ah, ah, coveted protests erupt in europe as countries ratchet up new restrictions making the lives of vaccine hesitant people ever more complicated. as scientists predict, omicron will rapidly become the dominant strain of cov, it globally. this year the world health organization tells us medics will get little relief leaks. it can increase in number of actions around the world. and as we see a dominant area, so the sheer now the inspections will bring a more people to foster ahead of the 2022 us mid term elections, a new survey. guess the republican party, a 14 point swing from the democrats. one of the biggest, since $1091.00 and equality kills. so says

oxfam as the world 10 richest people are found to have doubled their wealth during the pandemic. while much of the global population struggle to get access to even basic coverage fighting healthcare, we hear from a director of the charity with broadcasting lab direct from our studios in moscow. this is our international. i'm john thomas. so i'm glad to have you with right now, france is a leading europe once again in terms of daily covered case loads, clocking up more than 270000 infections and 24 hours. now the figures come as anger over the micron government's new vaccination pass was vented across paris. 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 passed. mean only those who are fully jobs will be allowed access to things like restaurants and cinemas. it replaces the current less strict to help pass system under which a negative test was sufficient. and it is not only friends that has seen unrest over coven restrictions in the last few days. there have been major flareups in the netherlands, greece and germany as well. ah, i

mean 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 bond as fair as 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 there will 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 zip to both on this place and september 2018. we were providing people not only with food services, but we also hold cultural events, birthdays and celebrations for our neighbors. the last 2 years haven't been as one

of them to be, would 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. december refer you to wave of cancellations, coupled with christmas being cancelled. well, 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 row fine. in fact, you're going to get that $100.00 euro find every month until you get vaccinated. it will. 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 in 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 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 covert 19. the business owners, old us, that the measures that have been taken by the anna a, 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. 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 yourself syracusa, i applied for financial support during the 1st wave, but my application wasn't even onset. i think they've just been overloaded. they can't work as an excuse, but i think it was just like that 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. so staying in austria, coll niana, 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 causes when it comes to them trying to snuff out this

latest wave of coven 19 with a micron and taking hold world wide 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's in front of us. well, what we see leaks is, is the increase in number of concessions around the world. and as we see on current becoming a dominant variance, we have seen in one week 50000000 newly fashion, which is the absolute record is the beginning of 50 percent decrease from the previous week. so the sheer number of infections will bring more people to hospitals, even though one crew may prove less your disease then don't previous barian. 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 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 become effective mostly those who have not have their primary series of mac sees the countries are basically looking into how the function 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 and get his social issues. so you need to do that. however, we are trying to see why my current is having different periods or shutting of the virus period than previous studies. we need some time, that's what

a dime being my being offered 10 days, the isolation, fortune to my case is 2 weeks current time woke up and now these 2 weeks current can be appropriate. where are the mesh of the scene in equity? and this is still a problem again with the boosters may come for extra benefit and we are looking for data now. and that it is very much possible that for want me to how to prevent dec elevation. the biggest benefit is the primary. don't want to make sure everyone is with us cooling the primary workstation is being available to everyone around the world ahead of the 2020 to us mid term elections. the democrats are facing many challenges with half of the respondents in

a recent poll, feeling frustrated. now disappointed with jo biden's presidency. that's as cases of the new oma crime, variant surgeon and inflation remained sky high. martinez 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 the democrats 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. derek gibson, a republican candidate for new york state governor and adam cook ash a 2020 libertarian presidential candidate. think that the polls don't bode well for the democrats. recent polls is not good for president jo by at this time, and i don't see it changed in our time in the economy is crash in the virus is at is have one elbow and he seems to can't do it thing about it, but test test test but nothing on treatments, all a particular thing that it's gone on the ground, so she'll play up the abs,

i record them all around and about in the state of new york cram sky high inflation, sky, and ice complete fair. yet this particular time, the toys went to midterms are looking to be a disaster for the democrats. there's some role for, was tiffany 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 right man, the representative of the evil powers that be the banking class, the corporate class, the real rulers of america, it's failed on mirroring then. that's the more important thing is that flies coming out of d. c plan. your british prime minister boys 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, that downing street. now it has put johnson in damaging control mode,

firing several staffers for allegedly breaking lockdown rules. meanwhile, ministers are seemingly trying to shift the narrative with some dramatic new politics, including solutions to the migrant crisis. extra health care funding in abolishing britons television license fee. now in addition, boris johnson is promising to lift coven restrictions a policy getting considerable public support. but comes as the n h as says, it's currently under extreme pressure due to the micron waves reports of downing street shindig, have caused widespread anger. 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 latter point, ellis tustin created the campaign group, names, not numbers. he founded it after being unable to pay last respects to his grandfather. it happened in its way, so it was sunday masjid. i didn't get to get that. you know,

i stayed in london dressed in 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. the feudal, there's only about 4 people that yeah, it was very rough. no way concrete couldn't have been easy for many people that could have been easy. can you ever want to try more normal life this concept of got a hard job so you need for why and his job and he needs to hit the ball at the end . resign my thoughts are if, if this is the idea of leading seriously already wrong approach of the state of the country at the moment the leaders giving us rules we do are you in stand by whereas they come out. meanwhile,

