oh, a headlines is more programmatic parting for the british prime minister league email has revealed a 100 danny st staff who are invited to get together during the 1st national bank. also this out. oh, a sprite in germany during another round of demonstrations. again, strict new measures, they're underst riley is still playing with the idea of deporting the unvaccinated tennis number one. i bakovich and i are looking at alleged post travel claims with his friends though, getting back on with

good afternoon, just going 5 in moscow. you're watching out the international now yet more party pressure for the british prime minister boris johnson. but once again, it's social. not political. allie. d mail has revealed another locked and gathering, involving the leader and his wife. it's claimed a 100 dining street staff were invited for a boozy get together in 2020 hi all. after what has been an incredibly busy period, it would be nice to make the most lovely weather and have some socially distance drinks and the number 10 garden this evening. please join us from 6 p. m, and bring your own booze. well, it seems as though all the prime minister was doing during this pandemic is party. and while everybody was simply in a locked down, it seems as though the government was acting as if there was a cause for celebration. in fact, the prime minister's chief 8 simply sent out this message saying that the lovely weather in may of 2020 was ample enough reason to host a party. and so invited around a 100 people to a, bring your own booth,

downing street garden party. now it's alleged that around 40 people attended this party, including boris johnson. the only problem is at the time the rules clearly stated, even reiterated just an hour before that invitation went out. but you can only me talk with one other person from another household and of course, social distance 2 meters apart. so it's probably not much of a surprise for me to tell you this huge amount of opposition to it, including calls for the prime minister to resign. people will find the utterly outrageous that the most powerful people in the tory government were boosting up at number 10, downing street proving yet again that it's one rule for them. and another for the rest of us. if the prime minister had a shred of integrity or an ounce of shame, he would have resigned many months ago. boris johnson has consistently shown that he has no regard for the rules he puts in place for the rest of us. at the time, everyone would have known that going to

a body was wrong. so how can those run the country have filters was ok? now, number 10 are yet to comment, but forest children has previously and repeatedly said that all guidelines have been followed. of course, the metropolitan police are now weighing and considering investigating and the now in communication with the cabinet office. but just to give you a bit of an idea of what was happening at the time here in london on may the 25th that 5 days off of this. so cool parties, 10 days off of that wine. and she alleged why, right? florence? joseph said this, the only reason we have been able to make such progress is because the country has observed the social distancing rules. feel free to speak to people yourself if you feel they are not observing the rules and the police will step in if necessary. so it comes as no surprise then it's no wonder that even tories on now losing trust in the government, according to the latest shocking pole, more than a 3rd of tories think the boris johnson should quit. and almost $4.10 think he is

doing a bad job, of course, considering that's now being dozens of party revelations and allegations floating around during the locked down period. it sounds as though the government was almost on the booze cruise, but it seems as though barth johnson may not go down with his ship. u. k. righty. hi, john gourne says the saga does reflect the sorry state the british politics. horace johnson has absolutely disgusted me. it is completely and utterly wrong when we, the people were following all the advice to the letter. and some people were getting fine when they broke it. how did he and other members of the cabinet, if they were there, break their own rules and no man or woman is above the law, and the law should take precedence here and they should investigate. it's not good enough that that's going to report in weeks and weeks needs to report. now it won't let story illustrates it just how poor our mainstream politicians are today.

they're all pretty useless and you couldn't put a cigarette paper between them. we've been let down in our country by the political class, the professional political class. they all basically discussed me. will those revelations of downing street gatherings didn't come and europe's ongoing attempts to grapple with high caving infection rates. it's also been facing violent demonstrations against ty to restrictions. and the toughening of measures in germany has seen, protest get increasingly agitated. ah, did, with every state across the federal republic, seeing some gathering,

some of them very small. some of them around a 1000 people. couple a 1000 people or so the major cities like berlin cologne, leipzig, all seeing larger demonstrations. now those protestors who've come out to say absolutely no way to mandatory vaccination in germany. they may well have been boyd by the, the news coming out of austria that the plan to introduce mandatory vaccination there by february is certainly been pushed back at least a month. what we have seen though is state leaders like the one in saxony, michael courier, all to be christian, democratic union saying that there's, there's a section of society that germany has lost a hold of that no matter what they say, no matter what they do. and these people are not going to accept coven restrictions, and they're not going to certainly accept mandatory vaccination. now we are expecting there to be a more restrictions put in place in germany. coming up this week,

all of shorts. the german chancellor will be speaking in parliament later this week . and now overall the, the message for the coming from the people in germany is that they support these measures that are being put in place. however, as i said, there is a hard core nucleus who are wealth absolutely outraged by what they're saying. we have freedom of expression. we are the people, we are citizens. they are, you have to do your duty home. you have to show the government the red car that things should not continue as they have been up to. now i need compile free vaccination is clearly a violation of the constitution. it's clearly totalitarian and absolutely must be prevent our thought. should it be decided by these criminals who unfortunately, ross now, well elsewhere in europe, in italy, what we're seeing is new restrictions coming in there as well. they've already brought in the super green pass. now already italy had what was called the green pass. this allows and people in bars restaurants,

