in the headlines this hour russian scientists about to develop the world's 1st test for the deadly a u.k. corona virus strain that's led to many countries shifting 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 other strains we could do it in a short period of time. a u. turn in minneapolis after push to defund the police the police the city gives law enforcement millions of dollars to tackle a spike in violence crime. the blame game continues as china hits back at washington for questioning the findings of the w h o's coronavirus investigation. and dug in

a hotel room for 10 days that's the new reality facing people returning to the u.k. from covert hot spots as new quarantine rules come into force. very warm welcome for my team here in moscow you're watching r t international with me nicky aaron and our top story russian scientists have developed the world's 1st test for the new corona virus strain 1st detected in britain the deadly a variant has led to many countries shutting their doors to travelers artie's ecostar of her small. what this particular mutation more commonly known as the british strain has caused some alarm all over the world and essentially one thing to understand about it while not more aggressive as any other strain of the virus for the hosts body it is much more contagious and therefore it poses an increased

risk of hospitalization and death and that's why russian scientists decided to single out this particular strain 1st it almost 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 one thing to understand about covert 19 is that it's a virus that well it mutates very easily adapting to different environments and so on that's why this is potentially very concerning because what if it develops and evolves into a version that kills people quicker so that's why europe is still on lockdown at

least of some degree some countries of closed outside of the e.u. travel's some countries closed borders even with some of its new neighbors and the move the virus exists and by the way there are no signs that it is going anywhere the movie versions of itself it will create but the russians are saying that that with this new technology they will be able to quickly identify and single out whatever new strain comes up. our justice system aims to detect a mutation in a protein that was 1st found in a strain in britain but later it was also found in south african and brazilian strains as well initially we planned to use the test for surveillance now i do not exclude the possibility that the test can be used for differential diagnosis after grown a virus has been diagnosed in order to understand what kind of virus a person is infected with. so the more scientists know about covert 19 the more

information doctors have so the will be able to potentially at least tailor their treatment in accordance as to which strain a patient has and world make it more personal make it more individual and hopefully prevent more deaths. meanwhile in the u.k. a new quarantine measures introduced on monday may make british people think twice about coming home and you want a rising from a red listed country will now have to fork out 1750 pounds to quarantine for 10 days in a specially designated hotel upon arrival passengers are escorted through the airports then taken by a bus to their accommodation 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 pelosi is for anyone who flout the rules it's introduced fines of up to 10000 pounds for those failing to quarantine and a maximum prison sentence of 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 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 roadless country and hasn't declared it could deface abuse are they expected to detain them paul chiles a travel consultant c c o believes that quarantining in hotels is a risky policy. 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 who tells 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 whom self isolate there and if that was in forced properly i think that would be far more effective than hotel quarantine. asperities growing within the germany closed its borders to austria and the czech republic then there was part of berlin's battle to combat covert variance but that explanation didn't wash with his neighbors for weeks but various minutes the president marcos order hasn't

missed a single opportunity to take a pot shot at her all 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. meanwhile the introduction of border controls has caused massive traffic jams at the german czech frontier and the restrictions that took effect on sunday german citizens along with truck drivers are allowed to enter germany provided they test negative for cove it though they will still 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 piece of fiction you obviously are legion is to believe that we can build this european union and make it into a single gun free eventually but it doesn't seem to work that we haven't really achieve unity in the sense that the different people in europe but 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 own through their policy and so on if only they are all the us and dismayed that we're going to build a european union that's really doing what it's to that's when your mother they want . does not. want people that's as simple as that the basic thing is that we are different people 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 of

a covert 19 the runner up today of 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 covert 90 investigation were communicated and questions about the process used to reach them beijing has hit back at washington saying the u.s. has undermined 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 us acting as if none of this has ever happened is pointing fingers at other countries who have been faithfully supporting 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 that heavyweight

shows investigation was the subject of intense and often critical media scrutiny and one case a number of w.h.o. experts hit 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 critical 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 lee to restate casting shadows over important scientific work china expert joseph gregory mahoney believes the origin of the pandemic will remain a critic 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 trump's america from his 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 builder around well grounded theory what this means unfortunately is that the outbreaks origins will probably remain respectable to lead the politicization and demonization a long time to come. in the u.-turn from last year's decision to defund the police the minneapolis city council is now those who do not

a mostly to give lowering the force meant i have a $6000000.00 to tackle a spike in violent crime recent data suggests that the number of gunshot victims is up 250 percent compared to the same parry as last year at the same time rape cases have increased 22 percent as robbery but almost 60 percent the city county has around 200 fewer offices than usual as often many left to fulfill when told to leave following the death of jules floyd in may last year. thank you thank you. thank you. thank. you that was so we got deep love that you got to call it that. i want i want change oh we all want change.

