z. office is going undercover as 6 workers and customers to fight 6 trade. the head of the u.k.'s parliamentary health committee and mitt's mishandling the response as prime minister boris johnson reveals the country will need to vaccinate all over again in the fall. as britain defends draconian new laws with 10 year jail terms or massive 10000 pounds fines for arrivals who lie about coming from states with high coping grapes or fail to quarantine it but that issue up for debate. in the big issues that we should treat these people not you came from countries 3 countries notice goes. also this hour germany extends its lock down to march as fears grow new covert strains could stop falling infection rates in the country sparking

a 3rd wave of the pandemic. and donald trump's senate impeachment trial date 2 democrats submit video evidence to boost their case that the former president incited last month's capital riots a claim backed by pro-democratic media. watching arts international coming to you live from the russian capital this and every hour welcome to the program. mutating strains of code means britain's will have to get shots all over again this year the warning coming from prime minister boris johnson. i think we're going to have to get used to the idea of. revenge for the 2. as we as we come to a place. almost 4000000 have now been infected in the country with almost 115000 deaths the worst toll in europe and the last day authorities have extended

doorstep testing across the country with volunteers now going door to door to check whether or not people have the disease a study showed the u.k. is astra zeneca job offers only a limited protection against new coronavirus variants but some researchers want to continue use of the shot arguing it helps protect against the worst effects of the mutations. it comes after they had of the parliamentary health committee said the code response had been mishandled jeremy hunt added that above all the government 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 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 to jail arrivals who lie about

their travel history or quarantine plans health secretary announced the controversial regulations and parliament anyone who lies on the passenger locator form and tries to conceal that they've been in the country already this in the 10 days before arrival here will face a prison sentence of up to 10 years actually a ridiculous thing for the sick to state for health to say we're really going to lock people up to 10 years being dishonest about the shot they've been to coach who by all means give them a shot does mr hancock really think that nondisclosure of a visit to portugal is worse than the large number of violent forearms offenses were sexual offenses involving minors for which the maximum is 7 years. the red list refers to $33.00 covert hotspots including brazil and south africa which have registered highly infectious new strains of the corona virus british nationals returning from those nations will have to quarantine government approved hotels at significant expense to themselves for at least 10 days we put that 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 letter says i did recover from our current state and. $33.00 so who would rather come true it's where if you look at lists you could argue there are some machines and though you could always go to sochi which should be only works 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 whether they've been showing that foreign face it 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 terror groups that. we've had just as various food gentles this whole estate from the government they were going to rule katzenberg is wrong there are many other things which are actually going to wearing those flows 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 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 we'll show should know who will soon in march last year will they know lockdown 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 ruled 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 she 3 picks out countries now who chose for them to go through college and are going to be here so it's so good to be getting it was for our great new full democracy being so there were a lot of people who the only way we could stop you variations from outside because the trade is to shut the box this does not actually actually with respect we have found in the arguments of persuading people to go and all the places they're not going to do it despite the united nation push one coed maxime center in london's shut early because of quote really low uptake the u.k. is nursing chair forms ethnic minority communities in particular have fallen for anti job myths are to escape our church has the details. 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 happy 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 one assured them out of this is they're put on the same so-called media . to go away or be. 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 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. too quickly not enough try for them to really test the vaccine some believe officials have been too slow to shut down on t.v. x. myths i can send you at least 10 videos of 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 vaccines 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 right. vaccinated and 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. you see a continuation of the existence of the virus that people are already disproportionately affected by yes by this virus so if i clean cotton at least in the communities only dressed to make sure that you get vaccinated days to stay safe to get them to that point i think simply telling it this is even your own best healthy jessi's not a not because it was doesn't take account of dish huge history

a lack of trust to lead communities in the mass fired elete a word with leaders on the ground sure she's holding nice ations moving little scene communities on the ground who are all credible alternative. communities. who want to follow. france's highest court has heard a harrowing final arguments in the case of a french minor known as julie allegedly raped by 20 firefighters the decision on the case that sparked a public outcry is set to be delivered next month we spoke to julie's mother who says the trial is a pivotal moment. and there we are very worried by these process because for 10 years 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 i've heard from many that now things to these case people are not afraid to talk about such things and take legal action. juries case is just one of many child abuse controversies that have horrified the country millions of french people say they have experienced sexual violence in their family numerous high profile french celebrities have also been accused of child abuse and activists are outraged at the country still doesn't have a minimum age of sexual consent. reports. for weeks now front says been myatt in controversy surrounding its relationship with sex and children much has been flung at people in positions of authority is accusing them of incest child rape or of knowing about these allegations and failing to do anything about of.

