seeking to the rail science that's rolling, using sy against the shell. ah, the headlines is our adding to growing cause for his resignation. the british prime minister, boorish, johnson finds himself from further trouble over a christmas quiz party last year. when strict coby rules band gatherings that every body else or so to come up through a 100, a 3rd dead after tornadoes writ across several american states. but the disaster does under line see the countries deep political divide with some politicians already trying to score points from the tragedy. and the disco peeler, 3 classic, 1984 is getting a sequel of thoughts this time for my feminist defective. we discuss whether it's a timely update or a glimpse into the rewriting and revising which george orwell had borne tobacco. i don't see any reason why any book shouldn't be subject to revisiting. we are in the

smart world of john. we were to kill a mockingbird which we all read when we were due to logan's. he's now been banned because it's racist because still over language difficult. it really is pathetic. and susan, ease he say they've been betrayed and had their dreams destroyed. we've a special report him to the 1000 strong protest gripping the capital since october's co. ah . good afternoon, welcome. just gone 3 o'clock in moscow. you watching arte international. my britain's prime minister, boris johnson, has just announced the 1st person has died in the u. k. with the only kron kay with variant, the strain has spread widely across the world, but no deaths had been detected before. now the news might drown any remaining fare

of cheer for the beleaguered prime minister says government is facing growing anger at christmas parties. they allegedly held during last year strict k, we'd locked down. your allegations have come to light over. i suppose it quiz party involving boris johnson himself, resulting in a fierce reaction from the public and the opposition. he's the worst possible leader, the worst possible time for his johnson presided over a culture of disregarding the rules at the heart of government. well, pretty strong was there, as he just heard from the opposition last week was obviously all about the rumors and this week it's all about the reality so much so far is johnson is really trying to back off accusation of accusation, but now he's embroiled in it. totally a himself, he really is in the spotlight off to pick just now. imagine of boris johnson, the prime minister, himself hosting a christmas downing street quiz party, totally against his own rules at the time. now the image shows the prime minister,

sat with 2 of the people at the time. london was in tier 2 of the restrictions, meaning no social mixing with any other people in doles. in fact, the official guidance actually stated, you must not have a white christmas party or even a lunch. well, the government spokesperson says that throughout the pandemic, officials have abided by the rules. and that this at christmas party downing street quiz was a virtual one. while the education secretary is defending the prime minister, many people would have had similar zoom quiz nice around the country. yeah, i wouldn't have been mix for it or i had done it. hold on, i would be in monster trouble. well this is of around one of 6 or 7 parties that are thought to have taken place in the festive season. nasty, a, causing so much controversy. in fact, the cabinet secretary is already investigating these potential parties, including one that might have happened on november the 27th and downing street

another on the 10th of december, where the department of education. and of course, the december, the 18th christmas party in downing street that sparked this absolute spiral of assault. and now already we've seen one casualty, one resignation after it all emerged. and just before all this was unraveling, the prime minister was still the public to abide by the rules and work from home a for many people. but by reducing your content in the workplace, you will help slow transmission all the food of pounds as the prime minister address the nation just last night. not a single mention of this scandal whatsoever. instead, it was all about the booster program, but as he was delivering it, and i think it's quite important to mention a hash tag on twitter was trending here in the united kingdom. national switch off was trending. it was aiming to boycott at the prime minister speech entirely. basically no one wants to hear from the prime minister because nobody really trust

morris johnson anymore. and that's really translated in the polls. now it's more than 50 percent of voters say that johnson master resigned as 9 percent in just 2 weeks. and for the 1st time since 2014 the labor party have the biggest lead in the polls. ironically, it's 2 years to the day now that boris johnson, one that general election, he won the public's vote then. but the polls suggest if he had a general lecture right now and be a very different story. shut it stash report now. okay, well let's get the views of a david curtain i from the brakes. it lines political, creepy joins a sir from london. you are very welcome. thanks for time this afternoon. david. and can boorish johnson survive fish? do you think? i didn't think so. i think he's in very, very deep trouble and you know, he won the election 2 years ago in very different circumstances. he said that he was doing it to get brakes done, but things have moved on so much now. and i think people are absolutely disgusted

