Instead of Angel Merkel, the new chancellor of Germany can become the Minister of Health of the country and a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Jens SPPA. SPA is already discussing the opportunity to take the post of chancellor with the party leadership. When a number of conditions coincide, he has a chance to lead the German government, writes Bild , quoted by the Prime Agency.

The Russian crew of the Kamaz-Master team led by Andrei Karginov lost his first place following the results of the fifth stage of the Dakar rally-marathon in the offset of trucks. The reason for the judicial sanctions is not taken navigation point, the press service of the team clarifies. According to the results of the special fiber, the current winner of Dakar Karginov was fined for 20 minutes and sank to seventh place in the stage.

The Russian skier Alexander Bolshunov won 15 km in the overall race from the general start of the classical style as part of the traditional multi-day "Tour de Sk" in the Italian Val-Di-Femm. Bolshunov won the fifth in a row the victory in the tournament, repeating the record of the Russian Sergei Ustyugov 2017. At the finish of the 15-kilometer distance, Alexander for 1.8 seconds ahead of the owner of the route Francesco de Fabiani.

Crimea entered in 2021 with a whole "bouquet" of problems: from economic troubles due to pandemia of coronavirus to acute water deficiency. This occurs against the background of a reduction of 18% of federal subsidies to Crimea compared to 2019. The Russian authorities of the peninsula predict that the water supply graphs will remain throughout 2021. The situation was aggravated by the December drought on the peninsula.

Capitol police confirmed the death of its employee, who suffered during the riots in the building of the Congress on January 6. The US police officer Brian D. Siknik was injured during clashes with protesters. After completing the task, he returned to the office and lost consciousness. The policeman was hospitalized in a local hospital, where he died on the evening of January 7 by local time (on the morning of January 8, Moscow time).

The BIONTECH/PFIZER vaccine from COVID-19 is effective in the fight against a key mutation available to the new coronavirus options, including the British Strack and Mutations imported from South Africa .

The mayor of London Sadik Khan said that the situation with the coronavirus in London got out of control and declared an emergency. According to government estimates, the number of British infected in the capital exceeded 1000 people for every 100 thousand people. The Bureau of National Statistics calls an even higher figure: according to their estimates, every 30th resident could be infected in London.

The cost of the most popular cryptocurrency - bitcoin - on Friday, January 8, updated the historical maximum, for the first time exceeding the level of $ 41 thousand. According to the CoinmarketCap portal, calculating the average price of more than 20 exchanges, bitcoin costs 9.79%, up to 40,612 dollars. At the largest cryptocurrency trading in the Binance Exchange, Bitcoin grew in price by 9.58%, up to 40,602 dollars.

The daily increase in Russia of new coronavirus infection was over 23.6 thousand cases, 454 patients died. "Over the past day, in Russia, confirmed cases of a new coronavirus infection Covid -19 - 23 652 in 84 regions, including 2,697 (11.4%) without clinical manifestations," the operational headquarters said. The growing result in the Russian Federation registered 3,355,794 cases of coronavirus infection, 60 911 dead and 2,731,129 issued (21,677 were discharged over the last day).

The number of coronavirus infections in the world from the beginning of the pandemic by noon on Friday, January 8, reached 88 million 76 thousand 175 cases, according to the data of the American University of Jones Hopkins. All over the world, the number of diseases associated with COVID-19 diseases increased a day to 1 million 898 thousand 983, more than 62 million people recovered. Countries with 5 million or more contaminations of Covid-19 include the USA, India and Brazil.

In the Lomonosovsky district of the Leningrad region, a private light-engine aircraft Piper-28 (on-board room RA-2659 G) fell during takeoff). He collided in the air with the Cessna-150 aircraft (on-board number RA-1448 G). The press service of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies reported that Piper light-engine aircraft fell during the take-off of the Gostilitsa airfield.

The elected US President Joe Biden sharply criticized the current president Donald Trump, accusing him of undermining American democracy and inciting, which led to riots in Washington on January 6. The supporters of Trump, who burst the day before into the building of the Capitol, Baiden called not to call "protesters." “These were not protesters. And do not even try to call them protesters,” said the elected president of the United States. “It was a gang of pogromers. Rioters.

One of the detainees in Washington on charges of participating in the riots in the Capitol required a translator from the Russian language. According to The Washington Post , several dozen people detained during the riots in the Capitol, on Thursday appeared in court. As previously reported by the acting The federal prosecutor in Washington Mike Sherwin, 40 cases were initiated on the Capitol Hill, another 15 were expected until the end of the day on Thursday.

The Israeli government intends until the end of March 2021 to instill in the coronavirus the entire population over 16 years old. According to Bloomberg , the country's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed on the supply of the required number of doses of the vaccine with Pfizer. On January 7, the first batch of Moderna vaccines was also taken to Israel.

In 2020, the Russian Guard spent 2 billion 59 million rubles on equipment, equipment and special equipment that are used in the dispersal of protests, MBH Media reports with reference to the data of the public procurement portal. Most of the money - 839.5 million rubles - the department spent transport for transportation of personnel. After 10 tenders for 696.2 million rubles, the Russian Guard purchased 279 buses of the stamps of LiAZ, PAZ, KAVZ and Urals.