in the shallow, ah, ah, protest continue to erupt across europe as a country to wretched up new restriction. it is making the lives of the od baxter more complicated than ever advised us to predict alma calling. it will become the dominant strain of cove it globally this year. we hear the latest from the world health organization. a increase in number of passions around on current become dominant area. and so the shared in our infections will ring more people to be distracted by party gate. the british media is dominated by headlines over the prime minister lockdown parties, ignoring a host of other issues from record inflation to surging living costs. also in

the program force, offline notorious taco group is taken down by russia's federal security service at the request to open washington. however, the u. s. does continue to accuse roger being behind most other cyber crime with and we're heading into the evening hours here at moscow. this is monday now just after 6 pm. it's our t international, a very well welcome to you. so france is leading europe once again in terms of daily cove. it case loads, talking reportedly now more than 270000 infections and 24 hours. the figures come as anger over the micron government new vaccination pass was just invented all across the streets of the french capital the

. 7 pictures don't quite show it, but sundays protests report least saw thousands getting the streets came right off . the national assembly gave a blessing to the new vaccination. it will mean only those who are fully job will now be allowed to access things like restaurants and cinemas replaces a current with less strict health systems under which a negative test was enough. not only france, but seen on the rest of a cove in the last few days and weeks with anger at restrictions and other european cities also boiling over ah 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. you look at things locally in berlin. it's close to $1000.00 per 100000 of the population vol. so seen the bond, there's very 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. also,

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 to 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 earns emptied both on this place and september 2018 will work, providing people not only with food services, but we also have cultural events,

bernice and celebrations for our neighbors. the lesser 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 peoples 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. this is samara refused to waive of cancellation, coupled with christmas being 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 euro 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 coven 19. and that 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 its trying to fight against coven 19. these business owners, old us, that the measures that have been taken by vienna are taking them pretty much to the wall killer elderly. 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. the money requires the help of tax consultants and every new lockdown. new applications, new subsidies. it's exhausting. sometimes help comes extremely late,

some people and upon the rocks, after all of it, himself, salary tutor. i played full financial support during the 1st wave, but my application wasn't even onset. i think they've just been overloaded, but it can't work as an excuse. but i think it was just like that just in following waves. i received hell, but received it with a delay and it wasn't very clear what amount of money i could count on his been very hard, very hard to plan anything till staying in austria coll near hammered. 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 drawing a lot of criticism from 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 courses when it comes to them,

trying to snuff out this latest wave of coven 19. so whether alma calling taking a hold and parts of the world, some countries such as denmark, have begun. administering a 4th vaccine. earlier i talked to the world health organization to their spokesperson, tut english of ich about the latest developments? well, what we see leaks is, is a critical increase in number of infections around the world. and as we see on current becoming a dominant variance, we have seen in one week 15000000 newly factions, which is the absolute director, is the beginning of that many contributing decrease from the previous sleep. so the sheer number of infections will bring more people to hospitals, even though may prove less severe disease, then don't previous variance, but these numbers hello. we will need more pressure on how system. so let me just

pick you up on what you said that the b, b, c, quoting university of livable chairman of infectious diseases julian, his colleagues. he says, almost cronies, the end of cove it. the guardian says the most widespread symptoms of armor cross match those of the common cold. why is it if the symptoms are, as they say, doc, of a common cold, then then why are we seeing mass lock downs and further restrictions and mandates? not common cold and this is not true if there's a star school to virus, the new variant. and unfortunately, we cannot predict what's new variance we will have and we are likely to have new barriers. i understand that we all and then we can like to go back to normal life, but these viruses kill the millions of people. so i, so to say that, i mean my lease is not much right. what about the case of the tennis superstar? novak joker base, she had cove it in december. he recovered. now that i'm not

a medical expert, my son, he won't pretend to be one, but doesn't natural immunity. the natural immunity, the geography has, wouldn't. that's of pass the effectiveness of what he would get. the effectiveness from a vaccine very clear from, from, from do, from the national like see, the advice is the same one. when you get to push ability to get to actually do that when she leaves doing my scenes. i save that proficient and reducing the number of course, and that's what they would like to see is that everyone on this planet has this possibility going back and talk about one more time could. could you just do me a favor and answer the question? joke if it's having natural immunity, what is better protection, natural immunity, or one of these vaccines? we don't have that particular data. we are basically monitoring to see how long community loc boat from infection and from from axis teens. i'm better

