the headlines this hour russian scientists developed the world's 1st test for the deadly u.k. coronavirus strain this led to dozens of countries shutting their borders and we hear from the head of the russian lab. while developing a new testing system we kept in mind that if we need to detect other strains we could do it in a short period of time. you turn in minneapolis of the city gives law enforcement millions of dollars after a push to defund the police to only lead to a spike in the final line. blame game continues as china hits back at washington for questioning the findings of the w h o's the coronavirus investigation into car. stuck in

a hotel room for 10 days that's the new reality facing people returning to the u.k. from clovis points spots as new quarantine rules that come into force. a very good morning to you it's 9 am here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me nicky her and our top story russian scientists have developed the world's 1st test for the new corona virus strain 1st detected in britain they knew a deadly a variant has led to dozens of countries hunkering down and shutting their doors to travel as but there may now be light at the end of the tunnel. well developed in the new test in system we used the same approach as we did for the main test it is the same express method where you need about an hour to receive just results which is much faster than the classic p.c.

our testing we don't try to replace our main test it is not a method for mass diagnostics it's a tool for e.p.d. milledge ical surveillance to control the spread of new strains however while developing the new test in system we kept in mind that if we need to detect other strains we could do it in a short period of time. well the variant has already been found in dozens of countries that and u.k. scientists believe it could be up to 70 percent deadlier in the u.s. american officials suggest it could become the dominant strain across the country by march according to kamal confines of the new technology could also be used to develop tests for mutations of the british strain. our justice system aims to detect a mutation in a protein that was 1st found in the strain in britain but later it was also found in south africa and brazil and strains as well initially we planned to use to test

for surveillance now i do not exclude the possibility that deters can be used for differential diagnosis after grown the virus has been diagnosed in order to understand what kind of virus a person is infected with. and when we in germany and the e.u. out of the country close the borders to neighboring countries following the surge in corona virus mutations we have more on that story later in the program. minneapolis city council has voted unanimously to give police extra funding and a u.-turn from last year's plan to defund them after 6 but around $6400000.00 will go to help hire personnel after an increase in violent crime recent data suggest that the number of gunshot victims is up to 250 percent compared to the same period last year the same time great cases have increased 22 percent and robbery has risen by almost 60 percent the situation has been exacerbated by the fact that the city

currently has around 200 fewer officers than usual that's off the many left the 4th or went on leave following the death of george floyd in may last year. thank you. thank you. thank. god that we've got people that we've got to call if. i want i want jane oh we are watching. this what you do when you don't hold other cops accountable when you let them kill other people when you let them kill dogs when you don't hold your partner accountable discuss it this. following the

protests the president of the minneapolis city council announced plans to replace the police with what she called a transformative new model of public safety however betsy bronson a smith from the national police association believes that was not the best approach. remember they voted a few months ago to take $8000000.00 away from the police department which they did and what happened there there are some businesses in the city of minneapolis who are getting hit by the same person $2.00 and $3.00 times in a week and now for the city council to say well we're going to spend money to hire new police officers so you know you almost you know must have to laugh at it it's ridiculous what's going to happen is you are going to see a shortage of police officers in larger urban centers like minneapolis new york chicago los angeles most if not all of these cities are run by the

democrats and the democrats tend to not support their police officers you can't support your criminals and consider them victims and not support your police and not expect crime to rise and then all of those cities i mentioned most of them have skyrocketing homicide rates skyrocketing violent crime rates you vilify your police officers you better make friends with criminals because that's all you're going to have left. the united states and china have again turned the coronavirus pandemic into a political scandal accusing each other of doing wrong with code 90 the hour up to over the findings also recent well to health organization probe into the origins of the virus in china with washington calling for more transparency from beijing 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 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 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 corporation uncovered 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 w.h.o. itself 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 a ha with rather strong words 2 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 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. 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 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. one

china expert joseph gregory mahoney believes the origin of the pandemic will 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 broached 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 americans others 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 builder around well grounded theory what this means unfortunately is that the outbreaks origins will probably remain skeptical about what the politicization and

