in some of the stories that shaped this week's news a stark admission of failures in the handling of the code crisis by the french president of the country poses a national. fears of a nursing home in the u.k. as a poll reveals one in 4 workers are more likely to quit last year money sort of exhaustion from the pandemic we speak to $1.00 the british. with. the cost of b.p. has gone down the wages have been thank you criticise so much. and i feel the government need to help i think. the purge of donald trump of social media

continues with facebook believe an interview with the former president from the. u.k. warns this community can't be held responsible for the actions of someone to be. treated with more respect for teachers showed his class called the prophet muhammad . debate issues raised. people trying to shut down discussion using threats of bombs. and sneak. in the interest of growth in the rest of the. law from moscow welcome to the weekly. review this morning welcome to the program. the french president admits that mistakes have been made at every stage of the pandemic in a televised address the nation biomarker and out they furred nationwide locked out

us code cases saw intensive care beds are filling up on the country's death toll nears 100000 he said the situation left him with no other choice. this it did i know that every stage of this epidemic we might say to ourselves that we could have done better that we made mistakes all this is true we all need to make an additional effort over the coming months this is what i ask of us collectively tonight since saturday locked on measures have been extended from 19 areas to all of mainland france that means a nationwide curfew beginning at 7 pm on a ban on travel between regions schools have also been closed for at least 3 weeks and additional policing has been introduced to ensure no more than 6 people gather at once or the measures introduced by the french leader come as a u. turn to his previous decision not to locked out in january mark warner's facing creasing criticism from m.p.'s scientists and hospital bosses. i say to the

government do it now do it now or do it for a shorter time but do it to concede their right not to implement a lockdown in france at the end of january because we didn't have the explosion of cases that every model predicted france's president is without doubt an educated man emmanuel macro and through through the country's top institutions before making a mark in both the private or public sector he then repaying france's youngest ever president i mean it's a pretty impressive resume and people traded in selfless a man who knew when to take advice is important at this time by following the advice of scientists as we've just done to ensure the continuity of on democratic life and our institutions but now it seems being top dog isn't quite enough not grown his throwing himself into an entirely new discipline the president has acquired real expertise in health issues it is not an inaccessible subject for an

intelligent person like him considering the important time he has dedicated to it for several months not cause aids if he wouldn't be declared that he has become an epidemiologist despite not having a scientific background these claims over. seas on health issues have also rubbed the wrong way. mr mccauley as president of the republic and in the framework of the pandemic just like all heads of states he has become interested in epidemiological data yes to put his nose to the grindstone he's obliged to take notice of trends but that doesn't make him an epidemiologist of course for all those that talk about epidemiology and among them we can find heads of states like president mccrone who talks about epidemiology just like we talk about politics when we talk about sculpture or about music but they're not necessarily sculpture artists. well musicians. meanwhile the refuse of

a nursing exodus in britain after a survey revealed the nation's thoughts on are more likely to quit their jobs than in previous years exhaustion from the pandemic was cited as the overriding reason according to the poll one in 4 n.h.s. workers are more inclined to leave than during the previous 12 months almost 30 percent of them were nurses and midwives to keep patients facing major shortages and 70 percent said of pay rises a decisive factor while those working for free student nurses say they're struggling to make ends meet one of them gave us her reaction to the findings it doesn't surprise me it's what we've had to use it needs increased but. not the cost of living has gone up the wages have increased so much stress on the nurses midwives everyone involved in that fashion and i think to be honest with the private pandemic i think everyone has now had enough and they need help and i feel the government need to help and increase the wages to get

a good environment for one british health authorities have promised to provide n.h.s. with extra 29000000000 pounds. we spoke to though said that money isn't making any difference when it comes to student but ix. we get the 5000 pound girl and some people get a 2000 pound grant depending if it were children or what feels like i mean tape but in reality is it's all in the i should say that the increase in childcare costs you know the increase in council tax increase and in fuel into placement in my fest year i think it's a defeat by twice. and that should even as states that were actually retired nurses at the bank they couldn't believe that they should i go into this position because i have a rabbi they are 2 children and that's why my with my required what was quite a full time childcare and the other one it just started sco the funds come for you all to we've already so i got the calls today for you potential if you leave the cools and it does add to the mental so that the sorry sorry dr.

