go anywhere why not me. when i come here. headlines this hour russian scientists developed the world's 1st test for the deadly u.k. coronavirus strain has led to many countries shutting their borders we hear from the head of the russian lab. while developing the new testing system we kept in mind that if we need to detect all these trees we could do it in a short period of time. a u. turn in minneapolis at the city gives law enforcement to millions of dollars after a push to defund the police led to a spike in violent crime and. the blame game continues as china hits back at washington for questioning the findings of the w h o's coronavirus investigation. found stuck in a hotel room for 10 days that's the new reality facing people returning to the u.k.

from covert hotspots as new quarantine rules come into force. a very welcomed my team here in moscow you're watching r t international with me nicky aaron now our top story russian scientists have developed the world's 1st test for the new coronavirus train 1st detected in britain the new a deadly a variant has led to many countries shutting their doors to travelers i'm joined now by our correspondent ecostar love eco good to see you just how much of a game changer is this. well nicky this particular strain of the virus most commonly known as the british strain well it has been a cause for concern all over the world the thing about it it's not more aggressive as any other corona virus in the host in the hosts body but it is much more

contagious and therefore poses an increased risk of hospitalization and death and that's why russian scientists decided to focus on researching this strain and singled it out. 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 test results which is much faster than the classic p.c.r. 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. milage ical surveillance to control the spread of new strains however well developed in the 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 well but this strain it's just one out of many because one thing to understand about covert 19 is that it mutates rapidly adapting to various

environments that it is in so that's why it has caused so many log downs i mean europe is on various degrees in various levels of lockdowns right now some of them are closing borders for outside travel some countries are closing borders even for in the in the block travel as well with the single with some particular countries but this new method this new technology that the russian scientists have developed they are saying basically they in the future they will be able to single out and to find out about different strains whenever new ones emerge. our justice system aims to detect a mutation in a protein that was 1st found in this strain in britain but later it was also found in south africa and brazil and strains as well initially we planned to use the test for surveillance now i do not exclude the possibility that to test 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 so essentially the more scientists know about covert 19 and has different strains the more information doctors have so they will be able to tailor their approach and the treatment of patients and make it more individual more effective and hopefully the fate tally to rate will be reduced indeed here's hoping i don't speak to seeing but this really does feel like a real big step in the right direction towards the fight against coronavirus r.t. correspondent for starr thank you for the details well meanwhile in the u.k. new career quarantine measures introduced on monday may make travelers think twice about coming home and you want to rising from a red list of country will now have to quarantine for 10 days and a specially designated hotel upon arrival passengers out of school at it through the airport then taken by bus to their accommodation travelers will have to pay

1700 pounds for the stay out of their own pocket london's heathrow airport has expressed concerns about 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 the u.k. government has brought in some tough penalties for anyone who flout the rules it's introduced fines of up to 10000 pounds for those failing to quarantine and a prison sentence of up to 10 years for people who lie about where they've come from this creates additional challenges for the u.k. border force to what extent a border for is 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 list country and hasn't declared it could they face abuse are they expected to detain them or port charles a travel consultant c c

o believes that quarantining in hotels that isn't the answer. i noticed the world health organization said the other day that some of these variants are on the wane which means that maybe they are now being managed more effectively but before we get the data we don't know for certain what i do think is that hotel quarantine is still very high risk is a policy it prevents people coming into the country who might have to come in and that police often come in so it doesn't help the economy recover secondly it's high risk because as we've seen in australia and new zealand there are some hotels where the as iris is being transmitted from one of the guests through to a security worker or catering work and work enough hotel is then taken it back and transmitted it within their own communities it would be much better for effective testing to be done at the borders on arrival and then anyone these positive is taken in school to their own home where they could quarantine in their own their

own in their own hoon self isolate there and if that was in forced properly i think that would be far more effective than hotel quarantine. as it is brewing within the e.u. after germany closed its borders to austria and the tech republic the way it was part of berlin's battle to combat covert variance but that explanation didn't wash with this robust 4 weeks but various minutes the president marcos hasn't missed a single opportunity to take a pot shot at a role this constant push orator of remarks are 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 where battling the mutated virus on the borders with the czech republican or strip the e.u. commission should support the arts and not throw a spanner in the works with their cheap suggestions. i mean while 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 enter germany provided they test negative for coded that they will still need to be quarantined for at least 10 days on a rival political commentators on bricmont believes it's not realistic to expect countries to act as one despite the ideals of the e.u. your hobbies are fiction your hobbies 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 really achieve unity in the sense that the different people in europe are still as different as they used to be the german town the french know the french and italians etc and then those are going to be doing to these areas of the people to control their country their policy and so on if only they are all the us and this

