day started in the u.k. that the parliamentary health committee is mit's mishandling of the response as prime minister boris johnson reveals the country will need to vaccinate all over again. as britain defends or code the new laws with 10 year jail terms or massive 10000 foot arrivals who lie about coming from states with grades or who failed to put it up for debate. on the big issues that we've suffered from these people coming into the united kingdom. 3. trees now this goes for. germany extends to march fears grow new code straight to stop falling infection rates at the moment

sparking maybe a 3rd wave of the pandemic. impeachment trial enters day with the democrats trying to bolster their case that the former u.s. president incited a noose and direction. just to midday here good afternoon and this is our take on kevin 0 in with your world news live from our new center here in russia 1st mutating strains of means britain's will all have to get shots again probably by autumn says premier boris johnson. i think we're going to have to get used to the idea that rebound in the autumn as we as we come to place these new variants almost 4000000 have no been infected with almost 115000 deaths that's the worst toll in europe in

the last day authorities have extended doorstep testing to across the country volunteers now going door to door to check whether or not people got the disease it says studies show the u.k.'s astra zeneca job offers only limited protection against new coronavirus variance and some are searchers on a slightly broader note want to continue using the shot arguing it does at least help protect against the worst effects of the mutations it comes to after the head of the parliamentary health committee admitted mishandling the coded response jeremy hunt said above all they should have acted 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 then to try and do that extremely tough new measures for travelers to the u.k. will also come into force on monday legal experts including top u.k. judges have heavily criticised the government's move though to jail arrivals who

lie about their travel history or quarantine plans health secretary coke and the controversial regulations in parliament 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 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 shine does mr hancock really think that non-disclosure 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. hancock's 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 will have to quarantine a government approved hotels at significant expense to themselves for 10 days you

put the idea 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 we've not had the proper car intake but now what 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 less i did recover from our current state and i know personally 3 so greg from treats or 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 where they've been jewelry that foreign basics i don't think that's the

reasonable thing to take the road 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 at all many things which are actually going to wearing those clothes that are turning 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 is 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 already very rich they should know who will soon and in march last year will they know locked down countries in the world who talk a lot faster because they focus only on the medical measures we 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 we're going to go through times going to your soap so good to be getting it was perfect and when you fell you want to suit being stoked there were a lot of people who jet the only way we could stop you variations from outside because trade east you've shot the box 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 do it. despite the collation push one covert vaccine center though in london's shall turn lead because of a quote really low uptake the u.k.'s nursing chief warning ethnic minority communities in particular a fallen frantic job myths escape partridge explains. 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 the so-called media for. africa 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 over 8 years 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 are now keen to have it various reasons what they've seen in social media you know they believe that this vaccine was made too quickly you know not too quickly not enough try for 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 to vaccinate 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 it'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.v.a. you see a continuing nation of the existence of the virus that people already disproportionately affected by gets by this virus so if i clean cotton and it's in the communities only dressed to make sure that they do get vaccinated days to stay safe to get them to that point i think simply telling them this is even 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 the communities in the state and that's why they'll need to work with the trustee leaders on the ground should it she's holding nice ations movements in communities on the ground who have got credible alternative and trusted by communities. they will follow. donald trump 2nd impeachment trial in the u.s. senate and to the 2nd day wednesday democrats are trying to prove that the former president incited the capitol hill riots on january the 6th. donald trump surrendered his role as commander in chief and became the insider 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 violent 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 of the riots pro democratic party media pundits were quick to voice extreme shocked at seeing the footage. 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 while in return trams to friends team also presented

a series of videos showing democratic officials calling for tribes impeachment but those clips dating back to trump the 1st year in office designed to show therefore that they were trying to force him out long before the current charges he got legal and political analysis where is the evidence showed you would ever 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 quiet shy military apparel was it 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 charges that have been alleged against the president are that his words caused this

event his words but for his words this would not have happened that his words were the incendiary moments that actually caused these seemingly otherwise erstwhile peaceful people to do what they did they're going to say that he should have known better than the rhetoric the volume the 10 cities is the timing everything but the words themselves and what's also interesting is that the democrats have expurgated and bowdlerized from their own. show evidence the portion of donald trump saying be peaceful do not harm do no harm if that part was removed 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.

