a with protest erupt in europe as countries ratchet up new restrictions, making the lives of vaccine hesitant people ever more complicated. as scientists predict on the cromwell rapidly become the dominant strain of covey globally, this year, the world health organization tells us medics will get little, really a increase in number of nations around the world with the area. so the sheer number infections will bring your people to post ahead of the 2020 to us mid term elections. a new survey gives the republican party

a 14 point swing from the democrats, one of the biggest since 1991 and inequality kills. so says oxfam, as the world's 10 richest people are found to have doubled their wealth during the pandemic, while much of the global population struggles to get access to even basic coded fighting healthcare. we hear from a director of the church ah, broadcasting lot of different studios and monica. this is our international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you. are now france is leading europe once again in terms of daily coveted case loads, clocking up more than 270000 infections in 24 hours. now the figures come as anger over them. a chronic government, new vaccination pass was ventured across paris. ah,

the now the pictures don't quite show it, but sundays protests saw thousands hit the streets. this came right after the national assembly gave its blessing to the so named vaccination pass. it will mean only those who are fully jabbed will be allowed access to things like restaurants and cinemas. this replaces the current less strict health path system under which a negative test was sufficient. and it is not only france that has seen on rest over coven restrictions in the last few days. there have been major flare ups in the netherlands, greece and germany as well. ah, i

really like when 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 cov, 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 bond, there's 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. 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 turn sceptre both on this place and september 2018. we worked,

providing people not only with food services, but we also hold cultural events, bernice and celebrations for our neighbors. the last to years haven't been as one in them to be. we're definitely demand on the money of tourists. previously, we had groups of them, even pupils 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 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 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 cove at 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 lease 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. 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, 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 when 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. hm. 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 has drawn 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 courses when it comes to them trying to snuff out this latest wave of coven 19 with omicron taking hold world wide. in countries such as denmark have begun, administering a 4th vaccine a spokesperson for the world health organization. talked us through the latest developments and what is in front of us. well, what we see leaks is, is an increase in number of confessions 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 contributing decrease from the previous sleep. so the sheer number of infections will bring more people to hospitals, even though one crew may prove less your disease.

then delta and previous periods, these numbers are low. we will need more pressure on how system. so it is very dangerous situations. the country are trying to find the best ways to, to reduce the risk of transmission. we know what needs to be done, so we hope that people will not be oxygenated, will be max and they can become effective mostly those who have not have their primary series of mac sees. well, countries are basically looking into how that we can completely understand the government is trying to find the ways to balance the public health side of the story and public health benefits don't get his social economic issues. so you need to do that. however, we are trying to see what is having different periods or shutting of

the virus period than previous studies. we need some time. that's what i mean. we are still being offered 10 days. the installation fortune to my case is 2 weeks current time woke up and now these 2 weeks current, kennedy talked down a bit appropriate where are the master 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 that is very much possible. that's why we want to how to prevent the deck ation. the biggest benefit is the primary and we want to make sure everybody's with us cooling the primary workstation is being available to everyone around the world. and the 2020 to us mid term

elections. the democrats are facing many challenges with half of the respondents in recent polls. feeling frustrated and disappointed with jo biden's presidency. that's as cases of the new micron variant surge and inflation remains sky high. are to kill him up and comments. a new survey from gallup shows that americans, party affiliation, has shifted by 14 points. and this is just as the country is facing, the lead up to the mid term elections of 2022. now, according to these polls, this is the largest shift in party affiliation. in such a timeframe that has been seen census data was being collected starting in 1991. now gallop also found the jo biden's approval ratings have significantly nose dived in recent months. now c, b s took another poll and it showed that 40 percent of respondents said that

biden's presidency made them feel nervous. survey also showed a bleak outlook among americans with 73 percent saying that they feel things in the united states are somewhat or very bad in a general sense. now, biden's numbers continue to remain low and the army kron variant continues to serge across the united states. people complain about high inflation, the economic situation in general, and the recovery of the country from the pandemic. but biden does not seem to think . so. america's the only leading economy, the world were household incomes and the economy as a whole, are stronger than they were before the pandemic. much predicted crisis didn't occur . packages are moving. gifts are being delivered. shelves are not empty. now, across the united states, polls indicate that americans are upset about the economy, immigration race relations, the rising rate of crime inflation as well as the rising coven numbers. but even

among democrats, there is confusion about their own policy. clearly the current strategies failing, and we need a major course correction. it seems like the democrats can't get out of their own way. the democrats have got to do a better job of being clear on what they're trying to do. at this point, things don't look good for dana crafts as the country prepares for the mid term vote taking place in november of 2020 to later this year. at this point, the democrats appear that they may face some very big losses when americans go to the polls. for more on this, let's cross live to adam co. cash was a 2020 libertarian presidential candidate who chairs a charity for war veterans. thanks for being with us here in our to international. ok. ok, so mid terms, always swing in the direction of the party, that's not in power. but what do you think of these recent polls? why such bad news for the democrats right now?

