manson, be prepared. if those kinds of weapons were less available, we wouldn't have a lot of the shootings. we certainly wouldn't have the number of deaths with the only cron variant of cove it is spreading at an unprecedented rate. so warns the world health organization will be talking to the europe director in just a few moments. revenues heavily armed men surround libyan government. offices in tripoli with militia threatening to scupper the upcoming presidential election. the 1st such vote in the ravaged african country was 7 years. absurd and worrying. that's how moscow, as described, german allegations of

a kremlin contracted murder and berlin, vowing to retaliate the expulsion of 2 russian diplomats and a frosty future. the he plans to drop all long term natural gas contracts after 2049, despite concerns that much wanted green alternatives won't be able to meet here at the energy needs. ah, how that very good morning to you and appreciate you joining me here on out international. the world health organization is warding that the army chrome there it is now spreading at an unprecedented rate. one of their senior officials saying that fully vaccinated people are still at risk and that hospitals across the world could be overwhelmed with infections rising exponentially doubling every $2.00 to $3.00 days. i have never been more concerned than i am tonight. not just

about the u. k. but about the world on the cross has currently been registered in more than 70 countries. among the worst effect, it is the united kingdom. it's just recorded its highest number of daily covey cases. since the start of the pandemic, that's almost 80000 new infections with micro accounting, but almost 5000 of them. earlier european commission president of underlying predicted that only trial will be the dominant corona virus variant in the you by mid january. well, to discuss the threat posed by my colleague tracker is now joined by the w. i chose regional director for europe that hands clue. let's go get hello. welcome to moscow and very good to have you on our tea. i'm always enjoying the moment when we talk to real experts and you are one of the talk

experts in the field in europe. so let me begin with the, the thing on everyone's mind right now. all micron, of course, with time, people really want life to be back to normal. but now boom, there you have it. we've got this new strain. countries are closing their borders again. there, there are new measures introduced or re introduced. it's getting more difficult for people to travel. so how much more do we know about our micron at this point? please give us an update. and are we really in a better place now compared to when the pandemic began or maybe one year ago? well this is the optimistic note that we know much more and we have the tours and about omicron. it's true, it's the latest variant. it's spreading much more faster, but i always tell, we're not in the business of fighting one variant. we're in the business of fighting all variance, and stu,

delta is dominant. what we need to do is to implement, well, they call fife bon demick stabilizers number one. increase vaccination coverage. address the vaccine hesitant people. number to boost boost, boost the best protection against overcome numbers. city double the number of people waiting marks endorse only 4 to 8 percent in europe and central age of the people already mosque indoors. number 4, ventilate, particularly in classrooms. keep the schools open and fife, implement new treatment protocols and overall international solidarity. let's look at south africa botswana. they did the right thing. they did will w recommends immediately and transparently sharing and what happened. they could somehow, these incentivized, because flights would hold it, stopping flights. closing bo, this is not going to hold the vidas or mr. cookie,

you mentioned her among the 5 things vaccination. but how valid are the concerns that vaccines might prove ineffective against on the ground? where we know as of to date, that vaccines are still effective for the 1st of the 2nd dose may be little bit less, but it recovers with a 3rd dose. so de booster becomes very, very important. what do we know about omicron expects faster? it mainly attacks the younger people. why? because they are among the unvaccinated still number city, preliminary data suggest that it is necessary we're, we don't know yet, but this could also be a positive element. what we don't know yet is how less or more severe we need maybe 11 and a half weeks more. but again, it doesn't change or strategy. we have to do everything possible to get into

european and central asia region. the vaccination rate of that, the top priority at the same time, implement public health measures washer, hence, keep distance. and if you go to a gathering with people, you usually don't mix, take some self, dest, put some of the measures on to the people, the people out of the solution. so, it a spawn slide, the people takes himself, tests, and avoid mas gatherings. these aren't going anywhere, it seems well, on the european union, specifically, we've seen a range of different approaches and speaking of strategies, a log down for the in vaccinated fall locked down different roles on how long vaccines last. why aren't we seeing a more uniformity from the block in particular, but he didn't do. uniformity, has been growing overtime. for example, the joint procurement of vaccines was quite a silver lining. but i take the point that a still really

