the headlines the world health organization scientist investigating the origins of code 19 questions the reliability of u.s. intelligence after washington says it wants to conduct its own probe in china. european commission president admits the block was too late in authorizing covert vaccines struggled with supply shortages we hear from an advisor. it's not a matter of race between countries 1st and each block should get to earlier countries and the european union plan for population to be covered by a certain period of time. and into day 2 of the senate's impeachment trial democrats are now trying to bolster their case that the former u.s. president incited an insurrection.

long cheat on wednesday here in moscow will welcome for me in the team here at. this hour the world health organization scientist is questioning the reliability of u.s. intelligence on the origins of covert 19 after taking part in a source tracing the china discussed developments with correspondent constantine. the figure that is front and center to this story peter does show he is a british american viral adjust and he was assisting the w.h.o. mission to hunt to find out the origins of the current pandemic so the scientists really didn't mince his words when he took to twitter to lash out at u.s. intelligence for backing theories that the virus could have been man made in came from a chinese lab let's have a listen well now this joe biden has to look tough on china please don't rely too

much on u.s. intelligence increasingly disengaged under trump and frankly wrong go in many aspects why has it made such a fuss well for one its strong language from a u w h o representative who has taken on the us intelligence community questioning their credibility and the thing is that u.s. intelligence has a different version of why and how this pandemic came about and u.s. officials already claim that they're not going to accept the findings of these one mission until they could verify using their own intelligence broadly speaking we have expressed our concerns regarding the need for full transparency and access from china. and the w.h.o. access from china and all information regarding the earliest days of the pen demick and that speaks volumes about the level of trust that the new u.s. administration has towards the w.h.o.

and that is itself an interesting turn of events because as you remember when joe biden came to power he explicitly claim that he's going to reverse most a peace process or its policies especially the one on pulling out of international organizations like w h o but the americas overall stance in that issue doesn't seem like you know changed a lot from what it was during the trump. the united states pays them $450000000.00 a year china pays them $38000000000.00 a year and they're a puppet of china. china centric to put it but they're a puppet of jonah well the w.h.o. finally has a team sent there they're doing this investigation how we got any closer to figuring out the origins of carbon 1000 then really you know if we talk about bigger picture right that the scientific community is trying to find out the origins of this virus the source of this corona virus and that's why they sent this

mission to han to the chinese who the province where the virus was 1st detected in 2019 but the probe didn't give us you know a lot right away i mean the experts came only to one conclusion conclusion which is really important in the light of this ongoing spat between the u.s. and china and that is that the virus did not originate in the chinese lab and that it probably transmitted from animals presumably bats. to humans so again this is not exactly a revelation and we're still far from understanding the roots of the pandemic i guess what this story has shown to us is that the issue itself is highly politicized and clearly scientists are going to feel under immense pressure from both american and chinese scientists and will that you know make things difficult to get to the bottom of that almost certainly involve a covert vaccine rolled out in europe is being plagued by delays with the european

commission president live on the line admitting for the 1st time that the blocks for good short in its response should have approved vaccines. don't know if this isn't a tad saw her just for the fact is that today we're not where we want to be in converting the virus we were late in granting authorization we were too old to mystic about mest production and maybe we also took for granted so the doses ordered would actually arrive on time so we must ask ourselves why and what lessons we can draw from it like knowledge that the e.u. overestimated its production capacity while the line defended the joint e.u. vaccine strategy as the right way of dealing with the pandemic we spoke to a w.h.o. would visor who told us inoculation efforts need to be coordinated across borders. it's not a matter of race between countries who should get 1st and which block should get earlier i think we are all fighting this race against the virus so i think we will have to be. realistic in all these vaccine available ity plus vaccine to all

out in the countries but i think these are the countries and european union in general need to plan for for its population to be covered by a certain period of time we have to acknowledge that this caylee just sheer scale of 19 vaccine is enormous so the demand for the vaccine is not common to the volume of vaccine that we have so there will have to be some privatization because of this global nature of 19 pandemic did the restaurants cannot be within the international boundaries we all need to understand that everybody need to be safe if we want our cell to be safe and within this principle of global solidarity we called upon all countries to ensure that this global public good a covert 19 vaccine should be acceptable and accessible to everybody irrespective

