never do it again cuz they want my phone and right on inside. ok. and you surround yourself with people who are encouraging you to do it not to stop. mm. it felt like my life was over. just drop it off the balcony and died. mm hm. you just couldn't stop with testing that's team runs out the data infection rate dodging a 7 called in some faith a testing centers. i mean look at these lines. that is all horrible. honestly, you know, most of our friends have to wait on line for hours and hours to get her food. i've had to wait on the line for hours to get posted. the only constrain sparks travel

chaos lines council more than $5000.00 christmas. we can flight leaving millions stranded to close. hello. thank you very much for joining us here on all t sunset. we've been searching for you around the world. tell us in your own woods where all you from. and one man here doesn't need play and father christmas gives a festive welcome to all corresponds in on a trip to land with bring you you and use every hour today. yes. and even at christmas this is alta international. thanks for joining me. this up, jumping right in coven infection rates, all searching in the us up 55 percent in the past 2 weeks in new york, texas on new jersey. they've more than doubled with the spread of the convent nova in florida. they jumped 7 fold on tuesday. joe biden promise half

a 1000000000 free tests for americans. he also pledged to open more testing sites. despite that, it seems that many of actually closed down due to stop shortages, including 13 in new york and new jersey. while correspondent caleb open reports from the lines are growing here in new york city. and so is the frustration. 13 different coven testing centers throughout the city, close down to day. all while demand for tests is rising amid and increasing infection rate. we spoke to some people who were waiting to get coven tests here in manhattan. that is a horrible, honestly you see how many people are on this line right here. and most of my friends have to wait on line for hours and hours to get tested. i've had to wait on the lines for hours to get tested, so it makes no sense to be. that's not good. it's probably why i'm standing on line and the 26th degree weather the end of the day. it's the holidays. we have a search. we have to be vigilant, active, and we do need more testing centers. i mean, look at these lines. there's

a 100 people on this line. i think it's making the lines really long. a lot of people need to get tested sidenote, they're safe, it becomes a whole drama amongst friends and family. i live with roommates. they need to know . i live in the same room with them and you know, i'm doing this, i'm going to say, now keep in mind, we're seeing a rapid rise in the infection rate throughout new york city. keep in mind the entire cities cove at 19 infection rate, for the month of november, was only $35800.00. so quite a spike in coven, 19 positive tests. now we're here in a situation where people are seeing this as joe biden, not keeping his promises just recently, he was promising more co, good tests would be available, dr. found she the u. s. government health officials and joe biden is saying that if you're not vaccinated, you shouldn't be seeing your family for the holiday season. and where we so much about people who still to this point refuse to get vaccinated. the virus is going to find you, please get vaccinated. all these people who have not been vaccinated. you have an

obligation to yourself, to your family, and quite frankly, i know you criticize this to your country. get faxes it now it's free. it's convenient. i promise you it saves lives. i honest to god, believe it, your patriotic duty, really big long lines. your anger is rising, frustration is rising. people are angry at the mayor. people are angry at the governor and the new york state government, but people are also angry at the white house caleb mop and archie new york. while countries grappled the ever changing requirements all the pandemic christmas to travel has taken a hit. more than 5000 flights had been cancelled from the festive weekend, leaving millions of people stranded reasons include cove outbreaks, one cabin crews and of course new cross border safety checks on these points. pay reports from belinda on the chaos facing travelers. a christmas. nice, nice. yeah. and you can across the united states as fly sub cancelled and people to

4 hours a day of celebration has become a day of frustration and chaos with thousands of would be travelers who instead of spending christmas with their friends and family, are being refused to fly what's more, passengers are complaining. they're only allowed to check in 2 hours before departure. the result, people missing flights and planes being delayed. it comes as of tons of cancels a dozen long distance flights and suspense popular connections, g to low demand and pilots, falling sick. some 33000 connections have been canceled. that if we temp planned flight and b, lufthansa chief is angry at the european union. he says that the company would have to carry out a 2000 empty flights to follow e walls and not to move landing sloths at various airports. while climate friendly

exemptions were found in almost all other parts of the world during the time of the pandemic, the e u does not allow this in the same way that harms the climate and is exactly the opposite of what the commission wants to achieve. meanwhile, these bodies to, for those who are planning the holidays across the atlantic, the 2 biggest american airlines, delta and united, have cancelled around $200.00 flights according to the carriers. the reason is a spike in only con cases and to quote, an exhaustion of options. and resources, this follows a call to beat us authorities by the delta v o who off to cut quarantine for 40 vaccinated people to 5 days from the current. tim, these developments come several months after the fi. oh, of another american eylandt. southwest ordered his employees to be fully vaccinated against by the same. let's take a look at how this happened several months ago. let

