually what comes to mind when thinking about europe however even the most prosperous can be deceived within this 0 zone there were 2 view houses were allowed to leave those prison was located and only cia people had access to the story for investigators sure hell they uncovered the darkest dealings of the secret services but i mean. you graded nor in thought or nonsense. keith you may be a sore knee yourself before. trying for justice on r.t. .

here in kiev in recent days my independence square has turned into a full scale war zone. in ukraine's capital kiev.