because you know that the protection sees you develop your systems when you get infected, that anybody should don't know how bad it will be. so definitely it's better to, to, to try to get the protection from our scenes. we're trying to get things done as we go. we can actually cannot say how long the immunity is lasting, both infection or from pro vaccines know which one would last longer. but we have exceeded hand and expected to prevent disease rather than the objective and try and tried to be lucky, really. ah, british prime minister boris johnson's popularity has it an all time low? it's over. this is the part he gates scandal. it's been dominating the media with a string of revelations about boozy shindig, so downing street,

but it is drawing all attention away from a bar. roger of other problems that are seriously affect the country. thought is, daniel hawkins now investigates. it's a tough time to b. u k. prime minister for his johnson's cabinets have been criticized for the co would response the country seen decade high inflation. so we're getting bills and living costs with stagnant wages, record breaking ambulance, and hospital waiting fives, teenage knife crime in the capital 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 distance thing, downing street officials, a power held boozy parties, and cheese and wine get together. 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 polls. polls also show large numbers of voters even tories. what in the prime minister's resignation? even dozens of his own and pays a calling for no confidence motion possessed as gather outside number 10 for a mock work party. the the jokes, the sites for those in the u. k. is the matter of perception and principal. why have people followed draconian rules been separated from dying? relatives faced isolation and restrictions on days that i life. while those in power have live a suitcase of wine is definitely the tory equivalent of a bag of cans. a kind of wine. this is nothing. the number 10 lads drink it by the

suitcase christ. if this was what johnson's downing street was like during looks down and much of what was like before, why do you think they call it downing street? it's fun damage. control media. speaking of a double whammy operations said big dog. yes, but allegedly named by the prime minister himself and operation red meets the former mass calling of don st. officials to throw as many as possible under the bus . ballasa. a bliss of policy changes to appease the public and m pays from scrapping the b b. c. license fee to putting the military in charge of patrol in english channel from saving a chest to binding booz downing street though, why this wasn't done earlier. beats may also looks like he's getting on what's called a charm offensive. he's trying to introduce things that he thinks the public will like. he is, for example, threatening to limit the fun thing of the baby faith. he says he's going to get

tough on migrants coming across illegally over the channel. he's saying that very soon or restrictions uncovered 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 time demick has been the biggest issue for the last 2 years, he will always speak, we can from now on. can johnson come back from the brink? the coming weeks will tell, but policy gate has once again shown 2 things. does nothing voters have more than a line politician? except when a line politicians stop them having parties, but goes ahead with their own? well reports boris johnson is about to lift. many of the existing coping restrictions in england has called critics claiming he's only doing it to win back support the country's national health services under extreme pressure due to the current armor growing wave. the cobra test on the cake is currently standing at

roughly 150000 people a while at the height of the lockdown restrictions. many relatives were prevented from attending the funerals of their loved ones. so let's get some more details. now when i speak to ellis huffman, who lost his grandfather due to cov, it is now the founder of a campaign group. names not numbers, ellis, great to see today. thanks for coming on the program. if you don't mind, take us through the story of your loss when your grandfather died. how, how difficult was this for you? well, that happened in that way. so it was sunday masjid and like he just said, medically wouldn't get good. you know, i didn't get that, you know, i stayed in london my best suit and how soon are by myself. and it's interesting to note on a day that the prime minister was having wine fridays ago. so that's the state of the country at the moment. the. ready the li, just giving us rules we do are in stand by whereas they come

out and just wanted to ask you how, how did the covered restrictions at the time impact the whole process? you said you were able to attend the funeral, not at all. i harm so, so i live in london on which was to show out is the west and i honest to have my my house just now the funeral there is only about 4 people that yeah, it was very rush no way. and it's just not the way that we anticipate it, not to bring my lot my grandfather. so how i mean, how do we all these revelations about it? you know, these parties down the street, these booty shindig, is going on and all the time this was happening during these nationwide restrictions affecting everybody across the country. how does that make you feel?

you know, why is that? the beginning of it? i was kind of let quite, quite, i read my mind, i'm laugh at this now where we're living in a country where the fullest was, the leaders are in the prime hockey, 2 days before prince phillips. you know. so there's a very famous image of the queen size, so that it's, you know, has been this many years before the minister was opening balls. and why di, you know, it incredulous that is not what they work hard to work hard. and we've got to meet bar if, if this is the idea of leading seriously morally wrong. and i said growing cold. so johnson's resignation of the whole party gates scandal. but you

know, it's not fair. i guess you know, to play devil's economy. uneasy in his position during this unprecedented health crisis couldn't have been easy for many people. it could have been easy for me. can you try my normal life concept, the hom jobs. why his job and he needs to hit the ball at the end of the day resign ship design. it took a long time to get rid of my time to get rid of hancock. and what we see in our potentially touch at the moment is so much opportunity for themselves, you know, bringing in 70 that we wanted to make it look, i actually had the 1st place just mentioned as well about how they come from. i struck license these, it's just giving weeks on how to children,

