ah, ah, mid day moscow time in the headlines this hour, the public mood swings to the right in france. i had to presidential elections. there is no shortage of candidates could meet the populace agenda. america's leading medical research agency admits funding controversial research into but corona virus is in china's will have something previously repeatedly denied by the white house. his top infectious disease expert on the u. k. prime ministers accused of selling out working people for failing to buy and the practice of fire and re hire that allows employees to give work as less favorable terms and conditions. ah, oh my they were good afternoon. is kevin over here for the next half hour with our

latest for this saturday. and as you heard, the 1st offer push to the right seems to be key to success in french presidential elections these days. some major candidates and even those haven't to officially announce that candidacy yet. are all talking from way right of center, such as air exam of a talk show host, a new darling of the french right wing. he's even tempting, bring the pens, voters away and become a strong rival of a manual micron. a shot to bend ski in paris, explains the play is may know to full yet be declared, but with less than 6 months before prophecies presidential election. the game is being played in right wing territory with participants trying to score on topics such as immigration, identity and security. a manual mac corn has slashed the number of these it deliveries to countries such as to new z i l, g,

rear, and morocco. marina pan proposed is a referendum on immigration and makes it more, says france must stop both illegal and legal immigration when the legal and legal immigration. that's exactly what i'm saying today. today, a lot of french people are just sick and tired, really, that there is no politician in power. these pastors has tackled issue when the gratian nobody's doing anything. and you kind of feel that in trask that the situation is that it's very laxed and that nobody is doing your thing and is treating problems. and these problems are not being tackled by the government. grants has no pulse to real policy concerning immigration. these past decides say these past 20 years and this is starting to become a huge problem. ready in france, ah, bonnie, a 6 to that messenger on immigration saying it's weakening, frances sense of identity mike cohen has set up

a think tank to combine whoo case. id, ology that he believes is infecting the country. meanwhile, the more wants to buy new french names. valerie p, cassie says french laws must have precedence over european jurisdiction, must be watching with interest as poland bottles brussels on the same issue. that if i for my own some countries have a stronger appetite for you integration. others not only lindsay this issue in the opposite way in some countries constitution, c, e, u, laura supreme other say the opposite. so there's constitutional pluralism. this pluralism has to be respected. if the kids about a strong economic and political role and aspiration in the world, there are lots of celebrities between the re when movements which are getting a popularity here in france and what trump did in. ready the us, i think that trump fingerprinted also to progress the identity problems that the

americans were facing. and these issues are coming in trans parties on the right and trans want to build borders. they want to shake was coming into the country to run a privilege. the french workers ahead of the immigrant or foreign workers. so yes, of course this is very close. busy to what donald trump was promoting in the way during his campaign and what he tried to do once he was elected ah, false is still worried about potential terror attacks. pretty much all the candidates know security is a key issue for vote is already to be only defensive. why not make calls? parties introduce controversial bills. one issue such as glue will security. and in defense of the french republic, la palm has style to party as one of justice and buddha is albia. but tony says he's priorities include the protection of the french, the owned of impunity, all the while supporting the police. is it more has said that security is the very

1st freedom. there's an ongoing problem with insecurity code, you know, crime of various kinds of petty crime and more serious crime in the what a cold label and you of the suburbs, particularly paris and the other big cities. then of course says the ongoing issue of terrorism, which has hit france, probably, i think more than any other european country, all of this plays out as the potential candidate, so seeming seeking both on the same pool. so why have frances would be captain shifted to the rights in 2017? the socialist party collapsed in france, and michael, who of course, came from francois loans team. he basically took over the socialists, the old socialist electorate. but of course,

he is not himself particularly socialist, so he has, he has occupied that particular space and the socialist party has not found a candidate yet. who has the ability to challenge him on the left? as only poll suggests, the country is overwhelmingly disappointed with macro and all of the others who are offering to take charge. but in a pinch, most people tend to vote with what they know. meaning that the park is still at least, but now in macros. rank. charlotte, even sky artsy, paris, america's leading medical research agencies admitted funding risky studies into bats. and corona viruses in china's will hand province. despite earlier denials from america's top infectious disease experts don't run to the voucher that us money had gone into the so called gain of function research correspond,

