and now 500 other c.e.o.'s in the s. and p. 500 like you know what that's a darn good. china . washington questions the findings of a world health organization probe into the origins of the. we've got live reaction coming right. on the program with measures firmly in place in the u.k. . 30 countries to quarantine for 10 days their own expense in selecting hotels but concerned it's going to be. on the price or free speech approach journalist. protests we get her take on what life's like for a reporter and. i feel that being conservative. now i'm very

into journalists. broadcasting live from moscow every hour of the day this is r t international pleasure to have your company my names you know me. china is accusing the u.s. international efforts in battling the virus like the rubber wrapped it over the findings of a recent world health organization probe into the origins of the virus in china washington is calling for more transparency from beijing is supported by the u.k. let's cross live now to our us. listen to us from new york good to see you take us through what america had to say about the w.h.o. investigation and the ramifications. so we've got the

scientific community trying to determine the origins of the coded 19 pandemic there was a team from the world health organization that was sent to woo han but we now have the biden administration in the white house questioning the results they see a bias and politics behind the missions findings this is what they said we have deep concerns about the way in which the early findings of the code 1000 best to gay soon were communicate and questions about the proofs is used to reach them now the new administration of joe biden reversed donald trump's decision to withdraw the united states from the world health organization but it seems like the narrative that the trumpet ministration pushed pushed is pretty well intact at this point we have they zhang hitting back and saying that it seems like the biden ministration is forgetting the decisions of its predecessor and that it has

a responsibility to reverse the isolation of the united states and the lack of confidence in the united states that emerged around the world during trump's administration this was the response from china what the u.s. has done in recent years has severely undermined multilateral institutions including the w.h.o. and gravely damaged international corporation uncovered 19 but the us acting as if none of this has ever happened is points in fingers at other countries who have been faithfully supports in the w.h.o. and at the moment so if with such a track record how can it win the confidence of the whole world. now the scientists in we traced 13 coded 19 strands and they suggest in their reports that covert 19 may have been previously undetected now their mission was subject to all kinds of politically charged attention there were accusations by

western officials that the chinese government was involved in some kind of cover up and the coverage in the western press seems to be about putting alleged pressure on beijing one particular story that was run by the new york times has been widely rebuked by people who were involved in the scientific probe take a listen this was not my experience on a double it's a mission as leader of animal environment working group i found trust and openness with my china come to reports we did get access to critical new digital throughout we did increase our understanding of likely spillover pathways we did build up a good relationship in the chinese international epidemic team allowing for heated arguments reflect a deep level of engagement in the room our quotes are intended lee to restate costing shadow over important scientific work. now the report from the world health organization covering the results of the scientific investigation showed

that this allegation was widely circulated by the trumpet ministration that somehow coded 19 was a leak from some kind of virus lab or something this is been completely debunked it simply is not the reality now the biden ministration is certainly not as shrill in its tone when it comes to china they are not exchanging the kind of heated allegations that we saw but it seems like the narrative overall that chinese officials cannot be trusted that the world health organization and international organizations have some kind of bias in favor of china is that we shouldn't trust them if they don't feed into the anti china narrative coming from washington this tone seems to still be there there is at this point perhaps a change in the shrillness of the words from u.s. officials but overall the anti china perspective and the belief that somehow china is responsible for coded $1000.00 seems to be well alive in the new administration taking us through the developments for us correspondent kill up and. well to

discuss the issue further let's welcome all into the program joseph gregory mahoney professor of politics at east china normal university always good to see you do you share the opinion joseph that the u.s. has gravely dummett international cooperation in tackling the pandemic. well it's absolutely the case the united states hyper politicized the pandemic. now it encourage unfounded and anti-scientific conspiracy theories demonize china and withdrew from the world health organization and that these actions in tandem with trumps america 1st. prove profoundly destructive to international cooperation but we should also note that perhaps no one has suffered more from this than the united states. furthermore while a different president might have done things differently america was not well prepared to deal with this at home socially economically and it so to show and still isn't consequently its capacity for real international leadership and

