in the morning here in moscow top stories in the u.k. today head of the parliamentary health committee. as prime minister reveals the country is going to need. all over again and. britain also defends new laws with 10 year jail terms coming in 10000 rivals. coming from states with. failed. contentious border the. 3 countries. and

germany extends its long. fears grow new strains there could start falling infection rates at the moment 3rd wave of the. morning this is. here live from our world news center in russia 1st the british prime minister boris johnson has warned of the emergence of coronavirus mutations that could force people he said to a knock themselves all over again. i think we're going to have to get used to the idea that revalidate in the in the autumn as we as we come to place these new variants or meantime studies show the u.k.'s astra zeneca job offers limited protection against new coronavirus variants but some researches insisted it will

deal with the worst effects at least of the mutation hopefully stop death it comes as the number of infections edges towards 4000000 with almost 115000 deaths while the head of the u.k.'s parliamentary health committee admitting to mishandling the covert response jeremy hunt said that above all they should have reacted quicker as a country we have not got everything right in our pandemic handling we need to learn lessons and the biggest lesson of all is that in a pandemic you have to act faster than the virus so extremely tough new measures for travelers to the u.k. will also come into force on monday it legal experts including top u.k. judges though of heavily criticised the government's move to propose to jail arrivals who lie about their travel history or quarantine plans. for controversial regulations in parliament than. 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 actually a ridiculous thing for the sector a 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 coach go by all means give them a shine does mr hancock really think that nondisclosure of a visit to portugal is worse than the large number of violent firearms offenses where sexual offenses involving minors for which the maximum is 7 years. coach red list refers to $33.00 covert hotspots including brazil and south africa which is registered a highly infectious new strain of the coronavirus british nationals returning from those nations are going to have to quarantine a government approved hotels controversially significant expense to themselves for 10 days we put it up for debate. 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 and we've not had the proper current aid but now we've got to do is absolutely guarantee that it would not conditionals our borders we absolutely have to make sure that people are all this this lesser so i did recover from up with current state and. proceed through so greg come true it's all right if you look at lists you could argue there are some machines and though you could argue that most own properties which should be only are x. 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 when they've been jewelry that foreign basics i don't think that's the reasonable thing to take the wrong paper to be almost it's probably is probably government and not all of us are critics that. we've had just a very astute sense of this whole estate from

a government they were going to rule katzenberg is wrong there are many other things which are going to wearing those folks that are tending round and saying that school should go back that people should be what have failed to persuade the british government what annoys me at the moment the only thing that's not locked down is the borders the government's constantly changing the rules because the reality is very hotly viral there are 3 which i should never rule soon and in march last year well we know lot on countries in the world who are a lot faster because they focus only on the medical measures we have in this country have given up our democracy giving up our freedom we are now grown by medical experts and the only way for getting out of that is stopping people coming to the country from red zones and quarantining them properly thank goodness made explorers worth their weight. well cheap 3 pixar countries no hotels for them to go

through times only are so so good to be getting it was perfect i'm going you felt you want to suit being so there were a lot of people who the only way we could stop you variations from outside because of trade ease to shop the boss this does not. actually with respect we have found in the arguments of persuading people to go and all business they're not going to feel it's important next so despite the inoculation push one code vaccine center in london said to shut early because of a really low uptake parallel the u.k.'s nursing chief warning ethnic minority communities in particular have fallen for anti job myths kay partridge reports. the u.k. has the highest coronavirus death toll in europe and research says ethnic minorities are up to 3 times more likely to die but this vaccination harbin the multicultural area of happening in east london had to reduce its opening hours because minorities

are more reluctant to get the job due to mistrust of the government i was kind of on the sure with the amount of. put on this and so called. for go away a bit of a plenty of statistics reflects the mistrust a report on behalf of n.h.s. england claims that almost twice as many white overate is have had their 1st injection compared to elderly black britons while an overwhelming majority of black people said they were are likely to get a vaccine if offered want a race equality think tank says the lower numbers aren't about vaccine refusal that fear is often based on past experiences whether incidence of simple misunderstanding cultural confusion or in the case of some patients now trade fear of perceived hostility and racism but concern is also fueled by just information circulating online yet people were not going to have it various reasons what they've seen in social media you know they believe that this vaccine was made too

quickly. too quickly not enough to try them to really test the vaccine some believe officials have been too slow to shut down myths i can send you at least 10 videos in my whatsapp that have been circulated from since about last march with doctors other professionals you don't know where they've come from but all you can say about them is they're clearly and vax as and they claim to be protecting the minority community from something that will harm them and the u.k.'s medical chiefs say they're committed to combat ing misinformation and admits it's not community could do rail only if it's in the fight against the pandemic if one particular community remains vaccinated the virus will seek them out and it will go through their community like wildfire that's not something any of us wish to see which is why we're spending a lot of time and a lot of resources in this area. the big message i have for everyone is this virus

