me, the favorite protests continued to erupt across europe as country wretched up new restrictions and ultimately making the lives of the backs ever more complicated. scientists predict on record will rapidly become the dominant strain of cobra. globally. this year we hear from the world health organization we can increase in number of actions around the world that we see on current becoming the dominant areas. so in the sheer number of infections will bring the low cost of the main your directory by party gate. the british media is dominated by headlines over the prime ministers

locked down parties, ignoring a host of other issues from record inflation to storing living. also in the program force offline, a notorious hacker group is taken down by russia as federal security service at washington's request. and the u. s. continues to use russia of being behind other cyber crime. the news are taken off your work week with their worldwide headlines, and it's already a busy monday, which is just how we like it here. it will, frances leading europe once again in terms of daily cove. it case loads a report lead fucking up more than 270000 infections and 24 hours. that i think as calm as anger over the macro and government's new vaccination passed. continue to boil over on the streets of paris. the

. well, the pictures don't quite show it, but sundays protests report least or 1000, sitting the streets. it came right off to the national assembly gave it's a blessing to the new vaccination pass. this restricts access to things like restaurants on cinema to the fully job replaces the current less strict health path system under which a negative test was sufficient. well, it's not only from that seen on the rest of a cove. it in the last few days with angered restrictions and other european cities, also falling over. ah ah

ah, it's been a record breaking 24 hours in germany and not in a good way when you look at the 7 day indices. that's the, the number of infections of coven 19 per 100000 of the population. it's past 515 nationally. if you look at things locally in berlin, it's close to $1000.00 per 100000 of the population vol. so seen the bumpers there at the german military say that they're going to implement disciplinary action against it's serving members who refuse to get their vaccinations. there are some cases that have already been opened in relation to that. there's also a number of new rules that have come into play in berlin. if you're riding any of the german capitals, public transportation. you're going to have to have an f,

f p to mask covering your nose and mouth. that's a much more substantial face covering than a normal surgical mask. all. so if you're riding that public transportation to any event, which they'll be more than 10 people at, well, that event will be covered by the 2 g plus rule. what that means is that if you're going there, you need to be vaccinated, recovered and be able to show a negative test that was taken within the last 24 hours, or that you've had a booster vaccine shot. if you're under 14 years of age, none of that matters because you're not covered by any of those particular rules. however, those people who run the hospitality industry in the german capital say not enough as being done to keep them afloat financially, while everything seems to be done to try and keep bars and restaurants open at least in some fall. the earnest of his,

i'd earn september's and this place in september 2018. we worked, providing people not only with food services, but we also have cultural events, bernice and celebrations for our neighbors. the last to years haven't been as one of them to be. we're definitely demand on the money of tourists. previously, we had groups of them, even people from france, england, and spain. i know now is dried up the same as the number of birthday celebrations and events, especially with elderly people. there's a samar, a face to wave of cancellations, coupled with kristen has been cancelled, but definitely feel the impact of it. and absolutely want to receive more financial support because we have no more chance of being left standing. it's not just in germany that new rules are coming into play on monday. if you're in greece and you're over 60 and you're not vaccinated. well, you're going to get a 100, you ro fine. in fact, you're going to get that 100 euro fine. every month until you get vaccinated it all schools are also getting underway again in greece. on monday, on friday though, students were extremely unhappy with the ministry of education that building being

pelted with missiles by children saying that they wanted substantial protection against cove at 19, in, at the measures that were being put in place. which is not enough to do that. those who were attending that protest said they wanted schools to reopen, but they needed to reopen in a manner that was safe from the virus. in austria, over the weekend, we saw another saturday of demonstration, thousands of people on the streets of vienna. people extremely unhappy with the measures that the austrian government have taken when it comes to trying to fight against coven 19 lease business owners. old us that the measures that have been taken by vienna, taking them pretty much to the wall, can earl de la. it's definitely extremely sad. we had to remain shut down for half a year during the last long lockdown, filling all the required applications for subsidies. cost money require the help of

tax consultants and every new lockdown or new applications, new subsidies. it's exhausting. sometimes help comes extremely late, some people end upon the rocks after all over himself, salary tutor. i played full financial support during the 1st wave. for my application wasn't even onset. i think they've just been overloaded, but they can't work as an excuse, but i think it was just like that in following waves. i received help but received it with a delay and it wasn't very clear what amount of money i could count on has been very hard, very hard to plan anything. no staying in austria county, i am at the austrian chancellor has confirmed that his government is pushing ahead with its plan to introduce mandatory vaccination at the beginning of february. it's a controversial plan, which is draw a lot of criticism for a small section of the austrian population. it's also a plan that's being watched very closely by a number of other european countries, including here in germany, to see how it plays out. but across europe,