me choose choose . i've never been in favor of corporations imposing in that kind of a mandate executive order from president biden mandates. it all federal employees and then all federal contractors have to have a mandate invoice vaccine in place by december the 8th. so we're working through

that. i use not a great time and easiest time supplying, but luckily ortiz peter oliver managed to capture pains straight to lap pond on a mission to track down for the christmas himself. he's probably the busiest man on the planet right now, but where some to close lives generally depends on where in the world you are. where does santa claus live in at the north for i have your nose in africa. yeah. yeah. yeah. right. yeah. so you get to to look to, oh, so left to right and yes, oh, so are on there. i have no idea, but i guess somewhere in finland the present day, i think and across a pile of the living somewhere where there's

a night feed and night. little i hack there that he has for all the time actually sank lovers in norway in new york, the north all new york city north fall in north america. the answer is usually that he lives in the north pole. but there's a few problems with that. firstly, there's no buildings there for sumter in his elves to live in, and it's far too cold. secondly, there's no christmas trees at the north pole. in fact, they've no trees at all. and you don't usually see some to slay being pulled by these guys. of course pulling sun to slay is the elite team over reindeer and looking after those. reindeer is jo hannah, who has the wonderful title of ring dio whisper. johan, a thanks very much for talking to us. we're looking at where son to lives. now. there was some room as he lives in the north pole, but rain diaz can't live in the north po can like. no, am i sons ice originally from

a mount ear corner of boom dory. but he works here in rob. i name it because it's easier for people to reach to him then i'm the radius are here in north. well there's nothing to leave round. you look after the reindeer, how he whispered to a reindeer, what makes hello heard his name. what makes a good reindeer? a santa ah, the reindeer needs to be patient. it needs to be curious. it needs to be strong enough and bold enough. if they are too shy, they afraid to fly over the skies. now what does the rain do? you do for relaxation when it's not flying. they are just, you know, chilling, laying down, eating, chatting with the friends, you know, but that leaves us with quite the problem. what about all of the letters to santa that are addressed to him at the north pole? i'm here in the bustling epicenter of santa's post office and joined by a very busy postal elf poll here too. he's taking some time out of her dear to talk to 30 thanks very much welcome welcome to santa claus main,

post office. thank you very much for having me. now. the question i have is, what do you do here with all of those letters that arrive from the girls and boys all over the world? well, 1st of all, this very, very many letters that arrive every year. there's always are over half a 1000000 letters that santa get, and 1st we sought him out by the country. and so that's what i'm doing here right now. santa has received a letter sir, around $200.00 countries so far. so what happens to those letters that are addressed to the north pole? please tell me they come here. they come here, let me see if i do have here some. ah example, for example over here. so this is the place where they all end up anyway. so they come to the right may even though you put the wrong address in it. well, that's good to know that everybody watching make sure that their letters always arrive with santa claus. well, it's good to know that santa is receiving his mail here in lapland, but this wasn't always his address. most theologians will agree that saint nicholas

was born in nor around the mediterranean coastal town of mirror. now damira in turkey in around $288.00 d. however, there's not many images of santa in his home town on christmas cards. well, there is one way to settle this argument good and proper to speak to the man himself, santa claus. hello. thank you very much for joining us here on arte sun. we've been searching for you around the world. tell us in your own words, where are you from? all of i am from here. you got las vegas? yeah, i've been here for oh, scream, the long time. actually here on the arctic circle. i mean, oh, whoa. then way over 30 years in my house. yes. yeah. i have my office now here. i'm here every day of the year. hotel room all over the world can come and meet me . you're able to travel extreme distances and all over the world to make sure that

you deliver toys to the boys and girls. how does that happen? we all, that is actually quite easy. oh, you know my, my ranges, they fly now go to phyllis and on the tricks. no exclusive here. first of all, number world is divided even into the time. so okay, so will you travel you all the time the same time from times on the time. so that's how you do it. well, well the other way, sir. the santa tell you the thought of home christmas eve. how tiring these going very slowly while you're waiting on. well, that's my other secret. the world is turning around that day a little bit slow. thank you very much. santa claus. mary, you all are married and a very merry christmas for me as well. peter,

all of her for our tea in santa's village in the arctic circle. lapland. that's what you call a good white cap. and from traditional cousins, i danced to something more woke. if fast to care pushes too many boundaries for you, while hes still tentative. ah christmas the traditional yuletide holiday this year i'm making this traditional with a special christmas guide. me christmas tolerance diversity guide. we all know that christmas is a family holiday. that makes oral your parents are properly number i this year. follow the agenda and make us know woman instead of snowman, or even better, that this new person designed for themselves.

