[000:00:00;00] the who's the us establishes a new national security unit to combat domestic terrorism just a little more than a year after america experienced the tragic january capitol hill right. as eyes turned to brussels for the next round of rushes, security talks with the west. we look at the groundwork that is being laid during talks between russia and the u. s. so far more problematic partying for the british prime minister. elite e mail has revealed a 100 downing street staff were invited to a boozy get together during the 1st national lockdown. and it's 20 years since the 1st janie's arrived at the notorious us one time of

a detention center. we speak with former inmates about the horrors they face, use ones ultimately the black hole, niggle black hole. so that all sorts of shocking things that were taking place work . and i was one of the biggest human right by the 21st century. the broadcasting lab, direct my studios and moscow. this is our international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have with them now one year after the capitol hill riots, the u. s. department of justice has established a new domestic terrorism unit to combat threats that they claim have doubled. in the past 2 years, i decided to establish that domestic terrorism unit to augment our existing approach. this group of dedicated attorneys will focus on the domestic terrorism threat, hoping to ensure that these cases are have a properly and effectively coordinated across the department of justice and across

the country. that was testimony we heard from mark olson, who is a deputy attorney general with the national security division of the u. s. department of justice announcing the formation of this new entity that will deal with the issue of domestic terrorism. now this comes as part of the senate judiciary committees hearings about january 6th, that was the capital riot. and after that happened january 6, 2021. in the aftermath of that, we saw a number of republican representatives saying that the responsibility came squarely from trump, that trump quote, there's responsibility for when wednesdays attack on congress. and in the aftermath of that we see an investigation. now, in the testimony we heard today, we heard department of justice officials talking about how white supremacist anti government activists and others are the primary domestic terrorism threat. and in some of their language, they even compare them to his lama stream. and here's what we heard from my perspective is spending

a lot of time focused on the radicalization of international terrorists and islamic extremists and extremes of all stripes. this group shares many of the same characteristics. people who feel like their way of life is under attack. many of those people i would, i would guess last year had carried those exact beliefs and thoughts as they marched their way to break into the nation's capital. now, republicans described all of this as a, with chance setting. the stage were clamped down on the sand in the united states serving a political agenda that will only further divide the country and increase division and, or is asian u. s. society? here's some of the republican reactions. unfortunately, one year later, the majority party seems no closer to answering the central question of how the capital was left so unprepared and what must be done to ensure it never happens again. instead, they are using it as a partisan political weapon to further divide our country. now,

republicans have also raised concerns about why this single riot that happened on capitol hill is getting far more attention than the year of rioting that preceded it. and the protests around the country, almost every major city had rioting, property, destruction going on in the lead up to the 2020 election in the aftermath of the killing of george lloyd. and such, there's a, there's a feeling that democrats are using january 6th to serve political ends and that these ongoing hearings and investigations and potentially this new unit being formed to investigate domestic terrorism, serves a political and for the democratic party. but we did hear this announcement of the department of justice has said that this formation of this new unit is taking place . so that's what we've heard from testimony in capitol hill, about the us department of justice and their ongoing efforts against domestic terrorism. with the groundwork laid out on monday between russia and the us at security talks in geneva, eyes now turned to brussels,

where negotiations with nato are due to start on wednesday. so far the u. s. has promised a written response to moscow's security demands. they include no further eastward expansion of nato or missiles positions near russian territory. with more on what's been said so far. here's our to show davinsky. well, the talks may have been described as being business like an frying. when the russian us delegation mated children in geneva, however, it does seem that now information has been laid back to washington. a slightly different view seems to be taking place with the white house spokesperson suggesting that russia could be getting ready at any moment to spread this information about what was said in those meetings in war may have been agreed in terms of potential way forwards to angry reaction from the russian foreign ministry with the spokesperson saying that the u. s. authorities was simply out of touch. we

are preparing yourself for the civility in likelihood. no one should be surprised. i should say, if russia spreads disinformation about commitments that have not been made, or if it goes even further and instigates something as a proof text for further destabilizing activity. and so we would continue to urge every one not to fall for any attempts to pushed and dis information out there. as for the numerous statements made by the white house press secretary, cleveland, it is sincerely regretable that the american leadership is represented by people who do not know the subject well enough, but it's telling them we advise you colleagues not to forget to use critical thinking and carefully double check with at least the most important stories, so as not to show your incompetence to the whole world. no interesting with those comments that russia could be ready to spread this information. given that the russian delegation held an open press conference, there was a live stream of that press conference with the deputy foreign minister outlining

