RT News - January 17 2022 (17:00 MSK)

Covid protests erupt in Europe - as countries ratchet-up new restrictions making the lives of the un-vaxxed ever more complicated. As scientists predict Omicron will rapidly become the dominant strain of Covid globally this year we hear the latest from the World Health Organization. Distracted by Party-Gate - the British media is dominated by headlines over the Prime Minister's lockdown parties - ignoring a host of other crises, from record inflation to surging living costs. Forced offline - a notorious hacker group is taken down by Russia's Federal Security Service, at Washington's request but the US continues to accuse Russia of being behind other cyber crimes.