ah, ah, the world rings in the new year with fireworks illuminating landmarks around the globe. we recap some of the challenges of the past 12 months, as covey continues to cost to share some positive predictions, though inflation in major markets will drop and the global economy will grow. that's the forecast, the head from a major american investment back. we're going to take a look what to expect in the year ahead. plus, looking over our shoulders, some of 2020 ones, big political spats, the divisive defense deal that so france frozen out as australia, britain, the us banded together putting long time allies against one another

with i there is just to mid day here in moscow on day one of the new year. welcome to 2022 from the international law. calibrate. well, almost all the worlds is now in 2022. alaska is just running midnight, happy new year to you if you're watching from there. now, just some of the pacific island nations left to go. it has, of course, been the 2nd new year's celebrations to have been scaled back by kobe restrictions, but a many capitals people did get the chance to enjoy some spectacular fireworks illuminating the sky. ah.

ah with or him russia? president medina who can give his annual new year's address to the nation, emphasizing that the pandemic has told russians to cope with certain hardships together and wishing everyone good health people we spoke with in central moscow expressed hopes that the diva will bring the positive changes and

a possible end to the pandemic. your customer several, a chef lawrence, i wish happiness to every willing and that we finally overcome kobe, but where moscow and get vaccinated than ever when we finally receive, that gets in the news is as the issue, what the i how are you getting the number? yeah. we'll be traveling somewhere too. okay. i'm not mandatory if anyone can have a break from osteen and forget about the floors were good. i wish everyone happy new year health. a peaceful sky up on the head of the mental things to turn out with them. they can even imagine image that in britain prime minister barak johnson claimed in his new year's message that the country's in an incomparably better position. now, specifically when it comes to the cobit crisis, happy new year. 2022 is almost upon us. and whatever the challenges that fate continues to throw in our way, we can say one thing with certainty. opposition this december, the 31st is incomparably better than last year. but the reality might be far less

sunny was daily infections in the u. k. hitting another record high on new year's eve, england's top health officials are boarding that the n h. s is now on a bull footing. you case. not a load of course. and having struggled with the pandemic route 2021. nicky air and next sums up the gears covered challenges around the globe. if 2020 was the year we lost to cove it 2021 with the year life was supposed to get back on track. but as always things on never that simple. after months of locked downs and restrictions 2021. so patients reach boiling points with trust in lead is at an all time low. and people's spinning on to the street in protest. despite officials warning inoculation was vitally important. ah in the u. k. the government's reputation, nose dived as p. and boris jones and flip flopped on guidelines,

leaving brits confused and frustrated. where mosques don't wear mosques, how give friends don't hug friends last on your neighbors and cancel your parties as the pm was alleged, to exempt himself from the rules. and a, ah ah ah, there is a meetings of people at work to let this is where i live and so i work are, those are meetings of people at what unsurprisingly, the country is predicting his days in number 10 on now. none but i

elsewhere in europe and vaccinated people were bought from much of public life and they were take to germans, made their thoughts on this heard ah, similar angry scenes in australia, crowds opposing restrictions and vaccine mandates flooded the streets. ah, state side vaccine mandates recreating similar divisions as bind in announced that vaccination would be compulsory for health workers, teachers and anyone working within a team of more than a 100. again, a suggestion many were unwilling to take lying down both politicians and ordinary citizens. ah.

mm cove, it has become our common enemy rather than bring us closer together. it became another example of the disparity between rich and poor vaccine make his thought medicine to the highest bidders. and rich countries promised to share. but who did doses the surplus destroyed while the poorest nations of the world went without? there is no doubt that they know equitable sharing of those vaccines has cost many lives. while some countries are now rolling out blanket booster programs only have off w just member states, i've been able to reach the target of vaccinating 40 percent of their populations by the end of the year because of distortions in global supply. meanwhile, the vaccine makers, the savior that the rich got rich themselves new figures from the people's vaccine

alliance revealed that the companies behind 2 of the most successful carving 19 vaccines pfizer by and taken the durn or making combined profits of $65000.00 every minute. despite receiving public funding of over a $1000000000.00, the 3 corporations have refused calls to urgently transfer vaccine technology and know how with capital producers and low and middle income countries. for those who was counting that money in 2021, the year was one of loneliness, anxiety and depression, of epidemic levels. but those who we turn to when a need of care were experiencing a crisis of their own various states. one of an impending health care system collapse with a national guard deployed for support on health care staff across the globe on strike over unworkable conditions. ah,

and then we come, full circle is hospital workers who object to monetary cave jobs. all fired regardless of their reasons to decide the mandates. i am being escorted out of kaiser permanente hospital for my religious belief because i don't want to get the job. in 2020. we became arm chair experts in epidemiology 2021 taught is more than we ever needed to know about corporate greed and poor leadership. some off to such a check, a couple of years. some may be forgiven for looking at 2022 through their fingers. a little uncertain of what the year will bring. well yeah, certainly a lot we'd rather forget as we close the door on the just gone, but it did bring out the creative side for a lot of people online. so here is just a few of the major moments that were turned into memorable names. ah,