what had happened in the talks and plenty of questions in regards to that from media from across the world. us by contrast, didn't hold an open press conference, so to speak. it was a press conference that was or do you own me, a telephone with a transcript later being released. some might question, who therefore has something to hide? but of course, what we do know from those discussions is that the u. s. is expected to give with a written confirmation response later on this week. in regards to some of the red lines that were outlined by russia, including potentially that old ukraine. now it was a session business like they said, however, it does appear that there is a lack of optimism as a result of those talks. now from both sides. we do not see any significant reason for optimism. the only thing that deserves positive assessment is the way the talks

were conducted with openness, thoroughness, and directness. but this is not something that can bring satisfaction because what is important is the result, not the process. it was not what you would call a negotiation. we're not to a point where we're ready to set down texts and begin to go back and forth even before going into these talks that they were of course, new possible, thank sanctions. being threatened by the united states. if it said russia invades ukraine, no russian is that time and time again, it does not intend to evade ukraine. and that was reiterated again at the press conference on monday night. however, the russian deputy 4 minutes is saying what russia really wants right now is i in plod guarantees that ukraine will not join the nato alliance. now will ever we are fed up with loose dog. hello,

mrs. misinterpretation or what happened that different forms of negotiations behind closed doors. we do not trust the other sites. so to see we need ironclad. what approve bullet proof, legally binding guarantees not assurances, not safeguards guarantees. so no concrete breakthrough, particularly with the united states, saying they couldn't discuss issues of ukraine and it's possible membership of native without me being present its allies being present at the negotiating tables . and that is the stage that we are now at with new round of discussions to take place on wednesday between nato and the russian delegation, where ukraine of course will be a large part of those discussions we've also heard from the nato secretary general, who's pads lowered the ball when it comes to tools, suggesting that

a good outcome would be that they would be more talks in the future rather than any concrete action. however, yet still to make has said that when he was prime minister over norway, he had many discussions with russia. and he had found that the russians were open to negotiations. so perhaps there is a ray of lights at the end of the tunnel. yet more party pressure for the british prime minister boys johnson. but once again, it's social as well as political elite. d mail has revealed another lockdown gathering, involving the leader and his wife. it is claimed, a 100 downing street staff were invited for a boozy get together at the height of the co would lock down there in 2020 hi all. after what has been an incredibly busy period, it would be nice to make the most lovely weather and have some socially distance drinks and the number 10 garden this evening. please join us from 6 p. m, and bring your own booze. well, it seems as though all the prime minister was during,

during this pandemic is partying. while everybody was simply in a lockdown, it seems as though the government was acting as if there was a cause for celebration. in fact, the prime minister's chief 8 simply sent out this message saying that the lovely weather in may of 2020 was ample enough reason to host a party. and so invited around a 100 people to a, bring your own booth, downing street garden party. now it's alleged that around 40 people attended this party, including boris johnson. the only problem is the time the rules clearly stated, even reiterated just an hour before that invitation went out. but you can only me talk with one other person from another household. and of course, social distance 2 meters apart. so it's probably not much of a surprise for me to tell you this huge amount of opposition to it, including calls for the prime minister to resign. people will find it utterly

outrageous that the most powerful people in the tory government were producing up at number 10 downing street proving yet again, that is one rule for them. and another for the rest of us. if the prime minister had a shred of integrity or an ounce of shame, he would have resigned many months ago. boris johnston has consistently showed that he has no regard for the rules he puts in place for the rest of us. at the time everyone would have known did go into but it was wrong. so how can those run to country have filters was ok. now, number 10, yet to comment, but for us, johnson has previously and repeatedly said that all guidelines have been followed. of course, in metropolitan police and now weighing in that considering investigating and the now in communication with the cabinet office. but just to give you a bit of an idea of what was happening at the time here in london on may the 25th, that's 5 days after this, so called pocky 10 days after that. wine and cheese alleged soiree lawrence children said this,

the only reason we have been able to make such progress is because the country has observed the social distancing rules. feel free to speak to people yourself if you feel they are not observing the rules and the police will step in if necessary. so it comes as no surprise then it's no wonder that even tories are now losing trust in the government. according to the latest shocking poll, i'm more than a 3rd of tories think that boris johnson should quit and almost $4.10 think he is doing a bad job, of course, considering there's now been dozens of party revelations and allegations floating around during the lock down period it sounds as though the government was almost on a booze cruise, but it seems as though bars, johnson may not go down with his ship. u. k. radio host, john gaunt says the saga reflects the story. the sorry. state of british politics. morris johnson has absolutely disgusted me. it is completely and utterly wrong when we,

