even that never changed. that industry has been influencing very deeply. the medical and scientific establishment, ah, what's driving the vehicle, its corporate, me. ah stub in the bag from ben said frustration a 3 of its allies, the us, the u. k. underst really a believe it over pacific security, a low and seen of country china you're buying make some embarrassing slip up while another thing the deal apparently forgetting the name of the street enterprise minister. thank you bores and i want to thank that total down under thank you very much. i appreciate it was famous also ahead while european markets reel from weapons, these records storage,

industrial gas prices with a knock on effect on the pockets of customers. we look at the root causes of the crisis. rushes parliamentary election is just a day away. we will bring you the full breakdown. this is our, the 3 days i around the clock across the world. this is art to, thanks for choosing us for your global use. update this our to our top story. a stub and the buck french diplomat did not go back in describing a pacific security pack between 3 of its allies. this week. the u. s. the u. k. industry we're seeing as an attempt to counter beijing less cross live now to our u. k. correspondence. shoddy edwards dusty for more on this. show the front,

clearly upset by the agreement. take us through why and what it's about. well, put it this way for the french, it seems like australia was only with fraud until a better deal offer came along, which invariably it has australia originally asked france to help with its submarine mission, but has now walked away and walking away also comes with scrapping a 90000000 year road deal instead, australia now wants to assign this tax with the united kingdom and the united states, which for the french, they say it's a stop in the back. the world is a jungle. france has just been reminded this bitter truth by the way, the u. s. and the u. k of stopped her in the back in australia fil a v. the american choice to exclude the european ally and partner such as franz from restructuring partnership with australia at the time when we are facing unprecedented challenges in the, in the pacific region shows

a lack of coherence that france can only notes and regret. so instead of failure has signed this security parks with the united kingdom and the united states overgrown consent over china and its regional dominance. although quite interestingly, none of the 3 leaders of those states even mentioned the word china. although they did say it wasn't directed up any one country in particular, but when the deal was struck, all 3 leaders of the nations talked about shared values, shed interest on the need to secure peace and stability and the endo pacific region . now under this deal then what it all really entails is that all 3 nations will be sharing secrets and data and information on a strategic level on areas, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and also nuclear defense. part of this, we'll see that australia will now acquire a nuclear submarine making the 7th country in the world to get

a nuclear sop just the last time that the united states allowed such capabilities was right here to the united kingdom some decades ago. so very grand gesture, indeed. however, it's not just the likes of france quite upset by the signing of this new security parks, but neighboring countries like new zealand to have long been working towards nonproliferation in the region. the center piece of it is nuclear powered submarines. no part is a very well versed and understanding position of nuclear power vessels and weapons . i will legislation says no vessel holy are fully powered by nuclear energy, can anto internal waters. but look, britain is also quite eager to be more involved in areas like the asia pacific, especially after the exit from the european union. we have to remember that the united kingdom on its government has long been trying to re brad and re establish it self as a global britain. but all of this will really push europe to now be more fundamental

in its own strategic planning. in fact, the block was not even informed about this new u. s. u. k, australia, security partnership. so that quite angry at that too. it all comes again at a time when e. u. member states are also struggling to meet the funding commitments in nato as well. so it seems like that could be a white, a geo political back class backlash than just that of china. jedi, thanks for taking us through all of us. a lot of interesting points raise their u. k. correspondence. shelby edwards dusty. let's go through some of the things with luke. repay independent journalist speaking to us from brussels, always good to have you in the program. look. can we talk about the, the wider impact here that the you, for instance, say's it wasn't informed about this new deal. why would they be kept out of such significant security discussion? well, there is no, you are not the fan. you know, our countries like germany,

like the u. k, that was in europe until recently, all from our exporting weapons. and they don't tell their all of their friends within the european union of our sales because they're all competing with each other in on this issue of the submarines, germany and sweden blade and nasty role criticising to french saying that the submarines were not secure and safe you know, they, everybody tries everybody to it, to himself, that that's the way it happens in europe. so there is no unit of the fence on the ground in nato, but there is none in selling weapons to friendship advantage are very good at selling weapons. they're excellent systems bought down to too much the mavericks of international to politics. you know, so it's evident that that would happen. australia is the form of commonwealth

country, the queen still somehow, you know, respected very much over there. so the big thing language is britain and, and the us even the precedent by them this forgot the name of the towel, down under to very close with the american. so the deal is of course sweet, probably sweeter than than the french. but it is mostly a question of reliability of the core of this wise than defense that if britain, the us and a straight you for the south pacific, where was a sort of new cold war is installing itself with china. let's just go a little bit more in depth and on from, from their reaction. look, you got the foreign minister and the former and buster to the us. you know, big names, big deployments, both calling the dealer stop in the box. how much of a blow is this to france losing a $66000000000.00 separating deal for the country by capital?

