[000:00:00;00] the news tonight will celebrate this new year. he looks at some of the positive predictions for 2022, with financial experts forecasting the global economy is said to grow what inflation may start to fall out. of course we review the year. this is gone as well . with a look cut, some of the big political i'm told is including a controversial defense steel and so from said look ahead, big time with its allies. 2021 was many things, but it also gave the online will plenty of ammunition that fun making me from bernie sanders and his mittens to a both stuck in the suez canal. remember that we look at the top of beds of last year,

dean's worthy of digital mockery. the news. hello there. good morning. love mart, international most welcome to world news at 1 am with me, kevin. oh. and so then 2020 two's only just begun and some of the positive expectations for the year ahead concerned the economy with financial experts predicting things could even be looking up american investment bank. morgan stanley has a pretty positive outlook on things. inflation and major markets will rise, but then retreat, while the global economy should grow by 5 percent. well, the bank optimism doesn't stop very the supply chains are expected to recover boosting commerce and driving down inflation throughout the world. emerging markets predicted to grow faster than the global average, specially in asia. copy it to that though, china's economy may slow down the thing compared to last year, unless the government ease is up on some certain regulations, including on compet emissions. if those forecast do come through,

they'll bring much needed relief to the many of suffered in the make squeeze over the last 2 years of covert during which prices of sold, especially for energy and fuel. so we asked to economists for you for their predictions, for the coming year. i 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 the markets is what's the alternative that people are going to turn to against the us dollar. it doesn't look as if bitcoin and prepped to currency so far have reached significantly wide enough acceptance to really beat the alternative that's needed. and certainly who wants to abandon the usa because the us dollar is at least a symbol of an economy that is consistently rejuvenate itself in favor, 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 save the planet from climate change, if this really is the existential rad, 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 off historically from large waves of the population of 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 their gas bills go up. what's the basis of politics while the engine roman still the panel at kansas, bread and games. that doesn't seem to be an awful lot of sunlight there to be hot and locked on europe at the moment. thanks to cope with 19. 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 protests that have been occurring. indeed in recent weeks or places like holland. the pride to lock. don once again or through find out said enough what way to with the new year ahead paper also trying us as human nature to stay positive as possible and look back at some of the fun in moments in 2021 particular live. he's a light to look at the just go. ah, [000:00:00;00] a

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ah, in the bonus you can ever want to subscribe to us now, but jokes the remain the global word of the year for britain though 2021. let's put the country a much better position specifically when it comes to the covey crisis. said the prime minister, boris johnson, is you your message? 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. and none the less daily infections in the u. k. hit another record high on friday. and england's top health officials at the health service was on a war footing. the u. k. of course, is not alone at all when it comes to struggling with a pandemic. nicky aaron looked back on the past really troubled 12 months. if

2020 was the year we lost to cove, it 2021 was 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 is at an all time low and people's spinning onto 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 johnson flip flopped on guidelines. leaving brits confused and frustrated. where mosques don't wear mosques, how your friends don't hug friends, rust on your neighbors, and cancel your parties. as the p. m was alleged to exempt himself from the roof.

and oh, oh oh, there's with meetings with people at work, talked about this is where i live and so i worked others with meetings with people at work. unsurprisingly, the country is predicting his days in number 10 on now. none but i elsewhere in europe and vaccinated people were barred from much of public life and there were take to germans, made their thoughts on this hurt. ah

. similar angry scenes in australia, crowds opposing restrictions and vaccine mandates flooded the streets. ah. state side vaccine mandates. we're creating similar divisions as bind and 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, cove, it has become our common enemy rather than bring it as closely together. it became another example of the disparity between rich and poor vaccine make has sold

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 savings that the rich got rich themselves new figures from the people's vaccine lines 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, said 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, we're experiencing a crisis of their own various states. one of an impending health care system collapse with the 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 cova jobs all fired regardless of their reasons to defy 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 from may be forgiven for looking at 2022 through their fingers. a little uncertain of what the year will bring. still ahead, denazi's will these one i am with me, kevin 2 decades of fighting only to disappear chaotically in a matter of months when we look at how the war in afghanistan is left. veterans who served asking was it all worth it with?

