how will the people there be impacted by these restrictions. for those areas are london i am now the east and the south east that is believed to be more trans this transmissible than the existing strain or just to put these new restrictions into some context for you it was just this week essentially what he has done particularly here in london and the southeast now the rule of up until today had been 3 households would be allowed to meet indoors for 5 days those are the areas that have been identified as having this new variance this new strain of the virus which we just heard the prime minister boris johnson said canceling christmas here in the u.k. would be inhumane now although with the news of this new variant that is indeed that is now been cut back severely people in these new to 4 restrictions as that quote won't be allowed to leave that area is that being off just to remain within

their own household and for the rest of the country while they're now being told that they can only meet for one day on christmas day and those measures people around the country is being advised not to travel far and to cut down socialising with their with other households where possible. you mentioned this new strain of call that 19 is more easily transmissible what more do we know about it. well it's still in the early stages of finding out say exactly how this new variant was but one thing that did become clear for the 1st time today is that preliminary data shows that it is more transmissible one estimate that we heard in the press conference with boris johnson just that was that it could be up to 70 percent more transmissible than the existing variant that of course is very shocking hearing for a lot of people here but again this has to be put into context we were told that there is no evidence so far that this is any more dangerous than existing virus

variant that people are more likely to have adverse effects serious effects all that they could end up in hospitalized or sadly losing their lives there is also nothing to suggest at this stage that treatments or vaccines will struggle to deal with this new variant today that of course is being examined very closely one thing that we did hear in that press conference which of course is interesting for an international audience is that it is possible that this variant could be in other countries although no details were given on that of course though the the goal is to try and limit the spread of this virus both abroad and across the u.k. and that's exactly why people who are in areas where we're seeing this new variant already are being told not to travel the big question though is whether or not people will listen it had been sold to them here in the u.k. that christmas would be a moment of relaxation after what's been a terrible year for so many people christmas was really a chance to relax the rules

a little bit that there now today has been canceled ok charlotte pill thank you for bringing us up to speed. britain isn't the only nation tightening restrictions countries across europe are introducing new measures to contain the virus sweden has changed course and is now urging people to wear face masks and italy has banned travel between regions and ordered shops bars and restaurants to close until january 6th. correctly it was more a question of when not if new measures would be announced with all important christmas holidays days away the government has ordered a national lockdown. it is not an easy decision it is a painful decision to strengthen the regime of measures necessary for the upcoming holidays and to better protect ourselves and keep incite the january recovery.

much of europe has imposed tough restrictions to curb the onslaught of the virus over the festive period. though austria will introduce its rules one day after christmas. even sweden who until now had taken a laissez faire approach is recommending masks on public transport officials go stop short of shutting businesses. count very serious look look down for example will have an effect in the long run because people would not put up with in italy memories of the springs deadly 1st wave are still fresh many said they welcome the government interventions. of the state we will be forced to have a different christmas we will make up for it next christmas it's not a tragedy it did do i think a lot done is the right thing we must defeat the virus and rushed back through as always whatever it takes. for the future which it will be a difficult year

a new year's eve as well and i'm placing all my hopes on a better attention in. officials to hope to relax the rules in the new year but with household permitted to keep mixing in the coming days there is no guarantee that the end is near. a 2nd cold in 1000 vaccine has been authorized for emergency use in the united states millions of doses of the medina vaccine are expected to be added to the massive american vaccination program which began this week with health care workers older people in long term care facilities are next in line the approval comes one week after the u.s. food and drug administration authorized the vaccine developed by a biotech and pfizer. this weekend germany mocks the 4th anniversary of the terrorist attack on a christmas market in the hospital. and islamist extremists hijacked a 40 ton truck and killed the driver he then rammed the vehicle into

a crowded market killing another 11 people and injuring dozens more the terrorist escaped and was shot dead by italian police 4 days later in neverland. was unprepared for such an attack and had to learn how best to help those affected in the aftermath. eustis minister is an emergency pastor in the days following the december 26th terror attack he met many of those traumatized by the event he says their grief was made even worse by the disastrous response from official support agencies. 12000 it did not work as well at that point from people understood very clearly that they were on their own. to a certain extent that's because the berlin agencies and institutions were themselves overwhelmed you know that's one of the i'm a father of one as a result people waited a long time for financial and psychological help

a public memorial service however happened very quickly the day after the attack possibly too soon got the scenes the memorial service was meant to be for victims' relatives but many of them had no idea at the time that they were actually the relatives of victims it was far too early. officials understood that there were not structures in place to deal with this kind of event a central liaison now coordinates support for victims and their families who will also get more financial help in the future. we all know that money can't make up for the terrible pain that people have experienced it can only help with immediate problems. for the victims of the 2016 attack we've retroactively increased the payments even tripled them. trying to says that the victims of racist and anti-semitic attacks in the cities of how now and how they have had quicker access to support he says the agencies have