of the income status or income level this vaccine nationalism will or will hurt the country themselves we should be cautiously optimistic despite the time given that we do have a new toolkit on our hands a vaccine the covert 19 vaccine on our hand but i think. we do we need to keep a very very close. vigil on how the virus is behaving how the virus is our people our people are adjusting to these known non-pharmaceutical public health measures of hand washing using the mask and i think this is not the time to drop the guard i think this is the time to be more vigilant and do more in terms of the disease surveillance and the restaurants measures. impeachment trial in the u.s. senate has entered it 2nd day democrats are trying to prove that the former president in sight of the capitol hill riots on january the 6th. it's

a moment of truth for america and this mob was well orchestrated their conduct was intentional they did it all in plain sight proudly openly and loudly this mob was provoked over many months by donald j. trump he could do and would do the exact same thing again because he said his conduct was totally appropriate he didn't just tell them to fight like hell he told them how where and when this is dangerous donald trump surrendered his role as commander in chief and became the insider in chief of a dangerous insurrection. the trial kicked off yesterday with a video montage of those events presented as evidence and pro-democratic media pundits were suitably shot. ah. 7 remarkable video by the house managers

powerful an expletive laced video timeline disturbing and compelling video staggered like the rest of us by the presentation of the house managers with that video it stopped everyone in their tracks there was silence in the chamber. later on donald trump's defense team also presented a series of videos showing democratic officials calling for trump to be in pain a clip dates back to trump's 1st year in office and supposedly proves that the democrats were out for blood money before any charges have materialized i spoke earlier with legal and media analyst lionel who thinks the case against trump's already collapsed. if you receive the evidence showed you would never know this from the particular evidence that was presented by the democrats but that these folks many of them were already there completely adore and some of them and almost acquired by military apparel wisit ties ready for arrests and helmets

already anticipating what they were going to do prior to donald trump saying and this is a political exercise this is political theater this is not subject to any court reviewing what happens this isn't an animal it's own this impeachment trial the only reason this is being done is to prevent donald trump from running again worse and why is that because many people suspect that internal polling indicates that the democrats realize that he might be stronger. if you were to run in 2024. internal feuds broken out of the new york times after an award winning veteran reporter was forced to quit the newspaper for using racist language donald mcneil jr had worked for the paper for 45 years they've been widely praised for his science coverage of the covert $1000.00 pound demick but last month his reputation took a downturn several school students who went on a trip organized by the new york times in 2019 accused him of repeatedly making

racist remarks and an e-mailed apology later he explained that he did use a racial slur when discussing the video in which such a would have been used he described it as an act of extraordinarily bad judgment and the new york times was quick to condemn it reporters' behavior posting stuff memo saying we do not tolerate racist language or regardless of intent not all stuff are on board with that message though judging by a leaked exchange between employees in a facebook group. we do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent might be the most racist statement i've ever read he demeans all races why didn't the new skill do far more to defend and protect the job of a long time times employee one who at times did tireless heroic work on behalf of the killed to help improve pay and conditions for all and whitey employees why is the focus in discussions like this almost always isn't ruling in the perpetrators

live and not those who are harmed by his actions the 1st racism scandal at the new york times last year a dozen staff complained about an op ed written by sen tom cotton saying donald trump should call in the troops against black lives matter reuters the opinion editor was forced to resign for allowing that to be published last hour i discussed the story with r.t. america's chris hedges who's also previously worked at the new york times. i think we should remember that the executive editor of the new york times is. african-american dean baquet very fine reporter in iraq she hired together and dean initially judged that it was a court judgment call but it wasn't racist and wasn't he wasn't using a derogatory slur you know either directed at a person or a group of people it was the n. word which perhaps is a way person he should not have uttered. but that was dean's initial judgment and then there was blowback or her power felt kind of cancel culture especially among

the liberal elites there was blowback within the institution and dawn was removed but you know the reporting of how that word was used. is accurate and i think this was probably overly judgmental and too severe it without say for most of the way a red line for coded rule breakers the british government is threatening to put people in jail for up to a decade if they cover up that travel history will debate that after the break.

internet censorship is happening at an excel rated pace conservatives and progressives i mean democratized and the plot more times than not the censorship is never really explained we are left to assume when the phrase community standards is invoked we somehow are threatening but that's what you said here is all about.

