the yes, actually indian out the, the enough mrs. comes until sunday, a lease, the pepper spray a 4 year old, an antique thank see much in germany, countries across europe facing unrest. the had the new year over new restrictions. parents and activists, elijah k hospitals, are discriminating against children with down syndrome and a bit to free up beds during the pandemic with deadly results. we hear from my mother who was asked to sign a do not necessitate order for her son when she said it, all right, well that's my son's life that you're asking with. right? or no, i mean, he has down syndrome, but that's got nothing to do with whether it should be on the latest polling shows. most us democrats now don't want joe biden to run in 2024. we look back at

his 1st year in office with good morning, thanks for joining us here on our t. europe's facing a new wave of angry street, protests governments, a tightening screws on the and vaccinated in a bit to stem reco daily infections. one protest in germany, police that displayed a 4 year old child the according to the police, the job was completely free again, following the receiving of it. i wash offices lose the formal complaint against the mother for endangering her child over in front. there were noisy protests against restriction on the news

since monday, a number of german states have imposed strict covert restrictions. and these include, amongst others limiting public gatherings to 10 people. and that is people who have either been vaccinated or who have recovered. and at the same time, shutting down balls and nightclubs, it comes as a number of demonstrations take place across the country. hundreds of people were wasted in protest here in the capital city, berlin, and also trying food. now in the last, a 4 year old child received a paper spray accidentally from the police after her mother had bought her to the demonstration in a cram the mother of the child had to appear before the judge and it comes as police complain that he and his axes are becoming more and more violent in france they, the country has recorded a record high of a 100000 new code cases

a day. at the same time, the country has registered more than a 122000 people who have died from the virus. now this is largely due to the new omi con variant that was supposed to take it in south africa and which tends to be quite mild. but at the same time, the country is seeing a search in delta cases that had led to a number of people being hospitalized. the government is looking to transform its covert health path into a vaccine path. we've heard from the country's prime minister saying that a negative taste is no longer going to be enough for people to enter bars, restaurants, and other cultural venues don't don't. so she said you in france as in europe, the situation is extremely tense. the new wave is sweeping over our continent. we've reached a symbolic 100000 daily new infections. we adjusting a law that will transform the health passed into a vaccination party. parliament votes in favor. it will be applied from the 15th of

january. moving across now to the netherlands, they, the government has suggested of all that innovative way for people who are afraid of taking the vaccine to deal with so called vaccine anxiety. the health ministry has introduced virtual reality glosses that will help people relax during the injection. in the u. k. daily coven infections are out around the $100000.00 mark with the country's health care system stretch their affairs corners have been cut butting lives at risk. it's parents and got bane is raising the alarm, they were a vulnerable children being discriminated against, drink and damage to freel. bed space comes admitted spike and do not receive state orders. the children with down syndrome and autism on mother who was asked to sign one for her son shed her story when she said, well, doctrine is because in home and that was on life that

you're asking was you should fable know. i haven't been asked, that's my other 2 children. i mean, she has down syndrome, but that's got nothing to do with whether shipping the heights or not. he was in the room and she was asking him a lot of questions. and he a con and he's been class is that he understands. and thank luckily for him. and i asked me because he was, i'm 16 anyway. i want to say are the parents. i know that our 7 children say in one respects i was glad he was on the 6th day because the others where i was 16 and were asked themselves do not resuscitate. orders are usually offered to patients who are considered to be gravely ill on signs. the doctors are not supposed to perform c p, r,

cardiopulmonary resuscitation to restart the patient's heart. this issue has predominantly affected those with down syndrome and autism across the u. k. roughly 40000 people i believe, to have down syndrome more than 700000 have been diagnosed with autism. is national health service denies the allegation of discrimination saying that it's wrong to apply d and i was in a blanket fashion. karen will ard, again, insist discrimination come straight from the top. we every child and every has got the right, especially to life. and i just don't understand why there's a difference in society for anyone, discrimination, of even the question b, a n n. why are people with adults children, elderly while we why on trade differently with the lack of humanity, say, given the health care system i deserve on this, i'm so can system i did that,

i get the and i just was painted under extreme cab again today with higher than the and i just isn't as the government needs to pull their finger out. and so, you know, just out and isn't it isn't our kids to say, oh, your children are not valuable with everyone else, the children. so they're not going to be put on that less list. i was. ok, isn't it will leave you out. the dumbest idea because there's not a lot. we're not, there are more woes for the and it just with cove it hospital admissions up again, new research shows medical staff absences due to burn out my triple next year. findings suggest that hospitals could experienced severe staff shortages with 70 percent of work is predicted to call in sick just last week as the number of hospital admissions rose absences among medical staff followed suit region 12 percent. well, unions of called on the government to increase staff,

