oh, okay, a 4 year old and he's not seen margin germany gets caught up in the tech ass as countries across europe mean time of facing huge on ref ahead of further restrictions when you, you don't parents alleged buquet, hospitals are discriminating against children with down syndrome in a bit to free up beds during the cobra crisis. we hear from a mother who was asked to sign a do not wish to participate order for her son. when she said it, all right, well just in case that's my son's life that you're asking with, or no, you see us down syndrome, but that's got nothing to do with when we're shipping the taste on the latest

bowling showing that most u. s. a democrats now just don't want joe biden to run in 2024. so here we're not to look back at his 1st year in with, sorry, moment up to 3 pm on a very sunny tuesday afternoon here at moscow. it's great to have you with us today . your guys restrictions shows no signs of discipline. since monday, a number of german states had imposed strip to covet 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 bars and nightclubs. it comes as

a number of demonstrations take place across the country. hundreds of people were wasted in protests here in the capital city, but and also in trying food. now in the last her, a 4 year old child received paper spray accidentally from the police after her mother had bought her to the demonstration in a program. the mother of the child had to appear before a judge and it comes, as police complained 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 covert 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 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 past we've heard from the countries of prime minister saying that a negative taste is no longer going to be enough for people to enter bars and restaurants and other cultural venues. lot, dawn dawn says she said you in france as in europe, the situation is extremely tense. the new wave is sweeping over our continent. we reached a symbolic 100000 daily new infections. we adjusting a law that will transform the health path into a vaccination. if parliament votes in favor, it will be applied from the 15th of january. we've been across now to the netherlands. they have 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. well, in the u. k. meantime,

daily cove infections are around the a $100000.00 mark. despite most of the country being vaccinated. the country's health care system has been stretched and their affairs, the corners are being putting lives at risk. well, some parents on campaign is raising the alarm. they worry that vulnerable children are being discriminated against during the crisis to free up bed space. it comes to me at a spike and do not resorted orders for children with a down syndrome and autism. one mother who was asked to sign one for a son, showed her story with us when she said it, all right, well just in case i, because you know, and that's my son's life that you're asking with each site or not. and, and i haven't been asked, that's my other 2 children. i mean, she has down syndrome, but that's got nothing today we have leverage shipping the stuff tight. so not he was in the very and she was asking him a lot of questions. and he

a con and he's a, he understands and he think luckily for him and i asked me because he was, i'm 16 anyway. i'm well to say are the parents. i know there are 7 children say in one respects i was glad he was on the 6th day because the others where i was 16 and where else themselves well, do not resuscitate. orders are offered to people who are typically gravely ill. and of course, once sign doctors will not perform c p out to help restart the patients hot. now in the u. k. r d and others are increasingly being offered to teenagers with autism. a condition that affects 700000 people in the country, but also to up off the teenagers with down syndrome. the national health service system is not discriminating. stressing that it regards blanket policies and appropriate, but karen will out again. well, she disagrees. we ask for

a child and every has called 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, n m y, are people with adults children and will delay while we why on i will try it differently with the lack of humanity. hey, given the health care system i deserve on this, i'm so can assist. and i did that. i get the and i just, it was painted under strain. i'm cab again today with higher than the and i just isn't as the government needs to pull their finger out. and so yeah. and isn't it isn't our kids to say, oh, your children are not valuable with everyone else? see children. so then i'm going to be put on that last night. i was ok, isn't it will leave you out of the stay because there's not

a lot. we're not so fast. i double was where you k hospitals as we understand with admissions on the rise again, and you study ones that next year medical staff absences due to burn out could triple. the findings suggest hospitals could experienced severe stuff. shortages with 17 percent of work is expected to call in sick. and just last week at admissions roast absences followed suit reaching 12 percent. we'd all unions of cold on the government to increase stock pay or face industrial action. now the anitra says the pandemic has created unprecedented pressure, and it's doing all it can to support doctors and us as well. we spoke to medical staff on the ground who say something has to give david is 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 nurse is a patient too. so we are sick. we get physically think we get mentally think. and quite frankly, we bad the moral burden of what's been happening at africa. so yeah. at the moment it's exhausting and was 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, the, to be mall, we need to somehow find capacity outside of the chest. and that might mean that asking people who aren't medically qualified to come in and stepping into sort of stuff. and as a longer term, because we really need to do is sold our recruitment issues. we do need more know, and we do need more doctors. we've vast amounts in particular the general practice, for example, just get a status quo. and there are some, a human may bird and just in general bureaucracy that can get some workforce who have retired or who have steps down that way to actually come back. now some of those barriers and insurmountable the quite quick and easy,