you know, he should resign. it's saying he's been in power. mr. to us. another question for if i may, i, johnson is expected to begin lifting many cobra restriction shortly. a lot of critics are saying it's just to try and win back support. what's your take? absolutely. do anything to get out of losing power? absolutely anything. i think that's a load that mom couldn't see what we've got. we're not actually dealing with all these perks. it's time of when he was a journalist, he's been followed by scott scandal to think with no concept of shame. actually no concept of shape. you have to go to the pallet. i think what you should do is resign. apologies, not good enough. we don't need to be left by somebody that every time they do so on

the risk, get rid of it every other countries, if she's very good with their leaders, if they do criminal, essentially by a policy of 4 killed off the population to dissolve. if you want to kind of limit the population about what's out and this is a model, it will be wiped out across this country. i prime minister both of wine and a big war. ready hero, he had connected with the scandalous response to put in prison. right. and let's just in a founder of the campaign group names, not numbers. joining us here live on our t international user. can you check out the op ed section of auto dot com? there's a lot of people writing articles with very similar sentiments to you. alice,

thanks a lot. we'll see you soon. thank you very much. and a tory, it's hacker group has been taken down by russia's federal security service with the fs. be claiming the groups stole money from the bank accounts of various foreigners . the efforts be moved in at washington's request. so earlier i discussed the developments with ortiz, danny armstrong, f s b, that's the russian security services, dismantled a hacker group. rebill, it's called after request from the u. s. now, the hacker group is in any way affiliated to the russian government. but the us to believe that at least one of the 14 members of that group that has been detained, was involved in the hack on the colonial pipeline. back in may. now a little bit about that, the colonial pipeline, of course, the biggest pipeline for refined oil in the u. s. hack is still passwords that were on least on the dock where they then encrypted a lot of information within the system of the company. they demanded

a ransom of $4400000.00 that was paid in a few hours. and then the information with decrypted because of that, the u. s. both how a 10000000 dollar bounce fee for information leading to the rest of the hacker group that was executed by the f s. b who found of course, millions of dollars as well in stolen money from foreign bank accounts. so this hacker group has been dismantled at what's been the general reaction so far? well, the reaction has been a little bit of a mix. one, the u. s. has said they are pleased about these actions of the f. s. b in from russian side, of course, they came after a request from the u. s. government. the white house is said that although they are pleased with russia's actions in the very next sentence, they go on to say and revert back to their old rhetoric as it were saying this is nothing to do with the situation in ukraine, of course, situation that they're referring to is the accusation that russia strengthening

their forces on the border with ukraine and getting ready for an invasion into ukraine course or something that russia denies. there's also been some interesting comments from victoria newland secretary of state for political affairs. she said, referencing another cyber attack in ukraine on friday that brought down the quite a few government websites. so she said that that attack reminded her the good old ways the russian hackers used to do things at some of the methods that special agents in russia allegedly used to destabilize governments and bring about fear and distrust. i would simply say that this is a tried and true part of the russian playbook, 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 confidence of governments that they have gripes. with those comments, of course, coma as something of a surprise, especially as kids itself failed to find a culprit from the 1st couple of attempts,

they started to point the finger 1st off bella ruth rash minutes and came out and said, this is all from the bell russian side, and then after a prob, from the ministry of digital transformation, said the all evidence points to russia a whip hook, as we said, the fear and distrust from the ukrainian people towards the ukrainian government. now this is of course, an accusation that russia strongly denies. we can hear what the reaction has been, and right now 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, rues, all evidence points. the fact that russia is behind the cyber attack. moscow continues to wage a hybrid war and its activity building up its forces in the information inside the spaces of it follows on from the us accusations of russia trying to find any pretext to invades ukraine has been much told about an invasion, of course,

especially in the west, the russia denies any accusations that they are planning an invasion, but for the time being. and following this news about the, the hacking the hacking group that's been broken up in russia. and of course the had come friday in ukraine. it seems the u. s. is taken on the stands, if the shoe fits that particular digital footprint, and it's basis enough to accuse russia pretty much whatever it once berlin has condemned e u plans to re brand gas and nuclear energy as green fuels. germany's economic and environmental ministers didn't hold back when sharing vessels labeling nuclear energy as sustainable is wrong, given it's 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,

leaves 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 friendly energy sources. it's gain momentum, thanks to natural gas, hyper inflation and energy prices hitting homes and factories all across the continent. the commission justified their proposal by claiming it would actually e. e 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. chairman of a local alternative for germany branch, rayna ross post says 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 n s. she

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 transition has 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

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