cafe to see that you tested negative super green pass that's put in place for the over fifties in italy, specifically that shows that you've been vaccinated and that you have toasted negative in the czech republic, there is talk of allowing even people who tested positive to go to work, it's an attempt to try and keep the economy alive. it is only at the discussion stage at the moment in prague. but what they're basing it on is the idea that the omicron varied results in less people requiring hospital stays and that would allow them to keep the economy going if certain professions were allowed to continue, even if you tested positive for cove. and of course, if you have a, a mild case of it over in the united kingdom, they are also looking at lifting restrictions a little bit, not as extreme as what's being discussed in the czech republic. of course though, they're, you going to see the isolation period for cove at 90 reduced from 7 days to 5 days

. this is because they have real staff shortages in the u. k. when it comes to the, the health care sector and in education as well. the education minister in the united kingdom, the education secretary in london saying that they're looking at this and it's alongside the, the scientific data and they're going to make a decision based on that. i would, but obviously always defer to the scientific advice on this. it would certainly help mitigate some of the pressures on a schools on critical workforce at ubs, i hope will be one of the 1st you'll see the question, how we, how will we performed, i hope will be one of the 1st major economies to demonstrate to the world how you transition from pandemic to end them, a lot going on across europe when it comes to covert 19, and a real patchwork of methods being used to try and both keep calling him alive. keep countries open and stifle a spread of the virus. pace are all over there,

and i mean, while a french m. p. 's been accosted by a group of protests design side, his home over the decision to implement cobra passports and overseas territories near canada for each posted on social media. just show stefan clara being posted to see read and see is entering his property on sam p l. mitchell. the m p has said he'll filed criminal charges against all those involved in the attack. health passports will limit people's movements if they are unvaccinated. now here are moscow cabbage infections have risen 66 percent in the last 24 hours. but russian health officials do say that they were prepared for it with the rapidly spreading omicron strain seen as the key factor. the world health organization is worn to that half of your population will have been infected with the new strain. within the coming weeks. he's don't quarter reports now on the cobit situation in russia. well, the 1st alma kron case in russia was detected just about a month ago,

but it seems to be spreading across the country like wildfire as usual. moscow and its suburbs were the 1st to take a beating. we saw the number of daily cases rise. a whopping 66 percent over just the previous 24 hours. now, russian medical experts have said that we should have expected a new wave of infections, but that the number of deaths that will probably be looking at in the future will be a lot lower than we've seen in the past. move in and still, while the on the kron strains, level of infectiousness is absolutely unprecedented. the level of life ality and the number of hospitalizations might be 60 to 70 percent lowers. but still with such a level of infectiousness, more people are going to get ill. that was the deputy director of the gamma layer institute that develop sputnik v. he also said that we should expect another wave of new infections come or late january, early february. as for the authorities, they promised to keep the situation under control. so we can expect to see some new

measures being rolled out on the whole measures in russia have been generally quite lighter than in most european countries. of course, it varies between different regions of the country. but in moscow, at least q r codes are needed to enter cultural institutions like museums and theaters. several months ago, the authorities also discussed possibly instituting q r codes for certain forms of travel, like on airplanes and trains. those measures, however, have not yet been implemented. so with i'm across making it's mark on russia, we're going to see what kind of new measures we'll be seeing in the near future. now the world tennis number one novak joke of which may have won his court battle monday to compete the striking open despite being unvaccinated, but the country's government says it still might deport him. it is investigating whether he gave false information about where he traveled to in the fortnight before his arrival in melbourne. starsky taylor spoke to me earlier,

the joke of it song and lucky that has grown well beyond sport. now it's kind of covert tyranny vas says freedom of choice, it's authority buses, the individual, it's the faxes versus the skeptics. it's making an example of someone versus turning a blind di. so it's a bond really into this messy mix of social division, sport, politics and health. now the latest allegation that the tennis ace faces is that he was not entirely truthful on his travel application to australia. he a power he declared that he had not travelled anywhere in the 14 days prior to his flight to melbourne. but of course, in the day of social media, people managed to dig up some photos that do indicate that at christmas he was in his home town of belgrade and serbia. just a few days later in early january, he was in spain. i'm now this is not just a little white lie. there are penalties for being dishonest on that form, primarily financial, but potentially up to 12 months of jail time. a bought a police are investigating. there is no official word yet. in the meantime,

