in the headlines this friday trace flop. the u.k. prime minister is being world 'd leading countries 37000000000 pound tracing system shows limited effectiveness after almost one year in operation but according to one of the u.k.'s major medical journals. in other news french doctors are venting their fury at presidents of money or mark wrong for failing to deliver on his promise to speed up the vaccination process as frontline medics battle against overwhelming caseload. we believe the government is to blame for the fact that we have to work incredibly slowly but at the same time in

a completely grueling regime. the social media thought police look like they're at it again facebook's grabs a video of an interview with donald trump posted by his daughter in law after it and other platforms of the former president leaving the year. high there and a very good morning to you thanks of course for joining us here on out. the 37000000000 pound test tray system that u.k. prime minister boris johnson wants hailed as being world beating didn't live up to all the hype that's the finding of a major study published in the british medical journal that has raised concerns about the system's effectiveness. it is thanks to h.s. to trace the we're able to send kids back to school and be here. and irreversibly

to reopen our economy and restart our lives our data suggest that self reported rates of full adherence to isolating and testing are low as are rates of recognition of the main symptoms of covert 19 with such low rates for sins and recognition testing and for self isolation the effectiveness of the current form of the you case test trace an isolate system is limited well beating and world leading that's what the u.k.'s tassel try to stem was supposed to be is how it looks though almost a year on only one in 5 people with symptoms actually requests a test the groundbreaking scheme was designed to identify positive case and alert possible others but in reality more than a year since the pandemic started the government has apparently failed to teach people how to identify covert symptoms and if it's not for lack of spending the government forked out $37000000000.00 pounds on track and trace but it's worth it to take the pressure off the n.h.s. right wrong turns out the failures of the scheme have arguably pushed those on the

front line to work even harder and the facts they get for it and one percent pay rise which actually due to inflation turns out to be a pay cut rather than putting money into the public n.h.s. and local councils to be run by public services they decided to invest billions in a largely privatized outsource system so you have a hugely expensive white anything which failed to prevent the 2nd wave of the pandemic and they have the cheek to call the test into a system the n.h.s. tests and faces them where it's not run by the n.h.s. so it's very deceptive it's very wasteful and fundamentally it's corrupt and you think the government would just admit its mistake a multi-billion pound mistake but instead since last may and h.s. test and trace has contacted 3200000 people who tested positive and another 60. and 4000000 of their contacts behind these numbers are countless lives saved while the

tassel try staff being paid a grand a day and highest paid 6 and a half a day you'd hope dies they show method would be better stressed $37000000000.00 pounds it's total cost and yes that's a lot of money but could all be justifiable if it worked only it didn't as there's no evidence the scale made a blind bit of difference to prevent the 2nd lockdown nor this one for that matter . doctors in france are venting their frustration at president mark ron's failure to deliver on his promise to speed of vaccinations as the nation enters its 3rd lockdown they warned the lack of available doses is now critical with the more seriously ill patients being admitted to already overwhelmed hospitals but the president insists the rollout is happening at full throttle when we talk to him when we are putting all means to vaccinate vaccinate vaccinate with our response without holidays saturdays and sundays just like weekdays to leave. the general

practitioners like myself are not currently receiving vaccines for 2 weeks now we've not had any vaccines available for injection we've been working for 9 months without stop and without vacation 7 days a week as mr macron says judy the inability to complete the work on time due to a lack of vaccines we believe the government is to blame for the fact that we have to work incredibly slowly but at the same time in a completely grueling regime simply because of a lack of equipment the new wave of code will lead to overcrowding in hospitals we already know this will happen we are already is signing which patients get treatment and which don't because about 60 percent of operations were cancelled. wednesday the french president promised to increase the number of intensive care beds to above $10000.00 doctors though say it will cover the expense of non-coding patients another problem is lack of staff as intensive care requires additional special training and equipment. again says that these challenges could have been

avoided if micron had acted earlier. emmanuel macron has woken up a year after the start of the crisis the year ago in march the need for a large number of hospital beds and beds in intensive care took us by surprise but after a year the number of beds has not increased there is however a positive point unlike last year we do not need a large number of ventilators not because they were produced but because they're now used in a much later stage of the disease now it's enough to simply provide patients with enhanced oxygen therapy the problem however is that the appropriate technology has not been installed in our hospitals as a result of oxygen therapy sites are still limited responsibility for this rests entirely with the manual macron who endlessly delayed the adoption of measures even preventative measures such as supplying hospitals with oxygen cylinders and oxygen therapy devices necessary for treating patients.