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 the type of setting that the french government has try to grapple with the chickens coming home to roost to face quality 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 that have been

cause for a minimum age of consent in france and these are feeling increasingly in recent years. because she doesn't want to pay attention to what's going on as though it is 15 and consented to incest incest is a risk we have the statistics revealing a terribly high number of the isms this time politicians deal with this system of impunity for acts of sexual violence against minors we still have a legal system in the form. the challenge even if the case of. abuse of an infant. now in january a new bill was proposed to tighten the country's laws when it comes to sexual abuse of children now if adopted this law would mean that any sexual relations with a child under the age of 13 would be a criminal offense they were fronts that those sports croix is of not enough from

some quarters. i think this issue is cultural for many years all this has been happening in families but hasn't been publicly exposed or in fact everyone is keeping silent from the families involved in says to social institutions including detroit education authorities even parliament and the state as a whole due to this silence this institutions do exist any victim of abuse is even institutions whose there is in the press or who has power and control over the victim we have a large number of abuse cases and we need to tackle that in a quickly shifting situation the government has now vowed 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 condemnation after there were 2 cases that involved men accused of

having sex with 11 year old girls pledged 'd 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 but does change for many it would have come late to have offered them protection from sexual predators so much even skate. altie paris. donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial in the u.s. senate entered a 2nd day on wednesday democrats are trying to prove that the former president in side of the capitol hill riot 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 on 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 of the riots and pro-democratic party media were quick to voice extreme shock 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 the video it stopped everyone in their tracks there was silence in the chamber. trump's defense team also presented a series of videos showing democratic officials calling for trump's and peach meant a clip state back to trump's 1st year and office designed to show they were trying to force him out long before the current charges got legal and political analysis on the case where the haven't and 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 wisit tie ready for arrests and helmets already anticipating what they were going to do prior to donald trump saying in fact 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 moment that actually caused these seemingly otherwise erstwhile peaceful people to do what they did they're going to say that she should have known better than to rhetoric the volume the intensity is the timing everything but the words themselves and what's also interesting is that the democrats have been expurgated and bowdlerized from their initial evidence the portion of donald trump saying be peaceful do not harm do no harm and 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. still had angela merkel extends coverage restrictions in the country even though the infection rates falling i'll tell you why after this part. of. the reason to doing this study and the reason it's. those controversial and still important is that it demonstrates the power of social situations and playing roles that can lead healthy good ordinary people to do really bad takes.

one else chose seemed wrong when all quotes just don't hold. any new role yet to shape out these days to come out ahead and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. join me every thursday on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. welcome back germany is extending its lockdown to march to spite a falling infection rate chancellor merkel agreed with local governors that new

code would bury and supposing dangerous threat. deserve the standard little there is in receive a 3rd wave that we must fight and we can only do so we think incidence rate comes down significantly so that health authorities his 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 pull out nate in the southwest of germany who described the chancellor is not particularly willing to concede ground the federal government doesn't seem interested in talking about any easing steps people are broken after

a month in lockdown 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 a move 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 $35.00 per

100000 that's where it has to go. $35.00 cases per 100000 of population if the week long indices the 7 day indices gets to that point then we could see museums galleries well the establishment opening up including non-essential retail what is not all not 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 what 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. a machine or

a higher firm and northern ireland expose the absurdity of post spreads at trade rules as it now has to clear any dust soil or other organic material from equipment before sending it to the next customer and mainland u.k. the company had safely rented out vehicles for 40 years without having to do the so-called soil tasks but now forced time consuming steam cleaning after each client in the northern ireland is part of the u.k. organisations transport operations manager describe the drawn out new procedures. it is it's very difficult to know obviously you know we never had to do any of this before and so it sort of increased our timescales for bring in starts across from g.-d. the way it works we have to arrange for an inspector to go to the location where the equipment is to carry out the inspection and if they find you know any any sort of particles or any motor anything on the vehicle they can protect you refused to issue a ticket to bring it across on the ferry to enter northern ireland you know that there could be sort of particles of mud particles on the right but the lorry is not

does not actually have to be inspected it's just the track to ask inspector can tell you so i could just pick up the phone you know made a phone go to a lawyer you got to go so it could have on the back of the seat no matter the buyer you know either the signal tomorrow morning whereas now we have to sort of give them a good bit of notice to be able to go into the supplier that they can ration everything down and then get up to the court to present the declaration that is wrong. and still brussels says the u.k. it's not doing enough to implement checks on goods moving between northern ireland and mainland u.k. and once more border entry posts even though new polls find almost half of all u.k. exporters are already struggling to meet the rule changes their bonds again says it's shooting up costs. one of the fred counsels of the charter is that your majestic says well you know if you were always or a lot of your men looking at different ways that we can make things easier. through

procedures to try to reduce the process that we have to do it the minute it is a lot of hard work it's a lot of time a lot of money for certain companies as well you know so we have to you have to log on and look at something to do so there's the bureaucracy side of things and as much as what we count on forward i don't think they will change anything in the near future i think possibly you know further down the line once things are started to run a little bit more smoothly there might be some corners that can be cut you know and some of the bureaucracy can be moved or taken away but i'm not you know i wouldn't really sort of in the near future at all. if you would has seemingly split staff at the new york times after a veteran award winning reporter was forced out for repeating racist language 67 year old donald mcneil jr had been a science reporter and worked for the times for 4 decades last month

a scandal grew over an incident from $21960.00 didn't who had been on a trip to peru organized by the paper accused him of repeating a rhesus word used against black people now in an e-mail apology he admitted using the slur when quote discussing video in which such a word had been used and he called it an act of extraordinarily bad judgment the new york times condemned the reporter's behavior posting a staff memo saying we do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent but at least exchange 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 read he did means all races 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 guild 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 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 who are together and dean initially judged that it was a poor judgment call but it wasn't racist 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 is a way person should not have altered but that was dean's initial judgment and then there was one back to her 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. was accurate and i

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