a butch, give me a mutual business with i should not put the key and i shall go by noon and actual with european nations are hit by ref. daily code numbers while protest continue against talk restrictions in the store. input shape the weight. you must give us the guarantee it is up to you and you must do it immediately. automatically, demands assurances from nato that it won't move based. that's closer to russia as president field questions on global pads that his annual media briefing. a poll finds more than half of adults and then you pay think kind of cool culture gone too

far and i no longer able to speak that like we're living in a coach now of bullying. we used to have a good, pretty healthy democracy. good. how we did come through or you could say good, and then you've got to all your case and people are frightened to always say what they feel in case there's a, a official breakup of the soviet union. and we look back of those historic events and how they shape milton with you've joined us for the weekend here in ocoee international where we take a look at the biggest stores of the past 7 days, but happy with some of the latest stuff that's just come in the christmas season, it's been overshadowed by a record cove at sarge and europe with france. it's me. i'm the u. k. registering

new highs in daily infections on his policy. has we have a huge surge of covert cases. new cases happening in a number of european countries. if we start off with france on saturday, fronds recorded a record high new number of cases for the 3rd consecutive day reporting, 104611 cases. now, despite the people took to the streets and protests primarily against the estate of necessity of carrying a health path, which is needed to in public spaces and also for children to be vaccinated. on monday, the french president emmanuel mccall, will 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 pon, people in fonts will now 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. it can be reporting 50599 new cases is he is also reporting the 2nd highest number of deaths because of covered in europe after the united kingdom, with some 141 new depth reported now. and then if we move across to the united kingdom here on friday, we had a nother record high 122186 new cases being reported. largely because of this highly contagious on the con variant, not the local government and the u. k. is losing political points with boris johnson's popularity rating. it has taken a snow dive and has hit record blown 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 contexts 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 less than 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 city of dr. dorothy. but then again, on the same day, you had people waiting in long cues in, puts them waken to receive a vaccination. so the coven 19 pandemic remaining as controversial and as alarming

as ever. well, still had this out as a new form of coven pass that could really get on the you can, i'll tell you, want to use what a big story this week. nato has also told talks with russia on january the 12 soft at month, soft tensions, of course, between the 2 sides. the criminal has responded saying it's considering the proposal. roches top priority is to stop nato's eastern expansion on western military involvement in ukraine. and there is a, she's wired trust by president bruton this week during his, the traditional end of yet q and a, with the media. ah, no, she used to will. directions will not depend on negotiations. they will depend on unconditional compliance with russia's security today. and in the future, we medi clear native further movement to the east is unacceptable,

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 attack 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 a 19 ninety's and what they fooled us. the outrageously deceived us 5 ways of nato expansion. and now they say, will have ukraine as well. 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 or 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 also fit. and while this must be fought, not my direct instructions and shouts, but by the support of our traditional values of them

solution, it is necessary 1st of all, to rely on the theater 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 divided the investigative committee and the prosecutor's office. there problem, yes, there is a problem. we need to work with it and rely on 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 punishment for these offences is inevitable. ah, yeah, i have no way long time ago i spoke with one the form you as president guests with whom he told me the boy goes to the olympics in los angeles in moscow were 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 in the elements of china. there are no other motives.

ah, no, this is eddie. 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. one of the top of that came up was natural gas. europe was hit by record prices this week, meaning higher bills. the millions of households knew some in the west, a pointing finger at moscow, saying it's withholding gas for president putin gave his explanation for the crisis . the rule shoot him in with both of them with they are lying to us the confusing. every one does promise shipping the entire volume requested by its counter agents. in accordance with the existing contracts,

we were saying we must not destroy long term contracts, but know that the european commission, we must use market terms. the market will regulate it. 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. 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 irritated by that. but after a certain amount of time, you still paying attention and i think this is the state that the community is at the moment. it's just simply boring. you know, like to narrow down every problem in the world onto the rushes, plotting or evil, doing more than half of adults in the u. k. are too scared to say what they really think. a new poll found that worried about being canceled by friends, colleagues, even at that and family. i'll t shante and mustache d adults into 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 got 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 idea or a person can be cancelled, 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, finish, cancelled by by. but it's still only happening to big names and faces, but people like you and me at 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 case there's a come back home. and so the main street may just seem to have one sort of point of view of everything. and so if you say in different you get, so what you get quite has to think there's a lot of things, the climate change code age or whatever. there's no discussion that is the narrative and you of the group or we should cause you them has

a lot of issues where you fear fred, very careful about what you say and not right now 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, i want to hear the ever argument. i just want to shut you down. i know you can't tell you that you're not allowed to say that i thought divide the traditional approach to the apology. atonement forgiveness is no longer enough to warrant if they weren't accountability. social justice boy caught and the more controversial the view on any 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 his social media, merciless mob rule. but i haven't felt some from taking the risk of being cancelled . like for instance, j. k. rowling and anti trust public position. worse bees,

freedom of slavery, ignorance, his friends, the venus, things vigil. 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 up even by the world. she created the pot to community and the movie production team deleted her from scripts. meanwhile. * r h b yos. 20th anniversary. she was bored. not only that, a number of couldn't leaks tasks 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 onto turf, gender as a fact. well,

