ah, said i pressure man, so britain's prime minister that quit over his party christmas gatherings last year when strict covey rules banned such events for everybody else up to a 100 feet dead after tornadoes rip across american states. but the disaster also underlines the countries deep political divide with some politicians already trying to score points from the tragedy. and so to think about the dystopian literary, classic, 1984 is getting a sequel of sorts. this time from a feminist perspective, we discussed whether it's a timely update or a glimpse into the rewriting and revising which george orwell. but we want to pass . i don't see any reason why any people shouldn't be subject to revisiting well in the smart world at the moment. only way to kill a mockingbird,

which we all right, well, we would do to levels. he's now been battled because it's racist because some of the language difficult. ah, by their life mart internationals world news h q, this monday evening. kevin o' in with you. delighted to have your company welcome to the program. first than britain's beleaguered prime minister might be short of festive cheer this season. right now. he's facing colds for his resignation tonight . and he's also had to announce that the 1st person has died in the u. k. from the omicron coven variant as hospital admissions rise, because of the new straight is growing anger at christmas parties. johnson's government allegedly held during last year strict cobra lockdown, and new allegations have come to light over a supposed festive quiz involving boris johnson himself. he's the worst

possible leader, the worst possible time for his johnson presided over a culture of gives, regarding the roof at the heart of government. so pretty strong was there, as you 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 of accusation of the accusation, but now he's embroiled in it totally himself, he really is in the spotlight. off the pictures now emerged of boris johnson, the prime minister himself hosting a christmas downing street quiz party, totally against his own rules the time. now the image shows the prime minister with 2 of the people, the time london was a kid, 2 of the restrictions, meaning no social is mixing with any other people and doors. in fact, the official guidance actually stated, you must not have a work christmas party or even a lunch. well, the government spokes person says that throughout the pandemic,

officials have abided by the rules. and that this 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 would have been next for it. i've done it. no, i had done it. hold on. i would be in monster trouble. while this is of around one of 6 or 7 parties that i thought have taken place in the festive season last year, 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 sparks the opposite spiral of a solich. and now already we've seen one casualty, one resignation after all emerged. and just before all this was unraveling,

the prime minister was still the public to abide by the rules and walk from home. it will be for many people, but by reducing your contacts in the workplace, you will help learning transmission have problems as the prime minister address the nation just last night. not a single mention of this scandal whatsoever and said it was all about the booster program. but actually 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 the prime minister speech entirely. basically no one wants to hear from the prime minister because nobody really trust far as johnson anymore. and that's really translated in the polls. now it's more than 50 percent of the vote to say that johnson must resign. that's 9 percent in just 2 weeks. and for the 1st time since 2014 the labor party have the biggest lead in the polls. i run at clay,

it's 2 years to the day now the bar johnson won that general election. he won the public. but then, but the polls suggest if he had a general election right now, it'd be a very different story. but punk hanny, a doctor, an expert in communicable disease control spoke to see want some more cautious. british government approach amidst the spread of the crone that so clearly indicates as is biologically expected, that this variant is highly infectious. in that, in a matter of a few days, the rise in number of cases has been experiential very fast, very quickly. the case numbers have gone up. the 2nd bit is as expected. rising number of cases equals or we will get some hospital admissions equals we will get some people seriously ill and we don't sleep was unfortunately, that some people will die. so the bottom line is just because if mike appear to be

innocuous doesn't mean you drop your guard and not take all the necessary precautions. i know that there is, it's very easy to say we have found that make fatigue, but it is also incumbent upon the leaders to moti weight, the population, to keep the population happy to keep the population. what we would call on messy, much with news coming out, that certain people, certain senior people in government may have been having parties when the rest of the nation was asked to shut down, is not good news. it doesn't look good and it makes my jobs were very difficult because people say to me, i'm not going to listen any more devastating storms rip through central and southern parts of the united states over the weekend. the state of kentucky suffered the worst homage. the governor now sang 64 people died while more than a 100 remained missing. president biden's declared

a major federal disaster in the state. check these satellite images from before and after. you can compare the air and the obsidian mayfield more than a 100 people were trapped inside a collapse factory building. 8 people died. the same numbers still missing. the structure was also reported in our console, missouri, tennessee, and illinois were at least 6 people were killed and an amazon warehouse president biden sangha administrations ready to do whatever is needed to help states railing from the devastation. thin worst. most devastating, most deadly tornado event in kentucky. history for our hometown and it just never saying everybody is well, there was were shaking house collapsing again,

so you can see where the whole house is buckled. the little back side of that house is off total devastation for our town. most of our historic buildings are now gone with with, with this is likely to be one of the largest terminated operational history that is asked as hall. i to the shop risk right now between republicans and democrats to say right now has ever, with some politicians seemingly trying to take advantage of the tragedy. nicky

aaron's covering the upside of it and higher towns were destroyed as some 30 powerful tornadoes, ravaged across thick that us dates the worst affected can. saki 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 harvey hit in 2017, the 17 senators who voted against a bill to provide billions of dollars in relief. well, all republicans among them, kentucky's sen, round pole. once again, thousands are suffering, but there is no time like the present for political punches. we should do what we can to help our kentucky neighbors. good. be with them. first person, but do not for one second focus. that run poll has voted against helping most