the people were following all the advice to the letter. and some people were getting fined when they wrote it. how did he and other members of the cabinet, if they were there, break their own rules and no man or woman is above the law, and the law should take precedence here and they should investigate. it's not good enough that that's going to report in weeks and weeks needs to report now is what this story illustrates. it's just how poor our mainstream politicians are today. they're all pretty useless and you couldn't put a cigarette paper between them. we've been let down in our country by the political class, the professional political class. they all basically discuss me. it is 20 years since the 1st prisoners were taken to the notorious us prison camp at guantanamo bay. and we have been hearing about what they went through from a d t any mo awesome bag that was held there for 3 years without ever being charged with any crime. unfortunately,

on this anniversary 20 years there are people i spoke to. young boys were no longer young. 1819 years old, who never met at all because they probably be help that child or one channel list. they saw me and i saw 2 people. i saw one present with hands part of his head to the top of the cage being repeatedly punched and kicked them too. he was children, numerical accepted that this was a homicide. i also was subject to the sounds of a woman screaming in the nest cells that i was to believe was my wife, while interrogators from the way pictures of my children in front of me and to send me to egypt and syria. if i didn't cooperate so that all sorts of shocking things that were taking place. and i, as i say, i was only get to 3 people then up to literally 20 years without charge

a new report by human rights watch details. the tragic extent of the systemic abuse at the prison camp. it assesses the torture and the illegal detention of hundreds of muslims at guantanamo nan calls upon president joe biden, to repair the damage done. and finally closed the detention center. here's a brief history of that infamous facility ah

with we also spoke to 2 more former guantanamo bay detainees, and like many others, both of them were never charged with a crime. here is what they had to say. i think it will tell them what we try not to, but it does come up. of course it's continuous is something that continues with us throughout our life is something that is a grained inside our hearts and spirits. and we have to think about it all the time is something that we cannot change. and sometimes one can tell them like now was in the news. if you think about those 2 are still inside,

you can tell them. i was there for 5 years throughout the 5 years there was continuous thought. so there was no rules, no god, no laws, nothing. the god did what they like and the american system did what they want to answer. so sometimes you are immolated sexually. sometimes you're beaten, sometimes anything that they thought will get information out of the prisoners and they were willing to commit those points. that's why we're kept in gonna tell them when tell them or is a black hole legal black hole, what is going on? you know, what time is a place that retake garage, you know, injustice. one time when i was a simple torture injustice lawlessness. i'm using power in different ones. you know, it's one of the biggest human right. and the 21st century, no law lives there. no human rights, no any kind of rules or basic right for, for humans. so gone. tell me the existence is

a torture injustice as it is now. it's 20 years and it won't turn to be a political game or a you know, what? because what want to keep it open because that gives you some kind of publicity or something more books sadie or is that humanity and they know what time is wrong. they don't want to move exists in the 1st place. still the come in the program medical facilities are overwhelmed and facing severe staffing shortages as america reaches the world record for daily registered covered in ah, join me every thursday on the alex salmon show. but i'll be speaking to guess when the world of politics spoke. business,

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ah, welcome back. this is our to international. now a disturbing landmark for america now, a broke world record for daily registered covered infections on monday with more than $1300000.00 cases according to reports. now the de also saw the highest number of hospitalizations with many medical facilities overwhelmed and facing severe staffing shortages. health authorities have even allowed emetics infected with coven to stay on at work if they have mild symptoms. they will, however, be required to wear extra protective masks, and should be assigned to only treat covered patients. it is still not quite clear how this will be put into action. we don't have any information on whether hospitals will adopt this approach or not. but what we do know is that hospitals are expecting many more patients in the coming days than

they're going to be able to care for with the current resources. really are my colleagues spoke with david green, the president of the service employees international union. he says, allowing the mildly infected to continue working could worse in the crisis. you know, it's a really scary, dangerous time because you know, our job, our 1st job is to protect the people we serve the patients and these hospitals. and by forcing our nurses and health care workers to tap to come in, if they're coven positive, it puts these patients at risk. so we're asking, you know, our local elected officials here and our community groups, and anybody that will listen to you. we want to reversal this policy, and we, we really believe that it's health and safety crisis. if they force our nurses to have to come to work while they're coven expose we, we thought it could be, it could make a really difficult crisis, even more difficult. nevertheless, amid the coven chaos in the u. s. president joe biden is continuing to praise his