learned from their mistakes. that was put to the test earlier this month interfere where a driver fatally rammed 5 people. the perspective of the victims is what matters are the perspective of the victims' families. every step of the process you have to say slow down don't hurry things but many people who are suffering after an attack get immediate aid and then you have to come to an agreement with the victims' families and also the families of the. 4 years after the 2016 berlin attack us this minister still stays in touch with many of the victims he just wishes the changes in victim support had come in time to help them earlier. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines several rockets have been

fired at a major u.s. base in afghanistan officials say they hit back in the country's northern part one province no casualties reported and no one has immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. space x. successfully launched its final mission of 2020 by sending a spy satellite into orbit the company used its falcon 9 reusable rocket to get the job done for the u.s. national reconnaissance office the mission was classified but was broadcast without disclosing the launch position. the coronavirus has dominated headlines this year but that doesn't mean other crises have gone away one such story is migration countless people trying to reach europe in hopes of a better life and this year has seen a shop increase of migrants in the atlantic trying to reach spain's canary islands of africa's western coast. yano was born just

a few days ago but she will never know her father. he died a few weeks ago while trying to reach the canary islands by barge on the sort of cold atlantic route. all he wanted was to improve his living conditions also i am sick and he wanted to provide for the main his wife and children sent to go west africa one starting point for the atlantic route this year 10 times as many people have attempted the voyage as in 2019 hundreds of them lost their lives the pandemic is one reason behind the increase jobs are vanishing wages falling tourists are staying away migration routes through libya and across the mediterranean have become more difficult many of the migrants used to make a living from fishing but they say large troll is from the e.u. and other big countries a wiping out fish stock. so it would mean you need a normal family life is hard and there is little hope we lived mainly off of

fishing built our houses that way solved our problems sent our children to school. most of the migrants are young men driven by a desire to support their families as well as misconceptions about europe. more than we do many young people believe that europe is looking for more workers because of the high death toll associated with curves at 19. they know the voyage to europe is dangerous but for a better life they're willing to risk everything. the book does leaders early saturday games are now over so let's take a look at all the results from match day 13 so far. shall cuz when list run extends to 29 matches after they lose one nil to belittled while they were away wins for hoffenheim bremen and frankfurt lives it dropped vital points at home to

cologne william berlin beat bluesier dortmund on friday night now the top of the table clash between by a level coups and by and munich will be starting soon on sunday fibered host of elin and stuttgart travel to voles. you watching the news live from thailand this morning our web site e.w. dot com until the logical answer to. what secrets lie behind us will. discover new adventures in 360 degrees. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. w world heritage 316 get the maps now. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. how has the rate of infection been developing. measures are being taken.

what is the latest research so. information and context. the coronavirus up to the coastal special monday to friday on w. fake passports trucks and weapons in the dark with illegal activity is just a click away why is it so hard to crack down on criminal activity there and can be used for good the dark weapon our topic today on shift in. the dark what is an alternative to the regular internet it's a version that anonymous and encrypted this makes it the perfect space to sell illegal goods like weapons a recent study found that most users engaged in illegal activities on the dark web

live in democratic societies the most common legal transactions are drax experts estimate that tracks make up 2 thirds of transactions on the dark web so i tried it out how easy is it to buy tracks on the dark web. at 1st glance it looks just like a regular online shop with product images and customer reviews but the products are illegal heroin and all kinds of weapons. high is shulman is head of the cyber security analytics and defense department at the foreign over institute that she shows us where drugs are sold on the dark web looking is legal only buying is a crime in germany the u r l's of these websites can be found on the regular internet all clear where it's better organized than many of the legal marketplaces there is much more information the buyers are much more reliable the feedback is much better bunch more money is

involved and also much more is at stake if you make a mistake you go to jail so you have to make sure that it's. secure with just a few clicks customers can buy cannabis one of the most popular drugs on the dark web it would be sent to the provided address but that means trusting the vendor to delete it once the product has been delivered payment is done in the crypto currency bitcoin so the customer remains anonymous but how likely is it for the product to actually arrive in the end every vendor here has a set of customers and if he doesn't deliver the goods his reputation will be damaged no one will buy from him so the whole system and dark know it is based on reputation that's why typically the service is good and if you order something it will arrive but customers on the dark web are not 100 percent anonymous so they're not completely protected from prosecution because the location and ip addresses are encrypted it makes criminal prosecution much harder. another challenge is the lack

of national borders on the dark with the vote. we never really know what country the service are actually located in it's not just a technological challenge but a judicial challenge to. we need to cooperate with other laws. agencies work across various fields and speciality is really a big challenge. for the whole in 2019 they were finally successful working with international investigators the federal criminal police and the spawn was able to prosecute one of the world's largest drug binges on the dog way of wall street market the service were eventually discovered in this form a german military bunker located in a small town in the west of germany. now that's surprising you'd never expect to find the servers in a place like that we spoke to somebody who buys trucks on the dark web he told us that he feels much safer buying drugs on the dark wet than on the street we also asked him whether he's scared of being caught by the police more on that soon on

