ah ah, in the headlines you're wanting international, a 4 year old is caught up in pepper, spray police and break up an empty vaccine march in germany. countries all across europe are facing huge on rest ahead of new year over brian new restrictions. some parents in the u. k. are accusing hospitals of discriminating against children with down syndrome in a bit to free up beds during the coke fries. and we hear from a mother who was off to sign a do not resuscitate, formed 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, i mean he has down syndrome that got nothing to do with every shipping types are not on the leg is pulling and america showing that most democrats don't want joe

biden to run in 2024, to hear what i say. we look back. it is 1st year in office with live and a 100 countries world wide. this is auntie international with me role research. it's great to have you with us today. so europe is facing a new wave of angry protests. governments are tightening the screws on the unvaccinated, at one protest in germany, a 4 year old child was caught in pepper spray as the police moved in. the, according to the police, the child was completely symptom free again after an i wash officers launched a formal complaint against the mother for endangering her child. meanwhile, over in france, they were noisy protests against the restriction. ah,

ah, since monday a number of german states have imposed stricter 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 foot. now in the last her, a 4 year old child received a paper spray accidentally from the police. after her mother had bought her to the demonstration in a prime. 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 covert cases a day. at the same time, the country has registered more than a 122000 people who have died from the virus. not this is largely due to the new owners can vary and that was was detected 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 pass 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. lot don't don't. so she said you in france that in europe, the situation is extremely tense. the new wave is sweeping over the continent. we've reached a symbolic 100000 daily new infections. we adjusting

a law that will transform the health path into a vaccination path. parliament's votes in favor, it will be applied from the 15th of january. we've been across now to the netherlands there. 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. so meantime in the u. k. daily cove infections are reportedly around the $100000.00 bach, with the countries health care system stretched, there are fears the corners are being cut potentially putting lives at risk of parents. and some campaign is raising the alarm over this. they worry that vulnerable children are being discriminated against during cobra to free up bed space. it does come in a spike and do not receive orders for children with down syndrome and autism. and one mother who was asked aside for her son, shut her story with us when she said it, i,

well docked in tears because in my son's life that you're asking what you should have or not. and i haven't been asked, that's my other 2 children. i mean, she has down syndrome, but that's got nothing today when we're shipping the title or not. he was in the room and she was asking him a lot of questions and he a con and he's kind of class days that he understands. and thank. luckily for him and i also me because he was i'm 16 anyway. i'd love 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. i'm where austin styles do not restarted at orders are typically off the people who are gravely ill. one sign

doctors will not perform cpr to help restart the patients hard. now whether you k, i d and ours are increasingly being offered to teenagers with autism, a condition that affects 700000 people in the country. those also being offered about of teenagers with down syndrome. and the national health service insists it's not discriminating, stressing, but it regards blanket policies as inappropriate. but karen bullet, again, seems to disagree with for a child. and every, as i was 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, a n n. why are people with adults children el today? why are we, why on? i will try it differently with the lack of you must say, given the health care system i deserve on the social system, i did that,

i get the and i just spent under strain and 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 the children. so then i'm going to be put on that last night and i was ok, isn't it will leave you out the dumbest idea. because there's not a lot of room on mobile woes for you. k hospitals with admissions on the rise. again, a new study wants that next year, medical solve absences due to burn out, could triple 5 things to address hospitals get experienced, severe staff shortages with 17 percent of work is expected to call in sick. i just last week as admissions rose absences followed, suit reaching 12 percent made, while unions of cold on the government to increase staff,

pay or face industrial action. be energized, does say that the pandemic is created unprecedented prussia, that is doing all it can to support doctors on us as well. we spoke to medical staff on the ground who say something has got to give david is with us almost 2 years now. a doctor, the nurses commission on the ground. absolutely exhausted. they're not just exhausted that scared the tired. you must remember the doctor, the nurses, the patients do, we are sick. we get physically think we're mentally thing. and quite frankly, we bad the moral burden of what's been happening over the past couple of years. so yeah. and at the moment it's exhausting. and what's worse still, of course, it's not over when 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 be all, we need to somehow find capacity outside of the and, and that might mean that asking people who aren't medically qualified to come in and step in and do some of the stuff in the longer term. because we really need to

do is sold our recruitment issues. we do need more. no nurses, we do need more doctors. we've vast amounts in particular, the general practice, for example, just keep the status quo. and there are some, a human may just in general bureaucracy that can get some workforce who have retired or who have steps down that were to actually come back. now some of these barriers and implemented quite quick, it 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 was the numbers. it is really quite frightening for stuff and also patients because you know, they still know of good, proper guidance come in from the top really terrible environment and, you know, trying to get through this pandemic and being taken for granted at the same time if needed to burn out. many nurses are talking about going on,

