oh sons, what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation, let it be an arms race, his on offense, very dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully, very critical time. time to sit down and talk with them balance in europe as governments to toughen restrictions, to combat the surging, omicron covey strike and risking people's christmas plans for a 2nd year. hundreds of scientists including nobel prize winners column the u. s. to change its nuclear weapons strategy and drop the 1st strike option. we hear from one of the signatures her ability to make something much,

much worse than her ocean apparent fear. you said it's free to shoot without charter investigation. american act to kristen off the known civilian says section the cities mister big gets dropped by his agent and lose his lucrative deals. off the sex assault allegations emerge. even the police say there's currently no investigation. ah, then monday morning at 8 here in moscow, it's monday, the 20th of december. i'm calling bryce not of any week here on our team. welcome to the program. first, then europe is enduring a fresh wave of anti lockdown unrest as governments moved tightened. movements in a race to beat the fast spreading. over chron cobit varian from ruining everyone's christmas plant. tensions are particularly high in belgium, where clashes abrupt it at a 1000 strong rally on sunday. ah,

[000:00:00;00] with let's say we were all this is heading this go live to our euro correspondent, peter all about either of these restrictions pay to their adapting daily even though people know how transmissible this strain is that still causing consternation? i well, no more. i think no matter how much information we guess about just how

transmissible cove 19 is the new variance of cov 19. now there are always going to be people that aren't going to be happy with the measures that are put in place. we just saw that demonstration in belgium, there thousands of people who've come out on to the streets of brussels to protest against a big vaccination push by the belgian government. there's been as well a big push back against not vaccination. dr. particularly the idea that from the new year there's going to be a 3 month window for health care workers in order to get vaccinated old, they could risk losing their jobs. those who spoke to as photos up the, the protest in belgium said they're really not happy with some of these measures that have been put in place in new ones for steve. but we were checked the society in which we live today. the one we are offered, so it's not necessarily a question of vaccination or not the polarized debates, nor was our goal is to say, we don't want to society, look that out as she called court. we're here because our freedom is under threat

and we want to restore it after it has been lost for 2 years. the point was i didn't go up a whole and i fight for the freedom of the future generation. i'm ready to take to the street and lose everything to let them have their freedom, which is a fundamental right, wasn't above what this isn't just an issue, confined to belgium, bow all over europe, over the weekend. we saw protest taking place in australia. there was quite violent crashes between police and demonstrators in vienna. austria, of course, has already said that from february that will be mandatory vaccination for all citizens. with those who don't get it don't facing fines and potentially even short stays in prison in the netherlands. what we've seen is new measures come into play over the weekend. in fact, the new lockdown in place there. it means that old balls and cafes will be closed. restaurants are going to have to be limited to take our meals. that's going to be well into the,

the new year. also schools and colleges closing down most of them. it's almost all of them close down all ready for christmas holiday. so that prompted protests in a number of cities including the have against those measures that have been put in place by the dutch government. here in germany. we also saw thousands of people coming out onto the streets in cities like humbug, dusseldorf, berlin, many others as well. unhappy with the measures that have been put in place on potentially what could be happening here in germany. we heard called loud to by the german health minutes. the speaking on sunday saying that as far as he's concerned, discussion on mandatory vaccination in germany needs to get on the way as soon as possible. in fact, he wants to see mandatory vaccination put in place as soon as possible. germany over the weekend also joined france in binding all tourists travel from the united kingdom over the channel in the u. k. the omicron variance of cove at 19 is pretty much out of control. we've seen such

a job in the british health secretaries. sorry, i beg your pardon, study. com, the mayor of london for over the weekend and declare a major incident in the city of london. when it comes to the oma kron variance, we've also seen big demonstrations take place on saturdays demonstrations, which at times turn particularly nasty. ah well, the world health organization has warned that cases of oma cron could increase exponentially at doubling every few days. now that prompted the health secretary in the united kingdom, such as javert, to not rule out the possibility of their being further restrictions put in place in

that country before christmas. so in the, the next few coming days, essentially what we are seeing is between the, the virus itself and the measures that countries are having to take in order to try and reduce the, the spread of that virus. it's not going to be a particularly merry christmas for many people across europe. yeah. and increasingly, a lot of countries being notably elusive about how tough they might have to get over the holidays. we'll have to keep what on that over the next few days? for now, though peter over thank you. meanwhile, a swedish companies perhaps brought us a glimpse into the future of living with coven, which some fear it could be a new reality. it made it possible for people to have their cobra partners and planted in the form of a microchip smallest grain of rice. we got more on the technology from it. inventors. blue implants are a very versatile technology that can be used for many different things. and right now it's very convenient to have a covert passports,

