a world health organization scientist investigating the origins of covert 1000 questions the reliability of u.s. intelligence after washington says it wants to conduct its own probe in china. european commission president admits the bloc was too late in authorizing covert vaccines as states struggle with supply shortages we heard from w.h.o. advisor it's not a matter of race between countries who should get 1st and which block should get to earlier countries and european union need to plan for population to be covered by a certain bit of time. germany extends its lockdown until march as fears grow that new covert 1000 variants could undermine falling infection rates leading to

a potential 3rd wave. and donald trump's senate impeachment trial enters day 2 with democrats trying to bolster their case that the former u.s. president incited an insurrection. are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow and whether you're watching from intro walk in michigan where the frosting at northern forests are or traverse city we're glad to have you with us all right your world health organization scientist is questioning the reliability of u.s. intelligence on the origins of covert $1000.00 after taking part in a source tracing mission in china jacqueline vogel discussed developments with correspondent constantino rushkoff. the figure that is front and center to this story peter does show he is a british american. and he was assisting the w.h.o.

mission to han 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 that is 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 good 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 u.s. intelligence community questioning their credibility and i think 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 the w.h.o. to 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 coven 1000 then really you know if we talk about a 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 to the chinese who the province where the virus was 1st detected in 2019 but the probe didn't give us 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 a 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. meanwhile the covert vaccine roll out in europe is being plagued by delays with the european commission president ursula von der leyen admitting for the 1st time that the block has fallen short in its response and should have approved vaccines earlier. don't know if this is an attack just for the fact is that today we're not where we want to be in combating the virus we were late in granting authorization we were too old to mystic about mass production and maybe we also took for granted so the doses audit would actually arrive on time so we must ask ourselves why and what lessons we can draw from meant. while acknowledging that the e.u.

overestimated its production capacity vanderlei and defended in the joint u. vaccine strategy as the right way of dealing with the pandemic we spoke to a w.h.o. advisor who told us in occupation 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 80 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 scale 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 it did to the restaurants cannot be

within the national 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 society diety we called upon all countries to ensure that this global public good 19 vaccine should be acceptable and accessible to everybody irrespective of the income status or income level this vaccine nationalism will will hurt the country themselves we should be cautiously optimistic despite all time given that we do have a new tool kit on our hands a vaccine the covert 19 vaccine on our hand but i think the 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 days known non-pharmaceutical

public health measures of hand washing using the mask and i think this is not the time to drop the god i think this is the time to be more vigilant and do more and soft. disease surveillance and the restaurant's measures. are a german chancellor angela merkel has agreed with local governors to extend to the countries that coronavirus lockdown until march that is despite a falling daily infection rate in germany but there are lingering fears that new coded variants could undermine progress against a virus. put the word we have made it clear once again to be. meaning police declined to do sections non-essential private terminal and business should be free and equal to work from home which also place until the 15th of march for that time he should be taken very seriously look down here in germany it will run through until the 7th of march angela merkel had wanted it to go on until the 14th

but following this meeting between the federal government the leaders of the 16 states that make up germany she has given some ground it does seem like this meeting was another fraught affair they all have been these meetings between the chancellor around those local leaders we heard from molly who's the head of the state of rhineland polaha nates a member of the social democratic party saying that as far as she was concerned it seemed like the chancellery didn't seem interested in easing any steps in saying that people had been broken by the lockdown measures that were put in place well chancellor merkel did give some ground on a number of issues not just the date in which a lockdown would run through until also and particularly quite importantly when it comes to schools and daycares the decision when to open those will now be in the hands directly all of the leaders of germany 16 states what that means is in places

like saxon he has a. school could be back as soon as monday however in all the states like baton vote and book they're saying that's not such a good idea and they have no intention of doing that any time soon we have a highly fragile situation we can see in other countries such as portugal how quickly the tide can turn headdresses will be open again from the 1st of march there will be some requirements put in place though the big number that. the all important number seems to be 35 per 100000 that's the indices the leaders of said cases need to get to before things can really start to open up from the beginning of next month bars restaurants they're still on the closed list as it stands at the moment for this lockdown that will run through until the 7th of march last time i conceded ground like this to the leaders of the states was back in

autumn and unfortunately it was followed by a spike in covert cases be watching to make sure that this doesn't happen again i'm trying to keep that balance between giving in to those that want to open up as much as possible and those saying you've got to keep things locked down for now at least . wednesday mark to day 2 of donald trump's impeachment trial in the u.s. senate democrats are trying to prove that the former president incited the capitol hill riots on january 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 on tuesday with a video montage of those events presented as evidence and pro-democratic media pundits were suitably shocked. it was. 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 impeached equips back to trump's 1st year in office and supposedly prove that democrats were out for blood long before any charges had materialized here is some of the legal and political analysis we have been hearing. the evidence showed we 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 adoring some of them and almost a choir as i military a pair always zip ties ready for a rest 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 shown this impeachment trial the only reason this has been done is to prevent donald trump remember from running

again marsh and why is that because many people suspect that internal polling indicates that the democrats realize that he might be stronger and again if you were to run in 2024 this is playing out along partisan lines very predicted so if they don't have the 67 votes is this really much to do about nothing but it would be to impeach john shandi aside time he was in office that came with the inside russia will be a campaign in russia campaign from from day one. they tried to give in so many different ways or never successful translucent movement shut down been everywhere which is an incredibly dangerous precedent anybody who's on the left to anyone who is against imperialism in this country because we disapprove from the censorship for years in indic so i think trump is happy to be back and to censor. it remains to be seen with