jock ventures have drowning out all of this noise and the media frenzy out on the practice courts and his father back home says that that is exactly why he needs to be rather than being dragged through law. courts has some kind of a politicized scapegoat. and because i me so will you sonya, i want to thank everyone around the world who supported novak going. thanks to them . he was never brought to his knees. he like when he's done everything they ask him to do, and he's finally received the court's decision, allowing him to stay in play tennis. i can't describe the feeling for us. we never thought our son, the best tennis player in the world would have had to go through this, or especially in such a far away land, where he had already proven himself the past 9 times over the, it's incredible that this has happened to him furnished, but it has happened and it was in no way related to schools. it's all politics. so as he can see from politics couldn't defeat him this time for our he didn't deserve the visa refusal in the 1st place. we never to deal with all politics is tennis,

will assume the verdicts will give him most strange origin and he's perfectly mentally prepared. and of course, we expect no fact when his 21st grandson and his 10th australian. okay. well, despite got optimism, there is absolutely no guarantee that his son will compete that to know when, because on top of that bought a piece of investigation, the immigration minister was craig himself to say that he might still unit that tree revoked. visa on a tennis pass down the middle, someone come up packing him up and say you can suck it up and get vaccinated. it's the way of the world. we've also seen protests of robs on the streets of melbourne now course for some joke, which is hero, pointing against this new normal vaccine mandate. others think that he's just some sort of rabbit on t boxing who spitting on public health. and of course, in this day and age go to the internet is up. see no shortage of names. if you know what to look but humorous side, you know, it is becoming somewhat of a serious international dispute. the therapy in p,

i'm pulled his australian counterpart on tuesday just to give you an example of how high up this has gone on. it's such not great for the country town until which is now got the eyes of the wilderness all the wrong reasons. it's high stakes for everyone and his son, and he's being a very frantic few days for the wild number one. novak jack rich. how the world's number 110 a star got to change in australia on a simple timeline. january 5th, tennis star comes to melbourne to defend his title at the australian open. immediately after touching down. jock rush, taken in for questioning 5 order force. tennis superstar came into the country on vaccinating because he had a medical exemption after having over just a couple of weeks earlier. mister chuck of h received on the 1st of december 2021. a letter from the chief medical office of

tennis trillion, recording that he had been provided with the medical exemption from coding vaccination on the grounds that he had recently recovered from coded january 6th. for 11 am local time john vicious visa cancelled. his recovery from cove. it wasn't enough for the australian government tennis are taken to detention center where he had to wait for court trial staying with asylum seekers, january 10th, job to which one the appeal against the cancellation of the judge ordered the government to release right to stay in australia and returns a job which is passport and other travel documents. yet it is still unclear whether the vaccine skeptic would be allowed to compete. and given

a chance of winning a record breaking to when you 1st grand slam title, your shantay still to come to you this i mission accomplished russian peacekeepers prepared to withdraw from cause exten off to relative. com does return to the central asian country. we'll have the latest from man, just after the break with join me every thursday on the alex simon, sure. i'll be speaking to jeff of world politics, sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. mm. ah.

ah . you know, everybody is concerned about bitcoin being upon his game, but in fact is the only thing out there. there's not upon his game, it's an open source project girl by volunteers slot of policy. but there are a lot of policies out there. ah, welcome back. now is 20 years to the day since the 1st prisoners were taken to the notorious u. s. prison camp at guantanamo bay. we've been hearing about what they went

through. former detainee mo s m bag was held there for 3 years without ever being charged with any cry. unfortunately, on this anniversary 20 years, the people i spoke to young boys were no longer young. 1819 years old, who never met at all because they probably be held without child or travel channel list a to me and i saw 2 people. i saw one prison with his hands on his head to the top of the cage being repeatedly punched and kicked them children. the americans accepted that this was a homicide. i also was subject to the sounds of a woman screaming in the nest cell that i was led to believe was my wife while interrogated some way pictures of my children in front of me and threatened to send me to egypt and syria. if i didn't cooperate so that all sorts of shocking things that were taking place, i say i was on the get to 3, is there

a few people been up to literally 20 years without charge for a new report by human rights watch details. the tragic extent of the abuse in prison camp, it assesses the torture and illegal detention of hundreds of muslims at guantanamo, and calls upon president joe biden, to repair the damage done. and finally, the detention center is a brief history of the infamous facility. ah .