assistance would have been and remains. almost leads me to my 2nd question joseph the u.s. hasn't been part we should remember of the w.h.o. for quite some time. is it right is it proper for them to question the findings of the organization when they could've done a from inside but rather they're criticizing while leaving themselves not grouping . you know it's always fair to question this is a multilateral organization where question should be asked we know that biden will not go soft on china aims to compete we know that he has to play to american voters who are deeply suspicious of china we know that he's trying to rally allies in a new coalition to push back against china additionally questioning data is an unavoidable cost of having the u.s. back and. that's what we should have is whether this is a sincere and helpful question or is it just more politicising from washington my read is that real questions do remain however washington is still trying to exploit

them london shares america's concerns over the w.h.o. mission but other members of the international team disagree they say there was cooperation from the chinese side what do you make of the divergence. you know it's made the u.k. not only more independent from the e.u. has this forced it to make its current policy more responsive to washington in fact when it comes to geo strategic matters the u.k. and the us have been on the same page more or less since the 2nd world war 'd but with talk in recent days of lending moving to learn to embrace the american lead and assess the concept against china along with other recent developments with the u.k. need a good trade deal with us to survive the economic damage associated with rex and the pandemic with johnson needing to ingratiate himself with after his. patients with trump we can expect london to follow the in the nude ministration even more closely than just finally according to the scientists on the mission they did get

access to critical new data what else do you think the u.s. and britain are thinking there is to actually find their you know questions remaining regarding the virus was active much earlier and whether it was either unrecognized by the party these remains but in fact available evidence does not indicate either at this point nor does it suggest that iris emerged from a laboratory mistake the problem we face is that it's often practically impossible to pinpoint scientifically when and where an outbreak like this started and the best we can do is rule out unlikely scenarios and consensus building around ground with this means unfortunately that the outbreaks origins will probably remain that will lead to the politicization and demonization for a long time to come much appreciate your take on all the joseph gregory mahoney professor of politics had a china normal university thanks for your time thank you. but britain's prime minister barak johnson says he wants this current luck to be the country's last

however he couldn't guarantee it will be over any time soon a statement coming in a national t.v. address. because we can all be sitting out a road map seeing as much as we possibly can about the route to normality and even though some things are very uncertain because we want this lockdown to be the last well the backdrop to all of this are those new rules for travelers from a number of countries coming into force today it obliges them to quarantine for 10 days out their own expense pretty hefty bill at the end of it as well in selected u.k. hotels on arrival east l.a. is sides of the city's biggest airport in london he told me more earlier. today's the 1st day of new measures being brought to not see any travelers coming from the so-called red lace countries being forced to isolate soon the hotels the government

quarantine the hotels so upon a rival at airports like this one heathrow one of the busiest ignore the busiest airport in the world passengers will be taken through the airports by use specially assigned star they will go through special queues and checked in with their passports and then taken into buses and put into quarantine to 10 days now of course those countries that they're traveling from include countries where the so-called south african and brazilian strains of the corona virus are more prevalent and that policy controversial for a number of reasons people not being allowed to leave their hotel rooms they'll be tested twice when that there are perhaps most importantly they will have to bear the cost themselves up to 1750 pounds for a 10 day as stay in that state could extend longer if somebody tests positive for the virus while they are in the hotel now ito airport themselves saying that there

are some issues that really do need to be ironed out if this policy is to be implemented properly we have been working hard with the government to try to ensure a successful implementation of the policy from monday but some significant gaps remain in rio yet to receive the necessary reassurances now one of the concerns is that there aren't enough border force agents to see people through all the possible checks which of course could mean longer queues more people standing in close proximity and again those threats of things being apostate of the vaccine of the virus if you will being passed from passenger to passenger now another issue of course is what to do about people telling the truth about where they've been of course direct flights have been banned from certain. countryside passengers getting connecting flights and the government have implemented measures to find people even imprison them if they lie about where they are originally

traveling from but even so concerns have remained for some unions us that the safety of some of these measures to what extent a border for is going to be checking to be sure people have been noticed we're hearing a lot of concern from people who are concerned about encountering someone who has been in the red this country and hasn't declared it could they face abuse are they expected to detain them now there are some of the opposition benches for example the labor leader kissed ahmed who filled out these measures don't go far enough whereas of those on the government's own backbenchers the conservative backbenchers some m.p.'s who feel like these measures are somewhat draconian and they want to see them eased once the country of course gets back open and once the vaccine has been rolled out on a wide enough level. a spot is brewing within the european union after the block berated germany for closing its borders to austria the czech republic the

