when you try to record the protest and continue to run across your country to ratchet up new restrictions, it is making the lives for the unvaccinated ever more complicated. scientists predict more carnival become the dominant strain of cobra globally. this year we hear the latest from the world health organization. the increase in number of connections around the world and as we grow, becoming the dominant area. and so the sheer number of infections will bring more people to construct period by party gate. the british media is dominated by headlines over the prime ministers lockdown body, ignoring a host of other issues from record inflation to storing living

the news into monday evening. we go here at moscow, it's just off to 7 pm and plenty of your worldwide headlines in today's program. france is leading europe once again in terms of daily coded case loads, reports leak fucking up more than 270000 infections in a day. the figures come as anger over the macro and governments. new vaccination pos was vented on the streets of paris. the pictures don't show it, but sundays protests reportedly sole 1000 sitting. the streets came right off to the national assembly, gave us a blessing to the new vaccination pass. it will mean only those who are fully job will be allowed access to things like restaurants and cinnamon replaces the current less strict health path system under which

a negative test was more than enough. but not only france that seen unrest over covert in the last few days and weeks with anger restrictions in 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 form of his i. zip to those on display since september 2018. we worked, providing people not only with food services, but we also whole cultural events, birthdays and celebration for our neighbors. the last 2 years haven't been as one of them to be. we're definitely depend on the money of tourists. previously, we had groups of them, even people from france, england, and spain. i know now was dried up the same as the number of birthday celebrations and events, especially with elderly people. did december refer you to wave of cancellations, 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 year ro fine. in fact, you're going to get that $100.00 euro find 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, not building being pelted with missiles by children saying that they wanted substantial protection against coven 19. and the measures that were being put in place, which is not enough to do that. those who were attending not protest said they wanted schools to reopen, but they needed to reopen in a manner that was safe from the virus. in australia over the weekend, we saw a nova today of demonstration, thousands of people on the street of vienna. people extremely unhappy with the

measures that the off the government have stated when it comes to trying to fight against coven 19, the business owners hold us. that the measures that have been taken by vienna, a taking them pretty much to the wall general de la. it's definitely extremely sad . we had to remain shut down for half a year during the last long locked down, filling all the required applications for subsidies. coffee money require 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, siri 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 help but received it with a delay and it wasn't very clear what amount of money i could count on his been

very hard. it's very hard to plan anything. i'll staying in austria county, i'm 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 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. meanwhile, italy's covert pass is now harder to obtain with a negative test no longer been good enough. restrictions are pushing some italians to break the law with one nurse reasonably arrested for issuing faith job certificates. ah

ah mm. 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 am 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, it is as if a priest does not believe in god. mm. and so with all the wrong taking hold and parts of the world, some countries such as denmark had begun administering a 4th vaccine. earlier in the program, i spoke with a be a spokesperson at the w o. h o. the world health organization tardy, just shot a bitch about the latest developments. well, what we see leaks is,

is the increase in number of confessions around the world. and as we see on current becoming the dominant experience, we have seen in one we 50000000 newly fashion, which is the absolute direct versus the beginning of the decrease from the previous week. so the sheer number of infections will bring more people to hospitals, even though may prove less severe disease. then delta and previous variance, these numbers alone will mean more pressure on how system. so let me just pick you up on what you said the, the b, b, c, quoting university of livable chairman of infectious disease at julian hitchcock. she says, almost cronies. the end of covert, 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, back of

a common cold, then then why are we seeing mass look down and further restrictions and mandates? common cold? and this is not true, this article to virus, the new variance, and unfortunately, we cannot predict what's new variance we will have and we don't likely to have new barriers. i understand that we all and then we can move like to go back to normal life. but these viruses kill millions of people so, so to say that chrome is miley, it's 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, and i certainly won't pretend to be one, but doesn't natural immunity, the natural immunity, the joker, which has, wouldn't dance of pass the effectiveness of what he would get the effectiveness from a vaccine. well, very clear from, from, from do, from the international my c, the, our advice is the same clever one. when you get to push the,