well, the american people have long been victims of the mind games played by the do wobbly . the republicans and democrats that are 2 wings of the same bird of tyranny or the same bird of prey, praying on the american people. and i'm excited that there's a sale. i'm excited that there's some way you know that some people are at least saying, you know what, we're going to vote differently, but it's not really voting differently to go from democrats or republicans from, you know, blue flavor, tyranny to red flavor, tyranny. so i'm more excited for the long term. there are a lot of great libertarian party candidates running in the mid term elections in 2022. if there is a shift from blue to red, i'm not going to really care unless there's a rise of the yellow in the middle of that. and i'm always optimistic because the inner people have an infallible area of progress and speaking freedom. and the fact that people are getting this, that up as they are and are more educated than ever before,

about how badly the federal government and biden are screwing up right now. the better. so yeah, i'm excited. i'm looking forward to that. but at least the american bar sort of correct to be pessimistic for the short term. they're going to get a lot worse before they get better. now, what about say, here we have to keep in mind there is like a big spin room in terms of these types of claims. but do you think that biden's claim that the u. s. is one of the 1st countries to overcome coven, 19 in all areas, including the economy, might have had an effect on his ratings. i think he's taking a page from the trump playbook of delusional positivity. and there's, there's some role for positivity and saying, you know, like, let's, let's do this and uniting people. but what's the role of the president of the united states? it's, it's to be the front man that the representative of the evil powers that be the

banking class, the corporate class, the real rulers of america. and so, you know, biden is going to say what he's got to say, and it's wearing ben that's the more important thing is that the, the law is coming out of d. c. i mean, it's not a look at cove it as this global narrative that's falling apart. it sounds like r t a still, you know, into the cold in mythology, but i got on a ron probably right now, and it's the best variance so far. i recommend everybody go out and get it. it's the idea that this, this thing has been used as an excuse to shut down the economy to curtail and it's all right. and to make original rich, i think that is li, the status of the satisfaction. and while a lot of americans will fall for look in rhetoric and say, well, they're a viable alternative to the democrats. anybody paying attention knows that that's not true. that under trump was the same thing and the rich get richer and the expensive everybody else. right now we see increase internet censorship. we see

cracking down on descent. we see the tyranny of co bid pro protocols, but most importantly, in a radical increase in the acceleration, the concentration of financial power. and everybody's got that somewhere in the back of their mind going, you know what, this ain't right? everybody struggling yet. the rich are getting richer, as something's got to get adam cash day, 2020 libertarian presidential candidate who chairs a charity for war veterans. and we have to say from r t, we do believe in science, we do believe that people should go get vaccinated regardless of if it's on the chron or delta or whatever variant comes next. so thank you very much for being with us here. arch international. all right, now, british prime minister bois johnson's popularity has hit an all time low over a so called party gate scandal. it is dominating the u. k. media with

a string of revelations about boozy get togethers at downing street. now it has put johnson in damage control mode, firing several staffers for allegedly breaking lockdown rules. meanwhile, as ministers are seemingly trying to shift the narrative with medic, new policies including solutions to the migrant crisis, civil extra health care funding and abolishing britons television license fee. in addition, for johnson is promising to lift, coven restrictions a policy getting considerable public support. but comes as the n h s says. it's currently under extreme pressure due to the mac on wave reports of downing street shindig, have caused widespread anger in the u. k. happening at the height of the 2020 locked down when people were even barred from attending funerals of their loved ones. on that ladder point. ellis tustin created the campaign group names, not numbers. he found it after being unable to pay last respects to his grandfather that happened in its way. so it was the sun masjid. i didn't

get to get that, you know, i stayed in london my best suit and how soon are by myself. interesting to note on a day that the prime minister was having wine fridays ago. the feudal, there's only about 4 people that yeah, it was very rough. no. no way. it could've been easy for many people. it could've been easy. can you? it easy. waiting on one side to strive to normal like this concept, the hard jobs. so you need to why and his job and he needs to hit the ball at the end of the day resign. my got me if, if this is the idea of leading this seriously already wrong, fresh out of the country at the moment the leaders giving

us rules we do are trying to install it, whereas they can. meanwhile, party gate isn't just a headache for the tories. a photo has emerged to showing the leader of the opposition drinking beer with staff during the 2021 spring lockdown. although cheer stormer insists he did nothing wrong. and unlike the pm is refusing to apologize. just phase before the election. we've been very busy working in the office. we stopped for something to eat and then we carried on working no party, no breach of the rules, and absolutely no comparison with the prime minister. it, members of the ruling, conservative party don't buy that argument, however, and accuse him of hypocrisy. that's after storm or ridicule the prime minister in parliament for the way he justified downing street after work. bash says to says that he didn't realize he was at a party. ah,

