lou ah, up to a 100, a fear dead off the tornadoes rip across several american states. but the disaster underlines and countries deep ripped with some politicians already trying to score points from the tragedy. ah lashings had an antique hope restriction protested germany leave over a dozen police injured as more measures rolled out. we look at how the homeless in berlin are affected. this is not about a legitimate prosecution, buddhist about a political persecution. the un special rapids her on torture lashes out of the british court ruling to allow julian a sound his expedition to the u. s. and racist further concerns over the wiki leaks found his health. as his fiance claim, he suffered a stroke in prison in october and sedans at stolen revolution as thousands continue

to protest. october's coo, we bring you a special report on the turmoil ah, on monday morning at 9 here in moscow. my name is colleen bry. welcome to you. well, news for marty international 1st, then that to the u. s. were devastating storms of the through the since central and southern areas. the state of kentucky suffered the worst damage with the governor. they're saying around a 100 people have died, but does feel that that number could increase. he's declared a state of emergency these a satellite images from before and after. in the city of mayfield, more than a 100 people were trapped inside a collapse factory building. emergency cruise managed to rescue about 40 so far. destructions also been reported in arkansas, missouri, tennessee, and illinois, where at least 6 people were killed in an amazon warehouse. ah,

a worst most devastating most deadly tornado event in kentucky history. there's our home town and just everything. everybody's all there. walls were shaking. house collapsed in again. you can see where the whole house is buckled, go back sided, it houses off the total devastation for our town. most of our historic buildings are now gone with with,

with one of the largest community operational history, all those deadly tornadoes have been wreaking havoc across central and southern us . the disasters highlighted a shot rift between republicans and democrats. with some politicians seemingly trying to take advantage of the tragedy, the care and as more on that and hi of towns were destroyed as some 30 powerful tornadoes, ravaged across 6 us dates the worst effected can saki, and needs help support and relief aid. and so it turns to the government and fellow americans, but politics is politics and it seems not even a monumental disaster like this one can bridge america's political divide. and some believe it's a perfect opportunity to show that you reap what you sow. when hurricane hobby hit

in 2017, the 17 senate has he voted against the bill to provide billions of dollars in relief will oh, republicans among them. kentucky said it's a round pole. once again, thousands of suffering, but there's no time like the present for political punches. we should do all we can to help our kentucky neighbors goodby wisdom. they're hurting, but do not for one second. forget that rand pole has voted against helping most americans, most times very need. we know, rand paul is a heartless hypocrite. the people in kentucky deserve the relief regardless of their furnished leadership. but if the dance don't use this against him and his party in the future, it is mister. but unity for some, it's not even off limits to suggest that if you vote read, then you had it coming. vote for climate change, deny isn't. see what happens. pull nato's in december. red, but weather climate change was

a factor is not clear at this point. still is the country reels and shock and concerns of the climate change peak. it could also play into the democrats hands as they bid to push a $1.00 trillion dollar climate package through the senate. all i know is that the intensity of the weather across the board has some impact as a consequence of the warming of the planet and the climate change. and so it seems something as devastating as this can only when the appetite for those looking to score political points. there is nothing that a politician ever does or says that surprises me. there is nothing that is above them or below them. i think that they're going to anytime that any bad thing happens, that they think that they can use as a justification to push for more control. they're going to, i don't think it's appropriate. i think it's political posturing for the worst of reason. a disaster is a disaster and it was going to happen regardless. it was going to happen whether or not we had cap and trade or the new green deal or anything else. i think it also

shows the increasing whole reservation and partisanship and division in the us instead of looking at people as human beings, we look at them as red or blue or independent. we look at them as some abstraction instead of what they are human being that in this case are suffering terribly right now. i don't care how they voted, and i don't think anyone else should care how they voted. either japanese anti coated measures civ sparked unrest in the town of grind swear protested of clashed with police. the authorities that se 14 offices were injured in the violence, the said, but germany announced plans to exclude unvaccinated people from non essential stores and places of mass gatherings. daily new cases have been record high level since late november, more than double previous peaks in april. berlin has imposed strict coven requirements on public transport. that will see even homeless people kicked off