do we need to get to actually do that? when jaundra please doing scenes. i save that proficient and you need to complete reducing the number of course, the vision. and that's what i would like to see is that everyone on this planet has this possibility. going back to talk about one more time. 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. ready you last boat from infection and from from axis teens, i'm better because you know that the production exceeds you must develop to be received from when you get infected, any virus you 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 are trying to get

things done as we go. we cannot speculate, cannot say how long the immunity is lasting, both infection, promaxima know which one would last longer. but we have or exceeds that have expected to prevent disease rather than to get it and try and try to be lucky really. ah, a right wing of presidential candidates in france has been fine. $10000.00 euros after a court found him guilty of hate speech. zamora has rejected the ruling calling it a crackdown on free speech. we once an end to this system which every day tightens the noose on the freedom of expression and democratic debate. this system manufactures the crime of opinion on industrial scale. there is an urgent need to drive ideology out of the courts. justice must become justice again. oh,

let's get the scoop on this now and joining us live as artie correspondence. charlotte do buskie live from paris. great. to see you lot he with a whole french presidential election happening soon in april. some might say this little scandal is very well timed and potentially beneficial to the other contenders. what do you know? well that's certainly how eric zamora would see this. he is the bad boy of french politics, particularly as we had into that presidential election in just a few months. he's now been slapped down once again. this time by a court overt that resist hate speech. now, this focused on comments that he made back in september of 2020, when he was a host for a broadcast network here in france called c news. at now he has said that a, he's a presidential hopeful that he's been stymied, demonized the things that he said. and what the court decided on monday is that how much it was going to fine him for doing as this,

that making this hate speech $10000.00 euros in total. so what did he say that was so exclusive, here in france? well, when he was speaking on that show back in september 2020, he was talking about unaccompanied miners. so children who come here illegally and many of which are living on the streets in france, particularly here in paris. and he described them as being thieves as killers, anders rapists. now those comments were seized on by a number of organizations who made a complaint. and of course, it's now gone all the way through the courts. eric's and war has been reacting to that decision by the court to find him 10000 euros, saying that what this is, his condemnation of free spirit at by a judicial system which he is described as being invaded by idealogues. let's have a listen to what else he had to say earlier. it once again, i am the object and the victim of political justice. i'm condemned for incitement

for complicity in the incident. but the complexity of the formula used is too much to understand. i know that these immigrants like unaccompanied children and not a race in well, eric small also says he stands by his comments and he will be to appeal that fine by the court. and then he went on to say that from his perspective, that the majority of se, mobile phone factors that took place haven felt well being carried out by these on the company minus. he says it's also going to really be a legal agenda at the moment. and he said that was because they what he means they, he means the ruling elite are trying to demonize him to try and silence him. however, there was other reaction to that decision by the court on monday. and this came from the lawyer who represented 30 or so organizations that originate falls a complaint against it is an important decision because behind this media project,

there is a political project, a project of hatred, which tend to stigmatize people because of their origin. their confession, their race now it's not the 1st time that the more has been convicted of hate speech. in fact, he's been convicted of this twice before. and they have been around 16 investigations into incentive remarks that you've made particular topic such as immigration and on islamic. he has plenty to say about both of those subjects. now whether you agree or disagree with them or fuse, what is absolutely clear cannot be disputed, is the fact that when he discuss his topics, it is something that becomes an explosive debate to insult some people pay attention. and as a result of that, when he announced his candidacy for the presidential election a just a few months ago, he surged in the polls automatically. what his voice is done, whether you like the contribution or not, it's pushed the debate towards the right wing agenda. and some would say that that

