in the headlines this friday a test and trace held by the u.k. prime minister's world leading a. major medical journals now raises concerns about the effectiveness of the country's 37000000000 pound race and system. french doctors spend their fury at president mark wrong for failing to deliver on his promise to speed up vaccinations for like that expensive overwhelming covert case loads. for it which we believe the government is to blame for the fact that we have to work incredibly slowly for the same time in a completely grueling regime. and all the social media thought police started to gain facebook scrubs a video of an interview with donald trump posted on his guilt ridden bull it's

other platforms than the former president earlier this year. joining us you're watching international. the 37000000000 pound test and trace system that u.k. prime minister barak's johnson what's hailed as being world beating looks like it may not have quite lived up to all the hype that's according to a major study published in the british medical journal that has raised concerns about how effective it really is. it is thanks to n.h.s. tests to trace the we're able to send kids back to school and be cautiously and irreversibly to reopen our economy and restart our lives our data suggests 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 sims and

recognition testing and for self isolation the effectiveness of the current form of the u. case test trace an isolate system is limited well beating and wild leading that's what the u.k. is testing try to stem was supposed to be is that 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 elephant which failed to prevent the 2nd wave of the pandemic and they have the cheek to call the test and. the n.h.s. tests and faces them but 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 its total cost and gets 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 lock down nor this one for that matter . because in france are venting their frustration at president micron's failure to deliver on his promise to speed up vaccinations as the nation enters a 3rd lockdown they warn of the lack of available doses is now critical with ever more seriously ill patients being admitted to already overwhelmed hospitals the president insists the rollout is happening at full throttle. we are putting all means to vaccinate vaccinate vaccinate without response without holidays saturdays and sundays just like weekdays to. 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 deciding which patients get treatment and which don't because about 60 percent of operations were cancelled. on wednesday the french president promised to increase the number of intensive care beds to more than 10000 doctors though say that that will come at the expense of non-coding patients another problem is lack of staff intensive care requires additional special training and equipment ground again says that these challenges could have been avoided if mccrone adopted 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 is 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 an oxygen therapy device is necessary for treating patients. thousands of anonymous reports of sexual harassment by pupils in u.k. schools has shown a spotlight on the abuse faced by students around $100.00 schools have been named in testimonies that include private institutions over $11000.00 accounts of sexual

harassment in british schools were posted on the everyone's invited website which is aimed at exposing rape culture in the u.k. the figure is more than doubled in just the past 2 days the majority of testimonies detail harassment of girls and included posts from children as young as just 9. meanwhile a recent survey by the charity plan international u.k. reveals 58 percent of girls aged $14.00 to $21.00 have been publicly harassed at school and found the girls experience unwanted sexual comments as well as being grabbed 3 quarters of girls said the school should support those who have experienced public sexual harassment u.k. governments launched an emergency review and a hotline to support victims of sexual abuse in schools the british education secretary has said that he's committed to ensuring victims feel supported katie russell 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 us 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 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 that doesn't mean that the purge of

the former president is over facebook has removed an interview with him in posted by his daughter in law on the scale of morgan and whether social media giants could be 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 quit placed on donald trump's facebook an instagram account 1st 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 he was 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 19 eighty-four wow joe biden keeps repeating that big tech 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 it 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 of because it would do a great for the american people who plans to set president shop up to get him out of 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 they could 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 to clean suburbs laugh or say the whole thing is a political gain the former u.s. president still the only one who's been purged by social media johnson and president of us was mccown chez her own experience of being ousted by think tank. what do you pray to. a little pretty much speech going against your families i don't understand why you support evil characters' and one of the law.