protest and strike caption on. some of the unions already 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 and is left to care for the patient. the risk opposed by the new strain is still being studied, new birth search and the u. k suggests that 70 percent less likely to meet the hospitalization exhibiting symptom similar to that of a common cold. although the world health organization says it's more contagious and vaccine resistant than previous strains, or we spoke to the spokes person who told us more time is needed. 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 fetal and faster variance. what we don't know yet is the severity of the illness that produces, we've had some early information,

but in the countries where they're studying and closely. they haven't seen the hospitals philips of 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. whether 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 amik once 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 try to jump and down the spread. 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, yep, we need to vaccinate the whole world at the same time. now, sadly, when the vaccines became available, so interest, all whatever took hold and all the contracts were bought out by the most brazil of rich countries leaving the countries with less power and less results. and at the end of the queue that we set up a system called co, that's to ensure that it could be delivered to everybody. turbine has suffered yet

another brutal blow in the poles. more democrats now would now, well rather see somebody else running 2024. they don't want joe biden to do it again. it does chime in the battering, his ratings have taken over the past 1st year in office. so let's look back for a moment with us. he's caleb 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 pulled 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

mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. 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 2024. why do 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 have 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 1000 for the virus with the wire that you have cited for to me here it on the origin of it. 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 say everyone has actually requirements work 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 of years ago. so no, i would not say that there during, for a job, to be honest is actually one more of like everything when it's bad is really bad. 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, it's unhappy with the afghan pull out within army ranks. there is 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 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 also 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. ah, i should think as to russia now, where the country's top court has ruled to close the historical group memorial, the organization mission among others is to research and document sophia era. crime is during the repression ortiz, but i guess dia has details. buzzed 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 filed this case, they argued that while yes, the organization initially it was created and focused on identifying those individuals and letting their families know how they died, finding out who was behind their deaths. but over the years, argues the prosecutor. their mission has changed. there was less identifying people and more rewriting history, trying to attribute their deaths to political repressions in the u. s a sir. they repeatedly violated the russian law. the constitution which sherman forces, foreign agents, or organizations which are she funded from abroad to mark their material as published by someone who's a foreign agent. russian was much more lenient than that is in the united states. you won't face 5 years behind 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,

to liquidation in court. are still to come here on the program on r t international. finland's government is going vegetarian. it's all meant to cut carbon emissions, but well, it was put on that animal in just a minute. ah ah

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic and development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful. very katy killed time time to sit down and talk with good, happy with us with the program today. so europe's soaring energy costs on just hitting homeowner's industry is now feeling the pinch with some plants having no choice but to cut back operations among them. for example, europe's top smelter ali, manian duncan,

the french farm is fucking up losses in them. millions off to reducing its output. smelters across the continent are resorting to production stoppages. a trader and economist felix moreno says europe is paying a heavy price for its energy policies, warning that other industries could be next. 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 their operations of the last 2 months. and i'm sure the same things happening, prancing at lee power is the very is the number one cost in lots of production. so our prices go up, we're going to see raw material prices and chemical products and fertilize the price is going up and in turn that will affect agriculture. the populations of european countries are already paying for the rise and will continue to pay higher prices because of the energy policy that europe is 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 doctor now, or the spider reservations like that about europe's readiness to go green. now it is pushing ahead come what may. germany, for example, will 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. while staying with a whole green trend, the government of finland wants to go vegetarian to reduce carbon emissions. well, sounds like a healthy idea, but will it reduce hot air from politicians? peter oliver takes a closer look 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 auctions will be vegetarian or from locally source 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 his cow milk. old milkin, 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 that 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 suck the suit up and then the content that's good if it's her lowering the carbon footprint, that boy is not to 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 in your steps towards better better world fins. consumption of meat is amongst the highest in the e u. that the authority say 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, 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 patty, in 2018, the finish military announced at least to me, free meals 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 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 green washing 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 country's capital. he could have also flipped the setting intern acid for experts. we should nonetheless work together and support food produces food companies and producers 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, a daily ha pos for moscow time here in the office. that wraps up in used cars for now. here when alex international, thanks for joining us. so much. any stories you may have missed or just catch up on odd t v dot com is where you want to find the main saga program, which is and about often mm

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jumped office about balcony and died. he knew he just couldn't stop. join me every posted on the alex simon, sure. but i'll be speaking to guess in the world of politics, sport, business, i'm show business. i'll see you then also happening to night, the fight continues in manatee county. o z. a company now wants to expand are mining operations, but many of their neighbors tell abc, actually news reporter adam weiner. they fear another environmental mess. it's not only just my organic harm.