the u.s. . question the findings of the world health organization. origins of the virus. also ahead on the program. measures firmly in place in the u.k. . from 30 countries to quarantine for. selective. concerns remain over. the price of free speech a conservative journalist. like a reporter in the. i feel that being conservative is now very physically threatening to journalists.

here in the russian capital this monday i'm you know neal taking you through the big story firstly. china has accused the us of damaging international efforts and coronavirus pandemic the raw erupted 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 and the supported by the u.k. well. in new york who's been following developments perhaps predictable about their be divergent on the findings what's the u.s. criticism here. well we've got the scientific community trying to find out the origins of the global coded 19 pandemic so team from the

world health organization was dispatched to go to war however at this point we've got the biden ministration questioning those findings that washington is saying they read politics into this here's what we heard we have deep concerns about the way in which the early findings of the coded ninth's investigation were communicate to and questions about the proofs is used to reach them now you'll recall that donald trump had pulled the united states out of the world health organization but when biden assumed office the new administration in washington d.c. returned the united states to the world health organization but it seems that some of the trumpet ministrations attitudes and assumptions about china are still intact at this point we've got china shooting back at the united states and saying that essentially they seem to not be recognizing that the onus is on them to restore the confidence in the united states that have been lost around the world due to present

trends leadership here's what we heard 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 u.s. 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. so at this point we've got the report from the world health organization team saying that there were 13 different strands of coded 19 that were out there and furthermore indicating that it was probably basically not being detected and was being passed on in a manner that was not detective early detected earlier before the alarm was raised now that report from the world health organization has been subject to widespread and quite political attention western media has been harshly critical of the report

and critical of china then we actually had a situation where members of the team actually responded with rather strong words too were reports that were circulated by the new york times about their investigation here's what we heard this was not my experience and w.h.o. mission as leader of animal environment working group by phone trust and openness with my china counterparts we did get access to critical new data throughout we did in group 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 for important scientific work. now the report basically completely debunks the theory that coded 19 was a virus lab leaked that it was somehow

a weapon or an experiment from the chinese government that somehow went wrong or something to that effect the trumpet ministration seem to give credence to these ideas despite a lack of evidence well the report from the world health organization basically puts any speculation about that to rest now the biden ministration has certainly changed their tone they're not speaking about china in the same tone that we've heard from the previous administration and from donald trump but it seems their narrative that china is somehow to blame their narrative is still well alive while the trombone in the shrillness of the anti china rhetoric has certainly shifted in washington d.c. it seems that the biden missed ration is holding onto the blame china rhetoric and the blame china narrative that we heard from trump so not exactly a huge shift from washington when it comes to the narrative about china and covert 19 the details are changing the tone is changing but much is very well live from trump's narrative. thanks very much for taking us through all of our u.s.

correspondent kill him open in new york city where professor of politics joseph gregory monye believes that the origin of the pun demick will remain a political football for a long time. well it's absolutely the case the united states hyper politicized the pandemic coming out now that encourage unfounded and anti-scientific conspiracy theories demonize china and withdrew from the world health organization and that these actions in tandem with trump's america 1st approach proved profoundly destructive to international cooperation we know that biden will not go soft on china that he 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 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 well grounded theory what this means unfortunately that the

outbreaks origins will probably remain a couple took the politicization and demonization a long time to come. ok let's crack on with another headline story today britain's prime minister barak's johnson says he wants the current 3rd national locked on to be the country's last however he couldn't guarantee it would be over any time soon that statement coming in a prime time t.v. address next week i'll be sitting on to read maps saying 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 comes as the new rules for travelers from a number of countries comes into force today obliging to quarantine for 10 days in selected u k hotels on arrival at their own expense it's not cheap either he told me more from outside the u.k.'s busiest hub heathrow airport. 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 airport twice specially signed off they will go through special queues and checked in with their passports and then taken on to buses and put into quarantine for 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 they're there and 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 whilst they are in the hotel now heathrow 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 disick says full implementation of the policy from monday but some significant gaps remain ministers must ensure there isn't a good resource an appropriate protocols in place for each step of the full end to end process from aircraft to hotel toward compromising the safety of the passengers and those working a da port 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 long queues more people standing in close proximity and again those threats of things being possed of the facts of the virus if you will being passed from. 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 countries so passengers are getting connecting flights and the government have implemented measures to find people who 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 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 once the vaccine has been rolled out on a wide enough level. spots is brewing within the european union after the block but rated germany for closing its borders to austria czech republic the move by berlin was part of its battle to stop the spread of new variants of coronavirus but that explanation well it didn't wash with its neighbors. for weeks but various minister president marcos sorta hasn't missed a single opportunity to take a pot shot at her all these constant push units of remarks and disgraceful and don't be fit 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 $20000.00 and we're battling the mutated virus on the borders with the czech republic in north stria the e.u. commission should support us and not throw

a spanner in the works with their cheap suggestions meanwhile v introduction of border controls has caused massive traffic jams as we can see here at the german check from tear under the restrictions that took effect on sunday german citizens and truck drivers are allowed to enter germany provide a big test negative for corona virus though they'll still be quarantined for at least 10 days on a rival political commentator jump respond told me it's not realistic to expect countries to act as one the spike the ideals of the. your hobbies and fiction you obviously are legion is to believe that we can be a d.c. hobby and union and make it into a single county eventually but it doesn't seem to work that way devon he achieved unity in the sense that the different people in europe are still as different as they used to be the german town the french know the french and that italians etc and then the use of contributing to these areas of the people to control their country their police and so on if only they're all the us and this meat that we're

going to build a european union that we really do need to see that's when you know mother they want us as ideally native state does not pass it will be known that there won't be people that's i think what i said the basic thing is that we are different people and we have not changed to was a unity if you want to go in late get. to black lines modern activists have reportedly been charged with harassment an attempted assault footage appears to show the men talking a conservative journalist who was covering the rally. i think that. she had not these people. who were these reports. that really she's a person are very very. tense right. as you can see with what had happened it is very trying times and she 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 turn off their cameras with our 1st amendment rights which is freedom to the press and also being a public space i had 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 i didn't like which media i was i feel that being conservative media is is now very physically threatening to journalists. yes was covering the rally when demonstrators identified her as a conservative reporter calling her a trump supporter and then not see the journalist also claims nearby police ignored her calls for help at one point protester even appears to be used to not be in her face. now in order for true peace to occur you need to have people to have that some of 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 being. a current. quarter of an hour into the program this is our to international news keeps rolling after this.

