ah, or special yes, today, the only in the legendary mich fire sign, author of planet ponzi, match nice to see happy holidays. a, a european nations record to daily cove at numbers. while protests continue against caution, you restrictions and force that shape the weak. you must give us the guarantees it is obvious to you and you must do it immediately and demands assurances from nato that i want to move faces closer to russia. as the president appeals questions on global plaza, his unknown to meet everything with the whole fine,

who the hall was auto pay, think council called has gone to fall and that no longer able to speak that mind by living in a coach now of bullying. we used to have a good healthy democracy. good. how are we debating through or you could save it and then you'd have to all of your cation people are frightened to always say what they feel in cases come by. and today, mom thought is the official breakup. of the soviet union, back of those historic events and how they shape more than russia with red sunday. it's all neat. so it is the week we all look back at the stories that grabbed headlines over the past 7 days while starting us off the christmas seasons . been overshadowed by a record cove with such in europe with france,

italy on the u. k. registering you highs in daily infections, auto mall. we have a huge surge, ours cause it cases new cases happening in a number of european countries. if we start off with france on saturday, france recorded a record high new number of cases for the 3rd consecutive day reporting, a 104611 cases. now, despite those people took to the streets and protest primarily against than a set of necessity of carrying a health pass, which is needed to enter all public spaces and also for children to be vaccinated. on monday, the french president emmanuel, the con, we'll discuss with a few members of his cabinet, new measures to counter the coven. 19 pandemic, particularly in light of the new variant army con, which we know is very contagious. it is expected that the president will announce

that in order to get a health pass people in france one, i'll have to agree in principle, to accepting a booster 3 months after their initial vaccination. if we move across to italy, here to we have record numbers for the 2nd consecutive day on friday, italy reporting 50599 new cases. italy is also reporting the 2nd highest number of deaths because of covered in europe after the united kingdom, with some 141 new depths reported now. and then if we move across to the united kingdom here on friday, we had a another record hi, a 122186 new cases being reported. largely because of this highly contagious on the con variant. now, the local government in the u. k, is losing political points with boris johnson's popularity rating. it has taken

a snow dive and has hit record, learned december of some 23 percent. and that is largely because of his poor dealings with the co. 19 pandemic. and a number of scandals here in germany, the health authorities have come forward and admitted that they are no longer tracing contacts of people who have court covert. in other words, there's no comprehensive follow up regarding people infected and who they are coming into contact with. take a listen. many germans believe that they do not have to be quarantined as a contact person because they are vaccinated. but that is not true. now the society here in germany is divided on christmas day. you had thousands of people who turned out to protest against vaccinations, and that was in the gym and city of daffodils. but then again, on the same day, you had people waiting in long queues in potsdam waiting to receive a vaccination. so the coven 19 pandemic remaining as controversial and as alarming

as ever to come this out as a new form of coven passed. so could squash quite really get on your skin. we'll talk about that in just a few minutes. in the meantime, nato has all said to hold talks with russia on january, the 12th half the month of tensions between the 2 sides, the criminal has responded saying it's considering the proposal. now rushes top priority moment is to stop nato's instant expansion on western military involvement . in ukraine, and those issues were addressed by president putin this week during his and of year q and a with the media. ah, no, she needs to will. directions will not depend on negotiations. they will depend on unconditional compliance with russia, security today and in the future. with medic,

clear native further movement to the east is john acceptable? was not clear about it. are we the ones who deploy missiles next? the united states know that the united states who brought their missiles next to our home, already on our doorstep, is it an excessive demand? no more a tax systems near our home. is there something unusual about this yet? no, we're doing. we're not an inch towards the east we were told in the 1990 them what they fooled us. they outrageously deceived us. 5 ways of nato expansion and now they say, will have ukraine us. whoa, whoa, yes. usually if i take the traditional approach, that is a woman, is a woman, a man is a man, a mother is a mother, a father is a father, will she is not all the peoples of the russian federation have a certain internal moral protection against such obscurity. them let them in the west do whatever they want, but the fit and while this must be fought, not my direct instructions and shouts,