demonization are a long time to come. but his prime minister says he wants the current national lockdown to be the country's last busbar strongs and couldn't guarantee it would be lifted anytime soon 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 the prime minister's was came as new covert measures were imposed in the u.k. starting this week anyone arriving from a red list country will have to quarantine for 10 days in the hotel at the expense upon the arrival passengers our school had through the apple was then taken by bus to a specially allocated hotel however an issue a report suggests some travel is on spending less how to exercise only fed room

full of cigarettes and hay so apple hits self says that all gaps in the policy. we have been working hard with the government to try to ensure a successful implementation of the policy from monday but some significant gaps remain and we are yet to see the necessary reassurances with many direct flights banned it could prove difficult to determine which country a passenger has been to the government introduced fines of up 210000 pounds for those who fail to quarantine and even a prison sentence for those who lie about visiting a red list country this creates additional concerns for the u.k. border force to what extent our border force going to be chicken to be sure people have been honest 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. straining state of victoria is already using hotels to

quarantine a rival's professor mike toll from the burnet institute in australia told us why the measure is necessary well 1st of all. guests can only open their doors for 2 reasons and that's to pick up meals and to put out laundry so we found in one hotel that when one. victim guest opened the door at the same time as a someone across the current door open the door where there were 5 people infected so there was a lot of virus in the room and they spread across the corridor or an infected that woman we've learned this early allowing people to leave their rooms and maybe exercise has led to guests mingling with each other and guests mingling with stuff and that has led to a number of infections so i know it sounds harsh but we have had to institute that

rule to protect the rest of the study into society because if a hotel staff member gets infected and goes out and goes shopping and maybe goes to a pub then the virus spreads into the community and that has happened on your moral stance. as spot is brewing within the e.u. after germany closed its borders to ulster on the czech republic the move was part of berlin's battle to combat its new covert variance but that explanation didn't wash with its neighbors for weeks but there is mr president marcus soda hasn't missed a single opportunity to take a pot shot at her all these constant push your roots of remarks of disgraceful and don't be fit a minister president that's not the way to treat neighbors the truth is that the virus cannot be stopped by close borders i think it's wrong to return to europe

with close boris' like we had in march 2020. we're battling the mutated virus on the borders with the czech republic nor stria the e.u. commission should support arts and not throw a spanner in the works with cheap suggestions meanwhile the introduction of border controls has caused massive traffic jams at the german check for interior under the restrictions that took effect on sunday german citizens along with truck drivers are allowed to add to germany provided they test negative for coated they will still be quarantined for at least 10 days on a rival political commentator john bricmont believes it's not realistic to expect countries to act as one despite the ideals of the e.u. . you know how piece of fiction you obviously are legion is to believe that we can be a d.c. hobby and union and make it into a single county eventually but it doesn't seem to work that way devan the media chief you need to understand that the different people in europe are still as different as they used to be the german town of fans the french. and then those are

going to get you into these areas of the people to control their country their sea and so on if only they're all the us and this meat that we're going to build the european union does reveal a d.n.a. to see that's when you know mother they want the name. well because. people. have the basic thing that we are different people and we have not changed it was. you need to if you want to go in late at. the altar palfium reports come down on the effectiveness of u.s. aviation in the fight against isis that in the middle lane with that story and much more coming up on this short break stay with us.

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welcome back now a new report by america's rand think tank has caused doubt on the effectiveness of the us air forces role in the fight against isis the survey has found that military aviation failed to significantly speed up the defeat of the so-called caliphate his altie suffered taylor with more you might remember not too long ago a humble man claiming a historic victory. when i took it over recent months now for the bottom that's exactly there is no red the ice is callous the. has been decimated we have one good study says while washington so successfully

defeated islamic state the reportedly it's now in the process of setting up a new military base to counter islamic state which is on the rise again so if indeed a us how busy returning to a little triangle between iraq syria and turkey it seems a good moment to ask how effective really was the west against the terror threat us trump or the pentagon full marks but read a recent report by the think time grant corp which did a deep dive into us out against islamic state between 20142019 while does lente have room for improvement a little more aggressive operations might just slightly accelerated the defeat of isis they were unlikely to have significantly altered the timeline the deep fighting operation inherent result of affected arses finances but it could not affect us is his main center of gravity territory meaning the strategic attack did

