ah, ah how europeans brace for soaring winter dal spells ells, rushes president say's record prices are partly done to misguided policies in the d . you'd also head on the program to try to smear paired as domestics. harry just reflects just how tone death school boys in school in history has become american parents face and f. b. i crack done for speaking out against pupils being forced to wear masks on the teaching of that controversial critical race theory. a new york ethics commission

probes its own decision to a law former governor andrew cuomo to rick and $5000000.00 for his book about that . and, and like we hear from the daughter of a care home coven fixed him in the state. his whole entire investigation feels like one big show to me. our family members. a for us weaving nursing home families. they are their dad. they're not coming back. and it's exactly 20 years since the u . s. coalition invaded afghanistan with the country now in milton families are having to resort to unthinkable when your stomach is empty. you can't think about the dark side. so i'm forced to sell a few of my kids to feed others. there's no option leverage with across the globe around the world. this is the news our on our t pleasure that have your company. my name's unit o'neill. europe's energy markets

are really from extreme price volatility with natural gas rates. now, edging back from an all time record, it's left households across the continent, feeling the impact ahead of what's forecast to be a very cool winter. ah ah,

what russia is? europe's biggest gas supplier on vladimir putin now said, the current shortage is partly done to the use own mistakes. he accused brussels of short sightedness for insisting on a switch from long term gas contracts to immediate spell. treating the president also stressed at moscow will keep to its obligations under existing contracts. as she said, she guessed from believes that it would be more profitable for it to pay a fine t crate and increase the gas volume pumping through the new systems. there's more pressure in the pipe, less c o 2 emissions into the atmosphere. everything turns out cheaper and a $3000000000.00 a year. but there's no need for that. it is necessary to 40 comply with the contractual obligations for the transitive gas through ukraine. although it is more profitable to sell it on the exchange, but there is no need to but any one in a difficult position, including ukraine despite the difficulties in relations. second has no need to

undermine gas pumps. confidence is an absolute reliable palm that in all respects, the new system of president putin was referring to is north stream to a major infrastructure project which will deliver a gas under the baltic sea from russia to germany. it's not complete on the project operator has already started filling one section with gas, but it still needs the final green light from germany on several countries are resisting the project, branding it a threat to energy security and damaging for ukraine. moscow rejects those accusations, stating the pipeline will only help europe, and that gas transit through ukraine will continue while maintaining a trusted energy partnership between russia and europe is a key focus of an international gas forum taking place in st. petersburg. it's day 3 of the gathering on her correspondent lip, a tranquil is there for us. oh, look at all these complicated tubes,

valves taps gas industry equipment. this has literally become a nightmare for energy officials. lately. natural gas prices in europe have been astonishing. governments across the region, while, while now the previous st. petersburg, international gas form mostly grabbed the attention of the most important business figures and experts and the field this year. many more eyes are on the gas form and st. petersburg, as the understanding of the crucial role of natural gas in heating and industrial manufacturing in europe has hit many decision makers, where in the midst of the worst energy crisis and decades, some of the world's richest countries are struggling. and winter is coming. perhaps a cold winter as the forecasts are sank. just ahead of this form, the russian president vladimir putin shared his views on what he called mistakes in the european energy policies of the recent years fuses because you can't just

forget about the stable development of the oil, gas and cold industries. you can see what's happening in europe, this hysteria and confusion, the markets. why is because they don't take it seriously. so must speculating about climate change while there's underestimates in things. and they're those reducing investments and nick starts of industries. there should be a smooth transition in st. petersburg russians, top energy officials and the most senior management ad gas from russia's energy giant will be joined by the ceo's of the likes of unit her and winters hall. germany's energy behemoths and also the heads of the international gas union and also the world energy council. it will be up to them inevitably to tame the market . now, one of the solutions many in europe are currently counting on is the launching of nord stream to the project as real hope for many major players in the industry.

but you may also remember that it used to have and actually still has many enemies, both in the region and also across the atlantic in america. it has the potential to undermine the interests of ukraine, poland, a number of other close partners or allies. 3 knows i have issued a fine against gas from and 5 companies involved in the building of the north stream to gas pipeline. it was because one voice with barnes then ostrom, $25.00 plan is unacceptable and represents the danger for the whole europe. him european countries may not be so keen to continue to be dependent on natural gas imports from russia. but many here in saint petersburg understands that keeping russia as a trustworthy partner is very important to make sure that the crisis doesn't come back any time soon. i'm delighted to welcome live on to the program now the chairman of the world energy council, joan re do. shane you are very welcome sir. a little perhaps about your