this is what you get when you just hold other cops accountable when you let them kill other people when you let them kill us when you don't hold your partner accountable this is it this is. following the protests the president of the minneapolis city council announced plans to replace the police with bush a cold a chance for my safe 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 burned 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 to lou and 3 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 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 a new report costs down song the effectiveness of u.s. aviation in the fight against isis in the middle east story and small after this short break. seemed wrong. but old rules just don't hold. any old belief to shape out just because educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person with those great. dares thinks. we dare to ask. the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in their own interest or you see in this these techniques is the state devising methods to him to essentially destroy the personality of an individual. by scientific means this is how one doctor his theories were illegitimate used in

psychological warfare against prisoners deemed a danger to the state that was the foundation for the method of psychological interrogation psychological torture of the cia disseminated within the us intelligence community and worldwide among our allies for the next 30 years and other victims say they still live with the consequences today. welcome back a new reports by america's round a think tank has cost out on the effectiveness of the u.s. air forces role in the fight against isis the survey has found that military aviation failed to significantly speed up the defeat all the so-called caliphate

his aussies soskice halo with will. you might remember not too long ago a humble man claiming a historic victory. over a recent mess. or the bottom. there is no red the isis. 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 that is plenty of room for improvement a little more aggressive in operations might just slightly accelerated the defeat of isis they were unlikely to have significantly altered the timeline the deep fighting operation inherent resolve affected ices finances but it could not affect us is main said dr 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 was doing it all over again to be fat 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 almost 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 lacks 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

a 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 villages 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 are tired at u.s. air force officer karen kwiatkowski 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 or 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 or 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 votes for the 1st time the leader of the republican left party says it's a new chapter for the region the union is of catalonia made history today with independence movement has 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 self exult we have a huge force stood schieber a friend to achieve the catalan republic. despite the results a recent survey suggests that only 44 percent of catalans are in favor of independence or 47 percent are against spain sorries worst political crisis in decades following a failed independent bid in 2017 by then president carter's purged amount we heard from r r k a spokesperson for the international commission of europeans that is. this time we have not only. majority of seats in the parliament but also was her post the 50 percent plus one so we are running really of. for ways. to show ourselves the world we are conclude that to be

a curtain in the state so we've seen always a history and in the recent history. the spanish the spanish to the violence against in dublin and i will write a solution and that's people want to be an independent and we are legitimate to defend our stance. in whatever manner the splendid state decides to confront. the influence of major social media platforms on politics and personal lives is rarely out of the headlines these days commentating on the banning of donald trump's accounts and some of those of his supporters to 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 at r.t. dot com but here's a preview. my. buying it is just that 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 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 any more.

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 are 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 regular citizen however if you are

a james bond then old school phone is all you can afford and a mask on your face. what if you can watch that full interview on our website artie dot com you can find plenty more stories on their 2000 for me for today at but andy farmer will be with you at the top of the hour with the latest. this is a speculative attack that elon musk is making on the fan right so he's already going to war with the f.c.c. is already going toward the f.c.c. and he's shown them to be venal and captured now he's gone to war with food and say i'm not going to buy back my own stock i'm going to take your cheap money i'm going

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the one business show you can't afford to miss a bunch of boring washington coming up big oil hit fresh record highs over the weekend merely topping the $50000.00 mark will break down the latest loan with a payable of crypto guru. plus the united states congress will hold hearings this week to get to the bottom of the game stop stock fiasco and they're calling some high profile names and to testify we'll go over what they hope to learn later covert cases in the u.s. are trending down as vaccination numbers go up we have a vaccine expert on hand to discuss the state of the rollout when facts show today let's dive right in. and we lead the program with the latest record run for

a big point if big oil has it had a strong enough year already the world's largest cryptocurrency has surged yet again coming up just shy of hitting the $50000.00 mark major firms continue to flock to bitcoin but now there are complaints about the amount of energy being used to mind the cryptocurrency so let's waste no time and dig into the details do just that we're joined by boom bust co-host and crypto analyst ben swan and jeffrey tucker editorial director at the american institute for economic research thank you both for being here today but i want to start with you what's behind this latest rally for because well i'm not sure there's a latest rally i think it's an ongoing rally that we've been seeing since late last year and it's continued into this year and let's face it if you are holding because you're doing great right now look at the long must seems to be a part of it he talked about tesla coming in and essentially buying up about $1500000000.00 worth of bitcoin and they would begin accepting the coins in order to buy a test.