but by the support of our traditional values of them. so it is necessary 1st of all, to rely on the nature of the investigation. 17 criminal cases have been initiated under under investigation. over a 1000 people dismissed and their criminal cases opened against the law. i assure you, there's not a single investigator interested in any case. this is why we have a divided the investigative committee and the prosecutors office there. problem. yes, there is a problem. we need to work with it's umbrella and a conscientious, fully fledged investigation of those crimes. and these are clearly the crimes that have been committed. we need to bring it to an end so that everyone understands the punishments for these offences is inevitable. ah, yes of no, i old long time ago, i spoke with one the form you as president guess was whom he told me the boy custody olympics in law. sanchez in moscow with big mistakes, including on the side of the united states and united states keeps on making them again, why the diplomatic and political boycotts of china. they tried to hold back the

developments of china. there were no other motives ah, very clearly. we need to be realistic. the forces that appear at the helm of afghanistan are trying to have different ethnic groups in the countries leadership . and this alone can create conditions for hope, for stabilization in afghanistan. bullshit, do now to help the people of afghanistan. and 1st of all, it should be done by the countries that created such severe damage to the afghan economy and people. those were there for 20 years. destroying the economy should be the 1st to help on our side will do everything depending on us or talking of that europe was hit by record natural gas prices this week, meaning that higher bill was of course, for millions of households as i'm in the west, are pointing the finger track at moscow saying it's withholding gas on president peyton if his explanation for the crisis. the little to him, it with both of them with they are lying to us the confusing. every one does promise shipping. the entire volume requested by counselor agents. in accordance

with the existing contract, we were saying we must not destroy long term contracts, but know that the european commission, we must use market terms. the market will regulated. well, here's how it regulates it. we have 2000 dollars, 1000 cubic meters. you're welcome. the issue of gas. it's pretty clear that you know, russia has nothing to do with that. a. he said that gas brown one is one of the few companies in the world that has increased its supplies to europe. whereas, for example, the american suppliers have diverted gas from the liquefied natural gas from the european market. toys the markets where they can make more money. russia hasn't done that. it increased its supplies to germany, for example, by 10 percent. but that's not enough. i'm in and the russia is always whenever there is any issue, any contentious issue or even a domestic problem. it seems that in europe and the west in general, i, in the habit of sort of resurrecting russia as the scarecrow to, you know,

hang all the possible problems on them. the, you know, you can be, are irritated by that. but after a certain amount of time, you still paying attention and i think this is the state that the concern is at the moment. it's just simply boring. you know? like to narrow down every problem in the world onto the rushes. plotting are evil doing more than half of adults in the u. k. t. scott, to say what they really think a new poll found that worried about being canceled by the friends college. even now . finally, a parent name, auntie. shoddy and massaged. he picks up the story council culture is silencing academics, a gagging public figures and wiping celebrities off the face of the planet. wait, can i really say that? who knows? but i'm not the only one biting my tongue as according to you. gov. paul. majority of brits are living in fear of will being canceled. the majority of britons 57

percent say they have at least sometimes found themselves stopping themselves from expressing their political or social views for fear of judgment or negative responses from others. the id or password can be canceled or in other words, blocked from having a platform is happening to hundreds with a very similar cycle. you say something offensive receive a public backlash, and suddenly you're gone done a finish cancelled by by. but it's only happening to big names and faces, but people like you and me work online on dates and even at home. i think we're living in a coach now of bullying, bullying in workplaces the government actually. so i think people are frightened to always say what they feel in cases come back on. so the main she made you seem to have one. so a point of view of everything. and so if you say in different, you get what you get quite a has to think there's a lot of things for the climate, change, covey or whatever. there's no discussion that is the narrative. and

you're the group or wish cause you, dan has a lot of issues where you fear fred, very careful about what you say and that's not right. well, have a good debate and we used to have a good healthy democracy. we have a debate and country where you could say things and then you'd have to all your case and some people just don't want to argue, don't want to hear the argument. i just want to shut you down and say, no, you can't tell you that you don't allowed to say that i thought device. i traditional a private to the apology. atonement forgiveness is no longer enough to learn if they weren't accountability, social justice boycott. and the more controversial the view on any hot topic like race, immigration breck, that the more you should keep your thoughts yourself and your mouth shop most with less progressive views on device of social topics. feel more reluctant to voice their opinion. some say rather than being politically correct, the whole thing has been spelled out of control into a social media merciless mob rule,