pay or face industrial action. then it says that it's facing an unprecedented epidemiological situation. anything all it can to support health care workers. auntie spoke to medical staff on the ground to say the situation and it just reached boiling point. it is been with us almost 2 years. our doctor, the nurses commission on the ground, absolutely exhausted. they're not just exhausted that scared the tired. you must remember the doctor, the news, the patient do we sick? we get physically think we get mentally thing and quite frankly, we bad the moral burden of what's been happening over the past. so yeah. and at the moment it's exhausting. and what's worse still, of course, it's not over in the short term, we somehow need to find some capacity outside of what we've already got. so rather than asking the same deal to get all we need to somehow find capacity outside of the and, and that might mean that asking you medically qualified to come in and step in and

do some of this stuff in the longer term. because we really need to do a full sold recruitment because we do need or not. and we do need more doctors. we've vast amounts in particular, the general practice, for example, just the status quo. and there are some, a human may just in general bureaucracy that can get some workforce. you have retired or who have steps down that way to actually come back. now some of these barriers in the quite quick it easy just requires government to make some decisions . well, it's really quite worry and i'm not sure how the nature is going to survive with the numbers. it's really quite frightening and also patient you know, this, you know, of good, proper guidance come in from the whole really terrible environment and, you know, trying to get through this pandemic and being taken for granted at the same time it is leading to burn out many nurses are talking about going on protest and

strike caption on. some of the unions are really support of that, but it just see it's very difficult obviously because we need to think about patient safety, but soon we may not have any nurses in his leg to care for the patient. ah, joe biden has suffered another blow in the polls. most democrats, and now rather someone else running 2024 is overall approval ratings. have been significantly dented during the 1st year in office. it more been looked at why 2021 wasn't great for by. was like a fairy tale joe biden was set to ride into the white house on a white horse to save the country from the nightmare. those lights that are shooting out from the lincoln memorial. i look, it's like almost extensions of jo biden's arms embracing america. president elect joe biden, and vice president harris called the grief and regret out of the privacy of our

hearts, if just for a moment so that we all could share it. but in just a year, the country seems to have shifted from tears of joy and sighs. of relief to let's go brandon. mm hm. mm hm. oh, oh, also that 70 percent of americans doubt that biden is a leader. you can trust. only donald trump had a worse approval rating at this point in his presidency. and it's not just the american voters, the mainstream media that wants praised him, are now calling him worse than a lame duck and recommending he not run for reelection in 2020 for quite

a you turn. how could this have happened to a democratic president? so love by mainstream media and the party establishment, coven das, at this point of added up to about the population of st. louis and atlanta combined double what it was when trump left office. joe biden does not have much to say about this topic through virus that you haven't got it. why haven't i find it on the oregon that with joe biden is urging americans to get back this one can't help but wonder if americans have hesitation about heating their commander in chief's words, wild assertions. the ministration was making about how this was going to go away. and jack bleach and all those kinds of things. it was diminishing confidence across the board. you know, you can't, but you can say everyone has the actual requirements work and only makes sense to

require a vaccine to stop the spread of coven 90 forcing people to get vaccinated with mandates is not exactly a big hit. either federal and private companies are fighting them in court. furthermore, you got the senate repudiating the vaccine mandates and judges ruling against them . inflation is that a 39 year high, half of americans say that biden is making things worse. and 2 thirds of americans say that inflation is causing them financial hardships like ever since he became president. things have been slowly going downhill, especially in this said, everything is about 40 percent higher than it was a couple years ago. so no, i would not say that they're doing a great job, to be honest, is actually one more up lake. everything went on bad is really bad. now, along with financial hardships, americans are also facing empties store shelves, which of course, doesn't make them happier. the afghan pull out got pretty massey. 13 soldiers

died. people were hanging from planes and u. s. personnel was left behind on republicans wanted joe biden to be impeached. now that didn't exactly play out, but people aren't exactly ready to move on from this afghanistan disaster with it's not only the u. s. public that's unhappy with the afghan pull out within army ranks. there's rising discontent, active duty marine corps, lieutenant colonel stuart sheller. a combat veteran with multiple deployments in iraq and afghanistan even went public. he demanded accountability from senior military and civilian leaders for their failures. people are upset because they're senior leaders, let them down, and none of them are raising their hands and accepting accountability are saying we mess this up. i'm not saying we've got to be in the in afghanistan forever, but i am saying, did any of you throw your rank on the table to say, hey, it's