i was just spending by twitter for posting an internet photo of bill clinton and getting massaged by an unknown woman flagged it for indeed i was just trying to drive a 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 the deactivated may not entirely 4 days after i helped out harvey weinstein my attacker in the new york times exposé 4 years ago there is a world wide it will boycott where for 24 hour protests until the reinstated. and they have arrived in shadow and ever since i'm 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 grows and you're supposed to be the freedom to speak the rap. and that is a lie. a passenger train has derailed in eastern time i was on with 48 people confirmed dead more than 90 others have been injured the latest reports from the national far agency say 490 people were on board the express train cobol off the tracks at around 9 am local time accident looks like being the island's worst rail disaster for decades the last major train derailment in taiwan was in 2018 when that left 18 people that. does come the sound like a bomb and pledges to respect street. in a song just human rights if extradited supporters reiterate warnings he's being persecuted for lifting the lid on u.s. war crimes when the full story after this break.

when i was a child something seemed wrong we all just don't all. get to shape out just being educated and engaged because the trail. went on many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. as an individual committed a crime so nice to get international community crime. even 20 years later when that individual is 40 are you still publishing the person who committed the crime or is the person being punished for something that they were a completely different person at the time one doesn't expire one is

a person's actions no longer want me to judge them for us i mean every day basis. welcome back despite the extradition of wiki leaks founder julian assange to the united states being blocked on human rights grounds in january your state department continues to push for his extradition and insists the whistle blows human rights are being respected. human rights. 2019 a songe was arrested in london where he spent 7 years taking refuge in the ecuadorian embassy and after he found itself wanted by us or thirty's or in wiki

leaks publication of thousands of classified files exposing us war crimes in iraq and afghanistan he would face espionage charges and possibly up to 175 years behind bars if extradited international human rights groups and world leaders of hailed him as a champion of press freedom they pushed for the charges against him to be dropped the latest remarks on this case from the state department come right after the release of its annual report on human rights the document singled out china around venezuela turkey and russia accusing them of violating civil liberties russia's foreign ministry has already said that the document is quote imbued with double standards saying the state department should get its own house in order we asked former cia officer ray mcgovern for his opinion on this son's case. what we have here now is a situation where julian is surprised of any rights the main the main reason being that if they get him put him in prison for the rest of us lay for no one no one

will try to expose us what crimes are the empire's war crimes for julian it was slander over suresh it was torture and now god knows what you don't have to rely on me for that there is a un rapporteur for torture and you'll smell so who looked into it so i hope he has able to escape the ultimate penalty but it judging from people who have seen him most recently he has already been in. there and ruined by by the the treatment that he has been subjected to i do have hope that julian will will be able to persist and finally find a new life with his partner and his 2 little boys who play in a way waiting for him to come home. beijing as lashed out at washington after a u.s.

ambassador made his 1st official visit to taiwan in over 40 years and 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 that washington stepped on china's toes in the region the quadrilateral security dialogue has recently been reestablished with some of labeled the asian nato on the right as more. 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 are 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 convene this group leader 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 they're 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 they're really mean are the words is to keep china in its place brilliantly about every using the word china i show you on me you will take a look at their p.r. video often in a few words as we go. in the fish 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's defining challenge the rise of china moment of crisis something. with renewed purpose to be china could that take and china. that the threat of climate change and combat the threat of china are saving the pain of watching you basically goes on like that some of called the quad 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 know with 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 is 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 señors cues 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 quarter never says the c word china and iran didn't exactly say at the signing but this is one big middle finger aimed squarely at washington the big geopolitical beast then are picking their teams and taking sides i need to worry about i'm sure. the u.s.

government has maybe no bigger responsibility than guarding the nuclear launch codes so to reassure americans that they're in safe and strategic command has been keeping them right up to date via 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 leader which is who every type that was trying to. cap walked on their

keyboard. 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 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. that something like this was left open day. to day lives that i read that my dear home. pretty much wraps of the news for this hour but before i go

a quick announcement about something quite literally out of this world that's coming to wate because this month marks 60 years since you regard as momentous 1st manned journey into space to mark the special occasion r.t. will be interviewing some of today's pioneers of space exploration so watch this space.

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