but it 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 these numbers it's, it's really quite frightening. and also patient because, you know, there's still no good, proper guidance come in from the top. it's really terrible environment and, you know, trying to get through this pandemic and being taken for granted the same tommy is leading to now many nurses are talking about go along, 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 is left to care for these patients. so the risk opposed by the new strain is still being studied. new research in the u. k, suggested 70 percent less likely to lead to any hospitalization,

ultimately exhibiting symptoms like that of a common cold. while the world health organization says it's more contagious than vaccine resistance than previous strains, or we spoke with a spoke pause button, who had told us more research is needed to inform policy. it's very contagious. it infects more quickly and it infects more people and, and the growth rate is much faster than previous variance. so it's certainly a theater and foster variance. what we don't know yet is the severity of the illness it produces. we've had some early information, but in the countries where they're studying and closely, they haven't seen the hospitals philips weekly, but we don't know whether that's on the crime or the fact that there's been very good vaccination in those countries. or a lot of penetration by previous variance in the populations where those studies have been done. the critical thing, and this is why the restrictions are taken,

is to leave some reserve in your health system for other things. this is a period of time when people get ill with all kinds of other things, but she winter, accidents, heart attacks, all sorts of things that need intensive care and are on the cons. problematic for 2 reasons, because it's spreading so quickly. the people who need to provide that care of getting sick, as well as the people who are coming into hospital. so even if you are, people are in hospital. if you've got fewer people to look after them, you've also got a problem. so the critical thing is to trying to jam pin down this for the real effect you'll get is getting the people who have not been fascinated 1st. so even though many countries in chief, very high levels of vaccination, they still haven't reached everyone. and those sadly other people who coming into hospital and many of them are still losing their lives, we prefer not see mandates. it's much better if you understand why you'd want to

vaccine and go and get it. but the people who are very hard line will still find ways to avoid it. right at the beginning of this pandemic, all countries of the world got together and said, yeah, we need to vaccinate the whole world at the same time. now, sadly, when the vaccines became available, so interest or whatever took whole and all the contracts were bought out by the most results rich countries leaving the countries with less power and less resources. at the end of the queue that we'd set up a system called co, that's to ensure that it could be delivered to everybody. ah, joe biden has suffered another huge blow in the polls and more democrats now. i would rather see somebody else running 2024 while it does basically chime in with the battering his ratings have taken during his 1st year in office ortiz correspondent al caleb martin looks at y. 2021 wasn't so hot for old buy 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 love you. it's like almost extensions of jo biden's arms embracing america president elect joe biden, and vice president harris told 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 seemed to have shifted from tears of joy and sighs of relief to let's go brandon. mm mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. oh, all, charlotte,

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 churn, how could this have happened to a democratic president, so love by mainstream media and the party establishment cova 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 without a virus set up with our outside in order to prepare it on the oregon. that with joe biden is urging americans to get vaccinated. one can't help but wonder if americans have hesitation about heating their

commander in chief's words, wild assertions, the administration was making about how this was going to go away and inject bleach and all those kinds of things. it was diminishing confidence across the board. you know, you can't, but you can't say everyone. yes, this actually requirements work only makes sense to require a vaccine to stop the spread of covert 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 the 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 city. thing is about 40 percent higher than or was a couple of years ago. so no, i would not say that there during, for a job to be honest is actually one more up lake. everything went on. it's bad is really bad. the afghan pull out got pretty massey, 13 soldiers died before hanging from plains, and us 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 all new to us public. it's unhappy with the afghan. pull out with an army ranks. there's rising discontent, active duty marine corps. lieutenant colonel stuart sheller. a combat veteran with multiple deployments in iraq, 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 messed 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 the 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's all down. thank you very much val. 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 b wholesale that americans are questioning his mental capacity. democrats 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 biden. it's hard to settle on one. certainly, afghanistan was a huge blow to americas. sense of itself in the outrage. in middle 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 you said more death 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. ah, i just 2020 minutes past the hour here in moscow to russia. now with a country's top cold has ruled to close the historical group memorial. and the organization mission, among others, is to research and document soviet era crimes during the repression, se, but i guess the f as detail is that an organization i historic organization which, which focus specialized on identifying the remains of individuals as well as mass graves. people killed in war crimes in political repressions during, during the soviet period that the prosecutor, when they, when they fall this case, they argue that while yes, the organization initially it was created and focused on identifying those individuals and letting their families know how they done finding out who was