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the world of politics, sport, business. i'm show business, i'll see you then. ah, again, a major international risk develop last year between old friends that it so 2 countries and opposite sides of the planet, driven even further apart, australia and france fell out after the french was snubbed to the last minute when britain in the u. s. wooed astray, leon, show a new defense. pat. charlotte davinsky has more of the dealer turn really sour, triggering the nuclear option is always going to be risky. business as us trainer found, i think 2021 we need to. so i did to, rene, gonna 56000000 euros submarine deal with france. so how did cambra elect parents know? so i friends offices bought a new enhanced trilateral security partnership between australia, the united kingdom and the united states. that i know when saw on select

flabbergasted, 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 you. thank you very much. appreciate wish to progress what scrapped without it claims. only warning. what followed was an a bomb of a diplomatic for lance. we had the president of france calling the prime minister stria a lawyer. we have a try block. we have the recall of ambassador and we have a very, the medic situation branch, shaving the presidency of the a. you very significant fire in global politics and very hostile and

a long memory and feel the trite, ah, even president, by why it was managed was clumsy, which is presidential her heading and screaming camera. and if you didn't think that things couldn't get any worse thing, you'd be wrong. australia's prime minister tried to suggest that france was aware, the deal was doomed. i made it very clear that i conventional diesel powered submarine was not going to meet a strategy of 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, about when done with france? well, a bit like this submarine 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 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 cooperation a great. so they are profound implications for stria financial maturity environment. so they're also very much about the same cost and completion and perception cells and how others, the in the ration and the world shifting towards nuclear submarines raises of the

questions to give him that a story is a non 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, right. i sort of understanding and lead to increased military expansion of pressures and technical capacity increases in the region. while australia may of hope that sampling up to the u. s. might have given it a boost on the international stage. what it seen is the reverse trade talks with the 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. australia's leaders may not be quick to cotton on 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. another major story last year, u. s. troops in the rallies rapidly pulled out of afghanistan up to 2 decades of war. but for many who served to still that huge looming question, was it worth it? as part of our unheard voices projected our t dot com, we spoke to a u. k. army veteran about his thoughts over the conflict. i can take my life last year. 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 any more. i mean there and to try to delete it and move away small. but quite a few people lives in the last 4 or 5 years. most recent is only a few months ago. i have been through hell and you're still living it. you just get a feeling of fear. she wouldn't understand, you know, and giving the order to kill someone and stuff you people get upset of it, things today that don't need it,

but i want so i am oak and my coffee. i really just drink the coffee the when i 1st went to the gallery on, we were told we were going to burn the poppy fields to the promised work and do not . not pon, changed them out. 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. a great danger, soonish 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 things yourself and realize, okay, why are we here? what are we doing? we know looking at cost on, i think it was a pointless exercise. what's happening in the south of afghan is done in the redlands about tight, the taliban trying to get back power the

way back. and the taliban had 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 out of 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 the 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, checked, 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 up a systematic approach. for instance. you do 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 your flyers, your military and angle. what about the what the civilians, tom and i got shinnecock stuck at home, be 600016 weapon systems, 3 stars and bombs left behind. so that's munitions that can be used for id 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 up on an britain's war enough canister. and tony blair's parson, it's very much back in people's minds this new year's day, which just passed

a wave of anger was rolled across the u. k. at the announcement that the former prime minister is to be knighted by quin lizbeth, the highest possible ranking. many described his foreign policies. when in power is war? crimes all government despises its citizens. yes, tony blair deserves a trial at the hague rather than a knighthood. and imperial honor system, which knighted every one from us. we need to, ginny snellville doesn't really have a reputation to protect. so does it. blair can disgrace what's already shameful. tony blair, getting a knighthood in the establishment, sticking out 2 fingers to ordinary people in the hundreds of thousands who were killed in iraq war. joe, as he is in our 1st sent troops to combat zones. 5 times, heels strongly supported the launch in 2001 of us, his war on terror that led to the invasion of iraq and his casualties mounted in the campaign. faced accusations, the de misled parliament of a weapons of mass destruction in the country,

largely debunked reason given. so the coalition forces could attack till radio hosting column is john gone, telling us people have every right them to be angry at cody blake. nice. i can't ever remember such an outburst on social media about the honest list. i would say 95 percent of people that i've read on social media today. and i've spoken to in the street of very, very much against this. they think it's an absolutely terrible decision. many people in our country now, but in the u. k. believe is a war criminal. they believe we were led into a war, you know, as george got away prediction at the time that was illegal. if he had any real honor, he would have disappeared after iraq and afghanistan. he had enough money, he should a late lunch. he was a great prime minister for a long period of time. he was a brilliant, charismatic leader, but iraq and afghanistan mixed in. no,

been the thing he's remembered for many people think he took their sons to their deaths in the desert and they can't forgive it. and i can fully understand where they're coming from. folios like things of a bit in russia, the holiday seasons are just getting started with the orthodox christmas being celebrated next friday or where to go. yet with ornaments. now the festive i to was still an on demand for decorations story, but one pensioner is take the particularly creative approach. me oh, i

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