thank support alexei navalny, who is in present -- present at the moment, -- who is in prison at the moment. they are basically facing a court case in november which is likely to declare them illegal, which means they will have to shut down, and this headquarters behind me will no longer function. mark: russia closing down the rights group apparently for its criticism of president putin. record numbers of covid cases in germany. 235 people died in just one day. german authorities say not enough people are being vaccinated and plan to enforce extra restrictions. >> carnival season is happening this year in germany, despite covid, starting with festivities in cologne. there are those who enjoy themselves almost like in the days before the pandemic. >> it is nice we can also party during coronavirus times, and it is safe here. >> those who believe that being this close to hundreds of thousands of people is not necessarily safe were not in the crowd. germany has passed 50,000 new daily infections, the highest gear so far. many germans are vaccinated -- about 78% of people over 12 have re

the group is being prosecuted under pressure's foreign agents law being used against alexei navalny.say the law protects russia from foreign interference. >> is a total disgrace they are trying to liquidate us on absurd charges. this is above all a crackdown on russian civil society. correspondent: the group says it has already paid more than $80,000 in fines. supporters hope the case will be thrown out as happened in 2015 with the supreme court rejected another case brought by the justice ministry. the political climate has changed significantly since then with a widespread crackdown on dissent. host: football fans worldwide are paying tribute to a late start the year after his death. thousands of people gathered outside the stadium that bears his name. he is revered by supporters. players from his former team and their opponents formed is number 10 during a minute long applause. our correspondent has more from buenos aires. correspondent: many fence still see him as a hero, the man who brought the world cup in 1986. they see him as the greatest player the world is ever seen. people

we took robust action in our to the poisoning and the attempted murder of >> see navalny -- >> alexei navalny. as we set out in april this year, russia's foreign intelligence service was behind a series of cyber intrusions, including the solar winds compromise. there are significant human rights concerns in china, and also hong kong. i am proud we have not forgotten our strong ties with hong kong. we created new routes for those with overseas status who will be able to live their life free from the fear of oppression. in july, the united kingdom and our partners were able to confirm that chinese state-backed actors response for gaining access to computer networks by microsoft exchange servers. access to email accounts, acquiring data, and deploying malware. this affected more than a quarter of a one million servers worldwide, and those hit included the norwegian parliament and the european banking authority. the united kingdom signed a bilateral agreement setting out acceptable a viewer in cyberspace for china in 2015, and we continue to hold china accountable for it. december 2018, the u.k.

google took down alexei navalny's youtube videos.an government threatened apple and google and they both caved quickly and did what putin wanted them to do in terms of crushing dissent and crippling the opposition. is there a role for the u.s. government to play to stop american private companies from doing putin's bidding like that or for doing things like that for other authoritarian regimes around the world? >> well, i think there is, but let's start first at home, rachel. i share your concern about what happened in the russian elections, but i think first we have to take necessary legislative and regulatory action to begin to regulate the way that our social media and tech companies operate. you know, we had to have new rules for the industrial age at the beginning of the last century. well, we certainly need new rules for the information age because our current laws, our framework is just not adequate for what we're facing. there are a number of very good ideas about how to both apply existing laws and to fill the gaps that exis