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in a very taiser christmas now santa claus and rudolph, but due to supply chain constraints and the cost of feeding the reindeer, skyrocketing downstairs, distributed into the living room potsdam, collins to explain all this to us. dan, welcome to our taiser, christmas show. merry christmas everybody ah, hello again. now saturday mom thought he is since the symbolic and of the u. s. a saw the carmen and so get flag was lowered and replaced by the colors of the russian federation. and president mikhail gorbachev announced his resignation. what a storm might of course designate union, united by a communist ideology,

existed for almost 70 years. but towards the end. relations between its where publics had become fractious and the liberalizing policy of perestroika did little to stabilize the situation. the union was replaced by 15 independent states among them, of course, russia. and as the new board to spring up around $25000000.00 ethnic russians found themselves cut off from their homeland. many on unable to get naturalized in the other republics and moving to russia was an easy laser. while one of the people is nina, chico. now 65 living in catholic stone, she was born in this way now and grew up in russia with her parents. now. nina moved with her aunt and son to cause extern just months before the soviet union collapsed. she was f stainless for almost 3 decades, only guessing a concept passport a few months ago. and fact nina says it's too little too late. is this, you mija? stella said no,

i lost my whole family that had my parents died young and then i lost 2 of my brothers in 1991. i went to live with my aunt and kara gander. i stayed there because i didn't know that the ussr would collapse. if i had known that the ussr were disintegrating ago, i would never have left russia. it would be, i worked in a local store for more than 7 years. if i was paid a meager salary, you're what i agreed because i had to feed my son. eventually i lost touch with all of my relatives. i went to a human rights organization for help with getting cassock, citizenship in the year, 2000. i put all the documents together and sent them off, but they just disappeared. but a very, i was angry about that, but i gave up and did not try again, which i was always told you were not born here that you're born in lithuania, which is at my fault where i was born and that i came from russia. none recently i have received lots of help but who retired my pension for all these years? i wasn't on the waiting list to get

a flag in new music. hospitals refused to help me, but i was deprived of all rights. fema 3 was cause i have no saudi for the soviet times here, but then i knew i was needed is assuming you, you could get a job, you could cross borders. and of course, every person holds on to their best memory. i hold on to those years but, but, but the later part of my life was very hard to load, you know, but i just had to think about how to survive was how to raise my solid body. i am a man, william europe. i was not afraid of love until that i like nature mountaineer. possibly i wanted to see everything with my own eyes or they were good. but, but of angelica, your, the break up of the world's largest country is still a device of subject even a generation later. so we had is the strength of moscow to ask people for the abstract of the downside is that the last territory we could not restrain the urge of certain nations to get into friends. and here it was inevitable that it was going to happen anyway. but little soon period when an empire is collapsing is

always bad because something big and united sofa recommends into a lot of smaller pieces. and it always ends up in war because everyone starts to have their own ambitions. and there's a lot of war and anger and when i swell, lived together, we could travel to all our republics. now it's silver. you can not go so easily with lou on a financial level, but in terms of our basics wife has improved. so as for everything else is on an ideological level, things are not as good. the youth of today are lacking in ideas. there is no shirt . chances are to build a county the year was accordingly also got the collective opinion from grandparents and parents. is that it was better, was one usaa. education was better. perhaps everyone's move is good, but i think there is more freedom now there's little sub. oh that was just a pretty long austin has definitely become better now. we are not as isolated as we were before us. look, there is more opportunity for self fulfillment inside the country, which was more or when you a thought was formerly to sold. that was the rejoicing in the u. s. at the demise

of its main rival. that the new to very different. of course in socialist countries like china, i spoke earlier with our gas about these wild changing events. the, the collapse of the soviet union is don't political leadership. and that is a job is the main person who bears responsibility. one of the reasons why he was so unsuccessful was he attended economic, economic, and political reform at the same time. and the other thing was that he had anatomy, but as your listen and they fell out, they hated one another. now had gilson and go bunch of work together. so would you probably been with us today? that's all we had to reform, that those reforms are absolutely necessary. the gorbachev was working on 2 fonts, one to reform the soviet union inside, and also to reform its relations with the capitalist world. and he tried his efforts there failed because of the inability of the united states in russia. the