move by berlin was part of its battle to stop the spread of new variants of coronavirus but explanation didn't wash with its neighbors for weeks but there is minister president marcus soda hasn't missed a single opportunity to take a pot shot at her all these constant pejorative remarks and disgraceful and don't befits a minister president that's not the way to treat neighbors the truth is that the virus cannot be stopped by close borders i think it's wrong to return to europe with close boris' like we had in march 2020 we're battling the mutated virus on the borders with the czech republican or strip the e.u. commission should support us and not throw a spanner in the works with their cheap suggestions. meanwhile the introduction of border controls house cause must if traffic jams as you're seeing here at the german check from tear all of the restrictions which took effect on sunday german citizens and lorry drivers are allowed to enter germany provided they test negative

for corona virus they will still be quarantined for at least 10 days though on arrival political commentator john pretty small told me it's not realistic 'd to expect countries to act as one despite the ideals of the. piece of fiction you have the civil engineers who believe that we can be happy in union and make it into a single county eventually but it doesn't seem to work that we did in the media achieve unity in the sense that the different people in europe are still as different as they used to be the germans and the french and the french and the. and then they should go into these areas of the people to control their country their police and so on all this and this meat to build a european union that's really d.n.a. that's when you know mother they want. you know. that the basic thing is that we are different people and we have not changed. danger you need to if you want to go. ok so this story has got

a lot of people talking today to black lives moderate activists have reportedly been charged with harassment an attempted assault stems from footage which appears to show them attacking a conservative journalist who was covering a rally. i didn't badly there was such that she had another piece of the rug you could write her drug in our food courtesy the clerk was your brother your very truly she's a pushover you regarding the truth of your depth yeah that's right you're carrying it around like that as you can see with what had happened to me it is very trying times initially when i saw they were harassing other journalists there and videographers and i went to stand with them as well and they they wanted everybody to be turning off their cameras with our 1st amendment rights which is freedom to the press and also being a public space i kept my camera on and i said now this is public space and i'm

reporting the news so my camera will stay on and that's when they started attacking initially or being media and then the 2nd time they came around to attack me when they identified which media i was i feel that being conservative media is is just because now very physically threatening to journalists. was covering the rally when demonstrators identified her as a conservative reporter the journalist also claims nearby police ignored her calls for help no we have heard this before but what really sets of the parted a one point a protester even appears to be used enough pain in her face. now in order for true peace to occur you need to have people to have that simple discourse it's not it's not true peace when the other side is voices are shut off and so is it may give up a saga of unity or peace but it's act the detriment of you know $75.00 plus 1000000 americans who had voted and do support donald trump at the expense of

basically shutting their voices out so that is not true unity when you're taking out your opponent it's not a fair fight america is descending into something that you know i would never have imagined 3 experiencing in my lifetime i don't condone the violence that happened at the capitol and i can i condemn them along with other republican conservatives because because terrorism and and and destruction and what is going on that has no place in america and i do feel that we are seeing more attacks and violence actually occurring from the left onto the right we see censorship that's going on and it's not even really being. occur. monday evening 18 minutes past 10 pm here in moscow we keep the news ruling after the shortest breaks stay with us. is your media a reflection of reality. in

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could have you back with the program russia say's brussels is deliberately destroying toys with moscow foreign minister sergey lavrov did say however he wants to develop mutually beneficial relations with the e.u. but as ready for any scenario tensions worsened in recent weeks over the case of political activists alexina volley all quarter as the story. lover of seems generally pessimistic about the current state of relations between russia and the european union after his meeting with the finnish foreign minister but he said that responsibility for this actually live with brussels so let's take a listen to what exactly he said got accustomed to the framework of the relations between russia and the youth has been deliberately destroyed by brussels we must be

a group and the developments it's up to the e.u. to choose if they decide that relations must be rebuilt or reversed will also be ready food level statement comes on the backdrop of a general worsening of relations with europe last week the russian foreign minister said that moscow is ready to sever relations with europe if it deploys sanctions against it now these sanctions in question that brussels is considering of course are connected to the recent imprisonment of opposition activist alex a new volley who was arrested for violating parole and accuses the russian government of poisoning him now moscow denies any involvement in this but many e.u. officials are behind in of all needs narrative things also didn't go so well after the european union's foreign representative joe also borel visited russia his return to the e.u. was greeted by a split european parliament with anti russian representatives calling for his resignation and others pushing for more reconciliation with russia so what we're