he's even pushed president might call his traditional like, didn't be part of the center debate to the right with policies that he's made and policies he will be campaigning on in this election. so this is an election that is going to fall pretty much exclusively on right wing issues and that is partly due to voices like eric some more. no doubt his support has been since he 1st came on to the waves and said, i want to be the president. but the reality is she's shaking up the political debate here in france. and he's certainly a voice that we will hear a lot of in the next few months. i looking, thanks for that. and tori, as a hacker group has been taken down by russia's federal security service with the fs . be claiming the group stoled money from the bank accounts of various foreigners, the f b actually moved in at washington's request. the early i discussed all the developments with arthur correspondent, 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. not a hacker group in, in any way affiliated to the russian government. but the us, those 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. hackers store passwords that were on least on the dog 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 was decrypted because of that. the u. s. port, how a $10000000.00 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 the

tucker group has been dismantled or what's been the general reaction so far? well, the reaction has been a little bit of a mix. one, the us is said they are pleased about these actions of the f. s. b in from bush. and so of course, he came after a request from the u. s. government, the white house is said that also they are pleased with russia's actions in the very next sentence. they have gone to say, revert back to their old rhetoric as it were saying this is nothing to do with the situation in ukraine. of course, the 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 in grand 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. 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 at bella. ruth, the russian minister, 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 to whip hook, as we said, the fear and distrust from the ukrainian people toward the ukrainian government. now this is, of course, an accusation that russia strongly denies. we can hear what the reaction has been in key right now. we believe preliminarily that the group un 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, 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 talk about invasion. of course, especially in the west, the russia denies any accusations that they are planning an invasion 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 the british prime minister, boris johnson's popularity has hit an all time low. it's basically because of the

whole party game scandal. it's been dominating the u. k. media with a string of revelations about boozy shindig, downing street. but it is drawing all attention away from a bio roger of other problems that are seriously affect the country. lifting the lid on this is all correspondent, daniel hawkins. it's a tough time to be you. k prime minister for was johnson's cabinet, have been criticized for their code response. the countries seen 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

distance thing done ensued 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 impedes a calling for no confidence motion as processed 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 principal, 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 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, jerry looked down. imagine what was like before. why do you think they call it downing street? it's fun, her damage control. meteor, speaking of a double whammy operations, said big dog. yes, but allegedly named by the prime minister himself and operation read, meets the former mass calling of don street officials to throw as many as possible under the bus ballasa. a bliss of policy changes to appease of public and em 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 made some 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 said. 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 prominently 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 it has once again shown 2 things. does nothing boaters have more than a lying politician except when a line politicians stop them having policies but goes ahead with their own? well reports bars, johnson is about to lift. many of the existing cov restrictions has got critics claiming he's only doing it to win back support the country's national health

services. it's currently under extreme pressure due to the current on the ground with a cobra death on the u. k. now report really stands more than 150000 people. while at the height of the lockdown restrictions, many relatives were prevented from attending the funeral of their loved ones. and we spoke to a founder of a campaign group named not numbers, was also unable to do so when his grandfather passed away, it happened that way. so it was sunday masjid. i didn't get to get that, you know, i stayed in london my best suit and how to know about myself. and it's interesting to note on a day that the prime minister was having wine fridays ago, right? beginning of it. so i was kind of let quite quiet i read to blind. i'm almost laugh at this now where we're living in a country where the ball is, was made is,

are in the prime. so there's a very famous images queen, so that it's, you know, has been this many is to, does it for the minister with opening balsam line di, incredulous, that does not work. they work, you know, they got to meet if, if this is the idea of leading seriously morally wrong, fresh politics, you can read more about that of the u. k section of oxy dot com, also the pad section as well, where people read it right? articles with that templates flaring anyway, wrapping up the show for this half hour life for moscow and to international. thank you for sharing your monday with us here. you know neil at the desk and a half an hour's time. i do hope you can join him back. ah,

showing me every 1st on the alex simon. sure. i'll be speaking to guess in the world of politics. sport, business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. mm . ah, i mean, ah, i'm after dancing, you're watching, going underground. coming up the show. as netflix is most viewed show of all time squid game takes home a golden globe. how has the nation at war with its northern counterparts snatched attention away from the gemini of hollywood while showing the arguable nightmares

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