unless they're vaccinated, recovered, or test negative. officials in the german capital insist the move is essential to fight the spread of infections and that they can be no exceptions. peter oliver looked at how the homeless have a tough time ahead. winter is well and truly upon us, fear in the german capital. and along with freezing temperatures in smo, this week is also seen new covered rules come into force among men, a stipulation that you must be able to prove that you've either been vaccinated, recovered from covert, or that you've got a valid negative test if you want to ride public transport in berlin or even go to the station and that is caused problems for the cities homeless. and i'm, i'm fung, i'm glad i was attacked, especially at the beginning. people called me names saying get out of my way. i could theoretically stay in the match of stations because i have my vaccination card, but i don't have a digital one because the doctor forgot to put a stamp out of his signature when he vaccinated me. the city of berlin recognized

that this is far from ideal, but say they have to take measures to stop the spread of the virus. we have a pandemic and we have to protect people from infection and contagion, therefore, inspectors reject all those people who do not comply with the 3 g vaccinated recovered or tested rule. we know how problematic the situation is for homeless people. so we do everything we can to give homeless people a vaccination organizations like the berlin city mission, which run overnight shelters. point out the problems raised my barring on vaccinated homeless people because they're in a sanitary facilities. and people who are under the influence of drugs or alcohol could accidentally fall into the track. bad platforms are not ideal. pace is to stay for homeless people. nevertheless, for many who are particularly badly off and who have lost contact with the outside world, there are hardly any other protected places to stay during the winter season that they can use or reach there are those trying to help along with the berlin city

mission, the huff brow house bar has been drafted in for use as a day shelter over the winter months. here, homeless people will be able to get out of the cold, but also get tests done and review vaccines elsewhere. there is andrea, who, a key used to live on the berlin streets. he now works to help the homeless auto it along with of having the scene of just this morning. i saw security, guarded train station escort, and old homeless man walking with a walk around of the station. that's really bad right now. the current temperatures around 0 degrees are the worst you can be exposed to as a homeless person, minus 5 or even minus 10 degrees is easier to bear. got in the past, you could buy a burger for $0.70 and sit at mcdonald's for an hour to warm up. now, many homeless people are unable to do that, as we do have opportunities for the homeless to get vaccinated. and we do have testing opportunities for with the digital vaccination card. it is very difficult mobile phones are stolen or it's difficult to charge a mobile phone on the street. so the possibility of getting warm is once again

closed off berlin. senate says that opportunities are being offered, but they're not as good as they're said to be. it's just window dressing. the coven 19 pandemic continues to ravage year up this winter and the virus most no social class. while f, it's all being made to help the most vulnerable in society, that continue to be those that fall through the cracks. peter, all of her all t bill in all that all micron koby strains, casting a long shadow over winter hope for all of us have coals all teeth pulled as slaves having to isolate right now after being diagnosed with the varian. later in the program, she tells us what it's like next though, australia says it's not party to julian sanchez extradition case. the reaction of the we can ex, found his home country follows calls to pressure the us and britain to set him free . in the wake of friday's ruling that he can be extradited. a back in london assault, his fiance says he suffered a mini stroke, cheering and appeal hearing in october,

leaving him with signs of neurological damage. of doctors had only a highlighted his mental health issues, including depression and memory loss, and poor overall conditions. and in january i caught acknowledged a high risk of suicide of you and special realtor on torture. told us more about the stroke claims and the sanchez, the broader health problems he seems to have recovered from it for now and to receive anti stroke medication. but we know obviously that this is a typical sign of his health deteriorating. and these minor strokes it indicates that there is a risk that a full stroke might occur at some point in the near future. i visited him in 2019, just after had been arrested by, by the british authorities together with 2 experienced medical experts. and they came to the conclusion independently from each other that his health i was going to deteriorate rapidly to the point of endangering his life if he was not rapidly

