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. just a few moments into a new day here in moscow choose the 16th a warm welcome to the program. china has accused the us of damaging international efforts in battling the crew. of the ra 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 is supported by the u.k. i spoke earlier to our tease kill up on this. 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 han however at this point

we've got the biden and 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 code nine'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 has 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 cooperation on covert 19 but the u.s. acting as if none of this has ever happened is pointing fingers at other countries who have been faithfully supports in the w.h.o. and the south 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 detected earlier before the alarm was raised now that report from the world health organization has been some. 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 kostin shadow over important scientific work now the team from the world health organization pretty much debunked the virus lab leak theory that was being promoted by. donald trump and then administration this idea that somehow coded 19 was a chinese bio weapon that went wrong or something to that effect that's been pretty

much debunked by the world health organization now biden has certainly used a less shrill tone when talking about china however at this point it seems like the united states and the united kingdom are continuing to push the idea that china is not blameless in the pandemic and somehow china is to blame they're not using some of the extreme allegations and tones we heard from the trumpet ministration but the narrative that china is to blame for coated in china should be held responsible for it that narrative seems very well alive the biden ministration continues to push the notion that china is to blame we've got u.k. officials backing up their words so while some of the harsh rhetoric and shrill words of the trumpet ministration have not been continued we are continuing to see a narrative that is hostile to china coming from washington and from london. well among the further reaction the guts of this story was from politics professor joseph gregory mahoney who believes that the origin of the pond demick can remain a politically issue for quite some time well it's absolutely the case the united

states' hyper politicized 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 the transamerica 1st perch proved profoundly destructive to international cooperation we know that biden will not go soft on china but 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 the 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 is that the outbreaks origins will probably remain a couple took the politicization and demonization a long time to come britain's prime minister boris 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 the 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 it comes as the new rules for travelers arriving from a number of selected countries has just begun obliging everyone including u.k. citizens to quarantine for 10 days in selected hotels on arrival at their own expense and it isn't cheap tell me more from outside britain's busiest hub heathrow airport the days 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 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 stay in that state could extend longer if somebody tests positive for the virus while 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 is a good resource and appropriate protocols in place for each step of the full end to end process from aircraft to hotel to award compromising the safety of the passengers and those working at the airport 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 passed of the back seat of the virus if you will being passed from a 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 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 deface 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 backbench is a 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. once the vaccine has been rolled out on a wide enough level. brewing within the european union after the block

berated germany for closing its borders to austria and the czech republic the move in was part of its battle to stop the spread of new variants of coronavirus but that explanation didn't wash with its neighbors. 4 weeks of areas minister president marcus soda hasn't missed a single opportunity to take a pot shot at to roll these constant pressure it's of remarks on 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 hours cause massive traffic jams out the german check from tear

under the restrictions that took effect on sunday german citizens and truck drivers are allowed to enter germany provided they test negative for corona virus although they still have to quarantine for at least 10 days on arrival but all commentators shangri small told us it's not realistic to expect countries to act as warm despite the ideals of the european you. piece of fiction you obviously have a legion is to believe that we can be a dish you have been 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 germans and the french know the french and the italians it's a time and then they still contributing to these area 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 really do need to see that's when you know mother they want. it will be known that there won't be. that the basic thing is that we are different

and we have not changed it was a unity if you want to go to. get to a story interesting a lot of people today to block lives matter activists have reportedly been charged with harassment and attempted assault now that stems from footage which appears to show them attacking a conservative journalist who was covering a rally. her i did it badly there was something going on that these people rose to the floor of the current drug czar who gurdjieff accords was a pleasure going to bed early she supposed to be regarding the trauma of her that's right. i think 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 because now very physically threatening to journalists. tara was covering the rally when demonstrators identified her as a reporter 1st calling or a trump supporter and then a nazi journalist also claims nearby police ignored her calls for help at one point a protester even appears to robot nothe pain in her face. now in order for true peace to occur you need to have people to have that civil discourse it's not it's not true peace when the other side is voices are shut off and so is in may give up a saga of unity or peace but it's act the detriment of you know $75000000.00

americans who have 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 truly experiencing in my lifetime i don't condone the violence that happened at the capitol and i can i condemn them along with the public in the 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 coming from the left onto the right we see censorship that's going on and it's not even being. occur. it's been embarrassing for a good for president biden's media team we go through that story in 90 seconds on cutting.

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hello again fallout from the acquittal of dawn moved from the scene democrats point the finger of blame at a quote cowardly group of republicans 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 running 0 for american politics igor said ellis be looking into. donald trump no he's 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. these 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 i 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 let the 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 in any crime or misdemeanor what 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 convective punish. tromp for 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 who

despots like henry be a penguin who executed all of his own to be used 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 it shows the tremendous dis your real 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 now the influence of major a social media platforms on politics our personal life really seem to be really out of the headlines these they really culminating with the bombing of donald trump's accounts and those of his supporters who are taking took the opportunity to speak with the co-founder of cyber security firm a love about people getting on the safety of our personal details on the net.

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 u.s. 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 are going to take and by themselves one part of the country is answering the other and the fact that this amazing step was taken at a real breakthrough well actually trouble has been blocked beef those are 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 shirts and said make no mistake all the platforms

collect as much data as they can and they will buy it from other platforms too so from this point of view they're all alike to i would take a variable approach to the issue of information that will serve the people need to understand what kind of information they can safely share on the web in general you can say that on some lab with almost your data is better protected there are no other way of it but the information isn't safe from the platform itself so therefore all the platforms are absolutely identical from this point of view they all try to collect the data and profit from it because all these platinums have free registration they have the following one it is ation model they sell data analyze it recalls targeted advertising etc as with some simple recommendations the easiest one to remember is not to do or publish anything on social networks you might regret doing it doesn't matter whether you're doing. just for your friends or

just for one person once you upload this in for to in the electronic device or digital service it or you can consider it to be linked it's easier than thinking that you're protected in the 1st place. u.s. president joe biden's media team its 1st significant pressure with embarrassment after promising an inclusive respectful new year and 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 1st t.j. don't glow was suspended for a week after

a vanity fair magazine expose the threats made against tara palmeri from politico the article also sees he accused her of being jealous of his relationship with another reporter the white house thing of this situation has raised lots of questions. i deal was the one week suspension and said. resignation or firing 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 jens sucky there she has been accused by a lot of media of knowing about the behavior of her deputy and not doing enough to . suspending duck boat for a week prior to his resignation we discussed the issue with christopher horace who's executive director of hyphenated america dot com benedict a u.s.

libertarian party campaign. 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 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 you know all they are i would say we should never really trust the press team so if any presidential office holder i'm brother shocked i thought he actually should have been fired but of course in all the work in a fire him he probably allowed him to resign with some sort of severance package also because this is all the left does things that there were for double standards they have no standards at all there is no accountability between the media and the democratic party because they're one and the same you know can

a house divided against itself stand no it can't because they're in the same house well for a deeper dive into this our stories and perhaps why not even leave a comment or 2 with your thoughts our taste facebook page you covered i mean an e-mail saying goodbye from. russia even relations got a reality check last week russia's foreign minister said again love the read the riot act to the bloc also washington has never ceases to lecture the world about democracy and the rule of law our bill in the us.

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