a luck off uniformity was i called political here is and it confuses the people. it doesn't help for the trust. but from my perspective, i'm looking broader to the 53 countries and that's why dublin was advocating to establish a bung european health threat counsel at the high level to half uniformed in policy . but ultimately still health is a national competency. it's a decision by the country. how far away? oh we from that i see establishing this body aspect of the article, i think the appetite is growing, for example, on the covert 19 certificates. if you look, for example, at the issue of d. sputnik v vaccine. i was informed by the minister of health and foreign affairs that already 770 countries are accepting because it 19 certificates. i think we are getting that. now, speaking of the sputnik v, a for russians, for the russian government, the question of when this vaccine will be approved by the world health organization

is particularly important. can you give us any timeline on that? and also on our tea, we've heard from a number of experts that the issue has been politicized. is that true anyhow? starting the last point from doubly cial and my opinion. this had mentioned a very beginning health, including vaccines. go beyond politics. we should never take into account the country of origin. i myself had been working 8 years in the country. i'm very well aware of the huge intellectual and manufacturing capacity, particularly in vaccines. so no politics over there. i shared the optimism of the president of the russian federation that this doubly true emergency use listing for sputnik will be there soon. in october. this year, the legal documents were signed by the russian investment development fund. and

in the 1st quarter of next year, there will be a follow up on the approval by d, a. w 2, headquartered ones at the da she is being a submitted, which will happen before end of the year. it's okay, mr. william, you see they don't give me even the time to do the life interview for my apologies . well, it's absolutely fine, but at what do you make of the latest comments by the kremlin? so as person who said that russia at one point and the authorities here misunderstood the demands by the w. e. jo. but at the same time, he said that he doesn't see that any one in russia is to blame for that. well, i think absolute, there is no one to blame. this is a complex file looking very strict regulator on safety, on efficacy on quality. and i think what we're doing now is to look forward. the most important is that a lot of work has been done or experts for here in moscow last week. and there is

a very clear path forward. but from the very beginning, i always had been very optimistic about the split degree. and the timeline. you can all give it, well, the 1st step is to get the full dossier, and we have the commitment that this will happened before the end of the year. as early as of the 4th of january, the doubly chal, headquartered because this is a headquarter competency, is ready to go back and forward with clarifications if need be, and then send the next inspection visit. mister chloe, thank you very much for your expert insight. i push militants have surrounded a number of key sites in the libyan capital, triply that's ahead of the countries presidential election. his 1st since 2014 here is unverified. to this point, video of the presidential council building, you can see combat vehicles carrying armed men nip my photos and videos. coming in

from tripoli also show fighters outside the offices of libby's interim government of national unity. videos are circulating that appeared to show military vehicles. the trolling the city artie has not been able to independently verify these earlier discuss the situation in libya with our correspondence you stuff the poor people of libya and triplet because they've had the facia of turmoil over the last decade or so am and beyond. and it's, it's not over it and yet more and rest what is causing it while you're absolutely right. there's more and rest, 3 militia groups who are trying to take power inside of tripoli who are trying to disrupt the upcoming elections. and this is, i have to say is only the latest in the violence that has had the country and it's tied grip. so essentially we've had this throughout the past couple of weeks, couple of months. we've had numerous reports and pictures coming out of the country as armed groups. we're trying to capture local t v stations as heavy artillery was brought to the capitol. everything that we're

