the the will celebrate the new year with big calculus. couple of this, we looked at some of the positive predictions to being made for 2022. with financial experts forecasting the global economy said to grow while inflation is better for according to one major investment back out. of course, we also review the year that's just gone with a look at some of the big political spots. so them fold, including a controversial defense steel, so from at loggerheads where they live, the

life small to deny. so most go welcome to this world news edition with me, kevin. so the 1st, the entire world know entered 2022 off the pacific islands that make up the last times got there. and despite a lot of celebrations, being scaled back for a 2nd job, because the coven, many capitals, nonetheless, for at least able to bring in the new year with some spectacular firework displace . ah, with

the greatest player in the russian capital also here as him a potent gave his new year's address to the nation. he emphasized the pandemic has taught russians. he said to cope with certain hardships together and wished everyone good health, we caught up with some revellers in central moscow to get their hopes. the coming year just over several has just learned. i wish happiness to everyone. and that we finally overcome kobe,

where masks and get vaccinated than everything we find at all, received the gifts in the new year. did the sure what the i heard said in the new year will be traveling somewhere where to our case and not mandatory. and we can have a break from our masks and forget about the people. so what i wish everyone, happiness health a peaceful sky above their head and for things to turn out better for people than they can even imagine to me. in britain prime minister barak johnson claimed in his new year's message that the countries in a much better position now, specifically when it comes to the coven crisis, happy new year. 2022 is almost upon us. and whatever the challenges that faith continues to throw in our way, we can say one thing with certainty. opposition this december, the 31st is incomparably better than last year. that said daily infections in the u . k. had another record on friday, and england's top health officials say the health services on

a war footing. the u. k. though of course, is not at all low when it comes to struggling with a pandemic. nicky aaron looks back on the past 12 months of it if 2020, with the year we love 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 and lead as it's an old time low. and people's spinning on to the stress in protest despite officials warning inoculation was vitally important. ah in the u. k. the government's reputation, nose dived as p and boris johnson flip flopped on guidelines. leaving brits confused and frustrated. where mosques don't wear mosques, hug your friends, don't hug friends, rats on your neighbors, and cancel your parties. as the p. m was alleged to exempt himself from the rules

and a oh a ah, there's a meetings of people at work today, but this is where i live and to i work. others were meetings of people at work and surprisingly, the country is predicting his faith in number 10 on now. none but i elsewhere in europe and vaccinated people were bought from much of public life and

they would take to germans made their thoughts on this heard ah, similar angry scenes and australia crowds opposing restrictions and vaccine mandates flooded the streets. ah, state side vaccine mandates. we're creating similar divisions as bind in announced that vaccination would be compulsory for health work as 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, cove, it has become our common enemy rather than bringing as close it together. it became

another example of the disparity between rich and poor vaccine make his sold medicine to the highest bidders. and rich countries promised to share but hoarded doses, the surplus destroyed. while the poorest nations of the world went without, there is no doubt that the in 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 covered 1900 vaccines, pfizer by and taken the durn, are 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 what a need of care were experiencing a crisis of their own various states warned of an impending health care system collapse with the national guard deployed for support and 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 cove 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 armchair experts in epidemiology 2021 taught us 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. yeah, absolutely new care and so 2021 may be a year. a lot of us would like to forget a bit, but i didn't stop people trying, at least as a human nature. the seek of some of the funny side simply online is a light to look at the year just gone. ah, a

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of course, well, from the, into the future next as for the year ahead, financial experts predict things could be looking up. wow. mostly american investment, buy morgan stanley as a pretty positive outlook for the economy and things inflation and major markets will rise. but then retreat, while the global economy should grow by 5 percent, they estimate the banks optimism doesn't stop their supply chains are expected to recover boosting lesson driving down inflation throughout the world. emerging market so predicted to grow faster than the global average, especially in asia. although covet china's economy may slow down like thing compared to last year, unless the government eases up on certain regulations,

including on carbon emissions. well, if those 4 cause to come true, they'll bring much needed relief to the many of suffered nick, and i'll make squeeze of that to cove it like 2 years during which the price of sold, especially for energy and fuel. we are fee than to the economist for their predictions . for the coming year 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 us 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 a 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 currently is any more stable. i do think that the 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 save 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 from large sways 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 he asked the gas bills go up. what's the basis of politics? while the ancient romans told us panama after kansas bread and games, the doesn't seem to be an awful lot of fun, like there to be had a lot on europe at the moment times to cope with 19. and if it's going to be more

expensive to simply teach 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 lockdown once again. so the come in the sedition of our teens nationals, world news with me, kevin, now in 2 decades of fighting only to dissipate chaotically in a matter of months, we look at how that war afghan stan has left veterans who served. asking, was it all worth it? ah