also this week the long awaited double hit show report on the origins of coverage 19 us face shop criticism world wide for leaving many questions still unanswered even the organizations the right to general has called for that were such that we asked the russian member of the will on mission why getting to the bottom of the outbreak is proving so difficult. which was on a mission started off under phase one why was it called that it was clear from the beginning nobody expected us to find on sr all the questions right away in fact he was prepared to rework aimed at analyzing the data we had accumulated and establishing hypotheses in general it's hard to predict how long this investigation will take and how it will end but it should be done that's for sure. we managed to find out that the virus supposedly emerged in the period between the middle of november and the beginning of december however we don't know the exact

location of the outbreak in my view it was in china but it's not clear yet it's unlikely though that the outbreak occurred in a wet market most probably it was some market visitor who had already been infected and spread the virus this suggestion derives from the fact that there were quite a large number of patients who had nothing to do with the markets we don't know who the 1st patient was neither do we know the natural origin of covert 19 based on our common knowledge of various coronaviruses we suggest it's a but might have been a source. the issue is very much politicized everyone is trying to find someone to blame i've never considered the oblique hypothesis a theory there's so much talk about this in the media though but people don't really have an idea there is no scientific evidence or facts proving a leak as of today based on what we saw i can say that the suspect in a laboratory is run properly by well trained staff there is total compliance with

all the rules regarding work with viruses of this has a class or even the class above the laboratory is regularly audited and is in the constant scrutiny of competence international organizations building from that we def or can't say that a lab leak might have been the cause. we didn't feel any pressure coming from our chinese colleagues actually it wouldn't even be the case i can't think of how they could have put pressure on us we are in no way affiliated with china people from various countries were part of our team who went to carry out this investigation on behalf of the w.h.o. and what would have been the point of pressurising us we hardly liaise with officials we were largely in touch with scientists. trump has long been banned by social media giants but that doesn't mean that the pose of the for president is over it was revealed and sues that facebook had removed interview with him posted by his daughter in law artie's caleb moore can look at whether social media giants are now 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 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 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 is 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's not would do a great for the american people who plans to set president shop up 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 because we have seen how the. coming from big

tech and the media these people have too much control they have became filter 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 the democrat party is the same on big tex democrats and republicans on the same boat it takes to win so bury the flag for saying the whole thing is a political gain. actress and activist rose mcgowan said her own experience of being ousted by big check. if you could pray to god or just a little pretty much speech going against your from me i don't understand why you support evil characters' and want to block. i was just spend it by twitter for posting and internet photo of bill clinton and getting massaged by and i'm no wonder they flagged it for it 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 right sharon entirely 4 days after i helped out harvey weinstein my attacker in the new york times exposé 4 years ago there was a worldwide limited boycott where for 24 hour protests until they reinstated me they did and they have and 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 that for him and that is the life.

i hold us value most americans are anxious about losing their jobs i was someplace settled law because of counterculture older deeper into that's the break. and you know became the bottleneck is the politics the sheer movement and you see. there is a government who should lead to the food we call to this vision we said action on this lead before he's not going to lead students in social east then. copy it at least those local businesspeople the students all against between so you want about me and you know if those who say only.

welcome back to the program and a mom in the u.k. has worn the prime minister the trouble is brewing if more respect isn't shown to muslims insinuating the country could go the way of france so after a teacher in the north of the country left parts of the community outraged by showing cartoons of the prophet muhammad to his class all we ask for is

a bit of respect if one teacher can do it another teach can do it 5 years down the line and we do not want this to be the case otherwise we are not responsible for the actions of some individuals the teacher and his family are now in hiding after receiving death threats he's apologized but has been suspended though some local muslims are demanding that the school for him over a petition calling on the school to reinstate him has gotten over 65000 signatures in the u.k. department for education has also defended the teacher. it is never acceptable to threaten the winter mandates teaches we encourage dialogue between parents and schools when he she has emerged schools are free to include a full range of issues ideas and materials in their curriculum including where they are challenging a controversial subject they obligations to ensure political balance outrage over a similar case in france last october led to the brutal murder of some well party history of paris he was beheaded by

a terrorist after showing cartoons of the prophet mohammed to people to deviate from christian and. political and social commentator locked horns over the issues raised. this could be very easily turning into some kind of a powder keg and you do not throw that matches into such things we've seen in france and in many european countries the rise of the far right we've seen some 2 tier civil rights system pushing against islam pushing against muslims marginalizing them and it's open season on muslims courage attack them on free speech basis and people make themselves up to be free speech martyrs or somehow muslims become inflamed of their own 15 western values so what's most alarming here is that a teacher asked her to go into hiding with police protection because what he's done he's he's discussed opened a discussion about a cartoon and the why the subject of blasphemy he hasn't actually hurt anyone he hasn't actually even threatened any violence and yet there are obviously very real