always accessible on your implants. so in case you or phone wrong thought about it, it's always accessible to ah, the implant her is readable by and the smartphone, that house and up see function. so i can go to restaurants or a movie theater. i just showed them my arm and swipe me with the smartphone. and then that pops up the covert passport that i have on my chip. so you don't need a special app for this kind of similar to a cure code. just of course, i don't want the cure code on my skin right. ah . around 700 scientists, including 20 well noble prize laureates have signed a letter to president biden, calling for changes to

u. s. military strategy. they believed washington should declare that it would never use its nuclear weapons. at 1st. we urge you to declare that the united states will not use nuclear weapons 1st, under any circumstances, by making clear that the united states will never start a nuclear war. it reduces the likelihood that a conflict or crisis will escalate to nuclear war. under the current strategy, the u. s. pledge is not to use atomic weapons against non nuclear states, but it gives washington the right of 1st strike against nuclear states in extreme circumstances. these include non nuclear attacks on either america or its allies, including their infrastructure. as relations between major nuclear powers remains tense, security concerns have grown since the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty fell apart. one of the key packs between the us and russia, it been the possession and production of shortened intermediate range crews and ballistic missiles. but in 2019, the u. s. withdrew from the treaty,

we spoke to one of the signatures about that concerns. i hope the spirit of what we wrote on is understood. and that is that we need as world hours to have an awareness of the danger of nuclear weapons. you know, it's approaching almost a century since we are oshima and i think memories of the press, most people who make policy at present or very little memory of what that was our ability to make something much, much worse in her ocean. it's apparent, and i think the fear of that is it's greatest, it should be american actor chris north is finding his careers being killed off as swiftly as the popular sick come character he portrayed the of the sexual assault allegations emerged. not there's no to millions of sex in the city. fans is mr. bake, but that role came to an abrupt end on episode one of the recent reboot. well,

he's now been dropped by his agents. a high profile ad campaign and fellow styles are also distancing themselves off is also lost a $12000000.00 deal to sell. his decatur brand in the wake of the allegations exercise equipment company pallets on, has also dropped its viral advert. featuring the act a shortly after the sex and the city reboot, premiered to women anonymously accused north of sexual assault in 224-2015. then a 3rd woman came forward with similar allegation. criminals denies those allegations with online the people's reaction is seen them. question how easy it is to ruin someone's life before there's even been any due process. here's a difficult question. if these allegations, which are just allegations at the moment, turn out to be untrue, who'll take seriously the damage to kristen off his career. like i said, difficult question, reported to the proper authorities in know the proper, etc. and let's see what happens in court before we execute. oh, potential relationships look like an accusation away from

a prison sentence. a crime doesn't have to be committed in order for you to have your reputation ruined in hollywood. just the fact that you had sex with someone that person later on decided they didn't like it didn't have a good time thought your jerk that you didn't call them back to them bad. now with this actor, we don't know there hasn't been the criminal investigation yet. hasn't been me a trial obviously of the evidence is, but that also kind of falls in line with a lot of what we're seeing with this sort of lead me to movement. where you have basically allegations that come after powerful men decades later years and years later, you know, that's never a good thing, especially when you're looking for evidence to convict someone. especially if the cris not had actually sexually assaulted someone. it's too late for any evidence. basically, it just takes one woman took years, a man of sexual misconduct, or sexual assault for that man's life to be completely ruined, completely destroyed. there have been plenty of times in which it's been proven

that a woman falsely accused a man for been dictate reasons. it really discredits and does a grave injustice people who are actually the comes of sexual assaults. we need to realize that there are actual sexual criminals out there in violet sexual vendors. you should be arrested. and the more that you sort of muddy the system, the worse it is for everyone and more of those people to get away with with ready to watch over every aspect, to people's day to day life, the rules of dating, of also being changing and politicize more than that on, on the don't call russian cosmonaut and to japanese spaced tourists for turn to us after spending nearly 2 weeks of all the international space station is the landing sites in catholic stone. the crew which included the 1st tourists on the i assess and 12 years was in over the 12 days. they took part in scientific experiments on blood circulation, which will continue after that landing. he costano reports from a mission control in russia. well indeed, we are in mission control. this is russia's houston, so to speak,

and the crew of 3 have successfully landed in the steps of cassock, stand for the captain. this mission has become his 3rd successful trip into all bits. but there were 2 new comers, a japanese billionaire and his assistant. there were tourists and they have spent just short of 2 weeks into all, but they did not just stay idle there. they were tourists, of course, but they did take part in certain scientific experiments. for example, we do know that the billionaire he picked while back on earth about a 100 of activities which he tried in orbit. well, now that they have returned about $200.00 people are taking part and well, a bit of a welcoming operation. they are searching for them and will be helping them to get used to again to the conditions here on earth. there's also a surprise for the japanese crew, for example, they will be met with a traditional japanese dish or with japanese noodles. a bit of