relieved, of the constant pressure off, you know, persecution, arbitrary i solution. and this is exactly what we see playing out now. it was absolutely predictable and avoidable because we have officially warned the british authorities that this was going to happen. although the high call back washington's appeal on friday, the long running legal wrangling over a sand, his extradition is not over yet. the u. s. is he could to put a psalms on trial accusing him of conspiring to obtain secret information of u. s. military campaigns in afghanistan and iraq and publishing swathes of material via a wiki leaks revealing more crimes or his case now reverts to the lower court which block the extradition in january citing series house consent to the time of the u. s. a since given assurances that a sound won't serve any potential sentence in a maximum security prison, but knows meltzer questions whether that can be trusted. miss extremely disappointed to have this decision, especially coming on the international human rights day. by and large firms,

the observations and official conclusions of my investigation of this case that this is not about a legitimate prosecution, but it is about a political persecution. the actual question is, why is julian assange in prison in the 1st place, given that all he has done is really, you know, exercise his rights as a journalist to publish information that he has from soon what they have done, united states is effectively they have promised not to hold him in a specific one specific prison, which is the super max prison in florence, colorado. but we all know that the united states has dozens of super max prison, so they can keep him in any others, max prison. those guarantees don't guarantee anything more than re boots of georgia or wells. 1984 could be in the works after the off at the state get the greenlight to retail the to stop in classic from a feminist perspective. a plan new adaptation by american author sandra newman, will tell the story from the viewpoint of julia,

the love interest of the main character, winston smith. and it's already predicted that the new version of one of the most influential books of the past century will inevitably transfer to the big screen online though the reactions been a bit different. all will's writings sexism is a capitalist feature, not a bug. to remove a confronted and move the rigid, black and white politics of the story. i never say this about adaptations, but maybe just write a new story that makes space for nuance. instead of trying to make 19 easy for feminist. you know what george orwell. dystopian classic, 1984 needs a politically correct modern day rewrite from a feminist perspective said no one ever. this looks great, but we need to do something about the concept of the estate of an author has been dead for generations. nobody should need permission to revisit 1994 or critics of the idea point out or telling the story from another perspective is exactly what the original warned against every record has been destroyed. are falsified. every

book re written, every picture has been repainted. every statue in street building has been renamed . every date has been altered. nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right. we are in its not world at the moment all we were to kill a mockingbird, which we all read when we would do to levels is now been banned because it is racist because some of the language difficult. i think he really is, but i think you can't banned books because we start banning books. you as bad as the people on the other side who are to say and almost burning them. i don't see any reason why any book shouldn't be subject to revisiting and re questioning a book that was written. i, you know, 2300 years ago. the moment we're just very close towards book burning. you know, if you look at people or j. k. rowling, and you look at a new blight and all these things. you don't after like a book, but you can understand it's context and i think that's what we need to get to. they

could be really, could be read this day, but the original stance and the date is something to be added i'd suggest is actually not a re, right? is it, it's another book and that's happened lots in literature recently. so i'm not to worry about it. i don't think it's necessary. i think 1984 is a brilliant book. i don't think it's necessary and maybe that's because i'm a blog is going to be published by grantor, so he's not going to become about best seller. i doubt, but it's not a rewrite, it's just now say i'm taking this is my inspiration. and this is what the woman might of thought so much of literature. and in certainly in the west has been by men for men. that it's perhaps useful to have a different perspective. it might cause a number of us to think to discuss to explore some of the idea. mallory near