threats of violence against him so much so the police to protect him and take his family his wife and his children into hiding i think that is very very concerning and i think we need to recover a sense of normality in a sense of people being able to openly discuss and educate people about these things and i've been around the block a few times and have this discussion a few times every time we've had this discussion on free speech and debate we have put down to worst of the ideas racism hatred we know it's not ok to be racist against muslims to make the argument is your right to be racist or is this racist we need to learn about religion that we need to learn about what people believe and we need to openly discuss them and so people and super about it let's be very clear about this that discussing a cartoon it's got about how it has nothing to do with basis and it's not racism at all what's happening here is people are trying to shut down a discussion and using threats of violence when people judge. people who work with

the english defense league you keep anti muslim interest across europe and the rest of the while to try and demonize muslims marginalize them would have enough you will not win the cultural debate. or is he ok to be poked fun at and be racist against muslims out of their loved ones read what else is and you don't get to be offensive towards us this is not the way a free society should work he should definitely be defended it's all he's done is raise a discussion people should be free to discuss things in class if we're not free to discuss things we have a de facto blasphemy law in the country which is being enforced by more cruel that threatens violence against people. muslim council culture is having an impact on people psychological well being a majority of people polled in the artists they say they fear being fired all reprimanded for what they say online is a chilling finding that most people in the country now are afraid they would be fired if they expressed their real views on social media over the nearly 2000

people surveyed over 60 percent of you growing council culture is a threat to their freedom or more than half see it is in danger in their job security we can muster putting on the issue among residents in new york. keep our creative and have different mindset some artists decide to do different things people your next door neighbor the pets of the different anything you might not agree on i don't like you so ruin their entire lives over what they think in their mind even though it is hard to make you really go i had a pocket some time i think it does scare people and it makes people. and maybe i'm . sure you know. inappropriate action. the idea of cancelling cancelling is back and is not a good way of. creating difficult conversations because difficult conversations are very important to making difficult topics less difficult. to really change the

way that a person interacts with the world or using. to also understand all my b.f. had opened up until i responded people. thought was always more complicated and it prevented. physical cause i have more shared his thoughts on the capsule culture and where it's so much from. in the past we've always sort of focused on the government and focused on protecting the constitution but of course in this in this day and age the threats are coming not really from the government they're coming from businesses from private corporations and most importantly from each other so that makes it interesting and different i think from anything else that we really experience and culture before it's you know and it's actually a lot of it has become a social media mob being and threats to docs to get people wired and it's not a threat to upgrade i'm on many level and most importantly it has

a chilling effect on public discourse and i'm people being able to speak their minds to openly. discuss and advocate for things that they can for the things that they truly believe in and their criticisms and maybe what's going on in culture and in government and even mechanical culture itself as we've seen just criticizing example culture 'd can get you can't. u.s. is using all the tools at its disposal to counter the ever growing global influence of china and with that goal in mind washington's reaching out to allies across asia with mixed success is the take of our own simon right 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 and 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 and 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 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 they're really mean are the words is to keep china in its place brilliantly about 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's defining challenge the rise of china moment of crisis something. with renewed purpose to be china could that

take in china. about 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 called the quad the asian nato we say officially denied because it is not a minute to your alliance for the 1st time canada is participating in a joint exercise in the pacific ocean with the nations. rise of the. sea definitely not a military alliance as ever though bare self-interest is likely to be the main enemy of this group they 1st got together back in 2004 to respond to the boxing day tsunami when they tried to go steady off the words and 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 won't 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 will eyes 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 it's 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 down is really struggling to see the oars 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 quote 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 beasts then are picking their teams and taking sides i mean to worry about i'm sure. we're all spot the heading away in just a few by which time a meal harvey will be here in half an hour to bring you out of speed on the daily global news headlines again that. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for and let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very creative guy time to sit down and talk.

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went to russia. probable worst time to go anywhere why not me. when i come here. are. well while the 2 worlds apart there is a saying here and russia that whenever teachers come together there are at least 3 opinions just in the fully borne out by the latest israeli elections which are muscle collection hearing resulted in yet another stalemate with now in parties

actually just forming new government what does this new round of political and 2nd to mean for the country and the region as a whole well to discuss that and now joined by your medical purpose in your consulting research fellow at chatham house mr necker beck it's great to talk to thank you very much for your time. thank you for having me now you know russian culture russian languages have really influenced by jewish humor but even this year you know we're running out of jokes to talk about the situation in which 4 lashins in 2 years fail to produce any electoral certainty how many more elections do you think it will take its you take a break from campaigning at the trying to your normal boring government you know when you mentioned to jews. this isn't a.