with johnson with his government, with the staff in the departments because they've broken their own rules. they put the country in to lock down. we've essentially traumatized the whole country by saying last christmas. we couldn't meet all locked ones. they canceled christmas. and yet despite doing that, they were having jolly good james themselves in the heart of downing street. and i think people are very, very angry with him around the country and that is gonna lead through into the political establishment. and even maybe some of his own tory amperes might start to write letters of no confidence in him. given what we've seen happening. and the anger in the country, he is all over at the front page. is disney, understandably better? mean what he says is that the media should be concentrating on the new, on the con, there intern shouldn't be looking at part is held a year ago. i mean, does he have a point there? is this just him sounding desperate? well, it's not the job of the government to tell the media what to do. if we have

a free country, we have a free press. the media can ask what questions they want to ask, and they can run what stories they want to run. and i thing actually for the 1st time, the media is actually doing its job. i mean, but not, not you, but the other are media organizations. they get invited to the downing street press briefings. i think that they have been quite pathetic over the whole year in holding the government so account and essentially just follow the government line and don't question them or haven't questioned them. i, we with it with any sort of our depth though or scrutiny much at all. but for the 1st time they're actually doing that. they're putting the heat on boris johnson. they're putting the heat on the government and they don't like you because they know they've done something wrong and good for them. it seemed to say that separate johnson doesn't understand that. you know, he set all these new restrictions now that he would like people to follow, but of course they're gonna turn around and say,

but he didn't follow them. why should wait? yeah, absolutely. you know what it shows, to be honest, is that they're not afraid. they put all these rules in place, they ramped up the fear or with the behavioral psychology unit, the not unit behind them. they tried to my every body, so scared of sars cove to coven 19. whatever you like to call it, but they themselves will not worries if they were genuinely worried and concerned about our, our wild virus that is of the severity of small port saw abolla or the spanish flu . they wouldn't be having parties in downing street. they would be following all their rules because they would be genuinely scared of this terrible virus, but they weren't. so all of this fear mongering is totally fabricated, or i being more and more people are seeing through this and then not going to obey the johnson government this time around because they simply don't believe them more

broadly speaking. and david, i mean, even if we look at what happens in the united states, we see nancy pelosi, they're the high speaker. she's been flagging her. go say, i mean it's reaching a point. labeling isn't it to a degree where people are looking at their politicians and thinking twice about what they're saying. yeah, absolutely. you see that in the u. k, you see it in the usa as you say, and you see it when global politicians get together. for example, the g 7 summer in the summer, in the u. k. and car bas bay in cornwall. ah, you had the leaders of the g 7 countries mixing. they weren't socially distancing. they weren't wearing masks, but they required all of their staff and servants to wear masks when that rule was in place for everybody else. so we can clearly see they're acting as though it's one rule for everybody else. but if you are in the elite, the global political leads you're making the rules, they flout those rules with impunity. and people are not going to take that any

more. like a day, the grinning isotope to that stay, the curtain from the breasts alliance, political great. talking to a staff from london. thanks for coming on. welcome. the devastating storms have ripped through central and southern parts of the united states. the state of kentucky has suffered the worse damage with the governor, initially saying that around 100 people might have died. president biden has declared a major federal disaster in the state with these a satellite images from before. and after that storm in the city of mayfield, more than 100 people were trapped inside a collapse factory building and emergency crews have managed to rescue about 40 so far. destruction was also reported to in arkansas, missouri, tennessee, and illinois. or at least 6 people were killed in an amazon warehouse. partisan biden says his administration is ready to do whatever is needed to help states railing from the devastation.

ah, a worst most devastating, most deadly tornado event in kentucky. history. there's our own town and just everything everybody's, all of their walls were shaking. house collapsed in against you see where the whole house was buckled the backside of the houses off the total devastation for our town . most of our historic buildings are now gone with with,