organization. could you tell us about your role in the world energy council and its relevance to the current situation in europe? well, the world energy also is a independence, a neutral and truly global non profit organization. weighs a 100 years of existence in gather for thousands of thousands of people within 100 count more than 100 countries of the world. well, and we were wake, does not advocate for any particular country york technology, but it brings common sense people together was institution to freely better understand a change on the local best practice of each other. he just had she, we had to be creative. there were a wall,

one was the ideal. how could we do long energy for the people? and nowadays in the, in the time were very, very be change or emerging to the she has seen. it is extremely important. there are places where people invoke a need for a change on practically delusional their or their own needs. so they are request on the way we're phase this energy transition. we are very good to couldn't moment of. so the called in a crisis. we asked tina we have and we have to relaunch our economies and energy is being very more controlled. and lastly, to say that we are facing a very, very big transition as the one. we have a humanity. nice, very seldom cross and it is very important that cooperation

in a change and information and trust. what are the, i just all non issue of trust after throwing jean marie to an all time record the gas price settled on some want to after letting her putins reassurances about supplies through ukraine. do you think that will settle the markets? no, i think i do recall that festival to the price tissue as, as you have a gen and something that we are going through many, many times in harvest. i think to day the reason why we are at this difficult situation was that price absent dawns. that's a very, very high level, simply is, is a soto of reaction or what happens after the coverage of the covetous decrees devolved to such a degree? now he's further back to 2 and a half side and maybe investments and have been deferred in some cases in

your house on climate tick. thank you. so you have many, many elements and also because the impacts of climate change. oh, so push the into the, the countries to move out of the most undertaking and editing an entry and that it has an impact, of course on to pursue it's, it's not one single factor. it's okay factor. but what i can say is that, i think having a very big volatility in prices of gas, but also all the energy is no good news. i think it's not a good way because it creates more it's, it's empty. so who i think is a good phone, a was washer and he pointed out cooperation replaced with tom there to and us or that lou void after that, let me just put one more aspect to it. is the ease switched to renewable energy

being carried? i too fast is not one of the aspects you're speaking by perhaps pushing prices up. in the meantime, it's difficult to answer because on the other side, you actually have seen the expert in charge of climate as crew to ne, a remitted to report which is a quite alarming. and the truth is that the emission globally, the world does not decrease and the impact on global warming is becoming concerning. in the sense that now the time where he may perhaps impact very significant the are or live in a society or not countries. he's now become more real, we to prove that people are a conscious of that. so there is a need for action, a weak action, but a road to go to less companies world is e p role road weighs it weighs very and on

the road some very difficult. so unfortunately, i'm afraid that we will continue to go through the counting phenomenon, but there is also a real sense of urgency to bring these reels on ocean. that benefits to go up there in the really need now to to bring good solution that reduce the impact o l. o for the energy. ok. many, many thanks for your time to determine of the world. energy council is jamari. do shay, much appreciated? thank you. and moving the program on the education authorities in the us are asking the government to use anti terror laws, uninvolved the f. b i against parents to protest against what their children are being taught and mandated to where in the classroom. namely, face masks, the national school boards association has sent an open letter to the biden

administration. these acts of malice, violence, and threats against public school officials have increased. the classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes for you to dare to try to sneer parents as domestics. harris just reflects just how tone deaf school boards and school administrators become about the please of parents on behalf of their children. while the u. s. attorney general has stepped in writing to the f. b, i and criminal attorneys and announcing plans to come by what he called a disturbing spike and harassment, intimidation on threats of violence against school person. now a lot of fee pushed back against that, including from lauren chair who spoke to my colleague and neil harvey. now she is of the view that the accusations i've been blowing out of proportion. the board's

letter does site some specific incidents. but if you actually look at the video footage from those incidents, most of the quote violence that they cite is actually things like parents refusing to wear masks. oh. 1 people come no, no. if the guardian didn't talk about critical race theory, which is pretty much we'll be picking who, how to hate each other. how that is, why at these meetings a lot of what they side as actually being domestic terrorism or violence actually is just tantamount to some harsh words being said in terms of actual violence. though i believe there's only one or 2 specific incidents that were actually led to an arrest that were mentioned in that letter. i think trying to get the f b i involved at all, frankly, just reeks of political activism. instead of actually trying to put students 1st, and i think parents are completely justified in seeing this as an attack on their rights as parents, the parents aren't shutting up for now though for the same the attorney general has got a conflict of interest in this case what do they mean by them?