original mostly shows written by men as a historical site more. ringback more literature been written by women now which a good thing, although there is a feeling amongst many righteous male watches, of course, that is almost simple, impossible to get published. if you are a man and particularly what is true and all game published into so many to look at this in the hall tree to the speech, freedom of thought can we have freed metal i want to think can be stimulated and motivated by ideas. i don't like as well as ideas i do like that i think is what civilization should be wrong. or cultural, an artistic limit to being pushed elsewhere to a german artist has chosen religious icons from the greek orthodox church to explore the taboo of sexuality. something she's gone a bit too far with

oh, is good. i think it violates religious boundaries. pictures can say more than words . good. anything i want to say so fast to religious sentiments, artistic freedom versus freedom in the world. the said i was one of those things that everyone relates to personally. in 2021. humanity can be a bit more open and i think we have other problems and arguing about what pictures of painted said, but i myself, i'm not a believer, but i think it's just hard then. it's just hard and you shouldn't take it so seriously. ah, that is harder, conquer is to belie them in the full crown. is the insulting greek orthodox believers long. christian perry this in general because it is simply disrespectful

and we call them makes the believe how he meant in it as he like it. if she had taken all the church, i have everything we have the synagogue in moscow, the budget is what that emotions would not have run. so why don't i i never intended to hurt or any particular secret. santa circus h is only want in a nation is a symbol. this purchase is, is justified, and i accepted the oma cron cove at variance is now in 63 countries. died spreading fastest in south africa and britain words on calls to ever take the dominant delta strain or early data from the world health organization shows that it causes mild symptoms and it's not caused any deaths as yet. but it's also showing resilience against vaccines and countries are rapidly rolling out boosted jabs. ortiz paula slayer was recently

diagnosed with the omicron strain and tells us what the symptoms are like. i'm sharing isolation in johannesburg, south africa after contracting the army con variant of cove. it now in the beginning, i didn't even know i had the symptoms are very similar to those of a common flu. so i had a very, very bad headache that lasted about 23 days, a scratchy throat, a sore throat. you're a good kind of just feeling very, very rundown. i don't see anyone except a nurse who comes here each day to check my vitals. i was a condition today, i mean a very what is the day? is it possible but i feel more tired today than i did yesterday. okay. have you noticed the numbers going up in south africa with us on the, on the number they've been climbing? so typically since the discovery and i don't believe that,

so we're going to see more numbers in the coming week because we have quite a few more people than we have been doing in the us. we now the nest is left with me and oxy neesha that will measure my oxygen levels and at the same time, at the moment and twice a day, i will be my own doctor and record the information in a walk that i share with an administrator who keeps contact with everybody who is in isolation. i am in touch with the doctor about 2 or 3 times a day. he has prescribed for me medication that one would take for regular code. most of it is just aimed at boosting my immune system. most of the cases here in south africa are reporting sometimes like the ones i have. and that is encouraging use because it took me a lot less severe than the symptoms that came with the variance of covert. so knock it out of the woods, but potentially some good news policy or r t, johannesburg,

south africa to dan's military bus rebuild trust with the opposition sleeve. the young generation filbert said by a seizure of power, that, according to the un envoy for sudan out, many feel betrayed by the crew in october. and i reject any negotiations with the military artes more. i guess the i've witnessed the 1000 strong protests in the capital car to and talk to people who say their dreams of a better life have been destroyed. ah, she's called mina. like countless others. she's a beggar. she doesn't play with her friends or go to school. she spends her days thinking outside a hotel. mina is just one of millions and saddam forced to beg to help feed herself and her family in these desperate times. and saddam sold a sick,

wounded in disease by years of strife and disappointment. these wasn't what democracy promised. the fall of the dictator law by sheer and 2019 was supposed to harold, a new age for, for god, a transition to a democracy. but the democratic age of prosperity that millions hopeful has turned into an age of hunger. i'm not mad. i don't know if there's still hope. to be honest, my only concern now is finding something to eat and so much sleep. hello. as to everything that's happening, i just don't know. i don't care anymore. i would just try saying something against the government. they'll label you and islamists are a former rating sympathizer, or a military supporter. in reality, all we want is to tell the government that we're hungry, that we have huge problems. people can't even go to school because of roadblocks or