it's a $66000000000.00 us dollars because the trillion dollars, so it's just a 6000000000 euro. but for france, it's only 8000000000. the, the part, the industrial part produced in trunk would only have been $8000000000.00 euro, which is much less than the whole contract, which is why this goes back a lot would have been transferred to australia and produced in a straight. it will be the same actually with the new british american contract with a straight you. so it's bad for france, they make it into a big thing. but again, france is an ally, but a difficult ally for the other western powers within nato trumps is so independent since the goal that they say yes i'm time. they say no some all the time and they sell their weapons, must be off pixar and create. are that you've done a deal from country to country and in stoops to more countries perhaps with bigger as you're seeing historical ties. but still, there's

a lot of money at stake in this deal. we don't quite know many billions the streaming taxpayer is going to have to spend. it's not transparent now, which is that's true and of course stated that the, your thread will have to compensate probably financially right from, for this. i don't know what, what level of corresponding stations all these thought now because they were very far into the decision making between the french and your straight them. so it's raining or somehow a stabbing back coming so late in the process. you know, after years and years of discussions and preparations, the friend shaw, understandably angry about this, but all you've got ma chrome. then of course he's going to have the you're if other european leaders saying he feels disappointed. does that spark a broader risk between the u. s. and the, what's happened when it comes to security corporation at least look,

i don't think so. not between you when america, between france and america, of course, that's the, that's a problem. but not really, between the e u, in america book at the, the, the, the french plains, there are all, for example, that was sold to several countries, but not all those because the staple showed the american plain, even in europe, the unified to made by germany, britain and office was preferred to the french in many european countries so that there is no unity in yard for military contracts are tall and francis considered sometimes to ireland and to independence by appeal. so, oh, no problem with america for the you. on the other point, then a stream how stressed that this pack won't give it nuclear weapons. but given that there will be long range missiles on board. do you think china is going to believe that? i think china knows, of course, everybody knows about be in the military terms and i don't think

it's clear that this is a nuclear submarines in the sense that they are powered by nuclear motors while the, the engine self that the french submarines would have been diesel. so it has it is nuclear power submarines but they are not launching midsize that would be new. nuclear has not at all. it is really important for australia travel fans including a very powerful navy and submarines. the 12 submarines would come and d for that. but it is nobody and even the chinese i think, would not believe that it would lead to nuclear weapons in the hands of australia. ok, interesting thoughts discussion, as always with luke renee independent journalists live from brussel. thank you.

well, the lines between the u. s. and us truly might not be as close as it seems when one thing the new security deal president buying the peer to forget the name of a surely as prime minister. scott morrison. thank you bores and i want to thank that fell down under. thank you very much. appreciated as to privacy, australia, the us and france have repeatedly cited this supposed security threat from beijing in the indoor pacific region were chinese. the dominant power on the signing of the august security pack comes just months after britain infuriated the chinese by sending its worships to the south china sea to join, so called freedom of navigation operations, led by the us. china has condemned the new alliance, calling it a throwback to the cold war. counters should not build, exclusionary blogs targeting or harming the interests of 3rd parties. in particular, they should shake off their cole were mentality and ideological prejudice. or we

spoke about a st. louis choice as military partners and where it could be leading with economics, professor benjamin on 1st anti war activist richard becker. there's no explanation . why are the u. s. and the u. k. now, at this time, helping a strange develop a nuclear power suite of submarines and then turning around and saying this will advance the world peace. clearly this is about another war. this is about a war that is being prepared against china. the us leaders, they talk about the endo pacific just of course, and the term was made up to enable us to explain us leaders explain, bringing more countries into the anti china alliance, surrounded china. on the surface, we see that the u. s. and the u. k. is empowering australia to have the nuclear

submarine. i think the under one key reason for this empowerment is the us in the ability to provide more defense budget, to support this and large spending of nuclear power summaries. so it says it is forcing australia to share the cost of maintaining such ships and also strategic positions. and also. ready forces in yourself, china and also in the pacific region, especially now that there is increasing tension between new china in australia. so china is watching very closely. the next steps of this free country. a light in europe is reeling from a price shock on its energy markets. natural gas rates hit an all time record on wednesday of almost a $1000.00 per 1000 cubic meters. this is how market roller coaster looked on wednesday. the price paid $980.00,