the reason why the age is taking this letter from the school board association. so seriously is specifically because his daughter through marriage has ties to a firm that actually specializes in critical race theory, training or something akin to that. his family potentially might benefit financially from c r t actually being implemented in more and more schools throughout the country. how politicized a school life become these days seems like it's increasingly political. and there have been viral videos that have been leaked of students. sh filming their teacher is going on tirades against tromp systemic racism, america in general. we've even had teachers themselves posting to their social media accounts. i think a lot of parents have started to wake up. that no, you cannot simply take for granted that in education, the public school system is the same as what was happening when we were younger. recently, dozens of hers launched campaigns against coven restrictions on the teaching of a subject called critical race theory. controversial skill of thought,

the places racism of the center of public life. it's led to angry protests and the targeting of school board officials, parents accused of violating their children's right for liberal chapman who's a mother to 4 children in the state of georgia. so many parents simply have enough in today's culture, it's the government think that they, they, they believe what is proper and right. and what should your children should be taught. and so parents are experiencing a very difficult time trying to, in that change and their local communities as it relates to what's being taught in the government school. people are starting to wake up and they're starting to recognize that wait a minute. this is not the public education system that i am familiar with or that i grew up in. and it's time for me to take my head of the fan and kinda pay attention to what's going on. because they don't like what's being propagated and pushed and

down frankly, it's downright indoctrination to what their children are experiencing when they go to school and they're supposed to be learning. violence is never acceptable. so there are instances where parents are crossing the line and threat to turn into physical violence, then absolutely those incidences should be handled on the basis of their own individual merit. but that's not what we see happening here. they're taking one or 2 isolated in some instances and trying to make it seem as if parents who are be humanly opposed to what's being caught to their children in a government school. the former new york governor andrew cuomo is the focus of yet another investigation. this time from the states public ethics commission over its own approval of the book that he wrote on the pandemic. cuomo, whose missteps are blamed for thousands of covert debts. inter holmes is said to make some $5000000.00. from the memoir,

the daughter of one of those care home victims gave us her response to the panels and the commission has voted to prove the retention of independent counsel to conduct inquiry into the legal and procedural operations of the commission. this whole entire investigation feels like one big show to me. now the ethics commission already allow como to keep the $5100000.00 he made off of his blood money book allies. so frankly, i don't see the point and having the at the commission investigating cells, i want to try to be optimistic and on its face it's a small victory. and it's a step browser. earlier but i'm a realist in a month encouraged by this move, our family members a for us really nursing home families, their, their dad, they're not coming back. so number one, he should apologize. number 2, she give every cent that he made off his book to his many, many victims, and number 3, what i hope and he won't voluntarily he do this,

but i hope he ends up in prison. what he's done, a closed book deal is just a bomb of a series of scandals involving the former governor. he resigned in late august after numerous allegations of sexual misconduct. earlier in the pandemic. the governor was praised for his decisive faction to prevent the spread of co it, but in february it emerged that new york authorities had massively under report a death in nursing homes. it turned out that over 9000 patients had been primarily sent back to care facilities, leading to masses of preventable infections. tracy albino again thinks cool, most lucrative book deal as insult to injury in the beginning, when cold it emerged in new york. she was telling us to go out, you know, don't panic, panic is worse than the virus. and then the last minute he panicked and he made really, really poor decisions. he hasn't been held accountable yet. his resignation as

governor is not accountability. and as nursing on families, not only want answers what he needs to be held accountable, what he's done, he's destroyed our lives. hormones book. once again, it is a blood money buck of lies. and it was written on the graves of over $16000.00 innocent senior citizens. and it's not only reason to write a book on how you conquered a pandemic in the middle of a pandemic. but it's downright evil. actively omit yes, from public health record, to make money off of a book deal to my father's death may have been an inconvenient number that he left off the report to get a 5000000 dollar boat deal. but to me, my father was my whole world. today marks 20 years since the u. s. sunday. its allies invaded afghanistan, toppling the taliban regime. and now in the wake of the western polite many questions are still being asked,

not the least why the taliban offer to hunt over osama bin loudon was rejected by the bush administration. that led to 2 decades of war. countless life lost. and at the end of it, all the militants back in charge are senior correspondent, murat, gusty of reports from kabul, and want to conflict has achieved the afghan war. and it's just shy of it's it's 20th anniversary, the, the war a vengeance that was launched by the united states as revenge for 911 and quickly morph into something else. one of the most protracted conflicts in modern history, an exercise in a nation building before losing all lame and ty like normal towards the end. either the united states nor any of its allies still knew what it is that they hoped to achieve. here, the end result that is is that it was unanimously considered an abject failure. but taliban is, is back in control and more absolutely than it was before the united states invaded