thousands of anonymous reports of sexual harassment by pupils in u.k. schools or shine a spotlight on the abuse faced by students around $100.00 schools have been named in testimonies including private institutions where the $11000.00 accounts of sexual harassment in british schools were posted on the everyone's invited website which aims to expose rape culture in the u.k. the figure is more than doubled in the past 2 days the majority of testimonies detail the harassment of girls and included posts from children as young as just 9 . meanwhile a recent survey by charity plan international u.k. reveals 58 percent of girls aged $14.00 to $21.00 have been publicly harassed at school if found girls experience and wanted sexual comments as well as being grabbed 3 quarters of girls said that schools should support those who have experienced public sexual harassment. the u.k.

government launched an emergency review on the hotline to support victims of sexual abuse in schools the british education secretary and said that he's committed to ensuring victims feel supported by katie russell the national spokesperson for rape crisis england and wales says that this is by no means a new problem the statistics aren't particularly surprising to you as we know that sexual violence and abuse and sexist bullying and sexual harassment are far more widespread in the general population then many people appreciate but also ringback there was a women inequality select committee report into precisely this issue sex is bullying sexual harassment and sexual violence in schools just a few years ago and made a series of recommendations which the government has largely ignored and thale to act upon so this is not a new phenomenon and really the question is why more hasn't been done by government to tackle this situation sooner any action of course is welcome that these feel

very much like sort of kneejerk responses to a situation that as a say you know there's not been are known about. donald trump may have been banned by social media giants but it doesn't mean that the purge of the former president is over facebook has removed an interview with him posted by his daughter in law of his killer morgan looks at whether social media giants of the new thought police. big tech censorship just keeps coming the latest is an interview from former u.s. president donald trump getting scrubbed from facebook in line with the bill quip placed on donald trump's facebook an instagram account says a content posted in the voice of donald trump will be removed and result in additional limitations on the account donald trump is not the president anymore and you sunning himself in florida so why exactly is it so dangerous for people to hear his interpretation of world events and just like that we are one step closer to

wilson 1984 wow joe biden keeps repeating that big tack are his allies in his efforts to create a world where everyone has freedom of speech and the united states is spreading human rights across the planet but some are saying that a social media purge of a former president sets a dangerous precedent it is an issue that we have got to be thinking about because of anybody who thinks. yesterday was donald trump who was banned and tomorrow could be somebody else who has a different very different point of view so i don't like giving that much power to a handful of high tech people but the devil is obviously in the details and it's something we're going to think long and hard on and that is how you preserve 1st amendment rights without moving this country into a big lie a mentality and conspiracy theory all kinds of pro trump voices have been purged from social media you've got the removal of retired general michael flynn sidney power and 2008 vice presidential candidate of the libertarian party and commentator

wayne allen root we've also seen big tech declare certain news stories to be off limits they have shut down discussion of the biden family and their shady business dealings they have actually scrub search results to remove conservative media outlets but yet all kinds of inappropriate content remains on social media 40 percent of americans have faced online harassment or hate. california wants to hold big tech accountable for what they are not censoring while they're too busy playing politics instead californians are becoming increasingly alarmed about the role of social media in promoting hate disinflation conspiracy theories and extreme political polarization trost of social media has dropped to a low of 35 percent and it's not surprising either how social media originated with the idea being it would be a place for all kinds of people to be free to speak up and explore the marketplace

of ideas instead it's turned into a place for playing politics and pushing some people's agenda while suppressing others they are afraid because it would be a great for the american people who plans to set president try to get him out the way so he won't be able to run for office the office again because you know if you did run for office again that he will win we need to look back at the 1st amendment when it comes to the media cause we have seen how the. coming from big tech and the media these people have too much control they have became rich and they really don't care about mappin you know your opinion so if government want to rein in big take against bigger do it tomorrow if they wanted to do that the republican party democrat party is the same on big tex democrats and republicans on the same boat it takes 2 going so bury the flag for say the whole thing is a political gain. the former u.s. president still the only one who's been purged by social media giant centrists and