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a with offer another year racked by pandemic hardship. she would be forgiven for being a bit wary of what the head but that she could be different. investment bank. morgan stanley has a pretty positive outlook, predicting inflation and major markets will peak them. retreat and the global economy should see growth of 5 percent of the banks. optimism doesn't stop. barry, the supply chains are expected to recover. boosting commerce, driving down inflation throughout the world, emerging market to predict it, to grow faster than the global average, especially in asia. but china's economy might slow down compared with last year,

less the government eat is up on certain regulations, including on carbon emissions. one of those predictions come true, they'll bring much needed relief to the many who suffered an economic squeeze off that to cove. it blighted years, which i've seen prices saw and energy cost talk the headlines. we asked to economists for their predictions for the coming year. mean the one i'm most concerned about is going to be the shock that results from a u. s. sovereign debt and currency crisis, i believe that that is inevitable, and that is going to be the biggest financial upheaval that the world has seen. i think the biggest issue in terms of the market is what's the alternative that people are going to turn to against the u. s. dollar? it doesn't look as if bit con, encrypted currency so far have reached significantly wide enough acceptance to really be the alternative. that's needed and certainly who wants to abandon the usa because the u. s. dollar is at least the symbol of an economy that is consistently

rejuvenate itself in favor of something like the euro. the next best option, when we see the europeans in mass locked on having gas problems, all sorts of other issues at home, which don't suggest that the euro currency is any more stable. i do think that to move towards green energy is going to slow down substantially as people realize how expensive that's actually going to be. i mean, if you really want to say the planet from climate change, if this really is the existential rad i, it's going to come with a huge price tag. there's a situation, it's certainly in europe, in all the parts of the world, if you get inflation, we just have not been going up historically for large swears of the population over the course of the last 20 years. you're looking at a position where people are going to be squeezed financially. they may have energy issues and certainly as their gas bills go up. what's the basis of politics? well, the engine, roman stillness, pan at her kansas, bread and games. that doesn't seem to be an awful lot of fun, like there to be hot. lot dawn europe at the moment. thanks to cope with 19. and if

it's going to be more expensive to simply heat your home to light your home and indeed to have the food that you want in your home. some people are going to get very, very upset. and it's not beyond the power of reason that we're going to see an increase in the sort of general protest that has been occurring indeed in recent weeks of places like holland of tried to lock down. once again, i still had for you this new year's day, 2 decades of fighting only to disappear chaotically in a matter of months. how the war in afghanistan has left veterans who served. asking what was it all for live for moscow? this is our t international. ah

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ah, i got revisiting one of 2020 one's awkward. international tips next to countries on opposite sides of the planet, driven even further report, australia and france fell out after the french was snubbed at the last minute. when britain in the u. s. wooed australia into a new defense pack. charlotte du bowsky reports on the deal, which divided old friends, triggering the nuclear option is always going to be risky business as a strain you found out in 2021. we need to, so i did to renee, going to 56000000 euros submarine deal with france. so how did cambra elect parents know? i friends all, this is a new enhanced trilateral security partnership between the strider, the united kingdom and the united states. that i know when i saw on select lab the

gas stage, but it was not at a loss for words, but it's really a stop in the back. a relationship of trust have been built with australia and this trust has been betrayed. crohn's livid, deal of a century wave keyboard. and i want to thank her that fellow down on thank you very much about appreciate premise was scrapped without a claims. only warning. what followed was an a bomb of a diplomatic full lance. we had the president of france calling the prime minister, a lawyer. we have a try block. we have the recall of ambassadors and we have a very costly medic situation. branson, shaving the presidency of the a. you very significant fire in global politics and very hostile and a long memory and feel the trite,

i even president by why it was managed was clumsy with sham. is presidential her heading and screaming camera. and if you people think that things couldn't get any worse thing you'd be wrong. australia's prime minister tried to suggest that france was away. the deal was doomed. i made it very clear that i conventional diesel powered submarine was not going to make a strategy as strategic require. we discussed that candidly. then one of though is a parent messages between the french and all the leaders was leaked. should i expect good or bad news from our joint submarines ambitions? oh, yeah. oh. when done with france? well, a bit like this of marine deal inelegant crude confidence has been completely shattered

. that's how the french saw it. relations hating a new low and it seems the whole debacle. having gone down to well in australia over the desire to acquire nuclear submarines will literally burn bridges with some of them. a long standing divers will undermine regional security and will break a lot of the formal and informal regional understandings and co operation a great. so they are profound implications. for stria financial maturity. the environmental, they're also very much about the same cost and as completion and perception by cells and how others the in the ration and the world shifting towards nuclear submarines raises of the questions to give them that a story is

a non nuclear power nation. the real concern that move by will facilitate or push a regional arm drive with already seen expressions from japan and south korea saying we would also consider a welcomes nuclear pallet submarine option. and there is a real concern that this will now, right. i sort of, i'm the sandy and lay to increase my military expansion or depression and technical capacity increases in the region. while australia may have hope that saddling up to the u. s. might have given it a boost on the international stage. what it seen is the reverse trade talks through the you have been kicked into the long grass, but in true asi style, there is no worries kind of attitude so much so that it's just stuck up 2 fingers

