he's hyper connected to the internet to clearly realizing this disruptive potential that those countries kind of ignore it because it threatens national security issue . but if we take a country truly, all of them subscribe to certain doctrines and maintains selling but tell us forces . they are a cyber army on behalf of a country. that's their job. ah, european nations are hit by record daily coping numbers while voters continue against new restrictions. and the stories that shake the weak, you must give us the guarantee it is up to you and you must do it immediately. the approach at the moment, assurances from nato that it won't move bugs is closer to russia. as the president feels questions on global affairs at his annual media briefing,

poll fine is more than half about else in the u. k. think counseling culture has gone too far and no longer able to speak their mind. living in a coach now of printing, we used to have a good healthy democracy would have to write country where you could say that. and then you have to all of your cation people are frightened to say when they fail, in cases and today, much 30 years since the official breakup of the soviet union. we look back at those historic events and how a shaped modern russia with blog from oscar. thanks for joining us on auto international this evening on daniel hawkins. wherever you. all right, welcome to the program. the christmas season's been overshadowed by recall code such as across europe with france, italy and the u. k. registering new highs in bailey infections. audio fullest,

lia has more. 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 recon variant. not 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, learn 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 kobe. 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 city of dr. dorothy. but then again, on the same day, you had people waiting in long queues in puts them wake him to receive a vaccination. so the covert 19 pandemic remaining as controversial and as alarming as ever still to come this hour, there is

a new form of cupboard pass but could really get under your skin, find out more in just a few minutes. and nathan has offered to hold folks with russia on january, the 12th, after months of tension between the 2 sides, the feminine has responded saying it's considering the proposal. moscow football already has thought nato's east and expansion and western military involvement in ukraine. and those issues were addressed by president bruton this week during his traditional ended here, q and a with the media. ah, no, she needs to whittle directions, you'll not depend on negotiations. they will depend on unconditional compliance with brushes, security today and in the future. we've medically a native further movement to the east is con, 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 19 nineties and what they fooled us. they outrageously deceived us. 5 ways of nato expansion. and now they say, we'll have ukraine as whoa here . but 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 with the faith. 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 is not a single investigator interested in any case. this is why we have a divided the investigative committee and the prosecutor's office. there problem. yes, there is a problem. we need to work with it. and we're learn 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, yeah, i have no way well, long time ago i spoke with one the form you as president guess with whom. and he told me the because the, 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 the development of china. there were no other motives ah, you know these very clearly we need to be realistic. the forces that appeared 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. we'll do everything depending on us. well, another topic that was raised was natural gas. europe was hit by a record prices this week, meaning high bills for millions of households. some on the west, the pointing the finger at moscow saying it's withholding gas, but president booting gave his own ex relation for the crust. the rule julia with both of them with they are lying to us. they're confusing. everyone has promised shipping. the entire volume requested by counter 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 marketing 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 online the, you know, you can be irritated by that. but after a certain amount of time to start thinking attention and i think this is if they've got the futon is at the moment, it's just simply boring. you know,

like to narrow down every problem in the world onto the rush. as plotting are evil doing no more than half about hope. some of you carry or to scare to say what they really think. a new poll found the award about being canceled by friends, colleagues, even their own families. ortiz shutting. edwards dashti has 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 idea or apartment 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 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 a 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 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 caught, or 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 of a group or wish cause you dance has a lot of issues where you fear fred, very careful about what you say, and that's 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 of your case and some people just don't want to argue. i want to hear the argument. i just want to shut you down and say, no, you can't tell you that you don't allow to say that i thought device or traditional a private to the apology. atonement forgiveness is no longer enough to warrant 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. worse bees. freedom of slavery, ignorance is trans. the meanest individual. hurrah! too is a woman?

well, 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, r h b yos, 20th anniversary. she was bored. not only that, a number of couldn't leaks just they really do exist, announced that there rebranding to distance themselves away from j. k. rowling that 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. 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 star, terry gilliam got canceled for endorsing chapels, netflix special shortly after the old vic right here in london, announcer pulling his show 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 donning 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 in 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 separate slope as let's face it. we've all upset someone somewhere haven't we

knew i think the audio replanting microchips under your skin to show covert immunities stress the conspiracy theory. but a swedish company is actually developed such a device. we spoke to the people behind the bench. ah. so are there a versatile technology that can be used for many different things? and right now it's very convenient to have a corporate passport, always accessible on your implant. so in case you are wrong, thought about 3. it's always accessibility. the implant soon 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 covert 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 up, of course i don't want the cure code on my skin right here. still to come this hour. it's exactly 30 years since the ussr officially cease to exist. will be living that historical turning points after the break. ah. with

to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be in arms. race is on offensive, very dramatic development. only nationally, i'm going to resist. i'll see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk

ah, quote, combat today mocks 30 years, thanks to you. as a saw was formally dissolved. the union was repriced by 15 independent states among the russia ortiz mcgasey of takes a look back at what's changed since the soviet flag with the kremlin was lowered. for the last time. 30 years ago, humanity witness. the spectacle, the dramatically changed the course of history. the spectacular overnight collapse of the ussr sulu lucrative 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, show, 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 on psychology, organizationally in the style and ways working. i will 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 u. s, i saw a leads and opportunities in various republics, clamored for power and independence. the result was climactic. the u. s. a sorry says in 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 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 all 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 or apartheid former adversaries. now cooperate with us in diplomacy in global problem solving. reality, however, turned out. 7 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. i'd was misery, pure and simple economic social health care collapse. the rise of transnational matthews and we'll get eyes 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. 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, lost almost half of its industrial potential, half of 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 on the scenario which make sense to you want the you as a saw communists back. elections 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 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 it lives on in 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 are 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 ussr collapsed? regardless of the fact that 30 years have passed since i rodnick, isn't it even in death? the soviet union still shapes our futures. in interview with arti president putin's assistant let him in ski, explains why he think fan of the soviet union was a catastrophe in over 30 years ago, the ussr to soft. how did you perceive these events at that time?

and has your view changed since that little silly blue? i was one of the democracy defenders there are see, a newspaper newsroom decamped the white house of that time. we spent these unforgettable to nights though, with the newsroom in the white house. we were informing people and thinking of the news. we were printing flyers and went to the press center of the ministry foreign affairs at this 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 call in the ussr dissolution, frankly, especially recently a tragedy at the dissolution of historical russia. the j. o. b. 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 park for our state law. also, just according to the pulse today, the majority of russians, primarily those who lived in the ussr regret, what happened ne, but 30 years ago, the attitude was different. what are the reasons for the change of you? live 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? you just know unpredicted how it would end. no one thought that it would end with the 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, shall there at all. no one wanted the civil and social conflicts, no war in central asia. no one thought that such a crazy situation. ukraine, where i am 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 u. s. a saw it doesn't mean they want to rebuild the system, socialism is not the craving for soviet times is not the craving for censorship. no, the difficulties in terms of going abroad is the craving for that humanistic idea that when people a mix nationalities are united, it actually supports peace. although the headline for the south now learn all about different forms of cyber crime and find out how to avoid being victim of hacking. next turn off your commentary. join us again in 30 minutes through that i ah

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