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out. and in the game. trail. find themselves worlds apart. to look for common ground. russia say's brussels is deliberately destroying ties with moscow foreign minister sergei lavrov did say however he wants to develop mutually beneficial relations with the e.u. but is ready for any scenario as tensions worsened in recent weeks over the case of political activist alexina valving double quarter picks up the story. lover of seemed 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 lived 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 of 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 aleksei nevaeh me 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. a lot from the acquittal of donald trump seen 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 ground 0 for american politics negotiate them of being looking into the. 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. 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 haters 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 let their 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 i need crime or misdemeanor whether they should do is introduce a bill of attainder based. on the 14th amendment in which they could simply a 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 establishing guilt or having proof or having due process this is the agent who 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 who is not a sitting president and huge 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. us president biden's media team has had its 1st significant brush with embarrassment after promising an inclusive respectful new era a deputy press secretary has resigned and apologized after threatening to destroy a political reporter who quizzed him over his private life no words can express my regrets mine barris meant to my disgust for my behavior i use language that no woman should ever have to hear from anyone especially in a situation where she was just trying to do the job it was language that was

a poor and disrespectful and unacceptable i'm devastated to have embarrassed and disappointed my white house colleagues and president biden. but 1st t.j. took lois suspended for a week after a voluntary for a magazine expose the threats made against tara paul murray from politico the article also sees he accused her of being jealous of his relationship with another reporter the white house handling of the situation has raised lots of questions. i deal was the one week suspension and said. resignation are fired he's the 1st to acknowledge this is not the standard of behavior set out by the president he has in place as you noted on a one week suspension suspension without pay that is a significant step i'm not aware of a history of that step being taken you all can check me on that white house press secretary there she's been accused by conservative media of knowing about the behavior of her deputy and not doing enough to come bought it merely suspending

duck low for a week prior to his resignation well this crossed my 2 way as bad as it was this funder of libertarian booster pack a us libertarian party campaigner good to see you do you think that mr declaw was forced to resign nuff is one week suspension was seen as not sufficient by the big take away well he sounded combative and like a fighter in his response but keep in mind he's the deputy press secretary they are experts at spinning things and putting out statements to. excuse poor behavior it is really going on in the background so i suspect he was urged to resign and basically forced to resign and that's what he's done now and and i think it was the right thing for him to do is to resign the white house was apparently aware of the situation with biden's communications director supposedly

trying to smooth things over but why do you think was they waited until the pharmacy for an article came out. well he may be a fairly young and new employee and they were hoping this would just blow over but obviously it didn't and. you know his threat didn't work they went ahead and publish the story so it does bring into question can we trust the press team for the biden presidency and i would say no although i would say we should never really trust the press team so if any presidential office holder there's another aspect to this is no the president himself by i had known as 1st day in office that anyone in his administration guilty of denigrating behavior would be fired on the spot what kind of a climate could that lead to pick is if the most powerful office in the world you've got lives at stake you have to watch your language all the time is that

realistic. i think he was exaggerating and that's the way we have to take it what president biden statement on on that policy yeah you're right we don't want everyone to always be worried that they're afraid to say everything and that's not just with and it ministration here the general public people are scared to say things on facebook that they might have said very openly on facebook and other social media politicians are becoming a little more afraid to say things and we don't want a situation where people feel intimidated to say things but that's exactly what t.j. duck low did he intimidated another reporter so yeah it's on him everything he did was his fault his mistake his problem he probably was not willing to resign until they made it clear that he should who has thanks as always for your time good to

have you on the program benedick us the battalion party campaigner thanks for having me for up to the minute quite literally updates to remember to give us a follow on twitter news views plenty more in between to be follow and as always on our page i mean you know neal saying goodbye. this is a speculative attack that iran must is making on the fed right so he's already going to war with the sec the f.c.c. is already going toward the f.c.c. and he's shown them to be in capture now he's gone to war with the fed and sound like a buy back my own stock i'm going to take your cheap money i'm going to buy bitcoin like michael sailors do and now 500 other c.e.o.'s in the s. and p.

500 go like you know it that's a darn good idea. oh and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered. russia e.u. relations got a reality check last week russia's foreign minister said again love it off read the riot act to the blog also washington never ceases to lecture the world about democracy and the rule of law how are both doing in the u.s. .

to discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest marcus papadopoulos in london is a historian analyst and author of the new book a rise to make sure no russia 2 world politics and in budapest we have george semi well he. he's a podcast or at the gaggle which can be found on you tube rumble ari channeling frost up rules in effect that means you can jump any time you want and i was appreciative of is going to budapest 1st george we saw something quite remarkable at the end of last week we had the high commissioner from the european union with the foreign policy portfolio basically got his blank handed to him here in moscow the tone of this relationship despite my lot of relationship has changed remarkably what accounts for it george well i think the russian has never really.