union then russia to, to come to terms we'll say that see in the pay say that space, the number of conflicts, whether that's nicole and a car back from touch, cheapest on to for example, take us on, is pakistan team, do you think that we would have seen those kinds of disputes. if u. s. a saw had remained a whole the biggest loss i think of all in terms of. busy relations human relations. ready was the breakdown of their been rather narrow to tell you waited the but the feeling of community community policy that existed within the soviet union, that local level that is lost. and i think everybody knows the results of the disintegration at the beginning of the, at the soviet union, that there was a real hope for a confederate world confederation. and that failed immediately after that initial

period after going to charles reform stale. and yes, and you also to try to engage with the united states and europe. is that sales as well? hey, give the world a vision of a fair society, a just society. and on paper, it was the fairest and the best society you can imagine. but it was a you tube, it proved to be a utopia. it's not just a matter of what was done for people in the countries over the soviet unit itself. it was also the way in which the soviet union was able to interact with the rest of the world. and overall, it present was, i would say very positive. and since then, the lack of having the soviet union has made the world

a much more dangerous place and a place much more dominated by big capital in a way that has been disastrous for the climate and disastrous for a majority of the world's population. and findings with our russian and into john, god's pro has denied accusations from countries including ukraine, that is deliberately pushing up natural gas prices and europe by restricting supplies. and the company says it's westbound exports are actually far higher. the last you want to do now is get the whole story from on tv or stand off informing us the topic we've been talking about for weeks now, especially obviously, and a key issue in europe given it is a very, very cold winter. what is it that gas problem is arguing him? well, saskia indeed gas from has once again retreated the statement it has been making for quite a while that essentially any. well, any accusations that gas problem may have somehow contributed to the energy crisis

in europe, completely unfounded. these are their words, and in fact, they have once again stress that the real, the actual output of gas from russia into europe via gas problems will infrastructure, has, in fact succeeded, has, in fact, exceeded, i should say, unsurpassed the contractual obligations in front of the company. have a listen 7, you know what is that? i see you just pro my, all ac is ations against russia and gas from that our gas supply to europe are low more, absolutely groundless and unacceptable. so this year dad's problem supplied 50000000000 cubic meters of gas to germany under a contract. that's 5000000000 more than last year. your gas brown has also supplied more gas this year to italy, turkey, guerria, hungary and serbia, denmark, finland, and polish. all the problems in western european countries are created by themselves, and there is no need to blame gas. it is better to look in the mirror. while

essentially this latest statement by a gas pro official, it echoes the message sent by the russian president vladimir putin just a couple of days ago during a marathon q and a with journalists. essentially, russia has been long accused by europe, by lowering the gas supply, and that was the foundation of all the accusations that russia is facing right now . that it kind of masterminded and orchestrated this gas crisis. but according to russia, europe has brought it upon itself. that was the exempt quote of lad. i'm approved and made a couple of days ago. so here's the thing. normally, normally russia would supply, got gas to europe. why a long term contracts? essentially, during that long term contract, the gas, the gas is price to the same. so it's the same price for gas for a cubic meter, for the whole duration of the contract. at a certain point, europe decided it was a good idea to kind of move away to stop relying so heavily on these long term contracts. and rather by natural gas on the spot,

the sport meaning just the market. they're the price of gas fluctuates depending on supply and demand. and that was europe's whole plant to get as much gas as possible during the summertime, when the demand is not that high. when factories and households do not need gas to heat themselves up. and that was where it's where that plan essentially fell short due to a company tional factors like for example, the united states abandoning effectively the european market duty long and cold winter cold spring. europe. it did not have time to cumulate and to purchase enough natural gas to fill its underground storage facilities. because that's another aspects of purchasing gas. you can just store it in barrels, like for example, oil you, if you need to put it somewhere, you need a special facility that meets certain requirements, but you didn't even have time to fill those up. and so now, according to russia,

again, it has found itself in quite a predicament when it has to buy gas. when all of the contractual obligations buy gas from have been fulfilled. because europe simply did not request more gas. this is, this is how much if requested by a long term contract and to sell and the sport basically gas problem is saying that it can't sell that much gas on the spot because it has to plan ahead and that russian household need gas as well. so gas from has an obligation in front of them, so it has an obligation to supply russian households, domestic households with gas. so this has been the message by gas from which has been again stressed in the latest statement. i've seen domestic tomorrow really high at the moment. you and i both. it has been a pretty cold to somebody so far. i think we're going to be retiring this topic of the next coming days. thought was the course out of supporting from us government. thanks equal. well, got it, the rock this out bought. i don't know, but to auntie don't call me are all like i said from rain do the lot plan to london

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