u. k. o. well then, anger the, his handling of the pandemic comes in addition to the outraged felts about the alleged downing street christmas party last year. it is said to have happened despite strict lockdown rules, as well as further claims of government hypocrisy. but a supposed quiz party involving the prime minister himself. meanwhile, brittany started to counts only con cases in the thousands. now, with the very it counting for 20 percent of all infections in the country, more than 40 percent in london, the prime ministers try to get ahead of the curve at wave bring in his plan b of new restrictions. an accelerated roll out of booster jumps. but even members of his own party are not convinced that that is the way forward. we are not papers please society, this is not nazi. germany brought us get an update on this from our correspondent in europe. pay to oliver morning peters, the prime ministers plan's not going down very well with the people of u. k. it seems certainly not going down well

but hospitalizations and deaths remain well below previous peaks. europe is also seeing a massive rise in cases with its leave from spain and the u. k. o reporting reco daily infections in the past week. or massive jumps and testing results can be attributed to the christmas period. hospitals are still on the huge amounts of pressure or challenge reports from london. dady cases, a skyrocketing hand, cobit hospitalizations in england, or event flyer, since february, alarm bells ringing. there's an ami kron surge is about to crash over the already struggling national health service. so if we keep them increasing, especially it, of course the pressures are, again, my thing week on week when you've got workforce, as i've said, that's already up to 550 for nurses on many more. and so 5 saying then of course, the pressures are building and building and building. so what will it be like in january, contingency plans are being put in place to cope with existing hospital capacity becomes overwhelmed with new temporary boards built the house patients. 8 temporary hub, being built at hospitals around the country, each one with a capacity of $100.

the vaccine booster shot, the w h o says the country has seen a 255 percent increase in cases in the past week. well, while in the u. k, the health secretary has warned that it could see a 1000000 mclean infections by the end of the month. cases of the new variant have been doubling every 2 to 3 days. at austria has outlined its plan to make current virus vaccines. compulsory officials previously hinted as a maximum fine of about $4000.00 for those who refused the job. well we'll get more from from eda miller on the situation in south africa in a moment professor because of the dominant came for the very latest on the measures in australia that have just been involved and don't make it really to sound like austria is taking a very hard line, whether the public like it or not there's no question that the austrian government, felts, when it's announced some weeks ago that a mandatory vaccine requirement was coming and that a lockdown was necessary. there was no doubt that the wave of covey that was washing across their country was so bad. they felt they have no option well to day . they have presented their proposals, a

o. s . use and iphones made by apple, an android which is owned by google. well, it's those 2 tech giants that are now the subject of a 445 page report from the u. k. 's anti trust regulator, which describes the companies as having a vice like grip on the consumers who use their products, their report notes, a ways in which apple and google lock consumers into their ecosystem. encouraging users to choose their apps and making it difficult for 3rd party vendors and browsers to compete at all. now the anti trust regulator is accusing apple and google of limiting innovation and choice, which it says has an impact on millions of consumers in the u. k. a load this report is one of several from the you case competitions and markets authority, which is calling for the british government to give it more power to target tech giants and their dominance in the market. both apple and google, of course, have denied the accusations and said they value competition that i bet they do while defending the exclusive nature of their products. a final report from the regulator is expected to be released in june of 2022 and time. now for quick breaks, but when we come b