activist 1st mcgowan she has her own experience of being ousted by big tech. what do you pray to god or just a little pretty much speech going against your brownies i don't understand why you support evil jack dorsey and want to block. i was just spend it by twitter for posting an internet photo of bill clinton and getting most of the stars and no woman flagged it for indeed i was just trying to drive the point home about a disgusting human doing disgusting things i know twitter is trying to silence me and i know a lot of the powerful democrats are behind it deactivated entirely 4 days after i helped out harvey weinstein my attacker in the new york times expose a 4 years ago there was

a worldwide it limited boycott where for 24 hour protests until they reinstated me they did and they have but i have been shadow band ever since i am tired of having these men's feet on my neck i'm tired of having their hand over my mouth you guys are old pros to be tracked for rose right the little bros and you're supposed to be the freedom of speech he clapped for and that is a lot. a passenger train has derailed in eastern taiwan with 41 people confirmed. over 90 others have been injured the authorities say many more people all feared dead while dozens of thought to be still trapped in the wreckage express train came off the tracks at around 9 am local time it was carrying around 350 passengers accident looks like being the island's worst rail disaster in decades the last major train derailment in taiwan was in 2018 left 18

people that. still to come this hour the u.s. state department pledges to respect the stool in this and use human rights if extradited to the freedom of speech advocates insist the whistle blows persecution is an attack called journalism we're not after the break. when else seemed wrong. why don't we all just don't. let me. get to shape out these days become active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

the wall street frauds going all the way back to the twenty's they're not different . packages rebranded and sold again it's the same why and so the smack frog is just a variation on the dot com fraud which is a variation of the mortgage sub prime fraud if you remove fraud the g.d.p. would be it would be negative 20 percent. back beijing has lashed out at washington after the us ambassador made his 1st official visit to taiwan in more than 40 years china considers the island part of

its territory and it's often been a point of contention in international relations but this isn't the 1st time washington stepped on china's toes in the region the quarter lateral security dialogue was recently released something that some of labeled an asian nato sonnen right explains. the rise of china and subsequent tantrum in the west is heading the way these things always do the great powers and some not so great ones getting together and holding hands and forming alliances so anything really bad happens we can all suffer together in the blue corner we have the cord for the 1st try we're convening this group. yet that meeting was a few weeks ago a meeting of the quadrilateral security dialogue or quote for short because no one can remember the real name who comes out with those names anyway it's made up of the united states india japan and australia some might suggest a more clues than quads the aim of the gang is a free and open indo-pacific that was the promise after the 1st summit between the

leaders of the us india japan and australia so there really are the words is to keep china in its place brilliantly now every using the word china i show you one me you will take a look at their p.r. video often in a few words as we go. in the dish to be china free and open and close it and help the unless you china. to be china unconstrained by course power china committed to addressing the world defining challenge the rise of china moment of crisis something. to be china. and china. that the threat of climate change and combat the threat of china our savior the pain of watching you basically goes on like that some of the called the asian nato we say officially denied because it is not a minute to your lines for the 1st time canada is participating in a joint exercise in the pacific ocean with the nations to rise the. sea definitely

not a military alliance as ever though self-interest is likely to be the main enemy of this group they 1st got together back in 2004 to respond to the booking day tsunami when they tried to go steady off towards. make it all a bit more official they realized it wasn't going to work because none of them really wanted to annoy china. now almost 15 years after they gave up on the cord in the 1st place they're back and they realize they do want to annoy china now because the us is scared of being used as the global bully indios just have a border clash with china literally with sticks and australia is facing economic sanctions from beijing so yeah return of the cord we know that our allies have complex relationships with china that always align perfectly enter key u.s. ally south korea which is doing all it can to stay out of the cord after realizing that while it relies on the u.s. for its security it does most of its shopping in china australia doesn't seem to

have noticed it in the same position hence those sanctions from beijing china has called the quad an excuse to form clique's and openly incite discord between regional countries with that in mind is building its own clique to incite discord your reaction to china making a big push into the mid east with a new 25 year deal with china and iran. is really struggling to see the ors queues and she so yes china and iran have signed a 25 year cooperation deal among other things beijing will be buying iranian oil in defiance of u.s. sanctions i mean just like the quote never says the c word china and iran didn't exactly say of the signing but this is one big middle finger games where near washington the big geopolitical beasts then are picking their teams and taking sides. to worry about i'm sure. despite the extradition of wiki leaks founder julian assange to the u.s.