and now we also spoke with the full mac, lantana mo, bay, detaining man, sort of a day fee. he spent 14 is there and like many others was never charged with any crime. he says the facilities, very existence is an injustice. what is going on? you know what dental is a place that re, teeth garage, you know, injustice. one time when i was a simple torture, injustice, lawlessness,

abuse of power in different dishes. one can only is one of the biggest human rights like this. and the 21st century, no law life, there no human rights, no any kind of rules or basic rights for, for humans. so what that means, existence is that torture is injustice as it is now it's 20 years. and once i don't turn to be a political again, or i'm for democrats and, you know, remember what went to keep it open because that gives you some kind of publicity or being something more books. sadie boys that you want it and they don't want that one. they don't want to move exists in the 1st place. the american retailer, walmart is half the paid leave work cuz that test positive. the caveat, all must isolate he company policy says now get just one week off we heard from walmart employee. he says, the move though is putting people's lives at risk. i don't want to have to pay sick,

but you're for employees who are going to be at work. they'd rather us come to work 6 spread, the virus to other people get other people sick. have to go on our way even all that. some are afraid. you know, getting a virus, if they get the virus, you know, what do they can do? it's are so sick after 5 days. i mean, i feel the same way. i can't coming to work when i'm so have a good spread it everywhere. they really don't care so much for all, all of our lives in danger, even more than before, as just not worse. i'm not going to die for wal mart. and now i don't think anybody else wants to dr. wal mart either. and walmart, new policies do follow updated recommendations from the us centers for disease control and prevention that allow people to isolate for 5 days africa with 19 infection instead of 10. a walmart spokesperson said they had also introduced the number of other policies to, to help employees during the crisis. now we're surgeon k, v case is in the u. s. as course, significant labor shores just to

a survey of hourly paid work is found that 65 percent of them he reported being sick in the last month said that they went to work anyway. peter north and again believes is because people just can't afford to take the time off. if you have some fever, you still might feel sick. you know, i still feel well, but you still can come to work. and after 5 days you don't get paid anymore. the okay, more paid pay leave for that because of that, a lot of people are going to say, even if they do have a fever or something that they're gonna say that they are foreign because they can't afford to not stay, not are going to pay. so they're still going to come into work sick with the virus and be contagious and spread it to everybody else as very fair to say, i was miss that fact, it was complete negligence on their part. they should not have done that. they should have been thinking of us, but the fact there's no profits. well,

right after walmart and own fits, new policies detect joined amazon followed suit and shortened paid sick leave for its work is to employees will not be entitled to 7 days instead of the previous 10 . the guidelines impact all work is regardless of their vaccination status. and then across the atlantic in the k, i kia has just announced to it's cutting sick pay for certain groups of unvaccinated workers who have to self isolate. cathy sands, president says international peacekeepers will start withdrawing from the company in the coming days from the country in the coming days. and it also praise russia and other allies for their support. 30 say they have arrested more than 10000 on terrorism charges and say there's a large number of foreigners among them. you video. meanwhile, his emerged showing armed groups of protest is shooting as

a government building. ah, the protest began in response to rising energy prices that quickly descended into riots which sent it on al massey present a kind of says the economic damage caused by the violence may be up to 3000000000 dollars. in the meantime, international peace cape is a current regarding key infrastructure sent in by the fiesta young military alliance, which includes close ally, russia. our senior correspondent, wharton cancer reports on them. the piece keeper operation here in kazakhstan as em faltering everyone needed has already arrived and taken up their plan positions and secured them such as this bella, russian detachment. oh, close to an airport, which was the original insertion point for peacekeepers during last week's riots

and a new number of weapons, including machine guns and grenade launchers were seized by looters. among those looters were radicals. the government has confirmed this jihadists with years of combat experience on the law. the facility is strategic for our divisions. we have in order to prevent armed enemy formations from penetrating here we are trying to stick to this. peacekeepers have been directed to god key infrastructure, contingent from all c s t o members states have been deployed to crucial areas to help a stretched chasm military be they military bases, government offices, or even power stations. another vital site where security was, was bolstered by peacekeepers is the power station that feeds the city of alma to with most of it. it's heath and it's electricity. here, the kill, his battalion, took over a kill his brigade called scorpion. his, you can have the security here,

70 percent of all of al martinez. power is generated at the station and given how marauders and bandits systematically targeted infrastructure. the workers here thought that they would be next letter letter at the beginning of the riots. the staff felt insecure, they were scared, the peacekeeping forces were sent and now they are protecting us as this as a strategic area. the staff already feel more confident and perform their official duties and full without being afraid of anything. security has been beefed up patrols everywhere, and there are even secret passwords to root out. infiltrators not moved in at night . we definitely demand password. and here together with the police who guards the posts, we demanded the workers move around less. some of these measures may seem excessive or even be excessive, but the people here are still in shock. the peacekeepers are an anchor. they

radiate security and order. the 2 things people here most need so that brings you up to date, sat for this. i've just gone half past 5 in moscow. don't forget they, we've got a website full of stories taken is always you can find that and assay, don't come ah, now we have e secrets. i just heard that it was a healthy alternative to cigarettes. do we trust tobacco companies with their message that these new products are actually going to reduce are these, these sugars are making the tobacco with a

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