our you tube channel. in the dark where pews are is our anonymous when we surf the internet we've tried this behind everywhere even when we use browsers and incognito mode like firefox we're not really surfing anonymously originally the dark web was created by the us military to help intelligence agencies communicate and honestly today anyone can access it and then many makes the dark web useful for illegal transactions and it also allows political activists to move about freely online all they need is a certain software here's how it works. the best known way of accessing the dark web is by using the tour project a worldwide network of servers. the real project is to defend yourself against trucking and surveillance and circumvent censorship wherever you are in the normal internet you wrote tracked and somebody spies on you and tor tries to. tries to

prevent. tor employs a technique called onion routing which uses multiple layers of encryption like an onion this ensures the users intimate all search queries run through an extensive network of servers called toward nodes this way the users ip address a unique identifier is only shared with the 1st node from then on it's the nodes ip address that's use the more notes the query runs through the harder it becomes to trace back its origins which protects the user's identity more than 2000000 people use tor browser every single day activists like you. are on a mission to ensure that the technology behind tor is standard in every browser so that means anyone could surf the web and honestly that actually sounds pretty good to me this is already standard on the dark web however anonymity can also protect people engaging in illegal activities like pedophiles in recent years the german police have to cover at several different forums for this one example was the

lithium which was one of the words largest platforms for him in. videos showing sexual abuse of children the farm was shut down and 2017 elysium is a good example of the challenges the dark by poses for investigators with 111000 accounts and online forums in 6 different languages was a space for pedophiles from around the world to meet in 2017. they would chat and share exploitative images of children and even babies being sexually abused the police used undercover investigators to track down these dark websites. really a lot of work like finding all the pieces of a puzzle just imagine trying to infiltrate one of these platforms you have to pretend that you're interested in paedophilic material start contacting a few people and talk to them it's not just one or 2 conversations it can take you weeks or months to get useful information. investigators also need to be exploitative images and videos depicting sexual violence against children it's hard

to watch but every detail is important. to closely watch the material and you're constantly looking for leads was this crime committed in germany perhaps there's a product that's only sold in germany to be found somewhere in the background. in the case of an error in the online forum helped the investigators the ip address of one of the servers was revealed which led the police to one of the perpetrators on the dark web authorities frequently depend on coincidences and errors like the. helps us when there are individual cases of humans making errors or this is not being 100 percent reliable usually once a platform is hosted on the web you can't access any real existing ip addresses anymore even if the dark web isn't exactly the root of all evil investigators like you are convinced that the distribution of exploitative images and videos of children would be much less widespread without it. probably wouldn't see it happen

on the same scale that we do today simply because people would run a. much higher risk of running into somebody that might actually report them to the police can all but us and i think this anonymous online exchange helps people encourage each other positive. another problem for investigators is that in order to access these platforms new users often need to submit new material that means the police would have to share images of children being sexually abused but just for been in many countries of course from 2020 onward however the german police are allowed to use computer generated images of children that aren't real when a dark web forum is shut down many years are simply move on to the next one that's why it is especially important to prosecutor you have both to investigate a lot. if we keep breaking up more of these structures than we might be able to have a large impact by unsettling the users some might even say it's a bit risky maybe i shouldn't do this anymore i think this would give us the upper

hand side by creating this type of uncertainty and insecurity that might force people to think twice about the dark whip is also important for the people protesting for freedom tor browser is a software helping political activists around the world to surf the internet anonymously torrent which sounds for the onion router is a multi-layered encryption system just like an onion websites that can be accessed on tort can be recognized by their u.r.l. extension dot on your. facebook has it has to the new york times and torture probably on your website thank you because that's talking to more processor which is especially useful in countries where these what sites are used to blocked like china or iran. what. reporters without borders this makes the dark web a tool for freedom of speech. but dark out or more precisely usually we talk about . people here anonymously race on the internet here are clues what pages.

that might be censored in certain countries or to share information or share documents or video material with international news media without giving away their identity and that's quite a critical tool then especially in less free countries. it's also a space that has been used to be classified information let's suppose chelsea meet . with them for their leaks. during the arab spring people used to joke with him to plan hoffa protests against the government without fear of prosecution. this is also being used to organize other protests offering protection from surveillance by intelligence agencies. we definitely see both the use of like p.p. and technology and the darkness playing a critical role also in recent protests. russia obviously both states

heavily censor the use of social media and they take away our credit ations of journalists and so communicating through alternative means and circumventing the. censorship. has become really critical. i take freedom of speech seriously journalists rely on the dark web to work and to be protected from state control for this reason from reporters without borders says that we shouldn't simply think of the dark web as being just the dark side of the internet but there are definitely has an image problem. the term brain. aspect of sudden technology in a way to say this is about illegal activity online and it's not just stocks fundamentally it's an anonymous station tool and that enables both legal activity and illegal activity but it's really critical to journalists it was the laws around the world and we need to talk about the positive aspects much more prominently as

well i think the term. dark web is misleading the word dark suggests illegal activity but it's actually just a network that offers more user anonymity what do you think does the dark web just have a bad reputation could it be the internet of the future or should it be closely monitored for illegal activity let us know what you think on you tube or facebook bye bye and see you soon. and.

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