being blocked on human rights grounds in january a recent statement by the u.s. state department suggests the whistleblower may be out of sight but he's certainly not out of mind. and you. know national human rights standards. we could release thousands of classified files a decade ago exposing information on u.s. war crimes in iraq and afghanistan science then found himself wanted by u.s. authorities on espionage charges he faced up to 175 years behind bars that forced him to take refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in london and international human rights groups of hailed him as being a champion of press freedom and he leaders around the world of the u.k. and u.s. governments to drop the charges against the songs the latest remarks on the assad case from the state department to come right after the release of his annual report

on human rights russia's foreign ministries already said the document is quote imbued with double standards yes former cia officer ray mcgovern for his opinion well we have here now is a situation where julian is surprised of any rates the main the main reason being that if they get him put him in prison for the rest of us late no one no one will try to expose us walker i'm sure the empire's war crimes there julian it was slander it was a rush it was torture and now god knows why you don't have to rely on me for that there is a u.n. report for torture and you'll smell so i looked into it so i hope he he is able to escape the ultimate penalty but it judging from people who have seen him most recently he has already been in. ruined by by that the treatment that he has been subjected to i do have hope that julian will will

partner in us to a little boy who put in a way waiting for him to come home. from. the us government there's no bigger responsibility than guarding the nuclear launch codes so to reassure americans that they're in safe hands strategic command has been keeping them updated by twitter. if it takes us strategic command 30 minutes to recognize a missed tweet how long before they recognize we're under attack. i'm pretty sure your strategic command just launched all the news. l.o.l.

maybe it was a secret code or not so secret message for a nation who every type that was trying. kept walked mbeki but. if this is the level of security what other forms of laxness might be exhibited somewhere along the way we're becoming so lax we're losing our minds there's also this idea that all children are at home now this is the time of covais don't you understand children are at home you know earlier misadventure it's bound to happen. when i read something i did something good it really happened do you mean to tell me that.

something like this was left open. that i read that might see at home. with us news for this hour but before i go a quick announcement about something quite literally out of this world coming to our say because this 60 years since you regard as momentous 1st man's journey into space and to the special occasion our team will be interviewing some of today's pioneers of space exploration so watch this space.

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in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the death. or a make of the shallow. hello and welcome the process we're all paying for considered i'm peter lavelle historically speaking the cold war was a great ideological confrontation western liberalism versus soviet communism according to joe biden the great geopolitical struggle of our time is democracy versus a caucus each for by we are in another great ideological struggle but there is

a difference the west particularly the united states is the only ideological actor . cross talking geopolitics i'm joined by my guest rick ross off in chicago he is an anti nato analyst and a contributor to antiwar dot com in bath we have bruce gagne he is the coordinator of the global network against weapons. and nuclear power in space and in charlottesville we cross to david swanson he is the executive director of world beyond war hi gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate david let me go to you 1st in charlottesville. going after my introduction right here we're listening the to the president the united states we're in a great ideological struggle against autocracy here very much in in tune with what we experienced during the cold war which i remember very well and it was an ideological struggle but is are we living in in 2021 in the ideological struggle on

the on the world stage what's your take go ahead do it i think mostly in the fantasies of us propaganda i think the reality is more a struggle between plutocracy and oligarchies i mean there's no democracy to be seen you know there's no nobody in the u.s. public has had a right to vote on whether to have a great battle against the autocracies you know we've got. you know it's just not credible that there's a military threat out there so something is needed and here you know it's just yesterday you see a drone whistleblower pleading and facing 10 years in prison for telling the u.s. public what its government is doing in its with its military all over the world just yesterday also i see these reports huge numbers of people in california and.