welcome back legal experts including top judges in the u.k. appalled school on the government's threat to jail people who lie about where they travel from the health secretary down to the draconian new regulations and bombing anyone who lies on the passenger locator form and tries to conceal that they've been in the country on the red list in the 10 days before arrival here will face a prison sentence of up to 10 years to leave ridiculous thing for the secretary of state for health to say we're really going to lock people up to 10 years so being dishonest about the fact that they've been to poach go by all means give them a fine does mr hancock really think that non-disclosure of a visit to portugal is worse than the large number of violent far arms offenses where sexual offenses are moving minors for which the maximum is 7 years. earlier they're referred to the red list of infection hotspots a total of $33.00 countries have been singled out an include brazil and south

africa which have registered highly infectious new strains of covert 19 british nationals who've been to those locations can still get back home but also though have to quarantine a government approved hotels only expense for 10 days several other south american and african countries are also on that red list along with portugal and the united arab emirates. right discussing it with us now political commentators anthony webber and gentlemen welcome to the program andre 1st of all that does 10 years sound a little north of reasonable when it comes to just admitting where you've been on holiday. well 1st of all i think we live in a world that is going completely mad over coronavirus thought i think there are some serious things that we have to take away i think one of the big issues that we've suffered from is people coming into the united kingdom from hot spot countries we've not had the proper testing at the airports we've not had the proper quarantine but now what we've got to do is absolute guarantee that it will not conditionals our borders we absolutely have to make sure that people are all this

now remember something it's not that you can jump into a gret country as you said and it's not start that you can't so you can't come so you can go i would but people coming to the u.k. i have to say that it's all about where you got the saw this and the next point is obviously this look judges have discretion nobody wants to clock anybody out for 10 years but you know something we in this country have given up our democracy giving up our freedom we are now ruled by medical experts and the only way of getting out of that is stopping people coming to the country from red zones and quarantining them properly thank goodness me explore is worth doing and today with europe's 'd having the worst to cope with death toll that even if it's only a dead terror and something significant has to be done about making sure that significant stranger infections don't keep coming into out of the country. well i think we have to look at how much pressure writes any of these variations are to

the kerry and the c.s.e. of each death or a certain people who don't have to kowtow and say who says he 3 the other jewish number people are that. wise fly no one see who they were critics are sitting conditions so you don't hear well over 99 percent of the population have no serious trust whatsoever regarding the unseen or new versions so how will this crime scenes a lot down the country is completely an ostomy a no nonsense rule and so this latest idea because we've come up with the current scene and made hits $33.00 so who would read contrary it's if you look at lists you could augie the us and missions and no you could all agree that some countries which shouldn't be even the only or ex look at such times and me at the desperation

of nor when 3000000 compared with the k.'s about 17 hundreds per 1000000 then look at ways for toodle being included and not. is really inspiring and from it's the whole thing is nonsensical they want to seed sort clucks out a certain number of countries south america from africa and less some of them out and the huns some of them got. a market know very low wrists but at the end of the day it's not important because we as a population in the public sun. bathing this is an absolutely mica but this is a. virus andre it's not. yes look

the thing is i simply agree with almost everything that's just been sad but we have lost our arguments those folks that are turning round and saying that school should go back that people should be at work have failed to persuade the british government what annoys me at the moment the only thing that's not locked down is the borders and 3rd for if the only way to ensure that the government's opens up the country is to secure our borders and i think it's absolutely worth doing i my point is very simply this i think you know we we have to expect people when they come to our borders to be all east about where they've been and to make a genuine declaration i think that's a legitimate request and in this case we're requesting that people should simply say where they've been jory their foreign face it i don't think that's the reasonable thing to do but equally you know i don't want to come on which program and sound you know i think the slowdown is worthwhile what i'm trying to tell you ways at the moment what is it 70 percent of the british population will not sign

the lockdown until the coronaviruses control that means we've got to shut the borders because you can bet your best bottom dollar that the minute there is a new variance as we've seen with south africa then even when we reopen it will lock down again the only way to prevent it is to show the boldest that if we not only show the borders the draconian measures at the border of the only way forward and say is it even possible to try and stick rules on to the shifting sands the countries change the quarantine rules change the hotel staying in a hotel for 10 days when they haven't even got a contract with any hotels yet. it is not clear the government is constantly changing the rules because reality is very hotly viral with a lot down policy which they should know who are soon in march last year all they know locked down countries in the world who talk a lot faster because they focus only on the medical measures and we need to have a quick rethink good government seems to be no looking at the buck see rollouts as