seeing there right now, you know, the government internationally recognized government going into hiding a local militias and warlords, again having their se, unhindered and unhampered, apparently in the, in the capitol. hampering the work of the internationally recognized government, preventing the political process from happening. this all it is, it is causing some serious, you know, and will, horrifying, flashbacks hold way to 2011. 1 of course, more market daffy was ousted with the help of course, of nato. and the international community and everything that is going on there right now with all the in fighting with all the, you know, these warlords, what breslin, in its essence, it's a result of a power struggle of vying for power. and even, even if these woods are used as proxies are used as pawns. so what we're seeing right now is that the international community, they ended, the rule of law and libya, ended libya, stability. they created a state of lawlessness. they created very,

very fertile ground for all this and fighting to happen. and there was a bit of a low in the past years, libya has stayed out of the headlines, of course, but it seems that right now the elections, the upcoming elections. they have triggered this new wave of violence. it is very threatening to the political process that the international community has been trying to going for so long. and it really shows that they, they, well, they try to do nation building. they destroyed the country with their bombings and with, with all the, with all the meddling. and right now the situation shows how little control, if any, the international community has a decade on a decade since more market duffy felt a little more just to break down to what's going on there right now. this little qu, the man, the, the front man of the crew is called solid body and he's quite infamous. he's a bit of a colorful figure. he's militiaman, the, he's one of the few people who actually buried my market. duffy who fought against him. so he was the international community's favorite back in 2011. since then he

was put on a multiple sanctions list of the u. s. sanction list, the un sanctioned list. and the, the for the very same thing he's doing right now for trying to stop for basically disrupting the political process. so he's saying he has said that essentially he believes that the election is rigged in favor of the incumbent prime minister who went into hiding. but if you look at how things are unfolding, the only person to benefit from it is really the prime minister because he is not seen as a favorite in the elections. in fact, he is in, as an underdog, he is a very much upset by safe to duffy, the son of more mcduffy, as it is widely believed, that the hearts and minds of the libyan people are with the son who came back from exile. who before that was and remained in captivity, verbal captivity, he was tortured, had several fingers chopped off and still despite all the exile, despite all this, he apparently still he carries a lot of political weight. so, so right now again,

it looks that libya is dangerously close to plunging into yet another circle of violence and more analysis and insight into libya's decade long crisis is just the click away that anna, host of other stories just had to auntie dot com rushes as it will retaliate after germany throughout to his diploma on wednesday, expulsions came after course had found a rush and citizen guilty of the murder of a chechen man in berlin in 2019 adding that he had acted on behalf of moscow a claim the kremlin is rejected. our correspondence in europe, peter oliver reports to russian diplomats have been declared persona non grata by the new german foreign minister anna lena bear bach in one of her 1st duties in that role. it all relates back to the sentencing of a russian national, named as variety and kathy cove to life,

imprisonment for the murder back in august of 2019 of delhi. man. hon gosh valley and the fact that at that killing was well described directly as been at the behest of the russian state by the court that did the sentencing. now moscow denies any involvement in the killing of high gosh, really, who is a shot to death in a pearl in park right in the center of the german capital. back in the, the summer of 201938 tractor. the defendant denied the crime, particularly denied being part of the russian security apparatus, or having been commissioned by any security apparatus at all. for there is not a single piece of evidence and the court also admitted there isn't any evidence that would prove this. there is only circumstantial evidence. this prompted on the lena bear bog to call the russian ambassador to the foreign ministry and which he was informed that 2 of his diplomats would be going home. these are much in

startling mass murder on behalf of the state as determined that quite a day represents a serious violation of german law and of germany. sovereignty the russian ambassadors wouldn't form led to members of the diplomatic step of the russian embassy were being declared undesirable. i hope there will be no escalation, because in a moment the 2 piece read on me or there's an economical crisis. there's covered crisis. when we look at the rhetoric software for a mystery, unavailable, i'm a bit afraid she wants to escalate the conflict. i will go to the rational side route or try to search dialogue as far as possible and that we find her oh transshipment. maybe it will be good, mister quoting. mister shaun's come into a dialogue directly before a ministry in moscow has issued a responsibility as a card over the spokes person saying that there would be a reaction from moscow to the expulsion of those 2 diplomats. moscow denies any

