in the day's headlines the head of the u.k.'s parliamentary health committee admits mishandling the covert response prime minister boris johnson reveals the country will need to vaccinate all over again in the fall. the british government threatens to jail people for up to 10 years if they lie about travelling to cope at hotspots we put the issue up for debate. on the big issues that we should train people could we not you. know to chose. also this hour germany extends its lock down to march as new viral strain sparked fears of a 3rd wave of the pandemic. and donald trump's senate impeachment trial rolls on with democrats submitting video evidence to boost their case that the

former president incited last month's capital right into. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teach in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. new mutations of 1000 are likely to require a complete review x. nation of the british population the later this year that's the warning coming from prime minister boris johnson. i think we're going to have to get used to the idea of. revenge. as we as we come to a place where it's. almost 4000000 cases have been confirmed in the u.k. since the start of the pandemic and nearly 115000 people have died the worst toll in europe the country is now accelerating its track and trace scheme with volunteers going door to door to check whether people have the disease a study showed the u.k.'s astra zeneca job offers only limited protection against

new corona virus 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 the head of the parliamentary health committee said the cogia 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 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 criticized the government's threat to jail or arrivals who lie about their travel history or quarantine plans secretary mankad announced the controversial regulations and parliament anyone who lies on the passenger locator form and tries to conceal that they've been in a 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 stake their 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 showing does mr hancock really think that non-disclosure 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 hot spots including brazil and south africa which have registered a highly infectious new strains of the corona virus but its nationals returning from those nations will have to quarantine government approved hotels at their own expense for at least 10 days to 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 hotspot countries we've not had the proper testing at the airports and we've not had the proper car intake 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 less i did recover from our current state and. proceed through so greg from treats or if you look at lists you could argue there are some machines and though you could argue that. the owner 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. just a very astute dentist 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 folks 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 hard to try to clean her room there are already very low should know who will soon. hear always know lockdown countries of 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 she's 3 countries now who chose for them to go through college going to your soap so good to be getting it was perfect and great you felt you want to soothe you can tell you the worry

a lot of people who get the only way we could stop you variations from outside because jade is to shut the box this is not talk i just wished i was actually with respect we've found in the arguments of persuading people to going fast and all the places they're not going to do it despite the an occupation push in the country one covered vaccine center and london's shut early due to low uptake and the u.k.'s nursing chief has said ethnic minority communities in particular have fallen for anti-tobacco 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 on the sure with the amount of. put on the some so called.

for 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 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. 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

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 to 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 in 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. you see a continuing nation of the existence of the virus that people are already disproportionately affected by gas by this virus so if i clean cotton at least in the communities only dressed to make sure that they do get vaccinated days to stay safe or 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 of the lack of trust of the communities in the state now it's fidelity to work with trusted leaders on the ground sure she's holding nice ations movements in communities on the ground who are got a credible alternative now trusted by communities. they will follow. the

highest court in france has heard harrowing the final arguments in the case of a french minor known as chile 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 very worried we're very worried by this process because fulton jena'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 i've heard from many that now things to these case people are not afraid to talk about such things and take legal action. as julie's mother mentioned her case is not isolated millions of french people say they have experienced sexual violence in their families numerous high profile french celebrities have also been

accused of child abuse and activists are outraged that 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 up out 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 i think 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 the supreme increasing in recent years. the country doesn't want to pay attention to what's going on as though it is $15.00 and it. is incest incest is a real scourge we have the statistics revealing

a terribly high number of the sims is time politicians deal with this system of impunity for acts of sexual violence against minors we still have a legal system of the force. judges to consider consent when the child even if the case deals with 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 fronts that those support kreutzer 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 in fact everyone is keeping silent from 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 in institutions whose theories in the press or who has power and control over the victim will 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 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 but does

change for many it would have come too 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 incited the capital siege on january 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 on 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 and pro-democratic party media pundits voiced their 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. trunk's defense team also presented a series of videos showing democratic officials calling for trunks and pitchman a clip state back to terms 1st air and office designed to show that they were trying to force him out long before the current charges they got legal and

political analysis on the case those are. 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 and almost a quantify military apparel wisit ties ready for arrests and elements 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 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 democrat. realize that he might be stronger again if you were to run in 2024. still had and while merkel extends code restrictions in germany even though the

infection rate is falling i'll tell you why for this.

join me every thursday on the alex song i'm sure i'll be speaking to get a feel of the world of politics or business i'm sure i'll see you there. welcome back germany is extending its lockdown until march to spite a falling infection rate chancellor merkel agreed with local governors that new code variants pose a severe threat. deserve the standard little bit there is a risk of a 3rd wave that we must fight and we can only do so we think incidence rate comes down significantly so that health authorities has regain control over the virus and can trace coded 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 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 easing steps people are broken after march 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 they 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 $35.00 per 'd 100000 that's where it has to go. it $35.00 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 open 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 sets 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 it 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 feud has seemingly split staff at the new york times after an award winning reporter was forced out for repeating racist language 67 year old donald me deal is a science reporter and worked for the times for 45 years but last month his reputation took a downturn or instant from $21960.00 didn't to have been on

a trip to peru organized by the paper accused him of repeating a racist word against black people in an e-mail apology he admitted using the slur when discussing a video in which such a word had been used and he called it an act of extraordinarily bad judgment new york times condemned the reporter's behavior posting a staff member saying we do not tolerate racist language or guard lists of intent but a link to 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 killed to help improve pay and conditions for all and whitey employees why is the focus in discussions like this almost always isn't ruling in the perpetrators life and not those who are harmed by his

actions we discussed the story with our 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 being unusually judged that it was a poor judgment call but it wasn't racist it wasn't he wasn't using a derogatory slur either directed at a person or a group of people it was the n. word which perhaps as a white person a should not have altered but that was dean's initial judgment and then there was one back there 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 too severe. that's

a wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of our favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook apps and reports. the reason for doing this study in the breeze and it's. those controversial and. important is that it demonstrates the trower of social situations and playing the roles that jane lead. good ordinary people to do really bad things.

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to the alex salmond show from scotland with a look at the future of america last year arts 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 presidency something that was of a much deeper the malays in today's show have

a tub to wade davis and ask him whether president biden and vice president harness can stand to tell you the fish story the sauce that as we know with your tweet should have meals of your messages thank you very much indeed out for we've had a tremendous response to rush through 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 very clear useful and informative explanation of vaccine issues from dublin followed by the video you're shooting how do you brightens your cars aren't they and interesting questions too for the interviewer felix said grace entity exactly the information we need just now i look will interview with great osu most days i would trust how do you burns with my life he's a man of creation take kristie when you meet him you'd recognize sincerity and

tooth maybe taken as makes a really important point when she said there's a need for mosques at work but accommodate deaf people who let preet. then us just 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 i'm used to assess to end of day patience l.w. says this is exactly what's happening to the news doses where my husband works given to staff or 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 with the aim that notices should go in the bin well that's great news for us all now over to alex who's interviewing renowned anthropologist we t.v.'s with there was welcome back to the chill thanks very much alex i'm delighted to be here with you welcome.