which is more than 50 percent higher than just 2 weeks ago. by late evening, things had come down somewhat, but i was warning further volatility will come. while the current crisis is being blame partly on energy policies being pushed by western governments or t. charlotte to pinsky texas through at all with news the gas prices in historic highways. many people are already concerned about the difficult decisions that lay ahead high school. and also it's a bit scary, it's purchasing power that is decreasing. that puts more money in the pockets of shareholders of big companies. it will be quite difficult for many households. some will not be affected much, but most will be. the price of gas is already high enough. i've already decided not to heat my apartments for a while longer. it's quite difficult in winter, but it's still in habitable. if i put the heating back on at home, the bill easily climbed $250.00 euros a month. i'm worried about this increase and the fact that will have in my bills

and the cost of living with what we have left at the end of the month, it will be complicated, except for the money. i hate my home with gas if they increase the price of a year, a time will come when we will no longer be able to afford to keep ourselves warm. you would see is a real issue here in europe across the block, significant numbers of people say that they just simply call to food to keep her home warm enough. a price is why this is only likely to find further, particularly for those who are low income, such as pension is soaring. prices have been blamed on a variety of factors. those include the weather and even the tougher between european and asian bias liquefied natural gas. all of this has led to gas reserves languishing levels. so why is you really facing such a potentially winter?

that is not purely a supply problem. it's not really a supply chain problem. this is a monetary induced problem. part of what politicians do in this says they tend to concoct conspiracy theories to cover up for their own failures. so in the case of europe, everybody runs to blame russia. i think there's a lot of scrambling and it starts now all around the world to try to figure out how to get the fuels to people who need it for the, for the, for the coming winter. but it's a little bit late in the day to be thinking about this right now. so i think we're headed for a very the school 6 months. it's also claimed that the e u has been aggressive with a shutdown of coal and all to its own domestic gas fields, coupled with a heavy carbon taxation. while at the same time, it hasn't gotten quite enough to make up for that by committing fully to carbon future this tremendous attack on fossil fuel chills going on all over the western

world. you know, in the name of abating climate change and so on. but it's been very reckless and, and it's, and it's really has injured the capacity of the market to respond to, to pi signals and to demand properly. so you have all these factors working in. so you've got a supply restrictions, artificial, in many directions, regulatory restrictions and so on. and all these things are combining from an economic point of view to drive up prices that are going to make people to tremendously suffer and multifarious ways of now. and for the next several years. so what is the solution? will be you, companies could hook to compete at a higher level with asian counterpart for that liquefied natural gas food that does mean that there is the potential then the higher prices on phase always

last week. the long awaited new stream to pipeline which runs under the bowl of exceed was completed now said 55000000 cubic meters of gas directly to your repair for you. that's enough to supply 26000000 household annually. russian company gas from says it's ready to fill the void. that's according to the country's government, could solve europe problems. there is no doubt that launching nor stream to as quickly as possible would significantly balance out the price of natural gas in europe, including on the spot market. that will though, depend on the certifying the pipeline quick shot fish and accepting that it may need to bolster it supply from russia. so what all you repeat governments doing right now will, spain has already intervened to attempt to shield its population from higher prices

. new emergency measures will see profits problem with energy companies being used to cap the increase in gas prices. meanwhile, italy has said that we'll look at changes in energy sector to combust of expected 40 percent rise in retail power prices in the next quarter. what's clear is the, you need a strategy, and if it's to push ahead with plans to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, it needs to be deeper. quickly show the tv sci fi paris. there is just a day to go before a russians cast their ballots in elections for the state during that countries lower house of parliament. let's take a brief look at how the process is going to work. the,

[000:00:00;00] the, the, and we can continue with our deeper dive into those 14 parties running for the state duma by taking a look at those driving an environmental agenda. the greens promote the conservation of nature. this year the party got itself a new chairman who continued to push to unite all those who, quote, care about ecology and russia. the party began as a social movement back in 1993, seeking a so name, green revolution. last time out though, in 2016 they claimed a little less than one percent of the vote. here's how the parties, new leader set out his store for this years. morning. you were not in

a position party where a centrist party want our agenda, focusing on the environment, to be represented in the duma. so we can pass laws, the citizens and country need every person, no matter where they live, has their own environmental issue. they have their own environmental history, probably the raise a change of the hearts of minds of people who have become more environmentally conscious. so the past couple of years like for example, sorting, sorting to garbage and so on and so forth. recycling and all of that. and of course this would be something that the greens would pin their hopes to that people have indeed become more conscious in this sense of the word and that they will back them and back their initiatives. again. they are stressing that they're not strictly speaking and opposition party. what that means is that they are supporting the current geopolitical course of russia, but they want to see most spotlights on the environmental agenda on the green and gen after all. the other greens and it is a universal concept, a universal political concept,