daniel armstrong looks at the implications this weekend. a game of fat and mouse in the u. s. over corona virus. research findings and public funds, quite literally, a top national institutes of health official has admitted us taxpayer money finance testing mice in china with back corona, virus genetically altered to make it more transmissible to humans. now the danger of such research has always been that the virus could escape the lab and spark a public health disaster. the limited experiment described in the final progress report was testing as spike protons from naturally occurring bat corona viruses. circulating and china were capable of binding to the human a, c, e 2 receptor and the mouse model. laboratory mice infected with the see age c o 14 w i v one bad corona virus became sicker than those infected with w i. v one that corona virus, ico health failed to report this finding right away as was required by the terms of

the grant. and yet for months the biden administration's big cheese on the disease thought to anthony found, she denied any claims that the u. s. funded such projects, it comes as vindication for republican senator run. paul, who's quest for transparency on the investigation? was beginning to look like a rat race? no one saying those are, it is ours, didn't malachi, los virus cause the pandemic? what were alleging is the gain of function research was going on in that lab, and then i age funded it. that is not away from it. it meets your definition and you are obvious getting the truth. anybody would have lying here, senator, it is you. some experts say found she knowingly misled the country, the national institutes of health, se acknowledgements of the facts is new, but the facts themselves and not knew the national institutes of health was informed about the gain of function research in wooten, in 2018. and again in 2020 collins and found she lied to congress light to the

press and light to the public. now although the bat is out of the bag, according to tay back's letter, it seems that the us has tried to cover up anything indicating any links to such research in we won the u. s. based ico health alliance, president pizza dash jack was even chosen as part of a w h o team of experts to investigate the origins of cove it. but it seems that much of us top level efforts in the pandemic, not least, their insistence on blaming and investigating china have only exposed to u. s. official cover ups and lies with a disturbing question being why our cover ups and lies needed these the most recent revelations show that the out she and national institute of health director collins either outright wide or. busy have absolutely no idea what's going on with their agencies either way they have no business funding these organizations. and frankly, i think there needs to be afford open investigation and whether or not they did know directly no. and if so, they should be held to the,

to the fullest extent of punishment, or the if history is a judge of how it's going to go, we're going to see little to no accountability. and i hope i'm wrong. main time age hmos that answer the phone. she has been the top paid federal employee for years in 2004. he was granted a permanent pay adjustment for bio defense research. he now earns more than the u. s. president spike cohen says the revelations about gain of function research is just what we've come to expect from america. i think it is the height of 900 say to believe that what we know, the u. s. government to have done from the 9 13949596070899202010 as suddenly magically stopped in the 2020. that you know, a decade a century plus subterfuge and clean destined operations and, you know, and cover ups and scandals in life suddenly ended. even though no one ever was held

accountable for the old lies and played best, not for asians, and so forth. so i hate to say that, you know, i don't think this is a one off this car for the courts for largest or carrying government selling working people. that's the accusation laid on britain's prime minister boris johnson and made the rise in so called fire. 5 and re hire practices, the notorious scheme of dropping and then re employing workers on worse terms. as i tense intensified during the pandemic. according to unions, the positions harshly criticize the practice. this week, government has allowed bad bosses to force brutal changes to contracts and take thousands and wages from families. there is agreement across the political spectrum that fire and re hire is unfair, unjust and unacceptable. but once again, we have only warm wars and bluster from bars. johnson who's ordering his m piece to vote down the bill selling out work and people in the process. it's coercive. it's

bullying it. and i can say from experience it's, it's very, it's a, it's a very unpleasant situation, almost feels like being in an abusive relationship. because the workplace is a relationship which is, you know, it is built on trust and confidence. and what fire rehired does is it breaches, watch, trust, and confidence. and that's why i shall i have no other option, but to allow myself in my experience to be sat on the file and re hire cause i could not continue in that relationship anymore. am because because of its abuse of nature, raising figures shown only a quarter of all you k work and say they're working terms such as pay or hours have been downgraded during the pandemic. many say they faced the fire and re hire practised themselves having to reapply for their old jobs on worse terms and conditions. all faced the sack of horace johnson himself is called practice unacceptable. however, fire and re hire remains legal,

