after washington questions the world health organization. in the u.k. . people from 30 countries. britons . pricer free speech conservative journalists. protest. reporter and. i feel that being conservative. now very physically threatening to journalists.

are on the clock across the world this is international from the team myself you know hello and welcome to the program. china accuse the us of damaging international efforts. to make 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 is supported by the u.k. picking up the story. 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 coded nine's investigation were communicate 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 points in 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. 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.

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 the 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 china expert jealous of gregory mahoney believes that the origin of the pandemic will remain a political issue for quite some time well it's absolutely the case the united states' hyper politicized pandemic coming out now it encourages unfounded and anti-scientific conspiracy theory demonize china and withdrew from the world health organization and that these actions and panda trumps america 1st coach 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 or 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 build around well grounded theory what this means unfortunately is that the outbreaks we're going to will probably remain a couple took what the politicization and demonization are a long time to come britain's prime minister barak's johnson says he wants the current 3rd national lockdown 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 out to read map 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 comes as the new rules for travelers arriving from a number of selected countries has just begun in bludging everyone including u.k. citizens to quarantine for 10 days in selected hotels on arrival at their own expense and it is not cheap he sally told me more from my side britain's busiest arab 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 the airports like this one heathrow one of the busiest ignore the busiest airport in the world passengers will be taken through the airports by specify should be assigned star 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 that 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've been working hard with the government to try to ensure the successful implementation of the policy for monday but some significant gaps remain ministers must ensure there is adequate resources and appropriate protocols

in place for each step of the full and when process from aircraft to hotel to avoid compromising the safety of 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 up postes bio all of the vaccine 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 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 this is 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. a spot is brewing within the european union after the block paraded germany for closing its borders to austria and the czech republic the move by berlin was part of its battle to stop the spread of new variants of coronavirus but down to explanation didn't wash with its neighbors. for weeks but various

minister president marcos 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 house cause massive traffic jams at the german check front tier under the restrictions that took place. for the 1st time german citizens truck drivers there are large to enter germany provided they test negative for a coronavirus beforehand they'll still be cornered though for at least 10 days on arrival clinical commentator small told us it's not realistic to expect countries

to act as one despite the ideals of the. piece of fiction you have the civil engineers to believe that we can be happy 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 germans and the fans of the french and of the italians it's a time and then they said country between the these areas of the people to control their country their police and so on if only they're all this and this meat that we're going to build a european union that's really d.n.a. 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 people and we have not changed to was gay just you need to if you want to go in late at. like a moving the program or know 2 black lawyers moderate activists have reportedly

been charged with harassment an attempted assault footage appears to show them attacking a conservative journalist who was covering the rally. i'm getting better there is something going on that these people the rug your brother the current drug czar who are these reports these are pleasurable are your very truly she supposed to be regarding the trunk of her yeah that's right you think 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. tara was covering the rally when demonstrators identified her as a conservative reporter a lot of names recalled 'd she was claimed to be a trump supporter and an awfully good journalist also claims nearby police ignored her calls for help one point to protest or even appears to rob a used nothing i think. 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 it in may give up a saga of unity or peace but it's act the detriment of you know $75.00 plus 1000000 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 to really experience in my lifetime i don't condone the violence that happened at the capitol and i can i condemn them along with other 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 actually coming from the left on to the right you see censorship that's going on and it's not even really being. occur. a quarter of an hour into the program we keep the news rolling in 90 seconds and counting stay with us. is your media a reflection of reality. in

a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or inmate in the shallowness. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