just doesn't care what ethnic background you're from it just doesn't care about the color of your skin or where you live in the world the virus does not discriminate the u.k. has made significant progress with its vaccine rollout which has been faster than most other countries but to see the program completed a key obstacle needs to be overcome convincing the most vulnerable communities to take the job of b.c. you see a continuing nation of the existence of the virus that people are already disproportionately affected by gets by this virus so it's 5 clean paulton at least in the communities only interest to make sure that they do get vaccinated is to stay safe to get them to that point i think and simply telling it this is in your own best healthy tracey's not a not because it was doesn't take account of dish huge history a lack of trust of these communities in the state and that's why they are need to work with trust the leaders on the ground churches holden isolations

movements in communities on the ground who are got credible alternative. communities. they will fall off. but the big news this morning donald trump 2nd impeachment trial in the u.s. senate and the 2nd day on wednesday that trying to prove that the former president incited the capitol hill riots on generally the 6th. donald trump surrendered his role as commander in chief and became the inciter in chief he didn't just tell them to fight like hell he told them how where and when this is dangerous this was a deliberate premeditated incitement to his base and when he ran out a nonviolent measures he turned to the violence he had every reason to know that they were armed that they were violent and that they would actually fight he did

nothing to stop it nothing to help us. by all accounts from the people that were around him he was delighted the trial evidence started on tuesday with a video montage then of the riots pro-democratic party media pundits were quick to voice extreme shock at seeing the footage. ah. 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 trump's defense team also presented a series of video showing democratic officials calling for trump's impeachment the clip stayed back to trump's 1st year in office designed to show therefore that they

would try to force him out long before the current charges because legal and political analysis on the kids history of these members of the evidence showed he 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 and almost acquires i military apparel was it 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 and why is that because many people suspect that internal polling indicate that the democrats realize that he might be stronger again if he were to run in 2024.

thanks for watching us today you have to do anything this morning and watch the clock isn't exactly 13 past the. plans to finally bring in a lot of minimal age of sexual consent after a hugely controversial story an alleged rape case shocking the nation coming out. joining me every day on the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to the world of politics. i'm sure i'll see you then. is your media a reflection of reality. in

a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation or community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is right. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the death. or a mate in the shallows. germany's extending its lot down to march now despite of falling infection rates chancellor merkel agreeing with local councillors that new variants opposing

a dangerous threat. deserve the standard little bit there is a risk of a 3rd wave that we must fight and we can only do so if the incidence rate comes down significantly so that health authorities has regain control over the virus and can trace the patient contacts lock down in its broadest sense has been extended here in germany through until the 7th of march the german chancellor angela merkel had wanted that day to be the 14th of next month but has ceded some ground there now it does seem like this meeting between the chancellor and the heads of the 16 states that make up germany was another fraught affair they all have be during this pandemic but we heard from. the head of the state of nature in the southwest of germany who described the chancellor as the particularly willing to concede. ground the federal government doesn't seem interested in talking to now 10 eason steps people are broke enough to months in lock down. german chancellor

angela merkel has ceded ground not just on the date either with one of the biggest moves that we've seen is that the reopening of schools kindergartens and day care will now be put directly in the hands of the states in which those schools are what that means in some states like saxony. and hester a school could be back as soon as monday next week there's also moves when it comes to hairdressers which is good news for the likes of myself we've started to look a little shaky during this lockdown from the 1st of march headdresses will be able to reopen with some caveats in place there will be certain hygiene requirements masks having to be worn these type of things and limit on the number of people in shops now what did come out as well is an all important figure this is 35 per

one 'd 100000 that's where it has to get 35 cases per 100000 of population if the week long indices the 7 day indices gets to that point then we could see museums galleries of the establishment opening up including non-essential retail what is not on that list is restaurants and bars for in-house dining they will remain closed certainly until the current lockdown as it set out ends on the 7th of march angle of merkel despite watch as she was accused of has conceded quite a bit of ground here the last time she did that was back in the autumn of last year and it was followed by a spike in coronavirus cases there will be a lot of attention paid to the numbers to the figures once things start opening up to make. sure that we don't get back to the point. the french government is playing

to introduce a minimum age of sexual consent after courts heard harrowing final arguments in the case of a french minor allegedly raped by $25.00 fighters the case has sparked a public outcry coming after a string of child abuse controversies in the country charlotte reports this morning . it's a case that has shocked france to its core this was brought by the family of a woman who says that between the ages of 13 and 15 she was raped repeatedly by around 20 firefighters now they demanded that they had justice for their daughter off the previous investigations by the courts said downgraded the rape allegations to consensual sex. and then worried me a very large by this process because fulton xena's justice has despised us we no longer have any confidence in the law i think that julie's kane's may have been

significant in its own way because for several years now i have been fighting to make this case known to open a criminal case and heard from many that now thanks to this case people are not afraid to talk about such things and take legal action julie and her family now have to wait for the supreme court hearing front's to have a judgement on her story is one that runs deep in french society for weeks now front says been mired in controversy surrounding its relationship with sex and children mud has been flung at people in positions of authorities accusing them of incest child rape or of knowing about these allegations and failing to do anything about them.

