the ah the poor old child, its accidently tablets, right? and i have actually much in germany and countries across few of the left dismayed eyes. the government, besides shut out nuclear reactors within 3 years, even though the plant generated almost all of the countries electricity. the water from oscar. thanks for joining us today. daniel hawkins revenue all this our welcome to the program of france and germany, a tightening the screws on be unaffected tonight and introducing a raft of new anti code measures, walking angry street protests. it's picture playing out across europe where governments struggling with reco infection rates layer has more. what we've seen

across europe is a surge of covert cases. if we start off in font, the country has hit a record high 100000 new covert cases a day. and the death toll there has now increased to well over a 122000 people. this is largely due to the omi con, very, and it was supposed to take it in south africa. but what we are witnessing is also a search in delta cases. and that is leading to quite a number of people having to be hospitalized. the government is looking to transform its cobit health, passed into a vaccine path. now we have heard from the french health, the french prime minister, who announced that a negative taste is no longer going to be enough for people to be able to enter bars, restaurants, and other cultural venues. taken listen, don't, don't, she'll sit in france as in europe. the situation is extreme returns. the new wave is sweeping over our continents. we've reached

a symbolic 100000 daily new infections. we are adjusting a law that will transform the health path into a vaccination path. if parliament votes in favor, it will be applied from the 15th of january. if we move across now to where i am in germany here, the government is considering tougher restrictions and in fact, from monday, a number of german states have introduced tighter restrictions. these include, amongst others, limiting private gatherings, up to 10 people, and that is 10 people who have either been vaccinated or who have recovered from coven 19. the government has also shut down club, dance venues, and other such public gatherings. not this comes amid a state of demonstration against the covert restrictions happening in civil cities and towns across the country. several 100 people were arrested at protests that took place in here in berlin and also in swine foot. and in the latter venue police, they clashed with protesters,

became quite violent with police wielding batons and fire and pepper spray into the crowd while protest as to roxanne's stones and spec on the police were about to show you all the disturbing images in which for your little child was accidentally pepper sprayed by police after her mother took her to the demonstration. the now the mother they had to appear before a judge and this comes as the police complain that n p faxes are increasingly using more violent means at demonstrations. if we move now to the netherlands they, we have the health ministry suggesting a ra, innovative way for people who are nervous about taking the vaccine to deal with the vaccine anxiety. the health minister has suggested virtual reality glasses that

will help relax during the injection. i've done growing up right as working for the us were kept in the dark about civilian death. that's according to whistleblower who spoke to us about his jobs during the war on terror. he said his story with our teeth on heard voices, project lalellah. we live in a horrible situation. very bad conditions. want them to be honestly, i am fed up with my life, but so i'm in hiding alone with underground. yeah, i can't go outside. i'm hopeless for somebody. i ask myself, do i have the right to live a peaceful life in my own homeland or not it me said straight, and i wish i had been born in a different country to me, the decimal guardian telling me that would be long. mm. for pillow top, we had to operate our drones as an 8 hours today. and then the same at night there

was a u. s. company and the afghan government assigned an agreement with the p. so we were employed by this company. they scam eagle with each month one, pilots conducted 17. is it 20 drone strikes? it could be more than that, but not less with throughout all operations,

we were not told about any civilian deaths. nobody told us that we had hit the wrong target to that, and the statistics on this were out of our control. we didn't have access to this data. oh, at the port. we lost a couple of our pilots in the last days of our work. and after the taliban took over and one was arrested in cobble. and the 2nd when he was visiting his family, some drone pilots were also beaten and humiliated. and 3 or 4 of our colleagues are missing was a, even the closest relatives don't know where they are. problem, sex, age they blinking is leading the continued diplomatic efforts to ensure a safe passage for any american afghan partner or foreign national wants to lead up . again, this is what we're doing. every single minute of every single hour of every single

day is working to create a safe passage for all civilians, including the afghans who work for us to the airport to get them on planes and get them out. we worked intensely to evacuate and relocate and work alongside us in our particular risk reprisal. our commitment to them has no deadline of let me put it this way. yes. i've lost my own people. know i'm hiding at different places. i can't stay at one place. i can't meet my family. i don't even know how my family is doing now. i can't see them with my colleagues. we can't see or contact each other because we are afraid the taliban are tapping our phone. is me? i was, we also we have lost our way. what can we do and what will they do to us?