americans, most times they're in need. we know, rand paul is a heartless hypocrite. the people in kentucky deserve the relief, regardless of their buffoon, his leadership. much of the dems done to use this against him and his part in the future. it is a mr. 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 denials and see what happens. tornadoes in december of red, but weather climate change was a factor is not clear at this point. still is the country real than shock and concerns over 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 impacts as a consequence of the warming to a plan and the climate change. and so it seems something as devastating as this can

only wet 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 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 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 food before the next one, a modern re boots of george orwell spoke. 1984 is in the workshop to the author.

states case, the green light to retail, the dystopian classic from a feminist perspective. apply new adaptation than by the american author. sandra newman is set to 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 transfer to the big screen online though the reaction has been rather less enthusiastic. 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 frightening 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 1994. while all wells iconic masterpieces considered her harsh indictment of ideological control, it is day examined sir governments unrestrained access to private lives in the rewriting of history. so they all well feared, would lead to the death of truth. 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 were due to our 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, 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 taken,

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 disgust to explore some of the idea celery near 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 among many writers may or artists. a course that is almost simple, impossible to get published if you are a man and particularly whether it's true that are getting 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 and be stimulated and motivated by ideas. i don't like as well as ideas. i do like that i thing is war. civilization should be wrong.

back some hard, he's not to say for the reputed hell, the telephone conversation with britain's prime minister boris johnson with the current global hot topic. the ukraine situation highlight more on that. the present also edge for media talks to create a global legal framework to stop further. ne, to expansion towards russia's board is done. hawkins been across his conversation down the call between the 2 leaders comes amidst big speculation of the situation. ukraine and accusations towards russia. what do we know about this call because the really important thing for russia isn't it? will lead talks, of course, come with just days after that. the all important video conference between president putin and biden of the united states and the topic on the top of the gender. of course, we're all global media and i have been was that of ukraine and attention zone ukraine, russian border. and it's clear, there is a difference in perception, threat, perception, and perception of where the problems are coming from. the russian president pointed

out to, to ukraine's use of heavy weaponry and combat drones on that. the more cation live between ukraine and don. bye, citing that is one of the violations of the main protocols, as well as discrimination against the russian speaking population in ukraine. perhaps the bigger and the biggest concern for the russian president was the presence of nathan troops. the increasing presence of troops in ukraine, and indeed nato expansion, eastwood which has been a concern both the russian president and russia on a water level for many years now. and it's been a spanner in the works between the normalization of relations between russia and the west for quite some time. this is what the russian president suggested should happen to reduce some of that tension. vladimir putin stated the neat, immediately begin negotiations with the aim of working out precise international legal agreements that it would exclude. and if further, nate expansion east and the deployment of weapons threatening russia neighboring

states, primarily in ukraine. now he crime. prime minister came up things with a slightly different approach cooler and russia to reduce tensions from their own side. citing the importance of respecting ukraine's sovereignty and integrity. that, of course, comes as a reference to the, let's build up a russian troops on ukraine is border. he did call for a dialogue and respect for them. it's protocols from both sides though, but it is clear from this meeting differences do remain between how to resolve this ongoing crisis in terms of the good news. supposedly it is that agree that progress had been made on climate change issues at the top 26 in glasgow, and didn't agree that collaboration between moscow in london is crucial to make progress on international issues. so at least some good news box there in the run up to christmas or to tell the whole can thanks for bring this up to speed there on the important call today. yeah. now that call between the 2 comes in moscow.

criticize is the group of g 7 countries for a statement, warning rusher of severe consequences if it pursues supposed military aggression against ukraine. russia should be in no doubt that so the military aggression against ukraine would have massive consequences and severe costs in response to the of a round of threats towards russia, warnings or threats. we absolutely understand the position and there is no need to repeat it 10 times. we would like that position to be more balanced. if we are talking about the need for the escalation ukraine, we want to see coal secure to stop the provocative activities on the demarcation line. western media and high ranking senior officials have recently been alleging that most goes planning an offensive on its neighbor ukraine, citing russian troop movements near the ukrainian border. the credit is consistently denied those claims and notes. it can move its troops wherever it wants to on its own territory. with

a foreign ministry spokeswoman adding that ukraine is big militarized. but to going even further, germany is foreign minister stating that russia's gas pipeline node stream to the newly completed one might not be given the green light in case of any escalation. well, earlier we spoke, karen can nestle, the former foreign minister of austria about many issues, including threats to block this pipeline that oh, there's a text that was written by the american and by the german government in july, in my reading. it's a rather unreadable text because it's very complex. and inter alia, it's mentioned if there is some sort of militarization of ukraine conflict, then the china government could to reconsider sanctions. so it's very ambiguous, the whole thing and nobody has a real definition. what is such a situation that the germans will go back to car to sanctions,