a means to. getting themselves out of the hole if you are saying but that would your the people in this country don't even need this fact seen yet their commitments got those 100000000 people so it's a scene rich and they don't even need to and which is not going to stop transgression of the clericals but you also want to put this but this is a waste of time discussion we had this argument at the end of last year and nobody took any notice the only way now that we've come to persuade the british public i did did the british government to end the slow downs if we stopped the new variations the only way we're going to look new variation if it's outside it'll take a season should look short the obvious this does not apply just with x. and z. with respect we've found in the arguments and persuading people to go fast and all the places they're not going to do it i'm afraid it more of the media like say the

prayer note. we would have to battle this if he were awake and it's those who are paying for arguments almost about what points to the sense of hopelessness that he and the rest of it storms of the prairie knocked out the the the prairie a blue words things true beautiful during the moon we got this latest. of this part of the state here 33 picks out countries no hotels for them to go to spain finds i mean a soap so good the beginning of this program. when you felt democracy being spoken there were a lot of people who are just now and we're going to go down this road let's have a referendum let the public choose whether they want to carry it all with this ludicrous fall of government or whether the current government because at the moment we're guessing your position the way the are on minority profits it is now if we have a referendum we go to 50 percent again it's fine with me it's all i'm i would be i

would support him shut your door it's a term of art if want to bring home bring it back to the topic at hand here in terms of what to do about making sure that of infection stay down and then when people till arrive in the country who will let me quote i think i think that i think protecting your borders is a legitimate thing asking people to make all these declaration is a legitimate thing and we are what we are in terms of coronavirus always remember something we are not living in democracy have said that we are we are now living by called a net not per se government by medical professionals but each truth the lockdown is overwhelmingly popular and what i see right now is everything in british law down a little bit on the borders and i think that actually genuinely locking down the borders or having much stiffer control will be helpful now occurred around i think just by piece i didn't see i don't answer hi nancy i think i simply put to you the

following day all we are asking now is for people to make all the east declaration when they come to the border that is surely not an unreasonable request and say just be seconds from you. is to be rope it would be almost each probably is probably government and not all of the students very quickly. reach out just as various food deserts this fall asleep and wake up when they were going to school katzenberg is or are there are many other things which are going to wearing a library to splurge praise a great repair loom we need so that's. i don't sense but i don't see on was always you i'm assuming we have to operate on the how well long lockdown in your country it's in the wrong group. quite a few but we've already an early it's a feature of the stars sure it magical roche's i got all these are going to go race that's all i'm really. focused on suspense that's in the probable the bargeman ration by because it's so doctors and medical professionals it was put salute

government some very very big words about was focused the exception. of all of the old what we're good uses policy drugs and a whole population a little policy operation doesn't like gentlemen. all right gentlemen we'll leave it there possible shrub today and i hope the holiday snaps when we do finally travel again i have the going to tell the full honest picture and see whether i'll try walker thanks for joining us here where he wrote. and that's it for now i'll have you next hour to have that in just over half an ounce here.

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following welcome to cross talk you're all things are considered i'm puny internet censorship is happening at an accelerated pace conservatives and progressives are being demonetized and more up more times than not the censorship is never really explained we are left to assume when the phrase community standards is invoked we somehow are threatening power but that's what dissent is all about. discussing internet censorship i'm joined by my guest in los angeles kim however since she's the host of the kim iverson show we also have elwood he is a regular on the jimmy door show as well as host of the political digital n.t. on you tube and in baltimore we have way to break he is host of the award winning. cast all right cross couples in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want

and i always appreciated ok let's go to came 1st in los angeles on this very early morning for her kim what is off the rice and unauthorized speech in our environment here because there is a we have a progressive and we have a conservative on this panel and both of us are getting screwed by you to ok so what is authorized and authorized according to the powers that be well we can only gas and my guess would be that the authorized speech is just whatever fits the establishment's narrative at this point that's what it seems to be i mean people who are being to platform to end censored are the ones that are speaking out maybe critical of the government i mean i don't know what kind of world we're living in right now but this is not the america i was led to believe would be the america of my adulthood that's for sure when same question.