provided that due process is of been followed like formerly consulting workers and observing set notice periods. the kevin burn of former u. k. gas industry work you heard from before there believes the loss of protecting the wrong people. so force that because you know, i am a law abiding citizen, like most people, and i'm, lexi believes that the laws are there to protect it. citizens for, i think in with best experience to realize the laws are actually there to protect corporations on them. and the money class, what makes it worse? me? it is. yeah, it is the final insult. because when i embark on my disputes, my in sanction on the sanction of my colleagues and comrades was so when are the speech and to win so convincingly bass. no company would, would use fire and re hire, but for sleep that didn't happen. you know, it's to paraphrase, harper late m. m is bought to kill

a mockingbird. the definition of cottage is when you know you left from the beginning, but you begin anyway. and that's what we did, and because we were up against that with, with the corporation such as british gas, more stories to come. let me tell you, one of them going green in germany has ignited more than public debate. as electric buses, repeatedly pursed into flames has happened a few times to will charging up. i'll tell you all about it's kevin o' in here this weekend. it out to international ah, what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race in his on offense, very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful,

very difficult. time time to sit down and talk ah ah ah ah, ah again,

hope you weekends going good if you check in the clubs. exactly. 16 castiano. next one, a germany's lodge is public transport companies has pulled 8 electric buses out of service in munich. it comes as a precautionary measure after a charging station was destroyed by fire late last month. the company blames a technical defect for the fire, which appears to be a more widespread issue with electric vehicles in the country. as payroll has been finding out as berlin embraces electric transportation, these battery powered buses have been traveling along the route $200.00 for just over a year now. taking passengers to such sites as the german capitals loo. however, 3 fires across the country, a depos with electric bosses, the most recent and september eng. stuttgart has raised questions about safety, not just of bosses, but all electric vehicles. yeah. absolute. yes. is the risk of these fires included in other locations such as the bicycle basements, or large apartment blocks,

is completely unaddressed. also, insurance companies are not yet tackling the issue. today. it's not regulated, in my opinion, it's not possible to regulate fires in general. so it is likely that dep post or to for electric bosses and the depth owes for other buses will be separated and that fire barriers will be built between the individual buses to reduce the risk of europe is experiencing a boom and sales of electric vehicles with manufacturers of them doing a roaring trade between april and june of this year, one in every 12 calls sold was 100 percent electric. when you put hybrid into the mix, you're looking at a 3rd of all sales across europe. it's been a meteoric rise as well back in 2018, less than 200000 electric vehicles were sold here in year of this year though, we're expecting that figure to be well over $1000000.00. in fact,

when you look at these numbers globally, over the next 4 years, we're expecting to see 10000000 electric vehicles sold. with that figure soaring to 30000000 by 2032 years ago we as an electricity consumer protection organization decided to also address the issue of electron mobility. electricity consumption will increase by 25 percent as a result. although that is not the real problem washing the main problem is that you need very high power to charge the batteries within a reasonable time. in the long run, this will lead to charging in private households. the development of an infrastructure to charge a larger number of cars is completely undeveloped. people have been too naive about this. an 8th is an incredible on the statement. despite both concerns, electric vehicles, including buses like these do seem like they are going to be the future. in fact,

manufacturers are so confident that they're saying that if competitors don't stop producing electric models, well, they're not going to be competitors for very long. like moving from the horse to the car, it's that seismic it changes everything. and to such an extent that any players that don't pivot fast enough that don't invest are unlikely to survive in the future. here in germany, a poll earlier this year showed that almost 60 percent of the population was skeptical when it came to these electric bosses. people saying that they were unsure of the environmental compatibility when it comes to electric mobility. added to that concerns over potential safety worries. and not everybody is willing to hop on one of these bosses just now. peter oliver, aussie berlin,

supporters of gillian assange have held a people's tribunal in london on alleged us war crimes revealed by the wicked expand, which reportedly led to a c. i a plot to kill him. the tribunal was intended to strengthen public backing of the will. sublime ahead of his us expedition hearing we spoke to some of his members on the point i was making it in a democratic society, security services and the military and the special forces have to be accountable. my whole point is julian challenge in a different country. in a different place we seems a hero. but because he was exposing what the us and britain in particular were doing, he seems of pain to me as somebody that when the history books are written, the 21st century during the song, his name will be right up with somebody that told the truth. there is an irony in the fact that she didn't himself faced with extradition or the appeal against