behind their deaths, but over the years, argues the prosecutor, then issue has changed. there was less, identifying people and more rewriting history, trying to attribute their deaths to political repressions in the usaa. they repeatedly violated the russian law. the constitution which sherman forces, foreign agents, or organizations which receive funding for the broad come mark their material, as published by someone who's a foreign agent, russia knows much more lenient than that is in the united states. you won't face 5 years by jail if you, if you refused to mark your material as a foreign agent. nevertheless, there are, there are funds and now it has come to this to, to liquidation. in court lloyd, we are about a roughly half way through the program. here on this tuesday live on asi international. good to have your company today still to come fin. the government is what it's going vegetarian. meant to cut down carbon emissions. but we'll see about

that reporting after the break. we're back in just with our special guest today, the only in the legendary expire stine, author of planet ponds. 8 match nice to see happy holidays for all those driven by trainers shaped banks. concur some of those with

there's sinks, we dare to ask join me as a 1st aid on the alex salmon show. i'll be speaking together in the world of politics, sport, business, i'm show business. i'll see you then. mm. the data with us today for this program, europe's soaring energy cost on just hitting the homeowners industry to was feeling the pinch with some plans now having no choice, but just to cut back their operations among them as europe's top number one smelter, i live in unit duncan, the french firm, it's now talking about big losses and losses into the millions off to reducing its offered while smelted across the continent are also resorting to production stoppages. so we had a quick chat with a trader and economist felix moreno,

who says europe is paying a heavy price for its energy policies, warning that other industries could soon be net. it's quite likely that things are going to get worse over the next 3 months. in europe, in spain, we saw the, the 2 main fertilizer manufacturers pause through operations of the last 2 months. and i'm sure the same things happening financing italy. power is a very, it's the number one cost in loss of production. so our prices go up, we're going to see real material prices and chemical products and fertilizer prices going up and in turn that will affect agriculture. the populations of european countries are already paying for the rice and will continue to pay higher prices because of the energy policy that you're been carried out to the last 20 years. paralyzing new nuclear construction, focusing only on renewables without the necessary energy storage to compensate

and in general, carrying out a very imbalanced energy policy that is going to have a very high price stock. now. well, despite the reservations like that, about europe's readiness to go great. now it's pushing ahead come what by germany, for instance, we'll close almost half of its nuclear reactors by the end of the year. portugal last month became the 4th european country to stop using coal for electricity production. and in tune with the whole idea of going green, finland's government is going vegetarian in order to cut down on carbon emissions. it won't be laying on any meat dishes of public events come next year. so peter, all of a now looks at how it's going down for the from january me, glovers here in helsinki may find themselves missing out on traditional beef, polk, or even reindeer dishes, if they attend events held by the finished 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 source sustainable fish is helsinki looks to lower its carbon footprint. this is one way manada is 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. old milken, other alternatives will be provided at events serving coffee. but lots of 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 psych facility up in the new content. that's good if it's her laurie, the carbon footprint that boy is not the stop. he didn't meet this to reduce the amount of me thought is good for her school for the murder, mental, and his group for animals. i am happy that helsinki is spread toothache near steps

towards better, better world fins. consumption of meat is amongst the highest in the e u. that the authority say their aim is to cut down the amount of meat eaten, not abolish it altogether. chef you to money sto though, thinks it's not the best idea to make the change almost overnight. i think days should have done it, her more gradually. not like her 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 decision, it's not how does in america not too bad while i think they should have done it. so in slower like a 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 party in 2018, the finish military announced at least to me, 3 males would be served up 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 it's 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 week 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 wealth, cleanest food in the country's capital. he could have also flipped a setting intern acid for experts. we should nonetheless 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 going 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. oh, going vegetarian for the finished government might reduce carbon emissions, but will it reduce hot air from the politicians read more about an audi thought to call me back soon with

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