meat going to build a european union that's really doing what it's to that's when you know mother they want a lady named it's just not possible because. there won't be that's us and was not the basic thing that we are different and we have not changed to was the unity if you want to go in late the. united states and china have again turned the coronavirus pandemic into a political scandal accusing each other of wrongdoing over kovac 19 the hour wrapped it over the findings of a recent world health organization probe into the origins of the virus in china with washington calling for more transparency from beijing we have deep concerns about the way in which the early findings of the cold nights investigation work communicated and questions about the process used to reach them they think has hit back at washington saying the u.s. has undermined the international efforts to tackle the pandemic. 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. acting as if none of this has ever happened is pointing fingers at other countries who have been faithfully supports in the w.h.o. and the w.h.o. itself with such a track record how can it win the confidence of the whole world but anyway chose investigation was the subject of intense media scrutiny and one case a number of w.h.o. experts head back at an article in the new york times that accused china of refusing to hand over data this was not my experience on 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 critically new data throughout we didn't grizz our 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 lito east to casting shadows over important scientific work 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 the transamerica 1st perch proved profoundly destructive to international cooperation we know that biden will not go soft on china but he aims to compete we know that he has to play to american voters who are deeply suspicious of china we know that he's trying to rally allies in 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 theory what this means unfortunately that the outbreaks origins will probably remain a couple of the politicization and demonization for a long time to come. in a huge chunk from last year's decision to defund the police the minneapolis city council has now voted unanimously to give law enforcement of a $6000000.00 following a spike in violence crime recent data suggests that the number of gunshot victims is up 250 percent compared to the same period last year at the same time rate cases have increased 22 percent and robbery by almost 60 percent the situation has been made was as the city currently has around $200.00 fewer offices than usual as off the many left to fulfill when told of the following the death of george floyd in may last year. thank you. thank you.

thank. you we've got the stuff we've got people that we've got to call it. thank you. 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 feel when you don't tell your partner accountable this this this that. 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 and she wasn't the only one calling for

radical changes. i will never call sign off on funding a police department that continues to brutalize us and i will love her and stop saying not only do we need to invest current police well we need to completely dismantle the minneapolis police department. 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 yell 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 in 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. still to come say you were polled cost down sun the effectiveness of u.s. aviation in the fight against my sister in the middle east we got that story and small coming up after this short break stay with us.

i am. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race is on often scary dramatic development the only relief i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and tom.

welcome back a new report by america's round think tank has cost out on the effectiveness of the u.s. air force's role in the fight against isis the survey has found the military aviation failed to significantly speed up the defeat of the so-called caliphate his aussies southgate's headed with more you might remember not too long ago a humble man claiming a historic victory. when i took it over was a mess now on the bottom that's exactly and 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 corporation 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're unlikely to have significantly altered the timeline the deep fighting

operation inherent resolve affected us is 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 2018 and 19 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 who most 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 feed this meant that many practitioners lacked experience in applying these processes to real world operations and the muscle memory to rapidly execute them and the conclusion the report comes to night the matches that last seen 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 air 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 retired u.s. air force officer karen could be a could create. kitty who questioned the motives behind the u.s. presence in syria. i think that the u.s. 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 hard with the united states military is proving is that we should spend more money on our defensive and offensive capabilities and in many ways we use these. wars not as wars but as exercises where we can demonstrate technologies improve our coronations

skills our combat intelligence or using and kind of as our own testing ground almost a playground which of course is extremely. immoral. pro independence parties have increased their majority in catalonia as regional parliament taking more than half of the vote for the 1st time the leader of the republican left parties they is it's a new chapter for the region that the union is of catalonia made history today in the independence movement as more than 50 percent of the vote and this means that this country starts a new chapter we have enormous forced to choose the students determination to achieve the freedom of the political prisoners and the return of the solver exult we have a huge force stood she refer to achieve the catalan republic despite the results a recent survey suggests that only 44 percent of counselors are in favor of

independence while 47 percent are against spain saw its worst political crisis in decades decades following a failed independence bit in 2017 by then president carter's push demand earlier we heard from our r k a spokesperson for the international commission of european citizens. this time we've not only get again majority of seats in the can and parliament but also it was her post the threshold of 50 percent plus while vaults so we are running really of. our for ways of democratic ways to show ourselves and the world that we are completely that turd and to be a cutter and in the state so we've seen always a history and in the risks of this history and the spanish the spanish to the violence attitude against in devon and i will write a solution and us people into to be an independent state we are legitimate to

defend our that are with us stance. in whatever manner the spanish 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 accounts or those of his supporters are he 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 our website 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 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 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 we can find the rest of that interview on our website. that's of mr now that we're back in 30 minutes with the latest see there.

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