we are counting our last breast. they might kill us today or tomorrow. i have one son staying with me and when he goes out and buy something to eat, he says he is afraid of being killed or kept. so there is no one to help us in this situation. i live in fear and i have to wonder why i was born in this hell, i am a human being. i have the right to free life. me the us lead mission and i can install is now 100. i have a responsibility saying you have got on need to know, operated without outside assistance or if you want to hear more about how the war on terror, and i've got a song changed life head on over to will on heard voices project on a russia top different about i said the entire purpose of nato was the c sarah trees to its east. second, abra was speaking of possible talks with the western alliance. not the fishes cheese, the gilbert teach right now. nato is clearly

a geopolitical project designed to grab the territories left after the disappearance of the war. so packed, and the dissolution of the soviet union. first of all, let's remind ourselves what be worse or packed. was it with a collected defense treaty established by the soviet union and 7 other satellites target states? it was created in reaction to the integration of west germany, into nato, a 955. so basically, the both are packed with like a mirror alliance to nato. but while the pack was dissolved in 1991 nato is still very much alive and kicking and expanding since the end of the cold war. so the, just a lot of the saying is, what is the point of nathan anymore? you know, he's pose cold war gave, if not, as he suggests a geopolitical project saying that collecting all of these countries that a lifetime ago, we're in opposition to nathan now. nathan has previously offered memberships to former members of the both pucks, which is poland, which joined in 1999 to former soviet republics, such as the both 6 states in 2004. so the question of ukraine joining nato is

a 10th subject because ukraine is, of course, the country please history, geography, and people are so intertwined with those of russia. now, as we know, tensions between nato and russia been simmering for quite a while early this month. the head of nato young stoughton, but he rushes to be transparent about its military plans. the. this comes a made phase that rushes planning see invade ukraine. moscow have dismissed face face. they call them alarmist and in turn complained of nato plans and activities in the region. so needless to say, this lack of trust between the 2 sides remains is nothing new. obviously, plenty of accusations flying around here. but as i understand russia is proposing a solution, can you tell us about that? absolutely. so rather than letting things continue to faster and possibly worse, and moscow has presented the west with this draw agreements of security guarantees, essentially aimed at, you know,

diffusing tensions here. but it's been translated in the west as demands rather than proposals. and these attempts, calming the situation. i've just been more or less shuns so far, and russia continues to be demonized as the aggressor. our cooperation with ukraine is defensive. it's not in the way it's set to russia, the aggressor, hey, it's russia. this is days ago. russia even pulled back its troops from the ukraine border following drills there, which could have been seen as another olive branch from russia to see western leaders, but still bugs from data calling russia. the aggressive, the u. k. media is been saying for weeks now, the 100000 russian soldiers were lighting the board to invade ukraine. even the u. s. media was saying, a 175000 tons out. it was 10000 soldiers doing drills near the border. do you think now we can actually expect any of these accusations to stop? well, one would hope it, but little meet is a positive direction as yet fear mongering. the meta media is that a all time high,

they send full scale invasion talks, folks of another cuban missile crisis. it continues to be a favorite topic and we're still cause for sanctions on russia though that was, we're not sure because it actually doesn't seem to have done anything at the moment . anyway. sanctions on russia. sorry. one on a list from sepa, former us ambassador, and i was even calling for sanctions on russia. pre, i'm seeing any possible moves from russia. current western policy is that if russia does something worse, stan and only then with the west adopt new sanctions. the dynamic must now be reversed. the west should impose new sanctions now and agree to lift those sanctions only if russia pulls back from military escalation to book with sugar. and just recently one think tank is said why wait until something happens. let's introduce preventive sanctions, and if russia doesn't start anything will lift them. but it's clear that no one would ever lift anything. so this is how things stand as of now a 10 by russia to com, things so far,

being ignored. but this is something that russian side seems to have seen as predictable as live up suggested in that quote. nato's agenda is quite different to what one might expect. the people in easter crying sprinkler republics are still living under the constant threat of shutting from caves. armed forces, that's the spot a ceasefire agreement struck between rebels and the governments years ago with native horses openly supplying the trading monetary autism on cost of travel to the dumbass region. ah ah 7 civilians were killed and 32 wounded on the territory of the self proclaimed the next people's republic. this year alone, the total number of foot noncombatants who perished in this civil war is now well