to french, designed helicopters to no one the front says the rift between the 2 countries remains open. australia's lead is may not be quick to caught known just how big of an issue this could be. but australians themselves have been left wondering if they government is a few stubby short of a 6 pack solid. even skiing, r t, paris a last year. so give us troops in the ally swiftly leave afghanistan after 2 decades of war. but for many who served there still a looming question. what was it all for? that was part of our unheard voices project on all t dot com. we spoke to a u. k. army veteran about the walk and what it meant for the people who feel, but they're still fighting it. i take my life last year and i was in a wheel by the way, my mind ended. i nearly lost my son and i didn't know what to do. a lot of the guys

i was with don't really talk to each other anymore. i mean, they're trying to delete it and move away small, but quite a few people lives in the last 4 or 5 years. i think the most recent is only a few months ago. oh and i have been through hell and you're still living it. you just get a feeling of fear somebody wouldn't understand, you know, and given the order to kill someone, stuff, you know, people get upset of things today that don't maybe what i want. so i look in my

coffee, i really just drink the coffee when i 1st went to the dentist on, we were told that we were going to burn the poppy fields to the palms to work and not pon change them. and we landed in on our troops in a way that they haven't for many years, are going to be fighting alongside other countries in situations of great danger. soldiers are very good at taking orders and just getting on with it. i'm not questioning orders, but as you go to the years and you mature and you start to sort of have to bring in the things for yourself and realize why we here. what are we doing? we're not looking at gast, i don't think it was a pointless exercise. what's happening in the south of afghanistan, the residence about the taliban trying to get back power? ah,

we want our way back. and the taliban had already got in the grind that we'd already cleared. my friend, my really was just a couple stood on one and died instantly. lost his arms and legs. i believe it's 17 casualties all from, from our group out of each of those casualties. you've got quite a few guys affected by what they've seen. it's trauma on top of trauma as a constant heights about over a weeks and weeks and most u . k. troops and officials of what run the plot to a remorseless deadline. it's thanks to the colossal exertions this country has not been processed, check vetted, and ended more than 15000 people to safety in less than 2 weeks. i mean, it's been

a complete mess, had by administration, worked with the rest of his allies. it would've been, we were going to leave anyway, but we could have done it in a systematic approach. for instance, you don't even need to have a military mindset to understand that if you're going to extract from a country, you bring back all your citizens from the embassy, put them into secure abuse, and then fly them. what you don't do your flyers, your military, and then go. what about the what about the civilians? tama and i got tional sickle home be 600000 m 16 weapon systems, 3 stars and bombs left behind. so that's munitions that can be used for the glass that i was watching. that i watch the video of telephone draft as us special forces moving in behind to take control of fortune x, which, you know, it's just unbelievable. we've lost too many people for situation which we just gave up on some see in the new year with parties,

others with religious reflection? well, here's how it's done in romania for millennia. ah christian baskin for the annual festival, to mark the change of the year. it predates christianity, sees dancers go from house to house, singing and twirling to ward off evil spirits. not easy to dance in either. the costumes are actual baskin and they weigh up to 14 kilos. they also cost around 2000 euros. prices drastically increased since the u. m o restrictions on hunting the animals, but locals are determined to try and preserve the ancient tradition that endures. i've been doing this since i was 5 years old and i go every year with my parents to every house to banish the evil spirit caused some fun to for us, it's very nice to see romanian traditions in this area where we live. it's my 1st time attending there, and i love it. oh, here in russia,

the holiday seasons in full swing with orthodox christmas to come next. friday. ornaments are the festive items are in high demand right now. and one enterprising of russian pensioner is taking a particularly creative approach, reusing bits and pieces lying around the house. me, what's your oh, i say you can't feel my legs. can only station lie. i haven't been outside for before years. ah folk song broken all the time when my wife's friend came over,

she liked the door so much that she took it home. when people started to need my baubles, ah, ah, ah, you started making compositions with animals and mushrooms, my friends began to come enough to buy them. i didn't refuse. i don't charge them too much money, only the most fishing boats. i gave them to everyone in the summer. not bad. even cool ones came out and and for some reason the fish bice ah, the main thing to do is to make some remarkable. it doesn't take much, but from this junk, these things come out. ah

. so it looks so far this new year's day in moscow for me calling brian the team here with alta h q. thanks for watching and happy new year. ah . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms. race is often very dramatic, development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult. time. time to sit down and talk to

least video shows las vegas police waiting in the hallway at the mandalay bay hotel . even as steven paddock continues to murder people below a if we'll get killed and this coward stayed on the 31st floor and not one attempt was made to reach the 32nd floor, vice could have been saved if they were to take an action. absolutely. they had a team of armed individuals that did nothing but tower. while the shots were going on, 58 people died that night and the tower cub who could have done something they spiral . but they don't tell anybody about it. i found out about it and i did the story on it. there were about 30 police officers with shotguns into yours and all kinds of handle domitian for now, all the 32nd floor walk into the room. 1121 of us wants to just.