a recent poll suggested that one in 10 french people had been the victim of sexual abuse within the family setting that means around 6700000 people in france could have been sexually abused in that type of setting now the french government has try to grapple with the chickens coming home to roost to fear we should do everything we can to stop the violence against our children and must punish these criminals for their past acts and prevent any repeat offenses they have been cause for a minimum age of consent for aunts and these have been increasing in recent years

. to have a legal system that forces judges to consider issues of coercion and possible consent on the part of the child when considering a true case the judges do this every day because they are obliged to do this by law if we open up the french criminal code we will understand how to define incest or abuse of a small child now in january a new bill was proposed to tighten the country's laws when it comes to sexual abuse of children no if adopted this law would mean that any sexual relations with a child under the age of 13 would be a criminal offense fronts that those spots croix is of not enough from some quarters it is necessary that any sexual act committed on to person the from minor under 15 by an adult constitutes sexual violence then we distinguish whether there is penetration in which case it is 3 and the there is nothing to ration it is

sexual assault in a quickly shifting situation the government has no vow to make any sexual predator ation committed by an adult on a 15 year old child a young girl a crime however it's not the 1st time the francaise try to do this back in 2018 following public court. nation after there were 2 cases that involved men accused of having sex with the 11 year old girls it pledged to do the same but that failed it was watered down when a government report concluded it would result in an assumption of guilt meaning france remains the only country in the e.u. not to have an official age of consent in shrines in the law even if that does change for many it would have come to late to offer them protection from sexual predators jollity will ski ati paris. let me tell you next about a feud that split star for the new york times after

a veteran award winning report was forced for repeating racist language 67 year old donald mcneil jr had been a science reporter and worked for the times for 4 decades but ravel last month in a scandal that grew over an instant in 2019 seems 6 toodles who'd been on a trip to peru organized by the paper accused him of repeating a racist word used against black people while it in apology admitted using the slur when quote discussing video in which such a word had been used he called it an act of extraordinarily bad judgment the new york times condemned the reporter's behavior but in a twisted leaked exchange from a facebook group of current and former employees suggesting many disagreeing with the firing we do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent might be the most racist statement i've ever read he demeans braces why didn't the new skill do far more to defend and protect the job of a longtime times employee one who at times

a tireless heroic work on behalf of the killed to help improve pay and conditions for all n.y.t. 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 we discussed the story with r.t. host chris hedges who did used to work at the paper. 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 are together and dean initially judged that it was a poor judgment call but it wasn't race and 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 as a white person he should not have uttered but that was dean's initial judgment and then there was blowback there hurt our full kind of cancel culture especially among

the liberal elites there 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. things looking from us so far this thursday from a kevin though in the team thank you for watching our channel international don't get out see the color any of us social media as well it's. on the clock for you they'll moment as well i have to say it's have a great day and plans to check in it.

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welcome to the alex salmond show from scotland with a look at the future of america last year for apologist professor wade davis caused a sensation and rolling stone magazine but he predicted the fall of a better after seeing was in the trump presence a symptom of a much deeper malays in today's show i talked to wade davis and ask him whether president biden and vice president harness can stem the tide of history the force that as we know with your tweet should have males of your messages thank you very

much indeed out for we've had a tremendous response to our show last week on vaccines a vitus on public health with over 600000 views on facebook now issue a featured professor the professor heidi burns there were so many messages in response to this interview that it's really hard to choose but here are just a few new roberson says this is great they had a clear useful and informative explanation of vaccine issues from dublin followed by the video of your shooting how do you brightens your because aren't they and interesting questions too for the interviewer few excess grease interview exactly the information we need just one interview with great osu most days i would trust how do you burns with my life he's a man of great integrity when you meet him you decade nice instead of t. and to this maybe hagan's makes a really important point when she said there's a need for mosques at work but accommodate deaf people who lead preet. they arrest

has moved on to vaccines and whether any are being disposed of at the end of working days and brought a boy says my daughter's boyfriend is a g.p. an edge of and yesterday gave for unused office to entity patients l.w. says this is exactly what's happening to the news doses where my husband works given to staff of patients even have a list of people who might be able to come in at very short notice as appropriate at the end of the day within the north those who should go in the bin well that's great news for us all now which alex he's interviewing renowned anthropologist we think he's with there was welcome back to the simon show thanks very much alex i'm delighted to be here with you with can we revisit after school which caused such a sensation last year in the rolling stone where you postulated was in the trump presidency the end of the american era no drugs gone by didn't send a new president.