over $5000.00. while ordinary people who live along the front lines continue to suffer, many of them say they don't see their future will ukraine any more? what the me a month ago, a woman and a man were very badly wounded, and another man was killed just before that. what can i say? they are often shelling us, didn't they say we are not needed the but yet everyone is afraid but because the shelling is going on throughout the summer they were shelling day and night. so nothing good is happening. some nurse, listen to runaway will in september a shell fell on my street. 2 little children living near by that place and like you should be id chesko there i los periodically. then shelling returns, look, we are tired and little one residence in larger cities like the republics capital of the nascar. farther away from the war, both physically and mentally, there are also tired. however many speak about the constant feeling of uncertainty

and express hope that the conflict will soon end so that they can be free to choose their own fate, which the push to watch because the new year i wish for strength and patience. because we live in an unstable situation, so it's generally very unpleasant. i'm tired of having a curfew in dusky just was enough that we are now used to living in this chaos. but i really want all the bad things to and can useless. but he said, we're afraid something can happen to the children. and so in general, it's just to relieve to be alive, missouri, after years of living on the brink, people just want this war to ends and returns to living and normal violence. free life, romantic author of archie. don't ask for the head on the program. i need you best documentary tracy's the story of one small town in florida where residents playing the high cancer, right, is caused by local phosphate money. we deal with that off to this short right. ah

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dares sinks. we dare to ask ah, welcome back, a paradoxical and counterproductive. that's how belgian engineers describe the government decision to deem nuclear arise. the country over the next 3 years, the reaction came off to brussels and out. it's planned to shut down all nuclear reactors and redirect investment into new technologies. the government's decision to phase out nuclear energy, the largest source of low carbon energy in belgium, and to finance new fossil gas power plants is paradoxical and counterproductive. this decision would only reinforce the predominance of fossil fuels in the belgian

energy landscape. currently, the are 2 nuclear plants in belgium with 7 reactive. they generate almost half the country's electricity, the authorities say avoiding nuclear, and as you will make power, production safer, and is in line with the common. you go to go green. however, it all comes as your gravel is with an energy crisis that scene price is sought to record hive in neighboring france and germany known for the nuclear power capabilities. the cost of atomic energy has spike off the power is closed. one of its plans and whole for the operations as another over suspected security system flows. was your money it intended to close all its nuclear power plants by the end of next year, starting with its broken off site on new year's eve. closure will leave the country with 3 nuclear power station. a gentleman sab responded to the news with mixed reactions on a forefront enough time. it has its pros and cons, but actually here in brook there for only so advantages. other countries are building nuclear power plants to and the question is,

where do we get our electricity from? and it isn't the out of the finally, it's happening and i'm very happy about it. because you never know if an accident might occur, or thought people might try to destroy it. of course the people in the village to see things differently because the village has become rich on taxpayer money. if you drive through the village, you'll see how much was invested in it. and i think it's an important decision by i also think we're not there yet. we can't get from renewable energy. what we're getting from nuclear power. many locals works and we have to see where they will end up, but some people will definitely lose their jobs. what we discuss the issue with charlie boil independent journalist and arena ploot, the chairman of a new of a german nuclear activist organization. solar and wind are not available 100 percent of the time while nuclear is so you have to fill the gaps with fossil generation. and this is a tremendous harm for the climate because belgium replace

is a low carbon energy form by a common intensive form of electricity. and this is just the opposite of climate protection, but belgium is doing year. it is, it is of no use for the climate it's, it's not climate protection it's, it's arming the climate. and it's for a purely easier, logical read reason of the green party. once again it's, it's all about lack of planning and seen a missed call point. scoring based politicians may well those beliefs. but as usual, the practicalities always take and now the reality is thinking in high inflation, a huge demand search going in the winter. and we, we simply can't have a situation where energy prices are going up. 1200 percent here. we need to have

a profit plan around the world, but how they can transition renewables. what the mixture is going to be and we're going to need to be honest about me. so don't worry which are completely scott district of humans. capital has been devastated by a wave of saudi air strikes. warplanes pummeled the residential area over the weekend local as of now and left the 5th through the rubble of the bombed out home . so far, it's unclear how many people have been killed or injured. riyadh says it was targeting a who rebel camp offer projects to all allegedly fall from yemen. killed 2 people in the south of saudi arabia. has all the was bolling here, houses were damaged, all women were terrified and some of the children fainted. phenomenal, v. b, alternate, we were at home in the plane, flew over for the 3rd time bombing, my house. this is the 3rd time that i need to repair damage. what sin have the