a bad idea to evacuate bob graham airfield, the strategic air berries before we evacuate everyone. this got him charge in military court, find and punished, but many consider him a hero. what about the commander in chief himself? now biden is telling people he opposed the war in afghanistan from the beginning. however, the record begs to differ. he was beating the drums of war for afghanistan and iraq, 20 years ago, back when it was popular. but i guess this is not the only thing he has forgotten. and i want to thank you that so down on thank you very much bout but i'll kinda side of course present harris is a proud howard. oh, no wonder so many of his press conferences and grabs the white house, sometimes even cuts his live feed polls shell that americans are questioning his mental capacity democrat is starting to get worried with mid term elections less than a year away. and biden unpopular even in states where he won the election by

a large margin. there's so many reasons people should be disappointed and upset with by them. it's hard to settle on one. certainly, afghanistan was a huge blow to america's sense of itself. and the outrage in the middle of america is not to be underestimated even today. at the way joe biden got us out of afghanistan. joe biden, drug america down an ugly past. of course the economy is the unkept promises. his insistence that he would shut down the virus and not be economy. and since then, of course, he's had more debts on his watch. then trump had on a longer time scale. i believe our allies no longer trust us. i believe our enemies are lining up to take advantage of us. you see how it all goes together, and it all is generally against american interest. it's extremely unfortunate, and he's not showing any sign of changing. his weights are still to come for you. finland's government is going vegetarian, it's so meant to cut carbon emissions as we report after the break

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join me every thursday on the alex salmon? sure. i'll be speaking to guess from the world of politics. sport, business. i'm sure business. i'll see you then. ah welcome back. helsinki is going veggie. finland's government says that it won't be laying on any meet dishes at public events come next year or to speak to oliver looks at how fins are digesting that needs from january me. glovers here in helsinki may find themselves missing out on traditional beef polka even reindeer dishes if they attend events held by the finish. capitals, local government, it will be strictly meet free menus, it seminars, staff, meetings,

receptions and other events. instead, the options will be vegetarian or from locally sourced sustainable fish is helsinki looks to lower its carbon footprint. this is one way man, others to reduce the climate impact of food and reduce the amount of natural resources used by the city. single use cutlery is also out of these cow milk oat milkin. other alternatives will be provided at events serving coffee, the water people here. think about this move, i guess it's a good thing for the environment and reasonable idea for to i think it shouldn't be . so strict, i like to meet, but i think in europe actually there are we meet, we etha little may of me the actually the circ, the sorts of and then the content that's good if it's her laurie, the carbon footprint, that boy is not to a stop it in me this to reduce the amount of me thought is good for her school for the myra mental and his group for animals. i am happy lad. helsinki is sprayed to

take new steps towards better, better world fins. consumption of meat is amongst the highest in the e u, but the authority, se dare aim is to cut down the amount of meat eaten, not to abolish it altogether. chef your money sto though, thinks it's not the best idea to make the change almost overnight. i think they should have done it or more gradually, not like that. we had a meet and now no more meet. i think there should have had it done it like slower, slower that not, not so totally that me this over with helsinki. i think the leases on it's not hard as in america, not too bad. well, i think they should have done it. so in slower when like her 2 years or 5 years since do seem to be willing to embrace a vegetarian in v in lifestyle restaurants like this one,

specializing it via the vegetarian food of stroke all over the finished capital. in fact, it's been a trend for a little while now back in 2017 mcdonalds, the fast food giant while they picked finland is the place to try out their new at the time. vague and patty, in 2018, the finish military announced at least to me, 3 meals would be served off in its barracks each week. but the thinking behind this move has raised more than a few questions. helsinki doesn't have a particularly good record when it comes to its carbon emissions from energy prompting some who are close to the farming sector to accuse the city government of going for good headlines, rather than what's actually helpful. helsinki naturally has every right to decide what it wants to serve. that's not the problem, but this does wreak of greenwashing as the city is a real disgrace when it comes to energy policy. the center party which makes so part of the ruling coalition government and finland is also not impressed. there is

no willingness to brand the wells, cleanest food in the countries capital. he could have also flipped the setting intern acid for experts. we should none the less work together and support food produces food companies and produces together. i want to believe that we can do better while some people are sure to have beef with me to been taken off the menu. the fact that there's more and more plant based options coming on to the market may mean that in the future, we all may well have to learn to love them, whether we like it or not. peter, all of a r t in helsinki. in the u. k. a former police officer who was sacked up to making a number of trans phobic tweets has one unfair dismissal case. the court ruled his 2nd violated his right to freedom of expression on his isa alley has the story crime rates across the u. k. r rising and in particular violence offenses involving the use of knives continue to play communities across the land. you'd be forgiven