nations are taking a number of very different causes when it comes to them trying to snuff out this latest wave of coven 19 or meanwhile, italy's covert pass is now harder to obtain with a negative test, no longer good enough. restrictions are pushing some italians to break the law with one nurse recently arrested for issuing fake job certificates. ah mm hm. mm me. as a doctor and health care professional, i'm disheartened. i've been putting my private life aside for 2 years. just like all my colleagues as well to deal with the pandemic for this reason,

seeing these things happening is really sad. ah we were way that this police investigation was not over. i really hope that with this arrest, we can put an end to this sad story. i'm very disappointed even angry. it is difficult to understand how a person who's worked for many years in hospitals and health care can do such things. not injecting the vaccine as a crime is as if a priest does not believe in god. mm

mm. mm. and so without all mark right now taking hold in some countries or there are other countries, for example, like denmark who began now administering a 4th vaccine. a short time ago i spoke with a spokesperson for the world health organization narcotic shot which we took us through the latest developments. well, what we see leaks is, is a community can increase in number of concessions around the world. and as we see on current becoming a dominant variance, we have seen one, we 50000000 new infections, which is the absolute director is the beginning of the 50 percent increase from the previous sleep. so the shared another infections will bring more. people don't even

know one crew may prove. let's see here a disease. den delta and previous barriers, these numbers are low. we will need more pressure on how system. so it is very dangerous situations. the countries are trying to find the best way to, to reduce the risk of transmission. we know what needs to be done. so we hope that people not being oxygenated, will be max and they can because it's going to affect the mostly those who have not have their primary series of mac sees. basically looking into how to do that, we can completely understand the government trying to find the ways to balance the public health side of the story and public health benefits. and yet it's not socially for money issues. so you need to do that. however,

we try to c fleming is having any different being nation period or shutting of the virus period than previous parents who don't study if we need some time for the time being. being offered 10 days, the isolation forced into my case is 2 weeks current time woke up, and now these 2 weeks current can be tough. now with the appropriate well, already mentioned that the i've seen an equity and this is still a problem. again, who says boosters may come for extra benefit and we are looking into data now. and it is very much possible that for me, how to prevent dec elevation, the biggest benefit is the primary you want to make sure everybody's with

us cooling the, the primary workstation is being available to everyone around the world. well, the meantime, a travel to australia has in fact been eased for the vaccinated with cambra. now granting, health pastor, those who have had 2 doses of rushes. sputnik job today that tga determines at an additional kava 19 vaccine. the 2 dose course of the gamma alia institute vaccine. sputnik li, russian federation would be recognized for the purpose of establishing a travel as vaccination status. the recognition of sputnik will expand options for the return of international students travel of skilled and unskilled workers to australia, and travel by business people and the wheat sports people to our country. well, despite the move done go book and your holiday just yet, australia's door still remained firmly closed the tourists that they had been since the thought of the whole price as well. let's put in the vaccine has now been registered in more than 70 countries, though still not approved by the w h o. well, the european medical association, a chair and epidemiology at deacon university. katherine bennett,

says australia as green light might now accelerate the international approval process. a lot of people were came to say, so it make 5 recognized because it's not only impacts people traveling here from russia, but also clearly there's been a number of countries around the world that have also used effect same. so it's good to say that is satisfied with the days when we've now got this recognition. so it's good to say that they've now got sufficient data that they can make the call. but i just think compared to other vaccine that wasn't for the day, the package wasn't paid in the same way. so it took a lot longer to negotiate the data that i felt i needed. what we've heard from the regulators here is i want to thing that the equivalent dates are in the same format coming out on makes. it really did leave them with their hands tied, and they were talking to russia over this extended period of time. the producers of the back saying to make sure that they did in fact have those data in the pipeline

so that i could look with them. so if they satisfied, i think other countries will look again if they're not already looking and, and that increases the chances that this will be more broadly recognized. faxing, british prime minister, boris johnson's popularity has an all time low with over the party gates scandal. it's dominating the u. k. media with a string of revelations about boozy shouldn't big downing street, but it is drawing all attention away from a barrel of other problems affecting the country. the thought is, daniel hawkins now explains. it's a tough time to be you. k prime minister for was johnson's cabinets, have been criticized for their code response. the countries seem decade high inflation, soaring energy bills and living costs with stagnant wages, record breaking ambulance, and hospital waiting fives, teenage knife crime in the capitol yet it's one thing that has brought anger from both the public and his party, crushing down on johnson bringing him to the brink of disaster,

