look past the deaths that happen every single day this is a history of the usa america. the headlines this hour russian scientists develop the world's 1st test of the deadly strain of the coronavirus that many countries to close their borders we hear from the head of the russian the border. while developing the new test and systems we kept in mind that if we need to detect other strains we could do it in a short period of time also this stuck in a hotel room for 10 days that's the new reality facing people returning to the u.k. to cope with hotspots as new quarantine routes come into force in the u. turn in minneapolis after a push to defund the police the city gives room for some and millions of dollars to tackle a spike in violent crime. good

afternoon she's gone 5 o'clock in moscow you're watching r.t. international now russian scientists have developed world's 1st tests for the new corona virus strain that was 1st detected in britain the deadly a very interested to many countries closing their borders because it darn off has more. what this particular mutation more commonly known as the british strain has caused some alarm all over the world essentially one thing to understand about it while 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. well developed in the new test in system we use 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 it 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 e.u. 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 will create but the russians are

saying 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 this 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 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 maintain 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.

new quarantine measures introduced on monday night might make travelers think twice before heading there because anyone arriving from a red it listed country including u.k. nationals will now have to fork out 1007 $150.00 pounds that's more than $2400.00 to quarantine for 10 days in a specially designated hotel on upon arrival passengers are escorted through the airport then taken by bus to their accommodation but london's heathrow airport has expressed concerns about the policy. we have been working hard with government to try to ensure the successful implementation of the poll is supreme monday but some significant gaps remain ministers must ensure there is adequate resources in the brute route protocols in place for each step of before and. after the hotel to avoid compromising the safety of passengers and those working at the airport well the u.k. government has brought in tough penalties for anybody who flights those rules it's introduced fines of up to $10000.00 pounds for those failing to quarantine and

a maximum prison sentence of 10 years for people who lie about where they have come from all this is creating those additional challenges for the u.k. border force to what extent our border force going to be checking to be sure people have been noticed we're hearing a lot of concern from people who are concerned about encountering someone who has been in the red list country and hasn't declared it could deface abuse are they expected to detain them or paul charles is the head of a travel consultancy firm and he 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 virus is being transmitted from one of the guests through to a security worker or catering work at work ina 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 to their own home where they could quarantine in their on 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. spatters bring within. its borders to austria and the czech republic the navy's part of burdens battle to combat variance but it's not combat well with its neighbors for weeks but various minister president marcus solder hasn't missed a single opportunity to take

a pot shot at a role this constant push your it's 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 us and not throw a spanner in the works with their cheap suggestions. meanwhile the introduction of those border controls has caused massive traffic jams as you can see here at the german check from taya 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 however they still will be quarantined for at least 10 days on arrival political commentator sean bricmont believes it's not realistic to expect countries to act as one despite the common ideals of the european union your piece

of fiction europe is 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 we haven't really achieve unity in the sense that the different people in europe but still there's this one of those that used to be the german town the french know the french. and in those are going to be doing these areas of the people to control their own through their police and so on if only they are all the us in this meet to build a european union that will be loading in 82 that's when your mother there are. people who. know the basic things that we are different and we have no change was the unity if you want to go in. denmark says that it does plan to roll out covert 19 passports in a bid to get parts of its economy reopened while the practicalities are still under consideration many have expressed concerns over the initiative is it does mean

compulsory vaccination idea or not everybody is comfortable with. well i read that they mark a's going to introduce a vaccine possible for the cause of aids and that other countries might do. well it's not effectively making the vaccine compulsory tool to those who want to leave your country who want to turn off most things i would've thought. should. of never being like to go goodbye can i hear but i like to travel so you think your country is a should not sung songs no no i don't. want to skew. different cultures it was easy to do because. yes. 3. x. nations to visit certain countries but not to leave their own country to to use every

trick because. police would fix one target which vaccine would you even name one which ones that. depends on where you live where these not just travel you know some companies talking about making vaccines compulsory for their employees. i will most people will and that's a good thing but some people don't want. to introduction not to those who think the mother. doesn't facebook has their truth is i do not and nod to the risk. of their lives to. the ship are fair enough but not all of them are like that. well yes some papers skeptical for understandable reasons but that's not the point . well it doesn't matter what their reasoning is they should have a choice if we go down the path of making medical procedures effectively compulsory

where does that lead us or for you want to know. she's content past 5 here in moscow now in other news after the controversial death of george floyd at the hands of police in minneapolis last year the city decided to defund foresman to however since then crime has been cancelled chiefs have been forced into a major acute turn they've now voted to spend a whopping $6000000.00 in the bid to regain law and order recent data to suggest 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 city currently has around $200.00 fewer officers than usual that's after many left the force or went on the following the death of george floyd a man last year.