party gate isn't just a headache for the tories. a photo has emerged to showing the leader of the u. k. opposition drinking beer with the staff during the 2021 spring lockdown. although cure stormer insists he did nothing wrong. and unlike the pm is refusing to apologize just days before the election, we've been very busy, were 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 stormer ridiculed the prime minister in parliament for the way he justified a downing street after work. bash says to says that he didn't realize he was at a party. ah, it is so ridiculous that is actually offensive to the

prayer with the whole country was locked down. he was posting boozy party in town is pretty easy. 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 the smell. it's the stench of hypocrisy. obviously he wasn't doing what a lot support staff seemed to be doing. i'm gonna write 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 wanted to act in a certain way, but they don't want the rules to apply to them. but there are many things now we

need to move on. things like assuring inflation and 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 to richest people has doubled during the pandemic. that's as the poor continue to suffer due to the lack of treatment and vaccines. those are the findings of a new report by the oxfam, charity called it in quality kills which claims policy choices by governments are skewed in favor of the one percent. to well said the wells at 10 rich's men has doubled. since 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 harm to us, all the fan they make has really exposed inequalities and fuel them. so ok, sam has been tracking billionaire wealth for some time and of course the forbes 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 the pandemic. 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 wealth than they can spend in several lifetimes. and

at the other, we have people struggling to pay their next health bill or, or not knowing where their next meal is coming from. having such a level of disparity affects everyone, even the wealthiest, because you know, and it's a sign of an unhealthy state of affairs, of an unhealthy society that needs addressing. and one of those key drivers for inequality has been in vaccine access to vaccines. so the difference between rich and poor countries has grown that inequality, so, and the poorest countries in africa, in general, only 10 percent of the population has had its 1st course of vaccination. so that means that they still and they're taking much longer for they're covered with response and their recovery from the economic downturn, which means that unfortunately the trend 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. erickson moore has rejected the roland calling at a crackdown on free speech. we once an end to this system which every day tightens the news on the freedom of expression and democratic debate, the system manufactures the crime of opinion on an 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 a number of organizations who made a complaint, and of course, it's now gone all the way through the course. erickson 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 earlier in the team. 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. well, eric small 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, but the majority of se, mobile phone facts took place. halem fonts were being carried out by these

unaccompanied minus. 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 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 the 30 or so organizations that originate falls a complaint against what he said. if it's, you know, it's definitely an important decision because we want him to understand that we won't accept it. we need him to understand that there are human rights defenders. there are entire race s. 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 enlightened me an error, though 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 incendiary remarks that he's made particularly on topic such as immigration and on islamic. he has plenty to say about both of those subjects. now whether you

agree or disagree with the more fuse, what is absolutely clear and cannot be to speech. it is the fact that when he discusses 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 just a few months ago, he's surged in the polls automatically. 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 he's even pushed present, calling his traditionally like to be part of the center debate to the right with policies that he's made and policies he will be campaign on in this election. so this is an election that is going to be fought, put too much exclusively on right wing issues. and that is partly due to voices like eric some more. 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's certainly a voice that we will hear a lot of in the next few months. or that is a for me, this hour. i will be back in just under 34 minutes with a look at your head like this is our to, to that, ah, immediately points us intelligence warns of a russian false flag operation to provoke an invasion of ukraine to those of us who are skeptical this sure sounds like still another weapons of mass destruction. conspiracy theory also, how bad things get ah

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a with this is boom, box one business so you can't afford that number and your board and i'm rachel blevins in washington. coming up. the world economic forum has kicked off its virtual from it will tell you what kind of president had to say and what we've learned about the performance of the chinese economy in 2021. manufacturers and the u. k. are feeling the heat from storing inflation. we'll take a look at how those rising prices are impacting the post bracket era blog as the crypto space continue to expand. the 1st european nathan is taking step to curb the influx of advertisement. we'll look into what's going on in spain with

a lot to get to. let's go and we lead the program with the latest economic data out of china, where growth slowed in the 4th quarter to 4 percent bringing the total growth for 2021 to 8 point one percent. now, while it was less than expected, it comes after a year in which beijing launch crackdowns on both the tech and real estate sectors, as it continued to recover from the pandemic. now addressing the world economic forum virtually on monday chinese president sheeting tang pointed to plans to promote common prosperity in the year to come. we have realized a moderately prosperous society in all respects and won the battle against poverty . both according to plan and found a historic solution to ending absolute poverty. now, china is marching on a new journey of building a modern socialist the country in all respects. now all tensions continue between

the u. s. and china also building between the us and russia. president, she argued the focus right now should be on turning away from a cold war mentality and focusing instead on developing new drivers of economic growth and facilitating cross border trade is major economies slam on the brakes will take. you turn in the monetary policies. there will be serious negative spill offers. they will present challenges to global economic and financial stability and developing countries would bear the brunt of it. and joining us out of this gas has been less co host, christy i. now, christy, what do you make of the latest economic data from china? i mean, we saw growth decrease from near by nearly one percent from the 3rd quarter to the 4th. is that to be expected, given the slow down in china? is real estate sector? well yes it is to.