both in the poles and parliament a party, or rather a series of parties with very bad timing. the picture was quite a contrast as the whole country, even the queen was locked down, or at least social distancing. dining suit officials apparently held boozy parties and cheese and wine get togethers. what in our faces seems like a hang over. so far things don't look good. for the 1st time in years, the opposition has taken a solid lead in the poles, falls also show large numbers of voters, even tories. what in the prime minister's resignation? even dozens of his own. m. p. 's calling for a no confidence motion as protest as gather outside number 10 for a mock work party. ah

jokes are sites for those in the u. k. it's a matter of perception and principle. why have people followed draconian rules been separated from dying? relatives faced isolation and restrictions on base at a life while those in power have lied. the suitcase of wine is definitely the tory equivalent of a bag of cans. a pint of wine. this is nothing. the number 10 lads drink it by the suitcase christ. if this was what john says downing street was like, jerry looked down much in what was like before. why do you think they call it downing street? it's time for damage control media. speaking of a double whammy operation, save big dog. yes. by literally name, by the prominence to himself and operation red meets the former, a mass calling of down and street officials to throw as many as possible under the bus. the latter, a blitz of policy changes to appease a public, and m p 's from scrapping the bbc license fee to putting the military in charge of

patrol in english channel from saving n a chest. so banning booze at downing street though, why this wasn't done earlier. beats me or something. looks like he's going on. what's called a charm offensive. he's trying to introduce things that he thinks the public or like. he is, for example, threatening to limit the fund and of the baby say, he says he's going to get tough on my guns coming across and legally over the channel. a saying that very soon or, or restrictions on cobra to land. but it's too late. all of those things might be attractive individually, but he has permanently lost his moral authority on this issue. and since the issue of the pandemic has been the biggest issue for the last 2 years, he will always be we can from now on kansas and come back from the brink. the coming weeks will tell. but policy gate has once again shown 2 things. there's nothing boat as hate, more than a lying politician,

except when allowing politicians stops them having parties, but goes ahead with their own. so the come in the program here on our t, how green is green around, breaks out in europe of plans to rebranded gas and nuclear power, as environmentally friendly. more details on that after the break. ah, ah, join me every thursday on the alex simon, sure. and i'll be speaking to yes, in the world of politics, sport, business, i'm sure business. i'll see you then. ah .

ah, the 24 hour here at moscow, a notorious hacker group has been taken down by russia's federal security service with the fs. be claiming the group stoled money from bank accounts of foreigners,

the f s. b actually moved in at washington's request. that's trying to get some more details on this story. asi dani, i'm from now joining us. it's monday afternoon. here in the studio. good is the you, danny, can you take us to the details of the story? you know, of course this comes out to the news that the f s. b, the rushes federal security service broke up. that hacker group revival as it is known as the comes after a us request to dismantle the group. basically what happened is there was the colonial pipeline had made last year in which hack is still around $4400000.00 in rants. and basically they, they use a password, at least on the web, to enter the company's software and information encrypted. a lot of the information there in the system and then for the ransom to decrypt people to add insult to injury, then the software was running slower, much slower than it had previously done at the u. s. believe that these hackers were in russia and the f s. b then of course,

went down and broke up the group. 14 members were detained. of, of those, one of them. the u. s. believes was involved in that colonial pipeline attack loaner pipeline. of course, the biggest pipeline for refined oil in the u. s. and the us them put out a bouncy for information leading to the arrest of this group on $10000000.00. the group was arrested, has been broken, open, ceased to exist. there is no real danger of them being expedited to the u. s. where the u. s. says, is a vital step by the russian side in the war against ransomware, but it's also a successful dismantling office taco group. as you say, danny. but what's been the reaction so far? well, they've been a little bit of a mixed reaction now, despite them saying, these are vital steps. the us side of course, and these are vital steps in the war against their cyber attacks and ransomware. the white house is said that they are pleased with the russian actions of the f s. b of bringing about the end of this,

a hacker group. but then in the very next sentence of a statement, they have reverted to the old rhetoric about the 10 situation in ukraine that's going on at the moment. they have said that this situation has nothing to do with the instance in ukraine of where they are choosing russia of strengthening forces on the borders, of course, or something. russia denies. they're saying that accusing russia of trying to find any pretext for an invasion is much talked about invasion, especially course in the west into ukraine. something, of course that russia denies that has been very interesting comments from the secretary of state for political affairs, victoria newland who said this is about a different attack, a cyber attack in ukraine that happened on friday. it brought down a number of ukrainian government websites. she said that that particular attack reminded her of the good old russian methods of bringing about destabilization of governments and also of the russian tactics of whipping up fear