line although still a lot more to come how you can stick around after the break than extends destructions even though the infection rates falling why coming up.

join me every 1st week on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. again as we saw in the before the break germany is extending its locked oh no till march despite a falling infection rate chancellor merkel agreed with local governors that new code variants pose 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 can be patient contacts locked 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 been during this pandemic but we heard from the ilo who's the head of the state of rhineland pollinate in the south west of germany who described the chancellor is not particularly willing to concede ground the federal government doesn't seem interested in talking about any zinn's taps people are broke enough to months and lock down. german chancellor angela merkel has ceded ground not just on

the date either week 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 moot 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 limits on the number of people in shops now what did come out as well is an all important figure this is 35 per 'd 100000 that's where it has to get 35 tases 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 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 that point. you know peter over there with his unkempt locks them but looking pretty good nonetheless now this comes the

bigger picture europe snorkel nation rollout is plagued by lengthy delays now the e.u. chief admitting for the 1st time that the blocks response is fallen short notably in its lead to prove the vaccines. well don't know if this is an attack just not a fact is that today we're not where we want to be in converting the virus we were late in granting authorization we were to all to mystic about mess 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 so. european commission president insisting to the blocks joint vaccine purchasing scheme was right world health organization advisor told us inoculation efforts do need to be coordinated across borders. 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 solidarity has called upon all countries to ensure that this global public good the 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 i think 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 a lot in the countries but i think these are the countries and european union in general need to plan for forest population to be covered by a certain period of time 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 response measures thanks to the story about a few displayed star for the new york times after a veteran award winning reporter was forced out for repeating racist language is name 67 year old donald mcneil jr that he'd been a besides reporter a work for the times for 4 decades well known but last month all unravel the scandal grew over an incident dating back to 2019 then 16 bit on a trip to peru organized by the paper accused him of repeating a racist word used against black people while in an e-mail apology he admitted using the slur when quote discussing video in which a word had been used he called it an act of extraordinarily bad judgment the new york times responding condemning the reporter's behavior posting a staff member indeed saying we do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent but it leaked exchanges then from a facebook group of current and former employees suggests many disagreed with the

firing. we do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent might be the most racist statement i've ever rate he demeans braces 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 to tieless heroic quoque 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 were harmed by his actions. chris hedges used to work at the paper. i think we should remember that executive editor of the new york times is. african-american dean baquet very fine reporter in iraq are together and being 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 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 there's a very powerful 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. as accurate and i think this was probably overly judgmental and too severe. french government playing to introduce a minimum age of sexual consent of the courts heard how rowing final arguments in the case of a french minor allegedly raped by $25.00 is the case a spot to public outcry coming out for a string of child abuse controversies in the country shiela dubin ski reports. it's a case that has shocked frons 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 worried by this process because fulton jenas 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 here in france 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 much 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 to front 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 the tree 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 spot kreutzer of not enough from some quarters it is necessary that any sexual act committed on the 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 penetration 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 order. the nation after there were 2 cases that involved men accused of having sex with 11 year old girls they pledged to do the same but that

failed it was watered down when a government report concluded it would result in the assumption of guilt meaning front so means the only country in the e.u. not to have an official age of consent in shrines and the law even if but does change for many it would have come to late to have offered the better protection from sexual predators so much even ski altie paris. who is worth his looking so far this thursday check it out to dot com run across social media for everything else we're talking about there of course to have your say as well if you fancy it's always good to hear from you now though for me kevin 0 in on the rest of the team behind the newsroom of a great. show seems wrong why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to shape

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