yemeni people committed for this to happen? money i sat this out was a yeah, it was 9 o'clock in the evening and i was with my children, agnes. and suddenly we heard the erotic land next to the house. it's terrifying for the women and children. we live in a state of terror. now in florida, soaring cancel rights and pollution of being blamed on phosphate mining. but as locals fight with a health a morning joined to keith of polluted waterways, plants open another site, a little later here, naughty will be airing a documentary about the situation for now. there is a quick preview. one of the most places in america ah, florida, one of florida's biggest industries and best kept secrets is fostering and the biggest layer is $85000000000.00 industry is mosaic. and i, there are reports of millions of gallons of contaminated water now flowing into the florida aquifer. a chronic,

i don't want to hear that word polos, but that's what it is. i'm in 2013 my uncle, our family dog, my brother, who is 21 years old, myself and my father were all dying with a good plan. right? yeah, yeah. maybe they'll actually, we're, that far hill is more important than now. the company responded to accusations made in the documentary by saying it doesn't actually portray the cancer risk associated with mining. only this year, a 1000000 gallons of waste water from one former mining facility leaks in florida. the state is building an injection well to pump out the remaining water that something environmentally site could make things worse. filmmaker eric crowd, he made the documentary you just saw. a snippet from explains his motivation. as i

was traveling around the world, doing a lot of direct action conservation work, i started to see that right in my own backyard, we had these issues where we were poisoning children in a way that is actually regulated and allowed. so, you know, as soon as i saw that i thought this, this is something we can stop and if these environmental cancers, if we're able to stop them, it's our obligation to investigate and stop them for continuing. one interesting thing is they're allowed to do their own testings, so they simply do their own tests and then provide the results to the state. so there is no oversight on this entire industry statewide. and that is where we're finding the difficulties. you know, i was able to come up with it by going through the public records of the different counties that have mining and mining areas and they're all their leading cause of death was cancer and their rates were extremely higher. i spoke to

a lot of people that had been silenced by them by music directly. as a matter of fact, one person who spoke i recently had a gag order placed on them where they cannot speak publicly about mosaic, which i just thought was crazy. actually, the gag order said you're not allowed to speak about music on facebook and for somebody to lose the 1st amendment, right, like that. that shows a lot of influence in the area. you know, we find that most it goes through and they kind of gain the favor of a lot of people by putting a lot of money into the local communities. but at the same time they're, they're presenting this nice picture while they're also getting everybody sick at the same time. you know, and it was, it was maddening for me because we did find cancer causing chemicals, and it was proven in the movie. we even found one of their outfalls had there, there's a level that they're not supposed to go over and we found that level and we tested the water of radiation. so we're finding that there's, there's just, again, there's no oversight into this type of an industry. and they kind of run roughshod

over everybody in the local areas and kind of watch the full look and related survey and throughout the week here on our show when awesome americans might be alarmed by the colossal scale of government spending during the pandemic and center to run pool has highlighted some of the bizarre ways, sax phase dollars being used. one example, half a $1000000.00 on research into patients with a gambling addiction be just plain slot machines. think that's a bad acid trip. nope, it's a project founded by the american taxpayers and it's one of many in the chance a wasteful us initiative. research allows pigeons to expand the sate of gamble tokens, could prove very useful if only pigeon gambling was a real issue. duties preferred trips to broccoli, always going to double check. another state funded research, prove that bug is

a more appealing faith john to make them gain weight. this is an experiment with taxpayers money well spent. how does bad news affect your mood? take the scientists to figure that out. u. s. funded study, find that bad news causes her parents to jump down. it's not a waste of time if you've learned something of next audio commentary. expose those reasons we spoke about earlier on increased chance rates. me for slight mines in florida for you k, it's crosstalk. we're back and often out with the latest join us again that ah will join me every thursday on the alex simon. sure. i'll be speaking together for

the world of politics. sport, business. i'm sure business. i'll see you then. mm i, john, you must be in a city delegated and as you want to talk to, we stand together will continue to stand together against russia. 80 in germany. repeat some of the areas that we doubtless made say no to severely the shockey daughter about their village influence other nations french u. k. and even latin america and other countries in future than maybe they were to high from wolf cycle alone. with members of your household, please, please, please, please. we're going to continue to fight with justin to russia must not

be allowed in germany. or they are through common leave it to show us today in our t d. enough asian, the father of the yes. actually in the 80 the not mrs. guns until sunday. so we're in the mine right now. behind me is a some drag lines and what appears to be empty pits, so they're just digging you. usually people don't get res, horror advocacy around, there's a massive amount of destruction. it's just heart wrenching so much destruction. and none of this can be fixed, none of us can be repaired, none of it is of any of any good or use to anybody who says radio

actor for thousands of years.