afghanistan. and the question that we're hearing now in the halls of congress, in parliament, in europe, in the press and either on television internationally is he is who the we lay. we need to consider some uncomfortable truth that we did not fully comprehend the depth of corruption and poor leadership and her senior ranks. that we do not grass a damaging effect of frequent and unexplained rotations by president ghani of his commanders. and that we fail to fully grasp why there was only so much for which and for home men of the afghan forces would fight. this has been a 10 year bolt, i administration drawdown. not a 19 month or 19 day neo, these scandal is no n yet over the americans calling it been ghazi on steroids. the republicans,

as well as ordinary americans that see the end of the war as humiliating for america. they want southern held responsible, the biden, the mish administration, as well as the pentagon. so far they have done their best to absolve themselves of all accountability for what many americans again see as the catastrophe. they argue that the fault is with many american administrations that, that preceded them. and that is ignoring the tremendous financial cost of the war. some that could have made the lives of americans and many of their allies at the taxpayers so much better and so much easier. ah ah ah

ah ah. we are the wealthiest country in the history of the world, and yet we have the highest child poverty rates of almost any country on earth from the perspective of a civilian. there is scott evidence here on the ground in afghanistan of any of that money, other making its way here. aside from half finished clinics, him and broken roots, testament to record breaking levels of corruption that, that so brilliant siphoned off into the bank accounts of corrupt officials into the pockets of private contractors. though the evidence of these billions being here is

in the hands of the taliban, the guns that they wield, stamped with made in america, the vehicles military vehicles left behind it. industrial quantities, the town about her, of course jubilant. they have dismantled everything that the united states built here with human rights, the tolerance, the democratic institutions, and the matter of weeks. and they are jubilant. they have off to 20 years of and so wretched and rebellion, believe they won. ah, ah, i virtually any measure this war was a failure in some respects, it even made things worse. from a humanitarian perspective or

a 3rd of afghans near enough are on the verge of starvation, with no hope inside the drugs manufactured and export to that of, of canister kill countless youth world wide. from a geopolitical perspective, the taliban considered an international pariah since its inception is now having to be negotiated with it. i counted with even a, the un bob from a security perspective. yes, i'll cod that you'd have gotten a stud. may have been degraded but, but something worse has taken its place in that is isis which has bound to the challenge to afghanistan, dominance by the taliban. moran cast, he of we also spoke to an afghan man, not living in dire poverty, who admitted to the unimaginable, some would say indefensible. act of selling his own kids. he claims it was done to feed his other children in the hour. think amy junction, who had

a good business and a happy life and could do so. but then the war began, we migrated here and my savings were exhausted formula and some people got some aid here, but the others did not. my pockets are empty now and i have no option left but to sell some of my kids and to fight for the survival of my other kids with the money i get that way we get into the human patient. when your stomach is empty, you can't think about the dark side sellers have a g. i'm forced to sell a few of my kids to feed others. there's no option left. the previous government did not help me, but i hope this new one will support me. i'm not asking for support for myself alone, but for all these people living here like they are all from my tribe, but in michigan, all of us refugees here are one families. i asked for financial help for every one of the nato has expelled 8 diplomats from the russian mission and brussels on the secretary general's accusing them of malign activity. and it's got more on the story now from our teeth. donal caught her down to what are we learning about the

expulsions, while unit nato made that decision to expel those 8 russian diplomats on wednesday . that's where the, the, the delegation to the military or military alliance is located, the russian, a delegation to that. and so why was this diplomatic mission cut in half? well, according to nato, no reason in particular this decision is not linked to any particular events, but we have seen only some time now an increase in russian malign activity. and therefore, we need to be vigilant or just a day before stolen burg statement. another anonymous nato official said that they had confirmation that these diplomats were actually undeclared intelligence officers. sky news said that they were suspected of espionage and even suspected of killing people. i mean, is quite a 180 from nothing in particular, right now, the kremlin has responded and it's spokesperson. dmitri pet scave said that basically any attempt at improving relations at this point is basically

a pipe dream. so all of these actions, of course, did not allow us to have any illusions about the possibility of normalizing relations all resuming dialogue with nato. on the contrary, these prospects are almost completely undermined. now, russia's foreign minister a sergei laugh. rob did have a talk with stolen berg about convening the nato, russia council for talks, but so far nothing's been agreed on. so we're gonna have to see how relations go from here. thanks. donna. r t correspondent donald quarter. right, we're checking in with the former 1st minister of scotland next and other slice of the alec some and show gets going in moment sticklers ah ah.