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again, a major international riff develop last year between old friends did it as it so 2 countries on opposite sides of the planet, driven even further, a pop australia and france fell out after the french was snubbed. the last minute when britain, the u. s. will destroy into a new defense packed shallow davinsky has more of a deal that said really sour, triggering the nuclear option is always going to be risky. business as us trainer found out in 2021 we need to. so i did to, rene, gonna 56000000000 euros submarine deal with franks. so how did cambra elect parents know? so i friends all, this is a new enhanced try electron security partnership between the strider, the united kingdom and the united states. that i know when saw wrong, select flabbergasted, but it was not at a loss the woods see, but it's really

a stop in the back. a relationship of trust have been built with australia, and this trust has been betrayed. the cross livid deal of a century wave. make it worse. and i want to thank her that trouble down under thank you very much. i appreciate it to progress 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. branch, shaving the presidency of the a. you are very significant liar in global politics and very hostile and a long memory and feel the trite, ah, even president by say,

why that is, was managed with clumsy with cham in 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 i joined the marines 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

sore it relations, hating a new, lo and it seems the whole debacle. having gone down to well in australia all over the desire to acquire nuclear submarines will literally burn bridges with some of them. a long standing guidance will undermine regional security and will break a lot of formal and informal, regional understandings and cooperation a great. so they are profound implications for stria financial maturity in ra, remain. so they're also very much about the same cost and confusion and perception cells and how the out in the ration and the world shifting towards nuclear submarines raises of the questions to give them that a story is

a no nuclear power nation. the real concern that move by will facilitate or push a regional drive. we've already seen expressions from japan and south korea saying we would also consider a welcome, a nuclear power submarine option. and there is a real concern that this will now break. i sort of understanding and lead to increased military expansion as oppressions 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, talk to the e. you have been kicked into the long grass. but in true asi style, there is a 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. screen is 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 salad, even skiing, r t. paris. well, another major story last year you as troops and their allies rapidly pulled out of afghanistan, did my after 2 decades of war. but for many who served there is still a looming question. was it worth it? as part of on the heard voices projected r t dot com. we spoke to a u. k. army veteran about the conflict. i take my life last year. i was in a wheel by the way, my mind ended. i needed lost my son, and i didn't know what to do. a lot of the condition i was with don't really talk

to each other anymore. i mean, they're going try to delete it and move away from all. but quite a few people lives in the last 4 or 5 years. i think the most recent is only a few months ago. i few been through hell and you're still living it. you just get a feeling of fear, the news, something i wouldn't understand, you know, and given the order to kill someone and stuff you, people get upset of it, things today that don't need it. i won't. so i woke in my coffee,

i really just drink the coffee when i 1st went to the gallery on, we were told that we were going to burn the poppy fields to the plumbers to work and do not. not pon, changed them. we landed in our troops in a way that they haven't for many years are going to be fighting alongside other countries and situations of great danger. salinas are very good at taking orders and just getting on with it and not questing orders. but as you go through the years and you mature and you start to sort of have to bring in the thing for yourself and realize, okay, why are 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, that is the residence about tight taliban trying to get back power the

way back and tell about her already got id 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, each of those casualties. you've got quite a few guys affected by what they've seen. it's trauma, public trauma, as a constant heights about over a weeks and weeks and most ah u. k. troops and officials of work round the clock to a remorseless deadline. it 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, hard by ins and ministration worked with the rest of his allies. it would have 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 the middle of the 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 bias and then fly them. what you don't do is flyers your military and then go, what about the, what with the civilians. thomas and i got tional that got 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. last night i watched a video of taliban dressed as us special forces moving in behind her 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 upon trevor's stories from our online project. unheard voices. we should

still catch an r c dot com if you want to see more of it. finally, for now, we're in russia the holiday season. so just getting started with the orthodox christmas being celebrated next friday and with ornaments or the festival to the still enough demand for decoration one pension is taken a particularly creative approach. me ah . so you can't feel my legs. i can only sit lie. i haven't been outside for over 4 years. mm. i found a broken go look at it. when my wife's friend came over,

she liked the doll so much that she took it home. that's when people start, sneed my ball, the ah! in yo, unless you started making compositions with animals and mushrooms, my friends began to come enough to buy them. i didn't refuse, so i don't charge him too much money. me the most fishing floats. i gave them to everyone in the summer. not bad. even cool ones came out. 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. i because how clever will happy new year same to you as well. ok, thanks for checking in. the south internationals world news addition was made kevin out with all those driven by printers shaped banks. concur some of those with, there's things we dare to ask

in ah, you as things that have happened in the world were being done by people who had a great vision of how society could be better. but that great vision is typically the less time to see a representation is not real. it doesn't take into account any of the complexity of reality, the subtlety of how various and complex people i put them into categories as this lot is bad. we'll get rid of them, you know, and change is an organic process. change is an evolution and the opposition is not between the status and everything must stay the same and everything must be radically changed. a radical change is not the way that kills

with ah, did i mention retired senior, watching a special edition of going underground on the 1st day of 2020 two's gregorian calendar. the team and i will be back for a brand new season. on wednesday, the 12th of january, but until then, we'll be showing some of your favorite shows from this season this week. so a meeting that could have designed the future of our species on planet earth, the virtual meeting between economic superpowers of the 20th and 21st century, the u. s. and china, as the contours of this century become clear between shanghai cooperation

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