with the largest community operation. all the disaster that has highlight to, to shop rift between the republicans and the democrats. but some politicians seemingly trying to take advantage of the tragedy. he, aaron, has more on that. and hi, towns were destroyed as some 30 powerful tornadoes, ravaged across 6 us states. the worst effected can saki, and needs help support and relief aid. and so it turns to the governments 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 senators who voted against the bill to provide billions of dollars in relief were all republicans among them. kentucky, the senator runs 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. good be wisdom. they're hurting, but do not for one second. forget that rand pole has voted against helping most americans, most times. very neat. we know, rand paul is a heartless hypocrite. the people in kentucky deserved a relief regardless of their before in his leadership. much of the dance don't use this against him and his party in the future. it is a missed opportunity for some, it's not even off limits to suggest that if you vote read, then you had it coming, vote for climate change, denial and see what happens. tornadoes in december read,

but weather climate change was a factor is not clear at this point. still is the country rules and shock and concerns. i have a climate change peak. it could also play into the democrats hands as a bid to push a $1.00 trillion dollar climate package through the senate. all that i know is that the intensity of the weather across the board has some impacts. as a consequence of the warming of the planet and the climate change. and so it seems something as devastating as this can only what 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 home renovation 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 we're suffering terribly right now. i don't care how they voted, and i don't think anyone else should care how they voted, either at 10 teenagers or confirm dared. according to moscow regional authorities and a blast at a convent about 100 kilometers south of the capitol. police say the attack in the russian city of sir po, cough was carried out by an 18 year old former student of his school, located in the convent grands constance in bras. cove reports we are at the orthodox school where the explosion happened. now let me give you a quick look at the scene here so you can see there is in investigators vehicle. and in front of that, there is a group of journalists and we all have gather here and we're waiting for an official to come out and make

a statement of clarifying what exactly happened here. and you can also probably see on the monasteries wall and behind as wall. there is a school we're out is blast occurred. no one died in the blast, but 11 people were injured, including the suspect. all of them are teenage students who arrived here this morning for what was supposed to be a normal day at school. instead, some very dramatic scenes played out. now let's hear from eye witnesses of this incident. we have rule africa, i didn't feel the explosion, but i could smell enough to was the classes were cancelled instantly and we were led to a safe place. the teachers kept us cool and we were okay, well, i didn't see the damage, only the ambulance and the police. an 18 year old former student allegedly brought an improvised explosive device to the school. this was before last and started and everyone had gathered in a separate room for morning prayers. the suspect couldn't get into that room and set the bomb off in the corridor. had he managed to break in awe. things could have been much worse. all the injured have been taken to hospital. it's believe that the

suspect has a, the most severe injury. some, some reports say he might have lost a lag in that blast. investigators are yet to find a motive bought according to preliminary information, how they piece together. the former student had some issues with teachers and nuns at the school, and he was getting back at them. it's not the 1st time a student has decided to take violent revenge on former classmates and teacher is in russia. josi couple of months ago, a former student murdered 6 people in his former college in the city of berm. another mass shooting happened in may this year and carson back than 9 people, including children were killed. but it's the 1st time such an incident has happened at a church school hopper, the one alamo, rebuilt of georgia. wells, $984.00 could be in the works after the authors. a state gave the green light to retail, the dist open classic from a feminist perspective. a planned new adaptation by the american northwest 100

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 the, one of the most influential books in the past century will inevitably transfer to the big screen to the online though the reaction to it has been different. all writing sexism is a capitalist feature, not a bug to remove. confronted and move the rigid, black and white politics of the story. i never say this about adaptations, but maybe just frighten you story that makes space for nuance. instead of trying to make 1984 feminist, you know what george orwell to stop in 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 984, a wealth iconic masterpiece is considered

a heart indictment of ideological control and examines or governments unrestrained access to private lives. and also the rewriting of history, which all welted warn, would lead to the death of tricks. 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 the smart world at the moment. all we were to kill a mockingbird, which we all read when we were due to o 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 an 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 its 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. 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 oh, 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. laurine original mostly shows written by men as a historical site more. ringback more literature been written by women, now it should a good thing, although there is a feeling amongst many righteous may or i choose a course that is almost in poor, impossible to get published. if you are a man and particularly that is true and are getting published into so many to look at this in the hall tree to the speech. freedom of thought. can we have freedom of who i want to think and be stimulated and motivated by ideas? i don't like, as well as ideas i do like that. i think, is wor, civilization should be wrong. ever. well, cultural and artistic limits are being pushed elsewhere too because