i. was. wrong that that was. i was i watch a wrong we are watching. this what you. call the cops accountable when you kill other people when you work. with you don't hold your partner accountable this this this as. well following those 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 such radical changes either. i will never call sign off on funding a police department that continues to brutalize out and i will never even stop

saying not only do we need to invest we're in police well we need to completely dismantle the minneapolis police department and. 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 who 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 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. with us because i'm president and snow storm is claimed at least 4 lives in the state of texas freezing temperatures also led to a massive power outage that left more than 4000000 households without electricity the blizzard has seen flights being canceled in texas have pools while thousands of motorists are stuck in traffic jams to one state highways. recent days temperatures there have dropped to minus 18 degrees celsius the coldest in one to 30 years on

sunday president biden to declare a state of emergency in texas the size storm has also intensified to the debate over renewable energy in the state as many wind to bines are frozen still inside the panels covered with ice. still ahead feed this hour a new report cost effectiveness of the u.s. air force in the fight against isis in the middle east we'll have a look at the details in a couple of minutes. join

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welcome back without international now a new report on american think tank has cast doubt on the thank to us of the u.s. air forces role in the fight against isis the survey found that military aviation had failed to significantly speed up the defeat of the so-called caliphate. with more you might remember not too long ago how little man claiming a historic victory. when i took it over was a mess now on the bottom that's exactly there is no ready the isis goal of. 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 u.s. 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 more just slightly accelerated the defeat of isis they're unlikely to have significantly altered the timeline the deep fighting operation inherent resolve affected ices 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 numerous to 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 so ask taylor that we heard from the author and retired u.s. air force officer karen. questions though the motives behind the u.s.

presence in syria. i think the u.s. would spend if they wanted 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 in many ways we use these. wars not as wars but as exercises or we can demonstrate technologies improve our coronation skills are our combat intelligence or using them kind of as our own testing ground almost a playground which of course is extremely. immoral. my pro independence parties have increased their majority in catalonia is regional parliament taking more than half the votes for the very 1st time the leader of the

republican left party says it's a new chapter for the region. catalonia made history today will independence movement as more than 50 percent of the vote this means that this country starts a new chapter we have enormous 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 to achieve the catalan republic well despite the results a recent survey suggests that only 44 percent of catalans are actually in favor of independence while 47 percent are against spain's or its worst political crisis in decades following a failed independence bit in 2017 by the then president carter's put human earlier we heard from an arc she's a spokesperson for the international commission of european citizens this time we've not only get again an absolute majority of seats in the current parliament but also with her parents the press corps for 50 percent plus while vaults so we

are running really of. 4 ways of democratic ways to show ourselves and the world we are completely that and the cattle in the state so we've seen always in history and in the risks of this history and the spanish the spanish violence against in dublin and i will write a solution and asked people to be an independent and up and state we outgrew legitimate to defend our stance. in whatever manner the spanish state decides to confront. the influence of major social media platforms is really out of the headlines these days culminating in the banning of donald trump and we spoke about this with the co-founder of the u.s. cyber security firm casper ski lab and she also told us about the safety of our own personal data on the net and also the dangers too you can watch the full interview

with r.t. dot com but here's a taste of what she said. 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 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 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. well that brings you up to date with the when you say faucet i will be back there was usual in about half an hour's time the headlines on most stories. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. the day or thinks. we dare to ask.

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. listen to one business show you can't afford to miss a bunch of boring washington coming up big oil hit record highs over the weekend merely topping the 50000. dollar mark will break down the latest run with a family 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 and 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 hasn't had a strong enough year already the world's largest cryptocurrency has surged yet again coming up just shy of hitting the 50 $1000.00 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're you are holding because you're doing great right now look at the law 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 because in order to buy a tesla we're seeing a lot of firms coming in mastercard now saying you no longer have to convert currency to feel they're able to automatically you know. transfer crypto

transactions directly through master card that's a huge step we know that pay pal has gotten into this space so there's a lot of you know institutional investors who are coming in on this and everyone's work kind of. helping to propel bitcoin but at the same time there's also this foam all this fear of missing out where you're now starting to see more retail investors and more in institutional investors wanting to get in on this before because it becomes almost unreachable in terms of its price bet i wanted to point out something when we 1st started working together on blue bus maybe year and a half ago we had a conversation i think both on the air and off the air i asked you where you thought it was going you said it's not unbelievable to say this is going to $100000.00 we're halfway there are we really that close. we really are that cricket that closely because what you see will begin to happen is that as i was saying when you start to get a couple of institutional investors coming in and then more come in and then more come in all of a sudden you begin to rally and push the value up but the other thing that's important about this.