and you surround yourself with people who are encouraging you to do it and not to stop or if the way my life is over, just about balcony and dime, you just a medline. so what are you into national, huge cues that dwindling us testing centers as armor of chronic sweeps across the country, the daily infection rate. now increasing 7 fold in some states, we have a surge and we do need more testing centers. i mean, look at these lines. that is a horrible, honestly, you know, most of my friends have to wait on line for hours and hours to get tested. i've had to wait, i'm blind for hours to get the millions of people across the world facing travel chaos on this christmas day. a huge cove serge sees airlines counseling flight

leaving people stranded of apple. it's all around the world. also in the program billionaire entrepreneur elan mosque takes a swipe. it see an end by saying he's not perverted enough to appear on the channel, which has been hit by a flu of sexual scandal. and we speak with award winning soviet filmmaker, a medical story about media freedom, but also mainly about germany's decision to block our brand new fist channel, our t v. you suffer because you don't polish reality. those wouldn't shut you down. those will know that they don't have this route to be available around the world with well, it's a winter wonderland hero moscow. on this christmas day. a huge amount of snow here on the russian capital is now just a patchwork of white rooftop. so welcome to the pro, by the way,

this is our fee and national. well, the u. s. is facing a surge of daily american cases, apparently across the country. they're up 55 percent a while in new york, texas and new jersey. they've more than doubled down south and florida. they've jumped sevenfold. now on tuesday, joe biden promised half a 1000000000 free tests for americans. you also pledged open new testing sites. however, the media report to the white house hasn't actually yet signed a new contracts for any new job delivery is kind of leasing a bit unclear how they'll actually make all this available and testing centers. meantime, i've actually been shutting up shop due to staff shortages. for example, 13 closed in new york, new jersey. the lines are growing here in new york city, and so is the frustration. 13 different coven testing centers throughout the city, close down to day. all while demand for tests is rising amid and increasing infection rate. we spoke to some people who were waiting to get coven tests here in manhattan. that is a horrible,

honestly you see how many people are on this line right here. and most of my friends have to wait on line for hours and hours to get tested. i've had to wait on the lines for hours to get tested, so it makes no sense to be. that's not good. it's probably why i'm standing a line and the 26 degree weather the end of the day. it's the holidays we have a search, we have to be vigilant, active, and we do need more testing centers. i mean, look at these lines. there's a 100 people on this line. i think it's making the lines really long. i think a lot of people need to get tested sidenote, they're safe. it becomes a whole drama amongst friends and family. i live with roommates. they need to know . i live in the same room with them and you know, i'm doing this, i'm getting testing. now keep in mind, we're seeing a rapid rise in the infection rate throughout new york city. keep in mind the entire cities cove at 19 infection rate, for the month of november, was only $35800.00. so quite a spike in coven, 19 positive tests. now we're here in a situation where people are seeing this as joe biden,

not keeping his promises just recently, he was promising more co, good tests would be available, dr. found she the u. s. government health officials and joe biden is saying that if you're not vaccinated, you shouldn't be seeing your family for the holiday season. i worry so much about people who still to this point, refuse to get vaccinated. the virus is going to find you, please get vaccinated. all these people who have not been vaccinated, you have an obligation to yourself, to your family, and quite frankly, i know you criticize this to your country, get faxes it now its free is convenient. i promise you, which saves lives. i honest to god, believe it, you, patriarch, duty really big long lines here. anger is rising, frustration is rising. people are angry at the mayor. people are angry at the governor and the new york state government, but people are also angry at the white house. caleb mop and archie, new york location accuse. i've just been seen that covered testing stations,

but actually the airports all around the world because well, millions of people are right now facing christmas travel disruption due to mass flight consolations. in fact, the globally, more than 2000 planes have been grounded in just the past 24 hours. a reasons include a cove it out brakes and a new cross border safety checks. so all these policy now goes to one of the top, airports in berlin to check out the traveler's. they're dealing with facing the cables. a christmas nightmare. shay and you can across the united states as flights are cancelled, and people to 4 hours a day of celebration has become a day of frustration and chaos with thousands of would be travellers who instead of spending christmas with their friends and family of been refused to fly. what's more, passengers are complaining. they're only allowed to check in 2 hours before departure . the result, people missing slice and plains been delayed. it comes as of tons of cancels

a dozen long distance flights and suspends popular connections, g to low demand and pilots, falling sick. some 33000 connections have been canceled. that if we 10th planned flight and b, lufthansa chief is angry at the european union. he says that the company would have to carry out a 2000 empty flights to follow e rules and not to move landing sloths at various airports. while climate friendly exemptions were found in almost all other parts of the world during the time of the pandemic, the e u does not allow this in the same way that harms the climate and is exactly the opposite of what the commission wants to achieve. meanwhile, these bodies to, for those who are planning the holidays across the atlantic, the 2 biggest american airlines, delta and united, have cancelled around $200.00 flights according to the carriers. the reason is a spike in only con cases and to quote, an exhaustion of options. and resources,

