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china of the us off the washington question the findings of the world health organization. with the u.k. still in lockdown new rules now of laws people traveling in from countries to quarantine for 10 days in selected hotels and remain over the plan's implementation . so it. was a black protest to get. a reporter at the border to america i feel that being conservative media is. very physically threatening to journalists.
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here in the russian capital thanks for joining us on r.t. international. that china has accused the us of damaging international efforts in battling the coronavirus pandemic. over the findings of a recent probe into the origins of the virus in china and washington is calling for more transparency from beijing and is supported by the u.k. and 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 hein 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 ninth's investigation were communicate to and questions about the proofs is used to reach them now you'll recall that donald trump had
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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 south with such
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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. 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
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in group understanding of why it was 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're not using some of the extreme allegations and tones we heard from the trumpet ministration but the
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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 as one expert says if gregory mahoney believes the origin of the pandemic remain a political issue for the foreseeable future. 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 trans america 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
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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 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 aversions promised in the meantime says he wants the current national lockdown to be the country's loss or a chance and i couldn't guarantee it would be lifted anytime 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
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lockdown to be the last of the from the us is once time as new rules began forcing anyone arriving from a number of readiness countries to quarantine for 10 days in selected talents at their own expense he set out a revolt from london's 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 walls passengers will be taken through the airport vice specially 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 and brazilian strains of the corona virus are more
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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 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
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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 possed 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 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
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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 or once the vaccine has been rolled out on a wide enough level. this fight is brewing within the e.u. after germany closed its borders to austria and the czech republic the move was part of the battle to combat a new covert variants by that explanation didn't wash with its neighbors for weeks but various minister president marcus soda hasn't missed a single opportunity to take a shot at her all these constant pejorative 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 closed borders i think it's wrong to return to europe with
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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. well meanwhile the introduction of border controls has caused a massive traffic jams at a german check front here and the restrictions that took effect on sunday german citizens along with truck drivers are allowed to enter germany provided they test negative for covert they will still be quarantined for at least 10 days on arrival political commentator john brickwall believes it's not realistic to expect countries to act as one despite the ideals of the e.u. . piece of fiction you are obviously a religion is to believe that we can build this european union and make it into a single gallantry eventually but it doesn't seem to work that way devan 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 and the french and italians
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etc and in. these areas of the people to control their country they're. all the us and this meat going to build a european union that's really d.n.a. to see that's when you know mother they want. that the basic thing is that we are different people and we have not changed it was just unity if you want to go. to black lives matter activists have reportedly been charged with harassment and attempted assault footage appears to show them attacking a conservative journalist who was covering bear running. bugs i go to bed early there was something going on that the speaker rose to the floor with her program are who are these reports was it was your brother your bedroom or she's a pushover you regarding the trunk of her yeah that's right i think it was great
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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. tara was covering the rally where demonstrators identified her so it's a reporter also claims they have police ignored her coolness for help at one point a protest that even appears to rope a used nappy thanks. now in order for true peace to occur you need to have people to have that simple discourse it's not it's not true peace when the other side is
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boyce's are shut off and so is it may give up assad 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 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. occur. and we're back with more news in just
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to shape out his name. and in again trying to trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. to look for common ground. on march the program u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi has called for the capitol hill storming to be investigated along similar lines to show you how the $911.00 terror attacks will probe democratic representative eric swalwell has offered to create both investigative commission and a so-called white nationalism task force. it is from the impeachment trial that we must get to the truth of have these happened to step outside independent $911.00 type commission to investigate the domestic terrorist attack upon the united states
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kept the complex interfering with the peaceful transfer of power and they're going to be i believe in the department of justice very white nationalism a task force to make sure that they are understanding that the earliest of ages out or be radicalized fall out from the acquittal of the old trungpa seen democrats point the finger of blame at a crowd league group of republicans that some g.o.p. party members themselves and all seeking to impeach the new president joe biden so is the courtroom well ground 0 for american politics he goes down off reports 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 that kerry wordly group of republicans who patently have no option because they were afraid to