a surprise again. but the key thing is they're back and they're healthy. held for over 14 years without charge in americas. guantanamo de bay detention center man saw a day faith tells us of the torture and sexual abuse. he suffered, he features in today's edition of going underground here on our tea. a story and brief. he says he was an 18 year old goat herder and a security guard in yemen and went to afghanistan where he was kidnapped by fighters and sold to the cia. he was then held in at guantanamo suspected of being a recruiter for the terror group. al qaeda, which his long denied his look at the program, a background that like our fi, our, you know, and i think would bother you. i think we're here to you and think will will bother you and they will do, you know, you know, giving us like it isn't that one of the biggest things like yes, anybody got even kind of getting 40 with one of them to get to she was some her pre,

a to blood, i'm with one of the detainees face, and they thought the 2nd, the detainees land. some of the get are smith, i'm female. when for them they have sex in the, in the room. sometime that was to make an open list understand like would you like to be to have in many, many stories and like, you know, some of the probably don't want to go about it still yet to legal issues might have been there for us or have been one of those are those gone to the right and one time full? hey, i'm good. i'm thinking they are, you know, they were, they were supposed to kill them. this is the front line you are, you're in, this is a war zone here. and imagine that the gods towards it is on here. and any action by cheney what they can be as like an actual tourism, or like they used to call on

a cell and going to. and if we're going to hinder cycle throat, as they did like you're announcing, you had again to sustain a state you're trying to bring out to go from our country down like even those inter getters on kind of most and got him because he like they have to say they're going to know is a simple for sure who just this lawlessness of your power and they're going to detention, you know, what, they don't know. like it's different kind of get you to many places around the world. french authorities say they will seek legal action against britain over a month, long fishing dispute before the breaks it split french fishermen were allowed to fish deep inside british waters. while now they need a license of had a brittany's fisherman's committee says the u. k. as ignoring negotiations with the european union gilroy, iroquois minister, the british government and prime minister boris johnson are completely dishonest

with fishermen. it today they are tightening even imposing rules unilaterally, which is illegal from the point of view of this agreement. since such rules, such technical measures must be taken after appropriate negotiations with the european union. in addition, they tights and controls on french and european vessels. literally used such controls to pursue openly and without any shame, french and european fishermen. you can see how ships move into european waters because they are afraid to face the difficulties that great britain can arrange for them if they are in its waters. i think it is extremely important that frances, on the side of the fisherman to day, as well as the european commission after breaks it was decided that over the next 5 and a half years vessels from the ear, you will be able to fish in british waters only if they have permission, a license can be obtained by proving that the boats had been fishing the waters before breaks it. now frances, already obtained most of the requested licenses, were claimed they need $73.00 more. of a head of britney's fisherman's committee again told us that it's necessary to

continue having dialogue with london and introduce measures to prevent violations the alcohol a c. it is very important to continue moving towards dialogue with the u. k. but also with the authorities of the island of jersey. so that if we can't resolve the issue with the u. k, we could act at the local level which might help to cope with some difficult situations. yes, yes, it is necessary to introduce of minced of measures against the u. k. as soon as this bilateral agreement between the european union and the united kingdom is violated. thus these measures are for the long term. but this does not prevent the fact that negotiations must be continued to they precisely in order to deal with several dozen more regulated licenses. which at the moment unfortunately have not been issued. the french vessels market court hearings on the case of the mh 17 plane crash will resume in the netherlands to day prosecution is due to make its closing speech on wednesday, malaysia airlines flight i made 70 on route from after amsterdam to kuala lumpur,

was shot down over ukrainian control dumbass on july the 17th 2014, all 290 people on board were killed. russia has long maintained that the trials been politicized. our senior correspond brad gasdio has more. it has been one of the most politicized and scandalous trials in modern history. there was no other way. it could have turned out. almost 300 innocent lives were lost in the horrendous tragedy that shook the world. ah, she mm. ah . and that 7 years since there has been no closure,

every one knew it would be ugly from the get go full of politics and venom. why malaysia, which own the plane? and last, dozens, and dozens of citizens on that flight, was excluded from the entire investigation. only the very beginning we see too much policies in the the idea was none to find out how this happened and all that. but the seem to be concentrated on claim to pin it on russia. already there have decided that he must be asha. we cannot accept that kind of far attitude, the netherlands form the joint investigative team to investigate what happened nominally, that excluded russia. the anti government forces in east ukraine, malaysia, of course, but it included ukraine, which itself was

