it world health organization scientist investigating the origins of covert 19 questions of the reliability of u.s. intelligence after washington says it wants to conduct its own probe in china. the european commission president admits the bloc was too late in authorizing covert vaccines as e.u. states struggle with supply shortages we heard from a w.h.o. advisor. so not a matter of race between countries who should get 1st of each block should get to earlier countries and the european union need to plan for a far east population to be covered by a certain period of time. germany extends its lockdown until march as fears grow that nuke over 1000 variants of 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. broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our team international on sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now a world health organization scientist is questioning of the reliability of u.s. intelligence on the origins of covert 19 after taking part in a source tracing mission in china jacqueline will discuss the developments with correspondent constantine. figure that is front and center to the story peter does share 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 now 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 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 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 the 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 to the chinese who a 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 code vaccine rollout in europe is being plagued by delays with the european commission president vanderlyn 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 that the doses audit would actually arrive on time so we must ask ourselves why and what lessons we can draw from it. while acknowledging that the e.u. overestimated its a production capacity vanderlei and the friend of the joint e.u. vaccine strategy as the white way of dealing with the pandemic we spoke to a w.h.o.

adviser who told us an occupation efforts need to be coordinated across the 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 vaccines all out in the countries but i think these are the countries and the 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 1000 pandemic a day to day 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 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 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 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 restaurants measures german chancellor angela merkel has agreed with local governors to extend the country's coronavirus lockdown until march that is despite a falling daily infection rate in germany but there are lingering fears that new crew coronavirus variants could undermine progress against the virus. put the word . we have made it clear once again to be that syrian measures will remain in place to quantify nonessential private travel and business should be freed from and equal to work from home which also place until the 15th of march for the time being 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 and 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. diallo 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 and saying that people had been broken by the lockdown measures that were put in place while chancellor merkel did give some ground on a number of issues not just the the date in which 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 head dresses will be open again from the 1st of march there will be some requirements put in place though the big number that come out the all in. porton number seems to be $35.00 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. ceded 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 . donald trump's impeachment trial has entered its 2nd day 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 in 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. was 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 impeached the clips date back to trump's 1st year in office and supposedly prove that the

democrats were out for blood long before any charges had materialized here is some of the legal and political analysis that we have been hearing. 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 adorned some of them in almost a quantify military apparel was zip ties ready for arrest 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 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 again if you were to run in 2024 this is playing out along partisan lines very predictably so they don't have $67.00 votes is this really much to do about nothing but it would be a child to impeach johnstone deicide time he was in office he came with the. rushes will be a campaign in russia campaigned for him from day one. in so many different ways all never successful translucent men shut down. everywhere which is an incredibly dangerous precedent anybody who is on the left to anyone who is against imperialism in this country because we disapprove from the censorship for years in india so i think trump is happy. to censor group over sentient 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 science coverage of the covered $1000.00 pandemic but last month his reputation took a downturn several school students who went on a trip organized by the new york times in 200-1000 accused him of repeatedly making racist remarks in an e-mailed apology he explained that he did use a racial slur when discussing video in which such a word had been used he described it as an act of extraordinarily bad judgment now the new york times was quick to condemn its reporters behavior posting a staff memo saying we do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent but a leaked exchange from a facebook group of current and former employees suggests 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 race. 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 it there to focus in discussions like this almost always isn't ruling in the perpetrators life and not those who are harmed by his actions well it is not the 1st racism scandal at the new york times last year readers in staff complained about an op ed written by sen tom cotton saying trump should call in the troops against a black lives matter rioters opinion editor was forced to resign for allowing that to be published we discussed of the story with r.t. host chris hedges who previously worked at the new york times. well i think we should remember that the executive editor of the new york times is.

african-american dean baquet very fine reporter in iraq who are 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 you know either directed at a person or a group of people it was the n. word which perhaps as a white person a should not have altered but that was dean's initial judgment and then there was blowback other heard powerful 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 to say we're. coming up on the program 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 teacher national.

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yet to shape out does the advocate and it gets written it was betrayed. when so many find themselves worlds apart when just a look for common ground. welcome back this is our team international now russia has hit back at you lawmakers after claims that the european foreign policy chief was too soft on moscow during his recent trip foreign ministry spokeswoman marie at the heart of a accuse those politicians of throwing a tantrum and reveal a secret about how western partners when they fail to carry out a flogging they throw a tantrum the aim was to carry out that probably flogging which i think has been planned very thorough. well 50 new lawmakers have backed a motion to force out

a just for all over his trip he defended himself by also attacking russia over the visit at an e.u. parliamentary session but he's a deep disappointment and growing mistrust between duty union and russia i also wanted to test to do with russian sorry cheese interested in issues attempt to reverse did it did you audition as a lot for nations and sees do that you need to have a more constructive dialogue. dance. as in korea. no moscow abuse that the visit of high representative bordello to you mediate and offend the european union mr burrell 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 continent leaders have been sentence from 9 to

13 years in prison for international referendum we have that the double standard applied why do you undermine its global kriti belief he as a defender of freedom. do you cannot go around the world recruit commanding. that does not apply to imus happy as anybody else to stand up for anybody's rights including the found nice but let's be honest the facts and he's officious and see immigrants racist and maybe 4 percent of the supports and we wouldn't be discussing him after all if he'd been arrested anywhere else other than in a rush or the last year o m p that we heard from in that group 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 you anyway strip away the military industrial complex and sort of hold russia as the enemy in order to

justify what floor secured salaries you are we have this narrative of supposedly european guy us whatever they are that we're supposed to bring them to the rest of the world sound that russia isn't playing which is obviously nonsense i don't think i regret the fact that it does reflect a deteriorating relationship but there are certainly elements many elements inside who are happy to play a sort of energy russian courage that we are seeing thus increasing so no. campaigners in britain are demanding answers from the police chiefs over the death of a black man the day after his arrest artie's tried to edwards a doctor he spoke to the family of muhammad has none. you smiling at. me you always know. will lead by my actual going with you all are

going to let you know he was known by the whole family and he. whole you now lie 24 year old mahmoud mohammad was arrested at home in cardiff on friday the 8th of january he was suspected of breaching the peace but was released early 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 the go in you. all we know. that. you know he looked. away and he went home to write me when i woke up again not to. go on how following mohammed's death

hundreds took part in protests over successive nights in cardiff they demanded the release of c.c.t.v. and body 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 are and cuts to his body and to his face this is a death of a young healthy lack 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 black communities the forces say that early findings indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force but have referred themselves to the

independent office for 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 and referral we are mable to common any further at this stage one month on the questions surrounding mohammed's death remain unanswered and the trust between the police and the community appears to be at an all time low the official report when it comes could change all that but until then this family has campaigned for justice continues shadi edwards daschle r t u k. or that does a female be back in just a little more than 34 minutes with another full and fresh look at news international.

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is a boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss. in washington coming up tensions between the united states and china remain particularly in the tech front trying to run away is fighting back with a full report of johnson and johnson to show how it's worth to you that people might need an annual cobra 19 vaccine much like the annual boxing needed for the flu and you have to put your feet up from record highs that one day we'll discuss what's driving the poll but we have a lot to get to so let's get started. donald trump may be gone but the tension he created with china well that continues and at the heart of it all said china's technology giant walk away well now with a new administration in washington wa is reaching out to reboot its relationship with the united states at least trying to and what the u.s. government and maybe see the company c.f.o. released from custody in canada artie's.