involvement in the killing of hunger. really. he was a wanted terrorist in russia. he had a silent status here in germany. but moscow had been seeking him in order to, to prosecute him in connection with the deaths of almost 100 people directly. that they say he was involved in those deaths in russia's north caucus region. also, he's accused of being part of the planning and plotting for the 2010 moscow metro suicide attacks. now, the russian ambassador released a statement shortly after this, the sentencing saying that he believed that both the evidence that was provided from the prosecution and the timing of the sentencing were politically motivated. the absurd thesis about the involvement of the russian federation in this case was never confirmed by convincing evidence to accept pseudo investigations and unsubstantiated statements of the bias media such as belling, cat, an insider and other speculations is at least strange. the time chosen for the

announcement of the verdict is hardly accidental. obviously, someone is interested in overshadowing the dialogue between russia and the new german government. the relationship between moscow and berlin is under some strain at the moment whether it involves the future of nord stream to the situation surrounding ukraine. old, this particular case and the expulsion of 2 russian diplomats following that sentencing all f sholtes, the new german chancellor and vladimir putin who yet to have a phone call. certainly they haven't met face to face yet, but when the to do there is certainly going to be a lot for them to talk about on the pantry. kennings and and chris barbara told us what they believe prompted the court decision and the expulsion of the russian diplomats. they were seeing a change in berlin from the angel. now 2 years. the new social democrat when coalition i expect to take a honda attitude and she did in regards to russia, germany's come is coming on to immense pressure from the united states and from its

allied friends. so i think we will see germany coming coming through on this, or it's not the 1st time that we've seen courts make such a sweeping statements, presumably of fact. but when you actually look with the provenance of the statement is there's, there's not much evidence to draw that conclusion definitively anyway. seems like, you know, these days, any time russia is involved, it's almost assumed that whatever the narrative is that's out there in the sort of public domain is probably based on fact is probably true. so we can just, we have license to go ahead and generalize that. the russian state is behind whatever the various plots are. and there are many of them in the last couple of years. now, google in

a city delegated and as you don't to stand together, we'll continue to stand together against russia. 80 in germany, a veterans that we doubt this may say no to cvd. this young kid don't worry about their ability to influence other nations, french u. k. and even latin american and other countries in ginger than they went to high, wrong cycle alone with members of your household, please, please, please, please. we have to continue to fight with russia must not be allowed in germany. well you have to come and leave it so, so also being out enough asians, the yes actually indian at 80 enough and just in case you missed our warning at the start of that video, those speeches were parodies. they're not real. they create with deep fake

technology parity is or not. and though they do reflect very serious obstacles at r t d as r t toich as face the head of the channels launch, which is today. danny armstrong has more. the journey to launch day has been the usual track through pressure and passive aggression from the self appointed defenders of democracy. i. e. rival, gym, and media. it's bad enough that putins voice sounds out across the internet. if it were not for one reliable german meteor outlet, dest spiegel kremlin owned outlets would dominate the german digital information space. in both the number of articles published and social engagement received. there is reason to believe that most of the traffic on r t channels is real and not acquired through purchased fake profiles. the thinly veiled this stain from rival gym and media outlets have come in a form of gallant cries to stop the so called moscow mouthpiece and kremlin back

putin propaganda. of course, that has nothing to do with our t deutsche. his popularity on a string of social media where they consistently rank among the top most viewed channels as regards news and politics. ah but it wasn't just rival outlet that ram. so the, his theory of art, he toich his rise through the media rankings. politicians got personal and launched attacks on arte employees, framing them as perpetrators of this information and d, stabilizing democracy. those who work for odyssey have said good bye to critical