or that are the u. s. government? what you sanctions, there's a lot of our unilateral roberts threats around and the situation is a very ambiguous effect is that contract treaties have to be kept, have to be preserved. and, and if ever, the, what now start tool impedes the consortium of companies to make this pipeline operate if, which is the expansion of an already existing pipeline than that would yield tremendous problems and, and has, have a tremendous impact on german economy in general. because it would mean a complete loss of credibility in general. this always seems to be here a political will to block it. this political blow to pluck it has been rising. was president trump 20172018 because it had less to do with russian supply of gas to the europeans. that has always been the case. it had more to do with grating market

for north american alan, she, again, it's more a politic a game and it's a risky game than it really has to do with a fundamental loss of market economy. supply and demand demand ultimately comes from the consumer, which would be the voter. i mean, why would they want to spend more money on american gas when they can get it from russia? what 3 times as cheap? exactly. this is one specs and the other one is got storage is very tight, it's much below one where it should be at this time of the year. that's even talk about temporary cop downs of gas probation or even risk off of something like a black out. would you expect this new stream to gas pipeline to go ahead sooner rather than later because it sounds like it's needed, but politically, it's awkward your flu, right. and if the german regulated the bonus that's going to would have continued its procedures as calculated still in september that that line was 8th of january

2022 than to regulate a said no, that's a problem. that means that instead of meeting the deadline of 8th of generates, might be if everything works smoothly than a print made by april, may we don't have to same pressure on, on the gas provision. as we do have right now, it's most probably going to be a cold winter. we see a sequence of unit that was statements by different protagonists. whether it's mrs on the line, whether it's president biden, whether it's different voices in the german parliament and old, that is, it's not very helpful to say the least because all of those unit actual statements feeding the media from german media, which even publish a question plans of tech plans, even which day the russian army is going to invade. i mean, it's really getting,

sorry out such a language was not present in the cold war days in the seventy's eighty's. maybe because we still have people in the office who knew what was meant. unfortunately, we are in times of the decline of diplomacy, diplomatic practice. if we are in the world of unilateral statements post before this looked at this amount of worth, i mean this terminology is cannot be continued as it has been the case over the last few weeks. the media should act in a more responsible way of quoting this, this gentleman paper, the bills which, which that does affect plan and so on. so there is many people are required to act in, in a more responsible way because the stakes are simply too high. i believe that the president put a president biden are aware of the stakes, but there are many, many other wars this whether it's inside need or whether it's inside ukraine,

a process who are making this unhelpful unit. i was statement of the new democratic party alarm bells ringing in the key state of florida for republicans overtook them for the 1st time in modern history. the number of registered voters with next year's crunch, mid term elections looming. democrats wondering quite how they're going to reverse their historic slides. that's going to new york city. try and get a handle on issue. we kind of opens that, keller, how much of a shocker was this news them from the sunshine state? well, it's a pretty clear case of mathematics. the numbers are in and for the 1st time in modern history, there are more registered republicans in the state of florida than there are registered democrats. now the leaders of the democratic party in the state of florida are pretty well aware that something is wrong. here's what's been said.

of course, this fight will not be easy, but it's about so much more than any one of us in florida. democrats, we have lost so many times that donors and pundits have given up on us. now florida's governor de santis has come forward and said that this is pretty clear. he says it's because in florida, quote, we value freedom and liberty and reject democrat lead government control. that's the way the florida governor put it. now at this point, we've got the 2020 to the 2022 elections coming up. and there are many democrats in the state of florida who fear that on a national level, leaders of the democratic party, as well as donors to the democratic party may consider florida to simply be a lost cause to be republican territory. there's certainly some alarm among democrats in florida. here's some other statements. it's not as if floridians can't be swayed one way or the other. we need more coordination with the national party.

now this comes in the context of the popularity hit for us president joe biden. joe biden continues to see a decline in his popularity across the country. now just 28 percent of americans in the united states believe that joe biden is doing an adequate job handling inflation. and even among democrats, his own party, it's only 54 percent who give him a thumbs up when it comes to dealing with the problem of inflation that is pretty wide spread across the united states. now, there has been somewhat of an increase. you know, i mean, there has been not, not an increase, but rather there, there is some approval of his handling of the coven 19 situation. there is a 53 percent approval of the way joe biden, in his administration of handled go over 19. but even that is a decrease, that's actually a 10 percentage point drop since july. so even his popularity on the issue,

colbert 19 is in decline. now we're in a situation where joe biden's overall approval rating has dropped nearly 20 points since march and the mid term elections to elect a new congress. new house of representatives, new senate in the united states. those mid term elections are less than a year away. many are wondering if this could be a big sweep for the republican party. only time will tell. yeah. be a lot ahead scratching tonight with news him from for the or i can. thanks for bringing this up to speed. the appreciated and thank you for watching. as well, i hope this her up and what we're talking about reporting from ortiz, world news age q. moscow. it's kevin over here. great to have your company. thank you for it. i can tell you next programs are on air in your part of the world. after this quick break me the. oh right now, there are 2000000000 people who are overweight or obese. it's profitable to,

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