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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
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seems to be becoming the norm not the exception well 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 their grudge against the former president slide one of the most bizarre things it's happened senator tim kaine of virginia my own
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state senator has proposed. the democrats since they have never been able to introduce a shred of evidence to implicate the president in any the 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 a stab moshing guilt or having proof or having due process this is the agent to despots like henry be a penguin who executed all of his enemies with bills of attainder it just shows the desperation that they have and it also shows you know this is a former president he's not
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a sitting president and it shows the tremendous this year all fear of the democrats over this man trump may feel like he's out of the woods but with the dems now holding both the oval office and congress they have the power to drag him right back into the swamp or the influence of major social media platforms on politics and pass the lives as ready out of the headlines these days culminating with the buying of them all trumps accounts on those of his supporters he spoke with a co-founder of cyber security from cast pesky law about people getting kicked off forms and the safety off 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 state controlled it's just that the us has split and the media has found itself under the
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banner of one party the other they don't want to engage with the media in the say 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 to a real breakthrough well actually trouble has been blocked beef during the electoral process all the mosques that had looting going 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 and immoral. in other words shirts and said make no mistake at all the latter from the collect as much think as they can and won't 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
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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 but 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 it doesn't matter whether you're doing. just for you friends we're just for one person once you upload this in for 2 in the electronic device or digital service you can consider it to be linked it's easier than thinking that you're protected in the 1st place that. the u.s. state of mississippi could buy and transgender athletes from women sports
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a bill in support of the movies to be considered by the states house of representatives after being passed by the senate last week and the move comes despite president biden issuing an executive order on his 1st day in office extending protection for transgenders male born athletes to compete with women on tyler north dakota and i'd have also said they will restrict competitors to barlow zirkle gender categories opponents of baden's order both say it poses a threat to the very existence of women sport. it's very disappointing because it just kills like such a war on religion and when it specifically when it comes to sports where you know we really don't care how individuals identify what it really comes down to is one's biological sex because in the arena of sport when sex matters we're talking about what's fair and it's not fair to discriminate against women and again we already
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know that they've been competing on the oystermen side so essentially by continuing with this unfair legislation this discriminatory legislation against women what we're doing is providing our male counterparts who's always always an advantage but we're giving them to opportunities and they can either continue to compete on the male side or coming choose to compete on the women's side just disappointing to see this administration including was so many women part of the administration that they would challenge you. as girls and women. or the white house claims the order doesn't grant federal funding to allow bottles or male athletes access to women's team sport or sports teams all students though should be able to without facing sex discrimination including the right for transgender women to compete on female teams critics cite threatens women's rights and achievements. because a sporting quarrel the game is being rigged against women and in favor of
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biological men president biden is the latest man to do the reading which is strange coming from someone peeled as a defender a women i'm so disappointed over president biden's actions to force young girls like them to compete with biological males for access to it let's fix it will limit opportunity for so many competitors like my daughters it's bad policy and it's wrong for america we go to my legislation and all of the legislation that nationally it does not keep or prevent a biological boy or man from competing it just declares on which side that they must continue to compete and that is a side with their biology and we have to remember that sports is foremost when when someone straight out or even a high school team or certainly an olympic team is about winning that's the most important thing if we have activities that are important to our mental health there are many activities that we can all do for mental health but why would the mental
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health of a biological will be considered more important than the mental health of a biological female it just simply doesn't add up because it's not fair that we 1000. more the mean value our women up next documentary continues to tell a stories of african-americans who fled racial prejudice in the u.s. for to save the union retired and often our latest headlines join us again that. imagine picking up a future textbook on the early years of the 21st century what are the chapters called gun violence school shootings homelessness 1st it was my job it was my field bill it was my savings i have nothing i have nothing and it's not like
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i don't try i look for resources i look for jobs i look for everything i can to make this house. and all i end up doing is. the road to the american dream paved with good refute geez it's this very idealized image of all of america needs americans look pasta the deaths that happen every single day this is a modern history of the usa my america. the world is driven by shaped by phone person. no dares thinks. we dared to ask.
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master's degree in russian literature i speak russian and i had lived over there in the late eighties finding this portrait was was a stunning development for me how did i not know about this. i didn't know that this was a phenomenon that there were many. african-americans who went to russia in the in the thirty's. in the 1920 s. and thirty's several 100 african-americans moved to the city of utah union and many of the descendants still live in russia. and the name at the. no no wash but also up at us. and the rest of the day meet here the 1st day like hey you're part of that i want to speak russian and then wait wait wait there masha little scary.
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