together. china fires back at the u.s. after washington questioned the findings of the world health organization probe into the origin of the corona virus. with the u.k. still new rules people traveling in from. countries to quarantine for 10 days in selected hotels but concerns remain over the plans for implementation. and a conservative journalist is harassed and assaulted as she covers a protest. that divided america i feel that being conservative is now very frightening to journalists.

and joining us that i. welcome to the program. that china has accused the united states of damage. in the coronavirus pandemic there are 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. kind of reports. 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 and 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. acts in 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 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 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. 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 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 donald trump's 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 are not using some

of the extreme allegations and tones we heard from the trumpet ministration but the narrative that china is to blame for coded 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 and china expert joseph could agree moni believes the origin of the pandemic could remain a political issue for some time. well it's absolutely the case the united states hyper politicized the pandemic coming out now it encourages unfounded and anti-scientific conspiracy theories demonize china and withdrew from the world health organization and that these actions in tandem with transamerica 1st perch 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 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 theories what this means unfortunately is that the outbreaks fortunes will probably remain respectable to the politicization and demonization for a long time to come on meanwhile britain's prime minister says he wants the current certain ashenoff down to be the country's not boris johnson and couldn't guarantee it would be lifted and time soon next week i'll be sitting on a road 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 in the from ministers once came as a new rules came into force the result of requiring anyone arriving from a number of red lists countries to quarantine for 10 days in selected out of towns at the expense easily sent us this report from london's heathrow airport. today is 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 walls passengers will be taken through the airports by specify should be assigned stall 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 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 he through 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 apostate by all of the back seat 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 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 list contra 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 feel that 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. spot is brewing within the e.u. after germany closed its borders to austria and the czech republic the move was part of bahrain's battle to combat new code restrictions covert variants rather that didn't go gaga well with its neighbors that for weeks but various 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 has caused a massive traffic jam as a german check from tear under the restrictions that took effect on sunday german citizens along with truck drivers are allowed to enter the country they test negative for covert they will still need to be quarantined for at least 10 days upon arrival political commentator john brickwall believes it's not realistic to expect countries to act as one it's quite the best intentions of the. piece of fiction you have the solution is to believe that we can build this european union

and make it into a single county eventually but it doesn't seem to work that we definitely 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 italians etc and then contributing to these areas of the people to control their country their police and so on all those. this meet to build a european union that really do need to see that's when you know mother they want. because you know. that the basic things that we are different people and we have not changed it was the age of unity if you want to go in late it. seems like lives matter activists ever fourthly been charged with harassment and tempted assault footage appears to show them attacking a conservative journalist who was covering their rally. i don't think that there was something. wrong with her right arm

who supports this it was her body that really she's a pushover to the federal it's right from. the tense right. 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 now very physically threatening to journalists. was covering the right he would demonstrate as identified as a conservative reporter was honest also claims nabl i police ignored calls for help

one point of protests that even appears to rub a used in the face and. now in order for true peace to occur you need to have people to have that civil discourse it's not me it's not true peace when the other side is voices are shut off and so is it may give up a stock 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're 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 going to. occur. more news coming up just after a short break to join us again in a few moments time. rush even relations got a reality check last week russia's foreign minister said again read the right to the block also want to take it never ceases to lecture the world about democracy and the economic power but if you.

welcome back u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi has called for the capitol hill storming to be investigated along similar lines to the 911 terror attacks were probed by look at representative eric swalwell has offered to create both an investigative commission

and a white nationalism task force it is from the impeachment trial that we must get to the truth of have this happened to step least an outside independent $911.00 type commission to investigate the domestic terrorist attack upon the united states kept the complex interfering with the peaceful transfer of power and they're going to be i believe the department of justice and the white nationalism. to make sure that they are understanding that the earliest of ages out or be radicalized a fallout from the acquittal of the trunk passing democrats point the finger of blame at a cowardly group of republicans that says sutton's you people r.t. members themselves and all seeking to impeach the new president joe biden so is the court room well ground 0 for american politics he was not off investigates donald trump now is the most acquitted president in the u.s. history and no one worked harder to win him the title then the democrats and the

realisation is dorning on them but what we saw in that senate today was the care wordly group of republicans who patently have no option 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 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 let their grudge against the former president slide one of the most bizarre things 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 what they should do is introduce a bill of attainder they should overturn on the 14th amendment 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 for having proof or having due process this is the agent to despots like henry be

a penguin who executed all of his enemy used with bills of attainder it just shows the desperation that they have and it also shows you know this is a former president he is not a sitting president and it shows the tremendous dis you're 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 the influence of major social media platforms on politics plus the lives as well as ready out of the headlines these days culminating with the banning of donald trump's accounts and those of his supporters he spoke with the co-founder of cybersecurity. about people getting kicked off platforms and the safety of personal details online.

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 separate 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 a real breakthrough well actually trouble has been blocked to be further 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 over 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 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 or another way of it but the information isn't safe from the platform itself therefore all the platforms are absolutely identical from this point to what you they all try to collect the data and profit from it but because all these platinums have free registration they have the following one it is they should model that they sell data analyze it recalls 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 would just for one person once you

upload this in for 2 in the electronic device or digital service that i can consider it to be linked it's easier than thinking that you're protected in the 1st place to look at president biden this media team has had its 1st significant brush with embarrassment after promising an inclusive respectful new era deputy press secretaries resigned after threatening to destroy a political reporter quizzed him over his personal life no words can express my regret mine barris meant to my disgust for my behavior i used 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 them barest and disappoint at my white house call it's and president biden at 1st doco was suspended for a week after vanity fair magazine exposed the threats made against tara palmeri from politico the article also said he accused her of being jealous of his

relationship with another reporter the white house's handling of the situation has raised questions. that 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 are can check me on that a white house press secretary sarky their shoes of course been accused by conservative media of knowing about the behavior of a deputy and not doing enough to combat it maybe suspending doco for a week prior to his resignation we discussed the issue with christopher harris executive director of conservative sites and america was benedict's 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 no although i would say we should never really trust the press teams of 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 it probably allowed him to resign with some sort of severance package also because this is how the left does things of the world 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

of next crosstalk looks at the reality check. ins got last week the backing off we'll see again that. this is a speculative attack that iran must is making on the right so he's already going to war with the s.e.c. he's already gone to war and he's shown them to be in capture now he's gone 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

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oh and welcome to cross talk we're 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 us. 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 but also see how to make sure of russia to world politics in budapest we have george samueli he's a podcast or at the gavel which can be found on you tube rumble are a channeling frost up rules in effect that means you can jump any time you want and i was appreciative of it 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 russians have really got fed up with the attitudes of both the european union and the united states whereby they think that they can get some kind of agreements and deals with the russians a whole host of things that they want agreements with. the russians have sort of said look if you want to work with us on issues of energy on issues of vaccine issues of migration drugs and so on we're happy to work with you but if you want to play these games and constantly use us as a football and say well you know you're interfering our elections you will be fined a coup.