and whipping or per distrust from the ukrainian people towards the ukrainian government. i would simply say that this is a tried and true part of the russian playback, as you know all around the world. in the past, russian operatives have done this to destabilize governments to test their own capabilities, to undercut the sense of competence of governments that they have gripes with. however, ukraine themselves have struggle to find a culprit. they have pointed the finger of 1st bit, bella, russo, ukrainian, and minister said that bella ross was to blame. and then after a prob, by the ukraine's ministry of a digital transformation, they said the all evidence points to russia. they said that russia is behind an attack to destabilize the government to whipple fear and distrust. of course, this is an accusation that russia denies me. we can hear what the b ukrainian sided

had to say right here. we believe preliminarily that the group u. n. c 115, 1 may be involved in this attack. this is a cyber espionage group affiliated with the special services of the republic of bella. ruse. all evidence points to the fact that russia is behind the cyber attack . moscow continues to wage a hybrid war in his activity, building up its forces in the information inside the spaces. this of course, all relates back to those u. s. accusations that russia is preem to is trying to find a pretext to invade and ukraine, of course, or something that russia denies. but it has been a huge accusation in the west, of course, by the us as well as people not knowing who to point the finger at the u. s. pointing the finger at russia even in separate cyber attacks in the ukraine. the ukraine doesn't know who to blame, but it so leads back to taking that stance of if the digital footprints fit then is basis to blame russia and pretty much anything they want to. i was speaking to

a 90 specialist recently who told me that world war 3 in the cyber space is already in full effects. i'm not entirely surprised by your report, danny armstrong. thank you. well, we did speak with the editor of defense on foreign affairs, gregory copley. b believe, despite moscow's cooperation, washington will still ultimately continue to show russia in a pretty negative light. when you have a process of co operation, you can resolve problems. and moscow, i think, is attempted to show this is attempted in the past to show the obama administration, for example, a lot of the same people are in office in the state department. as i attempted to show that co operation was possible with moscow and the united states rejected that washington has determined that this is not the right time for corporations, because it is the state department itself, which is trying to paint rusher in the worst possible light. we're seeing a pattern of behavior which has been repeated from the printer,

the ministration through the administration, and now and in the, in the, by the ministration. it's fun to mentally add irrational. it's fundamentally not designed to achieve any meaningful results. a caught in moscow was find google $52000.00 for ignoring an earlier ruling demand to the company deletes links to websites bound in russia. it's a fraction though of what the tech giant was fined by russia last month for not taking down illegal content. was a record breaking $98000000.00. a facebook also got slapped back then for 27000000 . the fines were illegal 1st here in russia as they were calculated based on the issue of turnover. berlin has condemned ego plans to re brand gas and nuclear energy as green fuels in germany's economic and environmental ministers didn't hold back when sharing best labeling nuclear energy as

sustainable is wrong, given its high risk technology. this is more than worrying. i find it completely wrong that the european commission is intending to classify nuclear energy as a sustainable economic activity. a form of energy that on one hand can lead to devastating environmental disasters. and on the other hand, leave is behind large amounts of dangerous highly radioactive waste cannot be sustainable. the stipends come off of the european commission published a draft proposal which suggests classifying gas and nuclear as climate of friendly energy sources. it's gained momentum, things to natural gas, hyperinflation, and energy prize, visiting homes and factories all across the continent. the commission justifies the proposal by claiming it would actually ease the use transition to green. the activities covered in this complementary delegated act would accelerate the phase out of more harmful sources such as co and moving us towards

a more low carbon green energy mix. le, chairman of a local alternative for germany, bron shut raina ross 1st. so it's the country's economy actually needs nuclear energy. nuclear power is a vital source of energy for our country for the years to come. because what we don't need and what all the germans fear is the complete disruption of the energy prohibition system. with the danger of black out it's, i would say a matter of ideology, much of the public view on this topic depends of course on media. i would say painting off the topic nuclear power plants have been dealt as an environmental problem for quite some time. and the only solution for the energy

transmission have been well seen and shown, and propagated in renewable energy. but more and more people seem to understand that the transition aims to 100 percent renewable energy cheese will not be able to meet half off the hour. and wrapping up the newest cost for now here on off the international we returns to with ah, [000:00:00;00] i