trans employees and allies at netflix stage to walk out forcing the c e o to publicly apologize when you ah meanwhile, team tough relished in the drama. if this is what being cancels is like i love it. the song continues as monty python's star, terry gilliam. got cancelled 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 roots 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 provoked if 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, tell a more and let been thinks even comedy is now on the verge of being canceled. 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 have 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 we was i meant not a might think that the idea of implanting might courtships on deal skin to prove cove it immunity is just a conspiracy theory. but a swedish company has actually developed such a device. we decided to talk to the people behind it. ah, a very versatile technology that can be used for many different things. and right now it's very convenient to have a coven passport, or way success to build on your even plant. so in case your 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 and then 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 out, of course i don't want the q r code on my skin right. well still come this how it is exactly a thought here since the u. s. a saw efficiency to exist. well, we'll be reliving dot historic. we're turning point in the shop with

join me every thursday on the alex simon, sure i'll be speaking to guess in the world. the politics sport. business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. mm. oh is your media a reflection of reality? ah, in a world transformed what will make you feel safer, high selection community? are you going the right way or are you being led to somewhere? which direction? what is true? what is great? in the world corrupted, you need to descend a join us in the depths or remain in the

shallows. ah again, and now today marks that he is in the u. s. is all was formerly dissolved. the union was replaced by 15 independent states among them. russia next stop out, he's more advanced to have take a look back at what's changed since that famous. so if you fly over the kremlin was low the last time 30 years ago, humanity witness. the spectacle, the dramatically changed the course of history. the spectacular overnight collapse of the ussr. she loo sloan realty, 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 pen. and it began with the perestroika, a radical rethinking of soviet mentality, identity and ideology. we must begin 1st by restructuring our thinking on 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 reared up with frightful speed. across the u. s. i saw a leads and opportunities in various republics, clamored for power and independence. the result was climactic. the ussr a season,

his existence as a subject of international law and a geopolitical reality. it was the dawn of a new age. that was pessimism, but there was also optimism what marvels could peace 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 of flood of cultural exchange, as western ideas rolled and roiled across the former ussr. ah . ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback hundreds of millions of people have thrown off communism dictatorship or apartheid former adversaries. now cooperate with us in diplomacy and global problem solving. the

ality, however, turned out to be far uglier than the propaganda post as will mainstream media promised with 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. i'd was misery, pure and simple economic social health care collapse,

the rise of transnational mathee as an organized crime fraud and corruption sisted across the former soviet union. ah . ringback ringback 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 the tractors might have to say about putin. he gave the russians stability back a bertha. unfortunately, our 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, lost almost half of its industrial potential hoffman its economy. the same share of

its population and a substantial part of its 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 in the senior which make sense. few want the you as 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 russia's 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 the 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 russia's 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 usaa saw collapsed? regardless of the fact that 30 years have passed since i runic, isn't it? the women death, the soviet union still shapes off. futures was part of my look at this fall. our spoke to me called sit i of he lives in estonia, but was never made

a citizen off the collapse of the ussr. he told us about the struggles that russians because can face these days is they'll send you if she doesn't, you mother was like, a lot of his sons have always held high positions. and after his tone again, these independence, old arch enterprises were brought to bankruptcy by any means. old. the russians who worked there did not speak stone in and were fired. and while they were learning this stone in their people took all the vacant places. my mother tried and learned the language, but even she, with the higher education, had to work as a cleaner. after independence language categories appeared in estonia, language inspection body was active and rates on schools and other institutions began. those identified were laid off. their ra russian speak in civil servants, but they tend not to be further up in the highs government circles. russian speakers can vote in local elections, but they cannot vote in parliamentary elections. de known citizens status,

really like the ellen passport is equivalent to refugee state. and i have it even though i was born and grew up here in estonia and my grandmother and mother are buried here. it is not right to me. oh, russian schools will be close in tar 2. or they want to prohibit teaching in russian language. they haven't studied russian history for a long time. the schools are teaching the history of estonia, about the occupation and oh, that i was born in the stone in soviet socialist republic, which has become estonia. but for me, nothing has changed since it was in the ussr, it has remained the same. the same people around me, the same houses, the same roads. i consider a stone at to be my homeland. if my motherland will always be the country where my ancestors leapt, russia, it turns out well, that's all round up, all the stories that caught our eye this week. next up here on auto document, you had state slide due to oregon to prop with

a topic that still divides us goggins was sticking around ah, [000:00:00;00] with i mean, you must either so did it in as shown to don't to stand together and will continue to stand together against russia, even in germany, repeat some of the areas that we doubt this made. they noticed visa, shockey daughter about their ability to influence other nations, france, u. k. and even latin america and other countries in future than maybe knew where to

high from cycle pollute with members of your house. so please, please, please, please. we have to continue to fight with. you just need to rush must not be allowed in germany. i want you to call and leave it so short. so dean l t d in office 5 of the yes. ok to indian. ha the in office mrs. guns until sunday. ah ah ah

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