not play a decisive role in this operation was the probably made american taxpayers who saw 20 of the billions go towards operation inherent resolve in 20019 alone think is it really worth doing it all over again to be for the report does point to successful moments in washington's fight in iraq and syria but what stands out is that despite being much better funded than other operations in the middle east including the war in afghanistan that was a slew of errors including outdated techniques slow action uncoordinated intelligence gathering and immersed unbelievably being out of practice. after decades of flying primarily overwatch mission since september the 11th the joint community's ability and capacity to plan and develop a deliberate strike operation in the deep areas actually feeds this meant that many

practitioners lacks experience in applying these processes to real world operations and the muscle memory to rapidly execute them and the conclusion the report comes tonight the much as that last scene victorious tone of the pentagon nor does it exactly fill you with hope for any future campaigns deep strike operations help stress isis's finances and haste in its demise but what ultimately peripheral to the overall strategy ignoring this issue would be deeply problematic in the fight against a more capable adverse saree or in a more concise to their environment washington war hawks have historically preferred to repeat the mistakes over and over again so whether they break with tradition this time and take up the report's recommendations is unclear what is horrifyingly clear though is that villagers were bombed into oblivion thousands of civilian lives were lost along with all those taxpayers billions and it still

wasn't enough something that becomes all the more horrifying when it looks like round 2 is on the cards we heard from karen kwiatkowski a retired u.s. air force officer michael maloof a former pentagon security analyst. the united states is pumping the oil it's for its own purposes that's it's been sold and it's been sold to and the kurds are benefiting from it but the syrian people are not even though that legally is syrian territory so what we're us is basically an occupying force at this point i don't think they have any. new ideas they never have and they didn't have during the obama biden ministration so and and given the people that are that surrounding biden the specially in his net on his national security team i don't see any. new concepts new ideas on how to deal with the

with the rebirth of terrorism back into that region i think it's going to be they were going to have 4 years of more anxiety and more. outside occupation occurring and i think we're going to probably have to commit more for the u.s. we'll have to commit more forces before long i think if you us would spend if they want anything they're going to. spend at least as much as they have spent in the past bigger issues seem to be ignored when the united states makes decisions about where they want to put their military to part with the united states military is proving is that we should spend more money on our defense of an offensive capabilities in many ways we use these. wars not as wars but as exercises where we can demonstrate technologies improve our coronation skills are our combat intelligence we're using in kind of his own testing ground almost

a playground which of course is extremely. immoral. no independence catalan parties triumphed in sunday's elections the beating the majority socialist party for the 1st time in history the leader of the pro independence republican left parties they that new chapter for catalonia. catalonia made history today the independence movement has more than 50 percent of the vote and this means that this country starts a new chapter we have a norm is forced to choose the still unsolved determination to achieve the freedom of the political prisoners and the return of the solver exult we have a huge force stood schieber a friend them to achieve the catalan republic. despite the results a recent survey suggests that only 44 percent of catalans are in favor of independence while 47 percent are against spain saw its worst political product crisis in decades following

a failed independence bit in 2017 by then president karla's post a month and we discussed the issue with our r k a spokesperson for the international commission of the european citizens this time we have not only good again napsylate majority of seats in the catalan parliament but also was her post the. 50 percent plus one boards so we are running really of. for ways of democratic ways to show ourselves and the world that we are conclude that to be a curtain in the state so we've seen always in history and in the recent history and the spanish the spanish to the violence attitude against in government and i will write a solution and that's people want to to be an independent state we are going legitimate to defend our that are with us stance. in whatever manner the spender

state decides to confront us. the influence of major social media platforms on politics and personal lives is rarely out of the headlines these days culminating in the banning of donald trump's account sounds those of his supporters r.t. spoke with the co-founder of cyber security firm kaspersky lab about people getting kicked off platforms and the safety of our personal details on the net you can watch the full interview on r.t. dot com but here's a preview. if you're buying it it just 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 but 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 platforms collect as much data as they can and even 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 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 if you have access to some very serious information that needs to be kept in secret it's probably a good idea not to use electronic devices at all if you're an ordinary citizen not involved and then into social or criminal activity it's ok for you to use apps while taking reasonable precaution measures but be aware that all your movements and all your pictures and videos etc are stored in the cloud so you need to consider them as good as leaked that's all for a regular citizen however if you are a james bond then old school phone is all you can afford and a mask on your face. many thanks for joining us here on oxy international we're back in 30 minutes with all the latest.

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