this follows a call to the u. s. facilities by the delta t o, who asked to cut quarantine for fully vaccinated people to 5 days from the current . tim, these developments come several months after the ceo of another american, a long south west, ordered his employees to be fully vaccinated against by the same mis take a look at how that happened several months ago. let me choose choose

i've never been in favor of corporations imposing in that kind of a mandate executive order from president biden mandates it all federal employees. and then all federal contractors have to have a mandate invoice vaccine in place by december the 8th. so we're working through that. i use one of the world's richest men has lashed out at cnn in interview tesla boss, e. long musk job, but he's not perverted enough to appear on that news network. what,

what was it you said the, the requirement for being a cnn? cnn is, are you, are, you pervert voted and well, that quip followed a series of controversies. i see and, and you won't be surprised by any of this. i've been headlines all around the world or anchor chris chroma. he was recently fined for lying about helping out his brother. the then governor of new york. both siblings have been accused of sexual misconduct, another cnn presented on lemon. he's been sued for sexually assaulting a man in a bar. the claim he denies. and most recently, a c o n producer john griffin was charged with sex crimes involving children. we discussed all this and got the reaction of feedback from illegal and media analyst, lionel. no, it's not a joke and bad taste. it's the truth about a network in bad taste. let's go back to what chris cuomo did. not only was he providing strategy to his brother, but he was working with his governor staff,

one in particular. and he was talking about basically how they could sullying besmirch in impede the reputation of those women who might be making these allegations of the 1st place. so now this transcends strategy sessions from going and deliberately targeting and the conspiracy to impugn the integrity of women who dared complain about untoward behavior. this is not at all consistent. so one thing i wanna just explained that i think of 2022 brings something to bear along with the death and the destruction and the, the, the internment of, of, of, or in terms of i should say of cnn is the fact that what is really news today is not what people think. sometimes a satirical is more, is more on point now as far as see and n. he's absolutely correct. so prediction here to be to be

waxing vatike in python and it's going to be over for that wretched news organisation before you know it because everything that mr. musk said is true. so today marks 30 years since the symbolic end of the ussr or the gremlins soviet flag was load and replaced by the colors of the russian federation. the president mikhail gorbachev announcing his resignation. now the u. s. as are united by the communist ideology existed for nearly 70 years, however, relation between his republics had certainly become rocky, with the liberalizing of policy of perestroika doing little to basically stabilize the situation of the union was replaced by 15 newly formed states among them, russia and some of these now form the commonwealth of independent states. well, we hit the streets of moscow right here to, to speak to people about how they feel about that over the collapse i should say of that of the soviet union. alicia downside is that the last territory we could not restrain the urge of certain nations to gain independence. it was inevitable. it

was going to happen anyway. but little soon period when an empire is collapsing, it's always bad because something big and united fragments into a lot of smaller pieces. and it always ends up in war because everyone starts to have own ambitions. there's a lot of war and anger as well lived together. we could travel to all our republics now at silver. you cannot go so easily with lou on a financial level in terms of our basics, life has improved. as for everything else on an idea, logical level, things are not as good. the youth of today are lacking in ideas. there is no shared sense of purpose within the country. don't accordingly, also get the collective opinion from grandparents and parents, is that it was better with usaa. education was better. perhaps everyone's mood was good, but i think there is more freedom now. there is little trouble that was just put it on us. it has definitely become better now. we are not as isolated as we were before, but there is more opportunity for

a self fulfillment inside the country. she was more missed when the following day, the ussr was a formerly dissolved or there was a joy sing in america. the demise of its main geopolitical rival. though the mood was rather different and socialist countries like china. and we discussed it with a panel of guests, the reasons for and the impact of the dissolution. the, the collapse of the soviet union is down to political leadership. and that is a joke is the main person who bears responsibility. one of the reasons why he was so unsuccessful was he attended economic, economic, and political reform at the same time. and the other thing was that he had anatomy, but it's your listen. and they fell out. they hated one another, now had gilson and go to work together. so would you probably been with us today? that's all we had to reform. those reforms are absolutely necessary. the gorbachev was working on 2 fronts, one to reform the soviet union inside,