against the verdict. i need to say that he shouldn't be expedited the type of the law that you seem to exciting is that we've developed a lot have any se cornerstone or people in tara, tara stations. and i think it doesn't already in the fact that those vivi knows itself are being used now to explain it to the us. and when it comes to the issue of june, the sound is very significant. that the gnashing journalists and other janice organizations around the world spoken up so clearly about the situation that during the sound has faced because it is intended in my view, to intimidate journalists elsewhere in the future from exposing war crimes from exposing human rights abuses. of course stocks, an incredibly important part of the role of journalism which is to hold the

powerful to accounts, which is to expose injustices done in our name. that's important. parts of our democratic society must be defended. while the bel marsh tribunal, named after the jail resign, just being held, had no legal bearing, it aim to elicit public attention following in the footsteps of a similar event way back, conducted half a century ago, condemning us actions back then, vietnam. well up to day. next week, assange faces a hearing into his possible extradition to the u. s. on espionage charges he could be jailed for up to a 175 years. we collect editor in chief kristen hobson told us a sanchez cases politically motivated, priest, revelation shows. so without any doubt, so the political elements of the case because to be on sounds know we have all so human rights and civil liberties, organization of any merit to teaming up together. i have to, to the speech of so come ha, just as for julian, hon,

just as for journalism because that's what the step here. we also spoke to till commentary filmmaker, investigative journalist, john pilcher, who believes the whole case against his sanchez, a demonstration of power. this is a shy operation. any one who knows the united states world knows the power overseer, the extra judicial power overseer, the extra tong, mental power of the c i. that's what this is. this is mrs. which you probably say 2008 on a wiki, lace 1st major lakes. a march the 18th, 2008 is from b u. s. army counter intelligence assessment branch. ah, to par on up to france. you read through this document. it lays out everything got happened ah, from 2010. but we will get

a song by smearing him. i to sprint observing, hang on destroying, trust and will be rates ah, and good from here. wrong investigator, journalism of this crimes are not the words serious investigative journalism is our number, but this is a shorter trial i. i'm actually sat in on shorter, and this is a short trial and brief, this weekend lasker on the world's. he was happening violent clashes in pakistan between security forces and islamist protested of lead to the deaths of 2 policemen and injured several demonstrators. thousands gathered in eastern city of la hort, demanding the release of the leader of their outlawed party. around 2000 polish coal miners have travelled across europe to go to luxembourg, to rally at the european court of justice over the proposed closure of a major mine demonstrates has carried banners enchanted with heavy police presence

. it's all over the tour of mine, which is part of an unresolved dispute to poland in the czech republic, which it says drains. water reserves from nearby villages. poland, being fined $500000.00 euro a day while that's happening, but it's refusing to pay worship is finally returned to friday. prayers in tehran after an almost 2 year break caused by the cobra pandemic organizes in the rating capital. say all health protocols are being followed around remains one of the worst coveted countries with over 120000 death because of the virus. well finally for now seems as a new garden patrol outside one russian spaceport. so i would say to myself, he may look rather on a seeming, i believe, put this on man, combat robot robot, deceased packed with the latest gadgetry that let it work with minimal, he would input and it's flexible enough to be used almost anywhere apparently.

ah, today controlling the robot this as easy as ordering and texas, you need to create the route, confirm it, and create tasks which the robot will complete on the route. with today, the robot work is to complete technical structures. this will feed work without enough raisa to complete just that through voice mode and tablet or anything else with minimum participation from man.

with technologies can be adjusted to the level of border security and to deliver goose products or pipelines to how to reach regions or to patrol pipelines, power lines, et cetera. with i'll take a lot, but about assuming of that coming out, you'd want a mile with you. that's what we're talking about so far this weekend in our headlines. great stories of features as well at all t dot com. check it out. taylor made programs coming up for you and your part of the world after a quick break ahead. but for now, for me, kevin o in, in the rest of the team. thanks for taking some time area. we can check in with us

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