you're back with r.t. international fallout from the acquittal of donald trump seen democrats point the finger of blame at a quote cowardly group of republicans some g.o.p. party members themselves are now seeking to impeach the new president joe biden so is the courtroom even more than before ground 0 for american politics eager to tell us been 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. 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 net nanny crime or misdemeanor what they should do is introduce a bill of attainder based over the on the 14th amendment in which they could simply lay boat and punish and sort of convicted punish. tromp poor or whatever they wanted and they wouldn't have to go through all of the business of that 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 ringback 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 of think it goes without saying that the influence of major social media platforms of politics or personal life is really out of the headlines these days culminating really with the bombing of donald trump's accounts and those of his supporters are t. spoke with the co-founder of cyber security firm. but people are getting about the safety of our personal details on the net. well. 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 is 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 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 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 the platforms collect as much data as they can and they would 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 that 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 on others but the information isn't safe from the platform itself therefore all platforms are absolutely identical from this point of view they all try to collect the data and profit from it because all these platforms have free registration they have the following one it is they should model they sell data analyze it propose targeted advertising etc as will some simple recommendations the easiest one to remember is not to do a publish anything on social networks you might regret doing it doesn't matter whether you're doing. just for you friends or just for one person once you upload this in for to in the electronic device or digital service that if you can consider it to be linked it's easier than thinking that you're protected in the 1st place that u.s. president biden's media team is for a significant brush with embarrassment after promising an inclusive respect for the new year and

a deputy press secretary has resigned 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 coley x. and president biden. first teach it to a close was suspended for a week after a vanity fair magazine expose the threats made against tara palmer from politico the article also say as he accused her of being jealous of his relationship with another reporter the white house's handling of the situation has raised lots of questions bruce idea 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 jen psaki there she's been accused by conservative media of knowing about the behavior of her deputy and not doing enough to come about it really suspending duco for a week prior to his resignation we discussed the issue with chris morris executive director of conservative sites on hyphenated america dot com and was benedict a u.s. libertarian party campaigner. 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 no although i would say we should never really trust the press team so if any presidential office holder i'm rather 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 how left those 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 a lot is there a lot from the newsroom on me here in this to do but some great programs are set to kick off in moments find out what's showing where you are off the shores of the pricks.

this is a speculative attack that iran must is making on the right so he's already going to war the f.c.c. is already going to war and he's shown them to be. captured now he's going to war with spit and sand like a buy back my own stock i'm going to take your cheap money i'm going to buy a plane like michael sailors and now 500 other c.e.o.'s in the s. and p. 500 a like you know what that's a darn good idea. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the day or thinks. we dare to ask.

i'm after a county welcome to another lockdown edition of going underground so-called mainstream media in nature nations is warning people not to invest in bitcoin the currency not controlled by government backed central bank regulators it comes off a bit coins value so little in the spike in some stalks by grassroots activists seeking to damage the portfolios of established hedge funds joining me now from st barts in the caribbean is the founder of bitcoin dot com raj of a thanks so much roger coming on i'm going to tell you that over here in britain as . spike in bitcoin that's bt see numbers have been happening there's been

scathing articles written here telling people this is not the future all are powerful elites terrified of cryptocurrency. the incumbent the incumbents are always scared of the new upstart they're going to take away market share from them and that's exactly what we're seeing happen with digital currencies all over the world they're threatening deed the status quo in the sense that it's easier faster cheaper more reliable to send or receive payments using crypto currency than it is with traditional legacy banking systems and so that's that's a threat to the current business model of the traditional financial system but just like the internet was unstoppable and netflix was unstoppable compared to blockbuster and you know the apple i phone camera was unstoppable compared to kodak film cameras the same is going to be true with digital currencies the incumbents are going to like it but they're going to keep going more and more people are going to keep using them and it's going to spread to more more people around the world and before you know it everybody will be using digital currencies just like everyone uses their i phones to have kodak to take pictures today while the

financial media are far more interested in what funds are doing what stock markets are doing that kind of thing not really talking about the credit that all the other elements of the financial architecture now use crypto. however central bankers must be realizing something what advice would you give to jerome powell at the fed andrew bailey at the bank of england god at the european central bank presumably they know what's going on. i don't know maybe you think they don't know what the what's going on but if they do recognize this renaissance in currency and renaissance and capitalism what should they be doing now yeah closing your eyes and plugging your ears and ignoring something isn't a solution to the change that's coming so you have to educate yourself and learn about it and the best way to do it.