and independent journalism and whether they want it or not, all the employees are part of the de stabilisation of democracy. this is not about the approval of a profane entertainment channel, but about e. u wide access for putin propaganda and targeted disinformation under the guise of alternative journalism. and what goes up must come down arte deutsche. his ascent was yanked back down to earth when youtube band, the channel from is platform with it, wiping out 600000 subscribers. now, despite rumors that the ban was burly backed, former chancellor angle, a miracle denied that germany had influence you chiefs decision. as for r t, germany did not put any pressure on brussels or the decisions it made in germany. neither the federal government nor the state governments engaging meadows like that . so despite other people's best efforts, artie deutsch is primed and ready for action. launching on air and launching a fresh assault on those old ratings and views, rankings. mainstream media beware as

part of the ease efforts to go green and to consign fossil fuels to history. the european commission as proposed, ending all long term natural gas contracts. after the year 2049. they use sam, alex's gas and hydrogen networks, philip land, and developed in ne, integrated manner. avoiding lock in and standard assets and long term gas contracts should not extend pipe, then it $49.00. but the u energy commission award of the risks to europe's gas supplies, if particularly cold winter such as this one, are seen, european energy prices have risen since the alton rising. in fact, more than 6 times compared to the same period last year, europe's largest gas supply, russia, as repeatedly spoken in favor of a long term deals saying they bring much needed stability subs. no good if i knew that was still us if they made mistakes,

we talked about this with the previous european commission or of its activities were aimed at curtailing long term contracts for gas supplies, giving priority to exchange trading. and it turns out this policy was wrong. russia is ready to work to stabilize the world energy market, but this activity should be built on a commercial basis, taking into account the interests of all participants and electricity bills in europe are skyrocketing along with the price of natural gas. for example, in spain, they're approaching all time high. despite government assurance is to bring rights back to 2018 levels. the cost of a megawatt hour is expected to be $7.00 times higher than it was in last december electricity bills and spending november rose by 50 percent compared with a year ago and people across the country a feeling it in their pockets. and mental homie are very well in volume, and it changes every tomorrow. if you have a sorry that only cover certain things, it affects you and everything else. if you have 500 euros as 20100 on electricity,

you barely have anything left over. what are people going to do live in the even irene charity? i would if people in government a low salary and see how the court shawl is reached this level because no one regulates it or go clara, but gay. of course, if you pay a lot for electricity and charge you clients a low price, it affects you a lot. if you charge lions 15 euros and you have to pay round electricity cetera, what do you have left being so we're struggling to make ends meet, but hopefully things will be fixed. good. the reason i gave them, we spoke to independent jonas look river, who thinks that the decisions coming from brussels are only making the energy crisis worse. you that would be completely crazy if they decided to suppress long term contracts for gas or to trying to suppress gas being a fossil fuel, you know, to, to be discarded. this is wrong. why? because they choose the renewables, wind energy, and solar energy. these are intermittent, so if you're billed when turbines,

you need the same capacity in gas turbines. when there is no wind, they will take over. so you absolutely need gas. if you bet on renewables, everybody understands that a long term contract brings you better prices over a long term and stability. it's the same for gas prices. i mean, the price of gas now on the spot market in europe is incredibly high. is it what europe wants? is it what mrs. fondling? once we would be crazy to go that way? completely crazy. so this is really something which is trying to enjoy moscow. i cover that with a day. so you are not upstairs in half an hour to see them. ah

ah, i mean, you must so delicate in as you want to don till we stand together. we'll continue to stand together against russia 80 in germany. repeat some of the areas that we doubtless made say no to cvd the shockey dawson. it's about their ability to influence other nations, france b, u. k. and even latin america and other countries in future than maybe knew where to high from cycle cologne. with members of your household, please, please, please, please. we're going to continue to fight with. you just need to rush, you must not be allowed in germany. i don't want you have to call me leave it

social. ok. so didn't al td enough asian the father of the yes. ok to ended outside the in office. mrs. guns until sunday her right now there are 2000000000 people who are overweight or obese. it's profitable. to sell food, this is tracy and sugary and salty and addicted. it's not at the individual level, it's not individual well power. and if we go on believing that will never change this obesity epidemic, that industry has been influencing very deeply. the medical and scientific establishment. so what's driving the obesity epidemic? it's corporate ah, a.