a suspect. then rank the 9th most corrupt country in the world by ernst and young. why is that relevant? well, guess who provided most of the evidence to the prosecution, ukraine, successor to the k g, b, security service of ukraine. my question is, what is the source of the tap reports? doesn't have alt office for these are mainly tapped conversations from the ukranian service engine for non mainly, are there any other sources? nice issue. no, that have conversations from ukraine to put it simply to part of what ukrainian intelligence agencies provided were alleged telephone recordings of rebel fighters where they apparently talked about downing legit from the get go. the recordings were suspected of being manipulated and raped out of context and edited an opinion that was supported by many forensic experts zones to them. i found a total of 9 manipulations. there was

a lot of editing here. this is the national right. kennedy or just for clinton different i can see there is a difference of the noise and i also can see they are basically some kind of merging of an audio. this is and it, yes is. and is gonna clear. yes. the netherlands forensic institute itself reportedly refused to attribute the audio recordings to one of the defendants and the m. 8. 17 trial. citing a lack of data to the prosecution eventually contracted an obscure lab and lithuania to verify the recordings which they of course did. together with a bat, 8 anonymous witnesses and a slew of and verifiable pictures from social media. the prosecution declared case closed from the russia faded archie. we have established that the russian federation was complicit in the downing of m age 17 because they made available the weapon that was used to shoot down the plane. we have all the material to

substantiate that material that the defense says is full of holes. even dutch and peas were left flabbergasted when they wrote a report that ukraine wasn't at fault for allowing civilian jets to fly over an area that was a literal err crossed graveyard. but also to do so soonest of i find its results disappointing. what is particularly disappointing and that there was no proper investigation of the evidence which clearly indicated that some ukrainian authorities has processed the information and realised that there was a threat of the plane crash. they very clearly knew that there was a threat. you don't need to be a forensic scientist to know that 3 days before the downing of them age 17, a ukrainian military plane was shot down in the same area. at was reportedly the twelth, ukrainian military aircraft last there in 3 months. and it was shot down at 6200

meters, well, out of man pad defense system range and close at the airline a territory. dina come flying in to meet a campaign his truck in an unprecedented scale. put change ration 6th. since as presumed guilty, this is completely unacceptable. it was launched to compensate for lack of evidence in russia provided a slew of evidence and findings to the joint investigative team information about the missile. and now it couldn't have been the book miss all variant in service with russia and formation about the launch site and how it is unlikely that the miss hall was fired from where the joint investigative team says it was almost everything was dismissed while the prosecution wanted was a critical piece of evidence, satellite shots of the area believe to be in possession of the united states, and which the u. s. still refuses to show to anyone. and also the title of the investigative judge made

a legal assistance request to the us with respect to satellite images, which are allegedly available and depict the launch of a book missile. the american authorities replied refusing to share any material. the investigative judge filed a 2nd request, stressing the importance of the requested data and give the american authorities again refused to show the data. it is difficult to imagine that the us, especially in these times of enmity but concealed damning evidence that would implicate russia. these, if we speculate easy to imagine that the u. s. would conceal dabbling evidence that would exonerate russia and implicate ukraine, which washington gives billions and guns and aid to that. he's what the m h 17 trial has been so far. a case built in speculation, anonymous witnesses,

ukrainian intelligence agency testimony and of course proof from lithuanian forensic labs. ma'am, as her looks for moscow so far this monday morning. thanks for watching uncle embroil. having next update in around 33 minutes to see that ah ah. but then that makes no sense. you know, vaughn is just like to tease and use his emerge. we don't have a charity. we don't have a vaccine, whole world leaves to be ready. people are judgment, common crisis with we can do better, we should be better. everyone is contributing each in their own way,

but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is great. the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it, together with oil and gas, manufacturing, electricity, telecom transportation, all of them now have a u. t. type of infrastructure connected to the internet, so clearly realizing this disruptive potential. so that's those countries can't ignore it because it threatens national security issue. but if we take the nato n e u countries, virtually all of them subscribed to certain doctrines and maintains selling but task forces. they are a cyber army on behalf of

a country that's their job. oh, is your media a reflection of reality? in the world transformed what will make you feel safer? ice elation for community. are you going the right way or are you being led to somewhere? direct what is true was, is great in the world corrupted. you need to descend a join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. ah, working room or should in the back she popped in. she said, well,

i'm getting ready to go shopping for christmas. and we recycle, but there was a girl dividing to another, shooting another safe part of american life. shattered by violence. the gunman was armed with an a ar 15, semi automatic rifle. when the issue comes home, it's time to act. when we're silent on this issue, the other side wins. by default, the lady that lived over there. i was walking one of the dogs, which is why do you wear again? were you scared me? doesn't i take it off it? well, i think the people need to take responsibility in their own and be prepared if those kinds of weapons were less available. we wouldn't have a lot of shootings. we certainly wouldn't have the number address