protests. after the revolution, the people put their faith in a man called abdullah ham dock, korea bureaucrats, who promised as prime minister to lead the country to democracy. he won the hearts of millions only to break the anecdote, but the military intervene and what some have called the to it arrested prime minister ham dock in his cabinet. the argument was that they were running the country into the ground and the transition to democracy needed a correction, handled cabinet of ministers included many with foreign citizenship. allegations of corruption were rife, ministers were accused of enriching themselves while spouting platitudes. about democracy. the prime minister has since struck a deal with the military. they now ruled jointly to the displeasure of the revolutionaries in aliesha. none of those here will go to these protest. we protested then and we were betrayed. why would we protest again for him, for what?

what will change? nothing? we will i t once and life only got glass, will sit and wait for our deaths here. yet every week, hundreds, sometimes thousands gather across. so don and chancellor demands the freedom, food ultimatums, what traditional 1st they protest. i now underway ties a burning and central at all. this is how these protest happen. people gather and group several 1000 several 100. in this case caps, i've written 50 people here. burning ties are the major intersection. their objective is to pause this rupture. they're charging now against the military government who they see as being responsible for their scoop. ah, the crowd. these schindler thousands. and we had seen many small columns, swarming in various neighborhoods before converging here. and what they all want

for power to be handed over by the military toys, civilian government, property. they start without any acceptance. they bought the military, the step down. many people here field. but trade by prime minister ham doth find an agreement with the military, giving up a lot of civilian, bowed to the military resistance committees of all g, a groups across many neighborhoods which nominally help organized protests and run civilian life. in practice, they increasingly hassle businesses or denied people water will cooking gas if they so want, asking them about if only got us the on. so they have in their booklets of we've, we've spoken to people on some support, the, the resistance committees, other people say that resistance committees, intimidation, bullying, to scare people. but you would, you have to say about the labor. how can they scale what's horizon people that just

ordinary civilians. they're not related to the military for intelligence agencies. all they do is how quit hogan i zation and dialogue no matter how we ost, of people. wonder about us speak about the resistance committees on camera. they were fearful live this hot enough at ease, tragically ironic democracy activists have morphed into what they so hated. ham dogs. army some pulled themselves twisted version. the secret police at once enforced a dictators rule. ah, here on the outskirts of come to leave some of the most impoverished and the city people who survive on one meal every 23 days who drink water that is barely fit for capital who were on the front lines of the revolution and who the revolution entirely passed by and so sedan remains in wretched station chain

didn't hunger frozen by corrupt and self serve in elite and held together by a military bent on preventing collapse. ah, you're going to go to developing incidence, which we want to tell you about which, where across which we're just getting details of a rescue operation is currently under way for at least 2 people. after 2 cargo ships collided in the baltic sea between sweden and denmark, guy, the swedish maritime administration says, one of the ships has capsized at the moment, though that there is no word of any other casualties, or indeed the cause of the incident. when we do get more information on vass about what happened, we would of course, let you know. also, the reports coming in of an explosive device has been detonated at a convent in the russian city of santa fe grove, which is about a 100 kilometers south of moscow. 2 people are reported to be injured,

but these details are very new. we don't know much more as yet police have detained a suspect, so we'll keep you posted on that as well. so for more on those stories, plus, the other developments were across for you this monday, joy may get in half an hour life from moscow. this is alta international. ooh. join me every thursday on the alex, simon, she'll. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world politics sport. business. i'm sure business. i'll see you then. mm. all right, well i just don't whole world yet to see how does the becoming an advocate an engagement it was the trail went so

many find themselves will to part we choose to look for common ground. ah, on february 1st, 2016 after months of uncertainty the united nations announces its decision. ah hm . well, i highlight the part with .