of course. so here's how the party chairman described and talked about the key builds that they are planning to introduce. if of course they get enough public support, you will not have about 10 legislative proposals dedicated to that. the 1st focus is on organic agriculture. we want to support our farmers, so they could stop using come food, chemicals, and that's very important. and then we think it's important to impose greater fines and allow for other forms of legal action to make sure business owners and shareholders act responsibly. so again, everything from encouraging recycling to well turn to energy sources in russia, and with well bolstering that present here to even supporting and backing the russian science and encouraging them to focus their research on a more environmental agenda, so to speak. now again, russia recently did pass a law that encouraging companies to be more green and even the wars them with so

called green points, that they will be able to cash out. so we'll see if this course, if this was federal, causing this govern mental course, helps the greens with their agenda. and would that cause well at the election moving to the center of the political spectrum. next, the current majority, party, and election favorite united russia is the de facto ruling party. it's also the largest in the country. it's german is the former prime minister dmitri med, of the party, supports the program of the president. and among its goals, a strengthening rushes, sovereignty. its economic agenda include support for domestic industry, with an emphasis on high tech sectors. the tranquil looks now at what the new ball it could mean for united russia. they are the ruling party. they are the favorites . always pretty much they are the party which 5 years ago, set

a record by winning 344 seats out of 450. but how well united russia fair in this year's election, at some point, any long standing champion inevitably faces a career way, 2 months before the vote support for the party dropped to 27 percent. it didn't get that low. in 13 years, many have called. busy it a crisis of trust. it required swift, daring, sometimes surprise moves, party leader dmitri, me advantage was removed as one of its top 5 candidates. the light up is now it makes of political behemoths who enjoy huge public support and new names who won the people's respect. like the country's leading coven, dr. ah, the

a recent opinion poll showed 95 percent of those questioned recognized rushes minister of defense survey showing you. so if counting on how familiar the most important faces of the party are, was part of the plan. the tactic is beginning to work. lot of our food and though isn't on the list and isn't even a member of united russia officially, but the president has long been associated with the party and even let it for a while. in the past, he's been talking of the immense responsibility that united russia has to bear as the ruling party. you should have. thank you. i want to reiterate my position. it is one thing to write something that is right and important, and toward a beautifully. and it is another thing to implement it. you and i are aware that the ruling police, the party is responsible for everything and all the countries problems. but you have act responsibly so far. and the program has turned out to be quite feasible. united russia proudly calls. busy it's manifesto the people's program. it was put

together after considering online suggestions from $2000000.00 russian citizens. the main goal is to boost the public squad of life with special attention to healing the direct and indirect effects of the pandemic. ah, so like i said, united russia isn't going through the easiest of times. serious blows to the parties, reputation have included criminal charges. and in some cases, jail terms for mayor's governor's cabinet ministers even who had to be kicked out of united russia for fraud and corruption. in some cases lately, however, the party was left red faced because some of its senior members simply forgot about decent matters. seen more reminiscent of

a dog owner playing with his boot. where certainly unseemly for a governor given the keys from new fire trucks to a brigade. well, soon after that the official lost his job party membership and definitely lost united russia support in his region. but it still remains the most popular political force in the country. yes, it scheme to take advantage of the experience and trust behind some old school. big names like mr. lab, rav and mr. shaw group. but on like a stagnating bureaucracy, the party is ready to count on fresh faces. it's ready for reform and it's trying to get as many russians as possible involved in it, decisions using contemporary online methods and it all gets going in less than 24 hours. the clock ticks towards election 2021 will continue

a special coverage throughout the day. the a vast majority of americans are unhappy with the country's direction under the biden administration, according to a new nation wide pole, or u. s. correspondent, kill us and has been asking people why the dismay joe biden was supposed to end, that rising anger left over from the trump. here he was supposed to bring a new level of political peace to the country. remember, the last administration left us a dismantled and unworkable system we are dedicated to achieving and quite frankly, working around the clock to replace the cruelty of the past administration. well, that did not happen. a new poll from cnn shows that across party lines, 75 percent of americans say they are angry or very angry about the direction of the country is moving in a mid rise in crime corona virus, the immigration crisis,

record inflation, among other issues. let's find out exactly why people have a beef with biden. he's just joined or i know the world, not just as country the world are still on the things with it isn't always doing. and i believe with the whole off garrison doing you just straight up totally the whole organic fiasco wrong. you say he's making mistakes or perhaps your way to draw a gun at the whole thing, whatever you and then he's not real. he's not the president. he's not people up control him, a lot of people aggravated disappointed with the way the cobra coverage is going. know could handle things differently, but what president could the lack of leadership? i don't think he's got a grip on anything that's going on at all. the white house, so it's rising trajectory come to a sudden halt. jo biden's approval ratings are now in the negative. the president was promising to be our fix at mann. but now more than 8 months in it's looking like things are pretty broken that's been caused by this prevalent,