a colleague this is one of the big things they're examining right now. an internal feud has broken out in 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 he was widely praised for his scientific coverage of the cove it in $1000.00 pandemic but last month his reputation took a downturn several school students who went on a trip organized by new york times in 2100 accused him of repeatedly making racist remarks in an e-mailed apology explained that he did use a racial slur when discussing the video in which such award had been used he described it as an act of extraordinarily bad judgment the new york times was quick to condemn its reporters behavior posting a staff memo saying we do not tolerate races language regardless of intent but only to exchange from a facebook group of current and former employees suggest everyone may not have been

on board we do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent might be the most racist statement i've ever read he did means. 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 a tireless heroic quirk 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 life and not those who are harmed by his actions. right is not the 1st racism scandal at the new york times that last year readers and staff complained about an op ed written by sen tom cotton saying trump should call in the troops against black lives matter rioters the opinion editor was forced to resign for allowing that to be published earlier my colleague discussed the story with r.t. host chris hedges who 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 poor judgment call but it wasn't racist it wasn't he wasn't using a derogatory slur either directed at a person or a group of people it was the n. word which perhaps is a way of course and he should not have uttered but that was dean's initial judgment and then there was one back to her power full kind of cancel culture especially among the liberal elites that was blowback within the institution and don 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. coming up relatives of a young black man in the u.k.

who died just hours after leaving police custody are calling for justice that story much more when we come back this is our t. international. joining me everything on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to a guest of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see if.

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deaths that happen every single day this is a history of the usa america. is going to. come back this is our team international now russia has hit back at e.u. lawmakers after claims that the european foreign policy chief was too soft on moscow during his recent trip foreign ministry spokeswoman marie is a heart of a accused of those politicians of throwing a tantrum i'll reveal a secret about our western partners when they fail to carry out a flogging they throw a tantrum the aim was to carry out that atomic flogging which i think has been planned very thorough only right 50 year lawmakers have backed

a motion to force out josep burrell over his trip he defended himself by also attacking russia over the visit at an e.u. parliamentary session. there is a deep disappointment and growing mistrust between dupion union and russia i also wanted to test to do russian authorities are interested in a serious attempt to reverse did dated a u.t.a. sion of our relations and seized the opportunity to have a more constructive dialogue. the answer has been clear no moscow to the us that the visit of high representative bordello to you mediate and offend the european union missa borrell and the on the other hand made a fool of himself last week you must go by his actions he made a mockery of the ambition of the e.u. to play a major role in the world stage the catalan leaders have been sentence from 9 to 13

years in prison for our nation our friend. we have that the double standard applied by do you undermines its global credibility as a defender of freedoms do you cannot go around the world commanding receive that does not apply to chelsea imus happy as anybody else to sound out for anybody's rights including know how nice but let's be honest about this and he's officious and see immigrants racist on maybe 4 percent of the support and we wouldn't be discussing him after all if he'd been arrested anywhere else other than in or also now one of the european euro m.p.'s you just heard told us later that some politicians have a vested interest in seeking confrontation with russia. by doing so unfortunately it's her ongoing campaign and so i do european union i think in many ways true the

military industrial complex which is sort of holds the enemy in order to justify your much more secured so it's e.u. and we have this narrative of supposedly european guy use whatever they are that we're supposed to bring them to the rest of the worlds i'm not russia. which is obviously nonsense i don't think i regret the fact that it does reflect it deteriorating relationship but there are certainly elements many elements inside me or people who are happy to play a sort of energy russian current and we are seeing the us increasingly so now. campaigners in britain are demanding answers from police chiefs over the death of a black man the day after his arrest marty shouted woods dust he spoke to the family of muhammad hassan yousef my looking at. him he was me he was always know. when 11 by my actual

guy me was the older cousin and you know he was you know by the whole family and he has not the whole now light 24 year old mohammed mohamed has son was arrested at home in cardiff on friday the 8th of january he was suspected of breaching the peace the us or at least added the next morning without charge then after arriving back at his house in newport rhode he passed away in his sleep his family and lawyers allege it was due to serious injuries from the time spent in custody why did he die. because. you know because it will who was it go in you. all we know. that. you know he looked. away and he went home to rot and i

don't want again not to. go on how following muhammad's death hundreds took part in protests over successive nights in cardiff they demanded the release of c.c.t.v. and party of on footage from officers at cardiff bay police station many held black lives matter banners and compared the case to that of george floyd the 46 year old black man killed while being arrested in minneapolis in the usa back in may he came out with bruises and cuts to his body and to his face this is a death of a young healthy lac who was arrested by the police during his detention he came into contact with 52 police officers and within hours he died it is absolutely right so it should be good in the same context as george floyd this is not unusual in a black community the forces say that early findings indicate no misconduct issues

and no excessive force but have referred themselves to the independent office to police conduct as part of the investigation c.c.t.v. and body one video has already been and will continue to be examined this will assist in establishing an understanding the events that took place early findings by the force indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force we are aware of the extensive reporting on social media but due to the ongoing investigation referral we are mabel to common any further this fades one month on the questions surrounding mohammed stethem remain unanswered. the trust between the police and the community appears to be at an all time why the official report when it comes could change all that but until then this family's campaign for justice continues to edward starsky r t u k. r just about 33 minutes that's when i will be back with another full and fresh look at your news this is art international glad to have you with us.

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