a black hole and they could play right? yeah, yeah. maybe they'll actually, we're, that far hill is more important than with european nations are hit by record that daily with numbers. while protests continue against harsh new restrictions and other stories that shape the way you must give up. the guarantees it is up to you and you must do it immediately and demands assurances from nato that it won't move. both is closer to russia, that the president feels questions on global affairs at his annual media. brief poll fine is more than half of adults in the u. k. think cancelled culture has gone

too far and i'm no longer able to speak their minds, living in a culture now, being used to have a good healthy democracy, whatever device countryway you could say, if it doesn't, then you'd have to argue with people are frightened to say what they feel in case they say and today mark 30 years since the official breakable the soviet union, will look back at those historic events and how they shaped modern russia. a lie from oscar, thanks for joining us on all the international. i'm daniel hawkins. wherever you are this evening, welcome to the program. now the christmas season's been overshadowed by a record covered across europe with france, italy on the u. k. registering new highs in daily infections. parties, policy player has that he's health. we have a huge surge of cobra 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, 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 mcqueen, 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 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 is he 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 nother record high, a 122186 new cases being reported. largely because of this highly contagious army conte 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, learn december of some 23 percent. and that is largely because of his poor dealings with the co, 900 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 caught cove it . 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 the duffel doors. but then again, on the same day, you had people waiting in long queues in potsdam waiting to receive a vaccination. so the covert 19 pandemic remaining as controversial and as alarming as ever still took on this hour. there is

a new form of coven pass that could really get under your game, out more in a few minutes. and nato has offered the whole talks with russia on january 12th, after months of tensions between the 2 sites, the criminal has responded. thing is considering the proposal, moscow's top priority, the stock nato's eastwood expansion and western metro involvement and ukraine. and those issues were addressed by president booting this week during a traditional end of the q and a with the media. ah, no, she used to will directions, you know, depend on negotiations. they will depend on unconditional compliance with brushes, security today and in the future. we medi clear nato's further movement to the east is unacceptable, was not clear about it. a 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 $990.00 than what they fooled us. they are outrageously deceived us 5 ways of nato expansion. and now they say will have ukraine as whoa here. 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. 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. 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 there are 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 prosecutors off. is 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 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, of no way long time ago, i spoke with one the form you as president guess 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, you know, these very city alley. 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, po should 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. another topic that was raised natural gas the erupt was of course, hit by record prices this week, meaning high bills for millions of households. so on the west, the pointing the finger at moscow saying it's withholding gas president burton i gave his expiration for the crisis. the rule to him, it would weigh them with. they are lying to us, the confusing everyone has promised shipping the entire volume requested by its 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 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. 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 air 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 and the, you know, you can be irritated by that. but after a certain amount of time, he's still thinking attention and i think this is a state that the control isn't 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 you guy are too scared to say what they really think that's according to new paul, which found they're worried about being canceled by friends, colleagues, even 3rd family, lottie. shutting. edward darcy 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 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 who idea 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. donna, finish i canceled above i. but it's, i'm only happening to big names and faces. but people like you and me at work on line on dates and even at home. i think we're living in a coach now with bullying, bullying in what faces the governments have the best example of that actually. so i think people are frightened to always say what they feel in cases a come to the main she made you seem to have. so for a one sort of point of view of everything. and so if you say from different, you get what you get quote or has it. i think this law things be climate, change, covey or whatever. there is no discussion that is the narrative. and you of the agree vehicle, we should close you down as a lot of a huge where you fear frederick, careful about what you say in them, but not right now for good debate. and we used to have

a good healthy democracy. good. how we debate and country where you could say things and then you'd have to all of your case and tell me which is what i want to log you going here. the overall human, i just want to shut you down. so i know you can't tell you that you're not allowed to say that i thought divide the traditional up prior to the apology. atonement forgiveness is no longer enough to the glorious they want. accountability, social justice, boycott, and the more controversial the view on any, what topic like race, immigration, breck set, the more you should keep your thoughts yourself and your mouth shut, those 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 spun out of control into a 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 her auntie trans, public position. worse bees, freedom of slavery, ignorance is trans. the biggest thing to vigil. 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 up even by the world. she created the pot to community and the movie production team deleted have from scripts. meanwhile, h b o is 20th anniversary. she was baud. not only that, a number of quidditch leaks tasks they really do exist announced that they're 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. when you.

ah meanwhile, team tough relished in the drama. if this is what being cancels, it's like i love it. the song. 4 continues as monty python 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 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 primetime tally 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 cancelled 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 we

know you might think we'll hear of implanting walker chips under your skin to show cody mean it is just the conspiracy theory, but a swedish company has actually developed such a device. we spoke to the inventors behind it. i are there in versus i was acknowledge that can be used for many different things. and right now it's very convenient to have a passport for waste accessible on your in plan. so in case your phone runs out about 3, it's always accessible to ah, the implant is readable by and the smartphone that has an a c function. so i can go to a restaurant or a movie theater. i just show them my arm and sweat me with the smartphone,

and then that pops up the passport that i have on my chip. so you don't need a special ed 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. i. busy today marks 30 years since the us a saw was formerly dissolved. the heating was replaced by 15 independent states among them. of course, russia or he's more garcia, takes a look back at what's changed since the soviet flag over the kremlin was lowered. for the last time. 30 years ago, humanity witnessed 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 will say frankly, that 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. sr. 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 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 have thrown off communism dictatorship or 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. i'd was misery, pure and simple economic social health care 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, the tractors might have to say about putin, he gave the russians stability. agatha. 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, 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 i'm 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 it 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 usaa saw collapsed? regardless of the fact that 30 years have passed since i roddick, isn't it even in death,

the soviet union still shapes our futures. italian journalist paolo valentino was on red square, and moscow of the soviet union fell 30 years ago. he says it was an unforgettable moment. it was a long process that started in august. so this realization came little by little. if i, if i have to fix a moment, so deep emotion was exactly the night between the 25th and the 26th of december. when with other colleagues in trends, we went to the red square and we saw this flag will be represented for 70 years, the, the, the prestige and the my, the soviet union just coming out and i was not a soviet citizen. no, i mean, it was not the trade, but it was quite important was emotional for what you're the,

you know, had meant for millions of people until the be in the meeting or did they in the rush and forest? you know, nobody really believed that this could have happened. there was, there were, i thought, is, is there were room or is there were, but nobody really believe that the, the, the simply just like that the, the soviet union could be declared not, not, not existence anymore. we went so i mean when i say we, i mean me and my, my for colleagues, my fellow who calling my fellow journalist the friends, we went to the press conference in anger because we just suddenly, you know, with the tanks in the speed to we based or causing that outflow, the papers and the by the other political parties. we were seeing again,

that in the face of the soviet with which we thought was gone forever. and because of gorbachev wells apart turning away in just a few moments time, staying with us in on our latest global news headline. we'll see back in a ah ah

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security has been the most critical and the most controversial issue in europe. and while ensuring it provided both prosperity and development, it has also condemned millions to that death with russia now openly rejecting the post cold war security arrangement is another round of confrontation on the continent. a safe bet. we'll discuss it now and join by krista poise get a long time advisor to german chancellor angle america. and like the chairman of the munich security conference. and best it's great to see you. great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. thank you very much. i. it's a pleasure to meet them to be with you. the minute security conference is one of the top platforms for discussing difficult security dilemmas at your chairmanship. com's, at a time of the most accurate disagreements in russia and the west over ukraine and

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