it is so ridiculous that he is actually offensive to the prayer with the whole country was looked down. he was posting boozy party in town express. is he now going to do the decent thing and resign? earlier we spoke with radio host john gaunt. he thinks politicians on both sides are absolutely failing to live by example. but anyway, the country needs to focus on more pressing issues was a smell. it's the stench of hypocrisy. obviously he wasn't doing what a lot support staff seemed to be enduring avenue, right. booze up in garden. but he was inside the house. he was drinking beer and his excuse that they were having a chinese and therefore his work meal is frankly ludicrous. these politicians are all the same. they make the rules and they want to act in a certain way. but they don't want the rules to apply to them,

but there are many other things. now we need to move on. things like assuring inflation that the job losses that are going to be around the corner. let's talk about the migrant problem as well at dover. let's talk about law and order they, they're the things that the british public now won't boorish to get on top of the wealth of the world's top 10 richest people has doubled during the pandemic. that's as the poor continue to suffer due to a lack of treatment and vaccines. those are the findings of a new report by the oxfam, charity called inequality kills. which claims policy choices by governments are skewed in favor of the one percent. the well for the world's 10 rich his men, his double to the pandemic, began the incomes of 99 percent of humanity, a worse off because of coven, 19 whitening economic gender and racial inequalities, as well as the inequality that exists between countries. a, tearing our world apart. this is not by chance,

but choice. economic violence is perpetrated when structural policy choices are made for the richest and most powerful people. this causes direct com to us all the time they make has really expose been a call. it is an fuel them, so ok, some have been tracking billionaire wells for some time and of course the full list shows that it has been growing over the last 40 years. but over the last 2 years it's been really exponential. so we call it a billionaire bonanza. and at the other end of the spectrum, of course, for 99 percent of humanity. it's been a very, very difficult time. and most people are worse off as a result of that. and then make, of course, more than a 160000000 people have fallen into poverty during this time. and it's in a moment when you can see the difference is really showing very, very starkly. we can't cause success when there is such disparity, that at one end of the spectrum, you have people who have more wilson,

they can spend in several lifetime and the other we have people struggling to pay their next health bill or, or not knowing where the next meal is coming from having such a level of disparity affects everyone, even the wealthiest, because you know it's a sign of unhealthy state of affairs, of a unhealthy society that needs addressing. and one of those key drivers for equality has been vaccine access to vaccines. so the difference between rich and poor countries has grown the inequality. so, and the 4 countries in africa, in general, only 10 percent of the population has had his 1st course of vaccination. so that means that they still and they're taking much longer for their coverage with a response and their recovery from the economic downturn, which means that unfortunately the train is set to widen. if we don't act, ah, a right wing presidential candidate in france has been fined 10000 euros after

a court found him guilty of hate speech. eric is a more, 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 . well that certainly how eric seymour 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. so what did he say that was at so exclusive, here in france? well, when he was speaking on that show back in september of 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 and as rapists. now those

comments were seized on by number of organizations who made a complaint, and of course, it's now gone all the way through the courts. eric's in war has been reacting to that decision by the court to find him 10000 euro saying that what this is, his condemnation of free spirit at by a judicial system which he is described as being invaded by idealogues ability. 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 arizona. well, eric seymour also says he stands by his comments and he is due to appeal that fine by the court. and then he went on to say that from his perspective, that the majority of saying mobile phones after it took place here in fonts were

being carried out by these unaccompanied miners. he says he's also got a really busy legal agenda at the moment and he said that's because they, when he means they, he means the ruling elite or 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 the 30 or so organizations that originally filed a complaint against what he said. if you more, it's definitely an important decision because we want him to understand that we want acceptor, we need him to understand that there are human rights defenders. there are anti racist. we need him to know that we will stand up against a political project aimed at destroying the legacy of the french revolution and the enlightenment, iraq. now, it's not the 1st time that zer moore has been convicted of hate speech. in fact, he's been convicted of this twice before, and there have been around 16 investigations into incendiary remarks that he has made particular topics such as immigration and on islam. he has plenty to say about

both of those subjects. now whether you agree or disagree with this and was views, what is absolutely clear, cannot be disputed, is the fact that when he discusses topics, it is something that becomes an explosive debate here in faults. and people pay attention. and as a result of that, when he announced his candidacy for the presidential election, i just, a few months ago he surged in the polls automatically and what his voice is done, whether you like the contribution or not it's pushed the debate towards right wing agendas and some would say that that he's even pushed present mack on his traditionally like to 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 be for pretty much exclusively on right wing issues, and that is partly due to voices like eric's and more at no doubt, his support has dipped since he 1st came on to the waves and said,

i want to be the president, but the reality is he's shaking up the political debate here in france, and he is certainly a voice that we will hear a lot of in the next few months. better that for me, this hour, i will be back in 31 minutes with another full and fresh look to new stay with us. we know we have a choice with lex job with that they will find out about the ski to coordinate anybody's keith is going to push and push it. if i had a fever or just somebody, somebody from a few minutes, that was 3. so what i still let me stay at the i bought a vehicle near to your school because you believe about will give up. all right, so i'm are you what we believe if you know what you just follow up on it that you like it. but you offer any weaker, clear from

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