and also to reform its relations with the capitalist world. and he tried his efforts there failed because of the inability of the united states in russia. the union then russia to, to come to terms we'll say that see in the pay say that space, the number of conflicts on whether that's new and a car back from touch, cheapest on to for example, take us on is back on team. do you think that we would have seen those kinds of disputes if u. s. a saw had remained a whole the biggest loss i think of all in terms of. busy relations human relations. ready was the breakdown of their been rather narrow to tell you, waited, but the feeling of community community policy that existed within the soviet union, that local level, that is lost. and i think everybody knows results of the disintegration at the beginning of the, at the soviet union, that there was a real hope for

a confederate world confederation. and that failed immediately after that initial period after going to charles reform stale. and yes, and you also to try to engage with the united states and europe in that field is will, hey, give the world a vision of a fair society, a just society ah, and on paper it was the fairest and the best society you can imagine. but it was a you tube, it proved to be a utopia. it's not just a matter of what was done for people in the countries over the soviet unit itself. it was also the way in which the soviet union was able to interact with the rest of the world. and overall, it's presence was i would say very positive. and since then,

the lack of having the soviet union that has made the world a much more dangerous place. oh, i spent most of the come here on, on the international, approaching the 2nd half of the program here. so well, some dream of a white christmas. others are dreaming about what, what our modern todd is here is guide on how to make that dream come true is a coming away after the bring with him around, driven by dream shaped bankers and those with

there's sinks, we dared to ask a very ties or a christmas now a santa claus, and rudolph are scheduled to deliver a bounty of toys today. but due to supply chain constraints and the cost of feeding the reindeer, skyrocketing down straight to terminate into the living room, pop stand, collins, to explain all this to us. dan, welcome to our kaiser christmas show. merry christmas everybody can ah good to have you with us today for this program on our team. so be an filmmaker, a miracle student has told us to you that freedom of the press no longer exists. he

was reacting to the decision by german regulators to take our sister channel r t d e, off the air. now the station is headquartered here at moscow and has a serbian lie since a cable and satellite transmission, which under european law, is enough to allow it to pull cost in germany. berlin apparently thinks otherwise. earlier youtube channel was also slapped with a band. this is reaching the absurdity of what it means, because at the moment when the technology goes all the way around, you don't have the others, you know, getting one of the stations that we love to see because of it's documentary programs because of a lovely and correctly reporting from different parts of the world and i'm going to treat germany cannot stand it. and i'm just afraid that this is not just the autonomous, a german decision. i think this is much higher scale of or that is just

started 2 years ago for breast does not exist anymore. everything is transferred to ideology. you suffer because you don't polish reality. they want the thought to be ally, ally to be through. this is why semester and the problem for them is that you are opening the windows to which we can see what is the real life of the people. what is the real base of the people against elite? it's a fight that you have to go forward. you have to find the ways to, to, to go forward because as much as they press you, you will have more and more audio. well among those are celebrating christmas today that hope the woke brigade and obviously their idea of festive cheer is a little bit different. but he's a quick tongue in cheek guide. ah christmas. the traditional yuletide holiday

this year, making this traditional with a special christmas guide me christmas tolerance diversity guide. we all know that christmas is a family holiday. so make sure all your parents are properly numbered i this year. follow the agenda and make us no woman instead of snowman, or even better, at the snow person designed for themselves. ah, no gifts, no don't. so teddy bears prepare your children for the brave new world. to remember. diversity is not at all i oh, this is no longer an appropriate cost. you this is appropriation, zoological appropriation oh,

offensive to the dear community. mm hm. and obviously sandra has to be cancelled. i because he is a wisest gender male who abuses mrs. close discriminate against children based on behavior, whereas red, which is a communist color, makes children sit on his lap, makes people destroy trees and exploit sales. so sorry kids center is not coming to town anymore. i follow these instructions. stick to the spirit of christmas. you decide i want to get back to more traditional ideas of christmas because you know, it's often assumed that santa claus comes from the north pole, but different countries to give him different origins. so audio, peter,

all of our reports now from lap. he's probably the busiest man on the planet right now, but where santa claus lives generally depends on where in the world you are. where does santa claus live? in? at the north boy, i every one knows. in africa. yeah. yeah. yeah. right. yeah. so you get to to look to. oh, so left to right. and yes. so are on there. i have no idea, but i guess somewhere in finland main present day, i think 10 o'clock or probably living somewhere where there's a night feed and night, little i factory like he has were all the toys actually sag authorization norwin in new york? new york. yep. now some people say he lives in finland. what do you think of that? i don't agree with that. new york, the north wall. new york city north, paul. okay. now some people think he lives in finland. do you buy that? maybe have you ever heard of lapland? no. in north america?