team's policies during the pandemic. today, america is the only leading economy in the world where the economy as a whole, is stronger than before the pandemic. no wonder one lady in economic, se me analyst describe what we've accomplished in 2021 is the strongest 1st year economic track record of any president in the last 50 years. however, recent pulse suggests that 60 percent of americans say the economy is their biggest concern. now while just 37 percent thing, the virus is one of their top 5 priorities. a major shift and opinion from a year ago, daniel mcadams, who's a director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity says biden is dreaming if he thinks the economy is in great shape. while the pull that came out just recently was actually conducted early in december. and that's why it's so

interesting because it indicated that even at the height of the arm across the scare campaign in the u. s. media, the propaganda to be terrified and stay home. she said, don't go out for christmas, keep your relatives away. even at the height of the scare, you saw a huge dialing back on the part of the population with regard to the importance of cove it to their, to their concerns and their voting activities. my guess is now after they warned us that this will be a long dead, deathly winter when those deaths have not occurred. probably if you took a poll right now, it will be even less of a concern for koby, particularly as the u. s. administered the by the administration's coven narrative, narrative is falling apart as we speak, much less concerned for that, then the economy and the runaway inflation and the, the supply chain problems, the lack of goods in the stores, the inability to even purchase a new car. you know, i think these things are even going to be a more concert. it's a big problem for democrats going into the mid term election. well, if he's going to run on the economy, he's going to have

a tough row to hoe. in fact, no matter what the democrats run on in 2022 is going to have a difficult time of it. obviously, the inflation, which they claimed was transitory. and then said, well, actually it's not transitory is having a huge effect. we're seeing the effect of shutting down the economy, which is that the supply lines have been shut down. you're seeing a lot of stores empty in the united states and people are noticing it. in fact, trending on twitter, i think the other day was people taking pictures of the empty shelves in their stores. i seen disappointing employment numbers that just came out this past month . so i think, you know, biden as usual is kind of living in his own dream world. american retailer, wal mart has have the paid leave for workers that test positive for co it or must isolate new company policy says that they will now get just one week off. we heard from a wal mart employee who says the move is putting people's lives at risk. i don't want to pay sickly for employees who aren't going to be at work. they'd rather us

come to work 6 spread the virus to other people get other people sick. have them have to go on our way even all that. some are afraid, you know, getting a virus. if they get the virus, you know, what are they going to do? if they're still sick after 5 days, i mean, i feel the same way i can coming to work when i'm still have coven spread everywhere. they really don't care. so i put all, all our lives in danger, even more than before, as just not worth. i'm not going to die for wal mart, and i don't think anybody else wants to dr. wal mart either. while much new policies follow updated recommendations from the u. s. centers for disease control and prevention that allow people to isolate for 5 days after a cove it 900 infection instead of 10. wal mart spokesperson said that they had also introduced a number of other policies to help employees during the crisis, including working from home where possible. until the end of january, a surgeon coven cases in the u. s. has caused significant labor shortages, a survey of hourly paid workers found that 65 percent of them who reported being

sick in the last month said that they went to work anyway. peter not again believes it's because people just cannot afford to take time off. if you have some fever, you still might feel 6, you know, i still not feel well, but you still can come to work. and after 5 days you don't get paid anymore. the ok more paid. pay leave for that because of that, a lot of people are going to say, even if they do have a fever or something like that, they're going to say that they are, that they feel foreign because they can't afford to are not still not getting paid . so they're still going to come into work sick with the virus and be contagious and spread it to everybody else. as barry fair to say, i was miss that fact, it was complete negligence on their part. they should not have done that. it should have been taking a rush, but the fact of their profits. and right after wal mart announced its new policies tech joined amazon followed suit in short and paid sick leave for its workers as well. employees will now be entitled to 7 days. instead of the previous 10,

the guidelines impact all workers regardless of their vaccination status. in the meantime, across the atlantic in the u. k, ikea has just announced it is cutting sick pay for certain groups of unvaccinated workers who have to self isolate. does it for me in about 32 minutes, i will be back with another look at your newsday with such international ah,

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