a german artist is chosen religious icons from the greek orthodox church to explore the to be of sexuality. the critics are saying that the artists chose that controversial medium because the orthodox community is the smallest christian group in germany. some say that art is art, although others are saying that sir, she thinks that she has gone too far with this content. while despite the anger several works have already been sold, as was grow, i think it violates religious boundaries. pictures can say more than words, good, anything. i wouldn't say it's offensive to religious sentiments, artistic freedom versus freedom in the world to the theory. it's one of those things that everyone relates to personally. in 2021. humanity can be a bit more open again. i think we have other problems than arguing about what pictures are painted there, but i myself, i'm not a believer, but i think if it's just art, then it's just art and he shouldn't take it so seriously. what the artist has emphasized that she didn't want to offend any body, and that the i cohen is

a metaphor for all religious denominations. not only the greek orthodox christians, a politician, they from the christian democratic union of germany, voiced her view on that. this is clena belie, didn't like it is an insult of people. faith will say there are fundamental right and they can take priority over personal rights on in the foreground is vain soul to greek orthodox believers as a christian delivers in general. and because it is simply disrespectful and repulsive, it makes the believers angry when they look at the icons or that is the limits of art irishmen, the feelings of others, such as the greek orthodox of people in general, i heard in an unacceptable wait, had art is dirty, okay, we are for art not against it, vice, but not these pornographic art. if she had taken all the churches, everything we have a synagogue and marcy of the buddha says, then emotions would not have ran so high. now the, when's envoy to sedan says military leaders must rebuild trust with the opposition,

especially the young generation. many say that they do feel betrayed by october coo and are rejecting any negotiations with the military. while art is more against the eff, did witness the 1000 strong protests in the capital, khartoum and talk to people who say their dreams of a better life have been destroyed. will leave you this hour with his special report . ah, she's cooled mina, like countless others. she's a beggar, she doesn't play with her friends or go to school. she spends her days begging outside the 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, so a sick wounded disease by years of strife and disappointment least

wasn't what democracy promised. the fool of the dictator, omar al, 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 is still hope to be honest. my oldest son 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 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 them. in october, the military intervene and what some have called a to it arrested prime minister ham dock and his cabinet. the argument was that they were running the country into the ground on 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. then i shall, none of those here will go to these protons, we protested than we were betrayed. why would we protest again for him, for what?

what will change? nothing? we will like to once and life only got where we will sit and wait for our deaths here. yet every week, hundreds, sometimes thousands gather across to dawn and chance their demands, the freedom food or to meet him. what traditional thursday, protest. i now underway ties a burning in central at all. this is how these protest happen. people gather and group several 1000 several 100. in this case, abs, i've written 50 people here. burning ties are the major intersection. their objective is to put this rupture. they're charging now against the military government who they see as being responsible for the scoop, the crowd, these shinla thousands. and we had seen many small columns, swarming in various neighborhoods before converging here. and what they all want these for power to be handed over by the military toys, civilian government,

property, they stop without any acceptance, they want the military, the step down many people here field. but trade by prime minister ham dot, who find that agreement with the military, giving up a lot of civilian, bowed to the military resistance committees, abala g, a groups across many neighborhoods which nominally help organized protests and run civilian life and practice. they increasingly hassle businesses or denied people water will cooking gas if they so want asking them about it only got us the on, so they have in their booklets. so we've, we've spoken to people on some support the, the resistance committees, other people say that resistance committees, intimidation, bullying, scare people. but you would, you have to say about that. i, can they scan whatever ice 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 who we ost, of people weren't about to speak about the resistance committees on camera. they were fearful live this hard enough at ease, tragically ironic democracy activists have morphed into what they so hated ham docs . army son pulled themselves a twisted version of the secret police, but once enforced. a dictator's rule ah, here on the outskirts of cut to leave some of the most impoverished and the city people who survive 11 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, sir darn remains in wretched stasis,

chained in hunger, frozen by corrupt and self serve in the leads and held together by a military bent on preventing collapse. ah, with ah oppose the weight so the gaining, i miss yale say between po you've got life was a good as sacred as the break in that you put in on your plate and it's like you saw so to types to break in there right here. wait in the 1st place is free. i want to play a role in helping to raise the awareness of the american people about the

impact of these.