the answer is usually that he lives in the north pole. but there's a few problems with that. firstly, there's no buildings there for sumter in his elves to live in, and it's far too cold. secondly, there's no christmas trees at the north pole. in fact, there's no trees at all. and you don't usually see some to slay being pulled by these guys. of course pulling santa's sleigh is the elite team over reindeer and looking after those reindeer is johan, who has the wonderful title of rain? dia whisper. johan, a thanks very much for talking to us. we're looking at where son to lives. now. there was some room as he lives in the north pole, but radius can't live in the north po can like no, am i sans ice originally from my mount ear, quarter of a poem dory. but he was here in the of a name it because it's easier for people to reach to him then i'm the radius are

here in north. well, there's nothing to leave route you look after the rain days. how he whispered to a reindeer, what makes hallow heard his name? what makes a good rain d. f. a santa? ah! the reindeer needs to be patient. it needs to be curious. it needs to be strong enough and bold enough. if they are too shy, they are afraid to fly over the skies. now what does rain do? you do for relaxation when it's not flying. they are just, you know, killing, playing down, eating, chatting with the friends, you know. but that leaves us with quite the problem. what about all of the letters to santa that are addressed to him at the north pole? i'm here in the bustling epicenter of santa's post office and joined by a very busy postal elf called here to he's taking some time out of a day to talk to 30 thanks very much welcome welcome to santa claus main, post office. thank you very much for having me. now. the question i have is, what do you do here with all of those letters that arise from the girls and boys all over the world? well, 1st of all, this very,

very many letters that arrived every year. there's always are over half a 1000000 letters that sent to get and the 1st we sought him out by the country. and so that's what i'm doing here right now. santa has received a letter sir, around $200.00 countries so far. so what happens to those letters that are addressed to the north pole? please tell me they come here. they come here, let me see if i do have here some. ah example, for example over here. so this is the place where they all end up anyway. so they come to the right may even though you put the wrong address in it. well, that's good to know that everybody watching make sure that their letters always arrive with santa claus. well, it's good to know that santa is receiving his mail here in lapland, but this wasn't always his address. most theologians will agree that saint nicholas was born in nor around the mediterranean coastal town of mira now damira in turkey,

in around $288.00 d. however, there's not many images of santa in his home town on christmas cards. well, there is one way to settle this argument good and proper to speak to the man himself. santa claus. hello. thank you very much for joining us here on our tea. sunset. we've been searching for you around the world. old. tell us in your own words, where are you from? oh scuffle. i am from here. we got lost the supper here. i've been here for those greenly long time. actually hear the arctic circle. i talking more than way over 30 years in my house. yeah, i see her, i have my office now here. i'm here every day of the year. so children all over the world can come and meet me, but you're able to travel extreme distance isn't all over the world to make sure that you deliver toys to the boys and girls. how does that happen? whooping. oh, that is actually quite easy. oh oh, you know my, my ranges,

they fly, no go to phyllis and on the tricks. no exclusive fear. personable, remember, the world is divided into the time so, so, okay. so when you travel you all the time the same time from times on the time. so that's how you do it. well, well the other way, sir. the santa tell you ever thought, oh christmas eve, how tiring? nice. going very slowly while you're waiting long. well, that's my other secret. the world is turning around that day, a little bit slow and thank you very much. santa claus. a merry christmas. you all were married a and a very merry christmas for me as well. peter, all of them for r t in santa's village in the arctic circle. lapland. and for all of us here at

auto international, moscow, all of us here. wish you a very merry christmas. i was a fabulous day for you and your loved ones. for the meantime, your program returns at the top of the hour. ah, join me every thursday. i'm alex simon show. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport. business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. me . 0, one of the major fights, chance are merged go with president bush junior, was in 2008. this is called newcrest. somebody at that stage, the united states actually wants it for georgia and ukraine to get them and nato membership to start the so called membership action class. and it was

germany that stopped that and then said, no, no, we don't want to do that because these countries will not add to the stability of nato, which is one of the pre act was in the they to treaty. ah ah, a with time action returns in your watching a special christmas day edition of going underground the team and i will be back for brand new season on wednesday, the 12th of january. but until then,

we'll be showing some of your favorite shows from this season merry christmas over the past week, so called mainstream media has been waking up to the potential extinction of humanity. after landmark i p. c. c report issued a warning of hell on earth because of climate change. while this, while a new cold war ratchets up the chances of extinction, but another man made existential threat, nuclear annihilation. so is humanities, intelligence, and collective knowledge, also the root of its own destruction, and the only beneficiaries the billionaires looking to escape the planet in private rockets. joining me now, his renown philosopher and also a c grayling whose new book, the front years of knowledge, explores the progress, barry's, and future of humanity when it comes to enlightenment. that thank you so much. a professor grayling for coming back on. if anyone thinks that they don't need to read this book, you imply that they're, they're only themselves to we to play.