seeing really is a situation in which officials can't come to a consensus about where to move forward from here. the fallout from the acquittal of donald trump saying democrats point the finger of blame at a quote cowardly group of republicans that's some g.o.p. party members themselves are not seeking to impeach the new president joe biden so is the courtroom even more than before groaned 0 for american politics hugo chavez has been looking into. donald trump is the most acquitted president in the u.s. history and no one worked harder to win him the title than the democrats and the realization is doing on them but what we saw in that senate today was that cowardly group of republicans who patently have no options because they were afraid to defend their job respect the institution in which they served. the

senators have decided to hang their hat on jurisdictional grounds which are not based on evidence which are not based on the facts and they will have to be judge that a ballistic meltdown is not something you'd expect to hear from a party whose candidate won the presidential election a democrat ego side which even stung through joe biden's psyche and it'll take more than a few cute white house lawn decorations to heal that wound what was meant to be a tool of checks and balances system transcended into one party's vendetta against a political opponent the order call of the pietschmann now before the senate is an unjust and blatantly unconstitutional of political vengeance i hope i will be proven wrong but it seems that impeachment based on partisan differences seems to be becoming the norm not the exception well hope against hope all you want

but impeachment articles against joe biden were filed less than 30 hours into his presidency it is the norm but when it comes to trump hate his impeachment is the least they want for him some would much rather see him swinging from the gallows and if you dare to defend them oh boy your personality will be reduced to being a racist a white supremacist a traitor there are reports your house was graffitied. my entire family my business my law firm are under siege right now it's also feared now that after impeachment humiliation take 2 never trumpeters along with the democratic chums simply won't grudge against the former president slide one of the most bizarre goings it's happened senator tim kaine of virginia my own state

senator has proposed. the democrats since they have never been able to introduce a shred of evidence to implicate the president and he crime or misdemeanor what they should do is introduce a bill of attainder based. on the 14th amendment in which they could simply lay boat and punish and sort of convicted punish. tromp poor or whatever they want and they wouldn't have to go through all of the business of a stab moshing guilt or having proof or having due process this is the agent to despots like henry be a penguin who executed all of his enemies with bills of attainder it just shows the desperation that they have and it also shows you know this is a former president he's not a sitting president and it shows the tremendous this year all fear of the

democrats over this man trump may feel like he's out of the woods but with the dems now holding both the oval office and congress they have the power to drag him right back into the swamp. the influence of meter social media platforms on politics or personal life it's really out of the headlines these days culminating really with the bombing of donald trump's a concert those of his supporters we spoke with the co-founder of cyber security firm casper ski love about people getting beyond the safety of our personal details on minute. well if you're buying it it just you know the concept of private censorship by social media is kind of a myth in fact it doesn't exist because all those companies are totally state controlled it's just that the us has split and the media has found itself under the thumb of one party well the other didn't want to engage with the media in the same

way for one reason or another it's still unclear why they didn't just set up their own outlets but the fact that their arms were twisted is obvious it's clear that severe measures taken by themselves one part of the country is censoring the other and the fact that this amazing step was taken a real breakthrough well actually trump has been blocked before but during the electoral process all the mosques had been taken off already and when the election campaign started the question was only who would win democrats or republicans the democrats wanted to win so badly that they didn't care about decency anymore. in other words shut so make no mistake all platforms collect as much data as they can and even buy it from other platforms too so from this point of view they're all alike i would take a variable approach to the issue of information people need to understand what kind

of information they can safely share on the web in general you can say that on some platforms your data is better protected than others but the information isn't safe from the platform itself therefore all platforms are absolutely identical from this point of view as they all try to collect data and profit from it because all these platforms have free registration they have the following one it is a sion model they sell data analyze it proposed targeted advertising etc as for some simple recommendations the easiest one to remember is not to do a publish anything on social networks you might regret it doesn't matter whether you're doing it just for your friends or just for one person once you upload this in 4 to an electronic device or digital service you can consider it to be linked it's easier than thinking that you're protected in the 1st place. more great programs going in moments here on r.t. and then we keep the news rolling this monday at the top of the hour join me for

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