for thinking about police forces facing huge cut. the funding and stuff levels would be freed up to prioritize dealing with the west offenses. instead, they find themselves increasingly policing, so called non crime hate incident as a result of hate crime guidelines, which are defined by the college of policing which took effect in 2014 police are obliged to record any incidents a member of the public believes was motivated by hate, even if nothing criminal took place in 202010840 non crime hate incidents were locked across the country with a 120000 record it since the new system was introduced. but some of the incentives have left many exasperated. one man was reported to rachel, hatred off the whispering, the thing to the bill that his neva, while in another incident media report state of the game. i launched the complaint that he had been ripped off by a truck dealer because of his sexuality. so home secretary, pretty good. so who has been slammed for being behind the number of new laws that campaign us adopt? heavy handed and author, terry,

and that's even chimed in to criticize some aspects of the rules. the police will always have my backing to fully investigate hate crimes, but they must do so whilst protecting the fundamental right of freedom of expression. some current practices are having a dangerous impact on free speech and potentially stopping people, expressing their views. but one man didn't take a non crime, hate incident recorded against him lying down ex police officer. hurry miller was visited them, worked by an officer from humble side police, a member of the public complain about allegedly trans phobic tweets he had sent the challenge to both homicide police actions and the college of police and guidance of the high court. and in february last year, judge rule, but the forces actions were a disproportionate interference with his right the freedom of expression. but it's links to the police guidelines for initially rejected until last week. when a judge upheld his appeal, that the rules also breach his freedom of expression rights and some campaign

a say, the following, that ruling, the entire system of recording the incident needs to be scrapped. attorney, one of the reasons why i think people trade in expression is going to be reduced in u. k. and it's the new legislation we improve for by the current government probably older legislation which is going to restrict, in a lot of ways people's freedom to demonstrate. again, by doing that for what reason. because to please call control some of the demonstrations that they have to deal with this issue resulting to the tactic. good old british probably years a 100 years ago. cheese men and women in uniform pushing back against crowds and effect. you have in hand hand fighting instead of watching the college and doing what the rest of the european nations do, which is bringing water cannon to distance the crowd from the police officers. so no one gets hurt. it's not just the police who are being pressured into enforcing so called counsel culture universities across the country to have been under

immense pressure from lobby groups to sac academics with dissenting views, not least in the case of professor david miller, who is currently challenging the decision by bristol university to fight him following a sustained campaign by pro israel groups. many looking on these incident, a justice worrying for freedom of speech and thus far been met with silence by the self professed anti woke warriors. and as campaign is now called for a 120000 hates incidents to be deleted from police records, as the president will set, it appears that the u. k. government has got themselves in a quagmire or bureaucracy. they do self created. he, sally, off the london now, some americans might be alarmed by the colossal scale of government spending during the pandemic. incentives around pulls highlighted some of the bizarre always taxpayer dollars a being used, for example, half a $1000000.00 on research into pigeons with 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. the research allows pigeons to spend the sake of gamble tokens, could prove very useful if only pigeon gambling was a really should do kids preferred trips to broccoli? always going to double check. another state funded research, prove that bug is a more appealing faith. john made them gain weight. that was an experiment with taxpayers money well spent. how does bad news affect your mood? take the scientists to figure that out. us funded study find that bobby's causes carpeted to jump down. it's not a waste of time if you will learn something about it today. don't forget,

you can check out more stories by heading to a website or to dot com. ah, a colorado became a test bed for medical and then later recreational marijuana. and it started with something so innocent, i was wanting to socialize. everybody does it? so i cannot. and then it just keeps going and going and going. i'm just going to do it one. yeah. and then it's, oh, i'm just going to try this website, but never do it again because they want my son in law right on inside. okay. and you surround yourself with people who are encouraging you to do it and you not to stop it falling my life was over just opposite all balcony and died. mm. you just couldn't stop

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washington coming up thousands of flies have been cancelled around the world as the busy holiday weekend has impacted by staffing shortages. and while the airline industry is struggling to recover, holiday shopping has scored to its highest levels in nearly 2 decades. but how is inflation playing a role? we'll discuss flux. the energy crisis continues across europe, where prices are expected to remain high. we'll take a look at how the north through to pipeline could provide some much needed relief and why officials are saying it is still months away from being approved. then as 2021 comes to a close and we take a look at the progress crypto current these have made and what regulations we can expect in the coming year. we have a lot to cover, so let's get started. we leave the program with a travel nightmare that is still ongoing for many as 1000.