but having some from taking the risk of being cancelled. like for instance, j. k. rowling and her anti trust public position. war is peace, freedom of slavery, ignorance is trans. the meanest individual. hurrah! too is a woman. oh, that wasn't her only comment. there's been plenty more. and as a result, she's been wiped off the face of the earth even by the world. she created the pot to community and the movie production team deleted her from scripts. meanwhile, at h. b o, the 20th anniversary, she was bought. not only that, a number of couldn't leaks just, they really do exist, announced their rebranding to distance themselves away from j. k. rowling, the tough that's a trans exclusionary radical feminist, but there are others in her potty school of thought. jackie raleigh wrote all the harry potter books by herself, and they canceled her because she said gender was a fact. and then the trans community got mad and they started calling her turf

trans, exclusionary radical feminist on tune turf. gender is a fact well, trans employees and allies at netflix stage to walk out forcing the c e o to publicly apologize. what you quoted meanwhile, team tough relished in the drama. if this is what being cancels is like i love it. the song continues as monty python star, terry gilliam got canceled for endorsing chapels, netflix special shortly after the old vic right here in london, announcer pulling his shirt into the woods for miss november schedule. it is very said that a great cultural institution like the old, vague, allowed itself to be intimidated into cancelling our production of into the woods

by small group of closed minded humor, averse i. d. o. x on their stuff. my unspeakable crime was recommending my facebook followers to watch netflix special by brilliant and provocative american committed . they did, and civilization didn't collapse. ok, so that's on the most extreme end of the scale. but at the end of the day, how hard is it not to say something that's obviously dunning turns out really hard indeed cancel culture. this cancelling this punishment, it's everywhere. punishment. and i for and i, you said that therefore you must never work again. sooner or later the counselors will win. oh, british actors of prime time telling more and let been thinks even comedy is now on the verge of being cancelled. it's a bit like laughter in church. something has to be forbidden to make you really laugh, to make you belly laugh. it's when you shouldn't be laughing. and so therefore all

the things that are being canceled out, or i'm afraid the things that i've always made people laugh. so is it time to cancel, cancel culture because pretending somebody doesn't exist because they've touched a nerve, is a simply slope as let's face it. we've all upset someone somewhere haven't way. as i mentioned earlier, you might think the idea of implanting might cro chips on deal skin to show you've got cove it immunity is just a conspiracy theory, but a swedish company has actually developed such a device so excited to talk to the people behind it. ah, are there a versatile technology that can be used for many different things? and right now it's very convenient to have a covered passport, always accessible on your implant. so in case you phone wrong shuttle battery, it's always accessible to

the implant for is readable by and the smartphone, that house and up see function. so i can go to restaurants or a movie theater. i just show them my arm and swipe me with the smartphone on them that pops up the co passport that i have on my chip. so you don't need a special app for this kind of similar to a q r code. just of course i don't want the cure code on my skin, right, so i had this our it is exactly. 9 yes, the u. s. s. are officially seems to exist, will be reliving that historical turning point of with

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy foundation, let it be in arms. race is on a very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical of time. time to sit down and talk to rob is driven by adrenal shaped by for mm. in a who dares sinks, we dare to ask

with ah, welcome back. now today, mark spotty. yes, since the u. s. a saw was formally dissolved, the union was replaced by 15 independent states long. of course, russia ortiz, mark as to have takes a look back at what's changed since the soviet flag over the kremlin was lowered. 30 years ago humanity witness the spectacle. the dramatically changed the course of history. the spectacular overnight collapse of the ussr see lu luxury too. as a result of a newly formed situation, creation of the commonwealth of independent states, i seize my activities in the post of the ussr president. so uniqueness,

ah, here enough, 300000000 people woke up with a new nationality. their homeland gone race that the stroke of the pet and it began with the perestroika, a radical rethinking of soviet mentality, identity and ideology. we must begin 1st by restructuring our thinking and psychology, organizationally in the style and ways working. i would say frankly though we do not restructure ourselves and i'm deeply convinced of this, that we will not rebuild economy or social life. but perestroika proved too much too sudden, too intense to unpredictable where the intent was evolution. the result was

revolution, nationalism worried up with frightful speed across the usaa. a leads and opportunities in various republics, clamored for power and independence. the result was climactic. the ussr, a season as existence as a subject of international law and a geopolitical reality. it was the dawn of a new age. there was pessimism, but there was also optimism what marvels could piece bring. a great empire nicholas superpower, was split into independent countries, which got the chance to cooperate with each other as closely as they wanted, without any bloodshed. and so began a flood of cultural exchange as western ideas rolled and roiled across the former ussr. ah

. ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback hundreds of millions of people thrown off communism dictatorship were apartheid. former adversaries now cooperate with us in diplomacy and global problem solving. reality, however, turned out to be far uglier than the propaganda post as will mainstream media promised the guiding hand of the communist party, god, old and buried hatreds, re ignited, and neighbors turned on each other. ah .

it wasn't just war and uncountable. debts had was misery, pure and simple economic social healthcare collapse. the rise of transnational mafias and organized crime fraud and corruption sisted across the former soviet union. ah . ringback ah, a traumatized, the people undoubtedly the misery and the hopelessness of the 90s, they yearned for stability. not for communism, no, nor the ussr, but for a semblance of order. and whatever his detractors might have to say about putin, he gave the russians stability. agatha, unfortunately, are common fatherland. the soviet union dissolved. as you know,

the core of this common states is historical russia, the russian federation, which is, you know, last almost half of its industrial potential, half of its economy, the same share of its population and a substantial part of his territory. what can we do about this? now, i've already said that restoring the soviet union would be pointless and impossible for many reasons. and not even desirable because of the senior which make sense to want the u. s. a saw communists back legends have made that very clear. but to build a new state, a new russia, one which provides for the people rather than uses them and at the same time evoked the sort of respect that the soviet union did. while that scares rushes, opponents, hooton's plan scares them. you know, i think the concern is that president putin's public lamentations and private lamentations about the demise of the soviet union have gotten on

noisier and stronger over the years. so the concern is that he's actually as a legacy project seeking to reconstitute to soviet union. and then, you know, would his appetite be fulfilled with that eating or what he seek. the soviet union has been gone for 30 years, but had spirited lives on lives, on the hearts of former citizens who now remember only the glory days, the good pots. they forget the empty shelves, the food lines, the k g b, at lives on the minds of rush has rivals who still think in terms of blocks and super bowers stuck as they are in the past. who believe that russia last did say forever when the ussr collapsed? regardless of the fact that 30 years have passed since i runic, isn't it? the women death?

the soviet union still shapes our futures. one entity with our toll president britain's assistant flooding, the density explains why she thinks that the end of the soviet union was a catastrophe. another 30 years ago, the ussr to soft. how did you perceive these events at that time? and has your view changed since that will surely do. i was one of the democracy defenders. the rossier newspaper newsroom decamped the white house to that time. we spent these unforgettable to nights though, with the newsroom in the white house. we were informing people in sinking up the news. we were printing flyers and went to the press center of the ministry of foreign affairs at his famous press conference. we were preparing for the qu, they were kalashnikov, assault rifles in the newsroom. i don't know whether they were loaded or not, but they were in the rock. my point of view in these events, like any normal persons has changed law over the years. but that moment it was definitely the democratic euphoria and enthusiasm by the report and has been colon

the ussr dissolution, frankly, especially recently a tragedy and the dissolution of historical russia. j. o, please. it is the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. and it is the greatest geopolitical catastrophe. our country has seen for several centuries is a huge step pot for our state law. also, jeff, according to the pulse to day, the majority of russians, primarily those who lived in the ussr regret what happened more. but 30 years ago, the attitude was different. what are the reasons for the change of you? were serious? so why do all of us within the country are thinking how it could be better? what would happen if we don't know? his shooting gives a choice. so what happened happened? just know unpredicted how it would end. no one thought though it end with a dissolution of the great country, we were not imagining that we would throw the baby out with the bathwater that during the process of fighting the one thing we would lose another. no one wanted

the dissolution of the country, no one wanted to have to have a visa to travel to europe. mila or not charl there at all. no one to the civil and social conflicts, no war in central asia. no one thought that such a crazy situation. ukraine, where i'm from would be possible. no one thought that nato forces would be located within walking distance from the board is val, country, or just on the border. the fact that to day people largely regret the dissolution of the ussr doesn't mean they want to rebuild. the system of socialism is not the craving for soviet times is not the craving for censorship, nor the difficulties in terms of going abroad is the craving for the humanistic idea that when people a mix of nationalities are united, it actually supports peace. that's how i run down all the top stories. let's man plenty more on those articles. other stories that aren't, you know, comes to check it out. and i think a great day, ah,

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